Bücher von Richard Francis

First of an entire series of books and videos dedicated to the detailed instruction of Danzan Ryu Jujitsu is available. See the lists of techniques done in walk through and at full speed in the videos. Have the book handy to make sure you catch every detail. Look through the instructors notes for the finer points to hone your technique to perfection. With these tools and the special training tips provided, you can excel in Danzan Ryu Jujitsu. Be the star of the next tournament. The videos are available in DVD format from: Prof.Richard Francis aijukikan@yahoo.com Volume 1:Rolls and Falls, Yawara and Nage $29.95 Volume 2: Shime, Oku and Knife and Gun Arts $29.95 The unedited video contains both volume one and two $49.95 Instructors handwritten notes with annotations $19.95

First in a series of Danzan Ryu Jujitsu books to reveal every technique to the public for the first time. All techniques will be shown in a step by step manner! You will want to collect the entire series! Whether you are a Danzan Ryu Jujitsuka or practice another martial art, this series will greatly enhance your combat ability. Learn the most popular Jujitsu style in the world. A CD is available to accompany the books in the series.

The most evocative and richly contextualised account of the Salem Witch trials in print. The Salem witch trials of 1692 have assumed mythical status. Immortalised by Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible', the witch-hunt is now part of our vocabulary. Yet the actual events have ben overshadowed by the myth. Biographer and novelist Richard Francis brings the reality back into focus with the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, publisher, entrepreneur and writer. Sewall's life encompassed the tensions that faced the second generation colonists, caught between the staunch conservatism of the Founding Fathers and the possibilities their new world offered. Everywhere there was conflict, schism and violence, from the pagan Indians to dissenting settlers. Out of the struggle to maintain cohesion emerged the forces that drove the Salem tragedy. Five years after pronouncing judgment at the trials, Sewall walked into a Boston church and recanted the guilty verdicts, praying for forgiveness. Rarely remarked upon before now, this extraordinary act not only marked a turning point for Sewall, but arguably set the fledgling nation on the path that it has followed to this day. In this intriguing biography, Richard Francis rediscovers a period of great cultural change and historical development, enabling us to see the colonial Puritans not as grim ideologues but as flesh-and-blood people. We witness the comical courtship of Sewall's later years; his attempts to square a prodigious appetite with the scruples of piety, and a disagreement that led him to pen the first anti-slavery tract ever written in America. Through Sewall's life, we gain access to the lost wonders of the New World.

Fans of Jonathan Coe will love this extraordinary panoramic novel, which turns upon the whirligig of life that is Costford, a North Western town, in 1970. Costford, a brash north of England town. It's 1970 and young Trevor Morgan has a magical smile and large ambitions. But his marriage is in crisis, and he seeks help from an unexpected quarter: feisty middle-aged May Rollins. May is feeling the stress of living with the demented mother she has always hated. Strange things start happening: she spots a lollipop lady at eight o'clock on an August evening; her TV converts to colour of its own accord; and mother takes to wandering off, with murderous intent, when the minder, May's stepdaughter Cherry, is not looking. May and Trevor are political enemies, at odds over a controversial plan to build council flats at Prospect Hill, but their relationship takes a shocking ? and ambiguous ? twist. Meanwhile Art Whiteside, a predatory estate agent who believes in true love, complicates affairs on both town and home fronts. With dazzling ingenuity, Richard Francis catches the whirligig of urban life at the very moment when contemporary society was struggling into being. His comic and poignant novel conjures up the fumbled negotiations we make between our public and private lives, evoking the pain and pleasure of husbands, wives, and lovers, of parents and children ? and depicting a personal and communal quest for the meaning of home.