WHAT REALLY KILLED ROSEBUD? is an exploration into the life and death of Rosebud Abigail Denovo, a nineteen year old People's Park activist who was shot and killed by an Oakland police officer on August 25, 1992. The initials of her pseudonym spelled R.A.D. for radical. WHAT REALLY KILLED ROSEBUD? 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 Free Speech Movement in America. 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 kid a new Joan of Arc? What is anarchy anyhow? The book raises more unanswered questions. What about the accounts of Rosebud's last days? The house was empty when she was shot. Did the police have it in for her already? How to remember a slender long haired young martyr and try to understand what sent her into a Berkeley UC chancellor's mansion with a social mission and a machete. Although Rosebud died nearly 20 years ago, the political, sociological and psychological overtones and undertones of her radical life and death resonate with the occupy movements of contemporary America and Europe. ABOUT THE AUTHOR About Claire Burch, Elliott Baker, author of A Fine Madness writes, "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 cliam 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 accompishments. Claire Burch's books include Stranger in the Family, Homeless in the Nineties, Goodbye My Coney Island Baby, and Charles Darwin in Cyberspace. Her writing has also appeared in Life (Special Report Cover Story), Saturday Review, McCalls, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Madamoiselle, and numerous literary quarterlies and anthologies. Paintings have been shown at museums and one man exhibits, receiving excellent reviews from the New York Times, etc. Her films and videos have been shown nationally and internationally.

What Really Killed Rosebud?

Biographies & Memoirs

Burch, Claire

Community & Culture

Regent Press Printers & Publishers

"TROJAN PARK A California Mystery" is a glimpse at the narcissist prone culture of the society noir which upper elite artists careers ascend as quickly as they recede. From ritzy Terra Linda to glitzy Montclair the social climb to wealth seduces a young socialite, whose flirtation with thrill-seeking and reckless danger leaves dead two husbands on the Fourth of July. A fast paced page turner, this novel sizzles with intrigue and tawdry motivation and a questionable cast of characters: Geneva Roark - a svelte silver blonde with insatiable ambition who marries her first husband to get away from a stifling parent; Wesley Roark - owns everything in San Francisco from banks to commodities; Adam King - the manservant who spends top dollar on all the best in finery for his boss only to get taken for a million bucks ransom; Terry D'Coteur - a stunning French mulatto whose life would go a lot better had her ex-husband used his head and stayed married to her; Randall Roark - refuses to follow in his father's footsteps even if he curbs his impulsive indulgence; Sylvan Reese - the principal barrister who knows the secrets of his wealthy patron; Carole Price - a has-been entertainer whose life is on the rocks. Who stands to earn a killing on the senior Roark's life? Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Lenny Cliford tracks the desperate dealings of a family at war with its adolescent heir-son. Through tantalizing art and state-of-the-day security systems to protect a museum, a fail-safe chase takes this investigator-attorney to Paris to the Musee du Louvre, to the Los Osos coast and then Seattle to dragnet a diamond heist of staggering proportions.

Trojan Park

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Koretsky, J. Lea

Koretsky, Judy Lea

Mystery

In the last fifty years in the West, there have been a number of pioneering new approaches for accessing realms of consciousness that are traditionally considered the deepest spiritual mysteries. In this book Dr. Ralph Metzner discuss the experience of birth and of prenatal life, the unconscious psychic imprints of the conception event, the soul's choosing of a human incarnation and the connection with familial ancestors. He also discuss the experience of death of the physical body and the soul's life in the intermediate realms before choosing rebirth into another life. Dr. Metzner draws on empirical observations from psychedelic experiences, meditation, shamanic journeys, near-death experiences, deep altered state hypnotherapy, states induced by special breathing practices and findings from the experiential practices of his alchemical divination workshops. This book is the fifth in a series on The Ecology of Consciousness. Already published are Vol. 1, The Expansion of Consciousness; Vol. 2, The Roots of War and Domination; Vol. 3, Alchemical Divination, and Vol. 4, Mind Space and Time Stream. All are available from Regent Press.

The Life Cycle of the Human Soul Incarnation - Conception - Birth - Death - Hererafter - Reincarnation

Metzner, Ralph

Religion & Spirituality

ABOUT THE BOOK: Anyone fascinated by true crime and legal thrillers will want to read The Sky's The Limit: People v. Newton, The Real Trial of the 20th Century? In comparing the 1968 trial of Black Panther Party leader Huey Newton to other riveting American trials from 1901 to 1999, author Lise Pearlman revisits historic legal battles featuring murder, rape and kidnapping, skeletons in celebrity closets, class warfare, fixing the World Series, evolution versus creationism, abuse of power and political conspiracy. Each "trial of the century" serves as a window into its own era, but the author asserts that the Newton murder trial following a shootout with two Oakland policemen--where the accused revolutionary put America itself on trial for 400 years of racism-should head the list. It drew an international spotlight on a superpower rocked by two political assassinations and bitterly divided over the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. At the time, the FBI considered the Black Panthers the greatest internal threat to America's security. So did Party spokesman Eldridge Cleaver, who threatened revolution if Newton were condemned to die. The author contends that the jury's surprising verdict still reverberates today-had it turned out otherwise Barack Obama would likely not be President. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lise Pearlman was an undergraduate at Yale during the murder trial of Panther Chairman Bobby Seale in New Haven and has lived most of her adult life in Oakland where the 1968 Huey Newton murder trial took place. She arrived in the fall of 1971 between Newton's second and third trials for the killing of Officer Frey. Now a retired judge, she practices as a mediator with Alternative Resolution Centers.

The Sky's the Limit People V. Newton, the Real Trial of the 20th Century?

History

Pearlman, Lise

Americas

ABOUT THE BOOK Each of us, as a human soul, incarnates by choice with a purpose, an intention or vision for this life - what we came here to do and to be. The soul chooses one or more of six great archetypal pathways in which to develop its talents and realize its vision - Healer/Peacemaker, Explorer/Scientist, Warrior/Guardian, Artist/Musician, Teacher/Historian, Builder/Organizer. For each of the six pathways, the work we do in society has its characteristic disciplines that are to be first learned and then practiced. Each of the pathways is not only a career or a profession, our work in the world, each is also at a deeper level a pathway for manifesting our soul's destiny. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ralph Metzner, Ph.D. is a recognized pioneer in studies of consciousness and its transformations. He is a psychotherapist and Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he was also the Academic Dean for ten years in the 1980s. He collaborated with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert in the studies of psychedelic drugs at Harvard in the 1960s, and co-authored The Psychedelic Experience. His books include Maps of Consciousness, The Well of Remembrance, The Unfolding Self, Green Psychology and Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (with Ram Dass and Gary Bravo). This book is the sixth in a new series on The Ecology of Consciousness. This book is the sixth in a series on The Ecology of Consciousness. Already published are Vol. 1, The Expansion of Consciousness; Vol. 2, The Roots of War and Domination; Vol. 3, Alchemical Divination; Vol. 4, Mind Space and Time Stream; Vol. 5, The Life Cycle of the Human Soul.

The Six Pathways of Destiny

ABOUT THE BOOK The 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 AUTHOR Nola 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.

TOKIN' WOMEN A 4,000-Year Herstory

Evangelista, Nola

Autism's Stepchild is the story of a mother's unfailing struggle over two decades to find adequate care for her daughter Jean. Misdiagnosed and misunderstood Jean had a condition that today would be understood to be autism. Erik Erikson became interested in her and counseled her family. She became the chapter "Early Ego Failure" in his classic book, Childhood and Society. Phyllis D. Grilikhes, the author of this volume, worked with Jean after Erikson left and followed her through adolescence into adulthood to the present day.

autism's stepchild: a mother's story

Phyllis D. Grilikhes

Finalist for the "Fiction: Short Story" category of the 2017 Best Book Awards, 2017 Pinnacle Award winner for Literary Fiction 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.

China Girl: And Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Lin, Ho

United States

The Son Conceived in Drunkenness: Magical Plants in the World of the Greek Hero

An essential aspect of the traditional stories or myths about the Greek heroes has been intentionally overlooked in the study of Classical literature and religion, specifically, the pivotal role accorded to magical plants and religious sacraments derived from psychoactive botanical and venomous animal sources, serpents, reptiles, and the like. The Son Conceived in Drunkeness remedies this oversight. Toward the end of the great expansion of consciousness now known as the Psychedelic Revolution of the 60s and 70s, Dr. Ruck proposed a new word for such mind-altering substances to free them from the implications of irreverent recreational abuse and the irresponsible marketplace of New Age pseudo-scientific theologies. This word is entheogen, a substance that allows the deity to reside within the human. The most direct mode of access is the simple ingestion or other method of application of the sacrament so that the entheogen forms the mediating pathway between the human and the divine. Ultimately, this magical club that is the hero's weapon of choice will emerge as the rod of Asklepios, wielded by the modern profession of medicine in the battle waged with drugs and toxins on the frontier of the battle between life and death.

The Son Conceived in Drunkenness: Magical Plants in the World of the Greek hero

RUCK, CARL A.P.

Richard Louis Perri (aka Luckey) artistically captures the soul of urban San Francisco. Eschewing the more guilded scenes of the city, Perri in his paintings seeks to portray forgotten figments of little-known structures. His iconic Red's Java House, for example, displays a cafe of San Francisco's waterfront reminiscent of the city's fabled maritime past, now, alas, no longer. In an instant, the painting conjures up both a lost scenario and a relic of this past. One is able to ingest the continuation of a communitarian gathering-place that was once part of the vital fabric of San Francisco's maritime world. An accomplished colorist, Perri's paintings portray a palette of the city's colors that are not usually identified with San Francisco. The urban world that Perri paints is reminiscent of vibrant Mediterranean cities. San Francisco is a multi-faceted metropolis. Some of its fascinating facets are captured in the art of Richard L. Perri. (Charles A. Fracchia). Well, it was too good to last, and it didn't. You might date the end of the old watefront with the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, when the old Embarcadero Freeway, which was ugly as sin, was torn down. Suddenly, the waterfront and all its denizens--the dives, the flop house hotels, the bars, were out in the sunlight, blinking in a new day. They built a beautiful ball park on King Street, not far from Bouncers, a bar so tough that even bad guys were afraid to rob it. The customers would beat them up. Who needed cops? One by one, the denizens of places like Red's Java House and other waterfront joints were replaced by patrons who wore designer jeans instead of Frisko jeans. A lot of the old coffee joints closed up. The ones that remained became remnants of their former self. The waterfront is much better looking these days, much safer, much different. And much has been lost. (Carl Nolte) In many of our minds the images of certain places or dwellings occur in dreams or as backdrop to waking experience. Imbued with subtle yet powerful feelings and meanings, they may represent a more ancient and inclusive way of thinking. Richard Louis Perri has worked for many years, continually refining his art. Here he has given us an array of diners which have in bygone years been temporary hearths to unknown numbers of workers, artists, and vagrants who gravitated to them. In his paintings we see them in timelessness, ringing with numinosity. Those of us who were born in San Francisco and have had the good fortune to grow old recall many such places. If there is indeed a universal memory, as some believe, it is by such icons that our city will be remembered. (Sterling Bunnell, M.D.)

Numinosity: Photographs, Paintings & Text

Arts & Photography

Perri, Richard Louis

History & Criticism

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