Gold Winner - 2011 IP's Living Now AwardsGold Winner - 2011 eLit AwardFinalist - 2011 Eric Hoffer AwardFinalist - 2011 USA Best Book Award Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) is a slow and relaxed moving meditation. It is also a sophisticated martial arts system. Through practicing Taijiquan, you are able to [...]

Since ancient times Tai Chi Chuan has been practiced as a holistic mind/body fitness system, bringing immense benefits for practitioners in health, longevity, relaxation, and concentration. But it was also practiced as an effective and deadly martial art. Because of this, the masters rarely disclose[...]

Reap the benefits of centuries of wisdom and practical experience to deepen and refine your Tai Chi Chuan. Discover ways to reach the essence of your Form and take your Push Hands to higher levels. Dr. Yang has translated classics from the original Chinese and written commentaries to make them more [...]

Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications is based on a decade of the authors' collaborative work in age-period-cohort (APC) analysis. Within a single, consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors synthesize APC models and methods for three resea[...]

Team Avatar is in peril as a dangerously powerful ancient spirit awakens with vengeance and destruction on its mind. Bonds will be tested and new truths revealed as Aang must answer an important question: Can humans and spirits co-exist?
Written and drawn by the team behind the best-selling "Th[...]

Chinese boys can be Horrid too! Join in the fun as Mo-Shen Ma and his mischievous father run riot through school and home. There's no trouble they can't get into - or out of...[...]

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Brings together the content from contributors in the field of renewable energy. This book explores a range of renewable energies including solar, wind, geothermal and bioenergy. It includes fundamentals, key techniques and engineering best practice. It is suitable for energy and environmental engine[...]

Presents the knowledge and the advances in intelligent systems. In this book, the topics include data management, data and text mining for Intelligence and Security Informatics applications, deception and intent detection, terrorist and criminal social network analysis, and public health and bio-sec[...]

Embodied theories claim that semantic representations are grounded in sensorimotor systems, but the contribution of sensorimotor brain areas in representing meaning is still controversial. This title reviews the findings about contextual modularity. It clarifies the invariant and flexible features o[...]

Provides a single source of foundational knowledge in reflection seismology principles and theory. Combined with seismic attribute analysis and other exploration geophysics tools, this title aids geologists and geo-engineers in creating geological models of areas of exploration and extraction intere[...]