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Management of Spinal Cord Injuries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Management of Spinal Cord Injuries

Combining 25 years of clinical, research and teaching experience, Dr Lisa Harvey provides an innovative 5-step approach to the physiotherapy management of people with spinal cord injury. Based on the International Classification of Functioning, this approach emphasises the importance of setting goals which are purposeful and meaningful to the patient. These goals are related to performance of motor tasks analysed in terms of 6 key impairments. The assessment and treatment performance of each of these impairments for people with spinal cord injury is described in the following chapters: - training motor tasks - strength training - contracture management - pain management - respiratory managem...

Under the Stars - Astrophysics for Bedtime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Under the Stars - Astrophysics for Bedtime

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Under the Stars- Bedtime Astrophysics transports curious kids and inquisitive adults on an incredible journey through the night sky. Explore our solar system from the comfort of your cosy bedroom. Find out why the sky is blue. Fly around a black hole and peer inside! Learn why Jupiter has stripes. When astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith isn't looking skyward, she is answering the smart questions of school kids. Her engaging storytelling in this colourfully illustrated book brings the night sky to life, giving amazing new perspectives to young explorers who are always asking, 'Why?'

The Secret Life of Stars
  • Language: en

The Secret Life of Stars

In The Secret Life of Stars, award-winning astronomer Lisa Harvey-Smith takes us on a cosmic journey to meet some of the weirdest, most extreme, and enigmatic stars in the universe. We all know the Sun, the powerhouse of our solar system, but what about Luyten’s Flare, the Rosino-Zwicky Object, or Chanal’s variable star? For those whose curiosity takes them far beyond Earth’s atmosphere, The Secret Life of Stars offers a personal and readily understood introduction to some of the Galaxy’s most remarkable stars. Written by award-winning astronomer Lisa Harvey-Smith, each chapter explains various different and unusual stars and their amazing characteristics and attributes, from pulsars, blue stragglers, and white dwarfs, to cannibal stars and explosive supernovae. With beautiful chapter illustrations by Eirian Chapman, this book brings to life the remarkable personalities of these stars, reminding readers what a diverse and unpredictable universe we live in and how fortunate we are to live around a stable star, our Sun.

When Galaxies Collide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

When Galaxies Collide

In 2018, Lisa Harvey-Smith was appointed as the inaugural Australian Women in STEM Ambassador by the Australian Federal Government. Why is the Milky Way blue? Why isn’t a black hole dark? How many stars can you see with your naked eye?* How much hotter are blue stars than red ones?** Humans are the only known astronomers in the universe. When we look up at the night sky, we are linked to our ancestors. Away from city lights, we can see what generations of people before us have wondered at and weaved stories around. But all that will change. The Andromeda Galaxy is rushing towards us at 400,000 kilometres an hour. When Galaxies Collide will guide you to look at the night sky afresh. It peers 5.86 billion years into the future to consider the fate of Earth and its inhabitants. Will the solution be to live in space without a planet to call home? Will one of the other 100 billion planets spawn life? Learn how to watch this space. * 9,000, but only half of that from any given point on Earth. ** 38,000 degrees vs 3,000.

Vision Rehabilitation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 530

Vision Rehabilitation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-02-02
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Providing the information required to understand, advocate for, and supply post-acute vision rehabilitative care following brain injury, Vision Rehabilitation: Multidisciplinary Care of the Patient Following Brain Injury bridges the gap between theory and practice. It presents clinical information and scientific literature supporting the diagnostic

Under the Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone
  • Language: en

Under the Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-02-25
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  • Publisher: WS Education

Under the Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone transports curious kids and inquisitive adults on an incredible journey through the night sky. Explore our solar system from the comfort of your cosy bedroom. Find out why the sky is blue. Fly around a black hole and peer inside! Learn why Jupiter has stripes.When astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith isn't looking skyward, she is answering the smart questions of school kids. Her engaging storytelling in this colourfully illustrated book brings the night sky to life, giving amazing new perspectives to young explorers who are always asking, 'Why?'Under the Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone was awarded the Finalist Award for 'Children's Picture Book (Non-Fiction)' for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2021, and is shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2021 'Best Education Title'.

A Head Full of Notions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

A Head Full of Notions

Robert Fulton was an American inventor born in 1765. Some of his accomplishments include designing some of the first submarines and designing the first commercially successful steamboat, the Clemont.

Visions in the Shadows
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Visions in the Shadows

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-07-01
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Visions in the Shadows is an adventure into the struggles when tragedy occurs. David Merck lived in a city all of his life, but when he ventured to the woods for a vacation he is struck by a sequence of events that leave him blind and alone in the wild. This story follows David as he learns the simple things all over again, the hard lessons that keep him alive, and the soul searching that helps define who he is.

Freedom Seeker
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

Freedom Seeker

The son of a wealthy, repected admiral, William Penn did what was forbidden in seventeenth-century England--he openly practiced the Quaker religion. Penn dreamed of a place with freedom of religion. He asked for land in the New World and was given a colony called Pennsylvania. His success in establishing a new and just government there later became the blueprint for thirteen newly independent colonies.

A Royal Flush
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

A Royal Flush

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-31
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

LISA KLEINs marriage is dying, and its a losing battlecomplicated by an unexpected affair. While on a short trip to California, she gets in the way of a radical fan who tries to shoot rock star Yale Frye. Yale makes it out all right, while Lisa ends up shot. During her hospitalization, she meets the superstar, and their attachment grows into a romantic relationship. But Lisa cant just walk away from her marriage; she has to keep it together in order to shield her two sons. However, once back home in Ohio, she realizes the damage between her and her husband Ronnie is irrevocable. Soon, their divorce is official. Not only does she lose her husband, but she loses the love and respect of her two...