Bøger af David Little

Have you ever wanted to know why someone studies the Martial Arts? How do you know which Martial Art is right for you?If you are a practitioner of the Martial Arts. People may ask you. What motivated you to learn and train in the Martial Arts?This book is about my personal journey into the Martial Arts. You will travel down the path I took over my lifetime searching for "My Way" in the world of the Martial Arts.What you will learn about in this book: Why my parents enrolled me in Judo at age 8Who and what were my influences in the Martial ArtsHow I handled a bullyWhen a man attacked me at age 12Watching my Father get pummeledMeeting a Karate Black Belt while I was in the ArmyThe second Karate Black Belt I met at workThe first time I saw a Chuck Norris & Bruce Lee MovieWhy I started with Tang Soo DoWhen I switched to Tae Kwon DoWhy I took a break from Martial ArtsThe Black Belt Magazine ad that changed my lifeMy journey with Chinese Kenpo KarateThe IKCA Seminar in New York StateHow I became a Certified Chinese Kenpo InstructorThe West Coast Kenpo Confederation eventThis book may inspire you on your own journey into the Martial Arts! If you want to learn how I went from being a bullied kid in school, to a Certified Chinese Kenpo Karate Black Belt Instructor. Scroll up and click the buy button. See you inside!

Across the globe, there are more than 50 armed conflicts, many of which are being perpetrated in the name of religion. In these zones of violence, there are brave men and women who, motivated by their religious beliefs, are working to create and sustain peace and reconciliation. Yet their stories are unknown. This book explores the conflicts and the stories of 15 remarkable individuals identified and studied by the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding from regions as far-flung as West Papua, Indonesia, the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, El Salvador and South Africa. The book also captures important lessons learned when these peacemakers convened in Amman, Jordan for the 2004 Peacemakers in Action Retreat and discussed their best techniques and greatest obstacles in creating peace on the ground. Peacemakers in Action provides guidance to students of religion and future peacemakers.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. With a focus on structural and cultural violence, the volume also offers a cutting edge interdisciplinary reframing of the scope of scholarship in the field.

This book combines detailed accounts of classroom practice with empirical and case-study research and a wide-ranging engagement with applied linguistic and pedagogical theory. Points for discussion encourage readers to relate the argument of each chapter to their own context, and the book concludes with some reflections on teacher education.

This collection of essays by David Little addresses human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted. Featuring five original essays, Little articulates his view that fascist practices before and during World War II vivified the wrongfulness of deliberately inflicting severe pain, injury, and destruction for self-serving purposes and that the human rights corpus, developed in response, was designed to outlaw all practices of arbitrary force. He contends that while there must be an accountable human rights standard, it should guarantee latitude for the expression and practice of beliefs, consistent with outlawing arbitrary force. Little details the theoretical grounds of the relationship between religion and human rights, and concludes with essays on US policy and the restraint of force in regard to terrorism. With a foreword by John Kelsay, this book is a capstone of the work of this influential writer on religion, philosophy, and law.

The city of Portland and its surroundings, including the islands of Casco Bay, have inspired a wide range of art over the past 200 years. The ¿city by the sea,¿ as Longfellow famously called it, has been a visual talisman for a host of artists, from early masters like Harrison Bird Brown and John Bradley Hudson to a remarkable roster of contemporary painters. Subjects include many of the city¿s signature buildings, including the Custom House and Portland Head Light, as well as street scenes, the waterfront, harbor, back bay, and surrounding landscapes¿even the Million Dollar Bridge. Paintings of Portland will feature a wide range of motifs, in all seasons and represented by an array of styles. About a quarter of the book will be devoted to historical pieces, the rest to paintings by contemporary artists.

This volume presents the findings of a study which examined the way immigrant students in Ireland learn English.