Close Range Combat: Wing Chun: Volume 1: Blocking, Striking, Kicking and Footwork
Это первая книга из трехтомной фундаментальной серии "Close Range Combat Wing Chun". Книга написана известным американским мастером - Рэнди Уильямсом, получившем свои знания от таких мэтров Вин Чун, как Сифу Джордж Яу (США), Сифу Августин Фонг (США) и Сифу Хо Кам Мин (Гонконг). В первой книге представлены история и общий обзор системы, основные инь и ян блоки, удары кулаком, ладонью, локтем, комплексные блоки-удары, удары и защиты ногами, основные стойки и методы перемещения, способы захвата руки - Фон Сао, липкие руки - Чи Сао, основы использования ротангового кольца в тренировках и многое другое. В конце книги приведен подробный глоссарий терминов.
The second in the excellent Palin travel series, where Michael's off on another globe trotting adventure. The result is Pole to Pole, Palin's account of his extraordinary journey of 1991, passing through 17 countries from Greenland and the former Soviet Union in the north to Kenya, South Africa and Chile in the south. Palin revels in the surrealism of it all as he travels through a range of vastly different European and African communities undergoing massive social and political upheavals in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This volume presents a wide range of pieces from a world-class Latinist which displays both his diverse interests as a scholar and his consistent concern with Augustan texts, their language and literary texture. The range of articles, written over more than three decades and including one previously unpublished piece, covers the same connected territory - largely Virgil, Horace, and elegy. R. O. A. M. Lyne's consistent approach of close reading means that the articles form a coherent whole, while his compelling style as an engaged literary analyst ensures that these are not dry or forbidding pieces.
This textbook is designed to meet the needs of a wide range of economics students, from those new to the subject to those who have been grounded in the basics. There are starred sections for more advanced students, summaries at the end of each section, definitions in the margin questions throughout the text to prompt student learning, case studies, person profiles, institutional material, advanced topics and coverage of contemporary and historical controversies. The book covers a range of topics in microeconomics and macroeconomics including marginal utility theory and indifference curve analysis,
This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.
