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  • Office Yoga 3D

    An Interactive Guide to practicing Yoga at work featuring animated video clips.

    by David Gilliam ...
    Book description as currently posted on amazon.This illustrated guide to practicing Yoga in the office features:¥ 3D Animated Videos that guide you slowly through each movement.¥ The soothing voices of two Yogis who talk you through the practice.¥ Anatomical layers featuring the skeleton, muscles and organs in eachasana.¥ Moments of meditation that bring you into a relaxed mood after eachsession.¥ ... Read more

    $6.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine

    by Mark Paterson ...
    Bursting with comedy and peculiarity, this collection of short stories explores the world of those living their Generation-X lives on the fringes of society. From a loner who uses mosh pits as a confessional to a cross-dresser prowling the aisles of the local supermarket, this work follows these characters as they navigate the universe in refreshing and unexpected ways. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How We Became Sensorimotor

    Movement, Measurement, Sensation

    by Mark Paterson ...
    An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body’s inner sensesThe years between 1833 and 1945 fundamentally transformed science’s understanding of the body’s inner senses, revolutionizing fields like philosophy, the social sciences, and cognitive science. In How We Became Sensorimotor, Mark Paterson provides a systematic account of this transformative period, while ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Affective Touching

    Neurobiology and Technological Applications

    by Mark Paterson ...
    Series series Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
    At the end of the twentieth century the discovery of 'slow', affective touch nerves in humans known as C Tactile (CT) afferents, which are entirely separate from the faster pathways for touching objects, had huge social implications. The Swedish neuroscientists responsible formulated an “affective touch hypothesis” or “social touch hypothesis” to consider their purpose. Part I offers a history of ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Consumption and Everyday Life

    by Mark Paterson ...
    With an emphasis on everyday life, this respected text offers a lively and perceptive account of the key theories and ideas which dominate the field of consumption and consumer culture. This third revised and expanded edition is a major update of the text of the second edition, adding new chapters on youth culture and consumption, retail psychology, gender and consumption, the globalization of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Senses of Touch

    Haptics, Affects and Technologies

    by Mark Paterson ...
    Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. The Senses of Touch examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. How can we think about touch? Problems of touch and tactility run as a continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Seeing with the Hands

    Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes

    by Mark Paterson ...

    $27.29 USD

  • Africa and the Millennium Development Goals

    Progress, Problems, and Prospects

    Edited by Charles Mutasa, Mark Paterson ...
    This unique work by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, tracks the progress Africa has made in achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since 2000.Thirteen analytical chapters written by scholars and practitioners with expertise in the various areas covered by the eight MDGs are organized around the larger themes of political economy, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Touching Space, Placing Touch

    Edited by Mark Paterson, Martin Dodge ...
    Given that touch and touching is so central to everyday embodied existence, why has it been largely ignored by social scientists for so long? What is the place of touch in our mixed spaces of sociality, work, domesticity, recreation, creativity or care? What conceptual resources and academic languages can we reach towards when approaching tactile activities and somatic experiences through the body ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Action, Mind, and Brain

    An Introduction

    by David A. Rosenbaum ...
    An engaging and accessible introduction to the psychology and neuroscience of physical action.This engaging and accessible book offers the first introductory text on the psychology and neuroscience of physical action. Written by a leading researcher in the field, it covers the interplay of action, mind, and brain, showing that many core concepts in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Situated Aesthetics

    Art Beyond the Skin

    by Riccardo Manzotti ...
    This book focuses on externalist approaches to art. It is the first fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009, where leading scholars in the emerging field of psychology of art compared their different approaches using a neutral language and discussing freely their goals.The event threw up common grounds for future research activities. First, there is a considerable interest in using ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Looking for Spinoza

    Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

    by Antonio Damasio ...
    A famed neuroscientist explores the emotions that make life worth living in "clear, accessible, and at times eloquent prose" ( San Francisco Chronicle).In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examined the role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet, the neurobiological roots of joy and sorrow remained a mystery. Today, we spend countless resources doctoring our feelings with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus