Helps policymakers to integrate the objectives of sustainability into policy actions in a given socio-political environment. This book outlines the elements and considerations of community aspects of policy evaluation in an effort to reduce the future consequences on resources and environmental sust[...]

This book is one of the oldest and most important sources written on the esoteric teachings of Islam from a Shi'ite perspective. It demonstrates the Qur'anic origins of Sufism and its close relationship with Shi'ism. The book is based mainly on the teachings of the Qur'an, Hadith narrations of Shi'i[...]

"The Oasis of Now" is the first U.S. book publication of the works of Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980), one of the major Iranian poets of the twentieth century. Well-versed in Buddhism, mysticism, and Western traditions, Sepehri mingled Western concepts with Eastern ones, creating a poetry unsurpassed in [...]