Ping-Pong Heart

Ping-Pong Heart
Author: Martin Limon
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2016-06-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 161695714X

South Korea, 1974. US Army CID Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom are assigned an underwhelming case of petty theft: Major Frederick M. Schulz has accused Miss Jo Kyong-ja, an Itaewon bar girl, of stealing twenty-five thousand won from him—a sum equaling less than fifty US dollars. After two very divergent accounts of what happened, Miss Jo is attacked, and Schulz is found hacked to death only days later. Did tensions simply escalate to the point of murder? Looking into other motives for Schulz’s death, George and Ernie discover that the major was investigating the 501st Military Intelligence Battalion: the Army’s counterintelligence arm, solely dedicated to tracking North Korean spies. The division is rife with suspects, but it’s dangerous to speak out against them in a period of Cold War finger-pointing. As George and Ernie go head-to-head with the battalion’s powerful, intimidating commander, Lance Blood, they learn that messing with the 501st can have very personal consequences.

Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Author: Nicholas Griffin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014-01-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1451642814

Combining the insight of Franklin Foer’s How Soccer Explains the World and the intrigue of Ben Affleck’s Argo, Ping Pong Diplomacy traces the story of how an aristocratic British spy used the game of table tennis to propel a Communist strategy that changed the shape of the world. THE SPRING OF 1971 heralded the greatest geopolitical realignment in a generation. After twenty-two years of antagonism, China and the United States suddenly moved toward a détente—achieved not by politicians but by Ping-Pong players. The Western press delighted in the absurdity of the moment and branded it “Ping-Pong Diplomacy.” But for the Chinese, Ping-Pong was always political, a strategic cog in Mao Zedong’s foreign policy. Nicholas Griffin proves that the organized game, from its first breath, was tied to Communism thanks to its founder, Ivor Montagu, son of a wealthy English baron and spy for the Soviet Union. Ping-Pong Diplomacy traces a crucial inter­section of sports and society. Griffin tells the strange and tragic story of how the game was manipulated at the highest levels; how the Chinese government helped cover up the death of 36 million peasants by holding the World Table Tennis Championships during the Great Famine; how championship players were driven to their deaths during the Cultural Revolution; and, finally, how the survivors were reconvened in 1971 and ordered to reach out to their American counterparts. Through a cast of eccentric characters, from spies to hippies and Ping-Pong-obsessed generals to atom-bomb survivors, Griffin explores how a neglected sport was used to help realign the balance of worldwide power.

Ping Pong Pig

Ping Pong Pig
Author: Caroline Jayne Church
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's UK
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-07-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781847382078

The animals of Apple Tree Farm just don't know what to do with Ping Pong Pig. He's far too busy learning to fly to help with any of the farmyard chores, and he keeps making such a mess! Then they have an idea - they make Ping Pong a trampoline! Surely now there will be no more trouble from Ping Pong - will there?

The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong

The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong
Author: Guido Mina di Sospiro
Publisher: Quest Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 083563194X

When a mortifying defeat to his teenage son rekindles his lifelong passion for table tennis, keen philosopher Guido Mina di Sospiro sets out to learn the game properly. Guido’s love for spinning a feather-weight ball takes him from his local Ping-Pong club, populated by idiosyncratic players with extraordinary stories to tell, to training drills with a world-class coach. This seemingly harmless game also leads him into sticky situations in the CIA headquarters and the ganglands of Washington, D.C. Woven throughout his Ping-Pong epiphany are philosophical ruminations on Plato and Aristotle, metaphysicians and empiricists, Jung’s dark shadow, Sun Tzu’s war tactics, the I Ching, and much more. As Guido’s journey takes him from Big Sur to a nail-biting showdown in China against a string of elite players, he finds that Ping-Pong can teach us a surprising amount about life.

Ping Pong, Vol. 2

Ping Pong, Vol. 2
Author: Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1974722643

Things have changed since the last inter-high tournament. Peco has quit the game, and “Smile” Tsukimoto's desire to play is gone. Even “Demon” Sakuma has been kicked off the Kaio team. But Coach Koizumi isn’t going to let all that talent go to waste and launches a plan to get Tsukimoto back on the team and into top condition. Every great athlete needs a great rival to push them past their limits, and Peco and Smile—friends since they were children—must now challenge each other to become the heroes they always dreamed they could be. -- VIZ Media

Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease E-Book

Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease E-Book
Author: Ziad Issa
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 746
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1455737682

With its unique, singular focus on the clinical aspect of cardiac arrhythmias, Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease makes it easy to apply today's most up-to-date guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. An expert author team provides clear, clinically focused guidance on all types of cardiac arrhythmias, including practical techniques for managing complex patients. Find the information you need quickly with a consistent organization in all chapters, written to a template that shows every arrhythmia type in a similar manner. Access the fully searchable contents online at www.expertconsult.com, in addition to downloadable images and dynamic video clips. Fully understand the rationale for treatment of specific arrhythmias with practical techniques that are grounded in the most recent basic science. Stay up to date with new chapters on molecular mechanisms of cardiac electrical activity, cardiac ion channels, ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy, epicardial ventricular tachycardia, ventricular arrhythmias in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, ventricular arrhythmias in inherited channelopathies, ventricular arrhythmias in congenital heart disease, atrial arrhythmias in congenital heart disease, and complications of catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias. View videos of 27 key techniques online, including optical mapping of reentrant ventricular arrhythmias, 3-dimensional mapping of arrhythmias using different mapping and navigation modalities, and fluoroscopy images illustrating techniques for electrophysiologic catheter positioning, atrial septal puncture, and pericardial access. Gain a new understanding of hot topics such as mechanisms of arrhythmias, electrophysiologic testing, mapping and navigation modalities, ablation energy sources, sinus node dysfunction, conduction disturbances, atrial tachyarrhythmias, preexcitation syndromes and all types of ventricular and supraventricular tachycardias.

Modeling the Heart and the Circulatory System

Modeling the Heart and the Circulatory System
Author: Alfio Quarteroni
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319052306

The book comprises contributions by some of the most respected scientists in the field of mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of the human cardiocirculatory system. The contributions cover a wide range of topics, from the preprocessing of clinical data to the development of mathematical equations, their numerical solution, and both in-vivo and in-vitro validation. They discuss the flow in the systemic arterial tree and the complex electro-fluid-mechanical coupling in the human heart. Many examples of patient-specific simulations are presented. This book is addressed to all scientists interested in the mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of the human cardiocirculatory system.

Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Heart

Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Heart
Author: Nicholas Sperelakis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 839
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1475711719

could go on for several pages. Thus the book edited This book emphasizes the fundamental, functional aspects of cardiology. Within the last thirty years, by Sperelakis IS a potent reminder of the almost for the rift between clinical and investigative cardiology gotten fact that cardiology has twO sites, inextrica has widened, because of the overwhelming devel bly related. opment of new clinical procedures, both diagnostic The book deals with subjects in which Dr. Sper and therapeutic. Almost forgotten is the fact that elakis has pioneered: ultrastructure of heart muscle, we owe most of the clinical advances to theoretical electrophysiology, cardiac contractility, and ion ex and experimental observations. I need not remind change. An extension of these subjects is the chapter the reader of the work of Carrel, who performed the dealing with fundamental topics of the coronary cir first experimental coronary bypass in 1902, or the culation. work of the brothers Curie in 1880, both physicists, This book is indeed a timely reminder of the im who discovered piezoelectricity, the keystone in ech portance of the fundamental aspects of cardiology. ogradiography; of the works of Langley, who intro Emphasis on clinical aspects of cardiology alone will duced the receptors concept; of Ahlquist in 1946, result in a sterile and unproductive future for a field who first differentiated between alpha and beta re that has made such stunning advances during the ceptors; of Fleckenstein, a physiologist who pi last thirty years to the benefit of millions of people.

Interpreting Complex Arrhythmias: Part III, An Issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics

Interpreting Complex Arrhythmias: Part III, An Issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics
Author: Giuseppe Bagliani
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 032368114X

This issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics, Guest Edited by Giuseppe Bagliani, Roberto De Ponti, and Fabio Leonelli, will focus on Interpreting Complex Arrhythmias. Topics include, but are not limited to: Simple and complex Arrhythmias; Standard ECG recording; Advanced cardiac signal recording; P and QRS in arrhythmias: identification, analysis and relationship; The comparative value of basic and arrhythmia ECG in the interpretation of arrhythmic mechanism; Challenges in Bradycardias interpretation; Challenges in Narrow QRS tachycardia interpretation; Challenging cases of Wide complex tachycardias; QRS variations during arrhythmia: mechanisms and substrates; Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: differential diagnosis; Arrhythmias due to acquired or inherited abnormalities of Ventricular repolarization; Arrhythmias in patients with implantable devices; Complex arrhythmias due to reversible causes; and Hidden complexities in routine adult and paediatric arrhythmias interpretation.

The Heart's Desire

The Heart's Desire
Author: Nahid Rachlin
Publisher: City Lights Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2021-10-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0872868893

Jennifer Sahary, an American artist, and her husband Karim, a professor and Iranian immigrant, make an extended visit to Teheran shortly after the Iran-Iraq War, encountering unforeseen dangers and sexual temptations that change the course of their lives. When their young son is taken by his grandmother to the holy city of Qom without Jennifer’s knowledge, she sets out to find him, learning much about Iran and about herself along the way. And as Karim renews contact with his family and surveys the misery and needs of his war-torn country, he begins to question where he can best achieve his ideals. In sensuous and elegant prose, Rachlin weaves the interlinking stories of a man and a woman and their contrasting cultures with balance and sympathy. "One can learn a lot from this novel . . ."-- Publishers Weekly Nahid Rachlin is an Iranian who lives in New York City, where she teaches creative writing at Barnard College. She is author of Veils: Short Stories and Married to a Stranger (both published by City Lights) and Foreigner (W. W. Norton). She teaches at the New School University and the Unterberg Poetry Center in New York.