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In Motion Posture Works! The Alexander Technique
: :Our posture is the way we live in our body. What we express and the unexpressed, our likes and dislikes, the full range of our emotions and passions, and our physical history are the imprints that determine our posture. Habitual and unconscious posture has a trajectory that can be easily determined. IN Motion / Posture Works provides the necessary guidance and the beginning steps to lead you into new discoveries and subtle levels of body awareness. Finally, a solution to what many of my Alexander clients have been asking, 'What ...
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Dare to be Wrong
: :A series of talks by Judith Leibowitz, one of the foremost teachers of the Alexander Technique. She introduced the Technique to the world-famous Juilliard School in New York and taught there for many years. This book is designed for the serious student or teacher of the Alexander Technique.
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F.M.: The Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander: Founder of the Alexander Technique
: :The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers, and singers, and is practiced for health reasons all over the world. Its founder was an Australian actor who stumbled upon it in the 1890s after studying himself in mirrors to discover why he had lost his voice. He realised that most people suffered from the same postural defects he had noticed in himself, and that this explained much of what went wrong with them.
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Fitness Without Stress: A Guide to the Alexander Technique
: :The author starts by exposing the myth the 'fitness' is the same as health, and goes on to describe what real fitness is and how the Alexander Technique can help people achieve it. It contains several case histories, covers what happens during an Alexander lesson and how to find a qualified teacher. The book gives examples of how people have used the Technique in yoga, massage, the martial arts, physical therapy and pregnancy. It also provides a complete listing of Alexander Technique resources, including books and videos, magazines and journals ...
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Study Helps in Point and Figure Technique
: :The author starts by exposing the myth the 'fitness' is the same as health, and goes on to describe what real fitness is and how the Alexander Technique can help people achieve it. It contains several case histories, covers what happens during an Alexander lesson and how to find a qualified teacher. The book gives examples of how people have used the Technique in yoga, massage, the martial arts, physical therapy and pregnancy. It also provides a complete listing of Alexander Technique resources, including books and videos, magazines and journals ...
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Character Design for Graphic Novels (Character Design Library)
: :Character Design for Graphic Novels not only showcases the best in character design from the world's leading artists onscreen and on the printed page, but provides you with a hardworking guide to the process behind the evolution and development of character design, the key milestones of the art, the genre busters, and the genre definers. This stunning book offers a unique insight into the creative process, interviewing the genre's leading artists, showcasing their work, and showing how it is done so you can benefit from their expertise when creating your ...
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Language Alternative: For Teaching Writing Skills
: :Martha Alexander's ambitious text aims to provide teachers with a step-by-step guide to teaching proper writing and comprehension skills. Supplemented with a wide range of well-known poems and prose passages, as well as local schoolchildren's essays, and excerpts from works in Trinidadian dialect, this volume presents another loop in the huge net of the English language. Models examined include recipes, radio talk shows, lifestyle discussions and a revealing interview with a leading judge, Madame Justice Bernard. Covering prose, plays, letter-writing, grammar and word use, this book makes use of exercises, ...
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The Decorated Letter
: :Martha Alexander's ambitious text aims to provide teachers with a step-by-step guide to teaching proper writing and comprehension skills. Supplemented with a wide range of well-known poems and prose passages, as well as local schoolchildren's essays, and excerpts from works in Trinidadian dialect, this volume presents another loop in the huge net of the English language. Models examined include recipes, radio talk shows, lifestyle discussions and a revealing interview with a leading judge, Madame Justice Bernard. Covering prose, plays, letter-writing, grammar and word use, this book makes use of exercises, ...
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Marine Biofouling: Colonization Processes and Defenses
: :Recent instances of bioinvasion, such as the emergence of the zebra mussel in the American Great Lakes, generated a demand among marine biologists and ecologists for groundbreaking new references that detail how organisms colonize hard substrates, and how to prevent damaging biomass concentrations. Marine Biofouling: Colonization Processes and Defenses is the English language version of a comprehensive work by eminent Russian scientist Alexander I. Railkin, who details the causes of vast biomass concentrations on submerged hard substrates. He also delivers a quantitative description of colonization processes and provides detailed models ...
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A Schnittke Reader:
: :'I have read all of Alfred's articles with enormous interest and enjoyment...[He] had such a profound insight into the music of other composers, and ...he found in it so many regular features that were hidden from others' - Mstislav Rostropovich, in the Preface. The compositions of Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) are known for their exquisite construction, their unlikely embrace of material from disparate sources, their predisposition for melancholia, and their tremendous beauty. His German, Jewish, and Russian background seemed to make him something of an outsider wherever he went. This book ...
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