Beneath every belt lies a story the dojo floor never tells. In the sequel to The Bonfire, RAF returns to the fire that first forged him — this time descending past technique, past rank, into the quiet reckonings that shape a warrior long after the bow is given. What Lies Beneath the Belt is a meditation on discipline, inheritance, and the weight carried by those chosen to guard a tradition. For students of Bujutsu and seekers of any path, this is the second flame in a lineage m...

In this sequel to The Bonfire, RAF sits by the same fire a second time and finally answers the question a small boy once asked him: what actually kept you alive? Across eighteen chapters — decades of training, sudden violence, quiet devastation, and a twenty-year silence with his own sons finally broken — RAF makes one claim and refuses to let go of it: none of it was ever his own doing.What Lies Beneath the Belt is not a martial arts manual. It is a long letter of gratitude, disgu...

BOOK DESCRIPTION — THE BONFIREFor Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, and all retailer pagesFull DescriptionThere is a fire that has been burning for a very long time.It existed before belts. Before certificates. Before tournaments and colored cloth and framed photographs of champions on gymnasium walls.And it is almost invisible in the modern world.

After twenty-seven years inside a living martial arts lineage, RAF set out to write down what no belt, no certificate, and no seminar could ever fully carry: the difference between collecting techniques and actually being transformed by them.The Bonfire is not a manual. It is a transmission — drawn from decades of direct instruction under a master whose own art was passed to him as a living student, not a franchise. Through story, reflection, and h...

There’s magic in the world, but none for Malenie…It's been 119 days since everything fell apart.Since her friendship with Nes imploded.Since Nes’s siblings were taken by slavers.Since Malenie lost Nes’s protection.And the bullies are closing in.A short prequel to The Desert Wall, Raf Morgan’s “Beneath the Ever Trees” is the story of what really happened between Malenie and Nes before the events that took Malenie out of her small town...

The Wall is in Berlin, Gorbachev is in the Kremlin, and the gloomy American citizen Adam Hedman is trapped behind the Iron Curtain in the German East. A dangerous game begins when a coworker’s sister vanishes under mysterious circumstances, sparking Adam’s fighting spirit again. A fast-paced adventure brings our hero as far as Russia. Always at his back are the German Stasi and the Russian KGB. Who will win this high-stakes game of life and death? Iron Curtain is the first novel of the Ada...

The general properties and mathematical structures of semiseparable matrices were presented in volume 1 of Matrix Computations and Semiseparable Matrices. In volume 2, Raf Vandebril, Marc Van Barel, and Nicola Mastronardi discuss the theory of structured eigenvalue and singular value computations for semiseparable matrices. These matrices have hidden properties that allow the development of efficient methods and algorithms to accurately compute the matrix eigenvalues.This ...

One of the most powerful ways to cultivate happiness lies in a simple truth: expectation can be more joyful than reality.

Perfect for fans of The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani and the Alanna books by Tamora Pierce, this page-turning fantasy immerses readers in a vivid desert landscape and the mysteries and dangers that lie beyond the Wall.Malenie doesn’t need anyone…By her fourteenth year, Melanie has learned how to survive on her own in the harsh reality of her small town. Bullies. Judgmental neighbors. A broken friendship. She also knows how to hide her secre...

**A high school hypochondriac with a unique sense of fashion finds herself navigating through the comical chaos of teenage life in this bittersweet coming-of-age novel.“Run like the dickens [and order] this bad boy right now!”—MTV“Lovably neurotic.”—Publishers Weekly**Izzy’s symptoms are epic . . . or more like epidemic.Izzy is a hypochondriac with enormous boobs that won't stop growing, a mother with a rare disease who's hiding so...

The Champions League is dead. Long live the Champions League! When Nigerian striker Daniel Amokachi scored for Club Brugge in November 1992, he ignited not just a match but a revolution—the birth of European football's new commercial era. Belgian coach Raymond Goethals promptly led Olympique Marseille to claim the inaugural title. From these origins emerged the world's premier football league. Broadcast rights now command astronomical sums across continents, shifting football's epicentre f...

This book provides a historical-sociological analysis of the history of sociology in Belgium from the late-nineteenth until the early-twenty-first century. It sheds new light on the social structures that shaped and shape the orientations and work of sociologists in Belgium. The impact of three structural factors is discussed in more detail: religion, language and publication imperatives. Starting from analyses of these structural factors, this book presents a detailed analysis of the gene...