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The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running : hurry, hurry has no blessing / Randy E. Mayes.

Title: The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running : hurry, hurry has no blessing / Randy E. Mayes.
Author: Mayes, Randall E. (Randall Elam)
Publication: Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005.

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xviii, 248 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-246) and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

Time: historical considerations -- Place: environmental factors and adaptations -- Physiological models and limitations to endurance -- Lactate -- Sociological forces -- Running in a 40 mph headwind -- Kenyan cultures -- Belief and knowledge systems -- Inside the mind of the highly evolved runner -- Psychological anthropology -- The cybernetics of Kenyan running -- Cultural evolution and behavioral expression -- Third order cybernetics.

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1594600589

LCCN

^^2004027979

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