Learn the most effective way to neutralize an opponent using ancient samurai techniques applied to modern combat with this illustrated martial arts guide.Modern Hand to Hand Combat: Ancient Samurai Techniques on the Battlefield and in the Street recognizes the lawless nature of today's battlefield. Hakim Isler; a veteran of the Iraq War; knows from his own experiences that in an urban combat setting; the players; the equipment; and the stakes are very different from those found in an MMA octagon; the boxing ring; or the martial arts dojo. Based primarily on samurai techniques over a millennium old; Isler's system—Battlefield Proximity Combat—is an effective answer to the unique needs of the modern warfighter and military martial artist. This martial arts training book gives step-by-step self-defense instructions on how to effectively and realistically respond to life and death hand-to-hand combat situations through movements and principles that are as valid today as they were 1000 years ago. With almost three hundred illustrations and a detailed DVD; the philosophy and instructions in Modern Hand to Hand Combat can mean the difference between life and death on the battlefield or in a street fight.
#879766 in Books Jean Pierre Dupuy 2013-10-30Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .70 x 6.00l; .72 #File Name: 0804776903238 pagesThe Mark of the Sacred
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful. Scandalous; Moving; TrueBy Timothy MFor those who have been tired of the modern dichotomies either in politics and economics; the sciences and humanities; this work by Dupuy will fascinate and excite. The debate between the Austrian school and Keynesian school; the debates surrounding John Rawls concerning matters of justice; the furor surrounding transhumanism and nuclear holocaust - this small sampling of modern issues are some of the topics incorporated into Dupuy's work.By far; this work is one of the most important books of 2013 to be translated into English. For those interested in humanity in general; and those interested in philosophy; international politics; economics; social theory; and anthropology in specific; this work will be enlightening and moving. Stop what you are reading and check out this work! The prophetic voice of the polymath; Dupuy; will awaken the late modern imagination through analyzing the sciences; economics; politics; and film. The immanent doom of humanity in a world without the sacred should act to curb modern man's hubris and man's nihilistic tendencies; but to do so it will require something only true transcendence can offer.While Dupuy's analysis is breathtaking and comprehensive; I must disagree with his analysis of Christianity and would refer readers to the work of Paul Ricoeur concerning the imagination and consciousness and Christianity's relation to the sacred (also see Henri de Lubac's Nature and Grace). His description of Christianity is thoroughly modern as well. Theologians such as Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Michael S. Horton provide a more robust view of historic Christianity in late modern times as not merely epistemic but in fact ontological and metaphysical.Nevertheless; this concise book will be useful for referencing again and again; and I must repeat that it is singly the most important work of 2013. Dupuy's grasp of pivotal thinkers like John Rawls; Rousseau; de Tocqueville; and others will recapture their place in the late modern discussion concerning humanity and the sacred. A must read...29 of 30 people found the following review helpful. Nothing Short of Material for Another World CouncilBy Rev David FroemmingJean-Pierre Dupuy incorporates insights gained in collaboration with Rene’ Girard and Ivan Illich; which leads him to the discovery that Christianity is not a “religion†like those produced through violence and the concealing of victims; and systems that further condone resentment and violence. More so; Dupuy shows that our current crisis of global climate change; nuclear arms; genetic technology and the impending creation of artificial life; the break down of democracy; and the economics of inequality; all driven by globalization; will doom us; unless we realize that “the violent religion of old†has infected all of the above; including science and technology.In reality; Dupuy is taking both fundamentalists and atheists such as Richard Dawkins; and showing the reader that they are in the same camp; the violent; and so are the rest of us who think that we can grab onto science and technology to solve the path of self-destruction that humanity is now on. Dupuy keenly identifies the idolatry of our own power; which denies human self-limitations; and transcendence (God); as well as unforeseen consequences; as the violence of religion and its dynamics follows us into all our scientific and technological claims of triumph.Dupuy writes; “The lesson of Christianity can be applied only if it has been completely and thoroughly understood: human beings must renounce violence once and for all†(p. 119). Dupuy argues “Christianity is not a morality; but an epistemology†(p. 124). That is; Christianity is a belief system in a God who has revealed and confronted us with our own violence through the cross of Jesus Christ; and whose risen life is the very power that leads us beyond resentment and into the rejection of violence. It is this belief; argues Dupuy that constitutes our future (salvation) beyond our self-destruction.As a pastor; with two previous Religious Studies degrees; I find Dupuy truly ground breaking and timely. Dupuy insights are worthy of a renewed dialogue; nothing short of another Vatican World Council and the gathering together of people of all cultures and faiths in order to come to terms with the present crisis of humanity.5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. For thinkers like Dupuy; the modern secularBy Dan KnaussAn enjoyable and at times challenging read. Dupuy offers many penetrating (and disturbing) insights into how we should think about religion and the ways modern science; politics; and economics function through rituals and a quasi-religious ir/rationality.For thinkers like Dupuy; the modern secular; liberal social order is a product of the disenchanting; demystifying effects of modernity; but this historical development -- which Dupuy; following René Girard; attributes to Christianity -- does not stop us from continuing to create new gods. The societal need for an exteriority from which limits to human freedom can be imagined is a need for "the sacred" that cannot be ignored or easily satisfied in a healthy way. Dupuy finds many examples of the presence and also the weakness of the sacred in the primary institutions and rituals of the modern liberal state. Viewing a techno-capitalism run amok Dupuy invites readers to adopt a "secular eschatology" where we look at the present from the standpoint of a future catastrophe as if it has already occurred while also looking forward from the standpoint of a present contingency where the looming catastrophe is not inevitable.Not every argument Dupuy makes is convincing; and some are quite obtuse -- including much of the concluding chapter -- but there is much reward from trying to think along this unique track. Dupuy's original insights are the best parts of the books; the material he enthusiastically culls from others is generally less interesting; especially when it is familiar. Girard and Illich get lengthy summaries; I have read both fairly extensively. Dupuy's use and appreciation for Günther Anders; who I have not read; was one of the high points -- the Hitchcock/Vertigo material; not so much.
