The Tao of Movement
Chinese Medicine Principles for Movers
This book is more than just a guide to physical wellbeing. It explores the connection between movement and health through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The author draws inspiration from the rich philosophy of Tao, making this an excellent resource for dancers and other movement professionals.
The ADHD Teen Survival Guide
Your Launchpad to an Amazing Life
Bold, fun and vibrantly illustrated, this book is the ultimate guide for teens wanting to learn more about ADHD and how they can live their best life.
Talking the Talk About Autism
How to share and tell your story
Disclosing an autism diagnosis is an issue that pops up throughout people’s lives. This insightful book by leading autism advocate Haley Moss unpacks the challenges that disclosure presents at different stages from how to talk about autism with younger children and disclosing a child’s diagnosis, through to self-advocacy as an adult.
Selling Out the Spectrum
How Science Lost the Trust of Autistic People, and How It Can Win It Back
How did we get here and what happens now? Tackling the big questions in relation to autism and science, this book examines the problematic relationship between scientific research and disability, the controversial history of studies into the condition, and what science can do to restore faith in its practices for the autistic community.
Pilates Applications for Health Conditions
Programs and Perspectives
Edited by two international experts in movement education, this comprehensive reference examines 24 health conditions that improve gait, balance, and quality of life. Designed for Pilates teachers, movement educators, continuing education providers, and trainee teachers, it demonstrates applications for clinical practice, home studios and online.
Toward Oregon 2050
Planning a Better Future
How do we plan for a better Oregon in 2050? What will the state be like in that year for five million Oregonians, particularly for the least privileged and powerful residents? In this compelling volume, leading experts in land use and urban planning envision various possible futures and begin the work of developing statewide plans to guide Oregon through the decades ahead.
Rewriting the Word "God"
In the Arc of Converging Lines between Innovative Theory, Theology, and Poetry
Innovative poetry, philosophy, theology and new sciences converge in the project of rewriting the word “God”
Rehab on the Range
A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West
Listening to Survivors
Four Decades of Holocaust Memorial Week at Oregon State University
Listening to Survivors presents the voices of nineteen Holocaust survivors and two witnesses who shared their personal experiences with audiences at Oregon State University over the past four decades as part of the university’s Holocaust Memorial Week observance.
Heritage in the Body
Sensory Ecologies of Health Practice in Times of Change
Through storytelling, ethnography, and interviews, this volume examines how Indigenous Maya and Garifuna Belizeans—both in Belize and in the United States—navigate macro-level processes such as economic development, climate change, political shifts, and global health crises in the context of changes in their own lives. Employing an embodied ecological heritage (EEH) framework, this work explores the links between health and heritage. It offers insights into how heritage practices become embodied as ways to maintain and support happy, healthy lives.
Embodying Biodiversity
Sensory Conservation as Refuge and Sovereignty
This interdisciplinary volume argues for the importance of everyday sensuous conservation and its ability to grow diverse, livable worlds where human embodiment is understood as part of—not separate from—plant life. Contributors argue that the majority of biodiversity conservation worldwide is carried out not by large-scale conservation projects but by ordinary people engaging in sensory-motivated, caretaking relationships with specific plants.
City of Wood
San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt
Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia
In this book, Thomas Aiello takes a close look at the Deep South’s dependence on systems of bound labor during the post-Reconstruction era through the story of a labor camp in Georgia, drawing attention to the injustices and abuses of misdemeanor convict leasing.
Birds, Bats, and Blooms
The Coevolution of Vertebrate Pollinators and Their Plants
Unmothering Autism
Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care
Unmothering Autism rethinks autism and mothering to reveal what it means for us to live well together in, and through, difference.
Transformed States
Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990–2020
Tracing the Impact of First-Year Writing
Identity, Process, and Transfer at a Public University
Tracing the Impact of First-Year Writing presents the results of a large-scale longitudinal study of college writers that explores the impact of a required first-year writing course with a comparative approach not previously available.
The Purple One
Prince, Race, Gender, and Everything in Between
An electric collection of essays and reflections on an enigmatic musical legend