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Empress
Such is the voice of Shan Sa's unforgettable heroine in her latest literary masterpiece, Empress. Empress Wu, one of China's most controversial figures, was its first and only female emperor, who emerged in the seventh century during the great Tang Dynasty and ushered in a golden age. Throughout history, her name has been defamed and her story distorted by those taking vengeance on a woman who dared to become emperor. But now, for the first time in thirteen centuries, Empress Wu (or Heavenlight, as we come to know her) flings open the gates of the Forbidden City and tells her own astonishing tale—revealing a fascinating, complex figure who in many ways remains modern to this day. Writing with epic assurance, poetry, and vivid historic detail, Shan Sa plumbs the psychological and philosophical depths of what it means to be a striving mortal in a tumultuous, power-hungry world. Empress is a great literary feat and a revelation for the ages.
The Development of the SA in Nurnberg, 1922-1934
A case-study of the growth of the SA (or stormtroopers) in Weimar Germany.
The Hunt for Khun Sa
For two decades, the Burmese warlord Khun Sa controlled nearly 70 percent of the world’s heroin supply, yet there has been little written about the legend the U.S. State Department branded the “most evil man in the world”—until now. Through exhaustive investigative journalism, this examination of one of the world’s major drug lords from the 1970s to the 1990s goes behind the scenes into the lives of the DEA specialists assigned the seemingly impossible task of capturing or killing him. Known as Group 41, these men would fight for years in order to stop a man who, in fact, had the CIA to thank for his rise to power. Featuring interviews with DEA, CIA, Mafia, and Asian gang members, this meticulously researched and well-documented investigation reaches far beyond the expected and delves into the thrilling and shocking world of the CIA-backed heroin trade.
American Indian Stories
American Indian Stories is a collection of stories by Zitkála-Šá. The author was a Sioux historian and recounts here several colorful legends and tales from American Indian oral tradition.
Spring of Entertainments
SPRING OF ENTERTAINMENTS: This is a collection of three major plays. For example, THE BEAUTIFUL BLACKS is the African socio-political satire. In there the rich ones get richer while the frustrated youths get violently angry. MY LOVE IN LEXUS is the story of a young man in an ivy league university. He fell in love with a mermaid that faked herself as a Texan, a cow-girl and a Harvard MBA student. The third play has the title: THE PARKING GARAGE. Here we have the perfect microcosm of the real American characters in a very unique business setting.
The Cemetery at Tell Es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan
A portion of the Tell es-Sa'idiyeh mound was used for burials during the Bronze Age. A summary of the pottery types is followed by a description of the contents of each of the 45 tombs. University Museum Monograph, 41
Malay Sketches
Malay Sketches is a collection of stories that borrows its name from a book of anecdotes by colonial governor Frank Swettenham, describing Malay life on the Peninsula. In Alfian Sa’at’s hands, these sketches are reimagined as flash fictions that record the lives of members of the Malay community in Singapore. With precise and incisive prose, Malay Sketches offers the reader profound insights into the realities of life as an ethnic minority. Longlisted for the 2013 Frank O'connor International Short Story Award
The Book of Truthfulness
The importance of this treatise lies in the fact that it is the earliest systematic presentation of the theory of Sufi experience, written by a practicing Sufi. Beginning with the idea of Sidq or truthfulness, the author develops his theme to include “stations” of fear, hope, trust, love, shame, longing, intimacy, all of which the mystic must pass on his path to God. Throughout the discourse the author constantly refers, typically as a mystic, to higher degrees of the various stations which cannot be described in written language. In a style which foreshadows the practice of later writers, the author begins with Qur’anic sanctions, and follows these by references to the Sunnah and the lives of the saints.
Sa'ib
SA'IB: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith Mirza Muhammad Ali Tabrizi (1601-1676) who used the takhallus of Sa'ib was born in Tabriz. Sa'ib's ancestry goes back to Shams Tabrizi, Rumi's famous spiritual Master. In about 1626 he went to Mecca, then to Herat and Kabul... where he was introduced to Shah Jahan and received at his court. Poets who composed were welcomed and a new style... the 'Indian Style' (Sabk-e Hindi) was carried on from the poems of Amir Khusrau and Fighani and others. He was greatly influenced by the poetry of Hafiz. Sa'ib's 'Indian Style' poems reveal an elegant wit, a gift for the aphorism and the proverb and an appreciation of Sufism. His Divan was impo...
