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Free Download Bobby Lowe - Mas Oyama's Karate as Practiced in Japan
Arco | 1983 | ISBN: 0668011408 | English | 215 pages | PDF | 148.4 MB
Written with full cooperation of Karate Master Masutatsu Oyama, 8th dan, the founder and Chairman of the Japan karate-do Kyokushinkai, this fully illustrated volume completely explains and demonstrates the various forms of Karate, as perfected by Master Oyama, winner of the All-Japan Karate Championships, 1947. Mas Oyama, who was responsible for introducing Karate to the United States for the first time in 1952, considers the author his best Karate instructor outside Japan. Step-by-step instructions - each step illustrated by photographs especially taken for this book - lead the student through a complete course of Karate. Chapters cover: Warm-up Exercises; Stances; Nerve Centers; Karate Punching and Striking Techniques; Defensive Blocking; Kicking Techniques; Breathing Coordination Exercises; "Katas"; Training in Pairs; One-Blow Sparring ("Ippon Kumite"); Defense Against Grabbing; Knife and Club Defense; Freestyle Sparring ("Jiyu Kumit"); Board, Brick and Stone Breaking ("Tameshiwari"); Defense Against Multiple Attackers.

Free Download Marxism after Modernity: Politics, Technology and Social Transformation By Ross Abbinnett
2007 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1403941246 | PDF | 1 MB
Marxism after Modernity is concerned with the ways in which Marxist theory has responded to the major social, economic and technological transformations of capitalism which have occurred in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The main themes of the book are: Marxism and Postmodernism; Media, Aesthetics and Mass Culture; Capitalism and Technology; Globalization and Political Resistance; and Marxism, Postmodernism and the Political. Each section begins with a review of Marx's writing on the theme under discussion, and then proceeds to examine the relationship of postmodernist thought to his critiques of capitalism, bourgeois culture, ideology and revolution.

Free Download Marx's Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists By Thomas C. Patterson
2004 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 1859737013 | PDF | 1 MB
How did our present society come into being, and how does it relate to its predecessors? These key questions have transfixed archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians for decades. Yet scant attention has been paid to the thinkers and traditions that have shaped their debates. This pioneering book explores the profound influence of one such thinker-Karl Marx-on twentieth-century archaeology. Patterson analyzes the links between Marxism and archaeology, paying specific attention to recent years. How did the debates in the 1990s pave the way for historical archaeologists to investigate the interconnections of class, gender, ethnicity, and race? In what ways did archaeologists make use of Marxist concepts such as contradiction and exploitation? How did varying theoretical groups critique one another and how did they overturn or build upon past generational ideas? Marx's Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists provides an accessible guide to the arguments that have influenced Anglophone archaeology from the 1930s to the present day.

Free Download Marx on Globalization By David Renton
2002 | 190 Pages | ISBN: 0853159092 | PDF | 1 MB
This comprehensive introduction to Karl Marx's political economy includes extracts from The Communist Manifesto, Capital, The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, and The Poverty of Philosophy. This new selection from the writings of both Marx and Frederick Engels aims to enrich current discussions, offering in-depth analyses of the processes of international capital and by giving a sense of the long-term nature of the trends within global capitalism. Also included is a discussion of glabalization and a critique on capitalism.

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Free Download Marx for a Post-Communist Era: On Poverty, Corruption and Banality By Stefan Sullivan
2002 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 0415201934 | PDF | 1 MB
Few intellectual reckonings are more important than with Marxist thought in the post-Soviet era. Sullivan's work adds up to a solid contribution, but like many on the liberal-left, assumes that class negotiation can continue to forestall class war. Of course, decades of European social-democracy and American reformism lend tangible substance to that optimism. However, Sullivan's book was published in 2002, before the full effects of capital's counter-attack became so glaringly apparent. It can now be argued that a renewed war on labor's living standards and international standing took shape with Reagan, accelerated with the Soviet demise, and has gone into overdrive with the Bush administration. The cumulative effects are apparent across the board, from declining real wages, to growing wealth disparities, to a disappearing middle-class. Moreover, how long European social democracy can resist these basically American trends is unclear. At the same time, France's Sarkoszy government looks to be the neo-liberal stalking horse on the continent.Now, I'm not scholarly enough to know whether such trends refurbish classic Marxian themes like declining rate of profit or classic Leninist variants. What is apparent is that capital has been waging a one-sided war for several decades now, while working people cling to a social contract now in shreds, and that the only proposed alternative to capitalism's manifest failures is more capitalism.This historic rout would not have been possible without a corresponding decline of class consciouness and labor militancy traditionally supplied by Marxist agitation and socialist alternatives. And though Sullivan appears to have written off the Soviet experience as a complete failure, reassessment of their successes as well as failures is also in order. It's telling that nowhere in his reconstruction does Sullivan mention a central Marxian contention, viz. Historical Materialism. That's understandable. Few would now believe that history is marching toward any inevitable future, given the complications of 20th century technology and environmental destruction. As a result, an unstoppable socialist triumph shapes up as a reflection of Marx's faith in Enlightenment ideals and a theoretical relic. Nonetheless, if class struggle fails to define history's course, it certainly lies at the heart of capitalist society. And Marxism's continuing relevance lies in the penetration beyond the nostrums of liberalism and democracy to the persistant realities of poverty and oppression at the heart of wage labor. The fact that such miseries are resurfacing in the metropole of Western capital implies the end of a reformist era and the necessity of renewed Marxist analysis. Sullivan should consider an updated new edition.

Free Download Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory's Morte Darthur By Karen Cherewatuk
2006 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 1843840898 | PDF | 1 MB
Marriage in the middle ages encompassed two crucial but sometimes conflicting dimensions: a private companionate relationship, and a public social institution, the means whereby heirs were produced and land, wealth, power and political rule were transferred. This new study examines the concept of marriage as seen in the Morte Darthur, moving beyond it to look at `adulterous' and other male/female relationships, and their impact on the world of the Round Table in general. Key points addressed are the compromise achieved in the `Tale of Sir Gareth' between natural, youthful passion and the gentry's pragmatic view of marriage; the problems of King Arthur's marriage in light of both political need and the difficulty of the queen's infertility and adultery; and the repercussions of Lancelot's adultery in the tragedies of two marriageable daughters, Elaine of Astolat and Elaine of Corbin. Finally, the author reveals and considers in detail (focusing on dynastic dysfunction in three generations of Pendragon men: Uther, Arthur and Mordred) the myth of benevolent paternity by which men, whether born legitimate of bastard, were united through the Round Table. KAREN CHEREWATUK is Professor of English at St Olaf College, Minnesota.

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