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Joint and Structure - too complicated.......2007-10-01
This book is required for my class and is terribly wordy and complicated! I think that more pictorial instruction would be greatly beneficial. A supplemental DVD to show examples of clinical scenarios would also be helpful for visual learners.
Good book.......2007-08-25
This so far seems to be a very good book. It is full of imformation.
Definitely comrehensive.......2007-07-02
Lots of technical information. Useful stuff but not an easy read. Wish it could be broken down into basic concepts then advanced details if needed.
The new edition is an improvement for sure.......2007-05-30
I am glad I purchased the updated edition. It has a lot more information and better pictures than the second edition. The case studies they present are a considerably helpful edition as they present the patients symptoms of different pathologies they are profiling, along with the structural and soft tissue components of various pathologies they are describing.
not bad !.......2004-01-10
This book is the shorter-black-and-white version of Moore's & Dailey Clinical Oriented Anatomy book. It is quite simple and the illustrations are not Dali's impressions of the female anatomy but for the need-to-know-basis Physical Therapy student it is quite suffiecient.
It is excellent with its questions at the end of each chapter !
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Kapandji.......2007-08-10
Deceptively simplistic, this volume offers valuable insights into the movement of the joints. It arrived in beautiful condition and has been a valuable resource.
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This book utilizes the visual approach and illustrates the anatomy, physiology and mechanics of the joints by means of clear and simple diagrams and a minimum of text.
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Kapandji is Back--and Better than Ever!.......2007-07-12
I couldn't wait for this revised version of the Volume One: Upper Limb to be released, and I was not disappointed. Unlike the traditional Kapandji figures, the volume is in full color, but in the same style of illustration as before. In most cases, the color adds to the understanding of the concept and is not just gratuitous. In addition, however, there is much more detailed explanation of the mechanics, more clinical application, and the addition of some intruiging questions in biomechanics such as "Codman's Paradox" and "Why Does the Forearm Have Two Bones?"
This is a thoroughly delightful expansion of a work that I first discovered in 1976 and which has changed little since then. The drawings remain incomparably lucid, yet detailed. Interestingly, this edition includes an index, something that has been missing from previous editions of any of the 3 volumes. Yet, there is no bibliography, which was included in the 5th Edition of Volume 2: Lower Limb.
My only criticism is that Elsevier has not made a teaching slide set (CD) of the drawings available to those of us who use these in our lectures.
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Biomechanics of Normal and Pathological Human Articulating Joints (NATO Science Series E:)
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A445163. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis presents articulated rigid body kinematics models for humans. The main area of research is to investigate models for real-time computer graphics applications in Virtual Environments (VE). Existing models have singularity problems and become too slow once the number of humans in view becomes large. The approach taken is to develop a full body kinematics model with quaternions. Another common method, Euler angles, has singularity and interpolation problems. Both methods are compared for memory, computation and user input considerations. The implementation includes joint angle constraints. The model is then manipulated with user inputs by a mouse. As part of this research, the real-time display of human arm tracking with two inertial sensors, human walking, inverse kinematics, and key frame animation is also demonstrated. The major conclusion of this thesis is that a kinematics model with quaternions can eliminate the singularity problems of existing models. Joint orientation interpolation is also more direct and less convoluted with quaternions. Neither representation exhibits a decisive advantage over the other in terms of computational speed. For memory considerations, the Euler angle method is best. To apply joint constraints, quaternion representations are converted to Euler angles, which causes additional computation for the system.
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This reference work brings together the biology, mechanics, neurophysiology and pathophysiology of diseased joints, illustrates available physiologically-based treatments for osteoarthrosis and explains how and when to use them.;Highlighting the most up-to-date biomechanical principles, Mechanics of Human Joints: discusses the functional anatomy of joints; relates the neurophysiology of joints to ligamentous reconstruction; elucidates the pathophysiology of osteoarthrosis; summarizes the latest information on muscle physiology and electromyography; examines the effect of vibration and impulsive loading on joint pathology; and explicates the principles of prosthetic joint replacement.
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Osteoarthro Mechanics
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This digital document is an article from Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on December 1, 1998. The length of the article is 5824 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: The force control processes which serve as the basis for arm reaching movements performed bilaterally were examined using time, electromyographic and joint torque measures in a study in which 10 men between the ages of 22 and 32 years were recruited. It was discovered that limb movements were closely coupled when movement began while interlimb decoupling was a result of variations of timing of activation between the limbs. It is concluded that spatial decoupling of asymmetrical movements occurs when the limbs adjust muscular activity through feedback processes.
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Title: Bilateral reaching to asymmetrical targets: muscle and joint dynamic interlimb adaptations.
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Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1998
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Excellent textbook.......2005-02-01
If you want to learn the basics about industrial paint or powder coating 101, this is the textbook. It explains in lamens's terms what you need to know. Perfect for someone just starting out in the business as a buyer or specifier. Just enough technical detail wihout being too scientific. Even a veteran painter could learn a thing or two from this book.
The best possible about paint.......2003-10-10
I have the second, and now the third edition. I think it's no possible to find a wider coverage about all the subjects related with painting, in only one book. Pehaps, if you use Internet and you have many subscriptions to paint magazines, you can read about specifix items, but never a such coverage.
Direct language, no too much chemistry (we are in the industry, and not in the Universities), a very straight orientation to our every day work. Congratulations
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Joseph Roth's 1932 novel, The Radetzky March, starts with an accident that creates a dynasty. When an infantry lieutenant steps in front of a bullet intended for the young Franz Joseph, the Austro-Hungarian emperor rewards him with wealth, promotion, and a knighthood. Almost overnight, Joseph Trotta is "severed" from his ancestors, and his family is transformed from unremarkable soldiers and peasants living in the outer reaches of the empire to barons and high-ranking officials living near the imperial palace. As long as Franz Joseph is the Kaiser, their status is secure. But when Trotta happens upon a schoolbook account of the event that exaggerates his heroism, he is shaken:
He had been driven from the paradise of simple faith in Emperor and Virtue, Truth, and Justice, and, now fettered in silence and endurance, he may have realized that the stability of the world, the power of laws, and the glory of majesties were all based on deviousness.
As World War I approaches and the monarchy's limitations become apparent, Trotta's son and grandson become even further removed from this paradise. They continue to follow the codes of honor and duty, though such behavioral guides become pointless, even burdensome, in a world shorn of simple faith in an emperor. Trotta's grandson Carl Joseph finds his military career overwhelmed by bad horsemanship, alcohol dependency, frivolous roulette and baccarat debts, and misguided love affairs--the kinds of flaws, he thinks, that are inevitable without the self-assurance and practical knowledge that he would have gained had he earned (rather than inherited) his position. Not long ago, he thinks wistfully, his family lived as peasants "in dwarfed huts, making their wives fertile by night and their fields by day." It is here that the Trottas' demise is at its most poignant, as the focus of the narrative shifts from the loss of status to the far more devastating loss of purpose.
In both style and temperament, Roth's novel stands between the 19th and 20th centuries, and the three Trottas could be seen as part of a progression that stretches back to Tolstoy's Prince Andrei and looks ahead to the Mathieu of Sartre's Les Chemins de la Liberté trilogy. Although The Radetzky March illustrates why the monarchy was doomed, and isn't blind to the new nations and ideologies on the horizon, Roth is more interested in his characters' psychology than their politics. And their central difficulty--the bewildering meaninglessness that follows the dissolution of an ideal--has been a fundamental 20th-century dilemma. The Trottas are, in Roth's stunning phrase, "homesick for the Kaiser." One need only substitute "the Chairman" or "Marxism" or "God" to understand the novel's lasting resonance. --John Ponyicsanyi
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The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World War I. The author's greatest achievement, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such, a universal story for our times.
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Wanted to like it more.......2006-09-12
I can't put my finger on why this book just seemed average to me. The writing is clear and easy to read. The descriptions are detailed, but not overly so. The characters are fully-fleshed and interesting. The plot is engrossing. So why didn't I like it more? I don't know. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I can't identify with life in a monarchy and I can't stomach the pampered, entitled lifestyle of people who don't deserve such wealth and leisure.
Regardless of all that, I did find it interesting that Roth depicted gambling addiction so accurately (or at least as I imagine it to be) long before anyone recognized it as such.
While I occasionally felt sorry for the characters, by the end I was just happy to be finished and that I would no longer have to linger in their world.
Helpful hint.......2006-03-29
I have little to add to the helpful reviews here but just wish to inform readers:
Michael Hoffman's superb translation is now available in the US - ASIN 1862076057 - and is the best translation of this wonderful work.
Three and a half stars.......2006-02-26
I would highly recommend this book if you are (like me) fascinated with the decline of the Habsburg dynasty during WWI. However, I would not be as eager to do so if you were not. Roth's powers of description and detail are superb to say the least and this allows him to perfectly capture the pessimism and slow decline of Austria Hungary before the war, yet his lack of effective dialog and heavy handed symbols and allusions really hurt this work from a pure literary perspective.
Roth's magnificent eye for setting and some truly amazing scenes depicting the emperor Franz Josef, and the state of the Austrian army make this a must read for those interested in the period
Superb novel, disappointing translation.......2005-05-19
For anyone interested in European society before 1914, "The Radetzky March" is a must-read. It is a masterful portrayal of one family's bonds to Austro-Hungarian Empire and the House of Habsburg over three generations.
Unfortunately, as other reviewers have pointed out, Neugroschel's traslation is very disappointing. Some terms are only partially translated ("Rittmeister" becomes "Rittmaster" on p. 94), which is worse than no translation at all. The name of the Austrian parliament, the Reichsrat, is translated as "Imperial Council" (p. 135), but that seems overdone. Reichsrat is isn't the emperor's council, and the word "Reichsrat" is usually left untranslated as a proper noun (e.g. no one calls the Reichstag the "Imperial Diet"). Other Austrian terms, used in the late 19th century, are given Americanisms or neologisms.
If you can get your hands on it, read the British translation of "Radetzky March" (ISBN: 1862076057) published by Granta Books and translated by Michael Hofmann. Hofmann's translation is more sensitive to the feel of the time and more subtle. It is not perfect (Onufrij becomes Onufri, Frau Hirschwitz's Prussianisms are translated in chs. 2 and 3), but it is certainly better.
Not Enough Stars for This One.......2004-11-25
There can be very little more satisfying than discovering a new author. I had never heard of Joseph Roth until a friend recommended I read anything written by him. I picked up this title because it was the only one available in my local library.
What a stroke of luck!
This is a masterpiece of the highest order. There are no accidents in this beautifully crafted and written work of art. Every detail and scene is carefully calculated to present the complex life of the individual in the overall rush of history, as an empire decays and collapses and an entire value system fades away, along with the Emperor Franz Joseph and three generations of the Trotta family. The individual also lives and quickly dies within the eternal cycles of nature, so poignantly drawn by Roth.
I will never be able to do this work justice in just a brief review. I read the Everyman's Library edition, with a brilliant introduction by Alan Bance (which should absolutely be read AFTER reading the work, not before). That introduction does justice to every aspect of this masterpiece and pays tribute to Roth as a major literary figure.
This work alone puts Roth in the company of Flaubert, Mann, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Woolf, Kafka, and anyone else you can name. Bance points out that there's something of a sequel to this work in "The Emperor's Tomb," which I have read and also thoroughly enjoyed.
If you care at all about art and literature, please read "The Radetzky March." I guarantee you will not be disappointed.
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Title: De marcha con Radetzky.(concierto de música clásica en Año Nuevo en la ciudad de Viena, Austria)(TT: Joining Radetzky's march.)(TA: New Year's classical music concert in Vienna, Austria)(Artículo Breve)
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Title: Joseph Roth. The Radetzky March.(Book Review)
Author: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 16
Issue: 2
Page: 188(2)
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Title: The Radetzky March.(Brief Article)
Author: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
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