Breaking skills (the method used to smash blocks of wood and concrete) may well be the most coveted of the martial arts. But as Master Hei Long shows in this fascinating book, the mystique surrounding breaking skills can be broken down into a scientific formula - a method that can be learned, practised and mastered. he teaches readers this method in stages, and, using sketch drawings, describes the weapons of the hand. Here is the book that teaches the seemingly impossible. By following the steps laid out in this book, readers can attain true strength, precision and power.

Drop your opponent in an instant with the deadly moves of the Dragon's Touch. Immobilize or destroy your foe with high-impact blows to the body's most vulnerable areas. Learn which angles to use in striking 43 major target zones. These pressure points are explicitly illustrated, and 165 photos guide you in attacking each spot with the moves of lian shi kung fu.

Dragon Touched twists The Princess and the Pea fairytale into a fun, spicy adventure filled with a dark wizard, one sassy princess, and a baby dragon with attitude. Sacha Ninnette, daughter of Chicago's most ruthless mob lord "Vicious" Vito Ninnette—King of the Mafiosos—is a caged princess. Forced into a pre-arranged marriage with the head of another cartel, she flees the wedding and ends up in a raging thunderstorm. Stumbling upon an old decrepit tower, she takes refuge from the storm. The rude, strange owner of the dwelling, Finley Marin, blackmails Sacha into staying the evening. The longer she weathers the dark night with Fin, the more she suspects he holds his own secrets. With one touch, he awakens her body and heart. To return to his world of magic, Finley Marin needs a princess. How fitting the daughter of his enemy should arrive on his doorstep like a willing sacrifice. There's just one problem—the little mafia princess is weaving her own kind of spell over his heart, threatening well-laid plans for retribution and jeopardizing the chance of returning to his world.

“Jimmy Hatch is a personal hero of mine.” —Anderson Cooper “Irresistible. . . . A wounded SEAL’s shame becomes a salvation.” —J. Ford Huffman, Military Times James Hatch is a former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief, master naval parachutist, and expert military dog trainer and handler. On his fateful final mission in Afghanistan, his SEAL team was sent to recover Bowe Bergdahl—the soldier who deserted his post and fell into the hands of Al-Qaida and the Taliban. The mission went south, and Hatch was left with a shattered femur from an AK-47 round and the SEAL dog who fought alongside him was dead. As a result of his horrific leg wound, his twenty-four-year military career came to an end—and with it the only life he’d ever known. In Touching the Dragon, we witness his long road to recovery. Getting well physically required eighteen surgeries, twelve months of recovery, and learning to walk again. But getting well mentally would prove to be much tougher, as he fought through the depths of despair, alcoholism, and the pull to end his own life. What emerges is a different kind of hero’s journey, one in which Hatch shows the courage it takes to confess, confront, and overcome his own brokenness. Through the love of family, friends, and his military dogs, Hatch learned remarkable tools and found his purpose, and now he wants to share this wisdom with the rest of us because we all have wounds.

A tactile touch-and-feel book all about dragons.

Praised by the likes of Joe Abercrombie and Brent Weeks, Stephen Deas has made dragons his own. In the years before the Dragons laid waste to man's empire, the fearsome monsters were used for war and as gifts of surpassing wealth to buy favour in the constant political battles that tore at the kingdoms. Notorious in these battles was the Dragon Queen. And now she is a prisoner. But no one is more dangerous than when caged ... The critics, fellow authors and readers alike are agreed - if you love dragons and epic fantasy, Stephen Deas is the writer for you. The man who brought dragons back to their full glory, might and terror. DRAGON QUEEN is a companion volume to the Memory of Flames trilogy and to THE BLACK MAUSOLEUM.