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Master the essentials of anatomy and body movement to succeed as a
physical therapist assistant! Essentials of Kinesiology for the
Physical Therapist Assistant, 4th Edition provides you with a solid
background in the structure and function of the musculoskeletal
system, with clear explanations of normal movement setting the
stage for discussions of abnormal movement patterns and treatment
techniques. To clarify kinesiology concepts, full-color
illustrations show bones, joints, supporting ligaments, and
muscles. Written by experienced physical therapy practitioners Paul
Jackson Mansfield and Donald A. Neumann, this concise guide
prepares PTAs for success in both the classroom and the clinical
setting. And it includes a fully searchable eBook version with each
print purchase! More than 600 full-color photos and drawings help
you understand key concepts. Expert author team of Paul Jackson
Mansfield and Donald Neumann represents a combined 50 years of
physical therapy practice and more than 40 years of teaching
experience. UNIQUE! Illustrations from Kinesiology of the
Musculoskeletal System depict body anatomy and movement. UNIQUE!
Atlas-style muscle presentations pair the illustration of a
specific muscle or group with the relevant attachments,
innervations, and actions. Study questions include 20-30
multiple-choice and true/false practice questions in each chapter,
serving as a self-assessment tool for exam preparation. UNIQUE!
Goniometry boxes in joint-specific chapters show how the goniometer
may be used to measure joint angle or range of motion. Clinical
Insight and Consider This boxes link the concepts of kinesiology
with their clinical applications in physical therapy. Summary
tables and boxes pull content together into a concise,
quick-reference format. Learning objectives at the start of each
chapter include a chapter outline, outcome objectives, and key
terms. NEW! Revised content and updated references provide the
current information you need to be an effective clinician. NEW!
Discussion of Common Patterns of Joint Restriction is included in
each chapter. NEW! eBook version is included with print purchase.
The eBook includes video clips, animations, flashcards, and
labeling exercises, and allows you to access all of the text,
figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your
content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
NEW! Video clips help you interpret new concepts with visual
demonstration.
Providing a comprehensive introduction to the literature and
approaches used in the field, this illustrious Handbook explores
and interrogates the link between security and development at a
global level whilst offering a broad survey of current
thinking.With a mixture of approaches and methodologies, each
chapter is written by an acknowledged expert and includes
international contributions spanning six continents. The topics
covered range from the politics of aid by remote control through to
intervention and the post-conflict re-establishment of security and
demobilization of combatants. This essential book will engage
academics involved in research surrounding security and
development, along with practitioners who are interested in the
philosophy of their actions and their practical implications.
Members of organizations such as policy institutes and NGOs will
also find this to be a valuable read. Contributors: P. Albrecht,
L.R. Andersen, B. Baker, D. Beswick, L. Cooley, L. Denney, T.
Donais, M. Duffield, R. Freedman, H. Hudson, P. Jackson, H.M. Kyed,
N. Lemay-Hebert, H. Marquette, N. Mlambo, L.W. Moe, R. Muggah, S.M.
Murshed, A. OEzerdem, A. Schnabel, M. Sedra, F. Stepputat, G.S.
Wagle, N. Wilen, C. Wilkinson, S.A. Zyck
This is an intriguing look into one of the most important periods
in the illustrious history of New York's Metropolitan Opera.
"Start-Up at the New Met" looks at ten years between 1966 and 1976,
which saw the move from its old home in up-town New York, to the
Lincoln Centre - one of the most cutting edge and technologically
advanced arts complexes in the world. It also looks at the last six
years of Rudolph Bing's tenure as manager, who brought in stars
such as Maria Callas, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. This
fascinating volume looks at all the highs and lows, the backstage
turmoil, the front of house controversy and the one hundred and
forty performances of this important era in the history of,
probably, the world's most revered opera company.
As the growth in teleworking, 'virtual teams' and 'virtual
enterprises' has shown, the economic landscape is increasingly
characterized by an ability to work across spatial and
organisational boundaries. Only with this redesign of working
methods and business processes can the promise of the digital age
be delivered. This book draws upon an international,
multidisciplinary team of editors and contributors, and presents
the most recent academic research on the subject.
Intermediate students and their teachers will find this compact manual an invaluable resource for essay-writing and debate in German. Thirty sections provide questions and vocabulary on a range of contemporary issues guaranteed to stimulate thought and discussion. Includes introductory notes on approaches to group work and writing strategies. Topics include: *computers *the environment *young people *war and peace *the third world
The literary magazine The New Age brought together a diverse set of
intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the First World War, they
chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. By
closely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul
Jackson's study engages with the political and philosophical
responses of literary artists to modernity. Jackson demonstrates
the need to interpret modernism not merely as an aesthetic
phenomenon,but inherently linked to politics and philosophy. By
placing the writing of a canonical modernist, Wyndham Lewis,
against a figure usually excluded from the modernist canon, H.G.
Wells, Jackson examines further a wartime modernism that embraced
socialist and political views. This reinterpretation of modernism
provides a historicised understanding of the politicised hopes of
artists promoting revolutionary forms of cultural renewal.
Considering modernist writers' relationship between
politics,philosophy and aesthetics in the context of total war
Jackson encourages new cultural-historical definitions of
modernism. In addition this study provides the first close analysis
of cultural contributions from a leading wartime Little Magazine,
tracing the radical modernist debates that developed in its pages.
Whilst enterprise technology departments have been steadily
building their information and knowledge management portfolios, the
Internet has generated new sets of tools and capabilities which
provide opportunities and challenges for improving and enriching
knowledge work. This book fills the gap between strategy and
technology by focussing upon the functional capabilities of Web 2.0
in corporate environments and matching these to specific types of
information requirement and behaviour. It takes a resource based
view of the firm: why and how can the knowledge capabilities and
information assets of organisations be better leveraged using Web
2.0 tools?
Identifying the underlying benefits requires the use of frameworks
beyond profitability and cost control. Some of these perspectives
are not in the usual business vocabulary, but when applied,
demonstrate the role that can be played by Web 2.0, how to manage
towards these and how to assess success. Transactive memory
systems, social uncertainty, identity theory, network dynamics,
complexity theory, organisational memory and the demographics of
inter- generational change are not part of normal business parlance
but can be used to clarify Web 2.0 application and potentiality.
Written by a well-respected practitioner and academicDraws on the
author s practical experience as a technology developer, designer,
senior manager and researcherProvides approaches to understanding
and tackling real-world problems"
Many designers, from jewellers to architects, use folding
techniques to make three-dimensional forms from two-dimensional
sheets of fabric, cardboard, plastic, metal and other materials.
This unique handbook explains key folding techniques, such as
pleated surfaces, curved folding and crumpling. It has been updated
with a new chapter covering some lesser-known techniques,
suggesting yet more creative possibilities. The techniques are
accompanied by clear step-by-step drawings, specially commissioned
photography and ten new instructional videos.
Providing a comprehensive introduction to the literature and
approaches used in the field, this illustrious Handbook explores
and interrogates the link between security and development at a
global level whilst offering a broad survey of current
thinking.With a mixture of approaches and methodologies, each
chapter is written by an acknowledged expert and includes
international contributions spanning six continents. The topics
covered range from the politics of aid by remote control through to
intervention and the post-conflict re-establishment of security and
demobilization of combatants. This essential book will engage
academics involved in research surrounding security and
development, along with practitioners who are interested in the
philosophy of their actions and their practical implications.
Members of organizations such as policy institutes and NGOs will
also find this to be a valuable read. Contributors: P. Albrecht,
L.R. Andersen, B. Baker, D. Beswick, L. Cooley, L. Denney, T.
Donais, M. Duffield, R. Freedman, H. Hudson, P. Jackson, H.M. Kyed,
N. Lemay-Hebert, H. Marquette, N. Mlambo, L.W. Moe, R. Muggah, S.M.
Murshed, A. OEzerdem, A. Schnabel, M. Sedra, F. Stepputat, G.S.
Wagle, N. Wilen, C. Wilkinson, S.A. Zyck
Taking the themes of entrepreneurship, start-ups, innovation and
collaboration, this book seeks to answer the urgent question of how
countries and companies can stay competitive in an ever-changing
digital environment. The authors determine which entrepreneurial
processes will work for whom and under what circumstances,
presenting methodological implications for business research,
start-ups and policy making. Examining the success of Germany as an
innovation powerhouse, and comparing this with the USA, this edited
collection provides valuable ideas for improving practice,
facilitating start-up activity, and ultimately ensuring a country's
competitive edge.
Prostate cancer is the second leading cancer in men in Western
society. A major concern, and an area of intensive research,
involves understanding why certain prostate cancers remain
localized or indolent, whereas others become aggressive and
metastasize. The differences between these cancer types have
profound implications for patients and physicians. Indolent d-
ease, which grows very slowly, generally does not cause any
problems to the patient, whereas aggressive disease requires
immediate treatment, the earlier the better. At present, there are
no markers that discriminate between these two entities, thus
causing a dilemma for the management of patients who have recently
been diagnosed. The aim of Prostate Cancer Methods and Protocols is
to explore cutting-edge molecular methods that may have the
potential to reveal markers of disease for use in more accurate
diagnoses of prostate c- cer and, consequently, to lead to new
treatment strategies. This book provides a comprehensive collection
of both in vitro and in vivo step-by-step protocols currently used
by leaders in prostate cancer research, advice on approaches that
can be used in the study of prostate cancer, as well as reviews
covering areas less amenable to laboratory research, such as
environmental factors in prostate cancer, to provide the reader
with an overview of the prostate cancer research field as it
currently stands.
The increasing global interdependency in economy and business
transaction asserts the importance of documenting the most recent
developments in global work and organizational behaviours, which
are strongly influenced by the advancement of information
technologies, virtual business transactions, multicultural business
groups and expanded business settings across cultures. An in-depth
analysis of some major areas of developments and developmental
needs for some areas which have paramount influence on
international work, organizational and business psychology is of
both academic and practical importance.
Our book aims to present thoughtful analyses of some major
developments in work and organisational psychology, with a focus on
international business and management.
The book is expected to benefit students, researchers,
practitioners and employers. We hope our relentless efforts to
compile leading authors work will bring fresh ideas and
thought-provoking issues on both theoretical and practical
applications of emerging psychological knowledge in work and
occupational psychology, to the international management and
business. The book will have immense value to the global market,
especially for international business and management courses,
programme development and delivery on work and organizational
psychology across cultures, inter and intra-cultural developmental
programme on business transactions, and recent developmental issues
in cross-national management and business.
An eclectic approach is taken to showcase the chapters in this
book. Each author is asked to invest his/hers valuable insights to
write a selected chapter with examples from relevant research,
utilizingscholarly and reflective arguments to cover the essence of
the theme in a particular chapter.
Each Chapter has adopted an easy going style to inform readers
about the developments in a major area. The discussion in each
chapter is assembled with author/s own research and management
experiences, thus providing a real-life perspective, highlighting
the importance of applying recent developmental issues to the
future academic work in the international management and business
field.
*This series: Provides an international perspective to the study of
business, with a special emphasis on management and marketing
issues
*Deals with such topics as globalization, international business
negotiations, cross-cultural communication, entry strategies, doing
business in different regions, and future trends
*Also focuses on the development of international business theory,
methodological issues, the results of empirical studies and the
findings of practitioners
Between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone was wracked by a devastating
civil war and the complete collapse of state institutions. Since
then, however, the UK's contribution to post-war reconstruction has
been widely held up as an example of successful stabilisation and
state-building - particularly of the country's security and justice
institutions. Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013 examines how the
process of state-building through security-sector reform developed
in Sierra Leone, and the impact of this experience on international
conceptualisations of such reform as well as on international
interventions more broadly. The study is the most detailed of its
kind, based on a comprehensive analysis of UK engagement in Sierra
Leone between 1997 and 2013, including a host of first-hand
accounts from key local and international actors. This monograph
shows why the UK intervention in Sierra Leone has been a relative
success. However, it also questions the sustainability of
state-building efforts that are driven by concepts of the liberal
state. In Sierra Leone, critical challenges remain, not least in
the combination of a particular vision of what a state should look
like and the unrealistic expectations of progress on the part of
the international community.
This book addresses the social and organisational dynamics which
underlie recent technological and work developments within
organisations. often referred to as 'virtual working'. It seeks to
go beyond a mere description of this new work phenomenon in order
to provide more rigorous ways of analysing and understanding the
issues raised. In addition to providing accounts of developments
such as web-based enterprises and virtual teams, each contributor
focuses on the empolyment of information technology to transcend
the boundaries between and within organisations, and the
consequences this has for social and organisationaL relations.
Negotiating a peaceful end to civil wars, which often includes an
attempt to bring together former rival military or insurgent
factions into a new national army, has been a frequent goal of
conflict resolution practitioners since the Cold War. In practice,
however, very little is known about what works, and what doesn't
work, in bringing together former opponents to build a lasting
peace. Contributors to this volume assess why some civil wars
result in successful military integration while others dissolve
into further strife, factionalism, and even renewed civil war.
Eleven cases are studied in detail-Sudan, Zimbabwe, Lebanon,
Rwanda, the Philippines, South Africa, Mozambique,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
and Burundi-while other chapters compare military integration with
corporate mergers and discuss some of the hidden costs and risks of
merging military forces. New Armies from Old fills a serious gap in
our understanding of civil wars, their possible resolution, and how
to promote lasting peace, and will be of interest to scholars and
students of conflict resolution, international affairs, and peace
and security studies.
Between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone was wracked by a devastating
civil war and the complete collapse of state institutions. Since
then, however, the UK's contribution to post-war reconstruction has
been widely held up as an example of successful stabilisation and
state-building - particularly of the country's security and justice
institutions. Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013 examines how the
process of state-building through security-sector reform developed
in Sierra Leone, and the impact of this experience on international
conceptualisations of such reform as well as on international
interventions more broadly. The study is the most detailed of its
kind, based on a comprehensive analysis of UK engagement in Sierra
Leone between 1997 and 2013, including a host of first-hand
accounts from key local and international actors. This monograph
shows why the UK intervention in Sierra Leone has been a relative
success. However, it also questions the sustainability of
state-building efforts that are driven by concepts of the liberal
state. In Sierra Leone, critical challenges remain, not least in
the combination of a particular vision of what a state should look
like and the unrealistic expectations of progress on the part of
the international community.
Pride in prejudice offers a concise introduction to extreme right
cultures in Britain today, exploring the origins of this complex
movement and the numerous groups and activists that make up
Britain's contemporary extreme right. Showcasing the latest
research, Pride in prejudice demonstrates that the movement has a
long history in Britain. Jackson evaluates successes and failures
in policy responses to the extreme right, and identifies the
on-going risks posed by lone-actor terrorism. In order to tackle
the extreme right, Jackson argues, we must not only make ourselves
aware of the changing ways the movement operates, but we must
understand how the extreme right legitimises its perspectives in
mainstream discourses that can implicitly and explicitly support
its racist and extremist views. -- .
First published in 1999, this is the first of two books based on
papers given at the conference organised by the Centre for Property
Law at Reading in March 1998 under the title 'Contemporary Issues
in Property Law'. Speakers represented jurisdictions from around
the world. Their subjects ranged from the theoretical and
jurisprudential to the severely practical. No one who attended the
conference - or subsequently reads the papers in this and the
following book, Property Law: Current Issues and Debates - can
believe in the picture of property law as archetypical, dry as
dust, black letter, law. Questions of human rights, changes in
social structures, technological developments are all shown to have
their impact on property law, calling for careful analysis of the
present law and practical proposals for reforms to reflect new
developments.
Published in 1999. Questions of human rights, changes in social
structures, economic climates and technological developments all
impact on property law. This edited collection provides an in-depth
analysis of present law and practical proposals for the future,
written by the foremost international figures in the field from a
variety of theoretical and professional backgrounds.
First published in 1997, this volume constitutes a collection of
new papers by more than 20 United Kingdom and International experts
on general and specific issues relating to the reform of all
aspects of property law. Topics covered include the language of
property law and the dangers of reform, the role of the Law
Commission and the workings of Parliamentary procedures,
registration of title to land, landlord and tenant, land pollution,
mortgages, sale of goods, the Hague Convention on trusts, together
with general comparative papers and papers dealing with specific
issues of property law reform affecting Hong Kong, Ireland,
Scotland and South Africa. The volume arises out of the successful
conference 'The Reform of Property Law' hosted by the Centre for
Property Law at The University of Reading in 1996.
Contents: 1. Introduction, Paul Jackson and Peter Eckersley 2. The Business Environment for e-Commerce, Fintan Clear, Brunel University and Leslie Budd, Open University 3. e-Commerce Technology, Nandish Patel, Brunel University 4. Organisational Considerations for e-Business, Lisa Harris, Brunel University and Nelarine Cornelius, Brunel University 5. Using Marketing Databases in e-Business, Michael Collins, chartered Marketer 6. The Ethics Environment for e-Business, Laura Spence, Brunel University 7. e-Business and the Law, Dave Wadsworth, Brunel University 8. e-Commerce: A Global Overview, Geraldine Cohen, Brunel University 9. e-Government, Noah Curthoys, Brunel University Peter Eckersley and Paul Jackson, e-Government Forum, IPF
This is a comprehensive textbook that considers all of the key business, management and technical issues of e-business. It examines and explains how new technologies provide organizations in both the public and private sector with new ways of doing things. Accessible, jargon free and written by experts, this book uses case studies to illustrate to readers the issues at hand and equipping them with the skills to analyze the changing world in which we work.
Intermediate students and their teachers will find this compact manual an invaluable resource for essay-writing and debate in German. Thirty sections provide questions and vocabulary on a range of contemporary issues guaranteed to stimulate thought and discussion. Includes introductory notes on approaches to group work and writing strategies. Topics include: *computers *the environment *young people *war and peace *the third world
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