A practical, simple-to-use guide to self-defense for women details techniques and moves in more than three hundred photographs and features instructions on handling forty actual attack situations

Fight Back: A Woman's Guide to Self-Defense

Farkas, Emil

Medical Books

Henry Holt Co.

Identifies different types of martial arts, weapons, training devices, organizations, champion fighters, teachers, and promoters

Martial Arts: Traditions, History, People

Corcoran, John

Sports & Outdoors

GALLERY BOOKS

The Overlook Martial Arts Dictionary

The first comprehensive dictionary of the Martial Arts language, for practitioners, students, and all armchair Samurai. With more than two thousand entries, this pioneering reference includes a wealth of terms and technical nomenclature, techniques, styles, weapons, and advanced fighting theories pertaining to the martial arts, together with phonetics, literal translations, and customary meaning. The entries are culled from English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Hindustani, Polynesian, and Philipino--all the languages of the martial arts lexicon.

Literature & Fiction

Overlook Books

With more than two thousand entries, this pioneering reference includes a wealth of terms and technical nomenclature, techniques, styles, weapons, and advanced fighting theories pertaining to the martial arts, together with phonetics, literal translations, and customary meaning. The entries are culled from English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Hindustani, Polynesian, and Philipino--all the languages of the martial arts lexicon.

Reference

Who's Who in the Martial Arts

Biographies & Memoirs

WALL, Bob

Reference & Collections

Masters Publications

Discusses terminology, weapons, and history, introduces individuals involved in the sport, and offers step-by-step explanations for some movements

The Original Martial Arts Encyclopedia: Tradition, History, Pioneers

Sobel, Stuart

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Pro Action Pub

The Martial Arts Encyclopedia

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

271 pages filled with hundreds and hundreds rare photos of everyone who has made an impact on American martial arts since it started in 1905 with Judo lessons being taught in the White House to Teddy Roosevelt. Names like Bruce Lee, Ed Parker, Peter Urban, Richard Kim, HIdetaka Nishiyama, Funakoshi, Kano, Wallace, Lewis, Urquidez, Smith Jackson Blanks and so many more. Each photo has a short description beside it written by America's historian Emil Farkas.

An Illustrated History of Martial Arts In America: 1900 to Present

History

Americas

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