North Books: 566 books
Wondrous Child
The Joys and Challenges of Grandparenting
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A Santa Cruz postpartum doula, a New Hampshire flute-maker, a Zen teacher, a dance therapist, a Sri Lankan film director—these are a few of the grandparents who share their stories in this bracing collection. The essays cover a wide range of experiences as they examine the marrow of this often undervalued...
The Elements of Skill
A Conscious Approach to Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Why do so many beginners, both children and adults, fail to master chosen skills? The Elements of Skill was inspired by—and addresses—that question with a program based on proven techniques. The book, written by a renowned practitioner of the Alexander Technique, outlines an educational system...
The Neuroaffective Picture Book
An Illustrated Introduction to Developmental Neuropsychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
An illustrated introduction to the evolution and early development of the brain, emotions, and personality
Designed for psychologists, psychotherapists, and childcare professionals, this book is an accessible primer on developmental neuropsychology, combining easy-to-understand text with light-hearted...
Deep Tissue Massage, Revised Edition
A Visual Guide to Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Featuring more than 250 photographs and 50 anatomical drawings, Deep Tissue Massage is the standard guide to the essentials of touch, biomechanics, and positioning options for a multitude of strategies to treat all major conditions encountered in a bodywork practice.The book is divided into three...
Ortho-Bionomy
A Path to Self-Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Ortho-Bionomy is based on the premise that the body inherently knows how to heal and self-correct, given the opportunity. This user-friendly self-help guide by one of the pioneers of the approach presents positions, postures, and movements designed to release tension and ease pain. Not only are the...
New Moon
A Coming-of-Age Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
New Moon: A Coming-of-Age Tale traces the author’s path through grade school at P. S. 6, “group” in Central Park, high school at Horace Mann, and college at Amherst, while recalling Freudian psychoanalysis, Grossinger’s Hotel in the Catskills, Color War at Camp Chipinaw, ‘50s rock ’n’...
Vital Signs for Cancer Prevention
Protect Yourself from the Onset or Recurrence of Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Vital Signs for Cancer Prevention suggests that cancer is a two-phase process. In Phase One you do not yet have, and may never have, cancer, but predisposing factors—poor diet and digestion, toxins, adrenal exhaustion, and blood sugar imbalances, among others—can progressively and cumulatively...
Star Sister
How I Changed My Name, Grew Wings , and Learned to Trust Intuition
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Intuition was something that Laura Chamorro knew not to ignore. So when it told her to change her name to Stella Osorojos, she listened—and that’s when things started to get strange.
Following the I Ching, kabbalah teachers, channeled masters from Earth and beyond, and her own premonitions...
Embodied Wisdom
The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
An educational system of neuromuscular re-education known for its gentle approach, the Feldenkrais Method has been shown to dramatically improve individual functioning by increasing self-awareness and facilitating new patterns of thinking, moving, and feeling. Intended for those who need to improve...
Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics, Volume One
The Breath of Life and Fundamental Skills
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is commonly seen as the spiritual approach to craniosacral therapy (CST); in fact, BCST as taught by Franklyn Sills, the pioneer in the field, is quite different from conventional CST. Biodynamic work is based on the development of perceptual skills where the...
The Naked Voice
Transform Your Life through the Power of Sound
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Both science and spirituality agree that every particle of matter, every phenomenon we experience, is a form of resonance or vibration. The human voice is quite literally a mouthpiece of this truth; there is no form of expression more personal, more tied to our identities, than our voices. With simple...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of body-centered psychotherapies, which stress the centrality of the body to overcoming psychological distress, trauma, and mental illness. Psychologists and therapists are increasingly incorporating these...
Improvisation On the Edge
Notes from On and Off Stage
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Directed not only toward actors, dancers, and other performing artists who draw upon improvisation as part of their craft, this Zen-infused memoir of a life lived creatively will pique the interest of anyone in search of liberation from self-limiting concepts. What does it mean to live in a body?...
Changed in a Flash
One Woman's Near-Death Experience and Why a Scholar Thinks It Empowers Us All
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A fascinating first-hand account of an awakening into a psychic consciousness, paired with a revolutionary analysis by a respected professor of religion
When Elizabeth Greenfield Krohn got out of her car with her two young sons in the parking lot of her synagogue on a late afternoon in September...