White Crane

Author : Vladimir Zlatic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798569453474

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White Crane Kung Fu by Vladimir Zlatic Pdf

The book in front of you is one of very few ever written about White Crane Kung Fu and the only one about Shaking Crane (Zong He) style written in English. The book introduces basic concepts of internal White Crane practice. Internal power has always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, often explained through Chinese religious and esoteric practices, believes and terminology. This book separates myths from facts and explains what internal power is and how it is generated within the body. Content is strictly focused on body mechanics and doesn't go into the realm of esoteric practices or religion of any kind. Basic methods of development, transmission and releasing of internal power are explained in detail. These methods are considered the very foundation and beginners course of Zong He Quan style, on the other hand, they are universal in their training approach and goals and could be included in practice of other internal styles, especially styles from Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

Author : Sandy Fussell
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763654405

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Samurai Kids 1: White Crane by Sandy Fussell Pdf

Can a one-legged boy become a great samurai warrior? Meet some unique aspiring champions in this kick-off to an exciting new martial arts series. (Ages 9-14) Niya Moto is the only one-legged samurai kid in Japan, famous for falling flat on his face in the dirt. The one school that will accept him is the Cockroach Ryu, led by the legendary sensei Ki-Yaga. He may be an old man overly fond of naps, but Ki-Yaga is also known for taking in kids that the world has judged harshly: an albino girl with extra fingers and toes, a boy who is blind, a big kid whose past makes him loath to fight. A warrior in his time, Ki-Yaga demands excellence in everything from sword-fighting to poetry. But can the ragtag Cockroaches make the treacherous journey to the Samurai Trainee Games, never mind take on the all-conquering Dragons? In a fast-moving, action-filled tale that draws on true details of feudal Japan, Niya finds there’s no fear they can’t face as long as they stick together --for their friendship is more powerful than a samurai sword.

Author : Michael Asher
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 000740123X

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Firebird by Michael Asher Pdf

Author : Dr Tsewang Yishey Pemba
Publisher : Niyogi Books
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789385285622

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White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings by Dr Tsewang Yishey Pemba Pdf

A posthumous novel by Dr Tsewang Yishey Pemba, the founding father of Tibetan-English literature, White Crane, Lend me your Wings is a historical fiction set in the breathtakingly beautiful Nyarong Valley of the Kham province of Eastern Tibet in the first half of the twentieth century. Dr Pemba skillfully weaves a dazzling tapestry of individual lives and sweeping events creating an epic vision of a country and people during a time of tremendous upheaval. The novel begins with a never-told-before story of a failed Christian mission in Tibet and takes one into the heartland of Eastern Tibet by capturing the zeitgeist of the fierce warrior tribe of Khampas ruled by chieftains. This coming-of-age narrative is a riveting tale of vengeance, warfare and love unfolded through the life story of two young boys and their family and friends. The personal drama gets embroiled in a national catastrophe as China invades Tibet forcing it out of its isolation. Ultimately, the novel delves into themes such as tradition versus modernity, individual choice and freedom, the nature of governance, the role of religion in people’s lives, the inevitability of change and the importance of human values such as loyalty and compassion.

Author : Jwing-Ming Yang
Publisher : Ymaa Publications
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1886969353

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The Essence of Shaolin White Crane by Jwing-Ming Yang Pdf

Reveals the secrets of Chinese internal power development.

Author : Hart Crane
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780871401793

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White Buildings Poems by Hart Crane Pdf

Crane's first collection of poems, published when he was twenty-seven, displays a prodigious gift already at the height of its powers. This first book of poems by hart Crane, one of his three major collections, was originally published in 1926. The themes in White Buildings are abstract and metaphysical, but Crane's associations and images spring from the American scene. Eugene O'Neill wrote: "Hart Crane's poems are profound and deep-seeking. In them he reveals, with a new insight and unique power, the mystic undertones of beauty which move words to express vision."

Author : Sandy Fussell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Aesop's fables
ISBN : 1921150203

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White Crane by Sandy Fussell Pdf

Can a one-legged boy train to become a great Samurai warrior? Niya Moto is the only one-legged Samurai kid in Japan, famous for falling flat on his face in the dirt. None of the samurai schools will teach crippled Niya, until an offer arrives from the legendary samurai warrior Ki-Yaga, sensei of the Cockroach Ryu. Together with the other Cockroaches, Niya must defeat the fierce Dragons Ryu at the Samurai Trainee Games.

Author : Dalai Lama VI Tshangs-dbyangs-rgya-mtsho
Publisher : Companions for the Journey
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106019113536

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White Crane by Dalai Lama VI Tshangs-dbyangs-rgya-mtsho Pdf

Songs of love by the sixth Dalai Lama.

Author : Sierra Crane Murdoch
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780399589171

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Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch Pdf

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism. “I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days In development as a Paramount+ original series WINNER OF THE OREGON BOOK AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Publishers Weekly When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher “KC” Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone, and few people were actively looking for him. Yellow Bird traces Lissa’s steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke’s disappearance. She navigates two worlds—that of her own tribe, changed by its newfound wealth, and that of the non-Native oilmen, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit of Clarke is also a pursuit of redemption, as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is an exquisitely written, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart, funny, eloquent, compassionate, and—when it serves her cause—manipulative. Drawing on eight years of immersive investigation, Sierra Crane Murdoch has produced a profound examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing.

Author : CJ Hauser
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593312889

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The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser Pdf

A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer ​us all. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN "Hauser builds their life's inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that's rich like a complicated dessert—not for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites." —The New York Times “Hauser’s wry, introspective investigation of their assumptions about love will likely free readers to examine their own personal narratives as well ... ‘The rare happy ending I appreciate is one that makes room for the whole painful fact of the world at the same time it offers the reader some joy,’ they write. The Crane Wife embraces this philosophy again and again as Hauser excavates their past loves and losses, thoughtfully examines them and declares the pain of love to be worth the risk.” —BookPage Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. Hauser releases themself from traditional narratives of happiness and goes looking for ways of living that leave room for the unexpected, making plenty of mistakes along the way. They kiss Internet strangers and officiates at a wedding. They reread Rebecca in the house their boyfriend once shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. They think about Florence Nightingale at a robot convention and grief at John Belushi’s rock and roll gravesite, and the difference between those stories we’re asked to hold versus those we choose to carry. Told with the late-night barstool directness of your wisest, most bighearted friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose life doesn't look the way they thought it would; for everyone learning to find joy in the not-knowing; for everyone trying, if sometimes failing, to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home, to live in.

Author : Patrick Ness
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443420143

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The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness Pdf

The extraordinary happens every day . . . George Duncan is an American living and working in London. He is divorced, the owner of a small print shop, and lonelier than he realizes. One night he is woken by an extraordinary sound coming from his garden. A great white crane has tumbled to earth, its wing shot through by a giant arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George pulls out the arrow and frees the crane, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed. The very next day, he meets an enigmatic woman, an artist who transforms the lives of everyone around her, including Amanda, George’s angry--and very funny--daughter, Amanda’s adorable French son and George himself. Wise, romantic, sublime and laugh-out-loud funny, The Crane Wife is hugely entertaining but also resonates on a deep, dreamlike, mythic level. Above all it’s a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love.

Author : Steven Rosenblatt,Keith Kirts
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781504364324

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The Birth of Acupuncture in America by Steven Rosenblatt,Keith Kirts Pdf

The Birth of Acupuncture in America: The White Cranes Gift is the first accessible and entertaining introduction to acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine for the ordinary reader. A basic overview of the field that has long been missinga short and readable, but authoritative guidebook that thousands of Americans who rely on acupuncture have always wanted. Even better, its author is one of the actual founders of this field in the U.S., Dr. Steven Rosenblatt. Among its many virtues, The Birth of Acupuncture is a narration of the story of Dr. Ju Gim Shek. As revealed in this book for the first time, Dr. Ju was a real-life medical hero, a deeply devoted teacher who first brought the gift of acupuncture and Chinese medicine to America. Beginning with a chance meeting in 1968, Dr. Ju passed his knowledge to the author, Steven Rosenblattwho he affectionately called the Chairmanand to a handful of other students. This small group of bold pioneers was the first graduating class in a field that has now grown to 18,000 licensed practitioners in the U.S.

Author : Chinese Health Qigong Association
Publisher : Singing Dragon
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Breathing exercises
ISBN : 1848194188

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Wu Qin Xi by Chinese Health Qigong Association Pdf

Wu Qin Xi: Five-Animal Qigong Exercises is an accessible guide to a particular qigong exercise that imitates the movements of animals and birds. Each routine is described step-by-step, and is illustrated with photographs and key points. The authors also point out common mistakes and offer advice on how to correct these.

Author : George L. Armistead,Brian L. Sullivan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691129662

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Better Birding by George L. Armistead,Brian L. Sullivan Pdf

Better Birding reveals the techniques expert birders use to identify a wide array of bird species in the field—quickly and easily. Featuring hundreds of stunning photos and composite plates throughout, this book simplifies identification by organizing the birds you see into groupings and offering strategies specifically tailored to each group. Skill building focuses not just on traditional elements such as plumage, but also on creating a context around each bird, including habitat, behavior, and taxonomy—parts so integral to every bird's identity but often glossed over by typical field guides. Critical background information is provided for each group, enabling you to approach bird identification with a wide-angle view, using your eyes, brain, and binoculars more strategically, resulting in a more organized approach to learning birds. Better Birding puts the thrill of expert bird identification within your reach. Reveals the techniques used by expert birders for quick and easy identification Simplifies identification with strategies tailored to different groupings of birds Features hundreds of photos and composite plates that illustrate the different techniques Fosters a wide-angle approach to field birding Provides a foundation for building stronger birding skills

Author : Zanna Vaughan-Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 190927691X

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White Crane by Zanna Vaughan-Davies Pdf

Inspired by a true story, in 18-century China a young girl lusts for revenge. Imploring the spirit of the White Crane to guide her boxing, Fang Chi's quest to destroy the dark sorcerers of the Serpent Cult takes her into a world far stranger and more dangerous than she could possibly have imagined. This begins a journey of violence, mysticism and transformation that leads her to become one of the greatest martial artists of her, or any, generation - leaving a legacy that could save the world... or destroy it.