Master Of Kung Fu Epic Collection Traitors To The Crown

Author : Doug Moench,Archie Goodwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1302901370

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Master of Kung Fu Epic Collection: Traitors to the Crown by Doug Moench,Archie Goodwin Pdf

Shang-Chi's martial arts adventures continue with "the Saga of War-Yore!" This epic of action and intrigue pits Shang-Chi against a rogue MI6 agent driven mad by experimental treatments. Rather than becoming the ultimate secret agent, War-Yore has become the insane embodiment of history's greatest warriors! Then, Shang-Chi is tested by the combined forces of Skull-Crusher, the Cat and Pavane in a storyline enhanced by the debut of artist Mike Zeck. In the aftermath, Shang-Chi renews his quest for justice and inner peace. Yet "games of death and deceit" offer little room for rest, and soon Shang-Chi must deal with a surprise return to Mordillo's Island - and the mercenary/assassin weapons master known as Zaran! COLLECTING: VOL. 3: MASTER OF KUNG FU (1974) 54-79

Author : Doug Moench,Paul Gulacy
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302514372

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Master Of Kung Fu Epic Collection by Doug Moench,Paul Gulacy Pdf

Collects Master of Kung Fu (1974) #29-53 and Annual #1. MASTER OF KUNG FU easily ranks as one of the most iconic series in Marvel history. Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy’s blend of kung fu action and globetrotting espionage reached beyond the already high standard for the title and pushed it to new horizons of action and adventure! Experience the thriller “Crystal Connection;” the debuts of the whip-cracking Pavane, the savage Razor-Fist and the lovely Leiko Wu; the showdown on Mordillo’s Island; the cinematic Hong Kong fight against the Cat; the tense intrigue of “Oriental Expediters;” the mystery of MI-6’s mole; and the sweeping scale of “The Return of Fu Manchu!” Each adventure will have you on the edge of your seat, so don’t hold back! Enter the world of Shang-Chi!

Author : Cory Doctorow
Publisher : Tor Teen
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466805873

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Homeland by Cory Doctorow Pdf

In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It's incendiary stuff—and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him—but he can't admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. He's surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. He can't even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He's not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he's gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do. Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they're used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Mark S. Hamm
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781437929591

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Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups by Mark S. Hamm Pdf

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.

Author : Christopher Leigh Connery,Rob Wilson
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1556436807

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The Worlding Project by Christopher Leigh Connery,Rob Wilson Pdf

Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range from the medieval Mediterranean to contemporary Jamaican music, from Hong Kong martial arts cinema to Taiwanese politics, writers such as David Palumbo-Liu, Meaghan Morris, James Clifford, and others use innovative cultural studies to challenge the globalization narrative with a new and trenchant tactic called “worlding.” The book posits that world literature, cultural studies, and disciplinary practices must be “worlded” into expressions from disparate critical angles of vision, multiple frameworks, and field practices as yet emerging or unidentified. This opens up a major rethinking of historical “givens” from Rob Wilson’s reinvention of “The White Surfer Dude” to Sharon Kinoshita’s “Deprovincializing the Middle Ages.” Building on the work of cultural critics like Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Kenneth Burke, The Worlding Project is an important manifesto that aims to redefine the aesthetics and politics of postcolonial globalization withalternative forms and frames of global becoming.

Author : Liao Yiwu
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307388377

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The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu Pdf

The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner, among others. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, Liao Yiwu managed to get his subjects to talk openly and sometimes hilariously about their lives, desires, and vulnerabilities, creating a book that is an instance par excellence of what was once upon a time called “The New Journalism.” The Corpse Walker reveals a fascinating aspect of modern China, describing the lives of normal Chinese citizens in ways that constantly provoke and surprise.

Author : Paul Bowman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781783481293

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Martial Arts Studies by Paul Bowman Pdf

The phrase “martial arts studies” is increasingly circulating as a term to describe a new field of interest. But many academic fields including history, philosophy, anthropology, and Area studies already engage with martial arts in their own particular way. Therefore, is there really such a thing as a unique field of martial arts studies? Martial Arts Studies is the first book to engage directly with these questions. It assesses the multiplicity and heterogeneity of possible approaches to martial arts studies, exploring orientations and limitations of existing approaches. It makes a case for constructing the field of martial arts studies in terms of key coordinates from post-structuralism, cultural studies, media studies, and post-colonialism. By using these anti-disciplinary approaches to disrupt the approaches of other disciplines, Martial Arts Studies proposes a field that both emerges out of and differs from its many disciplinary locations.

Author : Jin Yong
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250220615

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A Hero Born by Jin Yong Pdf

The epic Chinese classic and phenomenon published in the US for the first time! Featured in iO9's 2019 Fall Preview. Set in ancient China, in a world where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ultimate kung fu master unfolds, an unlikely hero is born... in the first book in the epic Legends of the Condor Heroes by the critically acclaimed master of the genre, Jin Yong. After his father—a devoted Song patriot—is murdered by the Jin empire, Guo Jing and his mother flee to the plains of Ghengis Khan and his people for refuge. For one day he must face his mortal enemy in battle in the Garden of the Drunken Immortals. Under the tutelage of Genghis Khan and The Seven Heroes of the South, Guo Jing hones his kung fu skills. Humble, loyal and perhaps not always wise, Guo Jing faces a destiny both great and terrible. However, in a land divided—and a future largely unknown—Guo Jing must navigate love and war, honor and betrayal before he can face his own fate and become the hero he’s meant to be. Legends of the Condor Heroes A Hero Born A Bond Undone A Snake Lies Waiting A Heart Divided

Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781847651426

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The 33 Strategies Of War by Robert Greene Pdf

The third in Robert Greene's bestselling series is now available in a pocket sized concise edition. Following 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction, here is a brilliant distillation of the strategies of war to help you wage triumphant battles everyday. Spanning world civilisations, and synthesising dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts, The Concise 33 Strategies of War is a guide to the subtle social game of everyday life. Based on profound and timeless lessons, it is abundantly illustrated with examples of the genius and folly of everyone from Napoleon to Margaret Thatcher and Hannibal to Ulysses S. Grant, as well as diplomats, captains of industry and Samurai swordsmen.

Author : John Lie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289789

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Modern Peoplehood by John Lie Pdf

"[A] most impressive achievement by an extraordinarily intelligent, courageous, and—that goes without saying—'well-read' mind. The scope of this work is enormous: it provides no less than a comprehensive, historically grounded theory of 'modern peoplehood,' which is Lie’s felicitous umbrella term for everything that goes under the names 'race,' 'ethnicity,' and nationality.'" Christian Joppke, American Journal of Sociology "Lie's objective is to treat a series of large topics that he sees as related but that are usually treated separately: the social construction of identities, the origins and nature of modern nationalism, the explanation of genocide, and racism. These multiple themes are for him aspects of something he calls 'modern peoplehood.' His mode of demonstration is to review all the alternative explanations for each phenomenon, and to show why each successively is inadequate. His own theses are controversial but he makes a strong case for them. This book should renew debate." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University and author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World

Author : EOS Sama
Publisher : Legends of the Wulin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 098336592X

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Legends of the Wulin by EOS Sama Pdf

You who have dreamed of finding the love worth fighting for, the friends worth fighting with, and the secrets of the martial arts: dream no longer. Welcome to Shen Zhou: a China that never was, a land of mysteries and adventures, appearing for the first time in the Legends of the Wulin Role Playing Game. Welcome to the Wulin itself to the "world of martial arts," where the dreams and ambitions of heroes collide. Become a wuxia hero, with a grander-than-life personality, capable of great joy and overwhelming melancholy. Step outside the accepted order of things: it cannot contain the immense passions and inspirations that move you. Take up your blade and join your martial brothers. Master an array of new and powerful kung fu styles and learn the deep mysteries of the secret arts. It's time to become a legend. Guard the Sun and Moon. Weave the Divine Iron Web. Invoke the Hell-Pattern Judgment. Practice the Hidden Execution Strike. Recite the Mantra of Immolation. Call upon the Iron Buddha's Disapproval. Fly like the Golden Crow. Wield the Lotus-Forged Needles. Master medicine, confound your enemies with the secret arts of intrigue, and read from the sacred registers. Inflict curses and blessings. Practice extraordinary Daoist techniques. Carry the lightning of Heaven hidden in your hand.

Author : Gunther Siegmund Stent
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : 0871699265

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Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent Pdf

Driving human reason too far in the analysis of deep problems often leads to irresolvable inconsistencies and contradictions. In this 2002 J.F. Lewis Award-winning monograph, Gunther Stent traces the origins and development of the paradoxes of free will in this well-crafted introduction to philosophical debates regarding freedom of will. Free will poses one of the oldest and most vexatious philosophical problems, dating back to the beginnings of moral philosophy in ancient Greece. Pure theoretical reason implies that our actions are determined, while practical theoretical reason tells us that our will is free. Stent examines the arguments of moral responsibility versus determinism, from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Immanuel Kant, Niels Bohr, and Max Planck.

Author : Susanne Kord,Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137016218

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Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities by Susanne Kord,Elisabeth Krimmer Pdf

Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American myths. Their in-depth analysis of over sixty films, from The Matrix and Iron Man to Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lord of the Rings, shows that movies, far from being mere entertainment, respond directly to today's social and political realities, from consumerism to "family values" to the War on Terror.

Author : Herbert Allen Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : UOM:39015004733138

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A History of Chinese Literature by Herbert Allen Giles Pdf

Author : Kurt Busiek,George Perez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Avengers (Fictitious characters)
ISBN : 1401202071

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Avengers by Kurt Busiek,George Perez Pdf

Superman, Batman, and the other members of the JLA join forces with Captain America, Iron Man, and the many other Avengers to fight a threat so immense it threatens two entire dimensions. Features introductions by Stan Lee and Julie Schwartz as well as a cover gallery by George Pérez and Tom Smith.