Lawrence is the best-selling author of a dozen books, including two ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award finalists, an eLit Book Awards Bronze prize, a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist, and three USA Book News Best Books Award finalists. A founding technical consultant to University of New Mexico's Institute of Traditional Martial Arts, he also has written numerous articles on martial arts, self-defense, countervailing force, and related topics. Since 1970, he has studied and taught traditional Asian martial arts, medieval European combat, and modern close-quarter weapon techniqu...