Atlantic Books: 762 books
The Wisdom of the Overself
The Path to Self-Realization and Philosophic Insight, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Inspired by Paul Brunton's years spent with sages in Asia, *The Wisdom of the Overself *and its companion volume The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga were written at the request of these remarkable teachers, who recognized that Brunton had a significant role to play in the transmission of traditional...
Die Wise
A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places...
A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle
Revelations of Indigenous Wisdom--Healing Plants, Practices, and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle is a historic document, including nearly 200 color photos and maps, in that...
Functional Anatomy of the Pilates Core
An Illustrated Guide to a Safe and Effective Core Training Program
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This book is the first to illustrate the essential connection between the functional anatomy of the body’s core and its application during Pilates’ fundamental core exercises. Focusing on the inherent potential of the human body to stabilize and move, Dr. Evan Osar and Marylee Bussard combine...
Ideokinesis
A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Mabel Elsworth Todd pioneered ideokinesis in the 1920s. Her book, The Thinking Body, described new ways to use all the senses as well as inner feeling and imagination to retrain the body to move with ease and balance. The system became an invaluable tool for generations of dancers, actors, and performance...
Million Dollar Maths
The Secret Maths of Becoming Rich (or Poor)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
How can you turn $1000 into $1 million? What is the best way to beat the lottery odds? When is the best time to take out a loan? How did one group of gamblers bet on hole-in-ones to win £500,000? How can maths help you set up a successful tech start-up? What about proving the Goldbach Conjecture...
The Order-Disorder Paradox
Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Increasing order in a system also creates disorder: this seemingly paradoxical idea has deep roots in early cultures throughout the world, but it has been largely lost in our modern lives as we push for increasing systematization in our world and in our personal lives. Drawing on nearly five decades...
by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A sweeping tale of consequences spanning the 1930s to the 1990s, moving between fascist Italy and modern Ireland
In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family’s...
The Longshoreman
A Life at the Water's Edge
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Fish have been a lifelong obsession for Richard Shelton. As a boy in the 1940s, he was fascinated by what he found in the streams near his Buckinghamshire home. But it was the sea and the creatures living in it and by it which were to become his passion. This book follows the author from stream to...
Out in the Open, Revised Edition
The Complete Male Pelvis
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Out in the Open, Revised Edition: The Complete Male Pelvis offers a frank exploration of the male pelvic region from a cultural and scientific perspective. Focusing on pelvic structure and development, the book explains how male sexuality develops throughout a man's life—from birth onwards. An experienced...
The Tao of Craft
Fu Talismans and Casting Sigils in the Eastern Esoteric Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
For the first time in English, Benebell Wen reveals the rich history and theoretical principles underlying the ancient practice of crafting Fu talismans, or magical sigils, in the Chinese Taoist tradition and gives detailed instructions for modern practitioners who would like to craft their own Fu....
Stillness
Biodynamic Cranial Practice and the Evolution of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Charles Ridley is known for having refined a version of biodynamic craniosacral work that is nonmedical and nonmechanical. In Stillness, he clarifies the three fundamental types of this work — biomechanical, functional, and biodynamic. He explains the requirements and pitfalls of each model, and...
Sky Shamans of Mongolia
Meetings with Remarkable Healers
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Part travelogue, part experiential spiritual memoir, Kevin Turner takes us to visit with authentic shamans in the steppes and urban centers of modern-day Mongolia. Along the way, the author, a practicing shaman himself, tells of spontaneous medical diagnoses, all-night shamanic ceremonies, and miraculous...
by Shashi Warrier
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
A powerful, harrowing book exploring a great moral question: when does one who kills become a murderer?
In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of Travancore commits his life to paper. In seven notebooks he remembers the people he has killed, calmly recalling the final...