Describes the events leading to the discovery of recombinant DNA and the immediate reactions of the scientific community and the federal government as well as explaining the possible consequences of the major breakthrough in genetic science

Recombinant DNA: The Untold Story

LEAR, JOHN

Crown Publishing

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

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Science & Math

Kirkwood, Patricia Frueh

Astronomy & Space Science

University of California Press

This guide to the techniques and training methods involved in weight lifting incorporates discussion about equipment and terminology, an examination of the snatch and the clean and jerk, and advice on the execution of each lift and how to prepare for competition. Routines to improve explosive power, co-ordination, balance, dexterity, endurance and mobility are outlined. Also included are important rehabilitative and protective exercises.

Skillful Weight Lifting (Skilful Sports Series)

Sports & Outdoors

A&C Black

Provides coaches with data on training and techniques for Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting, anatomy, kinetics, teaching principles, terminology, physical fitness, weight training, and safety

Weight Training and Lifting

Weight lifting (EP sport)

EP Publishing

Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City

Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens examines the mobilization of workers and the urban poor in Mexico City from the eve of the 1910 revolution through the early 1920s, producing for the first time a nuanced illumination of groups that have long been discounted by historians. John Lear addresses a basic paradox: During one of the great social upheavals of the twentieth century, urban workers and masses had a limited military role, yet they emerged from the revolution with considerable combativeness and a new significance in the power structure. Lear identifies a significant and largely underestimated tradition of resistance and independent organization among working people that resulted in part from the changes in the structure of class and community in Mexico City during the last decades of Porfirio Diaz's rule (1876–1910). This tradition of resistance helped to join skilled workers and the urban poor as they embraced organizational opportunities and faced crises in wages and access to food and housing as the revolution escalated. Emblematic of these ties was the role of women in political agitation, street mobilizations, strikes, and riots. Lear suggests that the prominence of labor after the revolution was neither a product of opportunism nor one of revolutionary consciousness, but rather the result of the ongoing organizational efforts and cultural transformations of working people that coincided with the revolution.

History

Americas

University Of Nebraska Press

Weightlifting (Take Up Sport)

Springfield Books

Winner, Thomas McGann Memorial Prize, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 2017 Runner-up, Humanities Book Prize, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2018
In the wake of Mexico’s revolution, artists played a fundamental role in constructing a national identity centered on working people and were hailed for their contributions to modern art. Picturing the Proletariat examines three aspects of this artistic legacy: the parallel paths of organized labor and artists’ collectives, the relations among these groups and the state, and visual narratives of the worker. Showcasing forgotten works and neglected media, John Lear explores how artists and labor unions participated in a cycle of revolutionary transformation from 1908 through the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940). Lear shows how middle-class artists, radicalized by the revolution and the Communist Party, fortified the legacy of the prerevolutionary print artisan José Guadalupe Posada by incorporating modernist, avant-garde, and nationalist elements in ways that supported and challenged unions and the state. By 1940, the state undermined the autonomy of radical artists and unions, while preserving the image of both as partners of the “institutionalized revolution.”
This interdisciplinary book explores the gendered representations of workers; the interplay of prints, photographs, and murals in journals, in posters, and on walls; the role of labor leaders; and the discursive impact of the Spanish Civil War. It considers “los tres grandes”—Rivera, Siquieros, and Orozco—while featuring lesser-known artists and their collectives, including Saturnino Herrán, Leopoldo Méndez, Santos Balmori, and the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (LEAR). The result is a new perspective on the art and politics of the revolution.

Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908–1940

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

University of Texas Press

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