Super Bodies
| Author | : Jeffrey A. Brown |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2023-08 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1477327363 |
An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives.
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Superbodies
| Author | : Greg Wells |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2012-06-26 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1443405957 |
Based on the wildly popular segments broadcast during the Vancouver Olympics, Superbodies explores how genetics and DNA, the brain, muscles, lungs, heart and blood work together in extreme conditions. It’s an inside look that draws on Dr. Greg Wells’ research at Sick Kids Hospital and the University of Toronto and more than fifteen years’ experience working with Olympic athletes. Superbodies is a fascinating explanation of the human body and an easy-to-follow plan that shows how everyone can learn from the pros to improve their health and performance. Dr. Wells explains How the same training techniques that elite athletes follow can be even more effective for most people What’s happening inside your body when you’re exercising, and fighting illness What makes elite athletes such as pro-hockey players successful, and what you can learn from them Why little things can add up, and how simple choices can make a huge difference. Fascinating, easy-to-read and packed with full-colour illustrations and photographs, Superbodies shows how people of all ages and abilities can improve their own health and performance.
Medical Bondage
| Author | : Deirdre Cooper Owens |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2017-11-15 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0820351342 |
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as “medical superbodies” highly suited for medical experimentation. In Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynecologists created and disseminated medical fictions about their patients, such as their belief that black enslaved women could withstand pain better than white “ladies.” Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing, for decades to come, groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities. Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. It also retells the story of black enslaved women and of Irish immigrant women from the perspective of these exploited groups and thus restores for us a picture of their lives.
Super Gut
| Author | : William Davis |
| Publisher | : Hachette Go |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2022-02-01 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 0306846950 |
The bestselling author of the Wheat Belly books brings his next big, game-changing idea—how the human microbiome is evolving, and potentially wrecking, our health, and how we can fix it. Because of our highly processed diet, pesticides, and overuse of antibiotics, our guts are now missing so many of the good bacteria that we require to be healthy. As a result, many of us have lost control over our health, weight, mood, and even behavior. The ancient bacteria that keep our digestion moving have been dying, replaced by harmful microbes that don’t keep us physically and mentally fit. With cutting-edge research, Dr. Davis connects the dots between gut health and modern ailments. There are entire species of microbes that have disappeared, which creates health issues that were uncommon one hundred, or even fifty, years ago. The result is SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), a silent and profound epidemic, which affects one out of three people and is responsible for an astounding range of human health conditions. Super Gut shows us how to eliminate bad bacteria and bring back the “good” bacteria with a four-week plan to reprogram your microbiome. This not only gets to the root of many diseases, but also improves levels of oxytocin (the bonding/happy hormone), brain health, anti-aging, weight loss, mental clarity, and restful sleep. Also included are more than forty recipes, a diet plan, and resources so you can pinpoint your gut issues, correct them, and maintain your long-term health and well-being.
Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood
| Author | : Reiko Ohnuma |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0231137087 |
Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan literature written between the third century BCE and the late medieval period, Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy and culture. Whether he takes the form of king, prince, ascetic, elephant, hare, serpent, or god, the bodhisattva repeatedly gives his body or parts of his flesh to others. He leaps into fires, drowns himself in the ocean, rips out his tusks, gouges out his eyes, and lets mosquitoes drink from his blood, always out of selflessness and compassion and to achieve the highest state of Buddhahood. Ohnuma places these stories into a discrete subgenre of South Asian Buddhist literature and approaches them like case studies, analyzing their plots, characterizations, and rhetoric. She then relates the theme of the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice to major conceptual discourses in the history of Buddhism and South Asian religions, such as the categories of the gift, the body (both ordinary and extraordinary), kingship, sacrifice, ritual offering, and death. Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood reveals a very sophisticated and influential perception of the body in South Asian Buddhist literature and highlights the way in which these stories have provided an important cultural resource for Buddhists. Combined with her rich and careful translations of classic texts, Ohnuma introduces a whole new understanding of a vital concept in Buddhists studies.
The Body in History
| Author | : John Robb |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2013-09-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521195284 |
This book is a long-term history of how the human body has been understood in Europe from the Palaeolithic to the present day, focusing on specific moments of change. Developing a multi-scalar approach to the past, and drawing on the work of an interdisciplinary team of experts, the authors examine how the body has been treated in life, art and death for the last 40,000 years. Key case-study chapters examine Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Classical, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern bodies. What emerges is not merely a history of different understandings of the body, but a history of the different human bodies that have existed. Furthermore, the book argues, these bodies are not merely the product of historical circumstance, but are themselves key elements in shaping the changes that have swept across Europe since the arrival of modern humans.
hThe Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity
| Author | : Patricia Cox Miller |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2019-06-04 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1351776347 |
This title was first published in 2001. These collected essays by Patricia Cox Miller identify new possibilities of meaning in the study of religion in late antiquity. The book addresses the topic of the imaginative mindset of late ancient authors from a variety of Greco-Roman religious traditions. Attending to the play of language, as well as to the late ancient sensitivity to image, metaphor, and paradox, Cox Miller's work highlights the poetizing sensibility that marked many of the texts of this period and draws on methods of interpretation from a variety of contemporary literary-critical theories. This book will appeal to scholars of late antiquity, religious literature, and literary critical theory more widely, illustrating how fruitful dialogue across the centuries can be - not only in eliciting aspects of late ancient texts that have gone unnoticed but also in showing that many 'modern' ideas, such as Roland Barthes', were actually already alive and well in ancient texts.
Talmuda de-Eretz Israel
| Author | : Steven Fine |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2014-07-28 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1614512876 |
Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine brings together an international community of historians, literature scholars and archaeologists to explore how the integrated study of rabbinic texts and archaeology increases our understanding of both types of evidence, and of the complex culture which they together reflect. This volume reflects a growing consensus that rabbinic culture was an “embodied” culture, presenting a series of case studies that demonstrate the value of archaeology for the contextualization of rabbinic literature. It steers away from later twentieth-century trends, particularly in North America, that stressed disjunction between archaeology and rabbinic literature, and seeks a more holistic approach.
The Body
| Author | : Hanif Kureishi |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2007-11-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1416586482 |
How far are we willing to go to stay young? Hanif Kureishi—acclaimed author of The Buddha of Suburbia and Intimacy—explores the possibilities in this provocative story of an older man whose brain is surgically placed in a younger man's body by a network of underground doctors. "After a bit you realize there's only one invaluable commodity. Not gold or love, but time." Adam is offered the chance to trade in his sagging flesh for a much younger and more pleasing model. He tells his wife and son that he is going on an extended vacation. He immediately embarks on an odyssey of hedonism, but soon finds himself regretting what he left behind and feeling guilt over the responsibilities he has ignored. Sinister forces pursue him, wanting possession of "his" body, and he soon finds himself with nowhere to turn. "A fluent, socially observant writer whose sentences move with intelligence and wit" (The New York Times Book Review), Kureishi presents us with both a fantastically vivid tale and hard-hitting questions about our own relationships with our minds and bodies -- and with time that is running out.
I Know Who These People Were
| Author | : William Lucas |
| Publisher | : Balboa Press |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2015-10-23 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1504340809 |
Elongated skulls have been discovered all over the world. The Urantia Book states Adam and Eves descendants had elongated heads, and so did the Nodites, people of the land of Nod, descendants of the Nephilim and they were the sons of God of Genesis 6:4 where sons of God had children by the daughters of men. Adam and Eve were not the first two people on earth, see Genesis 4:8-17. Forty elongated skulls some with red hair still intact was found in Lovelock, Nevada inside a cave and they were believe to be seven to eight feet tall; also 3,000 years old elongated skulls with red hair still intact were discovered in Nazca Peru-more proof that Adam and Eves descendants traveled all over the world-in an effort to spread their genes. When geneticist analyzed the genes of the elongated skulls, they found the genes contain genetic material unknown in any human, primate, or animal. Adam and Eve came to our planet as biological up-lifters. Bodies were made for them when they arrived on our planet by beings from a higher universe called Avalon (a universe neighbor to our universe). These beings were called Avalon surgeons. They took plasma from the more advanced tribes of our planet and with some type of genetic engineering created bodies made of the dust of the ground (chemical of the earth) that were much more advanced than the humans of that time. Adam and Eve incarnated into those bodies and the spirit of God breathed the breath of life into those forms and they became living beings. Our ancient ancestors didnt know about genetic engineering and such, so they said God did it. To them those advanced beings were gods. People of our planet need to wake-up and stop thinking about material things all the time and begin thinking about the spiritual world, which we linger far behind in our understanding. Lucas A Seeker
