David Moore draws on thirty years of teaching to bring fresh and practical insights into how the Alexander Technique can contribute to a safer and more effective yoga practice. With a wealth of illustrations that support the clear, precise explanations, this book offers comprehensive advice in modifying a yoga practice to take into account the huge variability in individual ranges of movement. Moore includes techniques to accommodate limitations imposed by injuries, structure, body type, s...

In the shadow of revolution and the silence of exile, one man carries the memory of a fallen empire.The Last Romanov is a sweeping historical novel that imagines a single Romanov survivor—a boy hidden in the ashes of history—who emerges decades later to challenge the world’s forgetting. From the bloodstained halls of Yekaterinburg to the quiet chapels of Switzerland, Mikhail Nikolaevich Romanov walks the perilous line between truth and myth, hunted by those who erased him a...

Can food heal some of the most complex medical conditions? My Unremarkable Brain: A Fat-Fueled Adventure into the World of Epilepsy and the Ketogenic Diet is a hilarious and inspiring book, where serial dieter and middle-aged “fathlete” David Robinson takes readers on a ride into the strange and surprising world of American health culture.At the age of forty, after living for over a decade with epilepsy, David decided to put his brain to the task of figuring out the best w...

The mysterious world of fungi is once again unearthed in this expansive second edition. This textbook provides readers with an all-embracing view of the kingdom fungi, ranging in scope from ecology and evolution, diversity and taxonomy, cell biology and biochemistry, to genetics and genomics, biotechnology and bioinformatics. Adopting a unique systems biology approach - and using explanatory figures and colour illustrations - the authors emphasise the diverse interactions between fungi and...

Alcohol is everywhere—in our everyday lives, in public debates and, increasingly, at the centre of public health policy.This book critically examines alcohol as a contemporary research and policy object. It argues that drinking is governed through heavily freighted concepts such as risk, wellbeing, gender and race. The authors interrogate dominant disciplinary sobriety and moderation frameworks, highlighting the overlooked aspects of sociability, pleasure and self-transformation.

The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society offers new perspectives on critical debates in the field of alcohol and other drug use. Drawing together work by respected scholars in Australia, the US, the UK and Canada, it explores social and cultural meanings of drug use and analyses law enforcement and public health frameworks and objectives related to drug policy and service provision. In doing so, it addresses key questions of drug use and addiction through interdisciplinary, predominantly...

Independent Wales was defined in the centuries after the Romans withdrew from Britain in AD 410. The wars of Welsh independence encompassed centuries of raids, expeditions, battles and sieges, but they were more than a series of military encounters: they were a political process.

David Moore has compiled a concise yet thorough approach to a healthy lifestyle in Perfect Balance. Too often, my physician colleagues rely on the latest medication to replace what can and should be accomplished by healthy habits. I encourage you to evaluate the recommendations made in Perfect Balance and see if applying them to your life will bring better balance. Each of us has at least one area in which we can make substantial improvements and see a near immediate benefit.Willia...

What exactly is Alzheimer's disease and dementia? With Alzheimer's and dementia now reckoned to affect thousands in Britain, this is a question that more and more people are needing to ask. The second book in the new Explaining series, Explaining Alzheimer's and Dementia provides a clear and concise introduction to this fascinating and complex subject. Written in accessible, non-specialist language, it provides an ideal introduction for parents, carers, partners and anyone faced with a lov...

Balthazar dreams of the perfect woman, one he can summon or dismiss at will on his computer screen. But as time passes, he becomes ensnared in his own creation, consumed by an obsession with this non-existent figure. As Balthazar spirals downward, losing everything from his identity to the use of his body, reduced to just his mind and the fingers tapping at the keyboard, she, in contrast, rises. She transforms into a modern-day Scheherazade, learning to command her prince.Balth...

"A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora" by David Moore Lindsay is an enthralling account of an expedition to the Arctic, capturing the spirit of adventure and exploration. The narrative details the challenges faced by the crew aboard the whaler Aurora as they navigate the treacherous icy waters. Lindsay's vivid descriptions bring the stark beauty of the Arctic landscape to life, while also highlighting the harsh realities of life at sea. The book serves as both a travelogue and a his...

The name of Sappho will never die. But it lives in most of the minds that know it at all to-day as hardly more than the hazy nucleus of a ragged fringe suggestive of erotic thoughts or of sexual perversion. Very seldom does it evoke the vision of a great and pure poetess with marvellous expressions of beauty, grace, and power at her command, who not only haunts the dawn of Grecian Lyric poetry but lives in scattered and broken lights that glint from vases and papyri and from the pages of c...