Point imprint: 454 books
Grandma's Orchard
A Harvest of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Welcome to My Orchard. For many years this eighty-some-year-old lady has found it easier to share her life interactions with words in written form, either prose or poetry. For years they have only been like seeds planted in the soil of book clubs, cafes, and public readings plus some that were recognized...
The Dharma of The Princess Bride
What the Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us About Buddhism and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
An engagingly contemporary approach to Buddhism—through the lens of an iconic film and its memorable characters
Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Tao of Pooh, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience, The Dharma...
The Mind of Clover
Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
In Taking the Path of Zen, Robert Aitken provided a concise guide to zazen (Zen meditation) and other aspects of the practice of Zen. In The Mind of Clover he addresses the world beyond the zazen cushions, illuminating issues of appropriate personal and social action through an exploration of the...
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons
Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but...
Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth...
Apple's America
The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2007
Unpretentious, sophisticated, and always appetizing advice from a celebrated authority
For more than thirty years, R. W. Apple Jr. roamed the United States as an eyewitness to history. Here, in Apple's America, his robust enthusiasm for the food and culture of New England, the South and West,...
The Road Home
A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A lively exploration of contemporary Buddhism from one of its most admired teachers
Do you feel at home right now? Or do you sense a hovering anxiety or uncertainty, an underlying unease that makes you feel just a bit uncomfortable, a bit distracted and disconnected from those around you?
In...
Chocolate
A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
A delectable journey into the world of chocolate--from manufacturing to marketing, French boutiques to American multinationals--by the award-winning author of Olives.
Science, over recent years, has confirmed what chocolate lovers have always known: the stuff is actually good for you. It's...
Essence and Alchemy
A Book of Perfume
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
An artisan perfumer reveals a lost art and its mysterious, sensual history.
For centuries, people have taken what seems to be an instinctive pleasure in rubbing scents into their skin. Perfume has helped them to pray, to heal, and to make love. And as long as there has been perfume, there have...
by Michael Sorkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in Manhattan,...
Return to Wild America
A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific...
The Bhagavad Gita
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
A fresh, new prose translation of the classic Indian poem, ideally focused for students and teachers and for yoga teacher training
The Bhagavad Gita, a small section of the massive Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, is one of the central texts of Indian culture and philosophy, and one of the great...
The Body Toxic
How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health problems in ways just now being understood. These...
The Outlaw Sea
A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free.
With...