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Author | : Phil Elmore |
Publisher | : Paladin Press |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Self-defense |
ISBN | : 9781581605983 |
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The sword has been a brutally effective weapon for thousands of years, but try to find instruction on using one for self-defense today and you're liable to find nothing but books written by dojo-dwelling, gi-wearing martial artists hung up on ancient traditions and picture-perfect stances. For the modern sword aficionado looking for real-world advice, author and pragmatic martial artist Phil Elmore wipes the slate clean with Street Sword. Despite attempts by elitists to romanticize, deify or otherwise elevate it into a mystical artifact, Elmore treats the sword like a tool for delivering force, period. It is a mundane object that obeys the laws of physics, just like any other weapon. Street Sword will give you a framework in which to use the sword as a functional, practical weapon in today's violent world, quickly providing an understanding of the simple physics involved, as well as concepts like timing and distance. Reading this book won't help you win a colored belt or an Olympic fencing medal, but it may be invaluable if a knife-wielding thug ever comes crawling through your bedroom window one dark night.
Author | : C. M. Caplan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2021-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781737209508 |
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Trial by battle is a holy rite on Hillside. Hired blades bleed their foes in savage duels, settling everything from petty grievances to the corporate laws that keep their citizens in line. Embroiled in these cutthroat political games is John Chronicle, an impoverished swordsman with no better prospects, seeking the duel that will free him from the Dregs. Meanwhile, John's boyfriend Edwin, an autistic university student, befriends a fellow scholar who claims to study the arcane art of thaumaturgy. When she offers to teach Edwin this subtle magic, he hopes that he can use it to bolster John's skill with a blade. But thaumaturgy is a dangerous magic, and the forces that drive it have other plans. The couple soon find themselves entangled in the web of intrigue surrounding the swordsmen and their sponsors, and they're forced to question how bloody they're willing to get to escape poverty - and they don't come away with the same answer. "A remarkably human and complex fantasy novel, The Sword in the Street draws you in with its evocative atmosphere and keeps you reading with its superb storytelling and characters you come to genuinely care about." -Jonathan Oliver, British Fantasy Award winner "Gritty and sweet... as much about the relationships as it is about the action. It's a sword-filled story of desperation and hope, and a man fighting for his passion - and his love." -Kate Coe, Writing&Coe
Author | : C. M. Caplan |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 2021-03-03 |
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ISBN | : 9780578820644 |
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Author | : Jane Yolen |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780152025335 |
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The newly crowned King Arthur has yet to win the support of the people. Merlin must do something before the king is betrayed, or murdered, or--worst of all--gets married. So Merlin creates a trick: a sword magically placed into a slab of rock that only Arthur can withdraw. Then he lets it be known that whosoever removes the blade will rule all of England, and invites any man who would dare, to try to pull out the sword. But then someone else pulls the sword out first. . . .
Author | : Robert Shlasko |
Publisher | : Jane & Street Publishers |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2004-04-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780974507743 |
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Molly's courageous act in wartime motivates a young officer to save her life and leads to another encounter years later when she is touring as a violinist.
Author | : Kristen Brooke Neuschel |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2020-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501752138 |
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Sharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living by the Sword reveals that warrior culture, with the sword as its ultimate symbol, was deeply rooted in ritual long before the introduction of gunpowder weapons transformed the battlefield. Neuschel argues that objects have agency and that decoding their meaning involves seeing them in motion: bought, sold, exchanged, refurbished, written about, displayed, and used in ceremony. Drawing on evidence about swords (from wills, inventories, records of armories, and treasuries) in the possession of nobles and royalty, she explores the meanings people attached to them from the contexts in which they appeared. These environments included other prestige goods such as tapestries, jewels, and tableware—all used to construct and display status. Living by the Sword draws on an exciting diversity of sources from archaeology, military and social history, literature, and material culture studies to inspire students and educated lay readers (including collectors and reenactors) to stretch the boundaries of what they know as the "war and culture" genre.
Author | : Drew Callander |
Publisher | : Penguin Workshop |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1524785105 |
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"Write, draw, and puzzle your way through [an] adventure story that is unique to every reader"--Publisher marketing.
Author | : Peniel E. Joseph |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1541617851 |
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This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, black power vs. civil rights, the sword vs. the shield. The struggle for black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American democracy, the movement's militancy is either vilified or erased outright. In The Sword and the Shield, Peniel E. Joseph upends these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a strikingly revisionist biography, not only of Malcolm and Martin, but also of the movement and era they came to define.
Author | : C. J. Cherryh |
Publisher | : [New York] : Daw Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780886771430 |
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Author | : Jeremiah Workman |
Publisher | : Presidio Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0345516664 |
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Awarded the Navy Cross for gallantry under fire, Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Workman is one of the Marine Corps’ best-known contemporary combat veterans. In this searing and inspiring memoir, he tells an unforgettable story of his service overseas–and of the emotional wars that continue to rage long after our fighting men come home. Raised in a tiny blue-collar town in Ohio, Jeremiah Workman was a handsome and athletic high achiever. Having excelled on the sporting field, he believed that the Marine Corps would be the perfect way to harness his physical and professional drives. In the Iraqi city of Fallujah in December 2004, Workman faced the challenge that would change his life. He and his platoon were searching for hidden caches of weapons and mopping up die-hard insurgent cells when they came upon a building in which a team of fanatical insurgents had their fellow Marines trapped. Leading repeated assaults on that building, Workman killed more than twenty of the enemy in a ferocious firefight that left three of his own men dead. But Workman’s most difficult fight lay ahead of him–in the battlefield of his mind. Burying his guilt about the deaths of his men, he returned stateside, where he was decorated for valor and then found himself assigned to the Marine base at Parris Island as a “Kill Hat”: a drill instructor with the least seniority and the most brutal responsibilities. He was instructed, only half in jest, to push his untested recruits to the brink of suicide. Haunted by the thought that he had failed his men overseas, Workman cracked, suffering a psychological breakdown in front of the men he was charged with leading and preparing for war. In Shadow of the Sword, a memoir that brilliantly captures both wartime courage and its lifelong consequences, Workman candidly reveals the ordeal of post-traumatic stress disorder: the therapy and drug treatments that deadened his mind even as they eased his pain, the overwhelming stress that pushed his marriage to the brink, and the confrontations with anger and self-blame that he had internalized for years. Having fought through the worst of his trials–and now the father of a young son–Workman has found not perfection or a panacea but a way to accommodate his traumas and to move forward toward hope, love, and reconciliation.