Upcoming Books

True North

A Journey into Unexplored Wilderness

Written by Elliott Merrick, Introduction by Lawrence Millman
Price: $13.95
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While many people dream of abandoning civilization and heading into the wilderness, few manage to actually do it. One exception was twenty-four-year-old Elliott Merrick, who in 1929 left his advertising job in New Jersey and moved to Labrador, one of Canada’s most remote regions. First published by Scribner’s in 1933, True...

Spiritual Clearings

Sacred Practices to Release Negative Energy and Harmonize Your Life

Written by Diana Burney
Price: $13.95
eBook

A blend of spiritual and practical material, Spiritual Clearings offers a comprehensive checklist of situations that may require a personal, home, property, or business clearing, from confronting illness or feeling “stuck” in life, to having trouble selling a home, to high employee turnover. In addition to describing energetic blockages, such as...

Spiritual Bypassing

When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters

Written by Robert Augustus Masters
Price: $13.95
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Spiritual bypassing—the use of spiritual beliefs to avoid dealing with painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs—is so pervasive that it goes largely unnoticed. The spiritual ideals of any tradition, whether Christian commandments or Buddhist precepts, can provide easy justification for practitioners to duck uncomfortable feelings in favor of more seemingly...

Raw and Natural Nutrition for Dogs

The Definitive Guide to Homemade Meals

Written by Lew Olson
Price: $13.95
eBook

***The first guide to both raw feeding and healthy homecooked meals for dogs.

In the whirlwind of information about local, organic, and whole foods, it’s easy to forget that our canine companions can also benefit from—and deserve—a more natural and nurturing diet. Preparing Fido’s food at home may seem daunting, but it’s...

Hope Beneath Our Feet

Restoring Our Place in the Natural World

Edited by Martin Keogh, Contribution by Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker and Howard Zinn
Price: $18.95
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The environmental “tipping point” we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they can no longer ignore—we need only turn on the news to hear the litany of what is wrong around us. Serious reflection, inspiration, and direction on how to approach the future are...

Available September 7, 2010

Homeopathic Care for Cats and Dogs, Revised Edition

Small Doses for Small Animals

Written by Don Hamilton, D.V.M, Foreword by Richard Pitcairn
Price: $27.95
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Most people understand homeopathy as a treatment for people, but as this book shows, our four-legged friends can benefit from it as well. First published in 1999, Homeopathic Care for Cats and Dogs quickly became a bestseller and an important resource for anyone looking for a more organic approach to caring...

Available September 7, 2010

Heart Yoga

The Sacred Marriage of Yoga and Mysticism

Written by Andrew Harvey and Karuna Erickson, Foreword by Rodney Yee
Price: $13.95
eBook

In Heart Yoga, renowned spiritual writer and Sacred Activist Andrew Harvey and longtime yoga teacher Karuna Erickson present a vision of hatha yoga practice that links ancient spiritual traditions to contemporary life. Including excerpts of poetic sacred writing from mystical sages through the ages, the book reminds readers that the purpose...

Maximum Healing

Optimize Your Natural Ability to Heal

Written by H. Robert Silverstein, M.D.
Price: $16.95
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Based on his CAIM (Complementary-Alternative-Integrative-Medicine) approach, Dr. H. Robert Silverstein outlines a program that integrates modern medical practices with alternative and ancient forms of healing. Recalling the work of Andrew Weil and Larry Dossey, the book argues that our self-healing mechanism—the immune system—is more powerful than we think. If we make...

Available September 21, 2010

The Laws of Nature

Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edited by Walt McLaughlin
Price: $16.95
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Though written in the mid-nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work, particularly his nature writing, speaks to contemporary sensibilities. The uniquely American, nature-based philosophy commonly attributed to Thoreau was first presented to the world by Emerson in his slender volume Nature and later developed by both men, each with his own distinct...

Available September 21, 2010

Pharmako/Poeia, Revised and Updated

Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

Written by Dale Pendell
Price: $19.95
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***This paperback edition has a new introduction by the author and updated content.

This is the first volume of North Atlantic Books’ updated paperback edition of Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books...

Available September 28, 2010

Pharmako/Gnosis, Revised and Updated

Plant Teachers and the Poison Path

Written by Dale Pendell
Price: $19.95
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***This paperback edition has a new introduction by the author and updated content.

This is the third and final volume of North Atlantic Books’ updated paperback edition of Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005...

Available September 28, 2010

Pharmako/Dynamis, Revised and Updated

Stimulating Plants, Potions, and Herbcraft

Written by Dale Pendell
Price: $19.95
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***This paperback edition has a new introduction by the author and updated content.

This is the second volume of North Atlantic Books’ updated paperback edition of Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books...

Available September 28, 2010

Ki in Aikido, Second Edition

A Sampler of Ki Exercises

Written by C.M. Shifflett
Price: $19.95
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Ki, the "Force" behind the Japanese martial art of Aikido, has much in common with Chinese ch’i, the Sanscript prana, and Greek Pneuma–but all remain strange concepts to many Westerners.

Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido, founded by Koichi Tohei in 1974, emphasizes coordination of mind and body to produce inner strength and...

Available September 28, 2010

In an Unspoken Voice

How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

Written by Peter A. Levine Ph.D., Foreword by Gabor Mate, M.D.
Price: $21.95
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**Unraveling Trauma in the Body, Brain and Mind—a Revolution in Treatment**

In this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world to explain the nature and...

Available September 28, 2010

Endless Path

Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life

Written by Rafe Martin
Price: $19.95
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The jataka tales—stories of the Buddha’s past lives (in both human and animal form)—were first said to have been told by the Buddha himself 2,500 years ago. In print since the 5th century BCE, 550 jataka tales comprise part of the oldest Buddhist text, the Pali Canon. From this wealth of...

Available September 28, 2010

Case and the Dreamer

Volume XIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon

Written by Theodore Sturgeon
Price: $35.00
Hardcover

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 a writer’s writer, carving...

Available September 28, 2010

Green for Life

Written by Victoria Boutenko, Foreword by A. William Menzin, M.D.
Price: $16.95
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Everyone knows they need to eat more fruits and vegetables, but even consuming the minimum FDA-recommended five servings a day can be challenging. In Green for Life, raw foods pioneer Victoria Boutenko presents an overlooked powerhouse of nutrition in this equation: greens. For their bounty of minerals and nutrients, greens exceed...

Available October 5, 2010

Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini

Experience through Mistakes

Written by Marcia Dechen Wangmo, Foreword by Tulku Thondup
Price: $17.95
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Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini is a collection of teachings taken from the author’s own life, gained from “experience through mistakes, learning the hard way.” After an early life as a “quasiradical, hippie, horse trainer, and environmentalist,” Marcia Dechen Wangmo became a Buddhist. Over the next three decades, through encounters with...

Available October 5, 2010

The Ultimate Egoist

Volume I: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon

Written by Theodore Sturgeon, Edited by Paul Williams
Price: $35.00
Hardcover

The Ultimate Egoist, the first volume of The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, contains the late author's earliest work, written from 1937 to 1940. Although Sturgeon's reach was limited to the lengths of the short story and novelette, his influence was strongly felt by even the most original science fiction stylists...

Available October 12, 2010

Microcosmic God

Volume II: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon

Written by Theodore Sturgeon, Edited by Paul Williams
Price: $35.00
Hardcover

The second of thirteen volumes that 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 as “Cargo,” in which a World War II...

Available October 12, 2010

A Brain Is Born

Exploring the Birth and Development of the Central Nervous System

Written by John E. Upledger D.O., O.M.M
Price: $49.95
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Witness the dramatic unfolding of the human form in all its potential. Join John E. Upledger, D.O.,O.M.M., as he takes you from the first union of sperm and egg through the development of the complex circuitry that makes up the human brain.

You’ll learn about birth, growth, function and dysfunction, and how...

Available October 12, 2010

First of State

Written by Robert Greer
Price: $24.95
Hardcover

Robert Greer’s latest novel—a prequel to his CJ Floyd mystery series—takes readers back in time to a very young CJ Floyd. It’s 1972, and the 22-year-old decorated war vet has recently returned to Denver from Vietnam with post-traumatic stress disorder. Navigating depression, he finds a friend in World War II vet...

Available October 19, 2010

Wisdom from the Monastery

A Program of Spiritual Healing

Edited by Peter Seewald, Contribution by Lucia Glahn, Simone Kosog and Bernhard Muller
Price: $18.95
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For almost two millennia, Christian men and women have banded together to live in devotion to God and humanity. Recent studies have shown that, on average, men and women in Holy Orders are healthier and live longer than the rest of us. What timeless solutions to the things that ail us...

Available October 26, 2010

The Mirror of Mindfulness, Updated Edition

The Cycle of the Four Bardos

Written by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol
Price: $15.95
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In The Mirror of Mindfulness, seventeenth-century master Tsele Natsok Rangdröl teaches that there is an identical essence intrinsic to the heart, mind, and spirit in every human being. The realization of this essential oneness in humanity, he said, makes any man or woman a Buddha. The book focuses on how to...

Available October 26, 2010

Homeopathic Guide for Travelers

Remedies for Health and Safety

Written by Ravi Roy and Carola Lage-Roy
Price: $16.95
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Ravi Roy and Carola Lage-Roy present a wealth of strategies for using homeopathic medicine to stay happy and healthy while traveling. A bestseller in its original German edition, The Homeopathic Guide for Travelers is equally useful for backpackers, business travelers, and even luxury vacationers. It provides all the preparation needed for...

Available October 26, 2010
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