Hot Stone Massage: A Three-Dimensional Approach, Enhanced Edition

Hot Stone Massage: A Three-Dimensional Approach, Enhanced Edition
Author: Leslie Bruder
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2022-11-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1284289842

Hot Stone Massage: A Three-Dimensional Approach, by Leslie Bruder, is a user-friendly, easy-to-follow manual designed to teach professional massage therapists how to give a safe, effective, and artful hot stone massage. The book covers every aspect of administering a hot stone massage including the many types of stones along with their geological origin, equipment and accessories needed, room set up, benefits and precautions, diseases and conditions to avoid, physiological effects of heat and cold, effective stone temperatures, diagrams for stone placement, creative massage techniques, and a novel system for optimal stone management and flow. The book's centerpiece is a unique three-dimensional approach to hot stone massage, which involves working on both sides of the body at once, removing stones from beneath clients without their involvement, and transitioning seamlessly from one body part to another.

Death in the Air

Death in the Air
Author: Shane Peacock
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0887769284

After the harrowing experience of losing his mother while solving a brutal murder in London’s East End, young Sherlock Holmes commits himself to fighting crime … and is soon involved in another case. While visiting his father at the magnificent Crystal Palace, Sherlock stops to watch a remarkable and dangerous trapeze performance high above, framed by the stunning glass ceiling of the legendary building. Suddenly, the troupe’s star is dropping, screaming and flailing, toward the floor. He lands with a sickening thud just a few feet away, and rolls up almost onto the boy’s boots. Unconscious and bleeding profusely, his body is grotesquely twisted. In the mayhem that follows, Sherlock notices something that no one else sees — something is amiss with the trapeze bar! He knows that foul play is afoot. What he doesn’t know is that his discovery will put him on a frightening, twisted trail that leads to an entire gang of notorious criminals. Wrapped in the fascinating world of Victorian entertainment, its dangerous performances, and London’s dark underworld, Death in the Air raises The Boy Sherlock Holmes to a whole new level. Be sure not to miss Eye of the Crow, The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His First Case.

Doctor Who

Doctor Who
Author: Bbc
Publisher: BBC Children's
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2010
Genre: Doctor Who (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9781405906944

Featuring the full first series of Matt Smith starring as the Eleventh Doctor, in BBC One's hit television show, Doctor Who! With original comic strips and an exciting new story, as well as puzzles and features on all your favourite episodes, characters and aliens. The Official Doctor Who Annual 2011 is a must for any fan and a true collector's item!

The History of the Nude

The History of the Nude
Author: Flaminio Gualdoni
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788857213521

A richly illustrated and extremely enjoyable reference book on the historical evolution of the nude. From the Paleolithic "great mothers" to the Greek athletes, from the Venus of Urbino by Titian to Leonardo's Vitruvian Man, from the Odalisque by Boucher to those by Ingres, to the Amazons of Helmut Newton and the desolate, lifeless bodies of Andres Serrano, the nude is the theme of artistic representation par excellence. The nude body as the incarnation of perfect beauty and the suspicions concerning its sensuality imposed by Christian culture; the renewed triumph of ancient beauty in the Renaissance and the study of anatomy; the visual licentiousness of the eighteenth century and the photographic nude; ideal beauty, eroticism, pornography; the nude also as representation of the ugly and its flaunted truthfulness in the art of the twentieth century; the nude that itself becomes a work of art in the avant-garde of the post-WWII period, with performance, body art and experimental theater. These threads of the narration make for a deeply informative historical exploration of the nude in Western art, all conducted around a rich apparatus of images.