Rory Miller: 19 books

In "Meditations on Violence," Rory Miller explored the gap between martial arts training and real-world violence. In "Principles-Based Instruction" he strikes at the gap between traditional teaching and effective teaching. In seven sections, Rory gives you a solid foundation in the information you...

ForeWord's Book of the Year Award FINALIST - 2008 USA Best Book Award FINALIST - 2008 A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real-World Violence. Experienced martial artist and veteran correction officer Sgt. Rory Miller distills what he has learned from jailhouse brawls, tactical...

Drawing on extensive experience with unstable, violent, intoxicated and mentally ill people, former Corrections Sergeant Rory Miller delivers a street-level guide to building rapport, taking command and avoiding force.   An altered state of consciousness can be caused by many things--...

This is not about writing technique. "Violence: A Writer's Guide" is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what...

USA Best Books Award WINNER - 2016 The speed and brutality of a predatory attack can shock even an experienced martial artist. The sudden chaos, the cascade of stress hormones—you feel as though time slows down. In reality, the assault is over in an instant. How does anyone prepare for that? As...

The second year of the Chiron Training blog, with a few additional notes. A corrections sergeant, tactical team leader, martial artist and father, Rory Miller has been doing his 'thinking out loud' at chirontraining.blogspot.com since 2005. It's reputed to be worth a read...

In the third year of the popular Chiron Training blog, Rory leaves the jail for a temporary stint as an Internal Affairs investigator, works to take his team to an entirely new level, and thinks and writes about life, love and hand-to-hand combat.

The fourth volume of the ChironTraining blog follows Rory as he leaves his desk job as an investigator to return to working the jail; becomes a real, live, published author; and then bags everything to go to Baghdad. Yep. He went and volunteered for the ICITAP (International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program) mission in Iraq.

After seventeen years of dealing with violent criminals and a year as a contractor in Iraq, what's the next step?  Time to do something really scary: Start a business. In 2010, Rory goes on the seminar circuit, writes and publishes and, as always, tries to write things out of his head.  About teaching,...

After seventeen years of dealing with violent criminals and a year as a contractor in Iraq, what's the next step? Time to do something really scary: Start a business.In 2010, Rory goes on the seminar circuit, writes and publishes and, as always, tries to write things out of his head. About teaching,...

A lively analysis of the Arab Gulf states’ stunning rise to global power over the last half-century and of the daunting challenges they confront today Once just sleepy desert sheikdoms, the Arab Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait now exert unprecedented...

Six months of writing ranging from blood exposures after a fight to calming a mentally ill criminal; from funerals for children to tactical training and raising a small family on a farm... It's all just another day at the office for sarge.

The first full-length survey of Britain's role in Latin America as a whole from the early 1800s to the 1950s, when influence in the region passed to the United States. Rory Miller examines the reasons for the rise and decline of British influence, and reappraises its impact on the Latin American states....

Les Amis is the story oft ten high school girls who decided to form a club called "Les Amis”, French for “The Friends.”   Beginning in 1939, they met faithfully every Tuesday for over sixty years. This brief history of the club and its members is a tribute to the independent spirit and sense...