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  • Abstract Calligraphic Art (Fully Illustrated)
    Mark D Bishop
    Abstract Calligraphic Art Creating art is not so much about following the structured lines, but finding self-expression in a playful artistic way. Firstly, from one practical first step of holding the brush upright and lightly in the fingertips, one enters the meditative process by allowing the qi to sink to the hara; while kneeling or sitting cross-legged on the floor, or sitt...
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    56,99 €

  • Stone Age Handaxes, Art & Ritual (Second Edition)
    Mark D Bishop
    'Stone Age Handaxes, Art & Ritual (Second Edition)' has over a hundred full-colour photographs.Beginning by introducing handaxes crafted by the earliest inhabitants of the British Isles, one million years ago, this work details that they carved, pecked and knapped these artefacts as art. In this respect, handaxes of all types, shapes and forms were not so much meant for use as ...
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    46,05 €

  • Stone Age Rock Art, A Three-Million-Year Journey (In Colour)
    Mark D Bishop
    Fact: ’Art is as old as humanity’. It is not the role of this work to attempt to prove that rock art existed from the dawn of humanity; simply because it did, there is no question about that. What this work sets out to do therefore is to explore what rock art was like hundreds of thousands, or millions of years ago; that being throughout what today we call the Stone Age, a vast...
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    53,28 €

  • KARATE, KOBUDO & TE, Self Defence Decoded (Book One & Book Two) COLLECTOR’S EDITION
    Mark D Bishop
    FIND CONFIDENCE in SELF-DEFENCECulture is a transient beast; it is ever-changing and always evolving into new ’traditions’. Martial culture and values are no less so and are constantly being upgraded with the varying conditions of society. Likewise, personal self-defence needs to move with the times. Following suggestions from the publisher and interested readers, this work is ...
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    45,52 €

  • Karate, Kobudo & Te, Self-Defence Decoded (Book two)
    Mark D Bishop
    As suggested by the title, Karate, Kobudo & Te, Self Defence Decoded (Book Two) Knives to Swords & Halberds, details the cold, hard facts of how to neutralize attackers armed with bladed weapons. Yet, this work also shows how to restrain one’s actions in such circumstance. It thus gives a balanced format, explaining the moral implications of retaliatory violence that might caus...
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    32,27 €

  • Karate, Kobudo & Te, Self-Defence Decoded (Book One) Fists to Clubs & Staves
    Mark D Bishop
    TRAIN, READ, LEARN, RESEARCH & BE WISE!Self-defence is the vital tip of the iceberg of martial arts training, the hardened stabbing end that will win through. 'KARATE, KOBUDO & TE, Self-Defence Decoded (Book One) Fists to Clubs & Staves', deals directly with these aspects as they pertain to preservation of life and our loved ones.The book details the cold, hard facts of how to ...
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    30,88 €

  • Releasing Ancestral Chains
    Mark D Bishop
    Ancestry is fascinating. Like fingerprints and DNA, each of our ancestors has individual traits and each has a unique story to tell within the interlinked webs they have created, or which have unavoidably been created by others at their expense. This work focuses on some of the closeted stories I uncovered on my journey through the ancestral mire. They are stories that, when sh...
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    34,63 €

  • Okinawan Te, In the Footsteps of The Masters
    Mark D Bishop
    Known for its knock-out strikes, fluid footwork & bladed weaponry, Okinawan te is a survivor that has endured due to its ability to adapt to social changes. In 1609, in order to suppress Okinawa’s developing military might & vast trading links, the Japanese Satsuma clan launched a massive invasion & subjugated the island kingdom. Until then, te had been a bushido battlefield sy...
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    41,77 €

  • Karate Uncovered (Fact & Fiction, Wisdom & Magic)
    Mark D Bishop
    Explosively direct: Always one to stand his ground for technical reality and historical fact, this work reflects the quality and sheer scale of information in the author’s previous works. Poignant questions are asked, debates are raised and down-to-earth, enlightening answers are given. Much of what is considered to be tradition by many a karate-ka is shown to be not necessaril...
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    28,45 €

  • Zen Bodywork Dynamics, Enigma Key to Restorative Martial Arts
    Mark D Bishop
    Zen Bodywork Dynamics is a natural, martial-arts-based, hands-on method of helping to restore health in a holistic way. It corresponds with other martial-arts training, which it is seen as complementing - whatever the style. Thumbs, hands, elbows and feet, etc. are used to apply pressure and relieve pent-up stress in the format of: Relax, Release & Let Go. Many trainees have be...
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    32,71 €

  • Okinawan Karate (Kobudo & Te) Teachers, Styles and Secret Techniques
    Mark D Bishop
    Time moves on, cultures change with the twists of history and secret arts are lost. To understand the essence of karate, kobudo and te is to read and digest this work. To devour the mysteries of the secret principles it records is to dwell in a former time, only then will the reader know the true meanings of what the masters passed on. This book was a classic of the 20th centur...
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    50,27 €

  • Okinawan Te (Martial Art of Kings & Nobles) Revealed, Second Edition (Revised & Expanded)
    Mark D Bishop
    Another revealing book by Mark D Bishop. This work expands on the original best-selling version, by including more than 40 extra pages and further explaining the methodology of applications, as well training methods, for proper conditioning. Providing a teaching format for the instructor, it is also an informative workbook for the beginner and a how-to-do manual for those alrea...
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    44,05 €

  • Ancestral Chains (DNA Part VIII of VIII) Andrew Bloodline
    Mark D Bishop
    An ancestral trail through two English counties inhabited by everyday, church-going country folk. Great-grandmother Mary Brewer Andrew was to grow up in a sheltered Cornish village founded by a Welsh saint, but fate found her transported across the country to Suffolk, where she was to find the man of her dreams and start an idyllic family. Life was good and prosperous as a butc...
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    49,36 €

  • Ancestral Chains (DNA Part III of VIII) Allden Bloodline
    Mark D Bishop
    Fanciful stories of rags-to-riches are fascinating. Yet, when such is part & parcel of one’s ancestry, it becomes real. Having known physical hardship in the back-to-backs of Birmingham, great-grandfather Allden determined never to be poor again. An inherent ability in mental arithmetic was to play a major role in the family Commission Agent business; but did the gamble pay off...
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    50,44 €

  • Ancestral Chains (DNA Part V of VIII) Fortune Bloodline
    Mark D Bishop
    Like the phases of the moon, fortunes wax & wane. From humble beginnings in Lacock; from hard-working agricultural labourer stock in Avon, to mining and engineering, the Fortune family flourished as it spread throughout the globe. From gold digging in NZ, to administration in Hong Kong, the Fortunes worked far & wide. The inevitability of war sorted the men from the boys & the ...
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    42,81 €

  • Ancestral Chains (DNA Part VI of VIII) Meers Bloodline
    Mark D Bishop
    Refugees have been part & parcel of the social history & landscape of the British Isles since time immemorial. They have come in waves and they have arrived in droves. They have melted into the DNA pot, enhancing and enriching all aspects of society. Growing up in the Thames Valley, the author would often hear the Italian name Gagette, one or several refugees who arrived on th...
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    36,83 €

  • Ancestral Chains (DNA Part VII of VIII) Morgan Bloodline
    Mark D Bishop
    In this work, the reader is directed to Claydon village in rural Suffolk. Here the Morgan family of the author’s memory lived, worked and propagated. Life was generally good with some up-and-downs, as these Morgans were descended from the minor gentry of Suffolk who originally hailed from Ipswich. Yet the Morgan Bloodline in the 19th and 20th centuries was ruled by trades peopl...
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    40,80 €

  • Ancestral Chains (DNA Part IV of VIII) Parr Bloodline
    Mark D Bishop
    Ancestry is a dual aspect entity, both private and public. It is private because it is personal. It is public because the stories of the ancestors need to be told. This work deals with both these aspects, while recording the facts for the family researcher and putting across the stories and lives that shaped the ancestors and how they saw and understood the world around them. O...
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    38,82 €

  • Ancestral Chains (DNA Part II of VIII) Battersby Bloodline
    Mark D Bishop
    Following on from Ancestral Chains DNA Part I, this work takes the reader a step further along the intrigue of the Family Tree. Viewing Victorian life through the mind-set of great-grandmother, Kate, the stage is set in a posh Georgian terrace in Lewes that serves as the Sussex Probate Office. Money matters are inevitable, but madness and attempted murder play out the scenes of...
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    45,32 €

  • Ancestral Chains (DNA Part I of VIII) Bishop Bloodline
    Mark D Bishop
    Music, money, madness & other mysterious things. This is the karmic tale of the author, adventurer, martial artist & time traveller, Mark D Bishop; an objective look at his genetic ancestral past. It is DNA family history in fascinating detail, a journey through ancestral time, when industrious, creative hard work, births, marriages and burials focused around church life. The r...
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    40,53 €

  • Okinawan Weaponry, Hidden Methods, Ancient Myths of Kobudo & Te
    Mark D Bishop
    This work clearly defines and catalogues the fifty historical hand-held weapons that were used in Okinawa Prefecture and the Ryukyu Islands from the dawn of its history. It show the stages of development and introduction of these weapons to the islands and how they affected the culture through the ages. The ’standard five’ popular weapons of the modern era (bo, sai, tonfa, nunc...
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    47,08 €

  • Zen Odyssey, An Okinawan Karate & Martial Arts Journey
    Mark D Bishop
    An entertaining odyssey by all means, which all readers, not only karate-ka, can enjoy. The work describes a fascinating ’voyage of discovery’ through the Okinawan martial arts during the author’s younger years. Both informative & factual, the work leads the reader on a journey of initiation from the preliminary stages of being a ’live-in disciple’ of Goju-ryu & trainee of Mata...
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    48,89 €

  • Starship Free
    Mark D Bishop
    Starship Free began as a concept of freedom when Mark D Bishop, as a pupil in a private English school in the 1960s, was feeling the effects of long-term physical and emotional confinement. It represented an escape that in his imagination created a world of travel, writing,love and martial arts. The 50 years of poetry that this Anthology represents, chart the course of how he a...
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    23,87 €

  • The Official Constitution of the Universal Martial Arts Federation
    Mark D Bishop
    A way forward for many independently minded martial artists; this is the Official Booklet of the Universal Martial Arts Federation (UMAF), a worldwide organisation set up to register practitioners, styles (new & old), schools, clubs and dojo that believe in non-aggressive martial arts as a method of achieving health, longevity, self-defence and a means of giving to society, wit...
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    13,44 €