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Gravity Never Stops
There may be no one in the world better at teaching martial arts to pre-teens and teenagers than Ron Sieh. Not just martial arts but values, heart, courage, a sense of humor, a way to turn bullying and teasing into reconciliation and fun. And that's because he's a big zen kid himself. Sieh is the antidote to Columbine and the dark Goth disembodied culture of so many of today's youth. His message is: "do the form right because it is your form, kid, and no one else's."
T'ai Chi Ch'uan
T'ai Chi Ch'uan: The Internal Tradition is a clear and insightful approach to T'ai Chi, weaving mindfulness and body presence through stages of training and development of technique. Sieh's inquiry into the "fighting" aspect makes the emphasis on the internal or feeling style a powerful tool for bringing more integrity and clarity into our lives.
Working the Sea
"A first-person account of life in the fishing communities of coastal Maine"--Provided by the publisher.
Martial Arts For Beginners
The Documentary Comic Books Of The For Beginners Series Deal With Complex And Serious Subjects. They Attempt To Untimidate And Uncomplicate The Great Ideas And Work Of Great Thinkers. The Movements And Concepts Dealt With Are Placed In Their Historical, Political And Intellectual Contexts. The Books Are Painstakingly Researched, Humourouly Written And Enlivened With Classic Comic-Strip Illustrations, Photographs, Paintings, Etc. The Range Of Subjects Covered Is Truly Vast And Varied Malcom X And The New Age Guru Castenanda, Shakespeare And Foucault, Jewish Holocaust And Arab And Israel, Structuralism And Biology.
Working the Sea, Updated and Expanded
Working the Sea is the story of a Maine fisherman’s life, a collection of memories and teachings from a master storyteller. Author Wendell Seavey, who grew up in the 1940s in the fishing village that inspired this story, avoids the overly romantic or picturesque language of other fishing and working-class narratives, writing in a true Downeast Yankee voice and candidly describing both the joys and hardships of the fishing life. Seavey is firmly rooted in the fishing traditions of his community and family, and the book reflects these deep roots. But his perspectives and observations are unique and at times unexpected as he travels across the United States, engages in psychic and spiritual activity, develops an environmental philosophy of life, and meets a host of memorable countercultural characters. Seavey also shares practical lessons about approaching life’s “insurmountable obstacles” and getting past them, and about his transformation from a “fisherman-user” to a “fisherman-ecologist” striving to be part of the cycle of life. This new edition includes an account of the author’s two-year sojourn in Texas as well as several other new stories.
Tai chi chuan
Discipline martiale chinoise, le Tai chi Chuan ou "La Boxe du faite suprême" est un Art dans lequel l'Esprit et l'Energie ont la première place. Dans sa philosophie d'origine taoïste, il n'est pas question de combattre ou d'affronter un adversaire, mais d'un face à face avec soi-même en harmonie avec l'univers. Ces clefs de la tradition interne, s'adressent à la fois aux débutants et aux pratiquants confirmés. Il n'est pas ici question de la forme mais du fond, de l'Esprit du Tao qui permet tous les progrès et peut s'appliquer à la vie quotidienne.
The Theory and Practice of Taiji Qigong
Practiced regularly, Taiji Qigong has been show to increase energy, improve health, and help prevent illness through simple movements and focused breathing. This in depth instruction manual brings the practice to the average reader. Written for every level of skill and interest and constructed for easy customizing for particular goals, the book is broken into three parts that cover the theory and practice of Qi and Qigong; the general principles of Qigong practice; and the 18 movements of Taiji Qigong in detail.
Significant Other
Chinese views of the United States have shifted dramatically since the 1980s, with changes in foreign relations, increased travel of Chinese citizens to the U.S., and wide circulation of American popular culture in China. Significant Other explores representations of Americans that emerged onstage in China between 1987 and 2002 and considers how they function as racial and cultural stereotypes, political strategy, and artistic innovation. Based on fieldwork in Beijing and Shanghai, it offers a unique view of contemporary Mainland Chinese spoken drama from the perspective of a Western academic who is both a Chinese studies scholar and a theatre practitioner. Claire Conceison’s close reading...
The Bardo of Waking Life
An avant garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger’s The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death and before rebirth. This book examines waking life and its history and language as if it were a bardo state rather than ultimate reality, and thus seeks a context for life (and dreams), even as it addresses more "mundane issues" including genetic theory, the war in Iraq and George W. Bush's presidency, North Korea, advertising, global warming, Prison Industrial Culture, childhood trauma, even country western music. Written with playfulness and precision, Bardo takes a new, probing approach to all the important questions of creation, destruction, and existence. In these intellectual field notes, Grossinger proves thematically fearless as he crosses quantum mechanics with totemic hexes and draws transcendental insight from the ephemeral space-time we call daily life. If, as Tibetan cosmology holds true, all conditional realms are bardos, then the state we all share is nothing less than the bardo of waking life.
Embryogenesis
Embryogenesis is an unusual book in that it brings together a highly illustrated, practical embryology book in simple language, perfect for health practitioners, with a fascinating read on the history and philosophy of biological science. It discusses the various stages of embryonic development (meiosis, fertilization, blastula development, and gastrulation, and then the embryology of each of the human organs and organ systems in detail). It puts each of them in context, both in terms of its phylogeny: the evolutionary trajectory of cell-organized systems on Earth, and its ontogeny: the formation of individual organisms in the modern world. There are 24 color plates, many of them commissione...
