The way of harmony: A guide to the soft martial arts

REID, HOWARD

Sports & Outdoors

Unwin Hyman

The Way of Harmony: A Guide to the Soft Martial Arts

et.al.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

HarperCollins, Publishers

A short history of nearly everything classical. The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first millennium. In this compulsively readable narrative, Justin Pollard and Howard Reid bring one of history's most fascinating and prolific cities to life, creating a treasure trove of our intellectual and cultural origins. Famous for its lighthouse, its library-the greatest in antiquity-and its fertile intellectual and spiritual life--it was here that Christianity and Islam came to prominence as world religions--Alexandria now takes its rightful place alongside Greece and Rome as a titan of the ancient world. Sparkling with fresh insights on science, philosophy, culture, and invention, this is an irresistible, eye- opening delight.

The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern World

History

Pollard, Justin

Ancient Civilizations

Penguin Publishing Group

Everyone knows that the ancient Egyptians were great mummifiers, and their sarcophagi and bandage-wrapped corpses are familiar images to us all. Yet across the vast sweep of history, we find many other great cultures in which the bodies of the dead were preserved as a matter of course. In coastal Peru were the Chinchorros, whose mummifying culture flowered several millennia before Egypt's, and in the Andes were the Chachapoyas, the 'Cloud People,' a lost civilization which has only recently begun to be understood. In China's Taklamakan desert, the oddly-Caucasian looking people who established the Silk Route, which made possible the first trade between East and West, have left behind stunningly lifelike mummies. The ritually sacrificed bodies preserved in the peat bogs of northern Europe give us an extraordinary insight into life in the Dark Ages. And in the Canary Islands, perhaps most surprisingly of all, lived the Guanches, whose sophisticated mummification techniques - and whose cultural links with the Egyptians - Howard Reid explores here for the first time. Taking his extraordinary first-hand experiences of discovering and filming mummies all over the world as his starting point, Howard Reid brings these ancient cultures vividly to life. And in so doing, In Search of the Immortals comes to represent his personal quest to find an answer to that most epic and timeless of human problems: the meaning of death.

In Search of the Immortals: Mummies, Death and the Afterlife

World

St.Martin's Press

In April 1943, officer Ian Reid was wounded and captured in Tunisia and sent off to an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Five months later, when the Germans took over the camp, he escaped. So began a life-or-death game of hide and seek in the heart of the beautiful Italian countryside, living in barns, sleeping in ditches, and desperate scavenging for food. He was recaptured—though heroically he was to escape from the Germans a total of five times. Nearly 60 years later, Howard Reid quite literally followed in his father's footsteps and made the same journey across Italy. Along the way, Howard discusses father-son relationships, and the deep but invisible scars left by two world wars on everyone's personal history.

Dad's War

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Transworld Publishers

Military

Bantam]

Physical description; 283p., 8p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map, ports. ; 22cm. Subjects; Reid, Ian Douglas 1915. Reid, Howard - Journeys - Italy. Reid, Howard - Travel - Italy.

Historical

BANTAM PRESS

A history of the ancient city documents its period superiority as an archaeological and technological super power, revealing how atomic theory, geometry, the steam engine, and other developments were initiated there while tracing the city's downfall and ultimate legacy to the modern world.

The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind

Europe

Viking Adult

The fighting arts: Great masters of the martial arts

Discusses the techniques and philosophy of Asian fighting systems, such as judo, karate, and kung fu, and describes the practices of masters of the martial arts

The Fighting Arts: Great Masters of the Martial Arts

Croucher, Michael

Simon&Schuster

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

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