Books published by Regent Press Printers & Publishers

Poetry, photography and music representing lifelong reflections on teaching, learning and self healing techniques. As well as a writer, the author is a dancer, an artist, a quilter, a painter and a musician.

Living the Shakespearean Life: True Stories is a collection of oral histories from eminent Shakespeare scholars, directors, and actors in England and America. They talk about the full range of their Shakespearean lives, including how they first became interested in Shakespeare, what they have learned from Shakespeare, what the Shakespearean is, what Shakespeare might have been like, and specific lines, plays, and characters. This book is for anyone who loves Shakespeare.

Joseph Levy leads a quiet life in rural Wheaton Arizona. Retired from a long career in psychiatric research and practice, he reads, writes, and walks in the mountains and hills near the Native reservation. His quiet life ends, however, when a dental crown replacement causes trouble just before meeting an internet date in California. Thus begins a year of back-to-back nightmare infections, a drug overdose, and two failed relationships. At every step, Levy is confronted by matters of life and death, love and hate, faith and doubt, trust and betrayal. Most of all, he faces what it means to be sick and to be healthy. He prays to his God, relies on his friends, examines his dreams, and entrusts his psyche to a new therapist.Joseph Levy Escapes Death is a tale of perseverance in the face of adversity. Strassman uses several lenses to view Levy's life: medical, psychoanalytic, and religious-both Buddhist and Jewish. Pathos and humor fill the tale, while enlightening detours examine the Holocaust, cardiovascular physiology and microbiology, and Jewish-Christian relations.

Esteban Luján's EL RONDÍN is a first person account of General Pasqual Orozco, Jr.'s 1912 uprising in Chihuahua, Mexico and one of the earliest written documents about this important period of the Mexican Revolution. Translated into English by Esteban Luján's great grandson, the military actions of Colonel Toribio Ortega and Colonel José de la Cruz Sánchez are described from the beginning of the uprising in Coyame on February 5, 1912 to Orozco's defeat at Ojinaga on September 14, 1912. This republication of EL RONDÍN also includes the original text, a modern Spanish version, photos, maps and chronology, giving new life to a little known treasure.

New poems by the author of "Tender Reasons".

In San Francisco. there are small cafés and diners scattered along the waterfront and industrial parts of town known as Java Huts which uniquely emanate the cities strength and character, Numinosity presents paintings of these iconic structures.

The Magic Flute has elicited a wide range of interpretations. From simple fairy tale to Masonic allegory, every meaning seems to have been explored. Yet the mystery remains. Mozart himself was less than helpful, leaving only inconsequential accounts of the work's conception. His untimely death, on December 5th 1791, a couple of months after the premiere has fueled additional controversies.The composer's personal letters, in which The Magic Flute is mentioned, contain mostly trivial reports of first impressions. They describe the reaction of the Viennese public and deal with comments made by contemporary musicians. Antonio Salieri, the Viennese Court's Kappelmeister, was highly supportive. Count Carl von Zinzendorf, a shrewd observer of the local operatic scene, was less than enthusiastic. "The music and the decorations are pretty," he wrote, "the rest an unbelievable farce." He did, however, mention that the crowds were huge.The Magic Flute has always been popular, but does that make it a popular opera? The dramatic vehicle assembled by Mozart is hardly a farce. The Queen of the Night is a witch and Sarastro a Mason - this much is clear, even to the uninitiated. In The Magic Flute they are at odds over Pamina's abduction by Sarastro: a theme thoroughly explored in Greek legends of Persephone. Held captive in the realm of the dead - to which the masonic Temple figuratively corresponds - Persephone stands for the magic powers of generation and renewal that Hades holds hostage in his subterranean kingdom.In the revolutionary climate of 18th century Europe, these powers were again needed for a reseeding of the hidden order. But the hermetic Temple, where the King and Queen reign, is not that easily reconstructed. Genius is not always enough where magic is the intended practice.

The Chuang Tzu is a principal text of the ancient Spiritual tradition of Chinese Taoism. It is a collection of illustrative tales in thirty-three chapters recorded over two thousand years ago and which has since undergone hundreds of translations, commentaries and adaptations. The first seven Inner Chapters/Nei P’ien of The Chuang Tzu text are attributed to Chuang Chou/Tzu, the serene/ubiquitous/Master, and are rendered here as the Interior Records. Nei P’ien tales are lively portrayals of how individual beings manage to find their truth, freedom and happiness at a time in Chinese history of rampant bloody internecene warfare between rulers of separate feudal states vying for hegemony. The exquisitely crafted, and often outrageously and humorously expressed, characterizations of the circumstantially embedded lives of common creatures, fabulous animals, mythological beings, divine immortals, legendary ancients and a vast array of human beings ranging from Spiritual masters and skillful artisans to tyranical rulers and insane recluses; and even including Lao Tzu, Confucius and Chuang Tzu himself; are used as iconoclastic vehicles for imparting universal and perennial truths about what it is to be a True Human Being through both the Heavenly equalizing and transcending of, and the Earthly accepting and flowing with, the vicissitudes of natural instincts, human relationships and worldly affairs. The present work is an original rendering of the tales in the seven Interior Records/Nei Pien. The psychotherapeutically-oriented commentaries given for each of the tales are not only useful for professionals practicing psychotherapy, but also for anyone interested in truly and Soulfully living a more Spiritually awakened, natural, free and happy human life. 

ABOUT THE BOOKThe result of over a decade of research, TOKIN'' WOMEN: A 4000-Year Herstory presents an enlightening compilation of over 50 famous females throughout "herstory" associated with cannabis-from ancient goddesses to bohemian authors, jazz musicians and icons of the 60s to the film goddesses of today. Readers will recognize many of the names, like Maya Angelou and Jennifer Aniston, but "some of the more obscure women come with the most compelling stories, including adventurous explorers (Gertrude Bell, Iris Tree); pioneers in art, science and literature (Alice B. Toklas, Louisa May Alcott); and other powerful women who lived their lives according to their own rules." - Freedom Leaf, December 2015 ABOUT THE AUTHORNola Evangelista (aka Ellen Komp) is a longtime hemp/marijuana activist and author. Currently the deputy director of California NORML, for the past 12 years she has gathered information about prominent cannabis connoisseurs at her website, VeryImportantPotheads.com, and her blog TokinWoman.blogspot.com. She has contributed articles and op-eds to various publications such as High Times, In These Times, Alternet, Cannabis Now and Cannabis Culture.

A modern woman adrift in modern China. Would-be lovers connected and separated by random chance. A drunken dissident and his less-then-happy minder. A researcher of war atrocities who must come to grips with her own family tragedies. A princess of a kingdom that no longer exists. Actors placed at the service of comedies and tragedies, depending on a filmmaker’s whim… These are the characters that populate Ho Lin’s short story collection China Girl. In its nine tales, China Girl documents the collisions between East and West, the power of myth and the burden of history, and loves lost and almost found. The stories in this collection encompass everything from contemporary vignettes about urban life to fable-like musings on memories and the art of storytelling. Wide-ranging and playful, China Girl is a journey into today’s Asia as well as an Asia of the imagination. 

"Tes plus doux baisers ont atteint mon moi profond. J''en ai aimé leur goût, leur profondeur, leur sauvagerie infinie et leur exigence. Ils ont pénétré ma gorge, ma colonne vertébrale, mon cœur, ils ont porté ma conscience à l''obsession. Mon corps est en feu, ma queue est douloureuse implorant ton attention. Malade d''amour. Parle-moi de ton intimité, je suis accro aux descriptions de ton corps. Puis si tu le souhaites, je te livrerai les miennes..." "Mon essence cachée"... L''ordinateur eut le pouvoir de la lui révéler après nos regards hypnose. Alors je m''interroge: quel fut le rôle de ce fabuleux et diabolique outil? Une libération totale de nos rêves et fantasmes [...] ou a contrario une révélation absolue de notre être profond [...] et de ce que nous voulons vivre ... Rêves en ciel ou ancrages en terre. En synthèse notre relation technologiquement orchestrée, fut-elle vie de nos fantaisies ou de nos essences?... Ou des deux?... Richesse sublime." La technologie actuelle a généré un total bouleversement quant à notre mode de communication, et de par ce fait sans que nous en ayons vraiment conscience, notre mode de vie. Toutes les formes de communications sont englobées, même la plus intime: notre relation amoureuse. Cet ouvrage relate une histoire d''amour qui débute classiquement par une sorte de coup de foudre. L''éloignement du couple si brièvement réuni fait que cette histoire prend vie et se nourrit grâce aux e-mails porteurs d''instantanéité, qui vont en nuancer l''évolution passant de la découverte de l''autre à un érotisme intense. Ève Winter est née en Afrique de grands-parents et de parents aux différentes nationalités. Elle y a vécu ainsi qu''en Europe notamment à Paris où elle suivit ses études linguistiques à "Langues O." Elle réside actuellement aux États-Unis. De ce fait, elle possède une richesse culturelle intéressante et maîtrise plusieurs langues. Longtemps enseignante de langues vivantes (et morte) et innovatrice en la matière, elle se lance désormais dans différents types d''écrits. Ce livre en est un exemple qui mêle à la fois érotisme, poésie, émotions et métaphysique. VERSION EN LANGUE ANGLAISE INTITULEE "THE BLUE NOTE".