The Point: Weapons On and Off the Fencing Strip - Couverture souple

Brus, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798251940749

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

After 30 years on the fencing strip, Brian Brus noticed something: the patterns drilled into students — read the threat, close the line, don't let them inside your guard — showed up everywhere else in human life. In boardrooms and bedrooms, in literature and law, in the way a child learns to argue and the way empires fall.

The Point follows that observation across centuries and disciplines, from dueling codes to childhood language development, from Shakespeare's stage fights to the courtroom. The thesis is simple and unsettling: the distance between a swordfight and a shouting match is shorter than we want to believe — and the people most likely to wound us are the ones we've already let inside our guard.

A fencer's guide to the conflicts that don't come with a referee.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798251940749
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 89
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