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Author
Publisher
Lotus Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Awareness of movement potential is the key to a healthy body and the prevetnin of injuries; this text allows the reader to help maintain health, weight, posture, strength, stretch, and performance skills. The practice of sport, pilates, yoga, and dance is emphasized, providing a better understanding of how the body functions whilst being exercised. The author's background in movement sciences has led to a deep interest in the ability of the body to...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Traces one "everywoman's" story and examines the everyday workings of a living, functioning body. Microscopic filmmaking, advanced medical technology, and state-of-the-art cardiac tomography imaging techniques are used to reveal unique perspectives on how our bodies function, grow, and mature from infancy through puberty, adulthood, and old age.
49) Anatomy for yoga
Publisher
Pranamaya
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth lectures, demonstrations, and comparisons of human anatomy as it relates to Yoga practice.
Publisher
Pranamaya
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Maha Sadhana, or 'Great Practice', presents the jewels of wisdom from Sri Dharma Mittra's more than 50 years of practicing yoga--an extraordinary life spent in service of self-realization. In this DVD, Dharma presents Level II of his remarkable teachings, the second in the Maha Sadhana series. His approach to yoga respects the great foundations of this ancient practice: asana, pranayama, meditation, ethical rules, philosophical study, and devotional...
56) Flights
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...
57) Human machine
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Vision
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Human machine investigates the most complex machine of all -- The human body. Travel inside to explore the vital organs that power our lives, and examine the instruments through which we sense the world.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Remainder and Satin Island (which was short-listed for the Booker Prize), a high-tech odyssey through CGI studios, wind tunnels, and drone research centers, where the limits of healing, entertaining, revelation, and destruction are continually being transformed. A kaleidoscopic exploration of motion and how the forces that compel and impel us continues to defy capture and understanding. The historical starting point: Lillian Gilbreth,...
Author
Publisher
Propriometrics Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Rethink Your Position is every body's guide to everyday alignment. It explains how to check the way different areas are moving now, includes precision exercises to get important parts moving better, and shows how making small changes can increase your physical activity all day long--not only at the gym, but at the office, in the kitchen, on a walk with friends...even while you're sleeping. -- Provided by Publisher.