Foreword by Geoff Thompson Renowned martial artist (6th Dan Karate), self-protection expert and writer. At long last a credible and marvellous book on the bunkai of karate kata! And not one that just skims the surface looking for frills and thrills, succeeding to entertain but failing abysmally to prepare one for a real, in your face encounter where the winner gets to walk away (sometimes) and the loser gets anything from a plumb eye to a toe tag at the local mortuary.

Karate's Grappling Methods

Iain Abernethy

Sports & Outdoors

Snowbooks

It's a strange kind of robbery: nothing is missing and the only damage done is to the criminals. David Braun, star investigator for an exclusive insurance firm, discovers the truth that the crime was intended to conceal. Behind it all, a ruthless thief, who is intent on acquiring a priceless antique - an antique with a bloody history its owners would prefer to keep hidden. Susan Milton, an expert in exotic antiques, must unearth the object's past to make sense of the present. When she takes on the project she has no idea that her research will put her life in danger. As David and Susan learn to work together the pieces begin to fall into place, but the more they find out, the less they believe. Caught between powerful enemies and being hunted by a killer the police cannot catch, their only hope is to stay one step ahead. They know enough to put them in the worst danger of their lives. Will it also be enough to save them?

Adept

Literature & Fiction

Finn, Robert

Literary

'The London Scene' is a collection of essays written by one of London's most acclaimed writers. Virginia Woolf was born and lived much of her life in the city, using it as the backdrop for many of her works.

The London Scene (Signature)

History

Virginia, Woolf

Europe

"This is a must-have for every martial arts book collection."-Rick Faye, senior instructor under Dan Inosanto "Oliver packs enough variations and little nuggets in to make this an essential purchase . . . thoroughly recommended."-Fighters magazine Whether you're serious about boxing or just serious about getting in shape, this book will help. The same methods that build speed, stamina, and power in the ring have as much to offer the fitness enthusiast as the beginner. Ian Oliver's credentials are indisputable and his advice indispensable; Boxing Fitness will get you in the best shape of your life. Of particular appeal to readers interested in health, fitness, and boxing training.

Boxing Fitness: A Guide to Getting Fighting Fit

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ian Oliver

Exercise & Fitness

Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Computers & Technology

The Lucky Stiff, Why

Programming Languages

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Celestial Omnibus

Forster, E.M.(Edward Morgan)

Unsurpassed as a work of literary and comic genius, Jerome K Jerome's Idle Thoughts is a wonderful set of essays detailing the author's view on a variety of topics, from babies and being hard up to cats and dogs, furnished apartments and being in love, as this extract shows: "Questions of taste were soon decided in those days. When a twelfth-century youth fell in love he did not take three paces backward, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she was too beautiful to live. He said he would step outside and see about it. And if, when he got out, he met a man and broke his head--the other man's head, I mean--then that proved that his--the first fellow's--girl was a pretty girl. But if the other fellow broke his head--not his own, you know, but the other fellow's--the other fellow to the second fellow, that is, because of course the other fellow would only be the other fellow to him, not the first fellow who--well, if he broke his head, then his girl--not the other fellow's, but the fellow who was the-- Look here, if A broke B's head, then A's girl was a pretty girl; but if B broke A's head, then A's girl wasn't a pretty girl, but B's girl was. That was their method of conducting art criticism. Nowadays we light a pipe and let the girls fight it out among themselves."

The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (Signature)

K. Jerome, Jerome

Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. These brilliant and complex people enrich this sweeping story of a love that could not be denied. Set amid an enthralling rich era with creative genius, Longing explores the nature and danger of passion with precision, sympathy, and wisdom. J. D. Landis has encompassed madness, genius, and passion that propelled characters, and he re-creates their lives with surpassing depth, wit, and intelligence. . . .

Longing

J. D. Landis

Contemporary

Ex Machina (Adept Series)

An authoritative book on fighting, this title is written by one of the UK's leading martial artists.

Fighting (Fighting Series)

Bob Breen

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