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Although no bigger than the state of Maryland, Taiwan is a place of tremendous cultural diversity, extraordinary landscapes and varied cuisines as well as Asia's most vibrant democracy. A self-governing de facto country for more than 70 years, Taiwan is a world leader in semiconductor technology and scientific innovation. Regarded by Communist China as a breakaway province to be reclaimed by force if necessary, Taiwan has been a political pawn in the drama of international politics since the Cold War began.

In 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimated that more than 12.5 million Americans misused opioids, and more than 2 million currently suffer from substance use disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 53,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2016. President Trump finally declared the opioid epidemic a "public health emergency" in October, 2017.

Nathaniel Altman and Gaupo Publishing are pleased to announce the publication of a new edition of Sacred Trees.

Gaupo Publishing has just launched a book about ahimsa, the philosophy and practice of dynamic harmlessness. First published in Great Britain by Element Books in 1989, The Nonviolent Revolution was the first book to bring the major concepts dynamic harmlessness into practical focus for the Western reader.