Not so long ago, I completed and published a version of this book which I called A Beautiful Police Story Revisited-which was actually an updated revision of a book I published in 2002, then known as Blackjack and Jive-Five. No sooner did I get the more recent update of the book enclosed in a cover and published before all Hell began to break loose on a national level in the United States. In utter awe, I found myself repeatedly quoting New York Yankee Hall of Famer, Yogi Berra: "Deja Vu All Over Again!" I was recalling this within my own heart, mind and soul: Been There-Experienced All That! This Book-this Beautiful Police Story As Historical Perspective-pauses to ask this befuddling question: "What are we doing here again . . . and again . . . and again?" When this could be the greatest country ever envisioned, why do we keep suffering from an illness which is curable-and then insist upon perpetuating and finding new ways to spread it . . . again . . . again . . . and again? And indeed, ignorance, fueled by racism and intolerance is a terrible illness. Moreover, no other country in history has suffered from it as profoundly and as often as has the United States. This present book will be very much like A Beautiful Police Story Revisited-its most recent predecessor, . It will contain much of the same story and information as both that revision and its original source, Blackjack and Jive-Five. Yet the version now unfolding will more profoundly associate itself with present-day happenings, as well as clearly point out that there are no excuses as to why certain terrible things are still taking place in the world of America's policing. They should not be happening; there are no excuses for them. It Didn't Have To Be This Way.

This book began as the response to a wondrous feel good moment experienced by its author. He described it as such a wonderful glow that seemed like disclosure of an amazing secret he had always kept even from himself. It was a rare moment which the author felt as Beautiful NOW, wherein there was no guilt, no blame and no shame. There was only "Beautiful ME" within that Beautiful NOW, the author realized. He set out to attempt to describe the moment, as well as to attempt to review the long, widely eventful life that had brought him to "Beautiful NOW, Beautiful ME." The author had sought self love for a lengthy lifetime, and came to know he had attained that realization, even if only in a brief instant. Free at Last, was the joyful response.

A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

This collection of essays revises contemporary trauma theory, from Freudian/Caruthian and post-structuralist perspectives. While Western trauma theory is often theorized according to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this volume discusses different forms of trauma that target decolonisation theories in Arab-Maghrebean and Afro-American contexts and Chinese narratives on courtesans. The contributors to this book also scrutinize the artistic representation of trauma in poetry and drama, adopting a cross-cultural approach to trauma theory.

This Book is based on real life stories, almost all the protagonists in the articles that i have penned till date are every day common people, people whom we meet in our day to day life. These everyday common people have much much more to share, for they are the once who face all kind of hardships in their lives and survive, for people like me to tell their tales. All the tales in this book are real life stories that i’ve experienced. Each story gives you some moral, some thought to ponder over.