Regent Press is an independent press offering an eclectic mix of titles in a variety of subjects and genres — poetry, fiction, essays, biography, memoir, mythology, history, dance, photography, and visual art, both of an academic and popular nature. Regent Press was started by Mark Weiman in 1978, shortly after he arrived in California from Philadelphia and Manhattan where he had worked in his family’s rare book and scholarly publishing business. The press was initially established and is still located in Berkeley, which in many ways is its defining characteristic.

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Allies for Awakening

Entheogenesis means the growing realization that we human beings and the world around us are much more than simply material organisms living and evolving on a material planetary body.

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Visions of Frisco

This is an art historical book, an impressionistic and imaginative one; the 135 illustrations are paired with excerpts from published eyewitness accounts. The artworks were created in the late 1970s by Satty, a San Francisco collage artist. Satty (Wilfried Podriech, 1939-82) emigrated from Bremen, Germany in 1961.

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NAVIGATING BY STARS 24 Very Short Stories of Love & Longing

Navigating by the Stars, Mark Russell Gelade’s debut collection of strangely calming, sometimes risky short-short stories is reminiscent of the phenomenon of wayfinding among Polynesian navigators traversing the immense ocean. As those navigators learned to sail by the stars, sun, and planets, so too does the author reveal, through a cast of compelling characters, from lovers to loners, cheaters to gold diggers, artists to singers, how everyone, everywhere, moment by moment, is trying to find their way home again.

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From Czernowitz to China and Beyond

From Czernowitz to China and Beyond is the personal account of an extraordinary woman born of Jewish parents in 1890 in Czernowitz, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She describes her life in Czernowitz as a child, China in 1910 at age 20, New York in 1912 and Shanghai again in 1924. Ethel Liebman Wiesinger tells of being married to a German entrepreneur in pre-revolutionary China and how politics affected her life.Her husband Otto Wiesinger, a lifelong German, fought in Tsingtau, China during WWI and later sought to import arms to support warlord Chang Tso-lin. In the 1930s, they had an Asian arts store in San Francisco that went bankrupt during the Great Depression.

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The Blue Note

The Blue Note was originally published in French as Ode Baroque & Litanie Tonique: Érotisme Informatique. Beginning where 50 Shades of Gray ends, it is an indiscreet book about a discreet subject. It is a love and sex story that takes place both in the virtual world and in the real world. The computer screen is the mediating interface, the “door of perception,” through which our heroine and hero speak of love and, step by step, achieve sexual union. They discover and exploit the intense eroticism provided by the anonymity of electronics, a phenomenon of current technology that is causing a total upheaval in the way the sexes meet and merge.

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Brighter Climate Futures

The only book that provides a complete quantitative time bound GLOBAL plan that will provide plenty of clean renewable energy, rid us of the carbon emissions of fossil fuels, minimize global average temperature rise, and rejuvenate forests, coastal ecosystems and agriculture, for a clean and beautiful Earth with a good life for all. Key Concepts: Climate change, renewable energy, global temperature rise, fossil fuels, electrification, energy storage, carbon emissions, reforestation, organic agriculture, blue carbon, global climate plan, global energy plan, carbon sequestration, solar energy, low carbon transportation, hydrogen, coastal ecosystems, disaster risk reduction, wind energy, power plants, solar-electric highways, disaster management, global warming, ecology crisis.

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My Butterfly Collection

My Butterfly Collection is a gentle blend of art, photography, and writing. It features the art of David Singer, Stephen Haines Hall, Joan Danziger, Edda Clasen, Helen Webber, Norie Huddle, Gena Galenski, and others; the outstanding photography of Kjell B. Sandved; and the writings of David Brower, David Seaborg, Liam O’Brien, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Robert Michael Pyle, and others. The book also includes ways to say butterfly in many languages, basics of butterfly gardening, details about Monarch butterflies, and much more.

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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1

The Real Plot Against America unmasked? Did Lindbergh conspire to kidnap and kill his own son? A shocking, “must read” solution to “the crime of the century.” It pierces the whitewash to reveal this Depression-era mega-celebrity as both a narcissistic white supremacist and serial hoaxer. Charles Lindbergh likely could have walked down 5th Ave and shot somebody in broad daylight and gotten away with it. Sound familiar? Retired Judge and award-winning author Lise Pearlman’s myth-smashing exposé, The Lindbergh Kidnapping: Suspect No. 1 – The Man Who Got Away will make you reexamine what you thought you knew and think twice about fake news today.

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SEPTEMBER SNOW Book ONE of The Blessing of Gaia series

In the world of September Snow global warming and climate change have been rife for decades. Gaia, a new religion, originally devoted to preserving the Earth, has been perverted. A draconian regime controls everything – even the weather. September, a woman of intellect and physical prowess, leads a rebellion. She seeks to save the planet from a corrupt system, so the healing process of Earth can begin. A futuristic, dystopian story where mankind and the physical life of the planet are on a collision course.

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