Regent Press: 32 books

In 1848 Yerba Buena was a sleepy, backwater trading post with 2,000 inhabitants living in tents, shanties and adobes. In 1849, John Marshall’s gold discovery reverberated around the world and the gold rush was on. Individuals lucky enough to be in California provisioned themselves with food, tents,...

In “A Little World Made Cunningly,” Scott David Finch presents a stunning and visionary kaleidoscope of profundities. Ostensibly a Gnostic creation myth, but far more entertaining than stodgy scratchings in dusty old scrolls, ALWMC delves into the machinations and social vagaries of an often hilarious,...

A legal scholar offers the general public a fast-paced tour of the American 20th century that began and ended with acts of terrorism and periodically erupted in-between with forceful protest movements and no-holds-barred efforts to suppress changes in the power structure—all seen through the prism...

Since "The Rosary for Episcopalians" was first compiled and printed, the requests for it have been constant. It has filled a need for a form of piety that is alive and well in the Church. It has been many years since the author was asked by the Grace Cathedral Bookstore in San Francisco to "write something"...

What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? In this book we explore trends throughout history that have...

As the post-modern world lurches toward the disasters and bereavements that signal the end of an age, we turn to myth to comprehend the elemental forces that move through our lives, to know who we are, to understand which stories inform our consciousness. Madness At the Gates of the City, writes Robert...

Pete Najarian writes prose in the very particular American tradition that includes Thomas Wolfe, William Saroyan, and Jack Kerouac. The Naked and the Nude is, by my count, the seventh volume in his epic autobiographical narrative that works the territory between lyrical autobiography and the novel...

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...

Having spent her life helping underprivileged women, Roxie, 88, is now content in her woodsy retreat her with her garden, yoga, and art. With his children launched, Fred, 48, has left his wife and uninspiring job to paint fulltime, shackled only with his demons of doubt. And then one day in a life drawing...

The global spread of diabetes has reached epidemic proportions. Here in the US, 1 in 3 adults is at risk of diabetes and is already, often unknowingly, in the pre-diabetes stage. The good news is that by adopting a low-carb diet and engaging in regular exercise, those in the pre-diabetes stage can...

The Constellation Approach -- Finding Peace Through Your Family Lineage is the culmination of Jamy and Peter Faust’s brave and innovative healing work over the past twenty years. Together and individually, they have helped hundreds of people heal emotional wounds rooted in many varieties of trauma,...

California NORML Guide to Drug Testing is the authorative and indispensable guide to: dealing with drug testing on short notice; drug test detection times; medical marijuana and drug tests; drug tests and DUI, and what’s wrong with drug testing. Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML writes, “This...

A murderous tale about food to chill your spine, churn your stomach, and leave you limp as a wet noodle.

As I write this, the nation is still reeling from multiple shocks in July 2016. First, as the month began, came yet two more videotaped incidents of police shooting to death black arrestees after many other such widely-publicized incidents over the previous several years. The day after the Fourth of...