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Author: Jameka Leonard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-12-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781494770075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book of poems are the voices of many situations that I have either been in or either exposed to. I am a disabled mother diagnosed with brain cancer, and despite being diagnosed with cancer, I still strive to excel. Please support me
Author: Lu Shengli
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
Published: 2006-02-09
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781583941454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe combat techniques of Tai Ji, Ba Gua, and Xing Yi were forbidden during China's Cultural Revolution, but the teachings of grandmaster Wang Pei Shing have survived. This comprehensive guide, written by one of his students, selects core movements from each practice and gives the student powerful tools to recognize the unique strategies and skills, and to develop a deeper understanding, of each style. It contains complete instructions for a 16-posture form to gain mastery of combat techniques. The book helps practitioners achieve a new level of practice, where deeply ingrained skills are brought forth in a more fluid, intuitive, and fast-paced fashion.
Author: Bruce Kumar Frantzis
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 1997-12-31
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781556432538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of "Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body" comes a book that introduces martial arts practitioners to three "internal" arts and their subtle powers. Inner martial arts rely on internal energy for power rather than on muscles or tension. 15 photos.
Author: Bruce Kumar Frantzis
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9781583941904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Explains how awareness and development of chi gives internal martial arts their power and strength, contains full instructions on the Taoist system Nei Gung, describes how specific martial arts use chi, includes stories about masters. The new edition adds a new foreword, new introduction by author, practical explanations on spiritual traditions of the internal martial arts, index"--Provided by publisher.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 1390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wendy Hunter
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0807862207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWendy Hunter explores civil-military relations in Brazil following the transition to civilian leadership in 1985. She documents a marked, and surprising, decline in the political power of the armed forces, even as they have remained involved in national policy making. To account for the success of civilian politicians, Hunter invokes rational-choice theory in arguing that politicians will contest even powerful forces in order to gain widespread electoral support. Many observers expected Brazil's fledgling democracy to remain under the firm direction of the military, which had tightly controlled the transition from authoritarian to civilian rule. Hunter carefully refutes this conventional wisdom by demonstrating the ability of even a weak democratic regime to expand its autonomy relative to a once-powerful military, thanks to the electoral incentives that motivate civilian politicians. Based on interviews with key participants and on extensive archival research, Hunter's analysis of developments in Brazil suggests a more optimistic view of the future of civilian democratic rule in Latin America.
Author: Akali Omeni
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-08
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1351597639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a detailed examination of the counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 and 2017. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted with military units in Nigeria, Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria has two main aims. First, it seeks to provide an understanding of the Nigerian military’s internal role – a role that today, as a result of internal threats, pivots towards counter-insurgency. The book illustrates how organizational culture, historical experience, institutions, and doctrine, are critical to understanding the Nigerian military and its attitudes and actions against the threat of civil disobedience, today and in the past. The second aim of the book is to examine the Nigerian military campaign against Boko Haram insurgents – specifically, plans and operations between June 2011 and April 2017. Within this second theme, emphasis is placed on the idea of battlefield innovation and the reorganization within the Nigerian military since 2013, as the Nigerian Army and Air Force recalibrated themselves for COIN warfare. A certain mystique has surrounded the technicalities of COIN operations by the Army against Boko Haram, and this book aims to disperse that veil of secrecy. Furthermore, the work’s analysis of the air force’s role in counter-insurgency is unprecedented within the literature on military warfare in Nigeria. This book will be of great interest to students of military studies, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, African politics and security studies in general.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Total Pages: 1230
ISBN-13: 1428982485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael C. Desch
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2001-03-20
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780801866395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Power and Military Effectiveness is an instructive reassessment of the increasingly popular belief that military success is one of democracy's many virtues. International relations scholars, policy makers, and military minds will be well served by its lessons."--BOOK JACKET.
