Bøger af Patrick Mccarthy

"Bubishi" is a classic Chinese work on philosophy, strategy, medicine and technique as they relate to the martial arts. Referred to as 'the bible of karate', for hundreds of years the "Bubishi" was a secret text passed from master to student in China and later in Okinawa. This work features over 250 line drawings, photographs and calligraphy.

An ongoing lengthy series about a Los Angeles artist and his world.

An ongoing story of an older artist's life as it unfolds in contemporary Los Angeles.

The story of a family of seven siblings, who as they go about their daily business suddenly are confronted with the revelation of a serious crime that happened decades ago. Each respond to the new situation differently, according to his or her individual temperament. The setting is an unnamed Midwestern town in the USA, at the close of the last century.

This is the latest addition to a contemporary roman fleuve. A series of novels featuring the main character, Riley O'Kerry, and a supporting cast. It can be read out of sequence. The Brooding Hour the thirtieth book of a hundred novel project.

An ongoing story of a painter living in Los Angeles. He continually adjusts himself to new, daily realizations.

An ongoing series of novels based on a character's life as an artist

An ongoing series of an artist's life in contemporary Los Angeles

Continuing series of semi-autobiographical sketches in the life of an artist

Funakoshi Gichin, da molti considerato il padre del karate moderno, è senza dubbio il pioniere dell'arte al quale si deve la maggior produzione di opere scritte. Tuttavia, prima dell'importante lavoro di ricerca e traduzione rappresentato da questo testo, alcuni scritti di e su Funakoshi Gichin non erano mai stati diffusi in alcuna lingua occidentale. Tanpenshu (brevi racconti sul karate-do) presenta alcune tra le migliori opere di Funakoshi, seppur analizzate da una diversa prospettiva, insieme a molti brani rari mai apparsi prima in occidente, cosa che aggiunge ulteriore valore a questa traduzione. Sulla base dei profondi messaggi che veicola, Tanpenshu è destinato a divenire un classico moderno, apprezzato dalle prossime generazioni di artisti marziali.

The ongoing series about the life of a contemporary painter in Los Angeles.

With the end of the Cold War, the nations of the world were forced to rethink their strategies of development. Disintegration or Transformation? looks at eight of the world's most highly industrialized nations, the decisions they made, and continue to make, and the reaction of the society which they govern in the face of a constantly-changing international scene. The end of the Cold War signalled the victory of liberal democracy over competing forms of government, most notably communism. Nevertheless, victory has given way to change and not to the celebration one might have expected. National publics, unsatisfied with being simply among the best, ask why their lives are not better, why their economies are not more competitive, and why their governments are not more responsive. McCarthy and Jones analyze this problem by treating the state as a building block for advanced industrial society, emphasizing national state traditions and the distinction between national time and world time. Disintegration or Transformation? is an important and timely collection of articles that will be essential reading for anyone interested in the development of states and their place in the world economy.

The aim of this title is to demonstrate the links and parallels between literature and politics in Western Europe. McCarthy looks at the history of the 20th century by wedding together literary and political events and texts, and examines the ways in which they interact and influence each other. Jargon-free, this book interweaves literary, aesthetic, mass media (especially film), political and historical themes. It provides readers with an intellectual commentary on the persistent cultural traditions in European nations, highlighting the fact that these traditions have been enriched by the dialogue of regional integration.

This is a book and CD that use self-hypnosis for people who want to stop smoking. It looks at why people smoke and the rewards they get from smoking and offers a hypnosis method to assist people giving up.

War in the Balkans in the 1990s displaced millions, including nearly 20,000 refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina to the American city of St Louis. This text looks at the impact of the war and the reality of ""ethnic cleansing"" in the life of one extended Bosnian family in St Louis.

In 1981, in uneasy alliance with the Communists and amidst a storm of revolutionary rhetoric, the French Socialist party came to power for the first time since the founding of the Fifth Republic.