Just to get back to the original subject...
While browsing through a local bookstore yesterday, I came across the book in question. My curiosity peaked, I opened the book and thumbed through it.
The book has a nice cover and good quality paper. As I look through the book and it's pictures (they used real pictures that are enhanced to make them look like drawings) it has several chapters in it talking about exactly what "Just a Guy" explained history, philosophy, levels, there's quotes from Lao Tzu and others with beautiful photography of natural scenery (all black and white, quite tasteful if you ask me).
There's also a section on the different "levels" that a Shaolin student/master must attain and, my personal favorite, a picture of the "Grandmaster of Shaolin in the early 1970's" (or something to that effect) in which the person that is portrayed is throwing a kick and completely covering their face with their arms/hands (this is the only picture of a "Master" in the book. The only people you see depicted are three caucasian Shaolin members (students/instructors/teachers not sure though) in different "Shaolin" postures demonstrating techniques that are described in the book.
The book was marked down from $39.95 to $32.95 but after thumbing through it I couldn't bring myself to spend that much on the book, I might buy it eventually just as a keepsake but I felt the money was better spent on a nice dinner with my family.
Keep in mind that this is my first impression of this book and in no way I am making an in-detph review of the book, if someday the book's on sale for less than twenty bucks I might read it and review it completely.