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Find more similar titles by other authors and get a free catalog at www.StrongmanBooks.com Alexander Zass was best known by his stage name, The Amazing Samson. He was an oldtime strongman capable of snapping chains and bending iron bars. In fact, the legend is he was able to escape a POW camp by doing just that. From this and other training over his lifetime he was a huge proponent of isometric training. This book, The Amazing Samson, describes his life, his training and how to do many of the feats, including chain breaking and nail driving and pulling. Also features writings from a fellow strongman and friend William Pullum.Also be sure to check out The Mystery of the Iron Samson for more details on Zass, including some of the exercises he used for his training.
The Invention of Jewish Theocracy explains why the idea of halakhic state - a demand that Israel should be governed by the law of the Torah - emerged, what happened after it initially failed to take hold, and how it has regained popularity in recent decades, provoking a schism between secular politics and religious fundamentalism. The book engages with contemporary debates on global human rights, the role of religion in Middle East conflict, and the long-term consequences of European imperialism.
Virtual instruments, muted performances and video and sound installations by Chinese artist Samson Young Surveying works by acclaimed Hong Kong-based sound and installation artist Samson Young (born 1979), this catalog provides an overview of Young's practice to date--including a newly commissioned work in which he composes music for instruments that could never exist--alongside essays.
Initially setting out to disprove God's existence, a scientist stumbles upon mysterious Biblical codes and patterns that point to God's fingerprint. Through his personal testimony, he proves that these incredible discoveries reveal undeniable, reproducible, objective evidence that God Exists. 52 embedded associations connect Samson to Jesus, in the same order, in just 96 verses in the Book of Judges. The probability of this happening by chance, is smaller than finding a single atom on Planet Earth by chance! Yet numerous other code sequences are also embedded in the lives of a Great Cloud of Witnesses including Joseph, Samson, David, Jonah, Elisha, Moses, and Joshua in the same order as those in the life of Christ. How could numerous independent authors have known about the steps of Christ in such detail, hundreds to over a thousand years in advance? The Author behind these accounts somehow can see events in the distant future. How can this be? Could He be the Omniscient One called God?
The Mystery of The Iron Samson Lost Russian Book Translated Into English for the First Time, Reveals the Secrets of Alexander Zass' Strength My name is Logan Christopher and I love oldtime strongmen. Alexander Zass is one of my favorites and after you get through this book you'll see why... This legendary book chronicles the life of Zass also known as the Iron Samson, or the Amazing Samson. It was written by two Russians and now for the first time has been translated into English. Zass was well known for being one of the first to widely use isometrics in his training. Here you'll discover exactly what he did and more. How Would You Like to Develop the Strength that Literally Allowed Zass to ...
1100 years ago marked the start of a Viking invasion of the Mersey region, which reached out into Chester, West Lancashire and beyond. The Vikings left behind place-names like Kirkby, Kirby, Meols and Croxteth, which can also be found in Iceland, another region they were invading. This book is about these people in peace and war, their customs, traditions, pastimes, their paganism and their Christianity, their governments and their financial centre at Chester. It also includes a section on how modern genetic research is being used to discover the descendants of these Invaders in the modern day population.
This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and toleration. His narrative takes the reader on a journey from the late fourteenth-century conversions and the first blood purity laws (designed to marginalize conversos), through the early sixteenth-century Erasmian and radical mystical movements, to a Counter-Reformation environment in which conversos become the advocates for pacifism and concordance. His account ends at the court of Philip IV, where growing intolerance towards Madrid’s converso courtiers is subtly attacked by Spain’s greatest painter, Diego Velázquez, in his work, Los Borrachos. Finally, Ingram examines the historiography of early modern Spain, in which he argues the converso reform phenomenon continues to be underexplored.
This volume presents an overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of women's studies, including original essays by pioneering scholars as well as by younger specialists. New pathfinding models of theoretical analysis are balanced with a careful revisiting of the historical foundations of women's studies.
"Many critics regard Cervantes's Don Quixote as the most influential literary book on British literature. Indeed the impact on British authors was immense, as can be seen from 17th-century plays by Fletcher, Massinger and Beaumont, through the great 18th-century novels of Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and Lennox, and on into more modern and contemporary novelists. 20th-century critics, fascinated by Cervantes, were moved to write what we now see as the classical works of Cervantes scholarship. Through their previous publications, the eminent contributors to this volume have helped to determine the reception of Cervantes in Britain. Together they now offer a comprehensive and innovative picture of this topic, discussing the English translations of Cervantes's works, the literary genres which developed under his shadow, and the best-known authors who consciously emulated him. Cervantes's influence upon British literature emerges as decidedly the deepest of any writer outside of English and, very possibly, of any writer since the Renaissance."
“The indelible imprint of sacred music drama throughout history is undeniable . . . and its resurgence in the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries stirs the curiosity.” Carl Gerbrandt, in pursuing these issues, has brought to our fingertips a stimulating historical perspective on sacred music drama as well as an extensively annotated list of repertoire. Years of research have gone into providing information on centuries of sacred music dramas/operas which for the most part have been known to very few. Included in these pages of his Second Edition are over 330 sacred music dramas/operas, each with scholarly and practical information that will be of interest and great value to the opera...