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Each of these postures opens, unblocks and energizes a specific acupuncture meridian or group of meridians within the body. The exercises will rebalance the musclo-skeletal system, eliminate pain, prevent illness, calm the nervous system and improve overall health.

Michael Newman has been working as an injury and rehabilitation specialist for the last 30 years. He has been commissioned to work in...

Praise for TEACHING DEFIANCE

"A book that may well become iconic in the field, the kind of text that will cause major reverberations in the field and that people will be talking about for years to come.... Put simply, there is no one else in adult education who writes as powerfully and lyrically as Mike Newman."
Stephen Brookfield, distinguished professor, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota; author, The Power of Critical Theory

"This tautly written, gutsy polemic from an engaged and committed teacher is a must–read for anyone...

Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Likewise, DVDs and DVRs, web video, HDTV, and mobile devices have shifted the longstanding conception of television as a household appliance toward a new understanding of TV as...

By locating the American indie film in the historical context of the "Sundance-Miramax" era (the mid-1980s to the end of the 2000s),...

This qualitative multi-case study of academic literacy is the first research to assume the premises of the Multiliteracies Project of the New London Group of literacy researchers. It takes a multimodal view of literacy, not limited to reading and writing, and sets about to uncover the Design (the flexible structuring of rules and principles) that students and teachers both follow and create in college courses. This Design takes the form of a game in which students channel content from sources, such as texts and lectures, to assessments of various kinds. Students are then rewarded in the...

New York City English is one of the most recognizable of US dialects, and research on it launched modern sociolinguistics. Yet the city's speech has never before received a comprehensive description and analysis. In this book, Michael Newman examines the differences and similarities among the ways English is spoken by the extraordinarily diverse population living in the NY dialect region. He uses data from a variety of sources including older dialectological accounts, classic and recent variationist studies, and original research on speakers from around the dialect region. All levels of...