Hand Grasps and Manipulation Skills : Clinical Perspective of Development and Funtion, Second Edition. by Edwards, Sandra

Table of Contents: “…Palm-to-Finger TranslationSimple Shift; Reciprocal Shift; Complex Shift; Simple Rotation; Complex Rotation; Chapter 7 Grasps for Handwriting; Left-Handed Writing Posture; Primitive Grasp Patterns; Radial Cross Palmar Grasp; Palmar Supinate Grasp; Digital Pronate Grasp; Brush Grasp; Grasp With Extended Fingers; Transitional Grasp Patterns; Static Quadrupod Grasp; Cross Thumb Grasp; Static Tripod Grasp; Mature Grasp Patterns; Lateral Tripod Grasp; Dynamic Quadrupod Grasp; Lateral Quadrupod Grasp; Dynamic Tripod Grasp; Interdigital Tripod Grasp; Additional Pencil Grasps.…”
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The Arden Shakespeare miscellany by Armstrong, Jane

Table of Contents: “…Write, Pen': Controversies: Authorship, Sonnets and TextsThe authorship controversy; The Sonnets and the 'onlie begetter'; Who's who in the Sonnets; 'To be, or not to be -- ay, there's the point': The texts of Shakespeare's plays; Shakespeare's handwriting; Flowers; Birds and animals; IV: 'The Brightest Heaven of Invention': Shakespeare the Writer; Playwriting as a career: Shakespeare's contemporaries; The 'great reckoning': Marlowe and Shakespeare; Which of his plots did Shakespeare invent himself?…”
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Learning to Write Effectively : Current Trends in European Research. by Torrance, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Early Development of Handwriting Motor Skills; Acknowledgement; References; 1.00.03. …”
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Common Sense Education : From Common Core to ESSA and Beyond. by Zarra, III, PhD, Ernest J.

Table of Contents: “…Mathematics Dumbed Down under Common CoreCommon Core Mathematics Inadequacies; Handwriting on the Wall; Is Rigor Really the Answer?…”
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Past, Present, and Future Contributions of Cognitive Writing Research to Cognitive Psychology. by Berninger, Virginia Wise

Table of Contents: “…; 15 Toward a Redefinition of Spelling in Shallow Orthographies: Phonological, Lexical, and Grammatical Skills in Learning to Spell Italian; 16 Effects of Handwriting Skill, Output Modes, and Gender on Fourth Graders' Pauses, Language Bursts, Fluency, and Quality; 17 Written Production of Single Words and Simple Sentences; 18 Information Flow Across Modalities and Text Types.…”
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Learning and learning difficulties : approaches to teaching and assessment. by Westwood, Peter S.

Table of Contents: “…-- General principles of intervention -- Further reading -- 7 Difficulties in writing and spelling -- The need for explicit instruction -- Writing is a complex skill -- Developmental aspects of writing and spelling -- Difficulties in writing -- Difficulties with spelling -- Phonological skills -- Visual imagery -- Insufficient instruction -- Specific disability in written language: dysgraphia -- Handwriting -- Assessment -- Intervention: general principles -- Strategy instruction -- Interventions for spelling -- Use of computers and spellcheckers -- Further reading.…”
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Beyond ambassadors : consuls, missionaries, and spies in premodern diplomacy

Table of Contents: “…2 Diplomacy Facing Espionage: the Cult of Secrecy -- 3 Networks, Infiltration and Corruption: Diplomacy in Danger -- 4 Espionage and Diplomacy in the Era of Handwriting -- 5 The Prince Enters the Scene: the Temptation of Personal Policy -- 6 Diplomacy at the School of Espionage: Dangerous Liaisons -- 7 A Common source: the Power of the Prince -- 8 Espionage Serving Diplomacy -- 9 Diplomacy Serving Espionage -- 10 The Rise of Secret Diplomacy: Spy Behaviour -- 11 Power Brokers, Spies, and Diplomats: Networks of Influence -- 12 Versatile Careers…”
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Improving hand function in cerebral palsy : theory, evidence and intervention

Table of Contents: “…Gordon -- Self-care and hand function / Anne Henderson and Ann-Christin Eliasson -- Written communication: clinical decision-making for handwriting in children with cerebral palsy / Sonya Murchland, Alison Lane and Jenny Ziviani -- Learning to play: promoting skills and quality of life in individuals with cerebral palsy / Erna Imperatore Blanche and Suan Hirsch Know -- Assistive technology devices in computer activities / Helen Lidström and Maria Borgestig -- Participation: the ultimate challenge / Jenny Ziviani and Margaret Wallen -- The evidence-base for upper extremity intervention for children with cerebral palsy / Christine Imms -- Appendix: Assessments used to measure hand function, activities and participation of children with cerebral palsy / Heidi Sanders.…”
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María of Ágreda : mystical lady in blue by Fedewa, Marilyn H.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 16 "I remain alone and fearful of making mistakes"Chapter 17 "Others have died for this"; Part Five THE SPANISH INQUISITION INTERROGATES THE LADY IN BLUE 1650; Chapter 18 "It felt good to my soul despite the enigma"; Chapter 19 "Angels take on more of an aerial body"; Chapter 20 "I saw them all written out in a divine handwriting"; Chapter 21 "Of the history of the Queen ... it is best to keep it a secret"; Chapter 22 "I was alone, without counsel"; Part Six Fruits of a Mystic's Labor 1650; Chapte 23 "For God's sake ... …”
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Cameroon anthology of poetry

Table of Contents: “…Freedom We WroteBernard Nsokika Fonlon; The Fear of the Future Years; Gem of the Highlands; Bongasu Tanla Kishani; A Native Song; The Eternal Tatoo; Buma Kor; One Fine Morning; The Coming of the Waves; Silhouette; Patrick Sam Kubam; The Last Legacy; Sankie Maimo; The Bugle Call; The Harvest; Judgement; John Menget; I Gree; Ba'Bila Mutia; Dilemma of a Supermarket; Germanus Canisius Nchanji ; A Tale of Lalang Grass; Woman On A Skiff In The Ndian River; Juliana Makuchi Nfah; Seasons; Sunset on the Waves; Ngong Kum Ngong; Medicinal Brandy; Wonderful Artist; The Handwriting.…”
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Buchkultur und Wissensvermittlung in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

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Common nonsense by Rooney, Andrew A.

Table of Contents: “…The Writing Life; The Writer as Natural Resource; Hold the Commas; Pardon My English; Handwriting; In the Beginning-There Was a Writer; It's Not Funny; Financial Reporters Fail; Rewriting Shakespeare; 9. …”
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Criminal man by Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909

Table of Contents: “…Criminal craniums (sixty-six skulls) -- Anthropometry and physiognomy of 832 criminals -- Tattoos -- Emotions of criminals -- Criminals and religion -- Intelligence and education of criminals -- Jargon -- Criminal literature -- Insanity and crime -- Organized crime -- Atavism and punishment -- Suicide among criminals --Criminals of passion -- Recidivism, morality, and remorse -- Handwriting of criminals -- Etiology of crime : weather and race -- Etiology of crime : civilization, alcohol, and heredity -- Etiology of crime : age, sex, moral education, genitals, and imitation -- Prevention of crime -- Penal policy -- Crime and inferior organisms -- Crime and prostitution among savages -- Origins of punishment -- Moral insanity and crime among children -- Anomalies of the brain and internal organs -- Photographs of born criminals -- Sensitivity and blushing in criminals -- Moral insanity and born criminality -- Summary of edition 3 -- Metabolism, menstruation, and fertility -- Criminal communication -- Art and industry among criminals -- The epileptic criminal -- Epileptics and born criminals -- Physiology and etiology of epilepsy -- The insane criminal -- Biology and psychology of insane criminals -- The alcoholic criminal -- The hysterical criminal -- The mattoid -- The occasional criminal -- Criminal craniums (689 skulls) -- Anthropometry and physiognomy of 6,608 criminals -- Political criminals -- Etiology of crime : urban density, alcoholism, wealth, and religion -- Etiology of crime : heredity, sex, and politics -- Prevention of crime --Synthesis and penal applications.…”
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Mathematical morphology and its applications to image and signal processing

Table of Contents: “…Geodesic Set Definition in Case of Empty Intersection -- The Morphological-Affine Object Deformation -- Affine Invariant Mathematical Morphology Applied to a Generic Shape Recognition Algorithm -- Filtering -- Folding Induced Self-Dual Filters -- Flexible Linear Openings and Closings -- Some Applications of Aperture Filters -- GA Optimisation of Multidimensional Grey-Scale Soft Morphological Filters with Applications in Archive Film Restoration -- Connectivity and Connected Operators -- New Insight on Digital Topology -- Approximate Connectivity and Mathematical Morphology -- Multiresolution Connectivity: An Axiomatic Approach -- Connected Operators Based on Region-Tree Pruning -- Segmentation -- Image Segmentation Based on the Derivative of the Morphological Profile -- Flooding and Segmentation -- A Morphological Multi-Scale Gradient for Color Image Segmentation -- Automatic Watershed Segmentation of Color Images -- Motion Segmentation using Seeded Region Growing -- A Segmentation Pyramid for the Interactive Segmentation of 3-D Images and Video Sequences -- Partition Lattice Operators for Extraction of Semantic Video Objects -- Texture Analysis -- Morphological Granulometric Deconstruction -- Surface Texture Classification from Morphological Transformations -- Content Dependent Image Sampling using Mathematical Morphology: Application to Mipmapping -- Multiresolution Techniques and Scale-Spaces -- Morphological Pyramids and Wavelets Based on the Quincunx Lattice -- Morphological Scale-Space Operators: An Algebraic Framework -- An Idempotent Scale-Space Approach for Morphological Segmentation -- Algorithms -- Efficient Dilation, Erosion, Opening and Closing Algorithms -- Fast Morphological Attribute Operations using Tarjan's Union-Find Algorithm -- A Change Detector Based on Level Sets -- A General Algorithm for Computing Distance Transforms in Linear Time -- The Ordered Queue and the Optimality of the Watershed Approaches -- Discrete 3D Wave Propagation for Computing Morphological Operations from Surface Patches and Unorganized Points -- Applications -- Two-Stage Lossy/Lossless Compression of Grayscale Document Images -- Boosting OCR Classifier by Optimal Edge Noise Filtering -- Morphological Bank Check Logo Segmentation with Few a Priori Knowledge -- Morphological Pseudo Convex Hull to Correct Handwriting Baseline Skew -- Morphological Segmentation of Text and Figures in Renaissance Books (XVI Century) -- Application of Mathematical Morphology and Markov Random Field Theory to the Automatic Extraction of Linear Features in Airborne Images -- Testing Some Morphological Approaches to Face Localization -- Quantitative Description of Telecommunication Networks by Simulation -- Author Index.…”
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Mechanics, mechatronics, intelligent system and information technology : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Applied Mechanics, Mechatronics an...

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Women's epistolary utterance : a study of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611 by Williams, Graham T.

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Touching the past : studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents

Table of Contents: “…s language and prescriptivism; 5.1 Some socio-pragmatic factors; 5.2 Handwriting and segmentation of words; 5.3 Orthography and syntax; 6. …”
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Encyclopedia of creativity

Table of Contents: “…West Eccentricity Economic Perspectives on Creativity Education Einstein, Albert* Eminence Emotion/Affect Enhancement of Creativity Entrepreneur Everyday Creativity Evolving Systems Approach Exercises Expertise Expressive Arts Theory Families and Creativity Film Fitzgerald, Ella Flow and Optimal Experience Food, Creativity of Recipes, Pairings, Menus Freud, Sigmund* Friendship and Creativity Gandhi, Mahatma Gender Differences Genetics Genius and Greatness Giftedness and Creativity Group Dynamics Hadyn, Joseph Handwriting and Creativity Hepburn, Katharine Heuristics Historiometry Hopper, Grace Murray Humor Imagination Implicit Theories Improvisation Incubation Innovation Insight Intelligence (relation to creativity) Interest Inventories Intuition Invention Janusian, Homospatial and Sepconic Articulation Processes Joyce, James Jungian Theory Kahlo, Frida Knowledge Krebs, Hans Adolf* Kurosawa, Akira Leadership Life Stages Logic and Reasoning Longitudinal Studies Mad Genius Controversy Matthew, Pygmalion, and Founder Effects Mead, Margaret Memory & Creativity Mental Health: Affective Disorders Mentors Metacognition Metaphors Michelangelo Mindfulness Monet, Claude Moral Issues in Creativity Motivation Multiple Discovery Multiple Intelligences Music Nature/Nurture and Creativity Networking Novelty O'Keefe, Georgia* Organisational Development Organizational culture Overexcitabilities Paradigm Shifts Perception and Creativity Personal Creativity Personality: Autonomy and Independence Perspectives Pessoa, Fernando* Piaget, Jean* Picasso Plath, Sylvia* Play (Creative processes in) Poetry Problem Finding Problem Solving Prodigies Programs and Courses in Creativity Psycholinguistics Rank, Otto Remote Associates Research Methods Research: Qualitative Research: Quantitative Rewards Risk-taking Schizophrenia and Psychosis Schumann, Clara Schumann, Robert* Science (Creativity In) Self-Actualization Serendipity Sexton, Anne* Shakespeare, William* Shaw, George Bernard* Social Psychology Sociobiology Socio-Economic Status Spirituality Sports and Creativity Steiglitz, Alfred Stress and Creativity Substance Abuse and Creativity Suicide Synaesthesia Synchronicity Systems Approach Tactics and Strategies for Creativity Tagore, Rabindranath* Talent and Creativity Teaching Creativity Teams Teasdale, Sara Testing/Measurement/Assessment The Creative Sector and Class of Society The Four Ps of Creativity: Person, Product, Process, and Press Theatre Theories of Creativity Therapy and Counselling (Creative Processes In) Time Toulouse-Latrec, Henri de* Training Trajectories Transforming Illness and Visual Art Unconscious Underacheivement van Gogh, Vincent* Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich* War Wertheimer, Max Women and Creativity Woolf, Virginia* Wordsworth, William* Wright, Wilbur and Orville* Writing and Creativity Zeitgeist Zen *Denotes online-only article.…”
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The reading teacher's book of lists by Kress, Jacqueline E., Fry, Edward B. (Edward Bernard), 1925-2010

Table of Contents: “…Active Response Activities; List 13. Handwriting Charts.…”
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The Edinburgh companion to nineteenth-century American letters and letter-writing

Table of Contents: “…Henkin -- Paper evidence : handwriting, print, letters, and the law / Christopher A. …”
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