Balance : in search of the lost sense / Scott McCredie.
Balance : in search of the lost sense / Scott McCredie.
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Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Little, Brown and Company, 2007.
Date
2007.
Call Numbers
N612/122
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 296 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Prologue : in search of the lost sense -- 1. Sickness from motion -- 2. Van Gogh's ear -- 3. The spin doctors and the discovery of "multimodality" -- 4. How balance contributes to survival -- 5. "Ear deaths" and "graveyard spirals" -- 6. Tonic and stimulant -- 7. Extreme equilibrium -- 8. The Wallen...
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Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Little, Brown and Company, 2007.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2007.
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Summary
"Balance is the first book written for a general audience to explain not only the multilayered mechanisms that allow our bodies to counteract the force of gravity as we move through space, but also the myriad ways balance has been studied, practiced, and perfected - in the audacious experiments of Henry James, throughout the public parks of China,...
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Balance : in search of the lost sense / Scott McCredie.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N612/122
Record Identifier
74VKRGNomDwd
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ISBN
0316011355 (hbk.)
9780316011358
DDC
612
MMS ID
991023196509702626
