The 1990s saw the dramatic rise of spectacular forms of body modification, which included the tattoo renaissance and the rise in body piercing, the emergence of neo-tribal practices like scarification and flesh hanging, and the invention of new, high-tech forms of body art like subdermal implants. This book, based on years of interviews with body modifiers throughout the United States, is both sympathetic and critical and provides the most comprehensive look at this phenomenon. From punk rock to “modern primitives,” from queer sadomasochism to cyberpunks, sociologist Victoria Pitts provides insight into the full range of body modification subcultures. Whether by turning themselves into female punks, neo-tribal “primitives” or science fiction cyborgs, body modifiers are engaged in the project of “reclaiming” their bodies from the machine of modern life. Pitts explores the connections between body modification and contemporary struggles over sex and gender, and widespread attitudes about identity, consumption, and the body.

Clinical psychologist Margo Maine has been successfully helping adult women overcome eating disorders and body image problems for over twenty years. In The Body Myth, she explains the toll these problems can take on women’s lives and provides healing insights and proven techniques for reclaiming readers lives from the debilitating belief that a woman’s self-worth and her worth to others are derived from how she looks, how much she weighs, and what she eats the Body Myth. Using poignant real-life stories, Dr. Maine explores the complex emotional, social, and cultural forces that perpetuate the Body Myth. A unique and invaluable source of information and inspiration, this breakthrough guide equips readers with the knowledge and tools to escape the clutches of the Body Myth and live a more balanced, fulfilling life.

The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and politics, "The Politics of New Media Theatre" is an investigation into the political role played by the new media theatre. Gabriella Giannachi explores how new media arts constitute themselves as a radical political movement, and presents an analysis of both the role of virtuality in radical performance and politics in virtual and mixed reality practices. This outstanding new work offers an analysis of leading political, philosophical and artistic texts and artworks, and represents a milestone for anyone interested in new technologies, theatre and politics.

This is a moving book. A guide for parents as well as young people, it recounts in detail the almost magical way in which babies evolve from the very moment that fertilization occurs. Thanks to new technological advances, today it is possible to visualize and re-create images of what happens inside a woman's body when
a sperm travels through the uterus and the gelatinous membrane that surrounds the egg. Incredible photos show, day by day, how the embryo evolves, when the heart begins to beat, and even when the brain, eyes, legs, arms, mouth, and teeth are formed. This book contains a wealth of information, with photographic details that show you the inside of the body from a totally new viewpoint.

В журнале представлены упражнения на все групп мышц. Каждое упражнение иллюстрировано картинкой.

The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found clues to the healing process in the long-discarded theory that electricity is vital to life. But as exciting as Becker's discoveries are, pointing to the day when human limbs, spinal cords, and organs may be regenerated after they have been damaged, equally fascinating is the story of Becker's struggle to do such original work. The Body Electric explores new pathways in our understanding of evolution, acupuncture, psychic phenomena, and healing.

Данная книга очень понятно рассказывает о языке тела, о взаимоотношениях мужчины и женщины. А так как издание насыщено красивыми и качественными фотографиями, читать её приятней вдвойне.

Одно из самых популярных изданий по айкидо в оригинале.

Clearly illustrated, this book aims to show new teachers how to use gesture, posture, facial expression and tone of voice effectively to establish a good relationship with the classes that they teach.

Sexual signals help you find, meet, talk with and date Mister or Ms Right using secrets of nonverbal communication. Forty photographs clearly show what to watch out for. The essence of courtship and dating conversations is to communicate, with and without words, "This is who I am. I hope you like me. Show and tell me about yourself so I can discover if I like you."

This encyclopedia provides description and analysis of the terms, concepts, and issues of social and cultural anthropology. International in authorship and coverage, this accessible work is fully indexed and cross-referenced.

Всё тело за год.
Хотите вместо просто живота восьмикубиковый пресс и плечи как у Шварцнегера. Тогда это для Вас.

This book provides a novel understanding of current thought and enquiry in the study of popular culture and communications media. The populist sentiments and impulses underlying cultural studies and its postmodernist variants are explored and criticized sympathetically. An exclusively consumptionist trend of analysis is identified and shown to be an unsatisfactory means of accounting for the complex material conditions and mediations that shape ordinary people’s pleasures and opportunities for personal and political expression.
Through detailed consideration of the work of Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and ‘the Birmingham School’, John Fiske, youth subcultural analysis, popular television study,

Вы мечтаете о том, чтобы когда-нибудь стать «Мастером Вселенная» или «Мисс Олимпия»? Или ставите перед собой более скромные цели: избавиться от лишнего веса, накачать мускулы? В любом случае эта книга – то, что вам нужно. Она поможет вам разработать оптимальную систему упражнений и нагрузок, питания и режима тренировок.

Broude (psychology, Vassar) has produced a work that is more anthropological than psychological in nature, placing its emphasis on societal and tribal customs rather than on individuals' motivations. Broude uses the concept of sociobiology to explain why so many cultures have similarities in ideals-if not in the way these ideals are carried out. For example, in almost all cultures people will help their own kin before helping strangers, which Broude explains as an instinctive attempt by a person to make sure their genes (some of which are shared by their kin) survive. Similarly, Broude repeatedly explains the differences in male-female sex roles from an evolutionary perspective. Whether or not one agrees that biology is destiny, Broude makes a convincing case in several articles that this is a possible motivation for behaviors that occur across cultures.

Жизнь есть страдание? Жизнь трудна? Жизнь сложна? Долой эти древние оковы! Жизнь должна быть, и может быть, и будет простой материально, богатой духовно и полной радости, движения, гармонии. Кто же это всё принесёт нам? Не пророки, не вожди, не учёные интеллектуалы. Только мы сами. Каждый в отдельности и все вместе. Как этого достичь? В книге об этом написано просто и убедительно.

Тело человека. Снаружи и внутри. - это еженедельный, красочно иллюстрированный журнал по медицине .
Приобщитесь к увлекательному миру медицины и присоединяйтесь к потрясающей команде врачей, которые каждый день спасают жизни, выполняя сложнейшие операции и расширяя границы медицинской науки.
Основные темы номера - грудное вскармливание, глотание, заместительная гормональная терапия, дисфункция щитовидной железы, менингококковый сепсис.

По словам доктора Хесса, это новое открытие уже стало активно использоваться в рекламном бизнесе на телевидении. Когда рекламный ролик показывают экспериментальной группе зрителей, незаметно от них ведется съемка их глаз крупным планом; затем видеозаписи подвергаются тщательному анализу, чтобы обнаружить расширение зрачков: другими словами, аналитики стремятся заметить наличие бессознательной реакции на коммерческий ролик.
Язык тела - это любое движение тела или его части, с помощью которого человек передает эмоциональное послание внешнему миру. Для того, чтобы понять этот не выраженный словами язык тела, специалисты по кинесике часто вынуждены принимать во внимание культурные различия или другие отличия, вызванные окружающей средой. Средний человек, незнакомый с этими тонкостями языка тела, часто истолковывает неверно то, что он видит.