Many years after her father's death, Buddhist nun, Dechen Zoban, discovers that her mathematician father was murdered. She undertakes to solve his homicide which occured in 1945, when she was nine years old. It takes all of Zoban's Buddhist discipline, and all of her cunning worldly knowledge to solve this crime. Her grown children help her, but all of them are at risk of death from unknown agencies.

This Second Edition of a well-received work continues to break new ground in gender studies and related metaphor theory. It establishes clear links between emerging 19th Century gender identity and madness as a trope. This evolution of the changing language relating to gender is analyzed in select 19th Century British and American novels.

In this second volume of the Dechen Zoban mysteries trilogy, Zoban is faced with possible financial irregularities within her Buddhist tradition, and lingering doubts about her guru. She and her adult children seek out the truth at the risk of their lives.

In this third volume of Dechan Zoban mysteries her microbiologist daughter, Carol, is abducted by persons unknown, joining many of her profession who have disappeared or been murdered under strange circumstances. With a heavy heart, Zoban undertakes to find out what happened to her daughter while remembering that her father had been murdered along with two other mathematicians during WW II.

As a sub-concept of "self," gender identity has become a heated issue in public schools and facilities. Traditionally, such identity would be a compromise between one's self view, and the view of society of an individual. Now one's assertion of gender trumps society in both legal issues and group dynamics. This work takes a broad-ranging view of fictional and real people during the 19th and 20th Centuries in an attempt to elucidate how we arrived at what seems to be a substantial paradigm shift. This work asserts that this paradigm shift has been developing over the last two centuries, and...