Kingdom Ninja

World-class athlete Daniel Gil (a.k.a Kingdom Ninja) gives readers a compelling, behind-the-scenes look at being an American Ninja Warrior and shares his expert advice on becoming physically, mentally, and spiritually fit. Daniel Gil’s unprecedented rise from American Ninja Warrior rookie to grand champion didn’t happen overnight, much like the healthy habits he’s developed over the years that have become the secret of his success. Now Daniel wants to help you pursue a lifestyle that promotes total well-being—body, mind, and soul. With practical guidance and plenty of encouragement, Daniel shows you how to stay healthy and motivated, so you can live your best life with faith as your foundation. Though you may never compete as a ninja warrior, you can train like one and become stronger physically, mentally, and spiritually, allowing you to make a greater impact on God’s Kingdom.

Young fans of American Ninja Warrior and Daniel Gil, the Kingdom Ninja, will love this fully illustrated look into Daniel’s awesome world. Learn what it takes to become a ninja warrior! American Ninja Warrior legend Daniel Gil has thrilled viewers of all ages with his incredible feats of strength, speed, and agility on the hit TV show. Now Daniel gives kids a glimpse of his everyday life in this fun and imaginative book. In a kid-friendly comic style, aspiring ninja warriors will learn more about Daniel’s incredible rise from young upstart to 2020 American Ninja Warrior champion. Relive some of his most exciting moments on the show, and discover the disciplines that have helped Daniel stay mentally, physically, and spiritually fit. How to Be a Kingdom Ninja will inspire young readers to pursue their dreams and live healthy and happy lives.

Young fans of American Ninja Warrior and Daniel Gil, the Kingdom Ninja, will love this fully illustrated look into Daniel’s awesome world. Learn what it takes to become a ninja warrior! American Ninja Warrior legend Daniel Gil has thrilled viewers of all ages with his incredible feats of strength, speed, and agility on the hit TV show. Now Daniel gives kids a glimpse of his everyday life in this fun and imaginative book. In a kid-friendly comic style, aspiring ninja warriors will learn more about Daniel’s incredible rise from young upstart to 2020 American Ninja Warrior champion. Relive some of his most exciting moments on the show, and discover the disciplines that have helped Daniel stay mentally, physically, and spiritually fit. How to Be a Kingdom Ninja will inspire young readers to pursue their dreams and live healthy and happy lives.

World-class athlete Daniel Gil (a.k.a Kingdom Ninja) gives readers a compelling, behind-the-scenes look at being an American Ninja Warrior and shares his expert advice on becoming physically, mentally, and spiritually fit. Daniel Gil’s unprecedented rise from American Ninja Warrior rookie to grand champion didn’t happen overnight, much like the healthy habits he’s developed over the years that have become the secret of his success. Now Daniel wants to help you pursue a lifestyle that promotes total well-being—body, mind, and soul. With practical guidance and plenty of encouragement, Daniel shows you how to stay healthy and motivated, so you can live your best life with faith as your foundation. Though you may never compete as a ninja warrior, you can train like one and become stronger physically, mentally, and spiritually, allowing you to make a greater impact on God’s Kingdom.

At a time when children are spending more time playing video games and less time playing outside, Gil wants to inspire them to be healthy and active, and to pursue their dreams. As a top athlete on the popular TV show, American Ninja Warrior, Gil saw the opportunity to combine his ninja adventures into an exciting read for kids. Gil says, "I put my core values and personal stories into the book and, as a Christian, I love to use my platform to build others up. Kids will be able to relate to this book because, they love obstacles and adventures! I believe kids from all sports and backgrounds will be entertained and encouraged." Daniel has worked with kids most of his life, and wanted to reach as many as possible to leave a positive impact on them.

The Ninjas today are the stuff of myth and legend in comics, film and electronic games. But once they were real, the medieval equivalent of the SAS: spies, saboteurs, assassins. In their secrecy, under-cover skills and determination to survive, they were the opposite of the overt, self destructive samurai. Could they fly? Make themselves invisible? Of course not.It was just that their skills gave them a magical aura. As a result, martial artists and story-tellers have turned them into fantasy creatures, from James Bond to Mutant Turtles. In Ninja John Man goes in search of the truth. In a journey to the heartland of the ninjas, he takes us from their origins over 1,000 years ago, through their heyday in the civil wars that ended with Japan’s unification in 1600. But that was not the end of the ninja ethos. That re-emerged in World War Two as a little-known counterpart to Japanese militarism. Ninja ways live on in the real ‘last of the ninjas’, Hiroo Onoda, who held out in the Philippine jungle for 30 years.

The first generation Narcissus had returned to its youth.There are millions of people in the world, but I am the only one who is arrogant![If I were you, who would dare to be superior to me?]

"The Invention of Martial Arts examines the media history of what we now call 'martial arts' and argues that martial arts is a cultural construction that was born in film, TV and other media. It argues that 'martial arts' exploded into popular consciousness entirely thanks to the work of media. Of course, the book does not deny the existence of real, material histories and non-media dimensions in martial arts practices. But it thoroughly recasts the status of such histories, combining recent myth-busting findings in historical martial arts research with important insights into the discontinuous character of history, the widespread 'invention of tradition', the orientalism and imagined geographies that animate many ideas about history, and the frequent manipulation of history for reasons of status, cultural capital, private or public power, politics, and/or financial gain. In doing so, The Invention of Martial Arts argues for the primacy of media representation as key player in the emergence and spread of martial arts. This argument overturns the dominant belief that 'real practices' are primary, while representations are secondary. The book makes its case via historical analysis of the British media history of such Eastern and Western martial arts as Bartitsu, jujutsu, judo, karate, tai chi and MMA across a range of media, from newspapers, comics and books to cartoon, film and TV series, as well as television adverts and music videos, focusing on key but often overlooked texts such as adverts for 'Hai Karate', the 1970s disco hit 'Kung Fu Fighting', and many other mainstream and marginal media texts"--

One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: TIME, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly, Vogue, Vulture, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Lit Hub, The Story Exchange, The Messenger, Real Simple, How to Be, BookPage From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love. Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material—scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books—Splinters enters a new realm. In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once—a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover—Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising ways. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other, an almost impossibly deep reckoning with the muchness of life and art, and a book that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another. How do we move forward into joy when we are haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we’ve caused? A memoir for which the very term tour de force seems to have been coined, Splinters plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page, full of linguistic daring and emotional acuity. Jamison, a master of nonfiction, evinces once again her ability to “stitch together the intellectual and the emotional with the finesse of a crackerjack surgeon” (NPR).

The light of fireflies – it is as contagious as the spirit of enthusiasm of a joyous child. That moment when we witness thousands flitting past us, the beauty is inexplicable. This book is an anthology of stories created by children in 24 hours, at The Hindu Lit for Life Festival, 2018. The stories in this book are like those fireflies, touching your life with their light and leaving you with a moment you’ll cherish forever. These 8–12 year old authors have let their imaginations loose with stories across genres. We believe this will be an inspiration for all children, to dream, imagine, create a magical world of their own and leave behind a trail of light.