Download or read book Karate Dojo written by Peter Urban and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the background of Japanese Karate along with the ins and outs of belonging to a dojo with this readable martial arts guide. The Japanese martial art of Karate is not only a means of self-defense; it is also a sport and a philosophy. The Karate Dojo: Traditions and Tales of a Martial Art examines each of these aspects--through the colorful legends, tales, and traditions that are associated with the art--and explains why educators and parents are becoming increasingly interested in karate. This karate book shows how karate training can change the lives of those who practice it, by giving them health, self-confidence, both physical and mental discipline, as well as calm maturity. This martial arts book includes information about: the dojo, the belt system, kata and jiu-kumite, potential and goals, famous dojo stories, Okinawan martial arts fighters, ninjutsu, and more!
Download or read book Dojo Daycare written by Chris Tougas and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six energetic ninjas at daycare fight over toys, throw fits during story time, and tip chairs at lunch, as their master attempts to teach them about honor, kindness, and respect.
Download or read book A Fistful of Tales written by Ayodele Arigbabu and published by DADA books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories.
Download or read book Tales of Okinawa s Great Masters written by Shosh Nagamine and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available for the first time in English, Tales of Okinawa's Great Masters, the late Shoshin Nagamine's groundbreaking work, recounts the legacy and life histories of Okinawa's greatest martial artists. In addition to profiles of the legendary tegumi wrestlers, Nagamine-sensei features many of the world's great karate masters, including the founder of the core styles from which modern karate sprang. Tales of Okinawa's Great Masters corrects historical inaccuracies surrounding Okinawan martial arts and brings alive the greatest of the great masters. In this seminal martial arts history and biography, Nagamine-sensei presents the martial legacy of the Okinawan people and, to complement and emphasize what is of greatest importance in these tales and life histories, concludes with detailed instructions for the practice of zazen (sitting meditation). Already a classic in the Japanese edition, Tales of Okinawa's Great Masters is a must-read for all karate and tegumi enthusiasts, practitioners and researchers alike.
Download or read book Dojo Daytrip written by Chris Tougas and published by Owlkids. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six ninjas from Dojo Daycare go on a field trip to the farm where all kinds of chaos ensues.
Download or read book The Ninja Way written by Ilan Gattegno and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While writing the upcoming book "It Takes a Ninja," Ilan Gattegno realized that many of his published writings on the Bujinkan were no longer accessible to his fellow practitioners. He felt it important to share the contribution of the Israeli Dōjō to the understanding of Bujinkan spirit in the world. Many people were exposed to Doron Navon, instructor of the Israeli Dōjō, but only through his translating for Hatsumi Masaaki. This book tells the story as Gattegno experienced it since beginning training in November 1974 when Doron returned to Israel after spending eight years in Japan.*** *** *** *** ***Included are these chapters - The Connection: Israel on the Map, Takamatsu: The Teacher of Todays' Ninja Leader, Hatsumi Masaaki: The Enigma Continues, Doron Navon: The Test of Truth, Ishizuka Tetsuji: A Close Up on a Master Instructor, Nagato Toshiro: The Gentle Giant, Next Generation: Teaching the Art, Watch and Learn: Licensed to Drive, The Requirements: Setting a Standard, Seigyo Through Metsubushi: Control through Blinding, Working for the Future: Letting Go, Back to the Hombu Dōjō.
Download or read book The Konjaku Tales written by and published by Kanji Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Konjaku Tales contains translations from the Konjaku monogatarishū, the largest Japanese story collection, which dates from the early twelfth century. The original work contains more than one thousand tales from India, China, and Japan.
Download or read book Hadon of Ancient Opar written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic fantasy novel a warrior sets out to win a deadly contest to rule a prehistoric empire—and take the hand of its beautiful priestess. The lost city of Opar was first introduced to readers in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Hidden deep in Africa, it is a place shrouded in mystery and awash with incredible riches. In Hadon of Ancient Opar, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Philip José Farmer reimagines this forgotten land, revealing the heroes who lived in its prehistoric golden age . . . A poor young man of great ambition, Hadon leaves his village to enter the great games of Klakor—a bloody contest in which only the strongest and most cunning warrior will survive. He seeks the ultimate prize: to rule the Khokarsan Empire alongside the powerful High Priestess. But his quest for the throne leads him beyond the empire’s edge, where he finds himself embroiled in civil war.
Download or read book Ninarphay Tales written by Leon Lowe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninarphay Tales are four intertwined young teen fantasy stories. each tale has flashes of gothic romance, mysticism, magic and timeless allegory. in volume one, four teenage girls are promoted to Ninarphay from Transzalore, a fantasy realm run by ogres and oni, to a fantasy world run by mythical beasts and magical creatures. in the second tale, we meet a mystical bird battling an ogre-like shark for the safety of two Ninarphain creatures, and in the third, we meet an excellently good Oni who saves a human girl from the underworld's demons. in our final outing, we meet the members of the pantheon of Ninarphay as they contend with keeping all children of Ninarphay safe from the underworld. Ninarphay Tales is a fun, adventurous and exuberant read from beginning to end. you will not get bored or even be disappointed.
Download or read book WHFSC Grandmaster s Council a compendium of the world s leading Grandmasters written by Bram Frank and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This a compendium of the world's greatest council of Grandmasters. These Grandmasters both past and present represent an amazing history of the martial arts. It contains their bios told as they want it heard and seen along with pictures past and present of these Grandmasters. The WHFSC World Head of Family Sokeship Council brings together Grandmasters and Sokes from every style of martial arts to a yearly meeting, with an awards dinner, Hall of Fame and seminars sessions given by the Grandmasters themselves. Included in the book are some of the upcoming masters in the martial arts.
Download or read book Demon Dojo written by LIese Klein and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cherry Mendoza thought that living in a dojo by herself would give her a chance to intensify her practice of Aikido, a challenging Japanese martial art. But she didn't count on the arrival of an epic snowstorm, a mad scientist down the hall and a gaggle of yokai, monsters and demons from Japanese folklore. Now Cherry will have to draw on her Aikido skills to conquer her own demons and lead a band of misfits to, yes, save the world.Packed with martial arts action and explorations of Japanese culture, Demon Dojo immerses the reader in the life of a full-time Aikido student. Cherry's journey is full of thrills, mystery, paranormal activity and self-discovery.
Download or read book Ninarphay Tales Vol 3 and 4 written by Leon Lowe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On this outing in the Ninarphay tales series, the Oni king calls upon the help of the Ninarphay's dragon lord to free the children of Tanszalore from slavery and emancipate all of those in servitude. When this plan is thwarted, he takes it on himself to rescue and free all captives and slaves from the lower realms where the demon king lurks. In the process of this, he meets Dolores, a mysterious slave girl with royal markings. Then ensues a rescue, a search, and a final battle to end all forms of slavery and servitude in the magic realms.
Download or read book The Diamond Age written by Neal Stephenson and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth's own daughter, the Primer’s purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself. It performs its function superbly. Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands. Young Nell and her brother Harv are thetes—members of the poor, tribeless class. Neglected by their mother, Harv looks after Nell. When he and his gang waylay a certain neo-Victorian—John Percival Hackworth—in the seamy streets of their neighborhood, Harv brings Nell something special: the Primer. Following the discovery of his crime, Hackworth begins an odyssey of his own. Expelled from the neo-Victorian paradise, squeezed by agents of Protocol Enforcement on one side and a Mandarin underworld crime lord on the other, he searches for an elusive figure known as the Alchemist. His quest and Nell’s will ultimately lead them to another seeker whose fate is bound up with the Primer—a woman who holds the key to a vast, subversive information network that is destined to decode and reprogram the future of humanity.
Download or read book Negotiating Identity written by Anne Helene Thelle and published by Iudicium. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nakagami Kenji is today regarded as one of the most important and influential Japanese post-war writers. Born in 1946 in the burakumin ghetto of the small coastal town of Shingu in southern Wakayama prefecture, Nakagami sailed up as a rising star on the literary skies in the mid-seventies when he became the first writer born after the Second World War to win the prestigious Akutagawa prize. He was also the first writer of the burakumin background to receive wide literary acclaim and recognition from critics and from the literary establishment. The reception of Nakagami's literature has placed him simultaneously both at the avant-garde of modern Japanese literature and near the nostalgic roots of Japan's literary origins. For while his engagement with the Japanese traditional narrative, the monogatari does indeed often seem to bring him disturbingly close to an almost reactionary nostalgia, fissures in his narrative – both in voice, structure, and theme – will at the same time dismantle this nostalgic return. Focusing on one novel, Nakagami's masterpiece Kiseki (Miracles) from 1989, this study traces his pendulous movement from nostalgia to avant-garde and back again. At the heart of the study lies the concept of negotiation – a negoti ation of cultures, languages, and borders. Nakagami is a minority writing against the constraints of a language and literature that has throughout history contributed to the discrimination of his minority group. Facing this challenge head on, Nakagami engages the literary genres that lie at the root of this discrimination, thus laying bare the difficulties facing anyone trying to break free of the bonds of culture, history, and literature.
Download or read book Oxherding Tale written by Charles Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-02-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From National Book Award–winning author, Charles Johnson, comes a wonderful mythic novel, part slave narrative, part comedy, part myth—first published in 1982 this phenomenally imaginative work marries Johnson's knowledge of philosophy, religion, race and history. One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives, they switch places in each other's beds. The result is a hilarious imbroglio and an offspring—Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes Oxherding Tale. Through sexual escapades, picaresque adventures, and philosophical inquiry, Hawkins navigates white and black worlds and comments wryly on human nature along the way. Told with pure genius, Oxherding Tale is a deliciously funny, bitterly ironic account of slavery, racism, and the human spirit—and it reveals the author as a great talent with even greater humanity.
Download or read book Stories on the Move written by Arlene Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energize your story programs by infusing them with the power of movement! This guide offers you dozens of interactive, ready-to-use, age-appropriate and story-based activities that get children actively involved in learning. Designed to expand the child's self-awareness, range of expression, and aesthetic sensibility at particular stages of development, from infancy to puberty, these literature-based programs are simple enough to be used by any educator, even if you have little or no dance experience. Included for each program are learning goals/skill development, a literature-story connection, and detailed instructions for movement and vocal improvisation and creative dramatics. A great resource for after school programs, home schools, and daycare centers. Ages Infant-14 Stories on the Move develops a child's emergent, cultural, and interpretative literacy skills. The first three chapters for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers are based on nationally recognized standards and methods for tapping emergent literacy skills. The fourth chapter takes children on StoryTrips to other countries and includes language, stories, dances, and customs of those countries. The fifth and sixth chapters for older children show them how to interpret story structure and the elements of character, setting, mood, plot, and theme. Included for each program are learning goals/skill development, a literature-story connection, and detailed instructions for movement and vocal improvisation and creative dramatics. A great resource for after school programs, home schools, and daycare centers. Ages Infant-14.
Download or read book Karate Kids written by Holly Sterling and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gi? Ready! Belt? Ready! Let’s go! It’s karate time. HAI-YAH! Join Maya and all her friends as they get together at the dojo for their Saturday karate class! There are moves to remember, blocks to practice, and punches to perfect. Maya is a white belt, which means she’s still a beginner, but with focus, balance, and determination — and a little help from her friends — can she show Sensei what she’s got? Written and illustrated by Holly Sterling, a karate champion and teacher, this is a joyful and uplifting celebration of the sport and a must-have primer for any child hoping to be a karate kid one day.
