Atlantic Books: 762 books
Windows to the Womb
Revealing the Conscious Baby from Conception to Birth
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Windows to the Womb is an eloquent guide through the first nine months of life from conception to birth. In the past, the invisible physical processes of fetal development were mysterious and largely unexplainable, but in the past half-century, breakthroughs in embryology, interuterine photography,...
Neurodynamics
The Art of Mindfulness in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Neurodynamics combines the latest discoveries in science, anatomy, and mindfulness to form a new understanding of human awareness in action. What good does it do to stretch, relax, or strengthen muscles if we don't know how these muscles are actually designed to function? To be sound, any physical...
Catching Light
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch...
by Sam Leith
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
To every explorer with his map upside down, to every air-traffic controller suddenly receiving Magic FM through his headphones, to every astronomer whose new planet turns out to be a bit of bran-flake on the eyepiece of his telescope, Sod’s Law says: you are not alone. Sam Leith tells the hilarious-and...
by Graham Rawle
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A charming, surreal, visually stunning and utterly unforgettable new novel, in which the design of the pages replicates the way our hero's mind works as he pieces together the mystery at the novel's heart
Since childhood, Riley has been a keen collector of bubble gum cards. Now, 30 years later,...
Family Constellations
A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Mapping out a “family constellation,” explains Dr. Joy Manné, encompasses exploring previous powerful life events from accidents to adoptions and accessing the deepest dynamics in that family system. This process helps us recognize and then resolve deeply seated family patterns. For example,...
Radical Wholeness
The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
There are qualities we all yearn to experience in our lives—peace, simplicity, grace, connection, clarity. Yet these qualities evade us because each of them arises from an experience of wholeness, and we live in a culture that enforces divisions within each of us. In Radical Wholeness, Philip Shepherd...
Way of the Ancient Healer
Sacred Teachings from the Philippine Ancestral Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Way of the Ancient Healer provides an overview of the rich tradition of Filipino healing practices, discussing their origins, world influences, and role in daily life. Enhanced with over 200 photographs and illustrations, the book combines years of historical research with detailed descriptions of...
The Abundance of Less
Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Andy Couturier captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these ten profiles of ordinary—yet exceptional—men and women who left behind mainstream existences in urban Japan to live surrounded by the luxuries of nature, art, friends, delicious food, and an abundance of time. Drawing...
by Michael Hampe
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this original and thought-provoking book, philosopher Michael Hampe sets out to help us understand happiness. The right and proper path to a happy life is a topic that has been debated for millennia. There are many theories, from those of ancient philosophy to those of modern neuroscience, but...
Regretting Motherhood
A Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of...
The Cafe de Move-on Blues
In Search of the New South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today's South Africa; post the evils of apartheid, but also post the dashed hopes and dreams of Mandela,...
Biopiracy
The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms are “the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature.… Life itself is being colonized,” according to renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva. The resistance to this biopiracy, she argues, is the struggle...
Who Really Feeds the World?
The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Debunking the notion that our current food crisis must be addressed through industrial agriculture and genetic modification, author and activist Vandana Shiva argues that those forces are in fact the ones responsible for the hunger problem in the first place. Who Really Feeds the World? is a powerful...