With summer right around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about the books you plan to read as you relax with tasty picnic lunches and embark on weekend adventures. Below you will find a preview of the new June titles at North Atlantic Books from experts in the subjects of herbalism, alternative healing, anatomy, and bodywork. There is also a new book of fiction for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
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The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants
By Matthew Wood
The Earthwise Herbal is an authoritative, accessible guide to Old World medicinal herbs, by noted herbalist Matthew Wood, who brings twenty-five years of clinical experience to this first book in a two book series. Organized alphabetically, this book encompasses all of the major—and many of the secondary—herbs of traditional and modern Western herbalism and describes characteristic symptoms and conditions in which each plant has proved useful in the clinic. The Earthwise Herbal offers insight into the “logic” of the plant: how it works, in what areas of the body it works, how it has been used in the past, what its pharmacological constituents indicate about its use, and how all these different factors hang together to produce a portrait of the plant as a whole entity.
$32.95/$37.95 in Canada
Trade paper
978-1-55643-692-5
592 pages, 6 x 9
North Atlantic Books
On Sale June 3, 2008
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The Sacred Path Beyond Trauma: Reaching the Divine Through Nature’s Healing Symbols
By Ellen B. Macfarland, PhD
The Sacred Path Beyond Trauma combines mythology, stories from film and fiction, real-life examples, and Ellen Macfarland’s personal history, to show that healing trauma is indeed possible, using rich resources in nature. The book explores major symbols of healing nature that can provide an impetus for personal transformation. Understanding the book’s nature-based symbols will turn the distressed mind into a fertile field of spiritual awareness, empowerment, and lifelong growth.
$16.95/$20 in Canada
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-725-0
200 pages, 6 x 9
North Atlantic Books
On Sale June 3, 2008
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Guarding Hanna
By Miha Mazzini
Abandoned at birth because he has the face of a “prize boar,” the unnamed narrator of Guarding Hanna knows only a local Berlin gang as family. Patriarch Maestro acts as surrogate father and except for brief moments interacting with the gang, “the beast” spends his life alone, wandering Berlin’s streets and sleeping in its vast housing projects. This changes in a flash when one of Maestro’s sons is implicated in a crime. The only hope of saving him is to protect the sole witness, beautiful but eccentric Hanna Wyoczik. Maestro calls on “the beast” to move in with her until the trial. But never having spent more than five minutes in a social situation with any human being, much less a woman, he quickly finds the basic tasks of human interaction and social intercourse insufferable. Yet Hanna’s unfazed reaction to her guardian, and her witty account of philandering ex-husbands and a nympho mother, soon confound and captivate him.
$15.95/$18.95 in Canada
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-726-7
272 pages, 6 x 9
North Atlantic Books
On Sale June 17, 2008
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Cheng Tzu’s Thirteen Treatises on T’ai Chi Ch’uan
By Cheng Man Ch’ing/Translated by Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo and Martin Inn
Millions of people worldwide practice t’ai chi, the most popular form of which was codified beginning in the 1960s by legendary master Chen Man Ch’ing. In this scholarly yet practical book, Professor Cheng shows precisely how the postures and moves of t’ai chi work, with examples from anatomy and physics, both internally as energetic principles and externally on opponents. Contrasting Western and Chinese techniques of healing, he explores the relationships of organs to one another in pathology and the necessary dynamics of treatment.
$18.95/$22 in Canada
Trade Paper
978-1-58394-220-8
224 pages, 6 x 9
Blue Snake Books
On Sale June 24, 2008
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A Practical Guide to Acu-Points
By Chris Jarmey and Ilaira Bouratinos
A Practical Guide to Acu-Points is a clear, informative guide for students, acupuncturists, and bodyworkers that features detailed color illustrations. This user-friendly manual contains current, comprehensive information, with special emphasis on how shiatsu and tuina therapists can best utilize “point knowledge” in their practice. Chris Jarmey and Ilaira Bouratinos give the precise anatomical location of each acu-point and delineate the larger area where the point can be activated by pressure, gua sha, and other means. In addition, A Practical Guide to Acu-Points explains the optimum physical position for treatment via acupuncture, acupressure, and other strategies, as treatment positions can vary according to the method of point stimulation.
$35.00/$40.00 in Canada
Trade paper
ISBN: 978-1-55643-696-3
312 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 3/4
North Atlantic Books
On Sale June 24, 2008
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