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Author : Dan Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985428891
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Shorin Ryu Seibukan written by Dan Smith and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fusei Kise
Publisher : All Okinawa Shorin-Ryu Karate and Kobudo Federation
ISBN 13 : 9780974192109
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of Okinawan Karate Extended Throughout the World written by Fusei Kise and published by All Okinawa Shorin-Ryu Karate and Kobudo Federation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand Master Fusei Kise has devoted his life to teaching traditional Okinawan karate, From the main dojo of the All Okinawa Shorin-Ryu Karate and Kobudo Federation in Okinawa City, he and his students have branched throughout the world, bringing to thousands the tradition of Shorin-Ryu Matsumura karate as passed to him by his teacher, Master Hohan Soken. In this book, Hanshi Kise tells his the story of his life and his karate.
Author : Mark Bishop
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780713656664
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Okinawan Karate written by Mark Bishop and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume records each of the major Okinawan techniques--Shorin, kobudo, ti, and styles derived form Chinese boxing--using lineage charts to trace their descent from ancient Chinese roots. Also includes exercises for breathing, relaxation, and energy circulation. Photographs and drawings.
Author : Josiah Lebowitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113612733X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Interactive Storytelling for Video Games written by Josiah Lebowitz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really makes a video game story interactive? What's the best way to create an interactive story? How much control should players be given? Do they really want that control in the first place? Do they even know what they want-or are their stated desires at odds with the unconscious preferences? All of these questions and more are examined in this definitive book on interactive storytelling for video games. You'll get detailed descriptions of all major types of interactive stories, case studies of popular games (including Bioshock, Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIII, Heavy Rain, and Metal Gear Solid), and how players interact with them, and an in-depth analysis of the results of a national survey on player storytelling preferences in games. You'll get the expert advice you need to generate compelling and original game concepts and narratives.With Interactive Storytelling for Video Games, you'll:
Author : Lee Taylor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326040618
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Ananko Kata Form & Function written by Lee Taylor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 300 detailed pictures Ananko Kata Form & Function shows how a kata can be deciphered, analysed and practised allowing it to become an effective tool for a physical confrontation. This book not only crosses the boundaries of karate styles, but also any martial art, allowing the practitioner with varying levels of ability to take what they need from it, use it for their own study, thus building a solid foundation from which to grow. This book isn't about the Ananko Kata or the Bunkai, it is more about a Martial Arts Instructor on his own personal journey, that has required him to remove the blinkers of a single style and approach his art and training laterally, which is how our founding fathers of this beautiful world of Martial Arts intended us all to study and grow-Al Peasland
Author : Shoshin Nagamine
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462902480
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do written by Shoshin Nagamine and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do presents the teachings of legendary martial arts master Shoshin Nagamine, founder of the Matsubayashi school of Shorin-ryu karate-do. Used for generations as a practical and pictorial guide, it contains over 1,000 photographs to document eighteen classic karate kata (preset forms) and seven yakusoku kumite (prearranged partner exercises), as well as basic techniques. This book is a precise and easily accessible pictorial guide to performance and perfection of traditional karate. The only book in English with photos of one of the great prewar masters demonstrating the proper execution of Okinawan karate, The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do is a bridge between karate's legendary past and the practitioners of today. This ingenious and imaginative text explains the historical landmarks in the development of style, vividly outlines its leading forms and techniques, and recalls noted Okinawan karate men of the past, including the author's teachers Ankichi Arakaki, Choki Motobu, and Chotoku Kyan.
Author : Takao Nakaya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781427652645
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Karatedo History and Philosophy written by Takao Nakaya and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Karatedo's history and philosophy book by Takao Nakaya.
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536216186
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuously illustrated adaptation casts the powerful imagery of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel in a vivid new format. From the green light across the bay to the billboard with spectacled eyes, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 American masterpiece roars to life in K. Woodman-Maynard’s exquisite graphic novel—among the first adaptations of the book in this genre. Painted in lush watercolors, the inventive interpretation emphasizes both the extravagance and mystery of the characters, as well as the fluidity of Nick Carraway’s unreliable narration. Excerpts from the original text wend through the illustrations, and imagery and metaphors are taken to literal, and often whimsical, extremes, such as when a beautiful partygoer blooms into an orchid and Daisy Buchanan pushes Gatsby across the sky on a cloud. This faithful yet modern adaptation will appeal to fans with deep knowledge of the classic, while the graphic novel format makes it an ideal teaching tool to engage students. With its timeless critique of class, power, and obsession, The Great Gatsby Graphic Novel captures the energy of an era and the enduring resonance of one of the world’s most beloved books.
Author : Mark D Bishop
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244054843
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Okinawan Karate (Kobudo & Te) Teachers, Styles and Secret Techniques: Expanded Third Edition written by Mark D Bishop and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time moves on, cultures change with the twists of history and secret arts are lost. To understand the essence of karate, kobudo and te is to read and digest this work. To devour the mysteries of the secret principles it records is to dwell in a former time, only then will the reader know the true meanings of what the masters passed on. This book was a classic of the 20th century and, with the passing of time, is now considered to be an historic record for the modern era; both a time capsule and an integrated tool of knowledge transmission. Also featuring contributions from the latest breed of expert researchers, this Expanded Third Edition keeps the original version alive in its entirety, while bringing the Okinawan karate world up to date, as it expands into an ever-increasing international world. Be warned though, it also answers questions that have not been asked until now and topics that could not have been discussed, while expanding on newly debatable issues. This is what the masters were really saying
Author : Hermann Bayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594398438
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Analysis of Genuine Karate written by Hermann Bayer and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socio-cultural arguments to preserve Okinawan karate versus the Japanization, Americanization, and Commercialization of the art. Supported and illustrated by an analysis of the training variances between self-protection, self-perfection, and the never changing kata principle's role in Okinawan karate. This work provides a clear picture of the art, void of distortions put in place by people and institutions with their own agendas.
Author : Gichin Funakoshi
Publisher : Kodansha International
ISBN 13 : 9784770018915
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Karate-dō Nyūmon written by Gichin Funakoshi and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 1994 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to karate teaches both the physical training and the mentalhilosophy necessary for karate mastery. The book also provides the completeistory of karate.
Author : Gichin Funakoshi
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
ISBN 13 : 9784770003706
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Karate-dō Kyōhan written by Gichin Funakoshi and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 1973 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Rovens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933901053
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Okinawan Karate written by Michael Rovens and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shorin Ryu is one of the world's major Karate styles. Created and developed by Okinawan masters, this style mixes the traditions and experiences of the ancient art with a modern approach to self-defense. In this work, Master Ota shows key traditional kata and bunkai. Some of the traditional Shorin Ryu forms illustrated in this essential book have never been analyzed this way before. This work is more than a how-to manual; it explores the history and philosophy behind this dynamic and practical method of karate-do. Containing hundreds of photo illustrations that show the forms step-by-step, this book will be a valuable reference for anyone seeking to learn and understand not only the principles and techniques of Shorin Ryu but also the cultural essence of Okinawan Karate.
Author : Andrew R. Hom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192589962
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book International Relations and the Problem of Time written by Andrew R. Hom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is time and how does it influence our knowledge of international politics? For decades International Relations (IR) paid little explicit attention to time. Recently this began to change as a range of scholars took an interest in the temporal dimensions of politics. Yet IR still has not fully addressed the issue of why time matters in international politics, nor has it reflected on its own use of time — how temporal ideas affect the way we work to understand political phenomena. Moreover, IR remains beholden to two seemingly contradictory visions of time: the time of the clock and a longstanding tradition treating time as a problem to be solved. International Relations and the Problem of Time develops a unique response to these interconnected puzzles. It reconstructs IR's temporal imagination by developing an argument that all times - from natural rhythms to individual temporal experience - spring from social and practical timing activities, or efforts to establish meaningful and useful relationships in complex and dynamic settings. In IR's case, across a surprisingly wide range of approaches scholars employ narrative timing techniques to make sense of confounding processes and events. This innovative account of time provides a more systematic and rigorous explanation for time in international politics. It also develops provocative insights about IR's own history, its key methodological commitments, supposedly 'timeless' statistical methods, historical institutions, and the critical vanguard of time studies. This book invites us to reimagine time, and in so doing to significantly rethink the way we approach the analysis of international politics.
Author : Mirjana N. Dedaic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110897717
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book At War with Words written by Mirjana N. Dedaic and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new era of global conflict involving non-state actors, At War with Words offers a provocative perspective on the role of language in the genesis, conduct and consequence of mass violence. Sociolinguistics meets political science and communication studies in order to examine interdependence between armed conflict and language. As phenomena attributed only to humans, both armed conflict and language are visible on two axes: language as war discourse, and language as a social policy subject to change by the victorious. In this unique volume, internationally known contributors provide original data and new insights that illuminate roles of text and talk in creating identities of enemies, justifications for violence, and accompanying propaganda. Incorporating contexts from around the world, this collection's topics range from a radio talk show hosts' inflammatory rhetoric to the semantic poverty of the lexicon of mass destruction. The first eight chapters discuss war texts. How does language serve as a vehicle to incite, justify, and resolve an armed conflict? Case studies from the US to China, and from Austria to Ghana detail such a progression to, through, and from war. The book's second part reflects the understanding of language as a symbol of power achieved by a victorious side in war. Five chapters discuss cases from Okinawa, Croatia, Cyprus, Palau, and Northern Ireland. Edited by a sociolinguist and a political scientist, At War with Words includes chapters by Michael Billig, Paul Chilton, Ruth Wodak and a dozen other prominent linguists and communications scholars. This book will be of interest to linguists, media scholars and political scientists, but is also accessible to any reader interested in language and war. Teachers will find particular chapters useful as course material in discourse analysis, language policy, war and peace studies, conflict resolution, mass communication, and other related disciplines.
Author : Graeme Lund
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462905595
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Essential Karate Book written by Graeme Lund and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Karate Book is an informative, illustrated guide to the techniques, philosophy and practice of karate. With 20 chapters covering practically every aspect of karate, this in-depth reference will assist students and instructors as they plot their course through karate instruction, benefiting those at all levels. The Essential Karate Book contains 200 diagrams mapping out moves with 300 step-by-step photographs and companion videos, making it a comprehensive general karate reference for Western audiences. Readers of this karate guide will learn about: Stances, blocks, strikes and kicks Preparing your body through warm-ups, stretching, and conditioning through karate-specific exercises Kata grading and fighting (kumite) techniques and competition rules Martial arts weapons (kobudo), and MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) applications The origins and history of karate Required behavior, clothing and etiquette, as well as the fundamentals of karate and the different styles that share them The Essential Karate Book is a must-have for any martial arts enthusiast, from beginners to black belts!
Author : Debbie Taylor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520201446
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)
Download or read book My Children, My Gold written by Debbie Taylor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debbie Taylor--novelist, traveller and author--takes us on a journey to meet seven remarkable women. In each of seven countries, she lives with one woman, learning about her work and her family, her fears and beliefs, her loves and losses. Taylor portrays them vividly: Jomuna, forced into backbreaking work hawking dried fish door-to-door, looked down upon and ostracized because she is a widow; Hua, a factory worker whose husband divorced her for giving birth to a daughter; Lydia, who followed her mother into prostitution after her husband ran off with another woman. Varied though their stories are, these women's lives are made similar by dual enemies: poverty, which pulls them down to the lowest rungs in their societies, and patriarchy, which sabotages their attempts to climb higher. These forces bring about what Taylor calls the Fourth World: families headed by women, now comprising one-quarter of all households in the world. Taylor tells these moving stories with great empathy and insight. Ranging from China, India, and Australia to Uganda, Egypt, Brazil, and Scotland, she brings to life the worlds these women inhabit, meticulously detailing their struggles to secure a decent life for themselves and their children. Debbie Taylor--novelist, traveller and author--takes us on a journey to meet seven remarkable women. In each of seven countries, she lives with one woman, learning about her work and her family, her fears and beliefs, her loves and losses. Taylor portrays them vividly: Jomuna, forced into backbreaking work hawking dried fish door-to-door, looked down upon and ostracized because she is a widow; Hua, a factory worker whose husband divorced her for giving birth to a daughter; Lydia, who followed her mother into prostitution after her husband ran off with another woman. Varied though their stories are, these women's lives are made similar by dual enemies: poverty, which pulls them down to the lowest rungs in their societies, and patriarchy, which sabotages their attempts to climb higher. These forces bring about what Taylor calls the Fourth World: families headed by women, now comprising one-quarter of all households in the world. Taylor tells these moving stories with great empathy and insight. Ranging from China, India, and Australia to Uganda, Egypt, Brazil, and Scotland, she brings to life the worlds these women inhabit, meticulously detailing their struggles to secure a decent life for themselves and their children.
