North Books: 566 books
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...
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...
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...
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...
New Self, New World
Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
New Self, New World challenges the primary story of what it means to be human, the random and materialistic lifestyle that author Philip Shepherd calls our “shattered reality.” This reality encourages us to live in our heads, self-absorbed in our own anxieties. Drawing on diverse sources and inspiration,...
by Max Ehrlich
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Dr. Peter Proud’s ordinary life as a professor in California is threatened by recurrent dreams that all end the same: with his murder in a lake at night by a mysterious woman named Marcia. These dreams—which he comes to believe may be flashbacks from a previous life—become so disturbing that...
Microcosmic God
Volume II: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The second of a planned 10 volumes that will reprint all Sturgeon's short fiction covers his prolific output during 1940 and 1941, after which he suffered five years of writer's block. Showcasing Sturgeon's early penchant for fantasy, the first six selections include whimsical ghost stories, such...
A Saucer of Loneliness
Volume VII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Kurt Vonnegut cites Theodore Sturgeon as the inspiration for his character Kilgore Trout. This volume includes 12 stories from 1953, considered Sturgeon's golden era. Among them are such favorites as the title story, "The Silken-Swift," "A Way of Thinking," "The Dark Room,"...
Thunder and Roses
Volume IV: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Thunder and Roses is the fourth volume in The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Included in Thunder and Roses are 15 stories, with major works like "Maturity," "The Professor's Teddy Bear," "A Way Home," and the title story, in addition to two works never published before.
Bright Segment
Volume VIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Sci-fi master Theodore Sturgeon wrote stories with power and freshness, and in telling them created a broader understanding of humanity—a legacy for readers and writers to mine for generations. Along with the title story, the collection includes stories written between 1953 and 1955, Sturgeon's...