Putting ancient Greek and East Asian philosophies into conversation, this book argues that learning a martial art can provide practitioners with a deeper understanding of the philosophical views that animate the cultures from which traditional martial arts have developed. In this respect, a martial art has more to offer than techniques for self-defense or exercises that promote power, strength, flexibility, and coordination. Martial arts training can develop more aspects of a person than t...

The Looking Glass: Within a Cognitive and Personal Journey is a raw, unflinching memoir by Mark Stone-Sanders, also known by his divine names Justice Divine Allah, Jihad Damu Askari, and Magnetic Sapient Allah. Raised in the heart of Oak Park, Sacramento, Sanders offers a deeply personal account of growing up amidst systemic racism, street violence, and generational struggle-only to emerge with purpose, identity, and wisdom.From navigating a world shaped by the legacy of t...

Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Sport brings together martial arts and Eastern philosophical wisdom with the competitive world of sports as games. This exploration goes beyond the conventional view of martial arts as fighting skills and delves into their evolution as competitive Olympic sports and profound ways of self-cultivation.Mark Stone reveals the philosophical underpinnings of both disciplines, which engage not only the body but also the mind, fostering a holisti...

The capacity for everyday heroics is in each of us. Sometimes the most ordinary accomplishment can be the height of inspiration, if only we knew the journey that person traveled to reach that accomplishment. These stories are all around us, if only we stop, look, and listen.This is one story.Perhaps it starts lying in the back of an ambulance, wondering if I would walk again, and thinking, with a strange sense of relief, "This is the bottom. It can only get better from here...

Secrets never stay hidden in the lowcountry, and for Detective Andy Winslow, those secrets are about to get deadly.Fifteen years ago, Charleston, South Carolina was home to one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. The Carolina Reaper took out twelve people, and he just so happened to be Andy Winslow's identical twin brother.Now, murders are starting up again, and those murders look eerily similar to ones that shook the now Detective Andy Winslow's world all ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Do you react before you think and then feel guilty afterward?Do you shut down, snap, or push people away when emotions hit too hard?Do you worry your behavior is damaging your relationships?Do you feel misunderstood, defensive, or easily triggered?You’re not bad. You’re overwhelmed, unskilled, and tired of repeating patterns you never learned how to break. I get how heavy that feels....

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Do you react before you think and then feel guilty afterward?Do you shut down, snap, or push people away when emotions hit too hard?Do you worry your behavior is damaging your relationships?Do you feel misunderstood, defensive, or easily triggered?You’re not bad. You’re overwhelmed, unskilled, and tired of repeating patterns you never learned how to break. I get how heavy that feels....

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Do you react before you think and then feel guilty afterward?Do you shut down, snap, or push people away when emotions hit too hard?Do you worry your behavior is damaging your relationships?Do you feel misunderstood, defensive, or easily triggered?You’re not bad. You’re overwhelmed, unskilled, and tired of repeating patterns you never learned how to break. I get how heavy that feels....

One mistake can put everything at risk.When a killer from his past threatens an old girlfriend, Lucky John finds himself drawn into a maze of danger, lies, and family secrets. After being instrumental in putting the killer named The Viper behind bars, Lucky John did his best to put the entire ordeal out of his mind. But when the man is released under mysterious circumstances, it throws everything he thought he knew for a loop.Tracking him to the sandy beaches of Cancun alon...

Phosphene an entoptic phenomenon characterized by the experience of seeing light without light actually entering the eye.Ian uses the light he sees when he closes his eyes to choose his next victim, the next euphoric hit on his way to ultimate rapture.Little John is not your average young boy. A bright happy boy to most, a source of good to some, a savior to a few and despised enemy of one.

One good deed can change everything.After saving a woman from an armed robber at a truck stop, former soldier John Lucky is more than happy to take her number, even if she does print it out on a lottery ticket. He's even more happy when that ticket wins the lottery and he can take himself and his Army bud Davey down to Florida so they can live the good life in the paradise that is the Gulf Coast.Drinks, girls, and good times take a backseat to trouble, though, when "Lucky J...

Detective Dillon Storm is headed back to Naples for the first time in a dozen years, and the occasion is not a happy one.The illegitimate son of the richest man in America's richest city, Dillon spent his entire life in the shadow of a family that would never accept him.Now he's come to bury the man who neglected him and in doing so, put that part of his life behind him forever.But the past has a way of sticking around, and things don't stay forgotten in sun soaked ...