Download or read book Hal Knows Martial Arts written by Vickie Erickson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Johnson is an eleven year boy who is always happy go lucky and he loves going to martial arts classes but he doesn't tell everyone at school hes in martial arts . After Hal promotes to a new belt he still wishes that his best friend Tony Erickson could join Martial Arts with him. Tony has been asking his parents if he can join martial arts but his parents think if Tony joins the martial arts academy he will want to be fighting or worse yet he will get hurt. Tony is a very smart kid. But as Hal discovers that his best friend Tony is having trouble with Brady, he knows he has to stick up for his best friend but how will he do that? Brady thinks he runs the whole school. Most kids at school run from Brady if they see him coming. Can Hal with the help of two more friends help out his friend Tony without getting them all in trouble at school?
Download or read book Hal Knows Martial Arts written by Vickie Erickson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Johnson is an eleven year boy who is always happy go lucky and he loves going to martial arts classes but he doesn't tell everyone at school he's in martial arts . After Hal promotes to a new belt he still wishes that his best friend Tony Erickson could join Martial Arts with him. Tony has been asking his parents if he can join martial arts but his parents think if Tony joins the martial arts academy he will want to be fighting or worse yet he will get hurt. Tony is a very smart kid. But as Hal discovers that his best friend Tony is having trouble with Brady, he knows he has to stick up for his best friend but how will he do that? Brady thinks he runs the whole school. Most kids at school run from Brady if they see him coming. Can Hal with the help of two more friends help out his friend Tony without getting them all in trouble at school?
Download or read book written by James Mascia and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A galaxy on the eve of peace suffers a blow that threatens to extinguish all life in it as an ancient evil escapes from its hidden prison. And only one man can stop it. Hal, Nomi and Theron are the only known survivors of The Leviathan's destruction. Little do they know that they are about to discover their old friends alive and well. What they also find is Malix, trapped in a prison, awaiting his release. And the self-imposed guards of the Seranis, determined to stop Malix at all costs. When Malix escapes he goes on a rampage, destroying planet after planet. Malix seeks the ultimate power, but that power may be his undoing. Hal and the crew of the Leviathan must find a way to combat this evil and save every living being in the galaxy. During his journey, Hal will find out incredible secrets that died long ago and will battle creatures of incredible power. Can he prevail? And what will he learn about himself on the way?
Download or read book Call up a new star written by Yu Chun Hua and published by Publicationsbooks. This book was released on with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the morning, the street was foggy. Hal opened the door, looked at the white street, breathed a sigh of relief and went out. The stone road was still frosty and slippery. He carefully avoided those Ivylinna Lee, walked across the street and knocked on the door
Download or read book The Bad Place written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After repeatedly waking up in strange places and not knowing how he arrived there, Frank Pollard enlists the help of Nick and Julie Dakota, a husband-and-wife detective team, to watch where he goes in his sleep. Reissue.
Download or read book Mr Monk and Philosophy written by D. E. Wittkower and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Monk and Philosophy is a carefully and neatly organized collection of eighteen chapters divided into exactly six groups of precisely three chapters each. Drawing on a wide range of philosophers—from Aristotle and Diogenes, to Siddhartha Gautama and St. Thomas Aquinas, to David Hume and Karl Popper—the authors ask how Adrian Monk solves his cases, why he is the way he is, how he thinks, and what we can learn from him. Some of the authors suggest Monk is a kind of tragic hero, whose flaws help us live out and expunge the fear and anxiety we all experience; that he is more than just his personality or memories, but something more individual and indefinable; and that his most distinctive traits are not the traits that make him a detective, but those that make him a friend. His most notable trait is the dedication he shows to his late wife, Trudy. Other authors explore how Monk encounters the world, arguing that his genius comes not from logic or reasoning, but from his ability to see his surroundings in a pre-conceptualized way; that there isn’t as much distance between his rational beliefs about crimes and evidence and his irrational phobic beliefs as there might seem; and that his phobias have themselves made him approach himself and the world as something to be overcome. Just how does Mr. Monk come to his conclusions? Does he use inductive, deductive, or abductive reasoning? Is he dependent on a false notion of the law of noncontradiction? Is it possible that his reasoning might have more to do with constructing harmonious stories than it does with evidence, causes, or insights? Some contributors ponder Monk's name and what it means given his views on religion. Some authors argue that Mr. Monk's approach to the world is fundamentally similar to that of medieval monastic orders; that his rituals and deductive ‘dancing’ show how he exhibits a kind of shamanism; and that he acts in accordance with the Bodhisattva ideal, bringing others to enlightenment through circumstances and by accident, even though he has no such intention or goal. In one chapter, the author asks how the character Monk is related to other similar characters, arguing that Monk and House are closely related characters, each based on the conflict between reason and emotion which exemplifies the motif of the “troubled genius;” that Monk and House both pursue ethical practices and goals even as they fail at the everyday face-to-face ethics of normal social interactions; and that great detectives all, through their flaws, help us to understand and forgive ourselves for our flaws. And finally, there are several chapters in which the authors consider Monk from the psychologist’s perspective, discussing how Monk’s relationship with Trudy, while having unhealthy codependent elements, demonstrates some important aspects of successful romantic partnerships; how laughter plays a difficult role in mental illness, and the difficult position that the show and therapists are placed in when having to treat seriously disorders that are both tragic and comic; and how, from a psychoanalytic perspective, Monk’s inability to mourn shows us why we both reject and are drawn towards death. In the words of author D. E. Wittkower, "In order to be sure that the reader is able to enjoy the book, every chapter will have an even number of words. You’ll thank me later."
Download or read book Other written by Gordon R. Dickson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bleys Ahrens is now a political power on the planet Association, home of the Friendlies. His people--his Others, not Dorsai or Friendly or Exotic, but hybrids--are in place on all the new worlds, and are ready to take his message to the greater human public. But within his inner circle is Henry McLean, Soldier of God, and a True Faith-Holder. Henry fears for the soul of his nephew Bleys, and while he guards, he also watches, and judges. And beyond Bleys Ahrens' control is Hal Mayne: the one man in all the human worlds who might successfully challenge Bleys in his bid for power. For Hal Mayne is the true culmination of the Cycle's grand design. Bleys would give anything to convert Hal Mayne to his cause--or failing that, to destroy him.
Download or read book Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment written by Dale C. Spencer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it transgresses the cultural scripts of masculinity in popular culture. Based on four years of participant observation in a local MMA club and in-depth interviews with amateur and professional MMA fighters, Spencer documents fighters' training regimes and the meanings they attach to participation in the sport. Drawing from the philosophical phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Nancy, this book develops bodies-centered ontological and epistemological grounding for this study. Guided by such a position, it places bodies at the center of analysis of MMA and elucidates the embodied experience of pain and injury, and the sense and rhythms of fighting.
Download or read book The Iron Druid Chronicles 6 Book Bundle written by Kevin Hearne and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 1885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a sly blend of fantasy, humor, and paranormal adventure, Kevin Hearne has established a reputation as the trickster god of action-packed mash-ups. His signature creation, Atticus O’Sullivan, is a folk hero for the twenty-first century, battling legendary beasts, shadowy mystics, and demonic demigods from around the world. Now this addictive eBook bundle brings together the first six novels of The Iron Druid Chronicles (with bonus novellas and short stories) in one supersized dose of genre-smashing mayhem: HOUNDED HEXED HAMMERED TRICKED TWO RAVENS AND ONE CROW (NOVELLA) TRAPPED HUNTED GRIMOIRE OF THE LAMB (NOVELLA) Also includes the short stories “Clan Rathskeller” and “Kaibab Unbound,” as well as a special preview of Kevin Hearne’s upcoming novel A Plague of Giants! Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old—when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer. Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god wants that sword, and he’s hounded Atticus for centuries. Now the determined deity has tracked him down, and Atticus will need all his power—plus the help of a seductive goddess of death, his vampire and werewolf team of attorneys, a bartender possessed by a Hindu witch, and some good old-fashioned luck of the Irish—to kick some Celtic arse and deliver himself from evil. Praise for Kevin Hearne and The Iron Druid Chronicles “Neil Gaiman’s American Gods meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden.”—SFFWorld “[The Iron Druid books] are clever, fast paced and a good escape.”—Jason Weisberger, Boing Boing “Celtic mythology and an ancient Druid with modern attitude mix it up in the Arizona desert in this witty new fantasy series.”—Kelly Meding, author of Tempest “[Atticus is] a strong modern hero with a long history and the wit to survive in the twenty-first century. . . . A snappy narrative voice.”—Library Journal, on Hounded “Outrageously fun.”—The Plain Dealer, on Hounded “Superb . . . plenty of quips and zap-pow-bang fighting.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Hounded “An exciting mix of comedy, action, and mythology . . . [Atticus] is one of the best main characters currently present in the urban fantasy genre.”—Fantasy Book Critic, on Tricked
Download or read book Dawn of the Storm written by Kim Cresswell and published by KC Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jihadist pledges his allegiance to al Qaeda with an unthinkable act...and the terrorist cell is just getting started. Raina Storm, CIA's most lethal operative is off the grid, leading a secluded and comfortable life with her six-year-old daughter in Barstow, California. But peace is short-lived when a former FBI agent and an ex-intelligence officer track Raina down and blackmail her into helping them stop a new threat. In a race against the clock, the team must hunt down the terrorists before a dirty bomb is smuggled out of Colombia and into the United States. A new action-packed crossover series, featuring Raina Storm and characters from Kim Cresswell's award-winning Whitney Steel romantic thriller series.
Download or read book How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom Volume 10 written by Dojyomaru and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2019-10-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Starting today, I will formally become the king of this Kingdom of Friedonia." Having returned from the Union of Eastern Nations and rested awhile, the ceremony that will turn Souma from a provisional king to the true king is rapidly approaching. Because Souma's marriage to his fiancées is to be held on the same day, the capital gets more lively than ever! Meanwhile, using his own marriage as an impetus, Souma encourages his retainers to get married, too. Those who are already engaged to be married, those who aren't ready to be husband and wife yet, those who haven't even recognized their own loveâSouma shows concern for all his retainers' different circumstances... The revolutionary administrative fantasy series, volume ten!
Download or read book The String People written by Anthony Paul Sterling, M.D., Ph.D. and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The String People is a collection of twenty-eight unforgettable short stories drawn from Dr. Anthony Paul Sterling’s imagination, mixed with other tales of the author’s life experiences. The title of the book and the first story “The String People” came from “when I was very young. My brother and I had only matches to make people that we played with. We were poor and couldn’t afford real toys. These string people became soldiers, cowboys, etc.” From the short story “My Bald Head:” “Early in life, at age 5 or 6, I told my Grandma Cheecha (Francis), who spoke only Sicilian, that I wanted to be unna Doctura, so I could listen to her heart and give her injections of insulin. She would laugh and hug me. I never forgot this woman who got off a boat from Sicily with her husband Paul and 22 children … The next major influence came when I arrived on the children’s cancer unit. What affected me was the number of bald heads seen in almost every bed; this meant that all of them had cancer and were on chemotherapy. I never got over this; I prayed, cried, and eventually shaved my head.”
Download or read book Just Desserts written by Simon Haynes and published by Bowman Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious sealed crate, a pair of shady mercenaries with more guns than brain cells and the amnesiac robot which may or may not be on a secret mission ... Only interstellar ignoramus Hal Spacejock and the unflappable Clunk could turn a straightforward cargo delivery into space opera with clowns. Three simmering planets, two cocky spacemen and one huge mess: Just Desserts, for your pleasure.
Download or read book The Handler written by D.R. Graham and published by Entangled: Embrace. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While searching for a member of the outlaw motorcycle gang who murdered his dad, Cain Allen is offered a boatload of cash to "handle" the stunning teen popstar Lincoln Todd. Although he doesn't need the headache of a high-maintenance celebrity, getting out of town will help him keep a low profile until he testifies against two of the killers. Touring Europe with Lincoln proves to be more complicated than Cain anticipated, and despite his efforts, the line between their personal and professional lives blurs. She's sweet, smart, and totally unpredictable. And he loves it. But Lincoln's association with Cain puts her in more danger than anyone could have imagined. When he joins forces with the Noir et Bleu Motorcycle Club to protect her, Cain discovers the lengths he's willing to go, and the person he's willing to become to protect the people he loves...
Download or read book Hide and sneak written by Franklin W. Dixon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Frank and Joe Hardy decide to lend their motorboat to Chet for his role in a student movie, the three boys are soon involved in a mystery surrounding an intruder in the marina and a wayward yacht.
Download or read book Phantasma The Awakening written by Efthalia and published by Olympus International Management Services Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night’s transgression. A love unveiled. The in-escapable outcome of passion and vengeance. Carissa Alkippes is a daughter of a god, but she doesn’t know it. As a cop she’s seen her fair share of bad, but nothing prepared her for the horror of the world she has been plunged into. Xen Lyson is the head of the Phi Athanatoi, a group of immortals who have been protecting man for over 2,000 years from the Kakodiamones - demons who want nothing more than to feast on humanity. Thrown face to face with Xen during a skirmish with the demons, Carissa becomes a pawn in a deadly game of a demi-god who seeks godly power.
Download or read book Black Belt written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest and most respected martial arts title in the industry, this popular monthly magazine addresses the needs of martial artists of all levels by providing them with information about every style of self-defense in the world - including techniques and strategies. In addition, Black Belt produces and markets over 75 martial arts-oriented books and videos including many about the works of Bruce Lee, the best-known marital arts figure in the world.
