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Shin Gi Tai: Karate Training for Body, Mind, and Spirit
Prepare to have your beliefs challenged about what karate really is. Within these pages, you will discover traditional karate; along the way, perhaps many of your own beliefs about karate will be confronted. You might have a body capable of mastering karate's physical techniques, but do you have a ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
The Art of Hojo Undo: Power Training for Traditional Karate
ADDING POWER TO THE FIGHTING TECHNIQUES OF KARATE Hojo Undo means 'supplementary training,' and using these tools is the key for developing the devastating power of karate techniques. Without Hojo Undo training, a practitioner cannot reach the profound strength levels required for a lifetime of ka... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Redemption: A Street Fighter's Path to Peace
"A British "karateka" offers a bone-crushing, lip-splitting, and often elegant memoir of a tough guy searching for higher meaning through the study of martial arts." "In this memoir describing how karate turned his life around, Clarke displays passion and grit in spades." Michael Clarke was an ang... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Achilles beside Gilgamesh: Mortality and Wisdom in Early Epic Poetry
It is widely recognised that the epics of Homer are closely related to the earlier mythology and literature of the Ancient Near East, above all the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. But how should this influence our response to the meaning and message of either poem? This book responds to this question ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Afghan Papers: Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005–06 (Whitehall Papers)
In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency against a resurgent Taliban. But how was the decision taken to commit Bri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Citizens' Financial Futures: Regulation of Retail Investment Financial Services in Britain (Routledge Revivals)
Published in 1999, this is a review of recent changes in the regulation of retail financial investment services and products, notably the creation of the Personal Investment Authority and the continuing roles of the Office of Fair Trading and the Securities and Investments Board. The attempt to esta... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
American Grand Strategy and National Security: The Dilemmas of Primacy and Decline from the Founding to Trump
This book is focused on explaining the grand strategic behavior of the United States from the Founding of the Republic to the Trump administration. To do so it employs a neoclassical realist framework to argue that while systemic change explains the broad evolution of US grand strategy, the precise ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Challenging choices: Ideology, consumerism and policy
Choice pervades our society: it is founded on political rights to choose and our economy on market choices, but we have now reached the point where choice is extended almost everywhere. This lively and topical book provides a critique of choice in contemporary society and policy, arguing that we ca... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Australia's Nuclear Policy: Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative Interests
Australia’s Nuclear Policy: Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative Interests critically re-evaluates Australia’s engagement with nuclear weapons, nuclear power and the nuclear fuel cycle since the dawn of the nuclear age. The authors develop a holistic conception of ’nuclear policy’ that ex... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
China, Xinjiang and Central Asia: History, Transition and Crossborder Interaction into the 21st Century (Routledge Contemporary China Series)
Central Asia and Xinjiang – the far north-western province of China – are of increasing international importance. The United States, having established military bases in Central Asia after September 2001, has now become a force in what was previously predominantly a Russian sphere of influence; whil... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Inside Xinjiang: Space, Place and Power in China's Muslim Far Northwest (Routledge Contemporary China Series)
by Michael Clarke • Anna HayesThe Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest province, shares borders with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Mongolia, and possesses a variety of natural resources, including oil. The tensions between ethnic Muslim Uyghurs and the growing number of Han... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Paradoxes from A to Z
Paradoxes from A to Z, Third edition is the essential guide to paradoxes, and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo, and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such as Achilles and the Tortoise, Theseus’ ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Practice Single Best Answer Questions for the Final FRCA
by Hozefa Ebrahim Khalid Hasan Mark Tindall Michael Clarke • Natish Bindal • Hozefa Ebrahim • Khalid Hasan • Mark Tindall • Michael ClarkePractice Single Best Answer Questions for the Final FRCA: A Revision Guide covers the complete syllabus of this new-style exam. The book includes 10 papers, each of which consists of 30 questions on clinical anaesthesia, intensive care medicine and pain management. Each practice paper matches the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Essay Collections in International Relations: A Classified Bibliography (Routledge Library Editions: International Relations #10)
This bibliography, originally published in 1977, details original material on international relations since 1870 written in English and appearing in non-recurrent multi-author works published between 1945 and 1975. The authors have distinguished between core topics such as foreign policy, defence, a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Waste Location: Spatial Aspects of Waste Management, Hazards and Disposal (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1992, Waste Location seeks to widen and integrate the debate on the intrinsically spatial nature of waste disposal. The political and industrial significance of the new environmentalism of the 1980s came from the recognition of growing public pressure for environmental quality and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1992 -
The Palgrave Handbook of National Security
This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary theory, practice and themes in the study of national security. Part 1: Theories examines how national security has been conceptualised and formulated within the disciplines international relations, security studies and public po... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Science and Practice of Pressure Ulcer Management
Only comprehensive reference book on pressure ulcers and their management Only book in its field endorsed by the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, the leading European authority on pressure ulcers... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
An Introduction to Christian Worldview: Pursuing God's Perspective in a Pluralistic World
An Introduction to Christian WorldviewWhy do worldviews matter?What characterizes a Christian worldview?How can we analyze and describe a worldview? What are the most common secular and religious worldviews? An Introduction to Christian Worldview... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
1,000 Practice MTF MCQs for the Primary and Final FRCA
by Natish Bindal • Hozefa Ebrahim • Michael Clarke • Anna Pierson • Hussein Khambalia • Insiya Susnerwala • Richard PiersonWritten for anaesthesia trainees, this comprehensive text covers all the MCQ preparation required for both the Primary and Final FRCA exams. Broken down into five sections, there are 150 questions for each of the physics, pharmacology, anatomy, and physiology sections, and a fifth section of 400 que... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
¿Promocionarse en Pinterest? ¡Pan comido!
¡Descubre los secretos para hacer dinero con Pinterest! ¿No estás seguro de cómo navegar por todos esos tableros, pins y repins para dar impulso a tus esfuerzos de marketing? ¿Quieres saber cómo usar Pinterest para difundir tu mensaje, construir tu marca... y hacer algo de cash? ¿Buscas una guía ... More
Language: SPACopyright: 2017 -
Otimização de Sites em Mecanismos de Busca SEO (Estupidamente) Fácil
Com este livro você vai descobrir os segredos para ganhar dinheiro com SEO (Otimização de Sites em Buscadores)! Você não sabe como navegar através de todos aqueles backlinks, tags de título e palavras-chave para, assim, impulsionar seus esforços de marketing do seu site? Quer saber como usar e apl... More
Language: PORCopyright: 2017 -
SEO Optimización de Motores de Búsqueda (Absurdamente) Fácil
Un manual sencillo para convertirte en un experto en La Optimización de Motores de Búsqueda. Logra figurar siempre, en los primeros resultados de búsqueda que, arroje Google, referentes al contenido de tu página web; utiliza vínculos de respaldo (backlinks), haciendo presencia en los blogs, foros... More
Language: SPACopyright: 2017 -
NASM Essentials of Personal Fitness Training
by Micheal Clark • Brian G. Sutton • Scott Lucett • National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) StaffPursue. Transform. Inspire. <P><P>Gain the information, insight, and inspiration you need to change the world as a fitness professional. You'll also learn the foundations of exercise science, fitness assessments, nutrition, and how to grow a personal training business. <P><P>Since 1987, the Na... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches
by Barbara Jones • Paul Coleman • Anna Dean • David Waltner-Toews • Michael Clarke • Iain J. Gordon • Rea Tschopp • Susan Cork • Susan C Welburn • Karin Hediger • Mahamat Bechir • Hung Nguyen-Viet • Marcel Tanner • Solveig Danielsen • Professor Craig Stephen • Esther Schelling • Angela Cassidy • Martin Bunch • Maxine Whittaker • Dennis C Turner • Abigail Woods • Michael Bresalier • Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky • Wiku Adisasmito • Cécile Aenishaenslin • Seid Mohamed Ali • Ian Allen • Silvia Alonso • Vilda Amir • Maurizio Aragrande • Sara Babo Martins • Zolzaya Baljinnyam • William Bazeyo • Andrea Beetz • Jeffrey Bender • Mónica Berger-González • Benjamin Blair • Barry Blakley • Massimo Canali • Nakul Chitnis • Guéladio Cissé • Kathryn C. Conlon • Lisa Crump • Soledad Cuevas • Paula Dominguez-Salas • Colleen Duncan • Kaylee Errecaborde • Patricia Farnese • Thomas Fries • Samuel Fuhrimann • Christa A. Gallagher • Ratna B. Gurung • Felix Hafner • Barbara Häsler • Jan Hattendorf • Joldoshbek Kasymbekov • Julia S. Lankton • Huong Le Thi • Henrik Lerner • Michael Mahero • Stephanie Mauti • Céline Mbilo • Hélène Meier • Mary Elizabeth Miranda • Vi Nguyen-Viet • Brigit Obrist • Peter Odermatt • Anna Okello • Christopher A.L. Oura • Katharine Pelican • Kristina Pelikan • Phuc Pham-Duc • Sue Pollock • Sangay Rinchen • Karma Rinzin • Felix Roth • Johanne Saint-Charles • Alexandra Shaw • Jonathan M. Sleeman • Woutrina Smith • Keira Spinner • Katharina D. Stärk • Arlette C. Szelecsenyi • Tenzin Tenzin • Jimmy Tickel • Karin Tschanz-Cooke • Hoang Van Minh • Alain Vandermissen • Tu Vu-Van • Daniel P. Walsh • Sylvia Wanzala • Lenke Wettlaufer • C. LeAnn White • Andreas F. Widmer • Hind Yahyaoui • Christian ZurbrüggOne Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health, has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this new edition illustrates the contribution ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021