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Back Pain - A Movement Problem E-Book
A clinical approach incorporating relevant research and practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Back Pain: a movement problem is a practical manual to assist all students and clinicians concerned with the evaluation, diagnosis and management of the movement related problems seen in those with spinal pain disorders. It offers an integrative model of posturomovement dysfunction which describes...
Biracial in America
Forming and Performing Racial Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African American president of the United States. Though recognized as the son of a white Kansas-born mother and a black Kenyan father, the media and public have nonetheless pigeonholed him as black, and he too self-identifies as such. Obama’s...
Confronting Kingdom Challenges
A Call to Global Christians to Carry the Burden Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007
It takes only one look at today's news page or one listen to the news shows to understand that, clearly, there is no shortage of kingdom challenges for the twenty-first-century church at large, for Christian organizations and agencies, or for us as individuals. In the face of such enormous problems...
Faith in Action
A Handbook for Activists Advocates and Allies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
You want to make the world better. This book can help.
Faith in Action offers quick dives into a range of topics, from racial justice to environmental concerns, from LGBTQIA equality to Native people’s rights, from women’s equality to disability rights, from mass incarceration to immigration....
The DelFly
Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book introduces the topics most relevant to autonomously flying flapping wing robots: flapping-wing design, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. Readers can explore these topics in the context of the "Delfly", a flapping wing robot designed at Delft University in The Netherlands.
How...
by A. L. Sinikka Dixon, Ph.D. in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Today we live in an information society, constantly bombarded by new scientific discoveries in every field. What we thought to be “common sense” is changing and we tend to look to the multiple professional organizations for guidelines. This book focuses on our every day relationships within the five...
by Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin, Patricia Ahern
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
* ‘The Loneliest Boy in the World – he has only seagulls as playmates.’ 1949 newspaper article * Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin had a unique childhood – he was the last child brought up on the Blasket Islands of Ireland’s southwest coast. The nearest in age was his uncle who was thirty years...
by In Mala Fide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A Compilation of the Best Writing on Masculinity, Philosophy and LifeThree Years of Hate is a compilation of over 60 of my best blog posts from my old site In Mala Fide, from nearly 1,000 that were written. They include topics on game, dating, sex, self-improvement, politics, American society,...
Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice
Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of...
Coercion: the Achilles' Heel of Education
Sociological Essay
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
My goal in writing this book is not to try to instruct you or to indoctrinate you. Its rather to present you with a menu of theories, reflections and certain facts concerning civilization and its difficulties in advancing to the next level. That next level, for me, would be to take heed of and to...
by Lawrence A. Shapiro, Shannon Spaulding, Daniel D. Hutto
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.
This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...
‘A Miracle of Learning’
Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning: Essays in Honour of William O’Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This volume celebrates the work of William O’Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, made more accessible and elucidated the documents in his care. The manuscripts throw new light on the society of Ireland, the place of the learned and literate in that...
by Sichos In English
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
In the annals of Jewish history, no one individual has been turned to for advice on so many matters great and small and by so diverse a populace, as has the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The more crucial the issue, the more people felt the need to garner wisdom, counsel and blessing from that one individual...
by Brandon in Idaho
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The Book of Idaho is a collection of stories from My Own Private Idaho: A blog about a Californian now living in Idaho.The stories cover a wide variety of topics, including:- Getting to Know the Author- Life in Idaho- Mormons and Mormon Culture in Idaho- Funny Idaho Laws (and breaking some)- General Silliness