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Self Defense: The Art of Real Street Fighting Techniques (The Ultimate Guide to Beginner Martial Arts Training Techniques)

By: Doris Amaya

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Self Defense: The Art of Real Street Fighting Techniques (The Ultimate Guide to Beginner Martial Arts Training Techniques)

By: Doris Amaya

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to defend yourself and any person in any place, situation and time by applying only limited knowledge and ordinary items as weapons. The modern world is not always safe for people. There will always be those who will try to take the money, belongings or even the lives of others. Women are also at risk of being raped and most of them were killed trying to defend themselves. For such reasons, various military organizations, police departments and martial arts schools formulated self-defense techniques. Here are some things that you are going to learn • Hand to hand self-defense • Vulnerable point self-defense • Ground control self-defense • Joint-lock self-defense • Common self-defense mistakes to avoid • And much much more... Self defense! Will reassure and make you feel freer, safer and less vulnerable. It is packed with sensible and practical advice on how to avoid danger, whether you are in the street, in the home, at work or travelling. It suggests strategies you can use when faced with potentially difficult or dangerous situations and, in the unlikely event that your prevention techniques fail, it tells you what you should do if you are attacked.

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Doris Amaya

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9791220861984

Talking to Our Selves

Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency

By: John M. Doris

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Talking to Our Selves

Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency

By: John M. Doris

John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our understanding of ourselves as moral agents with psychological research on the unconscious mind. Much philosophical theorizing maintains that the exercise of morally responsible agency consists in judgment and behavior ordered by accurate reflection. On such theories, when human beings are able to direct their lives in the manner philosophers have dignified with the honorific 'agency', it's because they know what they're doing, and why they're doing it. This understanding is compromised by quantities of psychological research on unconscious processing, which suggests that accurate reflection is distressingly uncommon; very often behavior is ordered by surprisingly inaccurate self-awareness. Thus, if agency requires accurate reflection, people seldom exercise agency, and skepticism about agency threatens. To counter the skeptical threat, John M. Doris proposes an alternative theory that requires neither reflection nor accurate self-awareness: he identifies a dialogic form of agency where self-direction is facilitated by exchange of the rationalizations with which people explain and justify themselves to one another. The result is a stoutly interdisciplinary theory sensitive to both what human beings are like—creatures with opaque and unruly psychologies-and what they need: an account of agency sufficient to support a practice of moral responsibility.

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277

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OUP Oxford

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0191506486

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9780191506482

Character Trouble

Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality

By: John M. Doris

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Character Trouble

Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality

By: John M. Doris

John M. Doris has been a leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology for decades. His work has transformed the way in which philosophers approach questions of character, virtue, and agency. This selection of his work focuses on the ways in which human personality orders (or fails to order) moral cognition and behaviour.

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371

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Oxford University Press

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0198719604

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9780198719601

Doris Salcedo

The Materiality of Mourning

By: Mary Schneider Enriquez,Doris Salcedo,Narayan Khandekar

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Doris Salcedo

The Materiality of Mourning

By: Mary Schneider Enriquez,Doris Salcedo,Narayan Khandekar

In Context: Violence and Contemporary Art in Colombia -- Salcedo's Influences: Artists, Works, Practices -- The Six Visual Strategies -- Organic and Ephemeral: Materiality in Salcedo's Most Recent Works -- Inherent Vice and the Ship of Theseus / Narayan Khandekar -- Artist Biography and Exhibition History

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197

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Yale University Press

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0300222513

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9780300222517

Victoria Ocampo

Against the Wind and the Tide

By: Doris Meyer

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Victoria Ocampo

Against the Wind and the Tide

By: Doris Meyer

The "first lady of Argentine letters," Victoria Ocampo is best known as the architect of cultural bridges between the American and European continents and as the founder and director of Sur, an influential South American literary review and publishing house. In this first biographical study in English of "la superbe Argentine," originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampo's role in introducing European and North American writers and artists to the South American public—through the pages of her review, through translations of their work, and through lecture tours and recitations. She examines Ocampo's personal relationships with some of the most illustrious writers and thinkers of this century—including José Ortega y Gasset, Rabindranath Tagore, Count Hermann Keyserling, Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Monnier, Vita Sackville-West, Gabriela Mistral, and many others. And she portrays an extraordinary woman who rebelled against the strictures of family and social class to become a leading personality in the fight for women's rights in Argentina and, later, a steadfast opponent of the Perón regime, for which she was sent to jail in 1953. Fifteen of Victoria Ocampo's essays, selected from her more than ten volumes of prose and translated by Doris Meyer, complement the biographical study.

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University of Texas Press

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0292759134

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9780292759138

The Armor of Love and Hope

By: Doris Mercado,Roberto Cabello-Argandona,Yasmeen Namazie

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The Armor of Love and Hope

By: Doris Mercado,Roberto Cabello-Argandona,Yasmeen Namazie

This is a joint publication of Floricanto and Berkeley Presses.Doris Mercado's memoir is one of perseverance and reconciliation, reminiscent of Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Ernesto Galarza's Barrio Boy. Her story is partly one of family but also one of self-reliance, recounting her troubled childhood in Ponce, Puerto Rico and also poverty and homelessness in Massachusetts. What I most admired in the work was the author's frankness, her ability to portray family truths so intimately and honestly. –John Paul Jaramillo, author of The House of Order Stories. Kirkus Review: Mercado's memoir chronicles how a middle child from a large family experiences love, forgiveness and hope despite a lifetime of abuse, neglect and abandonment in the mountains of Puerto Rico. The memoir opens with scenes of an idyllic childhood. Mercado lived in a small town outside Ponce, Puerto Rico, where her life included colorful characters in a bustling community. There were eight children at the beginning of Mercado's story, all battling to use a single bathroom and hairbrush. Doris' mother, Lina, worked as a seamstress. She was stern, but she encouraged 4-year-old Doris to read the newspaper. Doris' father was well-liked and played affectionately with the children in their chaotic but happy household. Within two years, two more boys were born into the Mercado family; both needed extensive medical attention. The strain took its toll, and finally, the family moved in with Doris' beloved grandmother in the mountain town of Jayuya. After the move, Doris' life deteriorated. Her mother beat her repeatedly with a broomstick, and Doris spent many days nursing badly bruised limbs. Life continued to fall apart for the Mercado clan, particularly when Doris' paternal grandmother invited Lina and the youngest children to New York for a fresh start. Doris and five of her siblings were left in the care of their father, although it was 14-year-old Doris who assumed chief responsibility. Within days of her mother's departure, Doris' father also walked out without explanation, leaving Doris and the others to fend for themselves. This living arrangement continued for another three years. Doris warned the children to keep their situation secret, so they wouldn't alert the authorities. This profoundly sad story of neglect is told in simple, direct language. Doris' capacity for forgiveness is astonishing, as is her single-minded focus on the love she feels for the brothers and sister left in her care. She eventually moved to the U.S., and her reunification with her parents was filled with more pain and abuse. Mercado's reaching adulthood in one piece is remarkable; arriving with her soul intact is miraculous. A straightforward, moving story about resilience.

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Self Defense: The Art of Real Street Fighting Techniques (The Ultimate Guide to Beginner Martial Arts Training Techniques)

Self Defense: The Art of Real Street Fighting Techniques (The Ultimate Guide to Beginner Martial Arts Training Techniques)

Talking to Our Selves

Talking to Our Selves

Character Trouble

Character Trouble

Doris Salcedo

Doris Salcedo

Victoria Ocampo

Victoria Ocampo

The Armor of Love and Hope

The Armor of Love and Hope

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