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*Finalist for the California Book Award*

The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America s newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past memories of war and its aftermath, of murder, arrest, re-education camps and new economic zones, of escape and shipwreck and atrocity is ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. It plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they...

- Explains how to establish the cauldron at the Heart Center to collect cosmic light, activate the Cranial and Sacral Pumps, and align the Three Triangle Forces

- Details how to merge energy at the Heart Center to birth the immortal spirit body, allowing you to draw limitless energy from the Cosmos

- Discusses the proper Pi Gu diet and herbs to use with Kan and Li practice

- Reveals how to expel the three Worms, or "Death Bringers," that can imbalance the...

Transitions to Better Lives aims to describe, collate, and summarize a body of recent research both theoretical and empirical that explores the issue of treatment readiness in offender programming. It is divided into three sections:

• part one unpacks a model of treatment readiness, and explains how it has been operationalized
• part two discusses how the construct has been applied to the treatment of different offender groups
• part three iscusses some of the practice approaches that have been identified as holding promise in addressing low levels of...

Security and Conflict in East Asia provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of the sources and implications of conflict on the Korean peninsula and in the People s Republic of China and Japan, the three biggest economies in the world. This analysis provides the building blocks for effective solutions to manage these, and is a vital resource to those seeking a clearer understanding of conflict in the most pivotal region in the world. In the context of increasingly tense China-US strategic rivalry, the ever-present potential for conflict on the Korean peninsula, the absence of effective...