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The History of Physical Culture
Physical culture can be crudely defined as those exercise practices designed to physically change the body. In modern parlance we may associate physical culture with weightlifting, physical education, and/or calisthenics of various kinds. While the modern age has experienced an explosion of interest in gym-based activities, the practice of training one’s body has a much longer, and fascinating, history. This book provides an engaged and accessible historical overview from the Ancient World to the Modern Day. In it, readers are introduced to the training practices of Ancient Greece, India, and China among other areas. From there, the book explores the evolution of exercise systems and messa...
The Future of Exercise
Arthur Jones' "The Future of Exercise" may be one of the most important books ever written on exercise, both for the ideas themselves and their influence on others who would advance and refine them over the following decades. My goal in providing this new edition is to organise and layout the material for a modern audience. No changes have been made to Arthur's words; except for corrections in terms of typography, formatting and layout.
Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness
Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century. Used by physicians, soldiers, gymnasts, children and athletes alike, clubs were used to solve numerous social concerns and ills, and often prescribed to treat everything from depression to spinal abnormalities. This book provides a definitive account of the rise and spread of club swinging as it spread from India to Europe and America, asking why and how it became so popular. Discussing the global, commercial fitness culture of the 19th century, Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness explores how the popularity of this exercise reflected much deeper global and domestic concerns about body image, military preparation and education. Addressing broader questions about nationalism, gender, race and popular commerce across the British Empire, it highlights the origins of our modern transnational fitness culture and shows how it intersected with global and colonial understandings of health, medicine and education.
Bruce Lee Strength Workout for Muscles of Steel
Do you want to know how Bruce Lee built his incredible muscles? Discover what types of arm, abs, shoulder, leg, back and core exercises he did and find sample workout routines here in this one-of-a-kind book. Almost all of Lee's body parts were perfect but his abs were the best. He had an extremely great looking midsection that was hard as stone. His abs were defined and looked like a washboard. He was especially good at core training. He was always searching for new types of exercises in order to maximise the strength of his abdominal muscles. There are many advanced exercises linking to his name - and all are included here in this book for the first time ever. Maybe, the most famous one is...
Self As Computer
In Self as Computer, Alan Radley looks at the computer not as a tool, or as a bicycle-for-the-mind, but simply as self. He argues that humans are becoming so enmeshed with the computer, in terms of how we think, act and communicate; that soon it may no longer be possible to identify where the self ends, and the computer begins, and vice-versa. Predicted by some, are marvellous benefits for technology; in terms of enhancements to our social, creative and personal lives. But already clear, is that not all of the associated problems lie in the realm of speculation. One example, is that the Internet is moving ever further away from the free and open system as foreseen by its original designers; whereby citizens are routinely censored, controlled, hacked and/or spied upon. Other questions arise; such as who builds today's systems, and in what sense(s) are they useful, humane or democratic. Explored are human-friendly designs for the computers of tomorrow, whereby the wishes, plans and actions of society may be aligned to benefit all.
Absolute Security
Outlined is a new philosophy of Absolute Security for digital information sharing; and developed is the fundamental theory of 'socially secure communication'. The subject at hand is the safe transfer of meaning between individual human beings - using networked computers. Clarified are terms, concepts and principles related to the secure communication of private ideas / thoughts / concepts / datum(s) - and in a format easily digestible by non-technical people.
The Muscle Art of Ray Lawrence
The artist defines the dream body in sensuous color; each muscle group is lovingly defined in classic pose.
The Habit of Art
Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by amongst others their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. You are a rent boy. I am a poet. Over the wall lives the Dean of Christ Church. We all have our parts to play. Alan Bennett's new play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion's spent: ultimately, on the habit of art. 'In the end,' said Auden, 'art is small beer. The really serious things in life are earning one's living and loving one's neighbour.'
Classic Muscle Art
A unique and fascinating journey into Muscle Art by two leading Physical Culture historians, Alan Radley and David Gentle. This exciting study comprehensively explores the art of the muscular body, as it has developed and evolved throughout time, and in all its variety and wonder. We investigate the Muscular Ideal as exemplified in sports like weightlifting and bodybuilding, plus in sculpture, painting and photography, movies and cartoons etc. An exhaustive history of Muscle Art is brought to life in a vibrant cultural context. - Amazon.com
