Best Selling Books by Howard Porter

Magog decides to take justice into his own hands and track down who''s dealing high-tech arms to lowlife scum around the DC Universe. Be here as the hunt starts Magog on the path to discovering his own identity.

Bob Hoffman is considered by many to be the "Father of American Weightlifting." Through his York Barbell Company and Strength & Health magazine, as well as his own patronage, Hoffman contributed greatly to the rise of weightlifting and physical culture as a whole during the early to mid 1900s. He encouraged strength via exercising and training with weights, which he emphasized through the sport of weightlifting, and he sought to showcase America''s strength as a nation in the form of Olympic and world championships. Hoffman maintained a presence in the Iron Game until his health began to decline in the late 1970s. Hoffman and his companies have received a reasonable amount of scholarly attention, much of it from historian John Fair. Although this scholarship is high-caliber, many of Hoffman''s business aspects remain ripe for examination. What is more, despite the growing popularity of the health and fitness industry, little scholarship examining the history of the industry exists. Lastly, sport history scholars have also called for more research on the business side of the field. Thus, this dissertation examines the Strength & Health brand community through the pages of the magazine from the periodical''s debut in 1932 until the release of its sister publication, Muscular Development, in 1964. This project uses the Strength & Health brand community as a case study to demonstrate that, although members of the brand community generally think of themselves as distinct in some way from society, the community remains tied to, and influenced by, the society in which it is embedded. Through analysis of Hoffman''s cultivation and management of the brand community, I also argue that it played a major role both in the success and in the demise of his fitness enterprises. Overall, this project contributes to many areas of scholarship. It adds to the existing literature on Hoffman and the little research on his nemesis, Joe Weider. It also enhances our understanding of the role of the social environment on brand community. Finally, it helps fill the gap in business-oriented research in the sport history field.

We draw from social categorization theory and the actor-observer hypothesis to extend previous research regarding receiving high levels of help from team members. Specifically, we explore how a team member''s performance feedback on how they handled a disproportionately heavy share of the team''s workload and how their racial distance from the rest of their teammates affect the amount of helping that person receives from their teammates. Results from a laboratory study in which 79 teams worked on a computerized, decision-making task demonstrated a three-way interaction between workload, performance feedback, and the racial distance between the feedback recipient and the rest of their teammates. Racially distant negative feedback recipients who had a disproportionately heavy share of their team''s workload received less help from teammates than their racially similar counterparts.

From aviation and safety critical applications to personal navigation; Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology has found a place in everyday civilian life and will only become more intertwined as the technology continues to improve. One of the issues with GNSSs is that they are susceptible to interference in the forms of intentional (i.e., jamming) or unintentional sources. As this interference is a threat to civil applications, this thesis focuses on providing the framework to understand the performance degradation of GNSS receivers in the presence of interference. More specifically, this paper focuses on the high accuracy user, and how interference affects a commercially available differential GNSS (DGNSS) receiver system. A comparison was done to investigate differences between two commercially available DGNSS receivers’ performances as well as analyze the different approaches manufactures take in the integration of multi-constellation GNSS signals.

Ne supportant plus de voir leurs amis super-héros mourir au combat, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Atom, Shazam, Congorilla et Starman ont décidé de former une nouvelle équipe, plus proactive (quitte à devenir aussi violents que les vilains qu’ils combattent !). Mais le jour où le groupe rencontre Prometheus, il prend conscience que sa vie ne tient qu’à un fil. Préparez-vous à un affrontement apocalyptique qui va changer à jamais la vie de certains héros.