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...

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...

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...

After twelve years away from his coastal Florida home, Detective Dillon Storm is only now getting his sea legs back. When he pulls the body of a woman from the gulf while on an impromptu fishing trip with his nephew, Dillon thinks things couldn't get stranger. When that body is identified as a woman who was pronounced dead three years ago, he realizes how wrong he is.Now, with little more to go on than a gut feeling and the years' old files from a case that couldn't be colder, Dill...

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 ...

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 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...

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.

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....

A twist of fate can make all the difference.After finally getting settled in Bonita Springs, Lucky John's world is thrown for a loop when one of his biggest enemies, Rascal Mangrove, comes asking for his help. Now, with a mystery unlike any other he's ever faced spooling out around him, John has to work as hard as he ever has to get to the bottom of it. And, in the end, he'll find that the truth is closer than he ever imagined, and that his luck just might have run out.Grab...

Dreams never stay dead in the low country, and for Detective Andy Winslow, those dreams might kill himAs he's adjusting to life back home in Charleston, Andy's given a new case. A series of murders has started happening around town. There's no visible tie to them, and Andy can't seem to crack the case.Enter Destiny Reyes.She's from Charleston too, the hottest spa nd comer in country music, and she's been keeping a secret that just might blow the entire case wide ope...

One good hand can change everything.Fresh off saving the day in his new hometown of Bonita Springs, Florida, John Lucky is met with a familiar face from his past, as well as an offer he can't refuse. With a mission that sends him onboard the most exclusive poker ship in the world, Lucky John is met with twists and turns that'll make him question everything he thinks he knows...if he survives at all.Grab the next installment in the thrilling Lucky John Adventure series now!