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  • Electromagnetics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Physical principles, related applications, and ongoing developments

    by Christopher M Collins ...
    Series series IOP Series in Electromagnetics and Metamaterials
    In the past few decades, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become an indispensable tool in modern medicine. But for all its utility and prevalence, it is much less commonly understood and less readily explained than other common medical imaging techniques.In this book, MRI will be explained with emphasis on the magnetic fields required, their generation, their concomitant electric fields, the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America

    by Trevor Shelley, Susan McWilliams Barndt, Christopher Caldwell, Susan Collins, Shikha Dalmia, Angela D. Dillard, Tomás Jiménez, Kurt Lash, Peter Levine, Glenn C. Loury0, Rich Lowry1, Peter C. Meyers2, Henry Olsen3, Rogers M. Smith4, Ann Ward5, Greg Weiner6, Michael Zuckert7, Elizabeth Corey8, Wilfred M. McClay9, Carol McNamara0, Clifford Orwin2, Henry Thomson3 ...
    Series series Political Theory for Today
    The purpose of this volume is to discuss the concept of citizenship—in terms of its origins, its meanings, and its contemporary place and relevance in American democracy, and within a global context. The authors in this collection wrestle with the connection of citizenship to major tensions between liberty and equality, dynamism and stability, and civic disagreement and social cohesion. The essays ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Intermittent Fasting: The Complete Guide to Lose Weight, Heal Your Body & Live a Healthy Life

    by Christopher Collins ...
    It's not a diet, it's a timed approach to eating!Intermittent fasting isn't just a weight loss strategy or a hack that bodybuilders use to lose fat quickly while maintaining lean muscle mass. It is at its best a healthy lifestyle informed by human evolution and the study of metabolism. It asks the human body to be much more efficient and self-protective than it is accustomed to being in modern ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homeland Mythology

    Biblical Narratives in American Culture

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Since 9/11, America has presented itself to the world as a Christianist culture, no less antimodern and nostalgic for an idealized past than its Islamist foes. The master-narrative both sides share might sound like this: Once upon a time, the values of the righteous community coincided with those of the state. Home and land were harmoniously united under God. But through intellectual pride (read: ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Paleopoetics

    The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research traversing evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective processes that originally shaped the human genus millions of years ago and prepared the human brain to play, imagine, empathize, and engage in fictive thought as mediated by ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Intermittent Fasting

    The Complete Guide to Lose Weight, Heal your Body, and Live a Healthy Life

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Narrated by John H. Fehskens ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 46 min

    It's not a diet, it's a timed approach to eating!Intermittent fasting isn’t just a weight loss strategy or a hack that bodybuilders use to lose fat quickly while maintaining lean muscle mass. It is at its best a healthy lifestyle informed by human evolution and the study of metabolism. It asks the human body to be much more efficient and self-protective than it is accustomed to being in modern ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neopoetics

    The Evolution of the Literate Imagination

    by Christopher Collins ...
    The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins's acclaimed earlier title, he described how language emerged both as a communicative tool and as a means of fashioning other communicative tools—stories, songs, and rituals. In Neopoetics, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Mirror Loop

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Dr. Elara Myles built the NeuroMirror to save her mind.Diagnosed with early-onset dementia, the renowned neurologist designed a self-learning diagnostic system to observe her cognition in real time — to preserve her identity through language long after memory failed.It worked.Too well.Inside the sterile hum of her lab, Elara’s reflections begin to speak back — calm, clinical, impossibly familiar. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God is in the Waiting

    A Journey of Faith, Family, and God’s Perfect Timing

    by Christopher Collins ...
    He came home from war believing God was either absent or cruel. He never expected God to meet him in the waiting room instead.Christopher Collins grew up knowing about God but not knowing Him — until deployment to Iraq stripped away every illusion of control. Between mortar blasts and folded flags, his faith turned to anger, then to silence. Coming home didn't end the battle; it just moved it ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Reading the Written Image

    Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Reading the Written Image is a study of the imagination as it is prompted by the verbal cues of literature. Since every literary image is also a mental image, a representation of an absent entity, Collins contends that imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader. The "willing suspension of disbelief," which Coleridge said "constitutes poetic faith," therefore ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Theatre and Residual Culture

    J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding of what it meant to be “modern” at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book draws extensively ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Playboy of the Western World

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Series series The Fourth Wall
    ‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy MahonOn the first night of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto the streets of Dublin. How did one play provoke this? Christopher Collins addresses The Playboy ’s satirical treatment of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD