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This fast-paced, compelling and chilling account is the deeply moving story of a three-time Kung Fu World Champion. With fascinating insight into the traditions of China's martial arts, it documents the abusive upbringing that turned a four-year old child into a hardened, professional killer. From China to Europe and across the Mediterranean, we follow Tony as he becomes an elite bodyguard, protecting some of the world's most powerful people. Following personal tragedy, Tony's extreme discipline and the philosophy of his art is quickly turned. He begins to use his skills for illegal means and...

If Jack Kerouac went to Vietnam, this is the book he would have written--created without any filter--with all the vividness, craziness, bloodiness, harshness, kindness, sensuousness and godliness that is war.

Landing Zone Zebra, Planet Earth, 1968. John Coltrane and John Lennon. Peace talks in Paris and nightly mortar attacks. Secret patrols to Laos and best friends flown home in body bags. The chaos that passes for life in a guerrilla war. This is Long Before the Next War. Part poetry. Part prose. And all great read.

If Jack Kerouac went to Vietnam, this is the book he would have written--created without any filter--with all the vividness, craziness, bloodiness, harshness, kindness, sensuousness and godliness that is war.

Landing Zone Zebra, Planet Earth, 1968. John Coltrane and John Lennon. Peace talks in Paris and nightly mortar attacks. Secret patrols to Laos and best friends flown home in body bags. The chaos that passes for life in a guerrilla war. This is Long Before the Next War. Part poetry. Part prose. And all great read.

"The Amato Opera Company has delighted music lovers throughout the years, establishing an extraordinary artistic tradition in New York City."

-- Bill Clinton

"The Amato Opera theatre is a truly extraordinary New York cultural institution and it is a priceless addition to our great City's music industry."

-- Rudolph W. Giuliani

Author Anthony (Tony) Amato produced full-staged grand opera in New York City for 61 years. Now Tony tells his story-from his earliest childhood in Minori, Italy; immigration to the U.S.; his early career in restaurant kitchens and...

"Inner Need" This introduction to my book, I hope will make you further look, To look inside my poems to read, To see what life my mind did feed. Some life events in which I engage, I found a need to write on the page, Those were the times I had an urge, Upon the page my thoughts to purge. Poems in this book I wrote for me, And if you look within to see, I think inside you well may find, A memory lost brought back to mind. Want you to know this introduction, Not meant to be a sales seduction, Your curiosity was meant to attract, In hope with the book you'd interact. But if this effort somehow...

This book is a poetic autobiography chronicling the author's life while growing up in the segregated South during the volatile yet liberating sixties and seventies; his eventual move out west to California; his subsequent incarceration, and introduction to the State of California penal system; which culminated into his necessary atonement; release, and his eventual, remarkable re-indoctrination into mainstream American Society. This author's ability to recall and pen those compelling and transformationing moments literally draws and holds the reader in suspense and in anticipation as each...

"The Amato Opera Company has delighted music lovers throughout the years, establishing an extraordinary artistic tradition in New York City."

-- Bill Clinton

"The Amato Opera theatre is a truly extraordinary New York cultural institution and it is a priceless addition to our great City's music industry."

-- Rudolph W. Giuliani

Author Anthony (Tony) Amato produced full-staged grand opera in New York City for 61 years. Now Tony tells his story-from his earliest childhood in Minori, Italy; immigration to the U.S.; his early career in restaurant kitchens and...

"Inner Need" This introduction to my book, I hope will make you further look, To look inside my poems to read, To see what life my mind did feed. Some life events in which I engage, I found a need to write on the page, Those were the times I had an urge, Upon the page my thoughts to purge. Poems in this book I wrote for me, And if you look within to see, I think inside you well may find, A memory lost brought back to mind. Want you to know this introduction, Not meant to be a sales seduction, Your curiosity was meant to attract, In hope with the book you'd interact. But if this effort somehow...

A collection of essays based on the conference of the same name held at the Univeristy of Plymouth in April 2007. Contributors are Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten; Andrea Brady, Allen Fisher, Robert Hampson, Richard Kerridge, Peter Middleton, William Rowe, Robert Sheppard; Helene Aji, Andrew Browne, Matt Chambers, Brendan Cooper, Ian Davidson, Carrie Etter, Kit Fryatt, Piers Hugill, Michael Kindellan, Greg Lainsbury, Catherine Martin, Will Montgomery, Eva Mueller-Zettelman, Susan Nurmi-Schomers, Christopher Orchard, Robin Peel, Kathy-Ann Tan, Philip Terry and Scott Thurston."

Love's War on Divorce is a book of thought provoking poetry designed to promote positive interaction in developing and sustaining Christian relationships. It is not your typical poetry book it is written from a common sense perspective focusing on reemphasizing the obvious with a rhyme, rhythm and style. The diversity of the book provides an intuitive insight into all aspects of relationship building, sustainment and recovery. If you are over the age of 40 and married every poem will provide a very meaningful view point into some issue that either you or someone that you know has been exposed...

Crime and Immigrant Youth is a unique study of migration as a process that sometimes leads to youthful crime beyond the norms of either the home or host culture. Tony Waters uses data from 100 years of United States immigration records to examine immigrant groups such as Laotians, Koreans and Mexicans in the late 20th century, as well as Mexicans and Molkan Russians in the early years of the century. The study reveals the sequential consequences of a high proportion of young males in an immigrant group: patterned misunderstanding between parents and children; deviant subcultures such as...

Exit Strategy is insightful, simplifying a complex subject while chronicling crucial details for a smooth and successful ESOP conversion, from the company owner's point of view. Successfully converting an organization to an ESOP also means looking in the mirror and taking a new position. The transaction takes work, the transition takes patience, the transformation takes persistence and the rewards can be tremendously invaluable, once you're on the other side. The Employee Stock Ownership Plan Can Sustain and Secure the Company's Future Without You.

They say, "a picture is worth a thousand words." And I say, give me a thousand words and I will give you a painting. Get the picture?