Download or read book The Mathematics of Juggling written by Burkard Polster and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a juggler the author likes to finish his performances with a stunt that combines props and techniques from a variety of juggling disciplines. Imagine him idling on a giraffe unicycle, while balancing a spinning basketball on a mouth stick, and toss-juggling a sword, a toilet plunger, and a rubber chicken. As a mathematician he is also interested in the treasure trove of beautiful mathematics used to model the different activities in a juggler's repertoire. In this book he provides an intellectually stimulating collection of mostly self-contained mathematical essays that introduce the reader to many elegant results and techniques from a wide range of mathematical disciplines such as combinatorics, graph theory, knot theory, mechanics, differential equations, control theory, and robotics. "The Mathematics of Juggling" is the first comprehensive account summarizing and expanding the results in the literature on juggling tricks and skills, as well as the mathematics behind these tricks and skills. Anybody who is not put off by the word "mathematics" in the title of this book should have a good time reading it.
Download or read book Juggling with Knives written by Jim Jubak and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning volatility is the new "fact of life" that defines our age. Financial markets fall off cliffs one day, but then stage a recovery the next, only to do it all over again. The switch back and forth is emotionally draining, making us susceptible to irrational responses that can turn manageable problems into huge personal crises. But while there is danger in volatility, there is also the opportunity to profitably juggle the knives that volatility throws your way -- with less risk than you might think. The first step toward profiting from volatility is to understand why these radical ups and downs are taking place now. Jim Jubak's deep and broad-ranging analysis looks into not only the financial but also the economic, market, and social trends, showing how they reinforce each other, including: the consequences of global central banks operating as cash machines, a financial system that will not be reformed, China as the world's largest game of three-card monte, the aging of populations around the world and the resulting war between the young and old, and the large bill we will have for the consequences of environmental externalities such as climate change and energy uncertainty. Jubak analyzes these and other trends, providing practical insights and specific investing strategies that show investors how to respect -- but not be scared of -- market volatility, and how to make smarter investment decisions to profit from and hedge against it.
Download or read book When Balls Collide Understanding the Skill of Juggling written by Jack Kalvan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientific look at the skill of juggling. In this book, we look at all the things that limit jugglers and make the skill so challenging. Topics covered in the book include: juggling definitions, a brief history of juggling, juggling records, different juggling patterns and their pros and cons, Shannon's juggling theorem, physics of thrown objects and useful equations, good form, throwing error, ideal patterns, how to avoid collisions, optimizing juggling, the human limits of juggling, changing the constraints, learning to juggling, overview of "siteswap" notation, and training advice.
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Download or read book Dexterity and Its Development written by Nicholai A. Bernstein and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very unusual book. It brings to the English speaking reader a masterpiece written some 50 years ago by one of the greatest minds of the 20th century--Nicholai Aleksandrovich Bernstein--considered the founder of many contemporary fields of science such as biomechanics, motor control, and physiology of activity. Divided into two parts, this volume's first section is a translation of the Russian book On Dexterity and Its Development. It presents, in a very reader-friendly style, Bernstein's major ideas related to the development and control of voluntary movements in general, and to the notion of dexterity, in particular. Although very few scientific works remain interesting to the reader 50 years after they were written, this volume--now available for the first time in English--is a rare exception to this rule. His ideas are certainly not obsolete. Actually, we are just starting to grasp the depth and breadth of his thinking, especially his analysis of the complex notion of dexterity. The second section provides both a historical and a contemporary perspective on Bernstein's ideas. The original work was directed at a wide audience ranging from specialists in biomechanics and motor behavior, to coaches, neurologists, physical therapists, athletes, and even inquisitive college and high school students. The chapters contributed by contemporary scientists mirror Bernstein's style and present new findings in the areas of biomechanics, motor control, and motor development in a way that would be both understandable to non-specialists in these areas, and informative for professionals working in different areas related to human movement. All those interested in the origins and mechanisms of the production of voluntary movements, irrespective of their educational and professional background, will find this book valuable. In addition, the unique history and composition of this text will make it helpful and attractive to historians and philosophers of science.
Download or read book Juggling Yoga A Daily Practice for Health and Well Being written by Ed Bernstein and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juggling makes a yoga practice more fun. Yoga makes juggling more holistic. Let this daily practice show you how much you can accomplish, ten minutes a day.'Ed Bernstein's whimsical variation on yoga combines amusement with coordination, balance and strength training. It will make you drop your balls!'Allyson and Alex Grey, Founders of the 'Chapel of Sacred Mirrors' 'Juggling is a wonderful way to encourage the mind and body to be in the same place at the same time. As our mind focuses on what's right in front of us, we naturally return to the present moment. Ed's book 'Juggling Yoga' gives us a fun way to use the mental and physical focus of juggling to deepen our yoga practice.'Biff Mithoefer, Author, 'The Yin Yoga Kit,'Co-Author, 'The Therapeutic Yoga Kit'Visit http://JugglingYoga.com/
Download or read book Motor Control and Learning written by Markus Latash and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to view the effects of development, aging, and practice on the control of human voluntary movement from a contemporary context. Emphasis is on the links between progress in basic motor control research and applied areas such as motor disorders and motor rehabilitation. Relevant to both professionals in the areas of motor control, movement disorders, and motor rehabilitation, and to students starting their careers in one of these actively developed areas.
Download or read book Juggling written by Faye J. Crosby and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1993 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the many roles of career women while offering hope that women can be in many roles without scarificing themselves or their families.
Download or read book Devices of Curiosity written by Oliver Gaycken and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devices of Curiosity excavates a largely unknown genre of early cinema, the popular-science film. Primarily a work of cinema history, it also draws on the insights of the history of science. Beginning around 1903, a variety of producers made films about scientific topics for general audiences, inspired by a vision of cinema as an educational medium. This book traces the development of popular-science films over the first half of the silent era, from its beginnings in England to its flourishing in France around 1910. Devices of Curiosity also considers how popular-science films exemplify the circulation of knowledge. These films initially relied upon previous traditions such as the magic-lantern lecture for their representational strategies, and they continually had recourse to established visual iconography, but they also created novel visual paradigms and led to the creation of ambitious new film collections. Finally, the book discerns a transit between nonfictional and fictional modes, seeing affinities between popular-science films and certain aspects of fiction films, particularly Louis Feuillade's crime melodramas. This kind of circulation is important for an understanding of the wider relevance of early popular-science films, which impacted the formation of the documentary, educational, and avant-garde cinemas.
Download or read book Skill Training in Multimodal Virtual Environments written by Massîmo Bergamasco and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of augmented reality technologies used to assist human operators in complex manipulative operations-has brought an urgency to research into the modeling and training of human skills in Virtual Environments. However, modeling a specific act still represents a challenge in cognitive science. The same applies for the control of humanoid rob
Download or read book Academy of Management Journal written by Academy of Management and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus on management theory and practice
Download or read book Fun for Kids III written by Marion F. Gallivan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An index to children's craft books published since 1991. Provides a guide to craft instructions alphabetically by project, or by type of material used.
Download or read book The Art of Collectivity written by Jennifer Beth Spiegel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst epidemics of youth alienation and cultural polarization, community-based artistic practices are sprouting up around the world as antidotes to policies of austerity and social exclusion. Rejecting the radical individualism of the neoliberal era, many artistic projects promote collectivity and togetherness in navigating challenges and constructing shared futures. The Art of Collectivity is about how one such creative social program deployed this approach in service of a post-neoliberal vision. Focusing on a national social circus initiative launched by a newly elected Ecuadorean government to help actualize its “citizens' revolution,” the book explores the intersection between global cultural politics, participatory arts, collective health, and social transformation. The authors include scholars and practitioners of community arts, humanities, social sciences, and health sciences from the Global North and Global South. Sensitive to hierarchical binaries such as research/practice, north/south, and art/science, they work together to provide a multifaceted analysis of the way cultural politics shape policy, pedagogy, and aesthetic sensibilities, as well as their socio-cultural and health-related effects. The largest study of social circus to date, combining detailed quantitative, qualitative, and arts-based research, The Art of Collectivity is a timely contribution to the study of cultural policies, critical pedagogies, collective art-making, and community development.
Download or read book Advances in Robotics Research written by Torsten Kröger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Workshop on Robotics is a convention of roboticists from academia and industry working on mathematical and algorithmic foundations of robotics, on the design and analysis of robotic systems as well as on robotic applications. Selected contributions from researchers in German-speaking countries as well as from the international robotics community compose this volume. The papers are organized in ten scientific tracks: Kinematic and Dynamic Modeling, Motion Generation, Sensor Integration, Robot Vision, Robot Programming, Humanoid Robots, Grasping, Medical Robotics, Autonomous Helicopters, and Robot Applications. Due to an extensive review and discussion process, this collection of scientific contributions is of very high caliber and promises to strongly influence future robotic research activities.
Download or read book The Juggling Mother written by Amanda D. Watson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Mother explores this figure of contemporary mothering in media representations: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of coming undone because of her unwieldy slate of labours. Mothers who frantically juggle paid and unpaid work demands do not threaten the way labour is organized. In fact, as Amanda Watson demonstrates, they are model neoliberal workers who uphold white privilege – along with ableist notions of mastery, capacity, and productivity – because of a desire for political visibility and social inclusion. The Juggling Mother makes the controversial case that unfair labour distributions are publicly celebrated, intentionally performed, and intimately felt. Mothers with the most power are thus complicit in the exclusion of less privileged ones – and in their own undoing.
Download or read book The Instant Juggling Book written by Bob Woodburn and published by [Ontario?] : Rethink. This book was released on 1990 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A how -to book on juggling including diagrams and illustrations.
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