Atlantic Books imprint: 617 books
The Cannabis Manifesto
A New Paradigm for Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Written bythe founder and CEO of the world's largest medical cannabis dispensary, The Cannabis Manifesto delivers a clear, concise history of cannabis as a medicine, details the unintended consequences of prohibition, and considers its future as a regulated consumer product. Steve DeAngelo draws on...
The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic
The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace...
The Cracking Tower
A Strategy for Transcending 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
End-of-the-world paranoia has been with us since time immemorial. Now, with the end of the legendary Mayan “long count” calendar looming on December 21, 2012 and recent threats of a worldwide economic collapse triggering widespread apprehension and a search for answers, The Cracking Tower offers...
The Parent's Guide to Homeopathy
Safe, Natural Remedies for Children, from Newborns through Teens
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
This book is the most comprehensive and easy-to-use guide available for parents who want to use homeopathy to treat their children's illnesses safely, gently, and effectively. Practical, concise, and user-friendly, *The Parents' Guide to Homeopathy *provides homeopathic remedies for more than 150...
England
1001 Things You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Despite a thousand years of glorious history, many people know surprisingly little of the facts and fables, people and places and events and emblems that have shaped England and its heritage. Where did John Bull come from? What is the Long Man of Wilmington? Who abolished Christmas? When did roast...
Ireland
1001 Things You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
In this enthralling celebration of the places and people that make the country unique, Richard Killeen takes the reader on a tour of Ireland that reveals its rich and surprising history, including its heroes and villains, legends and folklore. As well as exploring the nation's rich literary and sporting...
by Stephen Trombley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The development of modern thought is traced through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavor since 1789
No major representative of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's attention in this history: the German idealists...
More Dynamite
Essays 1990-2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
More Dynamite anthologizes a wealth of essays by a writer with one of the keenest critical eyes of his generation. Craig Raine—poet, critic, novelist, Oxford don, and editor—turns his fearsome and unflinching gaze on subjects ranging from Kafka to Koons, Beckett to Babel. He waxes lyrical about...
by Joanne Limburg
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
For readers of A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and Bad Blood by Lorna Sage comes an intensely honest and surprisingly witty literary memoir of one woman's life as a sufferer of Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Joanne Limburg is a woman who thinks things she doesn’t want to...
by Lenore Kandel, Diane di Prima
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Jack Kerouac immortalized her in his novel Big Sur. A student of Zen, she hung out with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg and was a speaker at San Francisco’s Human Be-In. But Lenore Kandel was no muse or hanger-on; she was a brilliant lyric poet, often unabashedly erotic, and that’s where her legacy...
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...
Strange Blooms
The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2008
Now in paperback, this beautifully written and gorgeously produced book describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants, father and son. In 17th-century Britain, a new breed of "curious" gardeners was pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into...
Our Church
A Personal History of the Church of England
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church...
2013
Raising the Earth to the Next Vibration
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
For the Earth to move to the next vibration, says Richard Grossinger, consciousness must change in profound ways, and these involve core elements of humanity: evil, grief, bliss, and compassion. 2013 locates these elements in often unlikely places and seeks their nature and capacity for change. With...