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Kyudo-the Way of the Bow-is the oldest of Japan's traditional martial arts and the one most closely associated with bushido, the Way of the Warrior After the Second World War Eugen Herrigel introduced the concept of kyudo to the West in his classic Zen in the Art of Japanese Archery. But until now, no Japanese kyudo master has published a book on his art in English.
In Kyudo: The Essence and Practice of Japanese Archery, Hideharu Onuma and his American co-authors, Dan and Jackie DeProspero, explain in detail both the spiritual and practical aspects of kyudo. Written with both novices and advanced students in mind, the book is presented in simple, straightforward language and features hundreds of detailed illustrations, supplemented by rare photographs of Master Onuma, clearly demonstrating the fundamental techniques and daily practice of this form of "standing Zen."
Including chapters on equipment and kyudojo construction, Kyudo: The Essence and Practice of Japanese Archery is the most comprehensive reference work on the subject available. Special sections on problem solving and shitsu (errors) also make it a unique teaching and learning resource, and the concluding shiteimondo (teacher-student dialogue) provides unparalleled insights into the thoughts and teachings of a true master of the martial arts..
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A spellbinding new novel from acclaimed author Elizabeth Nunez, Prospero’s Daughter is a brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest set on a lush Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. Addressing questions of race, class, and power, it is first and foremost the story of a boy and a girl who come of age and violate the ultimate taboo.

Cut off from the main island of Trinidad by a glistening green sea, Chacachacare has few inhabitants besides its colony of lepers and a British doctor who fled England with his three-year-old daughter, Virginia. An amoral genius, Peter Gardner had used his talents to unsavory ends, experimenting, often with fatal results, on unsuspecting patients. Blackmailed by his own brother, Peter ends up on the small island as England’s empire is starting to crumble.

On Chacachacare, Peter experiments chiefly on the wild Caribbean flora–and on the dark-skinned orphan Carlos, whose home he steals. Though Peter considers the boy no better than a savage, he nonetheless schools the child alongside his daughter. But as Carlos and Virginia grow up under the same roof, they become deeply and covertly attached to one another.

When Peter discovers the pair’s secret and accuses Carlos of a heinous crime, it is up to a brusque, insensitive English inspector to discover the truth. During his investigation, a disturbing picture begins to emerge as a monstrous secret is finally drawn into the light.


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Morgan Pierce is man entranced-by a mysterious woman in a Bath Chair. Bound to her fate by a crippling carriage accident, Miranda wants only solitude during her recovery Morgan, however, believes it is her heart that needs healing....
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This text provides active learning strategies for teachers of literature The text is especially helpful for new English teachers. Activities include small group presentations, large group projects, court trials, discussion quizzes, news conferences, student performances, etc..
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El Camino a la Grandeza Financiera es una guía que ofrece a los latinos algunos principios financieros elementales a la vez que identifica las barreras culturales que les impiden aprovechar sus recursos al máximo. Al ayudar a los latinos a descubrir las poderosas razones que tienen para crear el futuro seguro y abundante de sus sueños, El Camino a la Grandeza Financiera les ofrece la información básica que necesitan para hacer que su dinero trabaje para ellos.

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The wide range of styles on display in Prospero's Mirror showcases the talents of both the writers included and the translators who have worked their alchemistical magic on these stories, written originally in Spanish. These stories exhibit the preoccupations and themes universal in Latin American literature: Luisa Valenzuela's "The Place of Its Solitude," for example, reports on an imaginary country from which people mysteriously disappear, where the campesinos are separated mentally and spiritually from the city dwellers, and where no one dares to speak their mind. In Alfonso Reyes's "The Dinner," the narrator relates his Kafka-esque experience of dining with two women whom he had never met before their alarming invitation came. The evening, like an eerie dream, haunts and puzzles him as he races home to find the last symbol of a dinner that may never have happened at all. In "Game of Shadows" by Ruben Loza Aguerreberre, a writer is lured into a relationship with Anna, a mysterious woman who tells him, "Women guide, and men follow." He later realizes the true implications of her words--and begins to tell his story--when he discovers that he has helped Anna to kill her husband..
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