North Atlantic Books: 547 books
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...
The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun
A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Author and illustrator Martín Prechtel is internationally known for his explorations of ancient folklore and uncovering the lessons therein for modern readers. In The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, he revives a hitherto unknown Guatemalan Tzutujil Mayan tale of the beginnings of the world...
Original Thinking
A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In Original Thinking, Glenn Aparicio Parry delves into the evolution of Western thought to recover the living roots of wisdom that can correct the imbalances in our modern worldview. Inspired by groundbreaking dialogues that the author organized between Native American elders and leading-edge Western...
Quantum-Touch
The Power to Heal
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Quantum-Touch is the touch-based healing technique that uses the chi of both practitioner and client, bringing them into harmony to allow the body to heal itself. Quantum-Touch differs from other healing techniques because it does not require long years of study and presents none of the common hurdles...
Yoga Adjustments
Philosophy, Principles, and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The quintessential guide to yoga assisting and hands-on teaching, Yoga Adjustments introduces the art and practice of providing yoga assists to yoga students. Addressing one of the most important topics in the yoga field, expert yoga instructor and best-selling author Mark Stephens covers the philosophy...
Awakening Somatic Intelligence
The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness—Transform Pain, Stress, Trauma, and Aging offers a guide to Somatic Learning, an innovative body-oriented approach that incorporates mindfulness, visualization, breathing exercises, postures, and stretches. Developed by...
Core Awareness, Revised Edition
Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Core Awareness, Revised Edition: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance offers a guide to Core Awareness, a body-oriented approach that explores the practice of bringing focus and attention to inner sensation as the means of cultivating an innate capacity for expressive movement. Developed by...
Quantum-Touch Core Transformation
A New Way to Heal and Alter Reality
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Quantum-Touch teaches techniques for focusing and amplifying life-force energy (chi) through simple breathing and body-awareness exercises. This practice stimulates our biological intelligence to promote healing in everything from major immune disorders to chronic pain to emotional disturbances. A...
Windows to the Womb
Revealing the Conscious Baby from Conception to Birth
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Windows to the Womb is an eloquent guide through the first nine months of life from conception to birth. In the past, the invisible physical processes of fetal development were mysterious and largely unexplainable, but in the past half-century, breakthroughs in embryology, interuterine photography,...
Neurodynamics
The Art of Mindfulness in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Neurodynamics combines the latest discoveries in science, anatomy, and mindfulness to form a new understanding of human awareness in action. What good does it do to stretch, relax, or strengthen muscles if we don't know how these muscles are actually designed to function? To be sound, any physical...
Catching Light
Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.
Growing up on a ranch...
Family Constellations
A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Mapping out a “family constellation,” explains Dr. Joy Manné, encompasses exploring previous powerful life events from accidents to adoptions and accessing the deepest dynamics in that family system. This process helps us recognize and then resolve deeply seated family patterns. For example,...