Counterpoint: 634 books
Surprise Attack
From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“A valuable examination of U.S. national security crises past and present.” —Kirkus Reviews
Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and...
Cascadia's Fault
The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
There is a crack in the earth’s crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from Northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic time-at...
Between Terror and Tourism
An Overland Journey Across North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2010
For his 65th birthday, acclaimed novelist Michael Mewshaw took a 4,000-mile overland trip across North Africa. Arriving in Egypt during food riots, he heads west into Libya, where billions in oil money have produced little except citizens eager to flee to Europe or join the jihad in Iraq. In Tunis, Mewshaw...
by Greg Bottoms
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
When Greg Bottoms runs into an old friend from high school, neither man is sure if it’s worth starting their first conversation in over a decade. As teens, they had run with a rough crowd-standard hooligans, in Bottoms’ mind, until his friend became cruel in his violence, exhibiting pure, gleeful...
The Spiral Notebook
The Aurora Theater Shooter and the Epidemic of Mass Violence Committed by American Youth
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
On July 20, 2012, twelve people were killed and fifty-eight wounded at a mass shooting in a movie theater in Colorado. In 1999, thirteen kids at Columbine High School were murdered by their peers. In 2012, twenty children and seven adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Thirty-two were killed...
Science and Spiritual Practices
Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
"I have personally adopted many of the practices Rupert describes in his book and experienced more love, joy, empathy, gratitude, and equanimity as a result. We are all indebted to Rupert, who has tirelessly brought us deep insights from both science and spirituality.” —Deepak Chopra
The...
The Lankavatara Sutra
Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Having translated The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, and following with The Platform Sutra, Red Pine now turns his attention to perhaps the greatest Sutra of all. The Lankavatara Sutra is the holy grail of Zen. Zen’s First Patriarch, Bodhidharma, gave a copy of this text to his successor, Hui-k’o,...
On Migration
Dangerous Journeys and the Living World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Life began with migration.” In a magnificent tapestry of life on the move, Ruth Padel weaves poems and prose, science and religion, wild nature and human history, to conjure a world created and sustained by migration.
'We're all from somewhere else,' she begins. Migration builds civilization...
by Evan S. Connell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Praise for Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel
A unique tour de force” -The New York Times Book Review
One of the most remarkable books that I have read in a long time.” -Kenneth Rexroth
Mr. Connell’s NOTES are what one intelligent, sensitive artist has...
by Ian Cobain
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The official line is clear: the United Kingdom does not participate in, solicit, encourage or condone” torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to their national security, the gloves always come off.
Drawing on previously unseen official documents...
Land Navigation Handbook
The Sierra Club Guide to Map, Compass and GPS
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Sooner or later any outdoor enthusiast will need more than trail markers for guidance. This best-selling manual - now thoroughly revised and updated - is designed for anyone who wants to chart a course in the wilderness: hiker, backpacker, snowshoer, skier, fisherman, or hunter. Step by step, it teaches...
Losing the Garden
The Story of a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
“Waterman’s mesmerizing account of her intense but unusual and tragic marriage to noted climber and wilderness advocate Guy Waterman.” —Stowe Today.com
Laura and Guy Waterman spent nearly three decades homesteading in a cabin in the Vermont mountains. But the end of their marriage came...
by Ma Jian
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
"Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" ―Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
Blending fact and fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three...
South of the Clouds
Travels in Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
“The perfect choice for anyone and everyone interested in all things Chinese.” —Library Journal
South of the Clouds takes readers on a journey to southwestern China, a province where as late as the 1990s the people still followed millennia-old ways of life. Originally conquered by the...