Point imprint: 454 books
The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A landmark new translation and edition
Written almost two millennia ago, Patañjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and...
The Dark Heart of Italy
An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage...
by Bruce Weinstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
It's not always easy to figure out what's right or wrong.
Your parents say one thing, your teachers say another, and your friends say something else entirely. Is it okay to tell a friend that her cookies taste awful? How should you respond when you see someone cheating on a test? And what's...
The Iron Road
A Stand for Truth and Democracy in Burma
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
A startling account of an evil regime and one young man's efforts to defy it.
Twenty-eight-year-old James Mawdsley spent much of the past four years in grim Burmese prisons. The Iron Road is his story, and the story of the regime that jailed him, the way it jails, tortures, and kills hundreds...
by Kasie West
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Signed, sealed, delivered... While spacing out in Chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favorite song lyrics onto her desk. The next day, she finds that someone has continued the lyrics on the desk, and added a message to her. Intrigue! Soon, Lily and her anonymous pen pal are exchanging full-on...
American Ground
Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times
Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock access to the World Trade Center site....
Maverick
An Unauthorized Collection of Wisdom from John McCain, the Sheriff of the Senate
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A lifetime of wisdom from a true American patriot
The country is more polarized than it has been for decades, but John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect of colleagues and constituents on both sides of the aisle. A model for bipartisanship and political integrity, in...
by Scott Russell Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
An original and searching memoir from "one of America's finest essayists" (Phillip Lopate)
When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe—"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything."...
The Saints' Guide to Happiness
Everyday Wisdom from the Lives and Love of the Saints
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
A noted spiritual writer seeks answers to life's big questions in the stories of the saints
In All Saints---published in 1997 and already a classic of its kind---Robert Ellsberg told the stories of 365 holy people with great vividness and eloquence. In The Saints' Guide to Happiness, Ellsberg...
The Mourner's Dance
What We Do When People Die
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
When her daughter's fiancé died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg was surprised to see how her daughter intuitively re-created the traditional rituals of mourning, even those of which she was ignorant. Intrigued, Ashenburg began to explore the rich and endlessly inventive choreographies different cultures...
Health, Healing, and Beyond
Yoga and the Living Tradition of T. Krishnamacharya
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The much-sought-after, greatly beloved exploration of the work of Krishnamacharya, teacher of many of twentieth-century yoga's greatest and most influential exponents, Health, Healing, and Beyond is filled with deep wisdom—an indispensable guide to the philosophy, principles, and limitless possibilities...
The Gateless Barrier
The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan)
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The Gateless Barrier is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon), a thirteenth-century master of the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, it is composed of forty-eight koans, or cases, each accompanied by a brief comment and poem...
by Robert Aitken
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rationale, and ideology of Zen Buddhism with remarkable clarity.
The foundation of Zen is the practice...
The Yoga of the Yogi
The Legacy of T. Krishnamacharya
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This deeply personal biographical tribute by Krishnamacharya's grandson includes photographs, archival materials, and family recollections that have never been published elsewhere, as well as unique insights into the "master of masters" by some of his most famous students-Indra Devi, Sri...