Noted in its previous editions for its ability to excite and involve students and at the same time to live up to the instructor's toughest standards for accuracy and scholarship, this new edition continues to be neither theory-oriented nor applications-oriented, but both. Weiten and Lloyd demonstrate how applications emerge from theory and include unique coverage of the role of research. Thoroughly updated in every chapter, the Fourth Editions features increased awareness of gender sensitive issues, increased information on biological factors, and much more..

Psychology Applied to Modern Life: Adjustment in the ’90’s

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Weiten, Wayne

Lloyd, Margaret

Psychology & Counseling

Wadsworth Publishing

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Describes the development of modern dance in the United States via brief studies of the major figures who initiated significant stylistic changes

The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Princeton Book Co Pub

The Borzoi Book Of Modern Dance

What is "modern dance" and how does it differ from ballet and other forms of theatrical dancing-who made it what it is? These questions and their answers are the subjects around which Margaret Lloyd has written a unique and endlessly entertaining book.Originally published in 1949, The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance captures the beginnings of modern dance history fresh from its inception. Margaret Lloyd creates a detailed, witty and insightful overview of the art form in its early stages. The book is organized by individuals and then branches into documentation of important subcategories of dance (subsidizing; humanizing dance; forms of documentation). The seminal choreographers, teachers and dance groups of the first half of the twentieth century are all included: Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, Helen Tamiris, Hanya Holm, The New Dance Group, José Limón, Anna Sokolow, Esther Junger, Sybil Shearer, Katherine Dunham, Valerie Bettis, Pearl Primus, Lester Horton and Eleanor King. Lloyd describes the importance of each of these individuals through personal anecdotes, performance recounts and creative analysis. When there is a story, Lloyd tells it. When a choreographic invention or effect is important, she describes it. The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance deals with a range of aspects of the art form to show that modern dance is a question of attitude, a way of expression, social perceptions and sociological thrusts. It is the personality of modern dance, captured in words. Includes 49 illustrations.

Princeton Book Company

Consisting of 13 chapters, this book is uniformly written by Dr Hayes and his colleagues Drs Lloyd and Friedman to provide sensible, matter-of-fact methods for understanding and caring for patients with permanent pacemakers and ICDs. It presents a logical progression from descriptions of device indications to selection of the most appropriate mode and hardware. From there, it proceeds to device implantation and subsequent management, with detailed sections on troubleshooting, complications, and follow-up. Not intended as an encyclopedic text, this book offers a large amount of information in an easily digestible form. 
This book helps the reader understand the technical capabilities of pacemakers and ICDs, and shows how to apply this knowledge to make everyday clinical encounters easier and more productive. From the first pacemaker implantation in 1958 and the first implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation in 1980, the fields of cardiac pacing and defibrillation have enjoyed a rapid increase in the sophistication and effectiveness of implantable devices. Because these technologies are encountered more and more commonly in today's clinical settings, it is important for physicians to learn "practical approaches" to pacemaker and ICD implantation. Whether new to cardiac pacing and defibrillation or seeing large numbers of patients with implantable devices on a daily basis, cardiologists and electrophysiologists alike will appreciate the knowledge and experience shared by the authors of this book.

Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation: A Clinical Approach

Science & Math

Hayes, David L.

Friedman, Paul A.

Biological Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

Elegantly crafted, deeply experienced, Margaret Lloyd's This Particular Earthly Scene is a book of woman's wisdom, sexual and spiritual, filled with seductions, scars, human touch. --Alicia Ostriker

This Particular Earthly Scene

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Alice James Books

Family members from Earth's forgotten sister world, Hortishland, undergo difficult metaphysical and spiritual challenges in their effort to journey from their world to ours, where they hope to save the planet from its own destruction. Original.

Hortishland: A Novel

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hampton Roads Publishing

Poetry. "The power of Arthurian legend, and of the hold romantic love has over human beings, is shown again here in this moving sequence which speaks almost entirely in the voices of the women in the stories. The harshness of landscape and the culture these people were subject to—the women, the men, and the children—seems only framed differently, but very close to our own. Margaret Lloyd has gathered all this to her with haunting empathy for human life and the life of the natural world"—Jean Valentine.

A Moment in the Field: Voices from Arthurian Legend

Plinth Books

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