Shinku 1

Shinku 1
Author: Ron Marz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781607064800

Bloody horror meets martial-arts mayhem in the first collection from the sold-out series by Ron Marz (Witchblade, Artifacts) and Lee Moder (Wonder Woman). The last surviving member of a samurai family wages a one-woman war against a clan of vampires in modern-day Tokyo in the first story arc from the acclaimed new series. If you like your vampires to sparkle, look elsewhere! Also contains a cover gallery, sketchbook, pin-ups, and the rare black, white, and red Ashcan edition.

The Life-Giving Sword

The Life-Giving Sword
Author: Yagyu Munenori
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1590309901

A real-life samurai’s Zen teachings on sword training as a spiritually transformative practice—essential reading for aspiring martial artists and strategic thinkers alike The legendary seventeenth-century swordsman Yagyu Munenori was the sword instructor and military and political adviser to two shoguns—and a great rival to Miyamoto Musashi. Despite his martial ability and his political power, Munenori’s life was spent immersed in Zen teachings. These teachings formed the framework for his deeply spiritual approach to sword fighting. Munenori saw in the practice of the sword a way to transform the student into a total human being. The Life-Giving Sword is Munenori’s manifesto on his approach. His central themes are the “life-giving sword”—the idea of controlling one’s opponent by spiritual readiness to fight rather than by actual fighting—and “No Sword,” which is the idea that the mind must be free of everything, even the sword itself, in order to get to the place of complete mastery. Munenori’s ideas are applicable not only to martial arts but to business and human relations as well.

Vacuum Technology

Vacuum Technology
Author: Nagamitsu Yoshimura
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2007-12-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540744339

In this book, Yoshimura provides a review of the UHV related development during the last decades. His very broad experience in the design enables him to present us this detailed reference. After a general description how to design UHV systems, he covers all important issue in detail, like pumps, outgasing, Gauges, and Electrodes for high voltages. Thus, this book serves as reference for everybody using UVH in scientific equipment.

Auger Electron Spectroscopy

Auger Electron Spectroscopy
Author: Donald T. Hawkins
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1468413872

Auger electron spectroscopy is rapidly developing into the single most powerful analytical technique in basic and applied science.for investigating the chemical and structural properties of solids. Its ex plosive growth beginning in 1967 was triggered by the development of Auger analyzers capable of de tecting one atom layer of material in a fraction of a second. Continued growth was guaranteed firstly by the commercial availability of apparatus which combined the capabilities of scanning electron mi croscopy and ion-mill depth profiling with Auger analysis, and secondly by the increasing need to know the atomistics of many processes in fundamental research and engineering applications. The expanding use of Auger analysis was accompanied by an increase in the number of publications dealing with it. Because of the developing nature of Auger spectroscopy, the articles have appeared in many different sources covering diverse disciplines, so that it is extremely difficult to discover just what has or has not been subjected to Auger analysis. In this situation, a comprehensive bibliography is obviou-sly useful to those both inside and outside the field. For those in the field, this bibliography should be a wonderful time saver for locating certain references, in researching a particular topic, or when considering various aspects of instrumentation or data analysis. This bibliography not only provides the most complete listing of references pertinent to surface Auger analysis available today, but it is also a basis for extrapolating from past trends to future expectations.

Witchblade #145

Witchblade #145
Author: Ron Marz
Publisher: Image Comics
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2011-06-15
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Boogey Man': Part 1 (of 2) ...Sara Pezzini has investigated countless bizarre crimes, but her latest investigation may be the most bizarre yet! Pezzini and her partner Gleason have confronted numerous monsters and demons from the shadows, but these latest supernatural terrors seems to be born from the imagination of a innocent child. Illustrated Horror!

From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan

From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan
Author: David Quinter
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004294597

In From Outcasts to Emperors, David Quinter illuminates the Shingon Ritsu movement founded by the charismatic monk Eison (1201–90) at Saidaiji in Nara, Japan. The book’s focus on Eison and his disciples’ involvement in the cult of Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva reveals their innovative synthesis of Shingon esotericism, Buddhist discipline (Ritsu; Sk. vinaya), icon and temple construction, and social welfare activities as the cult embraced a spectrum of supporters, from outcasts to warrior and imperial rulers. In so doing, the book redresses typical portrayals of “Kamakura Buddhism” that cast Eison and other Nara Buddhist leaders merely as conservative reformers, rather than creative innovators, amid the dynamic religious and social changes of medieval Japan.