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This book discusses the architecture, functioning, and biomechanics of the human body, its bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The text is up-to-date, solid and avoids jargon. This is an established book, already in its 4th edition.

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1 Engineering anthropometry.- OVERVIEW.- The Model.- INTRODUCTION.- MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES.- Terminology and Standardization.- Classical Measuring Techniques.- New Measurement Methods.- Body Typology.- ANTHROPOMETRIC DATA SETS.- Normality.- Variability.- Correlations.- Body Proportions.- Anthropometric Data of Civilians.- Causes of Variability of Anthropometric Data.- Inter-individual Variations.- Intra-individual Variations.- Secular Variations.- Data Variations.- The Changing Population

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