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"Lee narrates his adventures from the streets of Chinatown to the battlefields of Vietnam, and from the corridors of CIA headquarters to the acupuncture clinics of Shanghai"--Page 4 cover
This book teaches what is still the most commonly known tai ji quan style in the world—the Yang family tai ji quan, with a focus on the 40 Movement Routine. A distinguishing feature of the modern Yang style tai ji quan is that because of its simple, gentle movements, it can be learned and practiced by people of virtually all ages and body constitutions. As a means of health cultivation, tai ji quan enhances coordination, strength and flexibility, and harmonizes both the body and mind, which is why it is known to promote mental and physical wellbeing as well as prevent disease. With step-by-step instructions and ample photographs of each posture, this book is the perfect companion for the beginner. We are sorry that the DVD content are not included.
Research in the field of automatic speech and speaker recognition has made a number of significant advances in the last two decades, influenced by advances in signal processing, algorithms, architectures, and hardware. These advances include: the adoption of a statistical pattern recognition paradigm; the use of the hidden Markov modeling framework to characterize both the spectral and the temporal variations in the speech signal; the use of a large set of speech utterance examples from a large population of speakers to train the hidden Markov models of some fundamental speech units; the organization of speech and language knowledge sources into a structural finite state network; and the use...
Annotation The Unfinished War: Korea is a time-sensitive manuscript concerned with theKorea War and current North-South issues including the North Korea's nuclearweapons. The author:? lays out the history of American involvement in Korea before, during, and afterthe war;? provides cross-cultural perspectives and an account of the war unparalleled forits breadth and depth based on recently declassified documents, interviews, andother references;? discusses new developments, including South Korea's so-called "economicmiracle," President Bush's inclusion of North Korea inthe "axis of evil," and emerging prospects for war orpeace today; and? includes concrete, personal realities and anecdotesbased on the experiences of Koreans.
Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
"This book identifies the emerging research areas in Human Computer Interaction and discusses the current state of the art in these areas"--Provided by publisher.
The Chinese double-edged straight sword (jian), the “gentleman of weapons,” is the focus of this e-book. There are a growing number of people interested in this fascinating weapon, its history, and its use. For your convenience, this anthology assembles the best articles on this subject as published in the Journal of Asian Martial Arts. Chapters 1 and 2 were written by Dr. Richard Pegg, a scholar of Asian studies and art curator with over thirty years of studies in the martial arts. With sound academic and practical experience in swordsmanship, Dr. Pegg writes here on ancient Chinese bronze swords and also on the parallels of Chinese calligraphy and swordplay. The analysis and presentati...