Atlantic Books: 762 books
by Richard Shelton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Combining exquisite natural history with beguiling autobiographical and historical narrative, a portrait of a fish whose story is closely intertwined with our own
The Atlantic salmon is an extraordinary and mysterious fish. Here, Richard Shelton combines memoir and deep scientific...
Hemispheres
A Novel of Family, Birds and Coming Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Yan is a compulsive gambler whose wanderlust leads him on a chain of adventures across the South Atlantic and beyond, in the wake of the Falklands War. But this personal voyage takes a heavy toll on his relationships with wife, Kate, and teenage son, Danny, left abandoned in a run-down pub on the...
Io Anthology
Literature, Interviews, and Art from the Seminal Interdisciplinary Journal, 1965 -1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Io Anthology celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this formative journal and commemorates its role in opening a path to decades of innovative publishing. Bringing together in one volume the quirky blend of artistic and scholarly writing that characterized the literary journal, this book is a “greatest...
Time to Stand Up
An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth -- The Buddha's Life and Message through Feminine Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Time to Stand Up retells the story of the historical Buddha, one of the greatest sacred activists of all time, as a practical human being whose teachings of freedom from suffering are more relevant than ever in this time of global peril. Evolving onward from the patriarchal template of spiritual...
Slow Sculpture
Volume XII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Theodore Sturgeon was a model for his friend Kurt Vonnegut’s legendary character Kilgore Trout, and his work was an acknowledged influence on important younger writers from Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg to Stephen King and Octavia Butler. His work has long been deeply appreciated for its...
Pluto
New Horizons for a Lost Horizon: Astronomy, Astrology, and Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Encompassing astronomy, mythology, psychology, and astrology, Pluto offers a wealth of knowledge about our most famous dwarf planet. First observed in 1930 and once defined as the ninth and final planet in our solar system, Pluto and its discovery and reclassification throw a unique light on how we...
Ecology and Experience
Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A philosophical and narrative memoir, Ecology and Experience is a thoughtful, engaging recounting of author Richard J. Borden’s life entwined in an overview of the intellectual and institutional history of human ecology—a story of life wrapped in a life story.
Borden shows that attempts...
Otto Binder
The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary chronicles the career of Otto Binder, from pulp magazine author to writer of Supergirl, Captain Marvel, and Superman comics. As the originator of the first sentient robot in literature ("I, Robot," published in...
All the World an Icon
Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
All the World an Icon is the fourth book in an informal "quartet" of works by Tom Cheetham on the spirituality of Henry Corbin, a major twentieth-century scholar of Sufism and colleague of C. G. Jung, whose influence on contemporary religion and the humanities is beginning to become clear....
Dark Pool of Light, Volume Three
The Crisis and Future of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
In books like Embyogenesis and Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings, author Richard Grossinger brought together the subjects of biological embryology and the esoteric process of human consciousness becoming embodied ("The embryo is the universe writing itself on its own body"). In Dark...
How We Heal, Revised and Expanded Edition
Understanding the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Unlike health books that cover only nutrition and lifestyle factors, or books that deal with consciousness, spirituality, personal growth, and metaphysical considerations outside the realm of the physical, How We Heal addresses healing in the broadest conceivable context. It presents this whole range...
Dark Pool of Light, Volume Two
Consciousness in Psychospiritual and Psychic Ranges
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In books like Embyogenesis and Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings, author Richard Grossinger brought together the subjects of biological embryology and the esoteric process of human consciousness becoming embodied ("The embryo is the universe writing itself on its own body"). In Dark...
Journey of Your Soul
A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Even at birth, everyone is unique. Can heredity alone account for the complex differences in people's temperaments and styles? The Michael teachings, an extraordinary body of channeled work, propose that we are each unique souls who deliberately take on a specific combination of traits to give us...
The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga
The Path to Self-Realization and Philosophic Insight, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Inspired by his time spent with wise sages in Asia in the 1930s, Paul Brunton (1898-1981) wrote The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga (and its companion volume The Wisdom of the Overself) at the request of these remarkable teachers, who recognized that he had a significant role to play in the transmission...