{"product_id":"human-engineering-mark-anthony-peters-9798176332193","title":"Human Engineering: A Systems Approach to Movement, Rehabilitation and Human Performance","description":"Human Engineering\u003cbr\u003eA Systems Approach to Movement, Rehabilitation and Human Performance\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if movement, rehabilitation and human performance were understood not as separate problems, but as expressions of the same adaptive human system?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman beings are not machines assembled from independent parts. We are living, learning systems - continually sensing, responding, predicting, adapting and reorganising in response to our bodies, our environments and our experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Engineering\u003c\/i\u003e offers a different way of thinking about movement and rehabilitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than beginning with \u003cb\u003e\"What exercise should we prescribe?\"\u003c\/b\u003e, Mark Peters asks a deeper set of questions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is the system trying to achieve?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat information is it responding to?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat options does it have available?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd how can we create the conditions in which better solutions can emerge?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing together ideas from systems thinking, movement science, rehabilitation, coaching and more than three decades of Tai Chi practice, \u003ci\u003eHuman Engineering\u003c\/i\u003e explores how people maintain, lose, recover and develop capability throughout life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the book are six organising principles - \u003cb\u003eAlignment, Relaxation, Centre, Breathing, Balance and Confidence\u003c\/b\u003e - not as exercises to perform, but as lenses through which movement, learning and adaptation can be investigated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross three parts, the book explores: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow the human system learns through feedback, experience and prediction;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy apparently limiting patterns may once have been useful adaptations;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe difference between prescribing movement and designing experiences for learning;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy principles can transfer where individual exercises may not;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow variability creates options rather than inconsistency;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe relationship between adaptability, resilience and recovery; and\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy meaningful capability matters more than perfect movement.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eTai Chi provides an important practical thread throughout the book, but this is \u003cb\u003enot a book about learning Tai Chi\u003c\/b\u003e. Instead, its principles provide a laboratory for investigating balance, organisation, attention, weight transfer, unnecessary effort and the capacity to adapt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Engineering\u003c\/i\u003e is written for \u003cb\u003ephysiotherapists, occupational therapists, rehabilitation and movement professionals, coaches, Tai Chi and Qigong teachers, therapists, educators and anyone interested in how human beings learn, adapt and maintain capability.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt challenges the idea that successful rehabilitation is simply about restoring a particular movement or achieving compliance with an exercise programme. The larger question is whether the person develops resources and options that remain available when circumstances change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe aim is not perfect movement.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a more adaptable human being.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnderstand the system. Develop the options. Expand the capability.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the version I'd use for KDP rather than simply reproducing the back-cover copy. It communicates the actual scope of the finished book while naturally incorporating search-relevant terms such as \u003cb\u003erehabilitation, movement, Tai Chi, Qigong, balance, adaptability, resilience, physiotherapy and occupational therapy\u003c\/b\u003e without turning the description into obvious keyword stuffing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Anthony Peters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798176332193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Mark Anthony Peters","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780117729535,"sku":"9798176332193","price":20.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/human-engineering-mark-anthony-peters-9798176332193","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}