Don’t fret that summer seems to be quickly passing and no foreseeable opportunity for R&R exists. Instead, feed your inner desire for a fun, creative hobby, a spiritual journey, and a healthy lifestyle with these new titles for July. Whether you want to try a new recipe for a guest-pleasing dish, seek a peaceful meditation practice, or take a first step into the philosophy of alchemy, you will find that perfect book to top your summer reading list.
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Isaac Newton and the Transmutation of Alchemy: An Alternative View of the Scientific Revolution
By Philip Ashley Fanning
Isaac Newton was a dedicated alchemist, a fact usually obscured as unsuited to his stature as a leader of the scientific revolution. In Isaac Newton and the Transmutation of Alchemy, author Philip Ashley Fanning has diligently examined the evidence and concludes that the two major aspects of Newton’s research—conventional science and alchemy—were actually inseparable. Fanning reveals the surprisingly profound influence that Newton’s study of this hermetic art had in shaping his widely adopted scientific concepts. Alchemy was an ancient tradition of speculative philosophy that promised miraculous powers, such as the ability to change base metals into gold and the possibility of an elixir of life. Fanning compellingly describes this carefully tended esoteric institution, which may have found its greatest advocate in the career of the father of modern science. Relegated to the fringes of discourse until its twentieth-century revival by innovative thinkers such as psychiatrist Carl Jung, alchemy offers a key to understanding both the foundations of modern knowledge and important avenues in which we may yet discover wisdom.
$18.95
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-772-4
272 pages, 6 x 9
On sale July 7, 2009
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TAO of Letting Go: Meditation for Modern Living
By Bruce Frantzis
What is known from the Tao Te Ching, I Ching, and other Taoist texts is almost entirely literary. When Bruce Frantzis studied these texts with his main teacher, Grandmaster Liu Hung Chieh, he was taught their practical application: “This is what they say; this is what they mean; this is how to do them.” In The Tao of Letting Go, Frantzis offers a bridge to this pragmatic approach for living a spiritual life. Spirituality is not just an aspiration for which people strive, he says, but a genuine, accomplishable reality. Frantzis shows how to expend maximum effort and yet not use force—the gentle way of the Water method—to enrich personal health and energy systems. The author shows how to completely let go of the blockages that bind and prevent the seeker from reaching full spiritual potential. Short, direct chapters and exercises cover such topics as breathing and awareness; Taoist meditation; fog and depression; modern anxiety; love and compassion; and more.
$19.95
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-808-0
175 pages, 6 x 9
On sale July 7, 2009
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The Passionate Mind Revisited: Expanding Personal and Social Awareness
By Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad
The Passionate Mind Revisited takes readers on a liberating inner journey into the workings of their mind, transforming the way people look at themselves and the world. Expanding on Joel Kramer’s The Passionate Mind (1974), this book shows how the world’s life-threatening dramas are largely a function of people’s beliefs and experiences, and how humanity is on an evolutionary cusp requiring expanded awareness and conscious social evolution. In exploring what it is to be human, the book offers new vantage points on life’s core issues: the nature of thought, belief, fear, desire, love, relationships, freedom, meditation, violence, and evolution. By demonstrating how to inwardly see and break through one’s conditioning, Kramer and Alstad reveal deep aspects of the nature and processes of the mind, including how subjectivity materializes through different ways of filtering perception. The Passionate Mind Revisited also presents an evolutionary perspective on personal and global issues to help readers facilitate the shift to conscious social evolution.
$16.95
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-807-3
384 pages, 6 x 9
On sale July 14, 2009
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Wild Design: Ecofriendly Innovations Inspired by Nature
By Alan Marshall
In Wild Design, environmental designer and scientist Alan Marshall presents a manifesto on nature-inspired designs, including visionary concepts as well as exhibits of actual products, landscapes, and artwork from around the world. With elegant photographs and drawings, the book incorporates the ethos of sustainability by documenting many of the results of the Ecomimicry Project, an international experiment in ecodesign that marries the skills of local artists and ecologists from Western Australia and the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe. All the designs treat nature as an inspiration for ecofriendly innovations. Among the fascinating possibilities:a bike helmet based on the crustacean exoskeleton, a heliotropic house, and a car fueled by algae. Marshall argues that design should be the responsibility of all, not just a technological elite, and it is in this spirit that he offers this timely, important book.
$18.95
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-790-8
168 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
On sale July 14, 2009
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Daily Kabbalah: Wisdom from the Tree of Life
By Gershon Winkler
From sorcery to animal totems, talking trees to magical stones, sacred circles to healing rituals, the Kabbalah brings readers a rich body of ancient wisdom that has been long neglected and even longer misunderstood. The Kabbalah celebrates a quality of consciousness that enables one to experience magic in the ordinary, miracles in the natural course of events, and spirituality in the physical. Its roots are as old and rich as most aboriginal shamanic traditions, sharing in common with many of them the belief that all of creation is alive. The uniqueness of Daily Kabbalah: Wisdom from the Tree of Life lies in its selections from this rare tradition of Jewish mystery wisdom. Culled from ancient and medieval Hebraic and Aramaic sources, much of this material has been hidden in dusty archives or obscure translations. These short selected readings are intended as contemplative, inspirational, and even entertaining extracts, accessible to readers of all backgrounds and spiritual paths.
$17.95
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-794-6
384 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
On sale July 21, 2009
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Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada
By David L. Spahr
This beautifully illustrated guidebook provides specific, easy-to-understand information on finding, collecting, identifying, and preparing the safer and more common edible and medicinal mushroom species of New England and Eastern Canada. Author David Spahr, a trained commercial photographer, here combines his mycological expertise and photographic skill to produce an attractive and detailed overview of his subject. Based on decades of practical experience and research, the book is written in a clear and forthright style that avoids the dry, generic descriptions of most field guides. Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada also provides useful ideas for cooking mushrooms. Rather than simply providing recipes, the book discusses the cooking characteristics of each variety, with advice about matching species with appropriate foods. Many mushrooms contain unique medicinal components for boosting the immune system to fight cancer, HIV, and other diseases, and Spahr offers practical and prudent guidelines for exploration of this rapidly emerging area of alternative therapeutic practice.
$19.95
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-795-3
248 pages, 7 x 9-1/4
On sale July 21, 2009
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Raw Family Signature Dishes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Essential Live-Food Recipes
By Victoria Boutenko
While the raw food diet is the fastest growing alternative approach to eating because of its health benefits, preparing raw food dishes is so new that many people don’t know where to start. With 500 color photos, Raw Family Signature Dishes is a friendly, step-by-step guide that gently walks readers through recipes to create amazingly delicious and nutritious meals. Victoria Boutenko and her family are known worldwide as the Raw Family, living on a raw diet and teaching classes since 1994. Throughout the years they have perfected scores of scrumptious recipes with the idea of not only spreading the gospel of the diet’s health benefits, but also making the raw foods lifestyle realistically possible and enjoyable. Mouth-watering rather than medicinal, simple rather than complicated, the recipes presented here include jams, scones, soup, crackers, nut milk, truffles, chocolate cake, and more. Complete, illustrated directions make it simple for both avid raw foodists and novice cooks alike to embrace the diet favored by Demi Moore, Donna Karan, and other celebrities.
$18.95
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-797-7
176 pages, 8 x 10
On sale July 21, 2009
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Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth
By Gerrit Lansing
A senior figure of American letters whose works span more than five decades of creativity, Gerrit Lansing has been an icon of the American cultural underground since the late 1950s and has been a friend and mentor to generations of creative people. Lansing was a close friend and colleague of legendary folklorist and filmmaker Harry Smith and literary giant Charles Olson (who acknowledged Lansing’s influence), among countless others. Poet Robert Kelly has characterized him as “the most learned among us, and the most fun.” Like Emily Dickinson, Lansing has patiently crafted a body of poetic work that includes brilliant and memorable high spots. His work in Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth also represents an integrated whole whose lasting place in the canon of American literature is assured. With themes at once personal and universal, spiritual and esoteric, human and erotic, Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth captures the creative spirit of an unsung master of modern poetry.
$35.00
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-754-0
248 pages, 6 x 9-1/4
On sale July 28, 2009
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On the Origin of Form: Evolution by Self-Organization
By Stuart Pivar
On the Origin of Form presents a new account of evolution and the origin of life based on the premise that the body form of any species is encoded not in the DNA but in the patterned structure of the primordial germ plasm—the universal predecessor of the egg. Two hundred years after Johann von Goethe’s Faustian quest for the Urform, the archetypal design underlying all living form, comes the recent discovery that organic forms are derived from a unique, self-organized, pre-embryonic structure. This explanation of evolution is an alternative to the now widely questioned Neo-Darwinist theory of natural selection of random mutations. This new model is based on known, relatively uncomplicated scientific principles and is easily accessible to the interested layman.
$24.95
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-886-8
208 pages, 8 x 10
On sale July 28, 2009
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