Our bones serve many purposes. Find out more about the five functions of the skeletal system: form, movement, protection, mineral storage and marrow production. See the inner workings of bones and how they interact with our muscles. Learn the difference between bone and cartilage plus the four types of movable joints. Together the two systems control our movements; clear illustrations and images demonstrate this process. Learn also about the importance of exercise and muscle health.
Applied Exercise Psychology - Practitioner's Guide to Improving Client Health and Fitness
This is the first applied handbook for practitioners who want to help patients begin and maintain an exercise program as a lifestyle change. Mental health practitioners (MHPs) often earn a trust that not many other professionals do with their patients. It is with this trust that MHPs are able to encourage and help their clients begin a healthy and active lifestyle through exercise programs. This book, with easy to understand language, provides a simple introduction for mental health practitioners and clinicians to help their clients achieve better mental and physical health through exercise and learn how effective the psychological aspects of exercise can be.
Teaching courses in English - Speech patterns videos
There are 47 lessons focusing on speech patterns - Introduction - Accents - Saying - Thank you - Idioms - Proverbs - Giving news - Office words - Health - Exercise - Friends - Fame - Saying sorry ..... And many more
The second of a series of 2 volumes Merry English on DVD These two fun exercise books are thought to present, revise and consolidate the language taught in the first five years of learning english as a foreign language. Based on stories about Rocky the Raccoon, the magical Freddy and their friends, the books contain various fun, interactive activities to do before, during and after watching the short films on the attached DVD. The DVD, which is compatible with Interactive Whiteboards, contains animated stories, cartoons and songs. These simple and clear books are suitable for individual use at home or as exercise books for the holidays, as well as in class.
Recreation in the Renaissance - Attitudes towards Leisure and Pastime in European Culture 1350 - 1700
In Renaissance Europe, when 'leisure classes' used social gathering to define civility and the commercialization of leisure was beginning, the human need for recreation became a cultural topos. This book explores the vocabulary of play and games; the spectrum of leisure activities, often gender-specific or appropriate to particular social groups; the medical discourse on the preservation of health, where amusements were assessed as physical exercise; the moral approach to play; legal treatises on gambling; and the visual representation of leisure.
