North Atlantic Books Blog

May has finally arrived, bringing the beginning of the North Atlantic Books Spring 2008 season. Our new books this month encompass a wide range of genres including metaphysics, anatomy, martial arts, business, and fiction. Enjoy!

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The Fourth Perspective: A CJ Floyd Mystery
By Robert Greer

$14.95/$16.95 in Canada
Trade Paper
978-1-58394-223-9
392 pages, 6 x 9
Frog, Ltd.
On Sale May 6, 2008

The building of the transcontinental railroad provides a dramatic setting for murder in this lively thriller by Robert Greer, author of The Devil’s Hatband. When bail bondsman and bounty hunter CJ Floyd opens an antique store, the last thing he expects is to be fingered for murder. But that’s exactly what happens after an immigrant student tries to sell him a rare book. The book contains a hidden photograph as legendary—and valuable—as the Maltese Falcon. The seller quickly turns up dead in an alley, and CJ is the main suspect. Before he knows it, CJ finds himself on the dark side of a historical looking glass that has him following eccentric power brokers, museum curators, art dealers and collectors, and academics down a trail of greed and corruption as they all vie for a picture they’re willing to kill for. The Fourth Perspective is a fast-moving, full-dress whodunit based on the last great American railroad construction project and its priceless photographic history.
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Sacred Commerce: Business as a Path of Awakening
By Matthew and Terces Engelhart

$14.95/$16.95 in Canada
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-729-8
152 pages, 6 x 9
North Atlantic Books
On Sale May 6, 2008

Matthew and Terces Engelhart, the owners of Café Gratitude, a popular organic vegan restaurant chain in the San Francisco Bay Area and LA, offer Sacred Commerce as a blueprint for creating a business based on community and spiritual values. Matthew and Terces present the idea that love before appearances is the antidote to our spiritual, environmental, and social degradation. This book explores topics including mission statements, manager as coach, human resources as a sacred culture, and inspirational meetings. Integrating the concept of “Sacred Commerce” into business can provide both financial success and spiritual satisfaction. Sacred Commerce is the ideal mix of the personal and the practical—a guidebook written by people who have felt success, not just spent it.
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Yang Style Traditional Long Form T’ai Chi Ch’uan: As Taught by Master T.T. Liang
By Gordon Muir

$16.95/$20 in Canada
Trade Paper
978-1-58394-221-5
256 pages, 7 x 9-1/4
Blue Snake Books
On Sale May 13, 2008

Gordon Muir began his martial arts studies at the age of twelve, followed by years of serious study of a wide variety of disciplines including judo, kyokushinkai, karate, kempo, several kung fu styles, and kickboxing. Eventually he discovered the internal martial arts, which led to t’ai chi and Master T.T. Liang, renowned teacher of Yang style. Yang Style Traditional Long Form T’ai Chi Ch’uan is the culmination of the author’s longtime study of this style. It focuses on the revered traditional form rather than the more recently created short form, and describes in depth the type of movement t’ai chi strives for that distinguishes it from other martial arts. Numerous photographs and detailed descriptions showcase and simplify the movements, which include the traditional Yang stances, hand and arm positions, and moving and powering. Written in a simple, engaging style, the book is designed to help new students get started in this rewarding tradition and more advanced practitioners deepen their knowledge of it.
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The Gods’ Machines: From Stonehenge to Crop Circles
By Wun Chok Bong

$26.95 / $32.00 in Canada
Trade paper
978-1-58394-207-9
528 pages, 7-3/16 x 10
Frog, Ltd.
On Sale May 27, 2008

Based on Wun Chok Bong’s decipherment of prehistoric carvings and the application of mathematical measurements, The Gods’ Machines shows how “unknown” phenomena from Angkor Wat to Stonehenge to crop circles are actually powerhouses built by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization for tapping electromagnetic energy. The book traces the development of that civilization on Earth over 5,000 years, and reveals how all of these structures are aligned according to a universal formula. These fascinating theories not only explain our distant past, but also open the door to a future of power technology and space travel. The Gods’ Machines is a comprehensive, illustrated study of the extraterrestrial origins of megalithic structures, based on a provocative “stone angle alignment” theory and is certain to stimulate debate among readers interested in alternative history, ancient civilization, and extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Anatomy of the Moving Body: A Basic Course in Bones, Muscles, and Joints Second Edition
By Theodore Dimon, Jr.

$21.95/$25 in Canada
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-720-5
272 pages, 8 x 9-1/4
North Atlantic Books
On Sale May 27, 2008

By the author of The Undivided Self and The Elements of Skill, Anatomy of the Moving Body is a simple yet complete study of the body’s complex system of bones, muscles, and joints and how they function. Beautifully illustrated with more than 100 dynamic images, the book contains 31 lectures that guide readers through this challenging interior landscape. Each part of the body is explained in brief, manageable sections and topics include the etymology of anatomical terms; origins and attachments of muscles and their related actions; discussion of major functional systems such as the pelvis, ankle, shoulder girdle, and hand; major landmarks and human topography; and structures relating to breathing and vocalization. This second edition features all-new illustrations and is ideal for dancers and movement educators, students, therapists, as well as for practitioners of yoga, Pilates, martial arts, and dance.

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