Migraine Art
The Migraine Experience from Within
Written by Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson, Foreword by Oliver Sacks M.D.
Price: $35.00
North Atlantic Books
Outsider art is generally narrowly defined as simply the spontaneous work of unschooled, obsessive people, often religious fanatics, prisoners, and mental patients. But there are many variations, one of the more unusual of which is the subject of Migraine Art. Pharmaceutical executive Derek Robinson pioneered the field in 1973 when he...
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Meadowlark Economics
Collected Essays on Ecology, Community, and Spirituality
Written by James Eggert
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
Alarmed by the disappearance of meadowlarks from the fields near his home, James Eggert embarked on a close study of the economic and ecological factors behind the loss. His inquiry led him to conclude that the meadowlark’s survival is a metaphor for ours—that our future is intimately linked to the same...
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Failed God
Fractured Myth in a Fragile World
Written by John A. Rush Ph.D.
Price: $28.95
Frog Books
On a 2001 trip to the cathedrals of Europe, anthropologist John Rush and his wife entered St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice and encountered a mosaic depicting Jesus surrounded by mushrooms with an Amanita muscaria cap in his hand. Examining the space with new eyes, they discovered images of mushrooms and mind-altering...
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The Worlding Project
Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization
Edited by Christopher Leigh Connery and Rob Wilson
Price: $16.00
North Atlantic Books
Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range...
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Bodies in the Making
Transgressions and Transformations
Edited by Nancy N. Chen and Helene Moglen
Price: $12.00
North Atlantic Books
In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic...
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Inspired Madness
The Gifts of Burning Man
Written by Dale Pendell
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
In part a nonfiction discussion of the Burning Man festival, in part a poetic romp through Nevada’s Black Rock desert, Inspired Madness is both an irreverent introduction for those curious about the notorious event and an exhilarating reminiscence for veteran "burners." Loosely structured around a week at Burning Man, the book...
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Death, Trust and Society
Mapping Religion and Culture
Written by Lionel Rothkrug
Price: $25.00
North Atlantic Books
Lionel Rothkrug made his name 25 years ago by theorizing that just as a human personality is defined by how an individual organizes his or her powers to behave, so a society acquires personality in the exercise of its organizational powers. Death, Trust and Society revisits and expands on this concept...
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Spiritual Tattoo
A Cultural History of Tattooing, Piercing, Scarification, Branding, and Implants
Written by John Rush
Price: $18.95
Frog Books
Say "body modifications" and most people think of tattoos and piercings. They associate these mainly with the urban primitives of the 1980s to today and with primitive tribes. In fact, as this fascinating book shows, body mods have been on the scene since ancient times, traceable as far back as 1.5...
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Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary
Edited by Rick Ayers
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books
"Cheese" isn't only a dairy product, it's also a smile; when you "schmab," you're burning rubber; and when you're "ghost," you're gone. These are just a couple of the coined phrases clever enough to earn their creators - students in Berkeley High's Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS) program - spots on...
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Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields
Metaphors That Shape Embryos
Written by Donna Jeanne Haraway, Foreword by Scott Gilbert
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change...
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Planet Medicine, Revised Edition
Modalities
Written by Richard Grossinger, Preface by Peter Levine
Price: $30.00
North Atlantic Books
Planet Medicine is a major work by an anthropologist who looks at medicine in a broad context. In this edition, additions to this classic text include a section on Reiki, a comparison of types of palpation used in healing, updates on craniosacral therapy, and a means of understanding how different alternative...
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Planet Medicine, Revised Edition
Origins
Written by Richard Grossinger, Preface by John Upledger
Price: $35.00
North Atlantic Books
Planet Medicine is a major work by an anthropologist who looks at medicine in a broad context. In this edition, additions to this classic text include a section on Reiki, a comparison of types of palpation used in healing, updates on craniosacral therapy, and a means of understanding how different alternative...
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Wind in the Blood
Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine
Written by Hernan Garcia, Antonio Sierra and Hilberto Balam, Translated by Jeff Conant
Price: $20.00
North Atlantic Books
Wind in the Blood is a detailed look at Mayan medicine on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and its similarities to Chinese traditional medicine. It was originally published in Spanish as a manual for health workers in Mayan areas to bridge the gulf between Western medcal technique and Mayan medical knowledge. Mexican physicians...
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The Labyrinth in Culture and Society
Pathways to Wisdom
Written by Jaques Attali, Foreword by Rev. Lauren Artress
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Attali offers a historical analysis of how we elected, over the centuries, to rid ourselves of the indirect path for the supposed superiority of the straight line. We moved from the meandering to the linear, from the complex to the singular, from the curved and sensual to the straight and narrow...
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Maya Atlas
The Struggle to Preserve Maya Land in Southern Belize
Written by Toledo Maya Cultural Council and Toledo Alcades Association
Price: $25.00
North Atlantic Books
The Maya Atlas was made by the forty-two Ke'kchi and Mopan Maya communities of southern Belize. The maps, text, drawings, photographs and interviews were done by Maya village researchers and cartographers elected by the communities. In their own words and with their own maps, the Maya describe their land and life...
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Ecology, Meaning, & Religion
Written by Roy A. Rappaport
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
"Two enterprises have proceeded in anthropology since ts earliest days. One, objective in its aspirations and inspired by biological disciplines, seeks explanation and is concerned to discover laws and causes. The other, subjective in its orientation and influenced by philosophy, linguistics, and the humatities, attempts interpretation and seeks to elucidate meanings...
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