Parallax Press: 144 books
This Difficult Thing of Being Human
The Art of Self-Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
We all long for someone to offer us unconditional love and support. But what if that person is us? The practice of mindful self-compassion creates the space we need so that observation, acceptance, and real love can enter, no matter how judgmental or disconnected we may feel.
It sounds like...
The Healing
One Woman's Journey from Poverty to Inner Riches
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
In this memoir of upward mobility through an unexpected route, a young black American woman signs up for lessons in yoga and clean eating as signifiers of her new middle class status, little realizing that her new lifestyle will bring her face to face with the inner demons fed by the domestic violence,...
Mindful Arts in the Classroom
Stories and Creative Activities for Social and Emotional Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Written especially for the teacher or camp director who wants to bring mindfulness, social and emotional learning (SEL), and the arts into their busy day through storytelling and fun games, this book offers a complete course that helps kids identify and talk about their feelings, self-regulate and...
I Am Home
Portraits of Immigrant Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Meet the faces and voices behind the conversations around immigration. These portraits and stories of teenagers who are recent immigrants to the US from all over the world show the diversity, beauty, and potential of the people who now call the United States home.
Sixty full-page portraits...
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
Korea's premier poet, the former Buddhist monk Ko Un, presents 108 Zen poems. Ko Un, who is affectionately called "the great mountain peak" by his friends, is a traveler on the Way. Throughout his eventful life as monk, poet, novelist, political dissident, husband and father, Ko Un has dashed...
Things I Did When I Was Hangry
Navigating a Peaceful Relationship with Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
After years of struggling with eating disorders and anxiety around food and eating, Annie Mahon figured that having a path, any path, would be helpful. When she read The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh, she found a path that not only changed her (and her family’s) relationship with food,...
Fear, Illustrated
Transforming What Scares Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The Fear Project is a visually stunning, light-hearted, and compelling visual exploration of the fears people confront in their daily lives. For many years artist Julie Elman has collected common and not-so-common fears people have shared with her. Elman transforms the fears from words into multi-media...
by Brooke Rothshank
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Full-color illustrated moments from daily life, captured in miniature detail, offers a beautiful reminder of the joy that can be found in even the most ordinary of days.
These 52 charming, miniature, tempera-paint images of mundane items are accompanied by mindfulness meditations to offer a...
Awake at 3 a.m.
Yoga Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Pregnancy and Early Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Pregnancy and new motherhood are often thought of as the most joyful, exciting, and blissful times in your life––but they can also be difficult and overwhelming. Yoga therapy offers practical mind-body tools (simple breath, movement, and mindfulness practices) to support you and provide solace,...
Girls Rising
A Guide to Nurturing a Confident and Soulful Adolescent
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This guide for adults working with adolescent girls will help them explore and develop their emotional, social, and spiritual selves.
Young people are hungry and capable of engaging in meaningful explorations of themselves and the world around them. Adolescent girls especially have a deep desire...
Sea libre donde esté
Una charla ofrecida en el Centro Correccional de Maryland
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 9, 2001
This is the Spanish language ebook of Be Free Where You Are. Based on talks Thich Nhat Hanh gave to prisoners at Maryland State Penitentiary. An enjoyable and accessible meditation guide covering essentials such as conscious breathing, sitting meditation, walking meditation, the practice of silence, and performing daily activities in mindfulness.
Biography of Silence
An Essay on Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
A publishing phenomenon in Spain: a moving, lyrical, far-ranging meditation on the deep joys of confronting oneself through silence by a Spanish priest and Zen disciple.
With silence increasingly becoming a stranger to us, one man set out to become its intimate: Pablo d'Ors, a Catholic priest...
The Berkeley Bowl Cookbook
Recipes Inspired by the Extraordinary Produce of California's Most Iconic Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Celebrating the unfamiliar yet extraordinary produce from California's most iconic market, Berkeley Bowl, this cookbook offers recipes for a panoply of fruits and vegetables that have been largely overlooked or forgotten in popular cuisine.
Registered dietician Laura McLively, an avid home...
In Real Life
Searching for Connection in High-Tech Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Technology can help us with some of our most difficult work. It can also offer us endless distractions. Can technology help us, as individuals and communities, in our most important task, that of being a good person?
Jon Mitchell sets out to identify and explore the ways in which we can develop...