Atria Books: 2591 books
Dying to Wake Up
A Doctor's Voyage into the Afterlife and the Wisdom He Brought Back
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A rare glimpse into heaven, hell, and previous lives—Dr. Rajiv Parti’s near-death experience brought him on a journey through the afterworld, leading to a spiritual awakening that transformed his career, his lifestyle, and his most fundamental beliefs.
Before his near-death experience,...
by D. Scott Rogo
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
How to induce a safe, controlled out-of-body experience using physical and mental methods.
Astral projection, the ability to “leave the body” at will, is a phenomenon that has long fascinated both the scientific world and the general public. If you have been curious about this strange power...
What Stands in a Storm
A True Story of Love and Resilience in the Worst Superstorm in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller—A Perfect Storm on land—that chronicles America’s biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-day superstorm with 358 separate tornadoes touching down in twenty-one states and destroying entire...
The Genetics of Health
Understand Your Genes for Better Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Take charge of your health by understanding the connection between our evolutionary past and our future wellbeing with this practical guide to personalized health and nutrition—from distinguished physician Dr. Sharad Paul.
Recognized as one of the best in his field, surgeon, academic, and...
I Have Something to Tell You
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
For ten years, Regan Hofmann lived a double life. To the world, she was a woman from Princeton who went to prep school, summered in the Hamptons and rode Thoroughbred horses. She had a great job, a loving family and friends and looks that made men turn their heads. From the outside, she seemed to...
Mother in the Middle
A Biologist's Story of Caring for Parent and Child
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Sybil Lockhart, a Berkeley neurobiologist, became a "mother in the middle" when she was pregnant with her second daughter and her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. What makes Sybil's story different, and so powerful, is that she understood the neurological processes, by turns exciting...
The Spaceships of the Visitors
An Illustrated Guide to Alien Spacecraft
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
The first comprehensive field guide to alien spacecraft, complete with illustrations of more than one hundred spaceships
In the last decade, the number of reports of alien spacecraft sightings has skyrocketed. However, the phenomenon of alien encounters is not new. Here, for the first time,...
Birdology
Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur (t)
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Meet the ladies: a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, devise different ways to hide from foxes, and mob the author like she’s a rock star. In these pages you’ll also meet Maya and Zuni, two orphaned baby hummingbirds who hatched from...
Green Goes with Everything
Simple Steps to a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Imagine if your best friend gave you vital information that could protect you and your family, and save you money, and help the planet. Imagine if you were given clear, simple choices, small changes that could have a big impact on your life. And you could still wear leather shoes and deodorant. You'd...
Keep Climbing
How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
The 29,035-foot giant known as Mount Everest tortures its challengers with life-threatening conditions such as 100 mph winds, the dramatic loss of oxygen, snowstorms, and deadly avalanches. Climbers of Everest are faced with incredible dangers, but for Sean Swarner the obstacles he overcame prior...
Homesick
A Memoir of Family, Food, and Finding Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2004
This startlingly plainspoken and unflinching first-person account by the niece of fashion icon Ralph Lauren details a wrenching struggle with anorexia and bulimia -- and speaks powerfully to a widespread failure by the medical community to understand eating disorders.
With captivating blue eyes and...
The Emperor's Embrace
Reflections on Animal Families and Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's "marvelous" (Jane Goodall) New York Times bestseller, When Elephants Weep, made us re-evaluate the emotional lives of animals. And in his follow-up New York Times bestseller, Dogs Never Lie About Love, Masson reflected with "intelligence and originality" (Los Angeles Times...
Detour
My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
A finely wrought memoir of mental health, Detour takes a genre explored by Susanna Kaysen and Kay Redfield Jamison and propels it in a revelatory and rebellious new direction.
Detour is the extraordinary first book by Lizzie Simon, a twenty-three-year-old woman with bipolar disorder. We meet her as...
by Kat Duff
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Unlock the astonishing facts, myths, and benefits of one of the most endangered human resources—sleep.
It has become increasingly clear that our sleep shapes who we are as much as, if not more than, we shape it.
While most sleep research hasn’t ventured far beyond research labs and...