North Books imprint: 926 books
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Close Encounters with Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver’s skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents addiction not...
by Charles Eisenstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding...
The Great Bay
Chronicles of the Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
***WINNER, Best Science Fiction, 2010 Green Book Festival
Based in scientific reality, Dale Pendell presents a powerful fictional vision of a fast-approaching future in which sea levels rise and a decimated population must find new ways to live. The Great Bay begins in 2021 with a worldwide...
Radical Dharma
Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening....
Change Here Now
Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language" framework...
Empty Hands, A Memoir
One Woman's Journey to Save Children Orphaned by AIDS in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Empty Hands is the inspiring memoir of Zulu nurse and healthcare activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, against seemingly insurmountable odds Sister Abegail earned her nursing degree and began work as a community nurse...
Free to Make
How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it’s made, where it’s made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join what Dougherty...
Love's Glory
Re-creations of Rumi
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In Love’s Glory, mystical scholar Andrew Harvey presents 108 stunning short poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and poet Rumi. Working from translations in various languages and drawing on two decades of studying Rumi’s work, Harvey’s “re-creations” are arranged in a dance around...
Sketchbook Confidential
Secrets from the private sketches of over 40 master artists
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Pulsing with ideas, energy and inspiration, Sketchbook Confidential offers a rare peek inside the personal sketchbooks of 40+ master artists. From colorful painted sketches to spontaneous napkin doodles, from the intensely personal to the purely whimsical, most of the work here was produced quickly...
Heaven's Wind
The Life and Teachings of Nakamura Tempu-A Mind-Body Integration Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
For the first time in English, Stephen Earle tells the epic story of Nakamura Tempu, one of Japan’s most inspirational twentieth-century thinkers and teachers, whose mind-body approach to personal transformation influenced hundreds of thousands, including prominent leaders in government, industry,...
Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition
The Life of Aleister Crowley
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences—and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the last to challenge such a view, he was also much more than “the Beast,” as this authoritative biography shows. Perdurabo (the magical...
Unfinished Agenda
Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Unfinished Agenda offers an inside look at the Black Power Movement that emerged during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. A political memoir that teaches grass-roots politics and inspires organizing for real change in the Age of Obama, this book will appeal to readers of black history, Occupy...
Aya Awakenings
A Shamanic Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Experiential journalist Rak Razam sets out to document the thriving business of 21st-century hallucinogenic shamanism starting with a trip to the annual Amazonian Shaman Conference in Iquitos, Peru, where he meets a motley crew of "spiritual tourists," rogue scientists, black magicians,...
Animal Wisdom
Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
How is it that pets are able to travel thousands of miles through unknown territory to reunite with their beloved humans? How can dogs detect cancer with up to a 98 percent accuracy rate, and foresee epileptic or diabetic seizures in their owners? How do animals seem to know an earthquake is coming...