A groundbreaking and exhaustive look into the complex development and unique character of Okinawan karate by a qualified exponent and researcher. The author, with over 42 years of experience in karate, presents the art in a manner that will allow all practitioners, beginner, and expert alike, to benefit from his extensive experience and research. Over 350 color photos and numerous text boxes accompany clear, detailed explanations, making this book an indispensable resource in the field of martial arts. For example, there are chapters focusing on training principles, body mechanics, Chinese boxing and the emergence of Okinawan karate, the real value of kata, the development of fighting skill, the philosophy of karate, weaponry, human aggression, and White Crane kata. This is perhaps the most illuminating karate book ever written. It separates the art from the hype, infusing meaning back into the art and into our practice. In the process, it explains the current status of karate and how we may change its direction for ourselves. Clearly, this is a book written for the thinking practitioner and a challenge to those that sully karate's reputation. Includes an extensive glossary, index, and references.

This is Okinawan Karate: Techniques, Principles and Methodology

Sports & Outdoors

Tekbas, Mehmet S.

Individual Sports

White Crane Books

A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader (White Crane Wisdom)

Gay/straight, Christian/atheist, coffeehouse or pulpit, poet or prose, Malcolm Boyd is an exemplar of the American tradition of life's adventure and free-thinking. He is a gift to anyone who takes the time to encounter him in his writings. 
 To celebrate Malcolm Boyd's 85th birthday, and in recognition of the Lambda Literary Foundation's awarding of the Pioneer Award to him and his partner Mark Thompson for lifetime achievement, White Crane Books is proud to announce the publication of A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader, a compendium of five decades of his prose, poetry, prayers and interviews. This is the first collection of Boyd's writings assembled under one cover, offering the gamut of the man's heart, mind and soul to first-time readers or long-time readers alike. Compiled by Bo Young and Dan Vera, editors of White Crane: the Journal of Gay Wisdom &amp; Culture, the collection begins with the first writings Boyd produced, reflecting presciently on his insider's knowledge and experience in the motion picture business and the American culture machine and span his coffeehouse years with comedian Dick Gregory and the early involvement as a Freedom Marcher with Dr. Martin Luther King. With thirty books written and/or edited to his credit, this is the first to offer the true measure of the man.

A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader; Selected Writings 1950 to 2007 (White Crane Wisdom)

Politics & Social Sciences

Malcolm Boyd

Sociology

In this companion volume to his cri-tically acclaimed, Lambda Literary Award-winning book, Gay Spirituality, noted author Toby Johnson further explicates his visionary stance that gay people's nature as outsiders gives them a uniquely powerful perspective on the nature of God and religion. By living outside gender norms, gay people are more open to seeing across boundaries of gender and gain access to a less dualistic outlook on the nature of life. Once again, Johnson approaches this potentially controversial subject matter with erudition, empathy and visionary speculation and gives meaning to gay consciousness beyond superficial issues of sexual behavior.

Gay Perspective: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe (White Crane Spirituality)

Toby Johnson

Social Sciences

Storytelling can be a way of spinning straw into gold, of showing ourselves we have drawn a long straw in this life. A finalist for Best GLBT Anthology for the Lambda Literary Awards, Charmed Lives offers readers a collection of over thirty short works of fiction and personal essays as an alternative to the stories that society often tells about gay men. Some are whimsical with a touch of enchantment, some profoundly spiritual, others romantic--all offer insight into modern gay life that will inspire and shed light on the grace of being gay with tales of hope against adversity and love over loneliness.

Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling

Literature & Fiction

United States

In a lifetime that stretched from 1913 to 1999 James Broughton witnessed and commented on most of the twentieth century. His commentary, made from the point of view of an outsider, was leveled at some of the century's most precious myths. Broughton countered myth with myth. In a time aghast at its own horrors, Broughton championed laughter. He was a poet, not of the ivory tower but of the innovative street; a playful, urban voice with the notion that a poet could change the world. In a rational century, he asserted mystery.  All: A James Broughton Reader  collects the range of this acclaimed poet and filmmaker.

All: A James Broughton Reader (White Crane Wisdom)

BROUGHTON, James

History & Criticism

In this Lambda Literary award-winning title, author Toby Johnson explores how the rise of gay identity has become an important part of contemporary religious development. 
This dramatic transformation has resulted due to the perspective of gay men; their ability to step outside the assumptions and conventions of culture and see things from a different point of view. 
 This book will reward readers seeking new insight into faith as well as culture, myth and traditions.

Gay Spirituality: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness

Johnson, Toby

Johnson, Edwin Clark

Religion & Spirituality

"We had many saints, many heroes, both female and male, but I want to speak here of the saints and heroes of the gay tribes. For this is a period of human history that has been lost through time, whose return is vitally needed. For you know the heroes of the other tribes. But of this small, sacred tribe, whose history has been obscured, you remember nothing." So tells acclaimed author Andrew Ramer in Two Flutes Playing. Within these pages can be found insight and wisdom. Ramer serves as a mythologist for gay men, providing evidence to the harmony of gender, love and sex. A new introduction by the author reveals why this book--a Lambda Literary Award finalist--has a timeless message.

Two Flutes Playing: A Spiritual Journeybook for Gay Men (White Crane Spirituality)

Ramer, Andrew

The Beautiful Tendons is a collection of more than three decades of award-winning poet Jeffrey Beam's lyrical, metaphysical work. Both spiritual and stirring, Beam's poetry was described by the late James Broughton as sensual ephiphanies, lightning flashes of the dramatic heart of event, memories from the crux of dream. These are subtle works that can be sung to the soul or to your fellow man.

The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems, 1969-2007

Jeffery Beam

Poetry

For over sixty years, Malcolm Boyd has written truthfully about his own journey to fullness. From theologian to civil rights pioneer to coffee house troubadour to gay rights icon, Boyd has courageously and whole-heartedly shown the way to a deeper, more honest examination of all our lives, leading by example. White Crane Books is proud to re-release Boyd's classic spiritual biography and coming out story, Take Off the Masks, for a new generation of readers hungry for its insight, honesty and soulful perception. With a new introduction by Boyd's life partner, Mark Thompson, and a newly added postscript by Rev. Canon Boyd himself.

Take Off the Masks (White Crane Wisdom)

Biographies & Memoirs

Boyd, Malcolm

Leaders & Notable People

Andrew Ramer's new book, Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories , grapples with traditional midrashim, plays with homoerotic love poems from medieval Spain , and envisions alternate versions of the present. Inspired by the pioneering work of Jewish feminists, using the same narrative tools as the rabbis of old, Ramer has crafted stories that anchor LGBT lives in the three thousand year old history of the Jewish people. ''The universe is made up of stories, not atoms,'' wrote poet Muriel Ruckeyser. The stories in this book will transport you to a new universe the one we are striving to create, right here and now.

Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories (White Crane Wisdom)

History

Andrew Ramer

World

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