Sam Gilbert

A rethink of everything you thought you knew about data, privacy and the future of Big Tech. Good Data examines the incredible new ways this information explosion is already helping us, and explains why the best is yet to come.

A rethink of everything you thought you knew about data, privacy and the future of Big Tech. Good Data examines the incredible new ways this information explosion is already helping us, and explains why the best is yet to come.

The Science of Striking is a culmination of decades of practical experience and in-depth study into the application of sports science to striking combat sports.Get insights into the biomechanics of stand up combat and how this relates to the training process.Discover testing protocols to establish baseline levels of mobility, movement competency, strength, power, and endurance and be guided through the specific training methods for each of these qualities. Learn the theory and practice behind session design, programming and periodisation, including practical examples of programmes for different levels of athletes with different goals and priorities.Gain information from supplementary chapters pertaining to recovery and lifestyle management, training for special populations, mental and psychological skills training, injury reduction and management, as well as concussion.Comes with a 100-page exercise library appendix complete with a guide to exercise progression and regression, as well as YouTube links to over 450 instructional exercise video clips Invaluable reading for martial artists and striking combat sports athletes and practitioners of all ages and levels of competition.(NOTE: some QR codes in the original version may have expired. To access the clips via new QR code or hyperlink please go to: http: //www.thescienceofstriking.com/downloads/)

Major Elder Byrch Stuart, just returned from witnessing the surrender of Fort Sumter, is sent to Virginia by General Samuel Cooper to do an independent report of that state's assets and readiness to join the Confederate States. On his way, he and Sergeant Major Jesse Thompkins are ordered by President Jefferson Davis to investigate a very strange incident that happened in the sky over South Carolina. While investigating that, Stuart enlists the aid of a slave, Big Jim Porche, that he knew from his time as a teacher at the Arsenal. Investigation complete, the three men continue on to complete the original mission. Once in Virginia, they meet with Major General Robert E Lee and then set out across the entire state of Virginia, from the rebellious western part of the state in the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic Coast; from the outskirts of Washington DC south to the North Carolina Border. They visit the Tredegar Iron Works, Harpers Ferry Arsenal and the Gosport Navy Yard. They return to Montgomery, Alabama just in time to assist with moving the entire Government, including President Davis and his Cabinet, to the new Capital of Richmond, Virginia as the Confederate States of America continues to grow and prepare for war.....