Ordering Information

The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women
of Islam
The Scimitar and the Veil portrays over thirty extraordinary Muslim women from the birth of Islam through the 19th century. From scholars to warriors to concubines and queens, The Scimitar and the Veil gathers scholarship about the women of Islam into one fascinating book presented for a general readership.

Based on sources ranging from Swahili lore to Persian pageant plays to Muslim feminist writings to the explorations of Western scholars of Islam, The Scimitar and the Veil is written in a poetic, sometimes humorous, energetic and contemporary style that will appeal to a broad range of readers.

The Echoing Green: The Garden in Myth and Memory

An imaginative assemblage of gardening literature and history for the avid gardener and literary reader alike

The Echoing Green is a lively examination of all things that make a garden a divine and interesting place. It is a tapestry rich with sumptuous imagery, unusual information, and exacting prose about gardening history, lore, rituals, and the personal experiences and reflections of author Jennifer Heath, herself a passionate gardener for more than thirty years. Including factual information as well as the mythology and folklore surrounding individual flowers, plants, and herbs, this book is beautifully written, creatively researched, and lovingly collected. From the history of the rose (which evolved in Central Asia sixty million years ago) to the significance of basil in different cultures (sacred to the Hindus, but a sign of poverty and misfortune to the ancient Greeks) to Heath's own spirited approach to weeding, The Echoing Green is a wide-ranging and delightful volume that belongs in the hearts and on the bookshelves of gardeners everywhere.

On the Edge of Dream: The Women of Celtic Myth
and Legend

Exerting all the primal pull of great storytelling, these haunting and lyrical tales activate ancient memories buried deep within our collective unconscious. From the sea goddess Fand to Cerridwen who can change her shape at will to the great warrior Queen Creidne, the women of Celtic literature are here celebrated for their ingenuity, spirit, physical courage, and deep instinctual nature. Featuring startling transformations and sweet revenge, bawdy humor and melancholy lyricism, the tales gathered in this collection celebrate primal female experience and the deep reverence the Celts had for all natural phenomenon.

Black Velvet: The Art We Love to Hate

If you imagine black velvet painting to be limited to tacky, throwaway portraits of matadors, sad-eyed clowns and pool-playing dogs, this book will make you think again. Black Velvet takes us into the world of velvet painting and opens our eyes to the unique, offbeat beauty of this fascinating genre, tracing its Japanese, Middle Eastern and Victorian origins and examining its widespread appeal – from London to Australia, Hawaii to Hong Kong – as viable folk art, international kitsch, Mexican rasquache and stunning, innovative contemporary works.

A House White with Sorrow

The second edition of A House White With Sorrow, lavishly illustrated and produced as a unique “novel in newspaper form.”

The book tells a history of Afghanistan, the Soviet invasion and a young couple caught up in a dreadful war that lasted more than two decades. It is the tale of two cultures and two families, one American, the other Afghan and of their intertwined destinies. Love shattered and rebuilt; hope betrayed and renewed; families sundered, then reunited.

This edition of A House White With Sorrow was produced exclusively to raise funds for the Afghan people. Every penny goes to the Afghanistan Relief Organization and Afghans4Tomorrow.

El Repelente

"This is a historical novel. Like all historical novels, it employs true events to suit plot and characters. Many of the maneuvers around which this story revolves really did happen ... Into this crazy quilt graphic novel of actual incidents, we've woven bits and pieces of Mesoamerican cosmology, lore and imagery, past and present ... The plot you are about to fall into may seem at times absurd and convoluted, but consider its convolutions in the context of current-events, nuclear-arsenal, nuclear-waste reality" from the Introduction.

Supercolón: Admiral of the Ocean Sea

SuperColon: Admiral of the Ocean Sea was created in 1992 on the occasion of the Quincentenary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in what has become the Americas and supported by the Chinook Fund, the Neo-data Endowment and the Boulder Arts Commission.

An historical comic book, for kids of all ages, it tells the true history of the invasion and colonization of the so-called “New World,” and was available free of charge to Native American and school groups.