Fire and Rain: The History of the Ulster Grand Prix Appletree Press ( October, 2003 ) Book Our Price : £ 14.00 List Price : £ 20.00 You save £6 (30% off) Prices subject to change. Usually dispatched within 4 to 6 weeks

Do not worry about the game, just build that Mousetrap!

I know that "Mousetrap" is a game in which players take turns trying to capture an opponents mice, but I am going to take a radical position and say the whole point here is to build this Rube Goldberg version of the proverbial "better mousetrap" and get it to work. Yes, the first time or two that you play this with your kids you can follow the rules and declare a winner. But from then on the fun is just putting this contraption together and getting it to work. The important thing here is that they understand the whole idea of a "Rube Goldberg machine" (he was the inspiration for this toy, even if he does not get the actual credit) and to appreciate the idea of taking a simple every-day real-life problem such as catching a mouse and solving it with a complicated mechanical solution such as what we have here, where you begin with a shoe kicking a bucket and eventually, if everything works correctly, ends with trapping a mouse. This is a game where the way it really works is that young kids want to learn how to put the "Mousetrap" together and get it to work. After they master that skill they will become bored with it, at which point you simply discover some new kids who have yet to be exposed to this unique, classic game. There are certain games that every kid should be exposed to and "Mousetrap" is on that short list of classics.

good book, but...

Although the neigong exercises in this book are well worth practising, the rest of the book is slightly off track. They mention acupuncture points by name, but cant print a chart of where the points are, they spend half the book talking about Wang Ji Wus lineage and life story, which is interesting but has little relevance to the title "health maintenance and strength development" So, if you want the 16 exercises, go buy the book, but if youre a serious chen-stylist or if you know how to adhere to the principles in your training, you might not need this book.

Not a book about fighting

This book does not teach fighting techniques, forms or the martial training side of martial arts. Instead, it shows you how to lay a solid foundation to build real internal power, so that when you study martial training, the ability that you develop will be effective,strong, powerful fighting technique. The book does this with crystal clear, comprehensive instructions and equally clear, comprehensive pictures. The wisdom in this book is as close to pure and uncorrupted as possible for a western text on Xing Yi Quan. The introduction of the writers lineage is both interesting and helps to authenticate the execise advice later in the book. There is not wasted word. It is a gem of book. If a martial artist practices only the work in this book from posture, standing exercise and the sixteen exercises, they will need no other book to develop real power for their chosen soft style.