Fighting From Home
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Author | : Serge Durflinger |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774841044 |
In Verdun, English and French speakers lived side by side. Through their home-front activities as much as through enlistment, they proved themselves partners in the prosecution of Canada's war. Shared experiences and class similarities shaped responses based first and foremost in a sense of local identity. Fighting from Home paints a comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun and Verdunites at war. Durflinger offers an innovative interpretive approach to wartime Canadian and Quebec social and cultural dynamics in this history of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.
Author | : Carla Hoch |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1440300739 |
Whether a side-street skirmish or an all-out war, fight scenes bring action to the pages of every kind of fiction. But a poorly done or unbelievable fight scene can ruin a great book in an instant. In Fight Write you'll learn practical tips, terminology, and the science behind crafting realistic fight scenes for your fiction. Broken up into "Rounds," trained fighter and writer Carla Hoch guides you through the many factors you'll need to consider when developing battles and brawls. • In Round 1, you will consider how the Who, When, Where, and Why questions affect what type of fight scene you want to craft. • Round 2 delves into the human factors of biology (think fight or flight and adrenaline) and psychology (aggression and response to injuring or killing another person). • Round 3 explores different fighting styles that are appropriate for different situations: How would a character fight from a prone position versus being attacked in the street? What is the vocabulary used to describe these styles? • Round 4 considers weaponry and will guide you to select the best weapon for your characters, including nontraditional weapons of opportunity, while also thinking about the nitty-gritty details of using them. • In Round 5, you'll learn how to accurately describe realistic injuries sustained from the fights and certain weapons, and what kind of injuries will kill a character or render them unable to fight further. By taking into account where your character is in the world, when in history the fight is happening, what the character's motivation for fighting is, and much more, you'll be able write fight scenes unique to your plot and characters, all while satisfying your reader's discerning eye.
Author | : Masaaki Hatsumi |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1568364997 |
Step-by-step instructions and over 300 photographs allow the trainee to follow and learn the techniques with ease. The ideal weapon for self-defense is a stick. To find a comprehensive system of techniques using the stick, we must turn to the East, for systems known to the West have fallen into disuse. In this book, the techniques of Kukishin Ryu—an ancient Japanese method—have been updated and adapted for use today. A thorough grounding in the fundamentals dealt with here will enable you to disarm and control any assailant. CONTENTS Section 1: Basic Movements Section 2: Techniques against First Attack Section 3: Techniques against Foot Attacks Section 4: Techniques against Wrist Holding Section 5: Techniques against Sleeve and Lapel Holding Section 6: Techniques against Seizure from Behind Section 7: Techniques against Stick Holding Section 8: Immobilizations
Author | : Martin Dougherty |
Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1462912982 |
If you are going to fight, you might as well fight to win! This book presents 20 simple fighting techniques that will win any fight, anytime! Fight to Win teaches you how to fight with a minimum of technical jargon. It allows you to quickly develop the ability to win by learning a small number of techniques that always work in every situation. This is far more effective than learning hundreds of movements and variations which work only in specific circumstances (and are easily forgotten in the heat of the moment!) With 400 full-color photos and easy-to-follow instructions, this martial arts book presents self-defense techniques such as: The Hammerfist--delivered by straightening a bent arm and striking with the base of the fist The Double Leg Takedown--will make the opponent land so hard he'll be stunned and unable to defend himself The Triangle Choke--uses the opponent's arm and shoulder to compress the carotid arteries and cut off blood supply to the brain and more!
Author | : Daniel Wolff |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2012-08-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1620401274 |
Enhanced Edition The Fight for Home: Enhanced E-book Edition is an unprecedented collaboration between Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme and prize-winning author Daniel Wolff.Created especially for video-capable e-readers, with over 30 short film clips, this enhanced edition offers an exclusive look at raw footage from the streets and living rooms of New Orleans -an intimate, behind-the-scenes view of both a ground-breaking piece of non-fiction and an exciting, ongoing documentary film project. After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans became ground zero for the reinvention of the American city, with urban planners, movie stars, anarchists, and politicians all advancing their competing visions for recovery. Meanwhile, residents and volunteers on the ground struggled to build the foundations of a new New Orleans. For over five years, author Daniel Wolff has documented an amazing cross section of the city in upheaval: a born-again preacher with a ministry of ex-addicts, a former Black Panther organizing for a new cause, a single mother "broke as a joke" in a FEMA trailer. The Fight for Home chronicles their battle to survive not just the floods, but the corruption that continues and the base-level emergency of poverty and neglect. From ruin to limbo to triumphant return, Wolff offers an intimate look at the lives of everyday American heroes. As these lives play out against the ruined local landscape and an emerging national recession, The Fight for Home becomes a story of resilience and hope.The Fight for Home is their story, a story that begins after a national disaster and continues into a national recession. It's a story of survival in a ruined landscape, and resistance to the poverty and neglect that helped make those ruins. As Americans across the country battle in their own fight for home, it's also a story of hope.
Author | : Masaaki Hatsumi |
Publisher | : Kodansha International |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9784770029966 |
In this book, the author explains the essence, truth, and wisdom of bushido, and, using many kinds of sticks, demonstrates the various techniques of stick fighting. Through detailed explanations and extensive pictures the author reveals the hidden reality behind this fascinating marital art. This book will help widen readers' perceptions, and deepen their understanding of stick fighting as the very essence of the martial arts, and how through stick fighting we can learn what of bushido really means.
Author | : Kate Adie |
Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1444759701 |
'History at its most celebratory' Daily Telegraph 'Adie uses her journalistic eye for personal stories and natural compassion to create a book definitely worthy of her heroines' Big Issue 'Fascinating, very readable . . . provides a complete wartime women's history' Discover Your History * * * * * * Bestselling author and award-winning former BBC Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie reveals the ways in which women's lives changed during World War One and what the impact has been for women in its centenary year. IN 1914 THE WORLD CHANGED forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, bestselling author and From Our Own Correspondent presenter Kate Adie shows how women emerged from the shadows of their domestic lives. Now a visible force in public life, they began to take up essential roles - from transport to policing, munitions to sport, entertainment, even politics. They had finally become citizens, a recognised part of the war machine, acquiring their own rights and often an independent income. The former BBC Chief News Correspondent charts the seismic move towards equal rights with men that began a century ago and through unique first-hand research shows just how momentous the achievements of those pioneering women were. This is history at its best - a vivid, compelling account of the women who helped win the war as well as a revealing assessment of their legacy for women's lives today.
Author | : Steve Crawford |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1999-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312202620 |
From the Russian spetsnaz to U.S. Navy SEALs, Crawford records some of the most dangerous and fantastic exploits and examines the skills and weaponry used by these legendary warriors. 100 illustrations. 80 photos.
Author | : Bruce Lee |
Publisher | : Black Belt Communications |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780897500531 |
Part of the Bruce Lee's Fighting Method series, this book teaches how to perform jeet kune do's devastating strikes and exploit an opponent's weaknesses with crafty counterattacks like finger jabs and spin kicks.
Author | : Amy McCready |
Publisher | : TarcherPerigee |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-08-30 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0399160590 |
Draws on the author's Positive Parenting Solutions online course to explain how to correct negative behaviors in children, introducing the psychological theories of Alfred Adler on using empowerment to promote healthy child development.