Description:. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Mixed lot. The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance:. A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human.Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity's Rainbow, 'it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off'.Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adventure sports - from sky-diving to motocross to surfing and beyond - have been pushed farther and faster. A generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible; not just raising the bar, but obliterating it altogether. Along the way, they have become a force pushing evolution relentlessly onward.. Gnar Country: Growing Old, Staying Rad Hardcover... Gnar: adjective, short for “gnarly,” def: any environment or situation that is high in perceived...