A guide to the seemingly effortless yet explosively powerful martial art techniques of Fa Jin
- Explains how to collect energy within and discharge it for self-defense as well as healing
- Explores how to counter the natural instinct to resist force with force and develop yie[...]
Every time we listen--to speech, to music, to footsteps approaching or retreating--our auditory perception is the result of a long chain of diverse and intricate processes that unfold within the source of the sound itself, in the air, in our ears, and, most of all, in our brains. Hearing is an "ever[...]
Every time we listen--to speech, to music, to footsteps approaching or retreating--our auditory perception is the result of a long chain of diverse and intricate processes that unfold within the source of the sound itself, in the air, in our ears, and, most of all, in our brains. Hearing is an "ever[...]
HMS Dreadnought (1906) is closely associated with the age of empire, the Anglo-German antagonism and the naval arms race before the First World War. Yet it was also bound up with a range of other contexts - political and cultural, national and international - that were central to the Edwardian perio[...]
Greyfrair's Cemetery in Edinburgh has a centuries old reputation for being haunted. Its gruesome history includes use as a mass prison, headstone removal, witchcraft, bodysnatching, desecration, corpse dumping and live burial. In 1998, something new and inexplicable began occurring in the graveyard.[...]
Auld Reekie or the Athens of the North? Edinburgh is a city of contrasts--a fact reflected in this unique collection of photographs taken over the last century. The Wee Book of Edinburgh is the perfect memento of the city.[...]