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Amped A Soldier's Race for Gold in the Shadow of War

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ISBN-10: 1630268720

ISBN-13: 9781630268725

Edition: N/A

Authors: Kortney Clemons, Bill Briggs

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When above-the-knee amputeeswalk, we generate seven to nine times the force of our body weight right into the point where the prosthesis meets our residual leg. For me, that's almost 1,500 pounds slamming into that socket.For any amputee, learning to walk with a prosthetic leg is a painful, grueling ordeal. Soon after army medic Kortney Clemons, who lost his right leg to a roadside bomb in Baghdad, began the process, he had more than walking in mind. He wanted to run, and run fast. Barely three years after the awful attack that changed his life forever, he aimed to join the elite corps of international athletes vying for gold in the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. His account of his recovery…    
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List price: $40.99
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 6/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long
Language: English

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Normal 0 false false false William Briggshas been on the mathematics faculty at the University of Colorado at Denver for twenty-three years. He received his BA in mathematics from the University of Colorado and his MS and PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses throughout the mathematics curriculum with a special interest in mathematical modeling and differential equations as it applies to problems in the biosciences. He has written a quantitative reasoning textbook,Using and Understanding Mathematics;an undergraduate problem solving book,Ants, Bikes, and Clocks;and two tutorial monographs,The Multigrid TutorialandThe DFT: An…