Don’t bother looking for my books in your local bookstore, since you won’t find them. Although my law-related books have been published by a traditional press (Thomson/Reuters), they’re too specialized to be carried in regular bookstores, while my other books have either been published and exclusively sold through Amazon or were privately published and distributed.
On Amazon, you can currently buy three of my books. TEN: Rules for Being a Good Person in the 21st Century is the one that I wish I could convince everyone (particularly politicians) to read, since it deals with the sort of big, existential issues that confront humanity today, the ones on which we keep failing to take meaningful action, some of which I’ve been working on for over four decades. You should be able to read the Introduction and first chapter online without buying the book, and that will give you a good idea of what I think that ethics demands of all of us as individuals at this time when the fate of human civilization and life on Earth is so uncertain. Of course, if you’d like to buy the book, please do!
The other book available exclusively from Amazon (okay, not until July of 2025) is Shobu Ippon Karate Competition: Why Team Japan Excelled at the 2024
Japan Karate Association World Championship and How to Emulate its Approach. It’s a very slim (about 50 pages) volume setting out my opinions that I formed while officiating at the 2024 World Championship. Full disclosure: when I shared those opinions with other senior Canadian instructors, they weren’t well received!
You can find my book The Portable Guide to Evidence on Amazon, though it’s also available directly from the publisher. This book is currently in its 6th edition, but it’s very expensive to buy and really only of interest to lawyers.
Two of my earlier books are currently unavailable. British Columbia Environmental Law Statutes was published in annual editions for several years by Carswell (now Thomson/Reuters), but the last edition was published in the late 1990s so would now be outdated, plus the book is dry, blackletter law and would no longer be of much interest to anyone (but sold enough copies at the time to be considered a Canadian bestseller!). The other unavailable book is The Twenty Precepts of Funakoshi Gichin: A Photographic Interpretation of the Nijukun by the Members of North Vancouver Shidokan Karate. It was published in a limited edition of 57 copies in 2008, of which two copies went to Archives Canada and the rest to individuals who were members or friends of my karate club.
A couple of my unpublished novels will probably also come out in Amazon editions in the near future. Look for one in late 2025 and the other in early 2026.
