Arguing that the 1979 Iranian Revolution was an attempt to modernize Islam, not return to a traditional Islamic Utopia, the author paints a powerfully convincing portrait of the real power struggle in this ancient land--between conservative and reform-minded mullahs. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: The corporate-funded police force of Old New York dropped its investigation into a man's mysterious death by fire. Spontaneous human combustion is the rumored cause, but a down-and-out private detective, a former member of the Old New York Police Force, soon learns that this wasn't the only man to die this way...read more

Product Description: Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East–West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with the world of Islam...read more

Product Description: This is Jonathan Lyons' second novel and is titled Machina. It is a speculative, metaphysical, philosophical, and very unusual novel that pulls in notions about reality from quantum mechanics, string theory, various religious tomes, Descartes, Eastern notions of reality and the universe, the Schroedinger probability wave, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, and more, to deal with the question of what happens when "God," whatever that is, dies...read more

Product Description: Fiction. In life, some events can injure, physically or psychologically; others can shatter. In MINNOWS: A SHATTERED NOVEL, a child and his younger brother get out of school for the summer, only to have their world come crashing down around them, shards raining across the text.

Product Description: Postmodernism meets music mash-up, remixing and collage in this late-'80s coming-of-age story, an alt-underground music extravaganza that repeatedly breaks the traditional form of the novel. As Connor submerges into the underground music scene, he is enthralled by an industrial/hardcore music legend who goes by the handle “The Siren...read more