JAMES SIDNEY is a professional photographer. His first book of nature photographs was Images of Our Inheritance. He has been studying karate since the age of eight, and is presently a black belt, third degree. His master, Masami Tsuruoka, is based in Canada and is affiliated with schools in the U.S., Peru, Australia, Italy and Barbados. Tsuruoka provided the necessary letters of introduction that allowed Sidney access to the masters interviewed in this book. James Sidney currently runs a non-profit dojo in Milton, Ontario.