Author: David B. Ralston
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: european, institutions, extra, world, techniques, military, army, introduction, importing
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0226703193
ISBN-13: 9780226703190

In a study that extends well beyond military history, David B. Ralston documents the ways in which five different countries--Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, China, and Japan--refashioned their armed forces along European lines during the three centuries after 1600. The appropriation of Western military institutions in countries outside of Europe was, Ralston argues, the major force driving these countries to adopt European administrative, economic, and cultural modes. Following the same format in his discussion of each country, Ralston makes this central theme in world history easily acc

Author: W. R. S. Ralston
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: print, large, tales, fairy, russian
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $38.99
ISBN-10: 0554300540
ISBN-13: 9780554300542

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Author: W. R. S. Ralston
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: tales, folk, russian
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2004-03-19
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0766189570
ISBN-13: 9780766189577

1873. One touch of storytelling may . . . make the whole world kin. So stated Ralston. In England the works of Ralston were the first to deal with the vast field of Slavonic, and more especially of Russian, folklore. His chief endeavor was to show the great amount of information which the unwritten literature of Russia contains as to the early stages of religious development. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Author: Bruce Ralston
Publisher: OnWord Press
Keywords: visual, basic, mapobjects, solutions, gis, developing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-10-31
List price: $96.95
ISBN-10: 0766854388
ISBN-13: 9780766854383

This essential resource offers GIS professionals and students the programming skills to create state-of-the-art GIS applications using MapObjects and Visual Basic. Developing GIS Solutions with MapOjects and Visual Basic teaches GIS programming in a complete hands-on environment. This how-to manual provides instruction in how to use the latest version of the popular MapObjects ActiveX control from leading GIS application developer ESRI. Along the way, readers will gain a hands-on introduction to Visual Basic (VB) programming through practice VB programs utilizing MapObjects. GIS topics such as

Author: Peter Ralston
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Keywords: power, effortless, principles, hsin, cheng
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-01-29
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1556433026
ISBN-13: 9781556433023

The basic text of one of the geniuses of martial arts in America.

Author: Peter Ralston
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Keywords: effortless, power, art, shou, hsin, tui, cheng
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 1556430949
ISBN-13: 9781556430947

This book provided this beginning tai-chi student with a rich, methodical philosophical "grounding" on some concepts that that are at the core of Eastern martial arts. Ralston helps the reader develop an awareness, quite literally "from the ground up".

Author: Peter Ralston
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Keywords: reflections
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1556431198
ISBN-13: 9781556431197

Personal, reflective, and gently investigative, these early essays have a raw, fresh quality which predates the more formal theory and practice of Peter Ralston’s two best-selling books, Cheng Hsin: The Principles of Effortless Power and Cheng Hsin T’ui Shou: The Art of Effortless Power. Many of the questions for which the martial arts work of Cheng Hsin is a vehicle of discovery—identity in relation to others, authenticity in the face of belief systems, the draw we have to pursue ineffective self-serving urges, and our tendency to conceptualize rather than experience things—ar