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The
Minefield by Joe Cohen ISBN: 1-58790-029-7 $12.00 • 158 pages • paperback Through lenses of the absurd, the mundane and the mythical, The Minefield explores the horrific tendency of humans to blow one another up. A Vietnam War veteran operates a simulated minefield in Northern California, where patrons pay their money and get their thrills. For some, it’s a safe way to dabble in danger. Others have motives inscrutable even to themselves. A crusader against the global infestation of land mines walks the field out of curiosity and meets a fate that draws the attention of the FBI, the media, a consortium of power-hungry corporations and the Mafia Archipelago. Illusions of power turn to smoke. Joe Cohen is also the author of Billboards, The Mystery of Eve and Oakland Glimmer, all available through Regent Press. |
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Passionate
Practice The Musician’s Guide to Learning, Memorizing and performing by Margret Elson ISBN: 1-58790-021-1 $19.95 • 109 pages • spiralbound Relaxing, focusing, looking, feeling, thinking, listening—all make better learning and performing. But how to relax, focus, listen, look, feel, and how to harness all those activities to work together, automatically and simultaneously to achieve both security and passion in performance; that is the challenge confronted in this book. Margret Elson offers you a method to achieve your musical and artistic goals based on the premises about learning that underlay your teacher's suggestions. Beneath those ideas we find two basic premises about learning: 1. Learning is maximized when your mind is free to focus and your body free of unnecessary tension. 2. Learning takes place through your senses. From these premises we conclude that you learn more quickly, efficiently and permanently when your mind is free, your body relaxed, your sensory channels open. Margret Elson’s dual careers span 30 years of teaching and coaching pianists, vocalists and ensembles, and 25 years as artistic counselor to artists and performers. She is a licensed psychotherapist and was certified as a hypnotherapist. She has performed as soloist and in ensemble, and in 1993 she and her piano partner Elizabeth Swarthout received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to produce the CD, “Twentieth Century American 4-Hand Piano Music,” issued on the Laurel Record label. Ms. Elson’s musical background includes ten years as a piano scholarship student at Juilliard, Preparatory Division, and studies in the San Francisco Bay Area with Marjorie Petray and Alexander Libermann. In addition, she has masters degrees in Psychology, Journalism and Political Science. In 1983 she opened the Center of Artistic Counseling in Oakland, and has presented her innovative work at international conferences such as The Biology of Music-Making (Denver), and The First International Conference on Mind, Body and the Performing Arts (NYC), and in Oslo, Norway and London. Throughout her work, she seeks to maintain her sense of humor. |
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Redefining
Our Relationships by WENDY-O MATIK ISBN: 1-58790-015-7 $12.00 • 99 pages • paperback Loving openly and freely in this day and age is a political act. Put together your own vision of an ideal relationship, re-sculpt your own belief system, redefine the potential of a friendship, imagine a thousand ways to make love to yourself and to anyone you care about. Awaken the radical lover inside yourself, so that you can truly exercise your potential as a loving friend, sibling, partner, and human being. Wendy-O Matik is a Bay area based freelance writer, published poet, and radical performance artist. She is committed to reaching out to new readers at nontraditional venues, pushing the boundaries of where literature is normally seen and heard. She is available for educational and motivational discussions on the topic of alternative relationship models and responsible non-monogamy. “Wendy-O tackles a touchy topic with clarity and creativity. She is wise beyond her years. This guide teaches you how you can have it all. I gave the jealousy tips to my love immediately.” Annie Sprinkle, Post-porn Star turned Certified Sexologist |
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Scratching
the Surface Impressions of Planet Earth, from Hollywood to Shiraz by Jeff Greenwald ISBN: 1-58790-018-1 $18.00 • 255 pages • paperback Jeff Greenwald’s four previous books, including his best-selling Shopping for Buddhas and The Size of the World, have taken thousands of readers on journeys ranging from the ruins of Angkor to the bazaars of Iran—journeys at once sublime and provocative, spiritual and absurd. Whether ascending a miraculous escalator in a Kathmandu shopping mall or sinking, amidst tattooed yakuza, into a Japanese electric bath, Greenwald finds beauty in the details—and knits them into his vivid, quirky narratives. Here is the best of Greenwald’s short travel writing, handpicked from two decades of open-eyed dispatches. Spanning oceans, continents, and the quantum leap from the Smith-Corona to the Cybercafé, these stories provide an illuminating, often hilarious view of our changing world, as seen through the eyes of America’s favorite cult travel writer. |
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Southern
Soulfood Veggie Recipes Country Eating Without the Fat by Shukriyyah ISBN: 1-58790-027-0 $24.95 • 86 pages • spiral bound Are you thinking about becoming a vegetarian, but you’re not quite sure about making the transition? Well fret no more! These recipes can make your transition a smooth sail. You will learn enhancing techniques, how to move in and out of the kitchen in minutes, how to prepare extraordinary sweets without sugar or dairy — and all meals are Macrobiotic combined. Examples of dishes you will learn are Special Southern Dressing (without the chicken drippings!), Nondairy Macaroni & Cheese, Southern Smothered Delight…. All of the recipes were developed by Shukriyyah, who has been a vegetarian for 30 years. She has operated the Soulful Southern Veggie Housetaurant in downtown Old Oakland for 7 years. |
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Spiritual
Destiny Grow Your Capacity to Love by John Prindle ISBN: 1-58790-028-9 $19.95 • 192 Pages • paperback Now is the time to assess the health of your soul. What a wild idea, that you can actually measure your spiritual health. Yes, you can! Your spiritual health is affected by your diet, your thoughts, your feelings, your spiritual practices, your living environment, your relationships, even how you earn and spend money. Human beings are the only animals with a capacity for self-awareness and inward reflection. While God resides in everything in the universe, we humans have a unique connection in that we each have a soul that transcends our physical nature. Our complex cognitive capabilities and emotional wellspring can either bring us closer to God or cause greater separation from our souls, from others, and from God. In this book, John Prindle shows you how to transform your life's challenges into a roadmap to your destiny using spiritual love. Determine the state of your spiritual health with the Soul Wellness Inventory. Build passion, purpose, meaning and love into your life with hundreds of techniques, illustrated with real stories of regular people who have used these methods to discover a spiritual calling through the lessons of their personal chaos. John Prindle, M.A., is the founder of Creative Career Design, an organization that helps people find work they love and deepen their spiritual life. He was in the first graduating class of Peace and Conflict Studies at U.C. Berkeley and earned his Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. Since 1995, he has been a faculty member with SALUS International Health Institute, the only program sponsored by the U.S. State Department that trains health professionals in spiritual healing methods. Prindle has used his transpersonal perspective to train Russian physicians and Stanford Medical School graduates in spiritual healing methods. He serves as Lecturer and Spiritual Director at the School of Applied Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. |
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What
Really Killed Rosebud? by Claire Burch ISBN: 0-916147-69-X $18.00 • 267 pages • paperback What Really Killed Rosebud? is an exploration into the life and death of Rosebud Abigail Denovo, a nineteen year old political activist who was killed by the Oakland police in 1992. Rosebud, armed with a machete, broke into the mansion of the then Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, campus. Alerted and called to the scene in the early morning hours the police, after evacuating the Chancellor and his wife, sent in an officer who had been shot and wounded by a suspect just a few weeks previously. There are numerous questions as to what then really happened and why. In trying to unravel the mystery of this young woman’s death one comes face to face with the big question – what about violence and non-violence? Was this sweet faced young girl, a rebel with a cause, a new Joan of Arc? What is Anarchy anyhow? The book is also an offshoot of the author’s long involvement with documenting the events and life stories of the people who gather in and around People’s Park in Berkeley, home of the early Free Speech Movement in America. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: I recall “starvation days” in New York City when Claire and James Baldwin and I struggled with early efforts. I remember Jimmy and I agreeing that of the three of us Claire had the only claim to genius. I have been aware during the intervening years of her extraordinary work, both in prose and in the visual arts dealing with the plight of the homeless and dispossessed and unfortunate. She has always had a unique sympathy for them, never allowing this to be side-tracked by the tragedies in her own life. If anything, these have given her deeper insights and understanding which, coupled with her artistic gifts, have led to a body of rare accomplishments. I consider it somewhat of a national disgrace that her work has not received the attention and acclaim it deserves. - Elliott Baker, author of A Fine Madness and And We Were Young |
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In
Berkeley’s Green and Pleasant Land by Renee Blitz ISBN: 1-58790-018-1 $18.00 • 255 pages • paperback In Berkeley’s Green and Pleasant Land is a sad-funnycollection of short stories exploring the zeitgeist of Berkeley in its age of innocence (1950’s-1980’s), now disappeared. A fragmentary memoir, its people are: grieving women, failure men, overly-precocious children, extraordinary manques caught in the maelstrom of the shifting plates of cultural change. Written with a New-Your Jewish sensibility(ironic-absurd-despairing, often in dialogue), it expresses the increasingly public outspokenness of maternal ambivalence, horror of self-sacrifice, and wifely rage turned inward. Pauline kael, critif of film for the New Yorker said of InBerkeley’s Green and Pleasant Land “she’s got Berkeleydown right” and that its “tingling accuracy” reminded her of the films of Pakistani subculture in London of Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Launderette etc.) David Horowitz, author of Radical Son, a Generational odyssey, says, “Renee Blitz is a first rate artist of short-form fiction, with a poignant sensibilityand a mordant wit.” Reading these stories is the “swiftest and most rewarding way I know,” he says, “to understand what has happened to the lives and attitudes of the denizens of the berkeleysubculture, whose politics changed our world.” The titles of the stories arae: in Berkeley’s green and pleasant land; the participant, make haste, my beloved; at 15, he had been a leader in; two women; death to the fascist imperialist dogs; streamings; notes from the tower of menopause; p.s. your thing is sticking out; the small revelation; she had mastered the art; the mother’s wasteland; lies; this picnic you’re having. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Renee Blitz was born inthe Bornx, graduated from Hunter College, attended U.C. Berkeley, and the Writing Program at S.F. State University, won an NEA for an earlier work, and is anthologized in West of the West, a highly praised collection of writings on California, edited by Leonard Michaels. In Berkeley’s Green and Pleasant Land is dedicated to Ms. Blitz’s husband, Moe Moscowitz, owner of Moe’s Books, Berkeley, each one, the store and the person, a Berkeley landmark. |
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Yes
You Can! Commitment and Strategies for Overcoming Bipolar and Unipolar Depression by Richard Aaron Mead ISBN: 1-58790-004-1 $14.95 • 110 pages • spiral bound YES YOU CAN! is an effort by one diagnosed bipolar to speak to the consciousness of all who experience bipolar or unipolar depression . . . and to their friends and families. Revealing with candor and clarity the commitment and strategies driving his own substantial progress, Richard Mead draws on more than eight years of weekly “exchanges” with hundreds of others in MDDA and SFDMDA–Boston and San Francisco’s manic depressive and depressive associations. Rather than explore grim memories or intimidating statistics, he chooses to support and inspire his peers by sharing his own return from hospitalization and chaos to authentic selfhood. Pragmatic, easy to read, without dogma, and inclusive, YES YOU CAN! urges self-esteem and resilience as cornerstones for reversing paterns of despair and inertia. This challenge, presented with style and flavor by one who knows the agony of defeat, may be the right one at the right time. For those touched by the critical issue, it should rivet your attention and alter your outlook. It is a powerful affirmation – where affirmations barely exist – from one who has walked through the fire. |
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Bedside
Manor The Ins and Outs of Running a Bed and Breakfest by John Prindle ISBN: 1-58790-028-9 $19.95 • 192 Pages • paperback "Welcome to Bedside Manor, a secluded Bed and Breakfast Inn, nestled in the tranquil hills of Piedmont Terrace in Oakland, California. Out of town guests and local residents are welcome to experience an alternative to hotel accomodations. Gracious hospitality and simple elegance are our mottos. We are conveniently located within walking distance of beautiful Lake Merritt, theatres, quaint shops, and fine restaurants." The above paragraph is from the brochure I created for my bed and breakfast inn, Bedside Manor, which has been operating successfully for many years. Owning a bed and breakfast inn is no small responsiblity; it combines an array of skills: bookkeeping, advertising, and food preparation, just to name a few. I hope to provide in this book; guidelines on how to get started, what it's like to run a B & B, and where and how to advertise. I also want to answer questions such as: what will the guests be like, and what happens once these strangers arrive in your establishment? Wherever possible, I've incorporated short vignettes about my clients as they relate to this information, or as examples to give you an idea of the type of guests and situations you may encounter as an innkeeper. |
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