01975cam a2200349 i 4500 2384430272 TxAuBib 20250623120000.0 250408s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781643753089 hardcover 1643753088 hardcover TxAuBib rda Tsui, Bonnie, author. On muscle : the stuff that moves us and why it matters / Bonnie Tsui. First edition. New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2025. 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Strength. What's power, in a body? ; Muscle as potential ; A heavy lift ; The making of a hero, then and now -- Form. The ideal body ; Who's afraid of a lady Hercules? ; Shoulders, squared -- Action. Your muscles are talking ; Jumpology ; The movement is the message -- Flexibility. Muscles, fast and slow ; It comes from unity ; Remembrance of exercises past -- Endurance. What we carry ; Running to remember ; True grit ; Going the distance ; Kissing the ground in equilibrium. Cardiac, smooth, skeletal--these three different types of muscle in our bodies make our hearts beat; push food through our intestines, blood through our vessels, babies out the uterus; attach to our bones and allow for motion. Tsui also traces how muscles have defined beauty--and how they have distorted it--through the ages, and how they play an essential role in our physical and mental health. 20250623. Muscles. Muscles. Motility. Human anatomy. Human body. Human body. Social aspects. Human body. Symbolic aspects. TXKIP