Following the success of his first book The Shotokan Karate Handbook -- Beginner to Black Belt the author felt there was a need for a manual to assist the more experienced student. Therefore he has concentrated on more advanced techniques such as Kihon lppon Kumite Jiyu lppon Kumite sets 6 & 7 & all the remaining Katas in Shotokan Karate. It is important that Karate Ka are aware that time effort & practice are still the main factors in working towards perfecting not only ones skills but also ones inner mind & attitudes towards the art. This book is meant as a guide to Karate Ka -- it cannot take the place of your Sensei (teacher). ...

There have been numerous books written on the subject of Karate including many that claim to show an easy step-by-step way of becoming a black belt by the third chapter. In a martial art such as Karate it is extremely rare to find a book that can help the student with the physical aspect of Karate to any great degree. However every now & then a publication appears on the bookstands that can do just that. One such book is this one. The following pages contain a wealth of information on the Kihon Kata & Kumite aspects of Traditional Shotokan. Written in an easy to follow manner & supplemented by an extremely comprehensive set of photographs this handbook is easily one of the more superior publications available. ...

A handsomely illustrated photographic account by the bestselling author of ' Tommy' of the human experience of war as directly witnessed by British soldiers in the First World War. Richard Holmes one of Britain's best-known military historians (and President of the British Commission of Military History) has selected over 200 photographs taken for the most part by officers & men rather than by official photographers -- mostly unfamiliar ones located in archive collections regimental museums & private sources. The book will deal with the whole of the British Army's experience of the First World War -- Gallipoli Mesopotamia & so on -- & not just on the Western Front. The photographs will be grouped thematically as extended picture essays; topics include the pre-war army & mobilisation of 1914; the contribution made by nurses; medical treatment & the wounded; infantrymen & their weapons; the campaign in Mesopotamia & more. Like ' Tommy' the book is about people rather than things about the human experience of war rather than its strategy or tactics & at least as much about the everyday or commonplace -- a latrine here or a plate of bully beef there -- as about the lofty or portentous. It shows us the dirt beneath the fingernails of history. ...

' Now the seas were more awesome in their raging insanity. Each mountain of glassy grey rose high above the raft shielding it for a few seconds from the whip of the wind its crest blowing off like the plume of an Etruscan helmet before it slid down collapsing upon itself in the tumbling roar of breaking water.' In German East Africa on the eve of the First World War two freebooting adventurers
- one a flamboyant Irish American the other an impeccable young Englishman
- pit their wits against the gross German Commissioner from whose territory they are making their living as game hunters & ivory poachers. But the outbreak of war gives the signal for their private skirmishing to flare into a relentless vendetta pursued with devastating violence by land & sea so that what begins as a comic escapade gives way to chilling horror.. .

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Show Me How is the ultimate How To compendium brimming with hundreds of eclectic electric unexpected & surprisingly handy things you really should know how to do. From learning how to create water in the desert & mount a camel to nailing a handstand fingerflip & interpreting a tea-leaf reading become an authority on a vast array of skills from the useful to the unusual. With sections including arts & crafts cookery entertaining grooming survival sports gardening & the home rainy afternoons will never be the same again. Build an erupting volcano speed-peel a hard boiled egg or apply traditional geisha make up & surprise your friends with your amazing new skills. Each technique is accompanied by colourful & informative step-by-step illustrations to ensure that you grasp every method as well as handy hints & interesting facts. This vibrant fun-filled all-in-one resource will set you up for the big wide world guaranteeing to show you how to do everything you ever wanted to know. (2000 words) ...

When Linda Balfour a young mother is found butchered in small-town southern Illinois a coded inscription stamped in blood on the back of her head brands her mutilated body. For Chief Prosecutor Martin Vail the Bloody insignia drags up memories hed like to forget
- memories of Bishop Rushman slashed & dismembered ten years ago by an altar boy Aaron Stampler. But if Stampler is locked away he cannot have murdered Linda. With his career
- & his life
- on the line Vail needs answers fast before the killer signs someone elses life away.


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Over 500 pages of classic super hero adventure are collected in this value-priced volume! The Fastest Man Alive" is back ...

Written by DENNIS ONEIL & ELLIOT S. MAGGIN Art by NEAL ADAMS DICK GIORDANO MIKE GRELL VINCE COLLETTA & others Cover by NEAL ADAMS Green Lanterns SHOWCASE PRESENTS series continues with issues 76-100 including the famed stories that teamed Green Lantern with Green Arrow in which the two heroes face issues of the day including womens rights political corruption religious intolerance & more
- all while battling evil. This volume also

Includes:: adventures from GLs 1976 relaunch collected here for the first time! On sale APRIL 20
- 496 pg B&W



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The stakes are raised in the second book of this glamorous new horse riding series set in the USA
- winner takes all as the rivals
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Step inside Fancy Feathers Talent School the most exciting school in town! Coco Crocodile is rehearsing her song & Billie & Pig has a dance to perfect
- & all in time for the evening show! But the Fox Clowns are in a muddle & Albert the Magician has made his assistant vanish COMPLETELY! Now everyone needs a costume & time is running out. But you know what they say? The show MUST go on.. . Full of fun bursting with characters & packed with comic detail as well as tutus tantrums & TALENT!
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