North Atlantic Books: 547 books
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...
True North
A Journey into Unexplored Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
While many people dream of abandoning civilization and heading into the wilderness, few manage to actually do it. One exception was twenty-four-year-old Elliott Merrick, who in 1929 left his advertising job in New Jersey and moved to Labrador, one of Canada’s most remote regions. First published...
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...
The Fungal Pharmacy
The Complete Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms and Lichens of North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In The Fungal Pharmacy, noted herbalist Robert Rogers introduces readers to more than 300 species of medicinal mushrooms and lichens found in North America. These fungi, Rogers explains, have the capacity to heal both the body and, through the process of myco-remediation, the planet itself. Throughout...
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...
by Richard Grossinger, Mary Stark, Robert Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
An avant garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger’s The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death and before rebirth. This book examines waking life...
Come of Age
The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
In his landmark provocative style, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species.
Come of Age does not offer tips on how to be a better senior citizen or how to be kinder to our elders....
by Anna Rosa Robertsdottir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This beautifully illustrated, full-color guide provides everything readers need to know about the medicinal powers of 90 native herbs of Iceland--85 of which also grow in North America. Anna Rosa Robertsdottir describes the history, uses, harvesting, drying, and storage of the plants, and includes...
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....
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...
Wisdom Keeper
One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan People
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Ilarion Merculieff weaves the remarkable strands of his life and culture into a fascinating account that begins with his traditional Unangan (Aleut) upbringing on a remote island in the Bering Sea, through his immersion in both the Russian Orthodox Church and his tribe’s holistic spiritual beliefs....