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Zen Golf (Hardcover)
Dr.Joseph Parent
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In this ground-breaking approach to golf instruction, Dr Joseph
Parent, both a noted PGA Tour coach and a respected Buddhist
teacher, draws on this natural connection to teach golfers how to
play with more consistency and less frustration, and consequently
how to lower their scores. 'When body and mind are synchronized, we
can uncover our inherent dignity and confidence. The ultimate goal
is not just to help people become better golfers, but better human
beings.' Zen Golf offers a fresh perspective for golf and for life.
Instead of focusing on what's wrong with us - what's broken, flawed
or missing - we can take the attitude that there is something
fundamentally, essentially right with us. In chapters such as 'How
to Get from the Practice Tee to the First Tee', 'You Practice What
You Fear', and 'How to Enjoy a Bad Round of Golf', author Joseph
Parent shows how to make one's mind an ally rather than an enemy:
how to stay calm, clear the interference that leads to bad shots,
and eliminate bad habits and mental mistakes. Rather than an
instruction manual that takes you through a systematic programme,
it is a collection of brief chapters offering the wisdom of
traditional Zen stories and teachings distilled from a lifetime of
actual lessons with golfers, many of whom are PGA professionals.
Continued success at golf (and any other endeavour) requires
preparation, action and response - these form the framework for the
instructions presented in Zen Golf. Applied correctly, they will
help every reader of this unique book to achieve their peak
performance.
Ever since the birth of the modern nation-state at the Peace of
Westphalia, the essential lodestars for governments have been
sovereignty (including of a monopoly over the use of force) and
territorial integrity. Given how elemental sovereignty and
territorial integrity are to states, why would a government ever
willingly disintegrate or give up its sovereignty to unite with
another state as the junior partner? Despite such a considerable
intellectual barrier, modern history features many examples of
states that have either broken apart voluntarily or merged into
others. In Unifying States, IR scholar Joseph Parent focuses on the
latter phenomenon: voluntary unions. As he stresses, they occur
rarely, but they do in fact happen. Indeed, the most famous example
is the United States itself, in the Articles of Confederation era.
Neither constructivists nor liberals, both of whom stress the
positive benefits of economic convergence, can explain why union
occurs so rarely. Nor can realists-who hold that in an anarchic
world order, states must prize their autonomy above all
else-explain why states enter into larger unions that erode their
sovereignty. Parent begins from a realist perspective, yet realizes
that traditional realist theory cannot account for this very real
phenomenon. Instead, he contends that voluntary unions can-and
do-occur in extreme circumstances. When states are painted into the
same corner by events, they can balance against a threatening power
by uniting with each other. Parent applies his thesis to a series
of important historical cases-passage of the US Constitution, Swiss
unification, the semi-merger of Sweden and Norway, and Bolivar's
failed attempt to unite 'Gran Colombia'-before examining the
grandest unification effort ever, the European Union. After
explaining how this happened, Parent utilizes his theory to show
the limits that the EU now faces as it struggles to extend the
scope of unification. In sum, this is an authoritative account of a
historical phenomenon that scholars have been unable to adequately
explain via the main schools of international relations thought.
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