Eer. Plicht. Wraak... De grootste krijger aller tijden valt uit de gratie en zint op wraak. Het vervolg op De erecode van de Samoerai Musashi Miyamotos reputatie gaat hem voor. Daar komt verandering in als Miyamoto en zijn kameraden worden verslagen tijdens de grote salg bij Sekigahara. Tienduizenden mannen blijven achterop het slagveld en het oostelijk leger eist de glorieuze overwinning op. Miyamoto brengt het er levend van af, maar moet zijn toekomst overdenken. Hij heeft altijd, trost ...

'Een fascinerend en intrigerend boek... Een juweeltje.' - Conn Iggulden 'Kirk bewijst een waardig samoeraischrijver te zijn, het boek bruist van de adrenaline.' - Publishers Weekly Leerling. Krijger. Samoerai. Zijn naam was Bennosuke, zoon van de grote Munisai Shinmen, die eind zestiende eeuw in het keizerrijk bekendstaat als een van de grootste krijgers die ooit geleefd heeft. Het was zijn lot om, net zoals zijn vader, een grote krijger te worden. Een samoerai, een van de meest gevreesde ...

IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL NOVEL SWORD OF HONOR, DAVID KIRK CONTINUES THE SAGA OF MUSASHI MIYAMOTO, THE GREATEST SWORDSMAN IN JAPANESE HISTORY, AS HE JOURNEYS TO THE ANCIENT CITY OF KYOTO TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE AND HIS IDEALS.Having survived the cataclysmic battle of Sekigahara, which established the mighty Tokugawa Shogunate, young Musashi Miyamoto travels through Japan determined to proclaim his revolutionary epiphany that the “way of the samurai,” the ancien...

A bold and vivid historical epic of feudal Japan, based on the real-life exploits of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto.Japan in the late 16th century was a land in turmoil. Lords of the great clans schemed against each other, served by aristocratic samurai bound to them by a rigid code of honor. Bennosuke is a high-born but lonely teenager living in his ancestral village. His mother died when he was a young boy, and his powerful warrior father Munisai has aban...

In the late 1960's, a young man returns to his childhood home and is confronted with something odd. He begins to suspect his earlier recollections and feelings are either idealized or may have never existed. His story is an exploration of the philosophical and psychological effects of leaving home, returning home, and coping with change.

It is the year 3079 C.E. and Dan Kelley, a young history professor, unintentionally discovers prehistoric cave symbols carved into the back of a uniquely crafted paving stone. The stone was created by a mysterious mason who years earlier buried similar stones mapping a peculiar course across the uninhabited prairie. Following those clues Dan was able to retrace his parents' path and uncover details of their disappearance, which had left him orphaned at age four. Does the new discovery of t...

First published in 1992, David Kirk’s book analyses the public debate leading up to the 1987 General Election over the place and purpose of physical education in British schools. By locating this debate in a historical context, specifically in the period following the end of the Second World War, it attempts to illustrate how the meaning of school physical education and its aims, content and pedagogy were contested by a number of vying groups. It stresses the influence of the culture of po...

Ronin - Bennosukes Weg zum legendären Samurai Musashi MiyamotoBennosuke ist dazu bestimmt, ein großer Samurai zu werden, bewundert und gefürchtet im japanischen Reich des 16. Jahrhunderts. Furchtlos kämpft er im Duell und siegt, doch den schändlichen Mord an seinem Vater kann er nicht verhindern. Gezwungen zu fliehen, hat Bennosuke fortan nur noch ein Ziel: unter dem Kämpfernamen Musashi Miyamoto den Tod seines Vaters zu rächen.In Ronin en...

During the day, Oh So Tiny Bunny is very, very small. But at night, he dreams of being big—as big as a dragon, or even a mountain! At first, that's fine, but then he feels lonely. There's no one to share it with. Are there no other bunnies so big as him?Every small child dreams of the day they will grow up to be big, but in this book David Kirk reminds us that sometimes . . . it's not so bad being small.

This unflinching analysis explains the nature of precarity and its detrimental effects on the health and wellbeing of young people. It exposes physical educators’ unpreparedness to provide inclusive, fair and equitable forms of physical education that might empower young people to overcome the mal effects of precarity.Following a thorough analysis and critique of critical pedagogy, David Kirk advocates for critical pedagogies of affect as physical education’s response to precarity,...

La obra 'Educación Física y Currículum. Introducción Crítica' aparece dentro de la literatura hispana específica en un momento en que el estudio del currículum despierta un gran interés dentro del mundo de la educación fisica española. Sin embargo, debemos recordar que la preocupación por los temas del currículum en la educación fisica surge, desde sus inicios, en conexión con la génesis del currículum como campo de estudio alrededor de los años veinte del siglo XX.

The Curriculum is the focal point for the study of educational practice. It is the area in which individual, group and societal needs and interests meet and is consequently the source of much friction and contention. This book, first published in 1988, introduces students to some of the major points of debate; in particular, the role of curriculum-based study in the development of physical education and the credibility of the subject as an educational activity. David Kirk emphasises the be...