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Resistance Band Workbook

Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide to Stretching, Strengthening and Rehabilitative Techniques

By: Karl Knopf

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Resistance Band Workbook

Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide to Stretching, Strengthening and Rehabilitative Techniques

By: Karl Knopf

Over seventy safe, simple exercises you can do virtually anywhere for better strength, balance, and functional fitness—no heavy weights required! Resistance bands were first used in physical therapy settings to introduce low-intensity strength training for rehabilitating patients. Today they’re an increasingly popular fitness tool that comes in all levels of resistance and is perfect for targeting and working every major muscle group. Using this simple, lightweight, easily portable device, you can: • Increase Muscle and Bone Strength • Improve Balance • Reduce Lower Back Pain • Rehabilitate Injuries Resistance Band Workbook offers more than seventy safe, effective exercises paired with clear captions and step-by-step photos that can be done practically anywhere, anytime. In addition, special programs will enhance your daily life, whether you’re looking to revamp your physique, elevate your sports performance, or just improve your functional fitness.

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Simon and Schuster

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1612432107

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Core Strength for 50+

A Customized Program for Safely Toning Ab, Back, and Oblique Muscles

By: Karl Knopf

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Core Strength for 50+

A Customized Program for Safely Toning Ab, Back, and Oblique Muscles

By: Karl Knopf

A guide to core strength for adults over the age of fifty, with such types of workouts as partners, supine floor, and balls.

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Ulysses Press

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1612431011

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Weights for 50+

Building Strength, Staying Healthy and Enjoying an Active Lifestyle

By: Karl Knopf

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Weights for 50+

Building Strength, Staying Healthy and Enjoying an Active Lifestyle

By: Karl Knopf

A heavily illustrated step-by-step book offering people over 50 an introduction to weigth training. The program is not weight lifting to bulk up but rather to stay healthy and young.

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1569755116

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The Strength Training Bible for Seniors

The Ultimate Fitness Guide for the Rest of Your Life

By: Karl Knopf

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The Strength Training Bible for Seniors

The Ultimate Fitness Guide for the Rest of Your Life

By: Karl Knopf

Stay strong. Stay active. Stay healthy. "It’s never too late to lift weights: Older bodies can still build muscle" (Washington Post). The Strength Training Bible for Seniors is the only book you need to be fit and feel young in your fifties and beyond. Science shows us that an active lifestyle helps us flourish and is one of the keys to a long life. Strength training—whether in your core, arms, legs, or back—is an essential component of a fitness routine regardless of your age. The Strength Training Bible for Seniors covers all your workout needs: stretching, core strength, weight and resistance training, and kettlebell workouts to help you build muscle, tone your body, be flexible, and be your best. The Strength Training Bible for Seniors presents functional exercises carefully adapted and tested to provide comprehensive and customizable total-body workouts for people 50 years and older. Step-by-step photos and explanatory captions make it easy for anyone from the fitness novice to the lifetime athlete to train smart and stay fit for life. These progressive programs provide everything you need to: Get stronger Build muscle Avoid injury Improve posture Develop low-back health Foster core stability and flexibility Increase hand-eye coordination Boost mind-body awareness Enhance sports performance The exercises and workout programs in The Strength Training Bible for Seniors will help you build and maintain strong muscles in the abs, obliques, back, arms, legs, shoulders, and butt. What are you waiting for?

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1646047478

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Stretching for 50+

A Customized Program for Increasing Flexibility, Avoiding Injury and Enjoying an Active Lifestyle

By: Karl Knopf

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Stretching for 50+

A Customized Program for Increasing Flexibility, Avoiding Injury and Enjoying an Active Lifestyle

By: Karl Knopf

An easy-to-start stretching program to help adults maintain a mobile, active, and healthy lifestyle after fifty and beyond. Just ten minutes a day of these modified stretches is guaranteed to help you improve your mobility without pain or injury. Stretching for 50+ is filled with safe, easy routines for any age. Learn warm-ups and cool-downs, use tools like a strap, therapy balls and foam rollers, and discover plenty of other fitness tips to keep you moving. Customized Programs for Your Lifestyle: • Golf • Jogging • Biking • Skiing • Swimming • Tennis • Gardening • Hiking

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1612437109

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Therapy Ball Workbook

Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide to Stretching, Strengthening, and Rehabilitative Techniques

By: Karl Knopf

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Therapy Ball Workbook

Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide to Stretching, Strengthening, and Rehabilitative Techniques

By: Karl Knopf

ROLL AWAY ACHES & PAINS Therapy balls may be small, but when used properly—they are powerful. With 70 highly effective, self-massage movements, this book shows you how to maximize the healing potential of therapy balls to: •Release tension •Alleviate pain •Rehabilitate injuries •Improve core strength •Increase flexibility Therapy Ball Workbook’s clearly explained exercises are paired with step-by-step photos that will help you reduce pain, enhance range of motion, and induce relaxation. It also details the best methods to release painful trigger points and break up soft-tissue adhesions that contribute to chronic pain.

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Ulysses Press

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1612432999

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9781612432991

Kettlebells for 50+

Safe and Customized Programs for Building and Toning Every Muscle

By: Karl Knopf

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Kettlebells for 50+

Safe and Customized Programs for Building and Toning Every Muscle

By: Karl Knopf

Designed to meet the unique needs of active adults, Knopf presents functional exercises carefully adapted and tested to provide a comprehensive total-body workout, using kettlebells.

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1612430465

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Heal Your Frozen Shoulder

An At-Home Rehab Program to End Pain and Regain Range of Motion

By: Karl Knopf

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Heal Your Frozen Shoulder

An At-Home Rehab Program to End Pain and Regain Range of Motion

By: Karl Knopf

A comprehensive at-home rehab and maintenance program with stretching, strengthening, and massaging therapies—from the author of Healthy Shoulder Handbook. The cause of your frozen shoulder may be a mystery, but the way to fix it is no secret. Heal Your Frozen Shoulder guides you through the entire rehabilitation process, from understanding the problem to regaining full movement. It even tells you how to avoid this debilitating condition in the future. Featuring over 200 step-by-step photos, this book presents a complete program to get your shoulder back to its best possible condition, including: Effective movements Progressive stretches Gentle strengthening techniques Long-term lifestyle adjustments Author Dr. Karl Knopf, who specializes in the needs of aging patients, emphasizes proven treatments and proper form to guarantee help with your shoulder pain regardless of your fitness level.

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1612436560

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I Got A New Friend

By: Karl Newsom Edwards

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I Got A New Friend

By: Karl Newsom Edwards

A sweet introduction to owning a pet that is perfect for readers of The Most Magnificent Thing and A Ball for Daisy. When a little girl gets a new puppy, they have a lot to learn about each other. The new friends can be shy, messy, and sometimes get into trouble. They get lost, but they always get found. Their friendship may be a lot of work—but at the end of the day, they love each other! Experience the excitement and mystery surrounding a new pet (and a new friend) in this joyful picture book from acclaimed author and illustrator Karl Newsom Edwards. A Bank Street Best Book of the Year "Cheerfully ingenuous...Totally, infectiously ebullient."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred review "A joyous look at the work and play that go into pet ownership and friendship."--Booklist "The concise, cheery text gently explains what to expect when a newcomer joins the household, [and] the illustrations are cartoonlike and sweet. The curly-haired, brown-skinned little girl and the large-eared, spotted puppy make an adorable pair as they learn what it means to gain a new companion."--School Library Journal

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0399557024

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The Economics of Climate Change in China

Towards a Low-Carbon Economy

By: Fan Gang,Nicholas Stern,Ottmar Edenhofer,Xu Shanda,Klas Eklund,Frank Ackerman,Lailai Li,Karl Hallding

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The Economics of Climate Change in China

Towards a Low-Carbon Economy

By: Fan Gang,Nicholas Stern,Ottmar Edenhofer,Xu Shanda,Klas Eklund,Frank Ackerman,Lailai Li,Karl Hallding

China faces many modernization challenges, but perhaps none is more pressing than that posed by climate change. China must find a new economic growth model that is simultaneously environmentally sustainable, can free it from its dependency on fossil fuels, and lift living standards for the majority of its population. But what does such a model look like? And how can China best make the transition from its present macro-economic structure to a low-carbon future? This ground-breaking economic study, led by the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Chinese Economists 50 Forum, brings together leading international thinkers in economics, climate change, and development, to tackle some of the most challenging issues relating to China's low-carbon development. This study maps out a deep carbon reduction scenario and analyzes economic policies that shift carbon use, and shows how China can take strong and decisive action to make deep reductions in carbon emission over the next forty years while maintaining high economic growth and minimizing adverse effects of a low-carbon transition. Moreover, these reductions can be achieved within the finite global carbon budget for greenhouse gas emissions, as determined by the hard constraints of climate science. The authors make the compelling case that a transition to a low-carbon economy is an essential part of China's development and modernization. Such a transformation would also present opportunities for China to improve its energy security and move its economy higher up the international value chain. They argue that even in these difficult economic times, climate change action may present more opportunities than costs. Such a transformation, for China and the rest of the world, will not be easy. But it is possible, necessary and worthwhile to pursue.

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Routledge

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1134073739

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9781134073733

The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee

By: Karl Widerquist,Michael Anthony Lewis

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The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee

By: Karl Widerquist,Michael Anthony Lewis

Governments in the US, the UK and other nations around the world routinely consider and, in some cases, experiment with reforms of their income support systems. The basic income guarantee, a universal unconditional income grant, has received increasing attention from scholars as an alternative to the kinds of reforms that have been implemented. This book explores the political, sociological, economic, and philosophical issues of the basic income guarantee. Tracing the history of the idea, from its origins in the late eighteenth century through its political vogue in the 1970s, when the Family Assistance Plan narrowly missed passage in the US Congress, it also examines the philosophical debate over the issue. The book is designed to foster a climate of ideas amongst those specifically interested in the income support policies and more widely for those concerned with public, welfare and labour economics. Its coverage will enable readers to obtain an in depth grounding in the topic, regardless of their position in the debate.

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1351890530

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9781351890533

Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks

By: Karl A. Taube,Dumbarton Oaks

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Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks

By: Karl A. Taube,Dumbarton Oaks

Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks presents the Olmec portion of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. It illustrates all thirty-nine Olmec art objects in color plates and includes many complementary and comparative black-and-white illustrations and drawings. The body of Pre-Columbian art that Robert Bliss carefully assembled over a half-century between 1912 and 1963, amplified only slightly since his death, is a remarkably significant collection. In addition to their aesthetic quality and artistic significance, the objects hold much information regarding the social worlds and religious and symbolic views of the people who made and used them before the arrival of Europeans in the New World. This volume is the second in a series of catalogues that will treat objects in the Bliss Pre-Columbian Collection. The majority of the Olmec objects in the collection are made of jade, the most precious material for the peoples of ancient Mesoamerica from early times through the sixteenth century. Various items such as masks, statuettes, jewelry, and replicas of weapons and tools were used for ceremonial purposes and served as offerings. Karl Taube brings his expertise on the lifeways and beliefs of ancient Mesoamerican peoples to his study of the Olmec objects in teh Bliss collection. His understanding of jade covers a broad range of knowledge from chemical compositions to geological sources to craft technology to the symbolic power of the green stone. Throughout the book the author emphasizes the role of jade as a powerful symbol of water, fertility, and particularly, of the maize plant which was the fundamental source of life and sustenance for the Olmec. The shiny green of the stone was analogous to the green growth of maize. This fundamental concept was elaborated in specific religious beliefs, many of which were continued and elaborated by later Mesoamerican peoples, such as the Maya. Karl Taube employs his substantial knowledge of Pre-Columbian cultures to explore and explicate Olmec symbolism in this catalogue.

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Dumbarton Oaks

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0884022757

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9780884022756

The Mexican War, 1846-1848

By: Karl Jack Bauer

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The Mexican War, 1846-1848

By: Karl Jack Bauer

Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this . . . is the best military history of that conflict. . . . Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and fair evaluations. The coming of war is seen as unavoidable, given American expansion and Mexican resistance to loss of territory, compounded by the fact that neither side understood the other. The events that led to war are described with reference to military strengths and weaknesses, and every military campaign and engagement is explained in clear detail and illustrated with good maps. . . . Problems of large numbers of untrained volunteers, discipline and desertion, logistics, diseases and sanitation, relations with Mexican civilians in occupied territory, and Mexican guerrilla operations are all explained, as are the negotiations which led to war's end and the Mexican cession. . . . This is an outstanding contribution to military history and a model of writing which will be admired and emulated."-Journal of American History. K. Jack Bauer was also the author of Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (1985) and Other Works. Robert W. Johannsen, who introduces this Bison Books edition of The Mexican War, is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of To the Halls of Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803261071

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The Dust Of Empire

The Race For Mastery In The Asian Heartland

By: Karl E. Meyer

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The Dust Of Empire

The Race For Mastery In The Asian Heartland

By: Karl E. Meyer

When Charles de Gaulle learned that France's former colonies in Africa had chosen independence, the great general shrugged dismissively, "They are the dust of empire." But as Americans have learned, particles of dust from remote and seemingly medieval countries can, at great human and material cost, jam the gears of a superpower. In The Dust of Empire, Karl E. Meyer examines the present and past of the Asian heartland in a book that blends scholarship with reportage, providing fascinating detail about regions and peoples now of urgent concern to America: the five Central Asian republics, the Caspian and the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and long-dominant Russia. He provides the context for America's war on terrorism, for Washington's search for friends and allies in an Islamic world rife with extremism, and for the new politics of pipelines and human rights in an area richer in the former than the latter. He offers a rich and complicated tapestry of a region where empires have so often come to grief—a cautionary tale.

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0786724811

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Pax Ethnica

Where and How Diversity Succeeds

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

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Pax Ethnica

Where and How Diversity Succeeds

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

Explores places noted for minimal violence, rising life-expectancy, high literacy, and pragmatic compromises on cultural rights, documenting the ways and means that have proven successful in defusing ethnic tensions and maintaining peace.

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1586488295

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Five American Cinematographers

Interviews with Karl Struss, Joseph Ruttenberg, James Wong Howe, Linwood Dunn, and William H. Clothier

By: Karl Struss,Scott Eyman

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Five American Cinematographers

Interviews with Karl Struss, Joseph Ruttenberg, James Wong Howe, Linwood Dunn, and William H. Clothier

By: Karl Struss,Scott Eyman

These interviews give us new insight into [cinematographers'] special field of filmmaking....Excellent period photos of the craftsmen at work are important additions to the comments. The selection of cinematographers could hardly have been better..

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Scarecrow Press

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0810819740

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Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus

The Paradigmatic Individuals

By: Karl Jaspers

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Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus

The Paradigmatic Individuals

By: Karl Jaspers

A part of Jaspers's planned universal history of philosophy, focusing on the four paradigmatic individuals who have exerted a historical influence of incomparable scope and depth. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0156835800

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Understanding and Using Educational Theories

By: Karl Aubrey,Alison Riley

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Understanding and Using Educational Theories

By: Karl Aubrey,Alison Riley

This textbook gives readers a clear overview of a selection of the most influential thinkers on education in the last hundred year, including established names (Vygotsky, Bruner, Dewey), more recent thinkers (Freire, hooks, Claxton) and other key names whose writing has helped shaped our views on teaching and learning. This second edition includes new chapters on Albert Bandura, Dylan Wiliam and Carol Dweck. Each chapter includes: Practical examples showing how theories can be used to inform classroom teaching Critiques of each theorist exploring opposing viewpoints and the strengths and weaknesses of different ideas Reflective tasks inviting you to apply what you′ve read to your own educational experiences. This book is not available as a print inspection copy. To download an e-version click here or for more information contact your local sales representative.

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SAGE

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1526454807

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Shakespeare, Midlife, and Generativity

By: Karl F. Zender

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Shakespeare, Midlife, and Generativity

By: Karl F. Zender

The life expectancy in Shakespearean times averaged only about twenty-five to thirty-five years, but those who survived the illnesses of infancy and childhood could look forward to a long life with nearly the same level of confidence as someone living now. But even so long ago, some faced conflicts in their middle and later years that remain familiar today. In Shakespeare, Midlife, and Generativity, Karl F. Zender explores William Shakespeare's depictions of middle age by examining the relationships between middle-aged parents -- mainly fathers -- and their children in five of his greatest plays. He finds that the middle-aged characters in King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest -- much like their modern counterparts -- experience a fear of aging and debility. Representations of middle age occur throughout the Shakespearean canon, in forms ranging from Jaques' "seven ages" speech in As You Like It to the emphasis -- almost an obsession -- in many plays on relations between the generations. Lear, Zender shows, tries to forestall the approach of old age with a fantasy of literal rebirth in his relationship with Cordelia. Macbeth depicts an even more urgent struggle against midlife decline, while in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare portrays two characters in midlife crisis who attempt to redefine their identities by memorializing their former status and power, now lost. Drawing on Erik Erikson's theory of generativity -- a midlife shift from advancing one's own career to aiding a younger generation -- Zender explores the difficulties Shakespeare's characters face as they transfer power and authority to their children and others in the next generation. Paying careful attention to the plays' moral and ethical implications, he demonstrates how Shakespeare's innovative depiction of the midlife experience focuses on internal psychological understanding rather than external actions such as ceremony and ritual. Illuminating and engaging, Shakespeare, Midlife, and Generativity offers a fresh analysis of several of Shakespeare's most important plays and explores a profound, centuries-old perspective on the challenges inherent in middle age.

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LSU Press

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0807154911

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9780807154915

The Design Process

By: Karl Aspelund

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The Design Process

By: Karl Aspelund

Karl Aspelund takes readers on a guided tour of seven stages of design, from Inspiration, Identification, Conceptualization, Exploration/Refinement, Definition/Modeling, Communication and Production. New cumulative storyboards of three different types of designs (graphics, clothing, and web design) progress through each stage to show how each setp is implemented in practical application. "Perspectives" features highlight individual designers and artists, and end-of-chapter exercises help transform design projects to reality. New to This Edition: New cumulative storyboards in each chapter provide a variety of examples to show how designs progress through each stage in the design process to arrive at a final product Added coverage of globalization, sustainability, and collaborative teamwork New "Perspectives" features with additional design fields and real-life artists and designers Thoroughly updated illustrations

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1609018389

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Pursuing the National Interest

Moments of Transition in Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy

By: Karl K. Schonberg

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Pursuing the National Interest

Moments of Transition in Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy

By: Karl K. Schonberg

The history of twentieth-century American foreign policy presents an indictment of classical and structural realism and systemic theories of international relations more generally. Examining five crucial movements of transition in American foreign policy making - before and after each of the world wars and the end of the Cold War - Shonberg argues that the national interest resides mostly in the eye of the beholder, and that the idiosyncratic perceptions, beliefs, and values of individuals are of vital importance in the policy process. Thus, America's recent experiences in global politics, interpreted through the lens of national ideology, has defined and created the ultimate shape of a new foreign policy.

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031307240X

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9780313072406

In Search of a Better World

Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years

By: Karl R. Popper,Karl Raimund Popper

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In Search of a Better World

Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years

By: Karl R. Popper,Karl Raimund Popper

A collection of essays that offers striking new insight into the mind of one of the greatest living philosophers. Popper's subjects range from the beginnings of scientific speculation in Greece to the role of science in the arts.

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Psychology Press

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0415135486

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9780415135481

Stability Workouts on the Balance Board

Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide to Toning, Strengthening and Rehabilitative Techniques

By: Karl Knopf

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Stability Workouts on the Balance Board

Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide to Toning, Strengthening and Rehabilitative Techniques

By: Karl Knopf

THE FIRST BOOK DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE BALANCE BOARD FEATURING OVER 200 STEP-BY-STEP PHOTOS Unleashing the power of the balance board, this guide provides highly effective workouts that quickly produce noticeable results. Whether you’re looking to sculpt a stunning physique, tone muscles, or improve general fitness, there’s a specifically designed program to address your individual needs. Stability Workouts on the Balance Board offers over 100 safe, straightforward exercises that teach beginners good posture, balance and strength while helping more advanced athletes enhance their sporting lives. With your balance board and this book, you’ll quickly learn how to build strength in both primary and secondary muscles throughout the body as well as: • Increase core strength • Improve balance • Tone muscles • Release tension • Rehabilitate Injuries

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Simon and Schuster

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1612435106

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9781612435107

Faulkner and the Politics of Reading

By: Karl F. Zender

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Faulkner and the Politics of Reading

By: Karl F. Zender

With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicized interpretations on our understanding of Faulkner’s achievement. Sympathetically acknowledging the need to decenter the canon, Zender’s searching interrogation of current theory clears a breathing space for Faulkner and his readers between the fustier remnants of New Criticism and the excesses of post-structuralism. Each chapter opens with a balanced presentation of the genuine gifts contemporary theory has bestowed on our comprehension of a particular novel or problem in Faulkner criticism and then proceeds with a groundbreaking reading. “The Politics of Incest” challenges older psychoanalytic interpretations of Faulkner’s use of the incest motif, and “Faulkner’s Privacy” defends the novelist’s difficulty or “reticence” as an aesthetic resistance against the rude candor of deregionalized and depersonalized culture. Subsequent chapters take up the volatile issues of Faulkner’s representations of women and of African Americans, and a close reading of the classic “Barn Burning” critiques the current tendency to blur the concepts of patriarchy and paternity. The elegiac final chapter, “Where is Yoknapatawpha County?” draws on a comparison with John Updike’s Pennsylvania fiction and a reading of Joan Williams’s The Wintering to explore Faulkner’s disinclination to represent the quotidian realities of southern life in his later novels. Zender shows that Faulkner’s stylistic withdrawal attempts to “transform into beauty” his alienation from the postwar world and his fear of aging. That Faulkner and the Politics of Reading itself recovers and gives new luster to Faulkner’s beauty will surely please, in the author’s words, “those readers . . . for whom literature is less a mechanism of social change than a source of pleasure.” The originality of its critical vision will inspire Faulkner scholars, students of American literature, and general readers.

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LSU Press

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0807181366

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9780807181362

Foam Roller Workbook

A Step-by-Step Guide to Stretching, Strengthening and Rehabilitative Techniques

By: Karl Knopf

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Foam Roller Workbook

A Step-by-Step Guide to Stretching, Strengthening and Rehabilitative Techniques

By: Karl Knopf

A full-color, step-by-step guide to end pain, regain range of motion, and prevent injury using the foam roller With this helpful full-color guide, you can learn how to use your foam roller to remediate muscle strain caused by everything from sitting long hours at your desk to overdoing it at the gym. In addition, special programs will enhance your sporting life, whether you hit the track, the court or the slopes. Designed to improve your posture, balance and muscle tone, each exercise is carefully explained and includes step-by-step color photos to guarantee you do it right and gain the maximum benefits, including: • Increase Flexibility • Release Tension • Alleviate Chronic Pain • Rehabilitate Injury • Improve Core Strength • Break Up Knots

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1612438865

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9781612438863

The Teachings of the Great Mystics

By: Bishop Karl Pruter

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The Teachings of the Great Mystics

By: Bishop Karl Pruter

Bishop Karl Pruter discusses mysticism, from Plotinus and Dionysius the Areopogite to Walt Whitman and Kahlil Gibran.

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Wildside Press LLC

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0912134003

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9780912134000

Make the Pool Your Gym, 2nd Edition

No-Impact Water Workouts for Getting Fit, Building Strength and Rehabbing from Injury

By: Karl Knopf

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Make the Pool Your Gym, 2nd Edition

No-Impact Water Workouts for Getting Fit, Building Strength and Rehabbing from Injury

By: Karl Knopf

Make a splash in your fitness journey with this easy-to-use, step-by-step guide to pool aerobics from best-selling fitness author Dr. Karl Knopf. Once used primarily for rehabilitation and exercise for seniors, water exercise has been proven to build strength, improve cardiovascular fitness and burn calories for people of all ages—all without the strain and trauma of land-based activities. With step-by-step instructions and clear photos, this flexible training tool will introduce you to the no-impact, total-body benefits of water exercise, including: Improving muscular strength Increasing flexibility Enhancing cardiovascular fitness Alleviating pain Rehabilitating injuries And more! Whether you’re a non-swimmer, an elite athlete, or someone with a chronic condition, Make the Pool Your Gym shows how to create an effective and efficient workout best suited to your needs.

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104

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Simon and Schuster

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1646045173

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9781646045174

The Drama of Everyday Life

By: Karl Scheibe

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The Drama of Everyday Life

By: Karl Scheibe

Psychologists, says the old joke, know everything there is to know about the college sophomore and the white rat. But what about the rest of us, older than the former, bigger than the latter, with lives more labyrinthine than either? In this ambitious book, Karl E. Scheibe aims to take psychology out of its rut and bring it into contact with the complex lives that most people quietly live. Drama, Scheibe reminds us, is no more confined to the theater than religion is to the church or education to the schoolroom. Accordingly, he brings to his reflection on psychology the drama of literature, poetry, philosophy, history, music, and theater. The essence of drama is transformation: the transformation of the quotidian world into something that commands interest and stimulates conversation. It is this dramatic transformation that Scheibe seeks in psychology as he pursues a series of suggestive questions, such as: Why is boredom the central motivational issue of our time? Why are eating and sex the biological foundations of all human dramas? Why is indifference a natural condition, caring a dramatic achievement? Why is schizophrenia disappearing? Why does gambling have cosmic significance? Writing with elegance and passion, Scheibe asks us to take note of the self-representation, performance, and scripts of the drama that is our everyday life. In doing so, he challenges our dispirited senses and awakens psychology to a new realm of dramatic possibility.

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Harvard University Press

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0674008391

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9780674008397

The Corruption of Co-Design

Political and Social Conflicts in Participatory Design Thinking

By: Otto von Busch,Karl Palmås

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The Corruption of Co-Design

Political and Social Conflicts in Participatory Design Thinking

By: Otto von Busch,Karl Palmås

Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world. Similarly, co-design tends to be described as a democratic mode of creativity that is somehow beyond reproach. But is change a virtue in itself, and do participatory practices always produce socially beneficial outcomes? Such questions are becoming more pressing as co-design has emerged as a dominant practice in planning and urban design, while also informing corporate management and public administration. In this book, Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås suggest that designers tend to overemphasize the place of ideals in design, leaving them ill-equipped to deal with a social world of power-wielding and zero-sum games. Seeking to reorient the concerns of the Scandinavian tradition of participatory design, they suggest that co-design processes are rife with betrayals, decay, and corruption, and that designerly empathy has morphed into a new form of cunning statecraft. In putting forward Realdesign as an alternative conception of design practice, von Busch and Palmås ask: What hard lessons about the social must today’s designers learn from realists like Machiavelli?

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Taylor & Francis

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1000838048

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9781000838046

Imre Nagy, Martyr of the Nation

Contested History, Legitimacy, and Popular Memory in Hungary

By: Karl P. Benziger

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Imre Nagy, Martyr of the Nation

Contested History, Legitimacy, and Popular Memory in Hungary

By: Karl P. Benziger

Imre Nagy is a compelling figure both in life and in death_one whose actions stimulated consequences in Hungary that continue into the present. Providing a summary review of Hungarian Cold War history, Benziger examines the ways in which the memory of the martyred prime minister and the story of the 1956 Revolution influenced political socialization in Hungary. The book begins with Nagy's 1989 funeral and the role memorialization played in the politics of transition, continuing with a review of the important personages and events that informed Nagy's life and afterlife, and it concludes in the tumultuous politics following the establishment of the Republic in 1989. Readers interested in Central and Eastern Europe will find this book useful as it expands the literature on history and memory, and transition politics in the region.

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Lexington Books

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0739146270

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9780739146279

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