"One of the most refreshing, humorous, and radically honest books about practical and comparative religion this reviewer has ever come across."— Library Journal (starred review)Create Your Own Religion is a call to arms—an open invitation to question all the values, beliefs, and worldviews that humanity has so far held as sacred in order to find the answers we need to the very practical problems facing us.Writer, philosopher, and professor...

Le arti marziali non sono una semplice attività sportiva, ma sono un modo di accostarsi al mondo e di affrontarlo. Ogni giorno. Insegnano la cura di se stessi, la disciplina, il rigole, il rispetto verso gli altri che sono sì avversari, ma prima di tutto persone con cui confrontarsi in modo pulito. Spaziando tra aneddoti, filosofa, storia (Daniele Bolelli insegna questa materia in America), combattimenti e personaggi mitici, Bolelli racconta il cuore delle arti marziali di cui è assiduo pr...

An entertaining and insightful history of martial arts and the role of the warrior, drawing on pop culture, philosophy, mythology, religion, and spiritualityThe urge to forge one’s character by fighting, in daily life as well as on the mat, appeals to something deep within us. More than a collection of fighting techniques, martial arts constitute a path to developing body, spirit, and awareness. On the Warrior’s Path connects the martial arts with this lar...

This compendium of obscure facts about the world's religions highlights the political, cultural, and philosophical aspects of the history of religion.If you're waiting for the world's "Holy Men" to tell you the truth about their religions, do you suppose they'll mention that:The Tao Te Ching was only created because Lao Tzu was thrown in jail by a disciple who didn't want to let him leave town without writing down his teachings?"Passover" cel...

In this memoir, the author and podcaster discusses his experiences in martial arts, the death of his wife, and raising his daughter as a single father.This book is a meditation on facing fear, heartbreak, and mortality. In his own irreverent and inimitable style, Daniele Bolelli tells the story of his courtship and marriage, which would have been a sweet story had all hell not broken loose. Or as he puts it, "Hell was a ninja who entered my house without being seen....

An entertaining and insightful history of martial arts and the role of the warrior, drawing on pop culture, philosophy, mythology, religion, and spiritualityThe urge to forge one’s character by fighting, in daily life as well as on the mat, appeals to something deep within us. More than a collection of fighting techniques, martial arts constitute a path to developing body, spirit, and awareness. On the Warrior’s Path connects the martial arts with this lar...

MMA has taken on a mystique of its own as the newest wave of combative experimentation. This book presents an encompassing perspective of this phenomenon in eight chapters written by experts in the field. They provide analyses of the techniques utilized during many of the leading competitive events, mainly the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC), and give practical “how to” instruction. This book pulls together some of the best writings published in the Journal of Asian Marti...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition, RRPR 2024, held in Kolkata, India, on December 1, 2024.The 5 full papers and 8 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions.RRPR 2024 book cover advances in platforms on reproducibility and new reproducible research results.