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Scott Shaw
Taekwondo Basics teaches you all the fundamentals of this martial art form in a clear and easy-to-understand manner!
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Daron R. Shaw, Scott L. Althaus, Costas Panagopoulos
Covering the beginning of the television era to the present, Battleground provides an unprecedented look at the Electoral College strategies used by US presidential campaigns from 1952 to 2020 and…
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In this collection of conversations, Ben Palpant, author of Letters From The Mountain, has compiled his intimate, one-on-one interviews with eighteen powerful poets of the 21st century. These intimate conversations…
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Zen Buddhism: The Pathway to Nirvana provides the reader with a complete overview of the history and evolution of Buddhism – from the birth and enlightenment of the Buddha onto…
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In the follow-up book to his best selling text, Zen Filmmaking, prolific Independent Filmmaker Scott Shaw takes the reader behind the scenes of Indie Filmmaking and teaches the secrets of…
Cambodia was in a state of political and cultural upheaval from the late 1950s through the early 1990s. This was epitomized by the political reign of terror brought on by…
Step into the realms of Pagan, Burma through the artistically interpretative lens of master photographer Scott Shaw.
Donald G. Jackson was a cutting edge, avant-garde filmmaker who contributed numerous films to the independent film market throughout his career. His wild behavior, chaotic filmmaking style, and lack of…
Marguerite Duras and Charles Bukowski were each dramatically shaped by their early life experiences, established in the environment of a dysfunctional family. From their early negative exposure and emotional indoctrination…
Scott A Shaw
The United States has attempted for several decades to assist in the modernization of armies in the Middle East. These armies are rich in tradition and heritage of medieval and…
Mike Kazaleh,Scott Shaw
Four fruit-tastic books in one spiffy boxed set!
Scott Shaw, Ph. D.
Step through the veil of love to encounter the mind of a man and a woman as they each etch their pathway through a relationship gone wrong.
Eloping is the hot new trend in weddings, and this handbook is filled with creative ideas for couples to exchange their vows in a memorable, personal way that won’t cost…
From the graffiti ridden walls of Shibuya to the crowded subways onto the neon lights of Shinjuku at night view the hidden realms of Tokyo through the artistic lens of…
Dr Scott Shaw-Smith
Women are killers too and throughout history there have been many, inside is a collection of these notorious killer women
From graffiti ridden walls, to street art, onto specular sunsets, Scott Shaw provides a piercing, artistic view into the urban landscape of Los Angeles, California.
Kathi Kellenberger,Scott Shaw
Beginning T-SQL is a performance-oriented introduction to the T-SQL language underlying the Microsoft SQL Server database engine. Beginning T-SQL begins with an introduction to databases, normalization, and to SQL Server…
Beginning T-SQL 2012 is the first step toward learning the T-SQL language that underlies Microsoft’s SQL Server database engine.
The poetry of Scott Shaw. Take a walk into the night as a poet undergoes a drug overdose.
This book made up of the gritty and street-wise prose that Scott Shaw is known for creating. In its pages he takes the reader deeply into the dark and lust…
If you take a moment to step outside of yourself, move beyond the melodrama which you are currently involved in, you can perhaps see how life functions and have a…
THE PASSIONATE KISS OF ILLUSION presents the philosophies and experiences of an original visionary, Scott Shaw, Ph.D. Veering between the ascetic and the sensual, this book takes the reader on…
JUNK: The Back Streets of Bangkok is a gritty first-person tale of pulp literature. This book details the life of a California artist who relocates to Bangkok, Thailand where he…
Scott Shaw takes the reader on a first-person, brash tale of a long-time love affair gone bad – revolving around a day when the earth shook in Los Angeles, California…
In his gritty and explicit verbal stylings, Scott Shaw takes the reader into a deeply personal exploration of the consciousness of the male mind as its winds its way through…
In this novel of pulp espionage, the author, Scott Shaw, takes the reader deep into the realms of Asia – presenting the sights and sounds of the environment in a…
In this deeply personal, prose driven book, Scott Shaw takes the reader through the realms of the lost urban mindset of modern city dwellers lost in their quest for illusion…
Scott Shaw takes the reader on a journey into the inner-workings of spiritual India as a spiritual seeker meets an unlikely guru who guides him on the road to enlightenment…
In this piercing novel, Scott Shaw takes the reader into the lost realms of 1980s Burma where he details, in his uniquely personal and revealing manner, the paths of love…
In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed, The Passionate Kiss of Illusion, Scott Shaw, via his unique literary styling, takes the reader through torrid love affairs, dysfunctional relationships, mystical debauchery…
The penetrating and explicit prose of Scott Shaw.
Take a walk into the abstract with the words of Scott Shaw.
Take a step into the mind of Scott Shaw as he leads the reader through the backstreet of Tokyo, Japan.
Take a ride, via the words of Scott Shaw, through the streets of L.A.
Scott Shaw’s poetry and prose leads the reader into the lost realms of international love in Shanghai, China during the 1980s.
Shanghai Whispers Shanghai Screams is a gritty, pulp literary tale of man who travels through Japan to Hong Kong – eventually finding himself in Shanghai, China, where he meets and…
Scott Shaw takes the reader into the mind of a poet and his lover in a turbulent relationship, destine for disaster, in 1980s West Hollywood, California.
Scott Shaw takes the reader behind-the-scenes of the gritty world of Hollywood life and nightlife in this thought provoking journey into the abyss of the Hollywood night.
Yoga is much more than the physical postures commonly associated with this word. Yoga is an advanced metaphysical science that has been developed over thousands of years and is designed…
In this book, Scott Shaw, a prolific proponent of Zen, presents one hundred and eight spiritual aphorisms, in association with Zen Calligraphy, that are designed to provide the reader with…
Shatter Thoughts presents three of Scott Shaw’s previously published poetry books and two new titles combined into one collection. The titles included in this volume are: Scream: Southeast Asia and…
At the heart of Zen Buddhism is the practice of meditation. The Little Book of Zen Meditation is as one-pointed as the mind of the meditative Buddhist. It directs the…
This book presents the lyrics for over three-hundred songs composed by Scott Shaw.
In this book, Scott Shaw, a prolific proponent of modern Zen Buddhism, leads the reader through a series of discussions, detailing the various aspects of Zen in relation to human…
Taken from the Scott Shaw Zen Blog 1.0, these Zen Musings discuss Life, Existence, Spirituality, Art, Film, and Consciousness in the way only Scott Shaw can present. The Asian Journal…
Ten to Thirty takes the gripping, gritty, and street-wise writings of Scott Shaw into a new level of literary excellence. Using his unique style of veering between storyline, poetry, and…
Verse: The gritty and penetrating prose of Scott Shaw.
Step behind the scenes of the untouched realms of Asia as love and lust collide with nirvana via the words of critically acclaimed poet and author, Scott Shaw.
