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Putting ancient Greek and East Asian philosophies into conversation, this book argues that learning a martial art can provide practitioners with a deeper understanding of the philosophical views that animate the cultures from which traditional martial arts have developed. In this respect, a martial art has more to offer than techniques for self-defense or exercises that promote power, strength, flexibility, and coordination. Martial arts training can develop more aspects of a person than t...

The capacity for everyday heroics is in each of us. Sometimes the most ordinary accomplishment can be the height of inspiration, if only we knew the journey that person traveled to reach that accomplishment. These stories are all around us, if only we stop, look, and listen.This is one story.Perhaps it starts lying in the back of an ambulance, wondering if I would walk again, and thinking, with a strange sense of relief, "This is the bottom. It can only get better from here...

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust offers a comprehensive and innovative overview of the complex field of Holocaust history from a variety of interpretive perspectives. The first volume begins with essays outlining the evolution of Holocaust historiography and the central conceptual and methodological questions facing historians. Further chapters provide insights into the longer-term causes and contexts of the Holocaust, before focusing on its immediate pre-history. The volume examines...

Secrets never stay hidden in the lowcountry, and for Detective Andy Winslow, those secrets are about to get deadly.Fifteen years ago, Charleston, South Carolina was home to one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. The Carolina Reaper took out twelve people, and he just so happened to be Andy Winslow's identical twin brother.Now, murders are starting up again, and those murders look eerily similar to ones that shook the now Detective Andy Winslow's world all ...

Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Sport brings together martial arts and Eastern philosophical wisdom with the competitive world of sports as games. This exploration goes beyond the conventional view of martial arts as fighting skills and delves into their evolution as competitive Olympic sports and profound ways of self-cultivation.Mark Stone reveals the philosophical underpinnings of both disciplines, which engage not only the body but also the mind, fostering a holisti...

Phosphene an entoptic phenomenon characterized by the experience of seeing light without light actually entering the eye.Ian uses the light he sees when he closes his eyes to choose his next victim, the next euphoric hit on his way to ultimate rapture.Little John is not your average young boy. A bright happy boy to most, a source of good to some, a savior to a few and despised enemy of one.

Faith is important in the low country, and Detective Andy Winslow is going to need all he can getWhen a priest shows up on his doorstep wanting to talk about something strange that happened to his serial killer brother, Andy doesn't think it's connected to the body he found washed up on the beach. But, when another attack happens that sets his brother loose on the streets and reveals a startling truth about the dead woman, Andy learns he couldn't have been more wrong.Now, w...

Scandals are devastating in the low country, and Detective Andy Winslow is about to find himself at the center of the biggest one of all!With his serial killer twin brother on the loose, Detective Andy Winslow is feeling the pressure. Tasked with bringing him to justice and facing the heat from a community who blames him for everything that's happened, Andy is trying to stay focused.But when a devastating turn of events botches a stakeout, people start to question both Andy...

Ghost stories abound in the lowcountry, and Detective Andy Winslow is about to find himself in the center of one.Andy Winslow grew up hearing campfire tales of the Scarecrow; a monster that stalked the lowcountry's rural areas, killing people with a vengeance. Now, with farmers and their families around Charleston being murdered in record numbers, people start talking about the Scarecrow again.Andy doesn't believe in ghost stories, though. He knows that the sort of monster ...

The Three Cs provide you with a primer on how to build, enhance, and protect your career. This primer is the product of what the author learned and what has been shared with hundreds of individuals on a one-on-one basis in recent years. This plan of actioncharacterizing, connecting, and communicatingis not the best plan. It is not the only plan. It is just a proven plan.

This book presents important psychological matters occupying Ibsen's life including his observations that were transformed into poems and plays. Attention is given to Ibsen's insight into psychological issues pre-dating the ideas as presented in the psychoanalytic writings of Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. Freud and Adler acknowledged Ibsen's psychological insight, but Ibsen's insight into human nature is still not fully recognized. This book addresses that neglect. Ibsen utilized his own...

A freshly updated discussion of the foundations of—and latest developments in—molecular anthropologyIn the newly revised second edition of An Introduction to Molecular Anthropology, retired researcher Dr. Mark Stoneking delivers an essential primer on genetics and molecular anthropology. The book is an accessible resource that covers key recent developments in the production and analysis of genome-wide data that highlights advances in methods and technolog...