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A violent family living in violent times.
In the 1840s, the Donnelly family emigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately, problems develop as the patriarch of the family i sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to raise their eight children on her own. The children are, raised in an incredibly, violent community and cultivate, a devoted loyalty to their mother and siblings, which often...
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A story made even more shocking because it's true.
In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys' enemies murder four family members and burn their house to the ground. Another sibling is, shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are, the only witnesses to the murders.
The surviving family members seek justice through the local courts but quickly learn that their enemies control the jury and the press. Two sensational...
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The first book on golf fitness to provide a complete weight training program specifically targeting the muscles used in the golf swing. For years, strength training was dismissed as an unimportant consideration in improving the golfer's game. But now that more and more professional and amateur golfers have turned to strength training with outstanding results, we know that working out is an absolutely critical factor in boosting golfers' health, fitness,...
4) Who Killed Tom Thomson?: The Truth about the Murder of One of the 20th Century's Most Famous Artists
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Tom Thomson was Canada's Vincent van Gogh. He painted for a period of five years before meeting his untimely death in a remote wilderness lake in July 1917. He was buried in an unofficial grave close to the lake where his body was found. About eight hours after he was buried, the coroner arrived but never examined the body and ruled his death accidental due to drowning. A day and a half later, Thomson's family hired an undertaker to exhume the body...
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El gung fu, antecesor del karate, ju-jutsu, etc., es una de las formas conocidas más antiguas de defensa personal y se puede considerar como la esencia concentrada de sabiduría y pensamientos profundos sobre el arte del combate.
Bruce Lee emprendió en 1963 la redacción de un manual detallado acerca del Tao del Gung Fu, ese libro nunca fue publicado, pero las notas que escribió entonces han sido compiladas y editadas por John Little manteniendo...
6) The Time-Saver's Workout: A Revolutionary New Fitness Plan that Dispels Myths and Optimizes Results
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There is something terribly wrong with the state of exercise as we know it presently. Sales of treadmills, running shoes, gym memberships, and yoga classes are at an all-time high, but so too are our national levels of obesity and type II diabetes. Ever since the 1960s the exercising public has been told to stretch for flexibility and to perform low-intensity steady-state aerobic exercise for their cardiovascular systems and some form of resistance...
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For years, the importance of strength training for golfers was maligned or dismissed. But now that more and more golfers have turned to strength training to augment their game with outstanding results, we now know that proper strength training is an absolutely critical factor in improving not only the golfer's overall fitness level, but in dramatically improving his or her game as well. In Strength Training for Golfers, John Little offers a workout...
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Este libro es una presentación completa del arte de Bruce Lee, el jeet kune do. El desarrollo de esta original forma de arte marcial, sus principios, técnicas centrales y planes de lección son presentados aquí con las propias palabras de Lee. También se muestran esquemas ilustrativos de Lee y su extraordinario tratamiento sobre la naturaleza del combate, el éxito mediante las artes marciales y la importancia de una actitud mental positiva en...
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Durante décadas muchas personas se han preguntado cómo Bruce Lee consiguió moldear su cuerpo y, por extensión, su excelente forma física. Este libro da las respuestas de la mano del propio Lee. A través de sus escritos, cartas, diarios, entrevistas y fotografías, el lector se adentrará en su manera de entrenar y en su propia filosofía, de manera que podrá aplicar estos conocimientos a su desarrollo personal.
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Here they are, available for the first time in one collection, Bruce Lee's conversations with the press from 1958 to 1973.Words of the Dragon is an anthology of rare newspaper and magazine interviews with Bruce Lee, many not previously published in the United States, revealing new words and explanations of Bruce about himself, his art, and philosophy. Interesting and insightful, Words of the Dragon provides the reader a means to understand the real...
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Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese Kung Fu in the world today, with over four million practitioners. The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than three hundred years.
Until now, no one has ever stepped back and taken a critical look at why this art's techniques are presented and performed the way they are. This book, by Wing Chun master Danny Xuan and martial-arts authority John Little,...
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The celebrated life of Bruce Lee in his own words, illustrated with rare family photographs and stills from his movies and television appearances. In the pages of Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon, we invite you to examine the real Bruce Lee, the man behind the image the man who was so much more than an international film and martial arts superstar. In a brilliantly assembled photographic essay compiled and edited by John Little,...
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During his lifetime, legendary martial artist Bruce Lee formulated a complex personal philosophy-a synthesis of Eastern and Western ideals-that extolled the virtues of knowledge and total mastery of one's self. Most of his philosophical writings could be found only within the personal library of the Bruce Lee estate … until John Little was given permission to publish them for the wider world. The Warrior Within is the most comprehensive volume of...
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In this enjoyable and twisted Sherlockian short story, we find pregnant women being stripped of their babies in Kensington Gardners. On further investigation, Holmes and Jasper Lestrade uncover a plot which threatens the very throne of England - but can they act in time to save the Windsors? This intriguing tale was first published in 2016 in the third collection of the Final Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
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In this compelling short story, a dying aborigine appears at 221B Baker Street leading our intrepid duo to travel across the water to an old mining village in Ireland. There, a devious plot is uncovered, but can Watson's heroic actions foil the dastardly scheme? This Sherlockian gem was first published in 2016 in the third volume of The Final Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
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In this compelling short story, Holmes and Watson receive an early internment as punishment for infiltrating the Body-Snatchers Club. Will they survive to solve the nasty ongoing case of the missing boy sopranos? This Sherlockian gem was first published in 2014 in the third collection of the Final Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
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In this compelling short story, a secret society is hiding some truly murderous rituals. Watson's membership of the organisation enables him and his long-standing partner to identify a killer; a killer who happens to be a well-known politician who has risen to the rank of Sovereign Inspector-General within the arcane society... This Sherlockian gem was first published in 2016 in the third collection of the Final Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
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In this enjoyable and rather quirky Sherlockian short story, Holmes' addiction to cocaine causes somewhat of a rift between the two friends. But can this, along with the possibility of an ancient nemesis returning from the grave, inspire Holmes to discover his inner animal and solve yet another perplexing case? This intriguing tale was first published in 2015 in the second collection of the Final Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
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In this enjoyable Sherlockian short story, a headless baby is discovered upon the heath, forcing Holmes to become a carnie and disappear across Europe in search of her murderer. But when he discovers a more complicated international crime than he first expected, his old pal Watson is needed to help out. This intriguing tale was first published in 2015 in the second collection of the Final Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
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In this exciting short story, Holmes and Watson investigate the case of a missing woman whose body parts appear to have been partially harvested. Delving into a rather murky underground scene, they find themselves in Holland Park where a certain retired army surgeon develops a taste for homemade sausages. This rather grizzly Sherlockian tale was first published in 2015 in the second collection of the Final Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
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