North Books imprint: 926 books
Pioneering the Possible
Awakened Leadership for a World That Works
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Scilla Elworthy, a realist with 40 years' experience at the sharp end of politics and conflict, presents a bold but realistic vision for the future in Pioneering the Possible. Human beings worldwide are anxious, afraid for their children's futures, dissatisfied...
Radical Transformational Leadership
Strategic Action for Change Agents
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Monica Sharma describes how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values such as dignity, compassion, fairness, and courage. Drawing on more than twenty years of work for the United Nations and elsewhere, she presents a radical new approach to transformational...
The Satsuma Rebellion
Illustrated Japanese History - The Last Stand of the Samurai
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A gripping graphic novel describing the uprising of 1877, when the old style samurai were crushed in a bloody conflict with the imperial army that ended samurai power in Japan
Award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson and acclaimed manga artist Akiko Shimojima team up to tell the...
Spinal Manipulation Made Simple
A Manual of Soft Tissue Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Written by an expert on alternative bodywork, this book presents techniques for manipulating the soft tissues of the back in a safe, simple manner. The method avoids the high velocity, low amplitude thrusting techniques employed by chiropractors. Instead, it utilizes the intuitive sense of somatic...
Good Sex
Getting Off without Checking Out
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Jessica Graham demonstrates that a deep spiritual life and an extraordinary sex life are not mutually exclusive in this keenly personal and unflinchingly frank guide to finding mindfulness in sex without losing the fun and adventure. Not only a tool kit for creating a rich and deeply satisfying sex...
Healing Your Eyes with Chinese Medicine
Acupuncture, Acupressure, & Chinese Herbs
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
For the past ten years, Andy Rosenfarb has successfully used acupuncture and Chinese medicine to treat a wide range of eye conditions. His treatments include moxibustion techniques, tuina (massage), microcurrent stimulation, Chinese herbs, and qigong exercises, along with “essential acupuncture”...
Cosmic Weather Report
Notes from the Edge of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
On a planet facing environmental and geopolitical catastrophes on every continent, the idea that human beings need to “evolve or die” is gaining currency on an almost daily basis. Cosmic Weather Report tackles the personal and collective obstacles to world transformation head-on, inspiring readers...
Killdozer!
Volume III: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Killdozer! is the third volume of a series of the complete short stories from Theodore Sturgeon's career. It contains a few of his best and most famous short stories: "Medusa", "Killdozer!" and "Mewhu's Jet." The series editor Paul Williams has dug into the background...
The Man Who Lost the Sea
Volume X: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
By the winner of the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards, this latest volume finds Theodore Sturgeon in fine form as he gains recognition for the first time as a literary short story writer. Written between 1957 and 1960, when Sturgeon and his family lived in both America...
The Nail and the Oracle
Volume XI: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This book contains ten major stories by the master of science fiction, fantasy, and horror written during the 1960s. The controversial “If All Men We re Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?” shows the author’s technique of “ask the next question” used in a way that shatters social...
Hope Beneath Our Feet
Restoring Our Place in the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
The environmental “tipping point” we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they can no longer ignore—we need only turn on the news to hear the litany of what is wrong around us. Serious reflection, inspiration, and direction on how to approach the future are now...
Death on the Barrens
A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Set in the remote arctic region of Northern Canada, this book takes readers on a harrowing canoe voyage that results in tragedy, redemption, and, ultimately, transformation. George Grinnell was one of six young men who set off on the 1955 expedition led by experienced wilderness canoeist Art Moffatt....
by Vladimir Bartol
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful of elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut,...
Mermaids, Sylphs, Gnomes, and Salamanders
Dialogues with the Kings and Queens of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Although the spirit beings of the four elements of nature have been represented in literature, religion, and folk tales, descriptions of these creatures have been vague, and direct experience with them is quite rare. Yet each of the four elemental kingdoms offers great gifts to humanity, if we are...