The first novel in the "The Shangrilla Artifacts: A Tale of Leadership Lost" trilogy. A day worker steals 3 ancient scrolls from a secret archaeological dig in the paw of The Sphinx and sells them on the black market. They accidentally fall into the hands of an American professor, who first thinks they are forgeries and then begins to translate them, revealing a history, a civilization, and a drama never before known. Professor Lichtenstein and his colleague Tony Nakamichi, who is adapting the translation for a novel, are threatened not only for what the scrolls reveal, but also for another...

During one of the most challenging and life-changing periods of American culture, characters from the ages of 8 to 40 face themselves and the changing world around them in nine separate, but thematically related short stories.

In the third novel in THE SHANGRILLA ARTIFACTS trilogy, the Shangrillan classmates plot to escape from Null, but cooperation with their captor seems the only way. One betrayal leads to another until they find themselves in the arena facing each other. Professor Lichtenstein and Tony Nakamichi finally meet the person who has been tormenting them in his quest for the Shangrilla Artifacts and accidentally discover his hidden connection to the scrolls that are older than recorded history.

Time and time again you have heard that studying martial arts can lead to personal improvement. Until now, no one has detailed how In this ambitious treatment of the non-physical and sometimes non-conscious teachings of the traditional martial arts, Master Instructor Tony Annesi outlines methods of self-development leading to the level of awareness and achievement called -Mastery-. Those who approach Mastery, Annesi suggests, actually travel two roads-a physical and a conceptual. They pass by five signposts on their climb up the mountain. Their physical skills hold hidden conceptual lessons...

The benchmark in understanding karate kata The first book of its kind and there has never been another quite like it: a detailed explanation of the study of kata in karate that applies to any system. Make your kata study infinite Chapters include: What You See is Not What you Get; Why Methods Die Out; Change of Structure, Change of Meaning; All Kata is Training; The Value of the Kata Training Method; Kata, Waza, Bunkai and Oyo; The Map is Not the Territory; Other Analogies to Kata; The Kata of Code; Cracking the Code; Types and Modes of Bunkai.