Meet the individuals responsible for establishing Zen as a practice in North America.Between 2013 and 2025, Rick McDaniel conducted nearly 300 interviews with accredited Zen teachers and longtime practitioners in North America, several of whom (Bernie Glassman, Hozan Senauki, Mel Weitsman) have since died. What he was originally interested in was the scope of practices which self-identify as “Zen” on this side of the Pacific, but what he later realized was that he ...

THE ESSENTIAL FIELD GUIDE TO WARRIOR SELF-CAREThe Resilient Warrior is the essential self-help guide to living a healthy, resilient, fulfilled and better life -- the warrior way.Battles are fought everywhere, not just out in the world, but within us. No one better understands this dichotomy than servicemen and women and veterans who must try to integrate back to their normal lives. Coping skills are a real issue for both active dut...

What do nineteenth–century fiction, early twentieth–century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the deep patterns structuring social and cultural life in Rio de Janeiro. Bringing a fresh perspective to one of the most visited cities in South America, Bryan McCann explores each manifestation in turn, mining their depths and drawing connections between artistic movements and political and ec...

Pollution is the single largest cause of death in the developing world. One in seven people in low- and middle-income countries die as a result of it. Simply put, pollution is now the world’s most prevalent health risk.And yet, while most everyone has heard about going green,” few are aware of the more dire and sinister brown” pollution-places where man-made toxic pollutants have taken root and spread. Brown sites poison millions of people every year, causing needless suffering a...

Epworth by the Sea is one of the best Christian retreat centers in the United States! This lovely retreat center on Georgias coast is a great place to draw nearer in your personal relationship with God through Christ.Dr. Wright uses his personal faith journey to provide a way to experience Epworth by the Sea in a way that opens yourself to Gods moving in your life, which leads to spiritual transformation!

In Gwinnett County’s two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a national economy, a Populist uprising and Black outmigration, the entrance of women into the politica...

Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread eastward from China and Japan, toward the United States. Following Zen Masters of China, this book concentrates on Zen's significant passage through Japan. More specifically, it describes the lineage of the great teachers, the Zen monk pioneers who set out to enlighten an island ready for an inner transformation based on compassionate awareness.While the ...

Richard Bryan McDaniel’s Cypress Trees in the Garden: The Second Generation of Zen Teaching in America continues the history of North American Zen which he began in The Third Step East: Zen Masters of America (Sumeru Press, 2015). The earlier book described the pioneers who established Zen practice in North America; this new book focuses on the heirs and successors of those teachers and the challenges they faced.Between March 2013 and September 2014, McDaniel trav...

Zen Masters of China presents more than 300 traditional Zen stories and koans, far more than any other collection. Retelling them in their proper place in Zen's historical journey through Chinese Buddhist culture, it also tells a larger story: how, in taking the first step east from India to China, Buddhism began to be Zen.The stories of Zen are unlike any other writing, religious or otherwise. Used for centuries by Zen teachers as aids to bring about or deepen the experie...

Ever since Catholic priests from Portugal and Spain entered Japan in the 1500’s on missions to convert the Japanese to Christianity, a quiet transformation has been taking place, beginning among those Jesuit missionaries and spreading into the present day among American and European Catholics, lay and ordained alike. As Rick McDaniel writes in this important book, in seeking to understand the Japanese mind so as to know better how to convert the Japanese to Christianity, these early – and ...

My Life in Nevada Politics tells the entertaining, informative, and at times poignant story of the rise of Richard Bryan from humble beginnings in Las Vegas to the pinnacle of Nevada politics during a time of great change across the state and nation. Through his memoir, Bryan provides keen insight into the mechanics of politics, and the book serves as a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Silver State.Born in Washington, D.C. in 1937, Bryan grew up in Las...

WATER WONDERFUL WORLD is a beautifully designed book that will captivate both young readers, parents and teachers. Filled with lots of interesting facts about water, colorful photographs, and wrapped in poetic flair to make science more appealing, it is poised to set young minds buzzing, and inspire them to appreciate the world all around. Readers will discover interesting facts about the continent where they live and other continents too.Water is a precious gift a...