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The Home Stretch - 23 Powerful At-Home Exercises to Improve Posture, Reduce Pain & Live Well
pdf | 1.76 MB | English | Isbn:B08WKRXKJ5 | Author: Pavlovic, Danka | PAge: 37 | Year: 2021

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They say sitting is the new smoking.

We are seeing more and more people transition to working from an office to working from home and many are finding that the comfort of being at home is not so comfortable.

Does this sound familiar? Joint stiffness after sitting at a desk? Tension headaches? Are you suffering from the dreaded "desk posture"? You know, rounded shoulders, slumped upper back, stiff hips...Whether you're a stay-at-home parent, have transitioned to working from home or you're a full-time student with your head stuck in the books and rooted to a chair, chances are this lifestyle is leaving you with stiff, locked up joints and sore muscles. If you've noticed that your posture has worsened in the last year, you're not alone. Many people have reported that working from home has led to increased inactivity, fatigue, muscle tension and poor posture. Often you see the development of things such as sway back posture, upper cross syndrome, lower cross syndrome or changes in gait. Did you know people who stand with good posture report being happier and more confident? It's no surprise as physical health is directly tied to mental health. When the body suffers, so does the mind. Inactivity, chronic pain and injury can lead to loss of energy, depression, anxiety and even memory loss.

The good news is, there is a solution.and that solution is a simple, yet highly effective at-home movement program.

One that is created using the scientific principles of program design and combines both mobilization and strengthening. This combination is KEY and is the basis of any injury prevention program. By stabilizing the joints and improving postural alignment, the body can move in a more biomechanically sound way. When this occurs, stress is taken off all the major regions in the body - the low back, hips, knees, neck and shoulders - common sites of pain and injury. Not only do you achieve better posture and confidence, but also better sleep, athletic performance, productivity and mood!

The Home Stretch will guide you through a series of carefully selected, full-body mobility drills and strengthening exercises designed to combat the countless hours spent behind a desk. With some yoga inspired movements, you will find that consistent practice will lead to a more relaxed body and state of mind. The majority of exercises are performed with only your bodyweight, along with some floor space and the willingness to do something your body (and future self) will thank you for.

Inside, you will discover ways to:
[*]Build a strong, resilient core.[*]Take stress off the low back. [*]Stabilize the knees and shoulders. [*]Regain hip mobility. [*]Decrease muscular tension. [*]Increase overall flexibility. [*]Feel good again!

If you want to improve your fitness, improve your posture and reduce the likelihood of injury and chronic pain, The Home Stretch is what your body needs.

All exercises are accompanied with detailed descriptions for how to perform them with proper form, picture demonstration as well links to video demos so that you can be sure you're doing them right.

Category:Work-Related Health, Exercise & Fitness Injury Prevention, Pain Management

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Differential Equations 2003 Mcgraw Hill
pdf | 1.73 MB | English | Isbn:978-0486649405 | Author: Bronson, Bredensteiner | PAge: 143 | Year: 1985

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This unusually well-written, skillfully organized introductory text provides an exhaustive survey of ordinary differential equations - equations which express the relationship between variables and their derivatives. In a disarmingly simple, step-by-step style that never sacrifices mathematical rigor, the authors - Morris Tenenbaum of Cornell University, and Harry Pollard of Purdue University - introduce and explain complex, critically-important concepts to undergraduate students of mathematics, engineering and the sciences.
The book begins with a section that examines the origin of differential equations, defines basic terms and outlines the general solution of a differential equation-the solution that actually contains every solution of such an equation. Subsequent sections deal with such subjects as: integrating factors; dilution and accretion problems; the algebra of complex numbers; the linearization of first order systems; Laplace Transforms; Newton's Interpolation Formulas; and Picard's Method of Successive Approximations.
The book contains two exceptional chapters: one on series methods of solving differential equations, the second on numerical methods of solving differential equations. The first includes a discussion of the Legendre Differential Equation, Legendre Functions, Legendre Polynomials, the Bessel Differential Equation, and the Laguerre Differential Equation. Throughout the book, every term is clearly defined and every theorem lucidly and thoroughly analyzed, and there is an admirable balance between the theory of differential equations and their application. An abundance of solved problems and practice exercises enhances the value of Ordinary Differential Equations as a classroom text for undergraduate students and teaching professionals. The book concludes with an in-depth examination of existence and uniqueness theorems about a variety of differential equations, as well as an introduction to the theory of determinants and theorems about Wronskians.

Category:Differential Equations, Calculus

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Differential Topology Dundas
pdf | 2.22 MB | English | Isbn:B07CMZNM4V | Author: Bj?rn Ian Dundas | PAge: 183 | Year: 2018

Description:

Manifolds are abound in mathematics and physics, and increasingly in cybernetics and visualization where they often reflect properties of complex systems and their configurations. Differential topology gives us the tools to study these spaces and extract information about the underlying systems. This book offers a concise and modern introduction to the core topics of differential topology for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. It covers the basics on smooth manifolds and their tangent spaces before moving on to regular values and transversality, smooth flows and differential equations on manifolds, and the theory of vector bundles and locally trivial fibrations. The final chapter gives examples of local-to-global properties, a short introduction to Morse theory and a proof of Ehresmann's fibration theorem. The treatment is hands-on, including many concrete examples and exercises woven into the text, with hints provided to guide the student.

Category:Topology, Topology

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Target Markets International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism In The Mall
pdf | 1.49 MB | English | Isbn:978-3837633528 | Author: Suzi Mirgani | PAge: 199 | Year: 2017

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This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed at commercial entities in urban areas, with an emphasis on the shopping mall in general and Nairobi's Westgate Mall in particular, Suzi Mirgani offers a fascinating and disturbing perspective on the spaces where the most powerful forces of contemporary culture - the most mainstream and the most extreme - meet on common ground.

Category:Violence in Society, Terrorism

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An Intro Rights
pdf | 1.21 MB | English | Isbn:1984881515 | Author: WILLIAM A. EDMUNDSON | PAge: 241 | Year: 2021

Description:

"A book that should be read . . . Smith brings an alchemic talent to describing physical labor." -The New York Times Book Review

"Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been." -Kirkus Reviews

A vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota

Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far away as Jamaica, Africa and the Philippines. They ate together, drank together, argued like crows and searched for jobs they couldn't get back home. Smith's goal was to find the hardest work he could do--to find out if he could do it. He hired on in the oil patch where he toiled fourteen hour shifts from summer's 100 degree dog days to deep into winter's bracing whiteouts, all the while wrestling with the demons of a turbulent past, his broken relationships with women, and the haunted memories of a family riven by violence.

The Good Hand is a saga of fear, danger, exhaustion, suffering, loneliness, and grit that explores the struggles of America's marginalized boomtown workers-the rough-hewn, castoff, seemingly disposable men who do an indispensable job that few would exalt: oil field hands who, in the age of climate change, put the gas in our tanks and the food in our homes. Smith, who had pursued theater and played guitar in New York, observes this world with a critical eye; yet he comes to love his coworkers, forming close bonds with Huck, a goofy giant of a young man whose lead foot and quick fists get him into trouble with the law, and The Wildebeest, a foul-mouthed, dip-spitting truck driver who torments him but also trains him up, and helps Smith "make a hand."

The Good Hand is ultimately a book about transformation--a classic American story of one man's attempt to burn himself clean through hard work, to reconcile himself to himself, to find community, and to become whole.

Category:Gender Studies, Men's Gender Studies, Cultural & Regional Biographies

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Biting Through The Skin
pdf | 1.05 MB | English | Isbn:B00EFAZPQ0 | Author: Furstenau, Nina Mukerjee(Author) | PAge: 189 | Year: 2013

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At once a traveler's tale, a memoir, and a mouthwatering cookbook, Biting through the Skin offers a first-generation immigrant's perspective on growing up in America's heartland. Author Nina Mukerjee Furstenau's parents brought her from Bengal in northern India to the small town of Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1964, decades before you could find long-grain rice or plain yogurt in American grocery stores. Embracing American culture, the Mukerjee family ate hamburgers and softserve ice cream, took a visiting guru out on the lake in their motorboat, and joined the Shriners. Her parents transferred the cultural, spiritual, and family values they had brought with them to their children only behind the closed doors of their home, through the rituals of cooking, serving, and eating Bengali food and making a proper cup of tea.

As a girl and a young woman, Nina traveled to her ancestral India as well as to college and to Peace Corps service in Tunisia. Through her journeys and her marriage to an American man whose grandparents hailed from Germany and Sweden, she learned that her family was not alone in being a small pocket of culture sheltered from the larger world. Biting through the Skin shows how we maintain our differences as well as how we come together through what and how we cook and eat. In mourning the partial loss of her heritage, the author finds that, ultimately, heritage always finds other ways of coming to meet us. In effect, it can be reduced to a 4 x 6-inch recipe card, something that can fit into a shirt pocket. It's on just such tiny details of life that belonging rests.

In this book, the author shares her shirt-pocket recipes and a great deal more, inviting readers to join her on her journey toward herself and toward a vital sense of food as culture and the mortar of community.

Category:Biographies & Memoirs of Chefs, Social Customs & Traditions, Midwest U.S. Biographies

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Phenomenology And Philosophy Of Mind
pdf | 1.64 MB | English | Isbn:B013RC60QA | Author: Smith, David Woodruff; Thomasson, Amie L. | PAge: 333 | Year: 2015

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This volume identifies and develops how philosophy of mind and phenomenology interact in both conceptual and empirically-informed ways. The objective is to demonstrate that phenomenology, as the first-personal study of the contents and structures of our mentality, can provide us with insights into the understanding of the mind and can complement strictly analytical or empirically informed approaches to the study of the mind. Insofar as phenomenology, as the study or science of phenomena, allows the mind to appear, this collection shows how the mind can reappear through a constructive dialogue between different ways-phenomenological, analytical, and empirical-of understanding mentality.

Category:Humanism Philosophy, Consciousness & Thought, Humanist Philosophy

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Begin Chess
pdf | 18.02 MB | English | Isbn:978-0451147233 | Author: Manuel Aaron | PAge: 262 | Year: 1987

Description:

Book by Pritchard, David B.

Category:Chess

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Chess for Beginners
pdf | 27.63 MB | English | Isbn:B07KGHTTQ6 | Author: Yelizaveta Orlova | PAge: 166 | Year: 2018

Description:

Sharpen your chess skills with winning tactics and strategies

The skill and strategy required to win at chess can feel intimidating, but Chess for Beginners breaks it down into manageable lessons to help new players up their game. Start with a rundown of the basic game mechanics, then explore clear and concise guidance for the strategies and tactics that will help you achieve consistent success.

Learn to position your pieces and coordinate your attack with:
[*]A comprehensive overview-Find clear illustrations and directions that show you all the components of a chessboard, how each piece moves, and how to read chess notation.[*]10 Powerful short-term tactics-Practice shorter sequences of chess moves-like deflections, sacrifices, and forks-that help you put your strategy in play and take control of the board.[*]10 Essential long-game strategies-Learn how to activate your pieces, keep track of the whole board, think several moves ahead, go for a quick checkmate, and more.

From your first move to your last, Chess for Beginners shows you how to play a better game.

Category:Chess, Puzzle & Game Reference, Chess

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Chess Traps, Pitfalls & Swindles
pdf | 8.88 MB | English | Isbn:B08CS4JVQM | Author: I. A. Horowitz, Fred Reinfeld | PAge: 254 | Year: 2020

Description:

A great classical chess book

Category:Chess, Chess

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