North Atlantic Books: 547 books
Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs
How Surgery Can Be Hazardous to Your Health And What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Most people would consider a knife wound to the stomach a serious health risk, but a similar scalpel wound in an operating room is often shrugged off. In Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs, Dr. Harvey Bigelsen explains how today’s medical doctors overprescribe surgery and ignore its long-term health...
Sacred Pregnancy
A Loving Guide and Journal for Expectant Moms
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In today's western cultures, the typical pregnancy focuses on the baby to the exclusion of the woman herself, so that the entire experience has become more about preparing for the baby's arrival than looking closely at oneself to prepare emotionally for all of the changes that creating a new life...
Healing Developmental Trauma
How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Written for those working to heal developmental trauma and seeking new tools for self-awareness and growth, this book focuses on conflicts surrounding the capacity for connection. Explaining that an impaired capacity for connection to self and to others and the ensuing diminished aliveness are the...
12 Steps to Raw Foods
How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Why do we overeat time and time again? Why do we make poor diet choices while we want to be healthy? What makes losing weight so difficult? These and many other vital questions are addressed in 12 Steps to Raw Foods in an open and sincere dialogue. Based on the latest scientific research, Victoria...
Green Smoothie Revolution
The Radical Leap Towards Natural Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Thanks to processed and fast foods, being overworked, and feeling stressed while eating on the fly, it is increasingly difficult for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced diet. We may not be obviously sick, but may suffer from lack of focus, insomnia, sluggishness, or any host of symptoms caused...
by Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Tree of Life Cafe Chefs
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Medical researchers have found that a high-fat, high-sugar diet, combined with environmental pollutants and stress, can lead to a buildup of toxins in the body collectively known as chronic degenerative disease. Here holistic physician Gabriel Cousens addresses the dangers of foods that have been...
I Am Grateful
Recipes and Lifestyle of Cafe Gratitude
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
With locations in San Francisco, Berkeley, Marin, and Los Angeles, Café Gratitude has become well known for its inspiring environment and distinctive, flavorful organic foods. In I Am Grateful, cofounder Terces Engelhart presents her and her husband Matthew’s view of life and business philosophy....
The Modern Herbal Dispensatory
A Medicine-Making Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This comprehensive, full-color guide provides detailed, easy-to-follow instructions for making and using approximately 250 herbal medicines at home, including practical tips and numerous effective formulas developed and tested by the authors, both expert herbalists with years of experience. Readers...
LifeFood Recipe Book
Living on Life Force
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Life force foods are those found wild in nature and served uncooked. A life force diet is vegetarian, and mainly vegan, congruent with the philosophy that good food choices promote a sustainable future on the planet. This book applies life food principles to daily life. The authors explain how the...
Raw and Beyond
How Omega-3 Nutrition Is Transforming the Raw Food Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Victoria Boutenko, Elaina Love, and Chad Sarno have been leaders in the raw food movement since the 1990s. Each of them maintained and promoted the 100 percent raw diet for years. Since then, all three have independently arrived at the same conclusion: that a totally raw diet is not necessarily the...
Conscious Eating
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Conscious Eating has been referred to as the "Bible of Vegetarians," for both beginners and advanced students of health. This classic work in the field of live-food nutrition is an inspirational journey and a manual for life. Included is new information on enzymes, vegetarian nutrition for...
The Anti-Estrogenic Diet
How Estrogenic Foods and Chemicals Are Making You Fat and Sick
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
• Lower your risk of metabolic disorders, disease, and chronic weight gain
• Protect yourself against the estrogenic substances in the environment, products, water, and food
• Learn how certain foods and herbs can protect you!
Estrogenic chemicals—known for causing the...
Occupy Spirituality
A Radical Vision for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The Occupy Wall Street movement and protest movements around the world are evidence of a new era of intergenerational activists seeking deeper spiritual meaning in their quest for peace and justice.
This book is a call to action for a new era of spirituality-infused activism. Authors Adam Bucko...
Body and Mature Behavior
A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation, and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
A victim of debilitating injuries, Moshe Feldenkrais was intimately aware of the link between bodily suffering and mental health. Through healing himself, he made revolutionary discoveries, culminating in the development of the method that now bears his name. In an intellectually rich and eloquent...