Abigail Larson

The Art of Abigail Larson

Crimson

Agatha Christie

Teresa Johnston

With The Mysterious Affair at Styles, we watch Poirot – the fastidious, logical, and experienced moustache-twirling Belgian – conduct a murder investigation at a rural estate. The book contains familiar themes – suspicious relatives and hangers-on, class differences, the interspersing of clues and red herrings, and the classic conclusion, wherein the detective identifies the criminal amidst a room full of suspects. The Secret Adversary, by contrast, proceeds quite differently. Tommy and Tuppence, inexperienced as investigators, fall into the detective game and fumble their way through their first case using equal parts boldness and blind luck. While they are certainly ingenious and capable of logic, Tommy and Tuppence differ from Poirot in almost every way – they are quite young and react to circumstances rather than anticipate them. With the later addition of quietly tenacious Jane Marple, Agatha Christie created some of fiction's most intriguing detectives. --Features: Original Cover Art by Abigail Larson, Contextual Introduction, Annotations, and Study Questions for classroom or book club use.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles and the Secret Adversary

This is a nutrition text designed to help readers understand and apply basic sports nutrition information. It emphasizes the unique needs and challenges of meeting those needs in adolescent athletes. The text is intended for coaches, athletic trainers, physical therapists, health and PE teachers, and others who interact with young athletes but is likely to appeal to athletes as well. Readers can expect to learn and understand theories related to nutrition and human performance, such as energy content of food and how this energy is transferred to the body and used for movement or stored for future use; the important roles of each of the macronutrients and micronutrients; and how fluids before, during, and after exercise facilitate optimal performance and recovery. In addition to important information related to exercise physiology and nutrient metabolism, readers are presented with real-world applications of these principles. The author often relates theories and principles to dietary recommendations and athletic scenarios. Understanding of each topic is also enhanced through liberal use of summaries, lists, and tables. Fuel for Sport presents up-to-date, sport-specific dietary and fluid recommendations and adopts a foods-first approach to meeting macro- and micronutrient needs; also included are examples of convenient sources of the discussed nutrients as well as dietary strategies and ideas to implement recommendations.

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Fuel for Sport

An extraordinary coloring book for adults straight from the imagination of Lewis Carroll and through the hand of illustrator Abigail Larson, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" leap to life in curious and quirky, beautifully inked scenes.

Abigail Larson

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