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Finalist - 2004 Book of the Year Award by ForeWord Magazine All too frequently, martial arts practitioners study their art without truly understanding where it comes from, how it was developed, and why it was created in the first place. Indeed, many don't care - and if you feel this way, you should put this book down. For the rest of us, who have taken our art beyond tournaments, it is reasonable to expect that we want to uncover the past. We want to understand the where, why and how of martial art development. We are intellectually curious about our combative history. To study the combative...

A comprehensive study of the origins and development of one today's most popular fighting systems. This book details essential Isshin Ryu fundamentals, principles, code of ethics (both in the past and in today's society), as well as its internal and external aspects.

In the tradition of such stellar writers as Cormac McCarthy, Harry Crews and James Agee, Escaping Darkness is the haunting tale of Donny Wayne Gavin, a young man driven to the edge of insanity by divorce and his brother's death in Vietnam. Neglected by an alcoholic father, tormented by his pious mother's sexual escapades and oppressed by the mountainous region in which he lives, Donny attempts suicide by jumping off a hotel's seventeenth floor ledge. However, at the last moment his attempt is stymied by a homeless woman named Mary, who helps Donny embark upon a spiritual quest that enables...

Die zunehmende Dynamik und Komplexitat der Markte ist eine Herausforderung fur das Marketingmanagement. Es reagiert darauf immer differenzierter. Neben den Massen markten gewinnen dabei wachstumstrachtige Nischen eine immer grossere Bedeutung. Ihre Entstehung, Entwicklung, Struktur und Bearbeitung ist aber bisher kaum erforscht worden. Hier setzt die Arbeit von Herrn Rosenbaum an. Er beginnt mit einer theoreti schen Durchdringung des Problems. Das Ergebnis ist eine Nischentheorie, aus der zahl reiche praktische Empfehlungen abgeleitet werden. Genauer: Theoretischer Ausgangspunkt fur die...

Offers a view from the other side of the couch, illuminating the challenge and change experienced within the other half of the therapeutic relationship. This psychological adventure, fuses together the intimacy of the therapy with an account of the changes that have occurred in the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis over the years.

Characterisation of the shallow subsurface has gained in importance as civil and geotechnical engineering and environmental applications have become more dependent on a precise definition of geomechanical and geohydrological properties. A better understanding of the subsurface conditions offers wide-ranging benefits to governments, industry and individual citizens.

Subsurface geological modelling became an economic and technologic reality in the late 1980's, when competing 3-D geoscientific information systems were the subject of considerable research and evaluation, especially by...

Poems from the Weird Kid is a collection of silly poetry written by Sir Chase Hooper. Explore electrifying topics such as love, stuffed giraffes, and Jay Z's nostril hair as you are taken on a journey through immaturity.

"It's like Shel Silverstein survived an unfortunate encounter with a deranged door-to-door rubber glove salesman and decided to write a book." - Some guy at the post office

"What in the hell did I just read?" - The Pope

Poems from the Weird Kid is a collection of silly poetry written by Sir Chase Hooper. Explore electrifying topics such as love, stuffed giraffes, and Jay Z's nostril hair as you are taken on a journey through immaturity.

"It's like Shel Silverstein survived an unfortunate encounter with a deranged door-to-door rubber glove salesman and decided to write a book."
-Some guy at the post office

"What in the hell did I just read?" -The Pope

Mit der Einfuhrung der Verbandsklage im Naturschutzrecht auf Bundesebene im Jahr 2002 werden den anerkannten Umwelt- und Naturschutzverbanden in Deutschland neue und umfassendere Klagemoglichkeiten gegen Verwaltungsverfahren des Bundes eroffnet.

Die vorliegende Publikation analysiert erstmals mittels umfangreicher empirischer Untersuchungen die Wirkungsweise der Verbandsklage Ende der 90er Jahre in Deutschland. Die Autoren liefern profunde Hintergrunde zu den Ergebnissen von mehr als 100 Verfahren, konnen mit statistischen Aussagen zu Klagegegenstanden, Streitwerten und Klagern...