North Books imprint: 926 books
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...
Baby Is Three
Volume VI: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Baby Is Three is the sixth volume in the series devoted to the complete works of one of science fiction's titans. Like others in the series, this one includes extensive notes and background information on each story by editor Paul Williams. The early 1950s, during which this material was written,...
Case and the Dreamer
Volume XIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
James Blish called him the “finest conscious artist science fiction ever produced.” Kurt Vonnegut based the famous character Kilgore Trout on him. And such luminaries as Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and Octavia Butler have hailed him as a mentor. Theodore Sturgeon was both a popular favorite...
And Now the News . . .
Volume IX: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Written between 1955 and 1957, the 15 stories in And Now the News ... include five previously uncollected stories along with five well-known works, two cowritten with genre legend Robert Heinlein. Spanning his most creative period, these tales show why Sturgeon won every science fiction award given.
The Perfect Host
Volume V: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The fifth of ten volumes that will reprint all Sturgeon's short fiction covers his prolific output volume contains 15 classics and two previously unpublished stories, including "Quietly." The Perfect Host provides enough of a representative sampling of Sturgeon's "greatest hits"...
Spiritual Democracy
The Wisdom of Early American Visionaries for the Journey Forward
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Exploring what the author calls the "shaman-poets"—Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson—this book demonstrates how far ahead of their times these writers were in forecasting developments of our current time. It was Whitman who first wrote of "Spiritual Democracy"...