Atlantic Books imprint: 617 books
Radical Dharma
Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening....
Hired
Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
A compelling and ground-breaking piece of narrative journalism that gets right to the heart of divided Britain and its dysfunctional jobs climate.We all define ourselves by our profession - at least to some extent. But what if our job was demeaning, poorly paid, and tedious? Cracking open Britain's...
Change Here Now
Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language" framework...
Empty Hands, A Memoir
One Woman's Journey to Save Children Orphaned by AIDS in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Empty Hands is the inspiring memoir of Zulu nurse and healthcare activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, against seemingly insurmountable odds Sister Abegail earned her nursing degree and began work as a community nurse...
by Vince Cable
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Today Vince Cable is best known as "the undisputed heavyweight champion of the credit crunch in Parliament," revered for his prescience and authority on the world economic crisis. But his journey to become Britain's most respected politician has been long, circuitous, and sometimes very...
Eureka!
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical, and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy, and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role...
Free to Make
How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it’s made, where it’s made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join what Dougherty...
Love's Glory
Re-creations of Rumi
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In Love’s Glory, mystical scholar Andrew Harvey presents 108 stunning short poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and poet Rumi. Working from translations in various languages and drawing on two decades of studying Rumi’s work, Harvey’s “re-creations” are arranged in a dance around...
Heaven's Wind
The Life and Teachings of Nakamura Tempu-A Mind-Body Integration Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
For the first time in English, Stephen Earle tells the epic story of Nakamura Tempu, one of Japan’s most inspirational twentieth-century thinkers and teachers, whose mind-body approach to personal transformation influenced hundreds of thousands, including prominent leaders in government, industry,...
Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition
The Life of Aleister Crowley
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences—and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the last to challenge such a view, he was also much more than “the Beast,” as this authoritative biography shows. Perdurabo (the magical...
by A. N. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
In this unusual and vibrant examination of the life and times of Britain's most iconic living figure, A. N. Wilson considers the history of the monarchy, drawing a line that stretches from Queen Victoria to the bloody history of Europe in the 20th century, examining how and why the Royal Family has...
by Phil Rickman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Glastonbury Tor is the legendary resting place of the Holy Grail, but something else also rests beneath the hill
Glastonbury, legendary resting place of the Holy Grail, is a mysterious and haunting town. But when plump, dizzy Diane Ffitch returns home, it's with a sense of deep unease—and...
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...
The Subterranean Railway
How the London Underground was Built and How it Changed the City Forever
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the 19th-century pioneers who made the world's first, and still the largest, underground passenger railway: one of the...