Martial Arts category: 1527 books
T'ai Chi for Seniors
How to Gain Flexibility, Strength, and Inner Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
This book gives you all the information you need to undertake a safe, health-improving exercise regimen. These ancient Chinese exercises are fun and low impact and help to alleviate the pains of arthritis, fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, and many other "senior" diseases. The book presents...
by Mantak Chia
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2004
Techniques for preparing and using the Golden Elixir to achieve optimum health and spiritual vitality
•Includes practical exercises and postures to produce regenerative effects in one’s own saliva
•Reveals how combining saliva with the hormonal fluids released during sexual practices...
Tai Chi In 10 Weeks
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
USA Best Book Award FINALIST - 2017
This book is designed to guide beginning students through the fundamentals of tai chi in ten weeks. Dr. Aihan Kuhn teaches readers the twenty-four-step Yang-style form. She shares insight on warming up, healing, and avoiding injury. But tai chi is more than...
The Modern Day Gunslinger
The Ultimate Handgun Training Manual
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
“This book will save lives.” —Dick Conger
A result of twelve years of research, The Modern Day Gunslinger was written to meet the needs of the gun owner, the experienced shooter, those who own a weapon strictly for home and self-defense, and for the military member who wants to become...
by S. K. Uyenishi
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Samurai and Ninja
The Real Story Behind the Japanese Warrior Myth that Shatters the Bushido Mystique
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
The myths of the noble Samurai and the sinister Ninja are filled with romantic fantasy and fallacy.
Samurai and Ninja expert Antony Cummins shatters the myths and exposes the true nature of these very real—and very lethal—medieval Japanese warriors. The Samurai and Ninja were, in fact,...
Ninja Skills
The Authentic Ninja Training Manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This is the world's only illustrated guide to the real ninja teachings of historic Japan. These original techniques are presented in a highly accessible 'how-to' format that combines easy-to-follow text with a fresh, contemporary design that includes step-by-step photographs.
This is the first...
The Ring of Water (Young Samurai, Book 5)
The Ring of Water
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Jack Fletcher has been left for dead.
Bruised and battered, Jack Fletcher wakes up in a roadside inn wrapped only in a dirty kimono. He has lost everything, including his memory of what happened.
Determined to discover the truth, Jack goes on a quest to retrieve his belongings - his...
by Chris Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A short story for the Young Samurai series!
Japan, 1612. Shipwrecked and his father murdered by ninjas, Jack Fletcher is rescued by the legendary swordmaster Masamoto Takeshi and taken to his samurai school in Kyoto. Hunted by the ninja Dragon Eye, Jack's only hope is to become a samurai warrior....
Friendship is Golden (The Silent Ninja #2)
Friendship is Golden
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Padge is excited to start karate lessons and dedicates herself to practicing everyday. Unexpectedly, she encounters a painful obstacle. Her friend Julie offers to help but is sharply dismissed. Will Padge's troubles mean the end of their friendship?
by Bryan Keyleader
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
The modern world is drastically changing and many people are far from ever understanding the patterns that current criminality follows.
In a precise description of several issues unknown to the vast majority of the population, this book intends to promote a higher conscience about how crime really...
Weapons of Fitness
The Women's Ultimate Guide to Fitness, Self-Defense, and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A groundbreaking self-defense and fitness book for women by a ballerina-turned-self-defense expert. Learn how to become your own weapon of self-defense and fitness so that you can create and target your best life.
After ballerina Avital Zeisler was savagely attacked as a young woman, she lived...
Seppuku
A History of Samurai Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
The history of seppuku -- Japanese ritual suicide by cutting the stomach, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri -- spans a millennium, and came to be favored by samurai as an honorable form of death. Here, for the first time in English, is a book that charts the history of seppuku from ancient times...
by Bakari Akil II, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
"Grappling for Newbies" tells you what you absolutely need to know before you search for and sign up at a grappling school and what you need to know afterwards. This book also lets you know things about training, instructors and academies that no one ever talks about (ever) or definitely...