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Good information in a concise package.
I bought this book for my 17-year-old dancer daughter on the recommendation of another dancer.As it arrived when my daughter was away, I took advantage of the chance to look at it fairly thoroughly.I was very impressed by the straight forward nutritional advice and the common sense tone of the whole book.Young dancers tend to do a lot of wacky things; this book gives hope of success by following a more thoughtful and reasoned approach.The personal stories told by various dancers are a method that I know young people respond to well.When my daughter left for her last dance program, this book went with her, unlike many that stayed behind in her bedroom. ... Read more

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Scott Hamilton Fireworks On Ice
This is a good basic bio of Scott Hamilton and I think it's a must read for Scott Hamilton fans of all age.There really is nothing new here, however you have to cull this information from various sources and it's nice to be able to read about the basics of this extraordinary athlete in one this one well written book.It's brief--as a book for youth should be and yet it covers the details of Scott's life very well.

There are a couple of inaccuracies I found - Scott debuted his new costume design in 1983, not 84--and he never landed a triple lutz/triple toe combination as stated-but nothing major.

The writing style is appropriate for youth without being overly simple.There are lots of good quality colorful pictures of Hamilton both as a child and as an amateur and pro.

This is a good book for young people, even if they aren't big fans of skating because Scott Hamilton is a wonderful role model for young people and this book well details the adversities he overcame in a positive way, w ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 816 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Advice for dancers: former New York City Ballet dancer Linda Hamilton, Ph.D., is a lecturer, a psychologist in private practice, and the author of Advice for Dancers (Jossey-Bass). She has been offering advice to Dance Magazine readers since 1992.
Author: Linda Hamilton
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 81Issue: 4Page: 28(1)

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Dr. Linda Hamilton's ground breaking book, The Person Behind the Mask: A Guide to Performing Arts Psychology, takes the reader on a vivid journey of the performer's private world, where personal insecurity often wages an unsuccessful battle against the stresses of the profession-whether these are unrealistic weight requirements, debilitating injuries, or stage fright. Intended for performers, teachers, and health-care workers, this is a book that describes the psychological problems of the stage, with a focus on education and prevention. ... Read more

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Very informative psychology
Linda Hamilton is an expert on the artistic experience, having been an artist herself.Very informative text. ... Read more

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Text and graphic illustration of the American Horse Shows Assoc. 1999 dressage First Level Tests 1,2,3,4. Printed on heavy paper and plastic laminated for outdoor use. ... Read more

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Dressage Illustrated First Level
As the mother of a Dressage rider and Pony Clubber this book series has been one of the most usefull items we have found for learning not only the Dressage tests but also just what the judges are looking for.It allows me to understand what my daughter is looking for as I read the tests and she rides them.It is also helpful in allowing the rider to visualize the movement while memorizing each test.We always take our copys to the show and they are often borrowed by other riders. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Dance Magazine, Inc. on August 1, 2010. The length of the article is 915 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: QA.(advice for dancers)
Author: Linda Hamilton
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher: Dance Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 84Issue: 8Page: 26(1)

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Large spiral-bound Teacher's Edition including manageable instructional plans, direct instruction in phonics, assessment tools, and the use of technology as an integral part of learning. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Dance Magazine, Inc. on September 1, 2010. The length of the article is 987 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Advice for dancers.(Q&A)
Author: Linda Hamilton
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2010
Publisher: Dance Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 84Issue: 9Page: 24(1)

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Dance Magazine, Inc. on December 1, 2009. The length of the article is 969 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Q&A.(advice for dancers)(Column)
Author: Linda Hamilton
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2009
Publisher: Dance Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 83Issue: 12Page: 30(1)

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Not Bad, but Do You Really Need it?
This book describes 60 hikes in the Bay Area.16 of the hikes are located east of the Bay, while the other 44 are located west of the Bay.Most of the hikes are substantial hikes of several miles, with the average hike around 6 miles long.

Each hike features directions to the trailhead, public transportation options for reaching the trailhead, a map (more on that below), some main points of interest on the trail in paragraph form, and a trail summary in bullet point form.It would have been better to combine these last two items into a single description so that you read about the point of interest when you arrive there during your hike.Still, the method used here seems to work OK with no major breakdowns.

I now move to a couple of this guide's main weak areas.While each hike has a map, some of these maps may not be all that useful.In particular, one very helpful feature is missing from all of the maps: contour lines!I normally would not make too much of this omission, but it amazes me how most of the trail maps you can download freely from state and local park agencies have contour lines while this guide, which you have to pay your hard-earned money for, does not.Moreover, contour lines are particularly helpful in areas of high relief such as the Bay Area.For this omission, I docked the guide one star.

Also, on some occasions (Angel Island, for example), the author takes you down unofficial, unmaintained, unmarked trails.Most unofficial, unmaintained, unmarked trails are this way for a reason: the park supervisors do not want you on them.In the Angel Island case, I saw the trail she was referring to, and I would not want to hike down that trail; it was too steep and too poorly maintained.Such trails are fine for webposting but need to be avoided in published trail guides.For this, I docked the guide another star.

In summary, the judgment on this guide comes down to: given all of the great, free information available on the web, do you really need to purchase a guide to hiking in the Bay Area?If your answer is yes, then this guide deserves some consideration as a decent but not great source of entertainment and information.For me, the answer was no.After browsing this guide in a library, I felt no need to pay for the information contained herein.I was able to download most of this information and everything I needed for free directly from the park agencies.

Great Hikes for the Bay Area Resident (and those of a Similar Mindset)
When I first glanced through this book I was sure it would garner a 5 star review:bright pages with clear, well organized text, detailed maps and a great selection of trails.As I read more closely, I found I had a few concerns (do all photos come from Shutterstock these days?) but upon further reflection, this is still a five star review.The Bay Area has some of the most spectacular hiking of any urban area in America the 40 routes described here are among the best to be found.(20 "honorable mentions" round out this book.)On top of that, this book not only captures the best of Bay Area trails, it captures a Bay Area ethos as well.

The author, Linda Hamilton, assures us that her book will be different from other Bay Area hiking guides by offering new routes, some of which require permits, a sure fire way to cut down on crowds.(The extended loop at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve is an example of this.)But for the most part, Hamilton simply reworks existing trails to form new loops for hikers.For example, she has those looking for a longer trek out of Muir Woods hike up the Bootjack trail, but return on the Dipsea trail instead of the more conventional Ben Johnson route.But having noted that, one simply cannot argue with the selections:An extended loop through Point Reyes National Seashore, the Waterfall Loop Trail in Big Basin Redwoods, Sibley Volcanic, ... the list of top hikes goes on and on.Coastal trails, open ridges, and heavily forested mountains are all well represented.

Of course, what would a good Bay Area guidebook authored by a resident be without lots of advice on how to go "green" while hiking?So, interspersed throughout the text are numerous bright green sidebars with "tips" like use rechargeable batteries and hiking is a "carbon free" winter activity.(Not entirely true, since you release carbon dioxide as a by product of the food you combust to exercise.) For the most part I find these sort of things trite and would not include them in most hiking books, but in this case I think it adds to the ambiance of planning day treks in the Bay Area.One piece of green advice, however, should be taken with some caution.The author recommends that you wear "organic cotton and other recycled materials."Now, aside from the fact that organic cotton is not a recycled material, you should be cautious about wearing it if there is a chance you will get wet on the trail.Hypothermia is a real possibility when wet even if temperatures are in the 50s.And a significant part of the Bay Area often has wet weather with temps in the 50s.

Also adding to the text are the wonderful (bright yellow) sidebars dealing with natural and local history.Discussions about Elephant Seals and the lifespan of Redwoods, reflections on Tao House and the old resorts that attracted tourists of years past (crookedest railroad, the Diablo Resort) really add to the text and one's appreciation of hiking.Finally, Hamilton includes an appendix in the book listing Bay Area hiking clubs.My favorite: the Commonwealth of Nature Fanatics Unofficial SF/South Bay Excursion Division, or CONFUSED for short.A similar Berkeley group, CHAOS, supports outdoor experiences, fun, and chocolate.What more could you ask for from hiking companions than that?Maybe a good book to help you along, and this is it. ... Read more

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Practice, practice, practice...
The best way to learn Calculus is doing problems. This book is packed with problems and step by step solutions. I'm currently taking Calc 2 in college and this book has really helped when my instructor wasn't there. I highly recommend this book to high school and college students. ... Read more

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Dancers experience pain, joy, frustration, rapture, failure, applause, and are above the worldly concerns of food, money, and financial security. They live only to dance.

Or do they?

The reality is dancers of all ages, types, and skill levels often experience incredible physical and psychological stress and have traditionally bore their pain in stoic silence.

In this much needed new book, Dance Magazine's Linda Hamilton offers dancers the same type of advice and understanding they have come to trust from her popular monthly column. Psychologist Hamilton--a former dancer with New York City Ballet under the legAndary George Balanchine--offers a complete resource for coping with the day to day pressures of being a dancer. Page after page is filled with the insight that can only come from a person who has been intimately involved in the world of dance.

Hamilton outlines strategies for dancers for dealing with a variety of common physical and psychological issues and shows how to be true to your passion and bring back the joy in dancing. The book is filled with answers to dancer's most often asked questions and offers practical methods for dealing with such difficult problems as eating disorders, substance abuse, ruthless competition, and performance anxiety. Advice for Dancers will teach you how to:

• Achieve you physical potential and select the dance technique that's right for you
• Find out which teaching practices you can trust and why
• Learn how to reach your optimal weight without compromising your energy, health, and career
• Develop healthy relationships both inside and outside the dance studio
• Use a variety of resources to get work, roles, and promotions
• Perform technical feats in front of an audience even when you are frightened

Advice for Dancers is a result of Hamiltion's extensive research and years clinical work with dancers and includes information for a survey of more that 1,000 dancers from across the country. ... Read more

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Helpful and Informative for any Level
I was lucky enough to have picked up this book at the bookstore and read through a bit before I decided I'd like to buy it as well.While it does bring up some diffrent forms of dance and what's required, it is focused a little more towards ballet, which was nice in my case.I soon found myself highlighting sentences and facts I wanted to make sure I remembered.An excellent read for a any who is thinking about dancing, or has been dancing for years.

Great Help for Dancers
Hamilton's advise comes from a clearly sympathetic and supportive voice, and when put to use in earnest is very effective. Dancers are often without a strong positive voice working on their behalf to support their self-image and self-esteem. Even though dancers have the absolute least influence in the dance world, with Hamilton's words in my head I feel more empowered in my profession.

For BALLET dancers
I found the advice given in this book to be simple common sense, In other words, I have that so I should have used it to flip through the pages and see I did not need this book! Also, it is directed only at ballet dancers-I am a jazz dancer(though I study ballet as well). Still, I feltdiscounted. Dance describes so many diferrent genres. The title should havespecified it's focus.

This is the best book out there for all dancers of any age !
I found that this book is the ONLY book that I can trust with for ALL of my dancing questions. I have read numerous other books on dance and none of the them compare to this. Mrs.Hamilton has helped me through all of thestruggles that every dancer goes through from audiioning advice to how tobreak in my pointe shoes more effectively to improving my tecnique andmany, many others. I would HAVE to give this book a 5 stars. ADVICE FORDANCERS is a definate must have for every dancer out there!!!

EXCELLENT!
EXCELLENT! IT WAS A GREAT FOR MY EMOTIONAL STRUGGLES THROUGH DANCING. I FELT VERY SUPPORTITED BY MRS HAMILTON, IT MADE ME A BETTER DANCER EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY, I RECOMMEND IT TO ALL DANCERS, IT WILL HELPYOU! WITHOUT A DOUBT 5 STARS! ... Read more

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For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers. A year after the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions in the summer of 1999 sharply limiting the ADA's reach, another decision invalidated an entire title of the act as it applied to the states. By this time, disability activists and disability rights lawyers were speaking openly of a backlash against the ADA.
What happened, why did it happen, and what can we learn from the patterns of public, media, and judicial response to the ADA that emerged in the 1990s? In this book, a distinguished group of disability activists, disability rights lawyers, social scientists and humanities scholars grapple with these questions. Taken together, these essays construct and illustrate a new and powerful theoretical model of sociolegal change and retrenchment that can inform both the conceptual and theoretical work of scholars and the day-to-day practice of social justice activists.
Contributors include Lennard J. Davis, Matthew Diller, Harlan Hahn, Linda Hamilton Krieger, Vicki A. Laden, Stephen L. Percy, Marta Russell, and Gregory Schwartz.
Backlash Against the ADA will interest disability rights activists, lawyers, law students and legal scholars interested in social justice and social change movements, and students and scholars in disability studies, political science, media studies, American studies, social movement theory, and legal history.
Linda Hamilton Krieger is Professor of Law, University of California School of Law, Berkeley.
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In Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment, Paul Brest and Linda Hamilton Krieger have written a systematic guide to creative problem solving that prepares students to exercise effective judgment and decision making skills in the complex social environments in which they will work. The book represents a major milestone in the education of lawyers and policymakers,

Developed by two leaders in the field, this first book of its type includes material drawn from statistics, decision science, social and cognitive psychology,the "judgment and decision making" (JDM) literature, and behavioral economics.It combines quantitative approaches to empirical analysis and decision making (statistics and decision science) with the psychological literature illustrating the systematic errors of the intuitive decision maker. The book can stand alone as a text or serve as a supplement to a core law or public policy curriculum.

Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment: A Guide for Lawyers and Policymakers prepares students and professionals to be creative problem solvers, wise counselors, and effective decision makers. The authors' ultimate goals are to help readers "get it right" in their roles as professionals and citizens, and to arm them against common sources of judgment error. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2007. The length of the article is 856 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Advice for dancers: former New York City Ballet dancer Linda Hamilton, PhD., is a psychologist, a wellness consultant for NYCB, and the author of Advice for Dancers (Jossey-Bass). She has offered advice to Dance Magazine readers since 1992.
Author: Linda Hamilton
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 81Issue: 6Page: 30(1)

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Chapters: George Washington, Linda Hamilton, Laura San Giacomo, Dean Skelos, William T. Watson, List of Washington College Alumni, James M. Cain, Homer Smoot, James A. Adkins, Gilbert T. Rude, Barry Glassman, Bill Gertz, Bill Nicholson, Benjamin H. Vandervoort, Walter M. Baker, John Emory, Louis L. Goldstein, Geoffrey Girard, Robert Wright, Frank Giampietro, Thomas Alan Goldsborough, John W. Crisfield, Charles Hopper Gibson, Ezekiel F. Chambers, Robert Franklin Bratton, Dudley Roe, William Murray Stone, Thomas Veazey, James Barroll Ricaud, William O. Baker, Robert P. Dean. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 120. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: American Revolutionary War George Washington (February 22, 1732 December 14, 1799) served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and as the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. Because of his significant role in the revolution and in the formation of the United States, he is often revered by Americans as the "Father of Our Country". The Continental Congress appointed Washington commander-in-chief of the American revolutionary forces in 1775. The following year, he forced the British out of Boston, lost New York City, and crossed the Delaware River in New Jersey, defeating the surprised enemy units later that year. Because of his strategy, Revolutionary forces captured the two main British combat armies at Saratoga and Yorktown. Negotiating with Congress, the colonial states, and French allies, he held together a tenuous army and a fragile nation amid the threats of disintegration and failure. Following the end of the war in 1783, King George III asked what Washington would do next and was told of rumors that he would return to his farm; this prompted the king to state, "If...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11968 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in The Terminator and its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast, for which she was nominated for two Golden Globes and an Emmy. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 869 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Advice for dancers: former New York City Ballet dancer Linda Hamilton, Ph.D., is lecturer, a psychologist in private practice, and the author of Advice for Dancers (Jossey-Bass). She has been offering advice to Dance Magazine readers since 1992.
Author: Linda Hamilton
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 79Issue: 9Page: 32(1)

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