Author: Gideon Phiri
Publisher:
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Category : Zambia
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Andrea Olsen
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819579459
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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BodyStories is a book that engages the general reader as well as the serious student of anatomy. Thirty-one days of learning sessions heighten awareness about each bone and body system and provide self-guided studies. The book draws on Ms. Olsen's thirty years as a dancer and teacher of anatomy to show how our attitudes and approaches to our body affect us day to day. Amusing and insightful personal stories enliven the text and provide ways of working with the body for efficiency and for healing. BodyStories is used as a primary text in college dance departments, massage schools, and yoga training programs internationally.

Author: G. D. Killam
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9780435916718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: George Mather
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317723023
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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The study of sensation and perception looks at how we acquire, process, and interpret information about the outside world. By describing key ideas from first principles, this straightforward introduction provides easy access to the basic concepts in the subject, and incorporates the most recent advances with useful historical background. The text takes a uniquely integrative approach, highlighting fundamental findings that apply across all the senses - including vision, hearing, touch, pain, balance, smell and taste - rather than considering each sense in isolation. Several pedagogical features help students to engage with the material. ‘Key Term’ and ‘Key Concept’ boxes describe technical terms and concepts whilst ‘Question’ boxes relate the material to everyday questions about perception. Each chapter ends with suggestions for further reading, and the final chapter draws together the material from the previous chapters, summarizing the broad principles described, and outlining some major unresolved issues. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book is an accessible and up-to-date overview of the processes of human sensation and perception. Presented in full color, it is an ideal introduction for pre-undergraduate and first year undergraduate students on courses in psychology, as well as neuroscience and biology.

Author: Shere Hite
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 9781583225691
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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A reproduction of the classic text, unavailable now for more than a decade, with a new introduction by the author. The Hite Report, first published in 1976, was a sexual revolution in six hundred pages. To answer sensitive questions dealing with the most intimate details of women's sexuality, Hite's innovation was simple: she asked women, a lot of them, everything--and published the results. One hundred thousand women, ages fourteen to seventy-eight, were asked what they do and don't like about sex; how orgasm really feels, with and without intercourse; how it feels not to have an orgasm during sex; the importance of clitoral stimulation and masturbation; and to name the greatest pleasures and frustrations of their sexual lives, among many other questions. The Hite Report declares that orgasm is easy and strong for women, given the right stimulation; that most women have orgasm most easily during masturbation or clitoral stimulation by hand; that sex as we define it is a cultural institution, not a biological one; and that attitudes must change to include the stimulation women desire.

Author: Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes
Publisher:
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Category : After-sensations
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Marleen ROZEMOND
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042921
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Descartes, an acknowledged founder of modern philosophy, is identified particularly with mind-body dualism--the view that the mind is an incorporeal entity. But this view was not entirely original with Descartes, and in fact to a significant extent it was widely accepted by the Aristotelian scholastics who preceded him, although they entertained a different conception of the nature of mind, body, and the relationship between them. In her first book, Marleen Rozemond explicates Descartes's aim to provide a metaphysics that would accommodate mechanistic science and supplant scholasticism. Her approach includes discussion of central differences from and similarities to the scholastics and how these discriminations affected Descartes's defense of the incorporeity of the mind and the mechanistic conception of body. Confronting the question of how, in his view, mind and body are united, she examines his defense of this union on the basis of sensation. In the course of her argument, she focuses on a few of the scholastics to whom Descartes referred in his own writings: Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suarez, Eustachius of St. Paul, and the Jesuits of Coimbra. This new systematic account of Descartes's dualism amply demonstrates why he still deserves serious study and respect for his extraordinary philosophical achievements.

Author: Sir Henry Head
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Sir Henry Head
Publisher:
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Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: Michael Zheng
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359468217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Michael Zheng was born and grew up in China. When he was a child, his mother found him a Buddhist master. But it was not until after he had become an artist in the U.S. that he started practicing his own blend of Buddhism that is the confluence of Ch'an Buddhism, Taoism, and various spiritual traditions rooted in India. This book compiles a series of anecdotes of his experiences with learning and practicing yoga, meditation and the related traditions, and how they helped him toward a more enchanted existence. Color plates of his own artworks inspired by these practices are included throughout the book. Together they illustrate how spirituality, when practiced with self-aware criticality, can play a crucial role in shaping contemporary life, in place of religious dogma.Michael was initially trained in Computer Science and worked as a software engineer at the dawning of the Internet. Later he quit his job to become an artist. His art works can be found at www.michaelzheng.org.