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The Alexander Technique Birth Book: A Guide to Better Pregnancy, Natural Childbirth and Parenthood
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Oil: Landscapes with William Alexander (Learn to Paint Step by Step)
: :In this title, William Alexander invites you into his artistic world and shows you how to re-create a variety of beautiful landscapes in oil. After exploring tools and materials, he explores tips for various oil painting techniques as well as instructions for how to create special effects for landscape elements such as skies, trees, mountains, roads, clouds, and lakes. Following demonstrations that show how to develop an oil painting into a finished work of art using the unique Alexander Wet-on-Wet Technique, aspiring artists will discover how to create a beautiful ...
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Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler: No Room to Answer
: :Slow pan shots, endless loops, a somnambulistic slipstream of images and puzzling plot lines--Teresa Hubbard, born in 1965 in Dublin, and Alexander Birchler, born in 1962 in Baden, Switzerland, credit Eadweard Muybridge's early motion pictures and the silent films of Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers as important influences on the deliberately slow cinematography of their fascinating and elaborately produced videos. No Room to Answer examines the artist couple's interest in the early history of photography and film, demonstrating how their picturesque, brilliantly colored images craft stories without a beginning ...
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BodySense: Revolutionize Your Riding with the Alexander Technique
: :This innovative book combines the mind-body principles of the Alexander Technique with thorough riding instruction to help riders improve their skills on horseback.
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Singular Images
: :Spanning 170 years, from William Henry Fox Talbot's first negative to Jeff Wall's latest constructed tableau, Singular Images collects thought-provoking essays on individual photographs, one image per writer. The essayists consider, sometimes in highly personal ways, the artist's intention, their own response, the work's technical complexities, its historical context or its formal properties. Each text captures a sense of how challenging it is to create a perfect single piece. Art photography has been increasingly well-surveyed in recent years, but individual works have rarely been written about at length, perhaps because ...
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The Complete Illustrated Guide to the Alexander Technique: A Practical Program for Health, Poise, and Fitness (Complete Illustrated Guide)
: :A guide to the system of mind and body awareness known as the Alexander technique discusses its practical applications and includes photographic sequences demonstrating the technique in action.
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Master the Art of Running: Raising Your Performance with the Alexander Technique
: :Running is both a popular competitive sport and a highly effective form of exercise—a simple, inexpensive way to achieve a wide range of cardiovascular, muscular, and emotional benefits. Now, by combining running with the healthful body-awareness principles of the Alexander Technique, runners can improve their competitive performance while multiplying the health benefits of the sport and virtually eliminating its hazards. The proven methods of the Alexander Technique encourage good body use and greater awareness of the way the body functions and moves. Applied to running, the Technique teaches how to ...
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Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute Player Needs to Know About the Body
: :Running is both a popular competitive sport and a highly effective form of exercise—a simple, inexpensive way to achieve a wide range of cardiovascular, muscular, and emotional benefits. Now, by combining running with the healthful body-awareness principles of the Alexander Technique, runners can improve their competitive performance while multiplying the health benefits of the sport and virtually eliminating its hazards. The proven methods of the Alexander Technique encourage good body use and greater awareness of the way the body functions and moves. Applied to running, the Technique teaches how to ...
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Tales from the Top: 10 Crucial Questions from the World's #1 Executive Coach
: :International executive coach and consultant Graham Alexander pinpoints the 10 essential questions leaders must ask themselves to stay on top of the game.
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The Alexander Technique: How to Use Your Body without Stress
: :The Alexander Technique, a revolutionary method of bodywork pioneered by the late F.M. Alexander, provides the key to successful body dynamics. Now, in this updated and revised edition, Wilfred Barlow's classic guide to Alexander's work explores every phase of the technique. Today, the Alexander Technique has a world-wide following and is respected as a major contribution to the fields of medicine, education, and psychiatry. Barlow, the foremost exponent and teacher of Alexander's work, explains how your mental, physical, and sexual well-being are affected by the way you use--or misuse--your body. ...
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