KAPAP COMBAT CONCEPTS: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces by Avi Nardia and Albert Timen, special adviser: John Machado As the tactical foundation of Israeli defense and security forces, kapap’s face-to-face combat system continues to serve a vital role in modern self-defense. This four-DVD collection expands on content found in the Kapap Combat Concepts book, illustrating concepts in real-time with a variety of instructors and experts led by system co-creators Avi Nardia and Albert Timen. Topics include relative position, attacking sensory points, body conditioning for combat, third-party protection, holds and releases, gun disarms, shared principles with Philippine martial arts and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, drills for multiple-opponent attacks and much more!

KAPAP COMBAT CONCEPTS: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces by Avi Nardia and Albert Timen, special adviser: John Machado As the tactical foundation of Israeli defense and security forces, kapap’s face-to-face combat system continues to serve a vital role in modern self-defense. This four-DVD collection expands on content found in the Kapap Combat Concepts book, illustrating concepts in real-time with a variety of instructors and experts led by system co-creators Avi Nardia and Albert Timen. Topics include relative position, attacking sensory points, body conditioning for combat, third-party protection, holds and releases, gun disarms, shared principles with Philippine martial arts and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, drills for multiple-opponent attacks and much more!

KAPAP COMBAT CONCEPTS: Martial Arts of the Israeli Special Forces by Avi Nardia and Albert Timen, special adviser: John Machado As the tactical foundation of Israeli defense and security forces, kapap’s face-to-face combat system continues to serve a vital role in modern self-defense. This four-DVD collection expands on content found in the Kapap Combat Concepts book, illustrating concepts in real-time with a variety of instructors and experts led by system co-creators Avi Nardia and Albert Timen. Topics include relative position, attacking sensory points, body conditioning for combat, third-party protection, holds and releases, gun disarms, shared principles with Philippine martial arts and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, drills for multiple-opponent attacks and much more!

Automatic Performance Tuning is a new software paradigm which enables software to be high performance in any computing environment. Its methodologies have been developed over the past decade, and it is now rapidly growing in terms of its scope and applicability, as well as in its scientific knowledge and technological methods. Software developers and researchers in the area of scientific and technical computing, high performance database systems, optimized compilers, high performance systems software, and low-power computing will find this book to be an invaluable reference to this powerful new paradigm.

Automatic Performance Tuning is a new software paradigm which enables software to be high performance in any computing environment. Its methodologies have been developed over the past decade, and it is now rapidly growing in terms of its scope and applicability, as well as in its scientific knowledge and technological methods. Software developers and researchers in the area of scientific and technical computing, high performance database systems, optimized compilers, high performance systems software, and low-power computing will find this book to be an invaluable reference to this powerful new paradigm.

Hojojutsu or Nawajutsu, is the traditional Japanese martial art of restraining a person using cord or rope. Encompassing many different materials, techniques and methods from many different schools, Hojojutsu is a quintessentially Japanese art that is a unique product of Japanese history and culture.

As a martial arts practice, Hojojutsu is seldom if ever taught on its own but as part of a curriculum under the aegis of the body of study encompassed by a larger school of bugei or budo (traditional martial arts), often as an advanced study in jujutsu. Whatever their source, Hojojutsu techniques & methods are seldom demonstrated outside of Japan and, unlike its cousin Shibari (Japanese erotic bondage), there are many who consider it a moribund art.

In this DVD the techquies demonstrated are the willow style tying arts of the yoshida family.

Automatic Performance Tuning is a new software paradigm which enables software to be high performance in any computing environment. Its methodologies have been developed over the past decade, and it is now rapidly growing in terms of its scope and applicability, as well as in its scientific knowledge and technological methods. Software developers and researchers in the area of scientific and technical computing, high performance database systems, optimized compilers, high performance systems software, and low-power computing will find this book to be an invaluable reference to this powerful new paradigm.

Ninja . . . that single word conjures up images of mystery and power. The ability to move swiftly and silently, to mesmerize one's victim, to strike infallibly, and then to disappear into the night--this is the legend of the ninja. These nearly sorcerous aspects of the ninja, as well as the exotic weapons they use, are the focus of The Mystic Arts of the Ninja. Its author, Shidoshi Stephen K. Hayes, is the sole American to be granted teaching credentials by the 34th grandmaster of the Togokure School of Ninjutsu in Japan. Going beyond the basic conditioning and training techniques of his best-selling Ninjutsu: The Art of the Invisible Warrior, Hayes explains the most sought after secrets of his ninja training:

.a unique and an outstanding work of philosophical scholarship ... offers a penetrating comparative inquiry into the concepts of concepts held by the great thinkers of the past, from Plato to Russell, Moore and Geach.' - Professor Israel Scheffler, Harvard University

We live on a dynamic planet with diverse landforms and bodies of water and ice. The vast surface of the Earth is constantly changing. Making of the Earth provides the latest research in the study of the natural and man-made forces that influence the scope and shape of the planet. Among the topics covered are Arctic geology, coastal geography, continental formation, desert features, erosion, glacial landscapes, global tectonics, mountain ranges, riverine topography, tectonic processes, unique landforms, and volcanic terrain.