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There was only one Joe Lewis The Worlds Greatest Karate Fighter of All Time. This is a reprint that has long been out of print and dearly wanted needed and desired. Joe's name will most certainly go down in history and hopefully this book will help that...

Physical science is responsible for the marvelous age of invention in which we are now living, but spiri- tual science is now setting out on a career whose possibilities no one can foretell.Spiritual science has previously been the football of the...

Robin L. Reilly discusses the origins and history of Karate and how it travelled from the East to the West and how it has grown in America today.

Shotokan Karate for a Better life   By Shojiro Koyama Discusses Karate for children, adults, basics,kata and kumite and philosophy and more

The "Martial Arts Quiz + Games Book" contains a treasure of information about the martial arts. Compliled in an interesting and informative way the book will give you hours of fun while testing your martial arts knowledge on all aspects of the martial...

Sensei Willy J. Ortiz, a 6th degree black belt, began his love of Shotokan Karate at an early age. Some of his former teachers were Nakayama, Okazaki, Mori, Kaze, Mikami, Kanazawa, Enoeda, Otsuka and Yamaguchi. Throughout this book Ortiz you will find an...

The purpose of this book is to present the Art of Serrada Escrima as the authors' understood it and as they interpret it. Grandmaster Cables gave them the "key". This volume is the first step in taking that "key" and carry Serrada Escrima into the...

An amazing book filled with 100's of rare photros collected by Emil Farkas over the last 60 years. You will be totally amazed with the quantity and clarity of each photo about where when and who is in the photo's. Emil Farkas is considered by most to be...

 CHENG MAN-CH'ING (Zheng Manqing) Cheng Man-ch'ing wrote this series of essays to make various points of classical Chinese philosophy understandable to beginning readers. Mark Hennessy does a wonderful job in translating this work, as well...

This is the most comprehensive book ever created on the History of the Martial Arts in Canada.  Featured are  rare footage and photos, compiled from more then fifty contributors nationwide.   Learn about the champions, pioneers and...

153 Pages chocked full of hand to hand combat techniques used in Ninja training including everything from Basic techniques to tactics and Intuition plus for those with no teacher how to train on your own to discover the way of the Ninja Japan's assassins...

Elmar T. Schmeisser, Doctor of Medical Physiology and Master Instructor certified by the American Teacher's Association of the Martial Arts, brings together his scientific background and more than 25 years of experience in karate for the benefit of...

The "empty hands" or the "flowery hands" was a science, an art, a philosophy. It was practiced by monks who were devout believers in nonviolence more than 1500 years ago. Today we call it "Karate" and in our young country we think of it as something new!...

This historical book provides a history of the greatest boxers in American history and their career highlights.

This book explains the nature and practice of Zen. 

The fascinating true story of author Stan Schmidt's journey from the first day of karate training to achieving 3rd degree black belt in Japan. One of the all-time classic books on karate, written by one of the foremost instructors in the world. Spirit of...

In an age that more individuals are getting older daily then ever before this book will teach you the secrets of the Japanese way to a healthy long life. The chapters include How to stay healthy, The five sensory organs, Food and drink, Selecting a...

This is the original master text written by General Choi Hong Hi in 1965. The book is one of the most complete books ever written on this wonderful Korean art including chapters on all the kicking techniques as well as hand and throwing techniques of...