Racing Against the Clock

Racing Against the Clock

Author: Lori Wilde

Publisher: Silhouette

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780373273959

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Racing Against the Clock by Lori Wilde released on Sep 24, 2004 is available now for purchase.


Racing the Clock

Racing the Clock

Author: Bernd Heinrich

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-07-06

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0062973290

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An award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime Part memoir, part scientific investigation, Racing the Clock is the book biologist and natural historian Bernd Heinrich has been waiting his entire life to write. A dedicated and accomplished marathon (and ultra-marathon) runner who won his first marathon at age thirty-nine, Heinrich looks deeply at running, aging, and the body, exploring the unresolved relationship between metabolism, diet, exercise, and age. Why do some bodies age differently than others? How much control do we have over that process and what effect, if any, does being active have? Bringing to bear research from his entire career and in the spirit of his classic Why We Run, Heinrich probes the questions of how we use energy and continue to adapt to our mutable surroundings and circumstances. Beyond that, he examines how our bodies change while we age but also how we can work with, if not overcome, many of these changes—and what all this tells us about evolution and the mechanisms of life, health, and happiness. Racing the Clock offers fascinating and surprising conclusions, all while bringing the reader along on Heinrich’s compelling journey to what he says will be his final race—a fifty-kilometer race at age eighty.


Car Racing Against the Clock

Car Racing Against the Clock

Author: Frank Ross

Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780688417437

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A history, emphasizing famous cars and drivers, of the continuing attempts to drive the fastest car in the world from the 1898 record speed of thirty-nine miles per hour to today's speeds of over 600 miles per hour.


English Prepositions. Exercises Part 1

English Prepositions. Exercises Part 1

Author: Radosław Więckowski

Publisher: DIF Publishing House

Published: 2024-04-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 839693231X

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Incorrect usage of prepositions in English is like driving your car at night with the headlights off. You can’t find the way in darkness. English prepositions. Exercises Part 1 illuminates the way by being the most definitive resource for English learners at all levels. With this self-study guide, you will be able to broaden and test your knowledge of such prepositions as: amid, amidst, among, between, about, around, across, against, as, at, behind, by, during, above, over, via • The most comprehensive and definitive overview in three parts with a key of English prepositions ever written • An innovative method for getting a feel for preposition usage • Focus on enhancing the minutest differences • Thousands of bracketed prompts in italics • Preposition usage not to be found in other publications • A wide spectrum of interesting, contrastive contexts • English Prepositions. Exercises Part 2 and 3 and English Prepositions. Test serve as perfect complements to English prepositions. Exercises Part 3


Popular Science

Popular Science

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2000-07

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.


The Courage To Start

The Courage To Start

Author: John "The Penguin" Bingham

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-12-03

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1439147930

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"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start." Take your first step toward fitness and a happier, healthier life. Has the idea of running crossed your mind, but you haven't acted on it because you don't think you have the body of a runner? Have you thought about running but quit before you started because you knew that you would be breathless at the end of your driveway? Well, put aside those fears because you can do it. John Bingham, author of the popular Runner's World column "The Penguin Chronicles," transformed himself from an overweight couch potato who smoked into a runner who has completed eleven marathons and hundreds of road races. Forget about the image of a perfect body in skintight clothes, and don't worry about how fast or how far you go. Bingham shows how anyone can embrace running as a life-enhancing activity -- rather than as a competition you will never win. In an entertaining blend of his own success story and practical advice, Bingham provides reasonable guidelines for establishing a program of achievable goals; offers tips on clothing, running shoes, and other equipment; and explains how anyone can prepare for and run distances ranging from a few miles to marathons. After all, in running and in life, the difference between success and failure sometimes comes down to a single step. Waddle on, friends.


The Clock

The Clock

Author: Richard Spilsbury

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1432948776

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Introduces the clock and the history of telling time, from sundials and water clocks to the extremely accurate atomic clocks of today.


Plot Building

Plot Building

Author: Arlene F. Marks

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-07-16

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1475818394

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The Let Them Write Series is a classroom-tested, teacher-friendly resource for Language Arts teachers of grades 4 through 8. The program is organized in nine sections, each presenting a buffet of from five to nine 1- or 2-week modules. Each classroom-ready module consists of a series of comprehensive, easy-to-follow lesson plans complete with reproducible handouts and cross-curricular extensions, together creating a proven successful template for the teaching of writing and literary analysis skills. Let Them Write: Plot Building focuses on conflict, suspense and narrative structure. Students practice first-drafting, editing, polishing and sharing original scenes and stories built around these three important elements of storytelling.


Citation

Citation

Author: Phil Georgeff

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing

Published: 2003-03-03

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1461661773

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When Citation (1945-1970) retired in mid-1951, he was horseracing's first and, to that point, only millionaire racehorse. Following his 1948 triumphs at the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont in 1948, it would be twenty-five years before another horse (Secreteriat) would again wear the coveted Triple Crown. Citation, by legendary announcer and longtime horseracing insider Phil Georgeff, reveals all about the thoroughbred, his remarkable career, and those in his inner circle. Georgeff delves into Citation's unusual bloodline; the death of his original rider, Al Snider, swept out to sea while fishing off the Florida keys; Citation's stunning 1948 Triple Crown victory; and the ultimate effects of the horse's excessive, aggressive schedule (racing on little rest after traveling cross-country in sweltering vans and railroad boxcars). Based on interviews from those who knew the thoroughbred, including famed jockey Eddie Arcaro and renowned son-and-father trainers Ben A. and Jimmy Jones; Citation is more than merely the biography of a gifted horse. It the full story of the greatest sports figure in the history of horseracing, a champion who won or placed in thirty different contests in his career and whose spirit continue to captivate the American public.


It's Been Said Before

It's Been Said Before

Author: Orin Hargraves

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0199315736

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In this book, Orin Hargraves provides a concise and lively guide to the most abused phrases in the English language today.