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Grappling with the Monster: The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Title from the very popular nineteenth-century American author who articulated and disseminated the values, beliefs, and habits of middle-class life in pre-Civil War America....more
Life and Death: Grappling with the Moral Dilemmas of Our Time
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Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This single-authored, brief text explores the moral dilemmas in our lives from a philosophical point of view. Society is deeply divided on the matters of life and death discussed in this book: the sanctity of life versus the quality of life; the meaning of death and dying; suicide; euthanasia; abortion; artificial procreation such as in vitro fertilization and cloning; the death penalty; animal rights; world hunger; and war....more
Jeet Kune Do: Counterattack Grappling Counters and Reversals (Unique Literary Books of the World)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2001-01-26 Summary: Add Grappling to your Martial art. ... This book presents problem situations and gives you the best grappling solutions from Jujitsu, Kali, Aikido, Western Wrestling etc. I cannot think how this book could have been made better. Although this book is the second in a series on grappling showing some reversals of moves made in the first book I think this book stands on its own as it shows the original moves. In other words if you can afford both books buy both if you just want to buy one book - get this one. Every technique is explained with the aid of clear ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2007-04-03 Summary: Very good. ... A fine companion to the first book. Solid in melding striking with standing grappling. ...more
[3] Rating: 4 Date: 2008-12-27 Summary: Decent little book on grappling and counter-grappling ... This is the companion piece to "Jeet Kune Do: Entering to Trapping to Grappling". In it, authors Larry Hartsell and Tim Tackett demonstrate counters to common grappling maneuvers from a variety of sources. The book is divided into chapters concerning each of the situations: the collar-and-elbow clinch, leg takedowns, standing arm bars and wristlocks, necklocks and strangles, Judo-style throws and sweeps, and finally while being underneath an opponent. That last part is interesting: published six years before the first ...more
Grappling With the Good: Talking About Religion And Morality in Public Schools (S U N Y Series in Philosophy of Education)
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Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Asks whether public schools can and should help students discuss moral disagreements, even when religion is involved. ...more
Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | The book represents a compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals' relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, and literature) beginning in the 1850s to the 1970s. It discusses how inevitable wave of modernity was responded to, discussed, assimilated, changed by some of the most notable practitioners of art and intellectuals in Japan during this period....more
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