Autumn is nearly upon us, bringing shorter days and colder nights. Whether you are returning to school or snuggling up at home, the following new releases from North Atlantic Books are sure to provide an interesting read for everyone. These amazing authors offer their unique wisdom on the subjects of poetry, anatomy, martial arts, spirituality, and holistic healing.
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The Concise Book of Muscles: Revised Edition
By Chris Jarmey
The Concise Book of Muscles is a clear, simple guide for students of anatomy and an excellent resource for athletes, massage therapists, and anyone interested in the workings of the human body. This user-friendly book is organized around six muscle groups including muscles of the face head, and neck; the trunk; the shoulder and upper arm; the forearm and hand; the hip and thigh; and the leg and foot. Each of the groups is given a distinctive color to make it easy to identify, and each muscle is shown in its relationship to the skeleton. Each gets a complete profile, including origin/insertion, action of the muscle, which nerve controls it, movements that use it, and exercises and stretches that strengthen it. This expanded edition includes 20 muscles not previously covered.
$29.95 US / $34.00 CAN
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-719-9
192 pages, 8.25 x 10.75
On Sale August 12, 2008
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Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: Volume Two
By Michael J. Shea
In Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Volume Two, Michael Shea analyzes the relationship of trauma resolution, psychodynamics, and shamanism, and provides practical meditations, visualizations, and clinical skills to restore physical, spiritual, and emotional health. Shea explores the meaning of biodynamic, followed by a discussion of human embryology as a path to healing in any form of therapy. The book offers a set of pioneering techniques based on perceiving stillness—slow movement–as a fundamental healing influence. A special section contains fresh strategies for anyone working with infants and children, along with a provocative analysis linking the infant-mother relationship to the patient-therapist relationship. Shea provides a unique perspective on depth psychology, mythology, and healing and defines the difference between biodynamic craniosacral therapy and all other forms of craniosacral therapy.
$39.95 US / $45.00 CAN
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-715-1
560 pages, 8 x 10
On Sale August 19, 2008
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Creating Peace by Being Peace: The Essene Sevenfold Path
By Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
Creating Peace by Being Peace represents a synthesis of Gabriel Cousens’ decades of multidisciplinary work in meditation, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and spirituality and guides readers in creating peace on seven levels of engagement, from the body to the ecology to God. Cousens addresses the need to transform humankind with the ancient peace wisdom of the Essenes, and explains the lessons they can teach us as creators of peace. Cousens transfers the gift of the Essenes to modern seekers as a breathing blueprint for realizing this reality as we walk in our lives; work according to our gifts, joys, and sacred design; and live the path of spiritual awakening—the sevenfold peace.
$17.95 US / $21.00 CAN
Trade Paper
978-1-55643-722-9
264 pages, 6 x 9
On Sale August 19, 2008
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Liu Bin’s Zhuang Gong Bagua Zhang: Foundation Practices, Volume One
By Zhang Jie; Contribution by Richard Shapiro
One of the three major orthodox internal styles of Chinese martial arts, Bagua Zhang (or Ba Gua Zhang) is one of the most ancient and revered. Liu Bin’s Zhuang Gong Bagua Zhang, is written from the perspective of a wise master who gives equal attention to Bagua’s historical evolution and to the art and practice itself. Professor Zhang Jie presents the fundamental theories of Bagua simply and clearly, in such a way that they comprise both a martial arts manual and a guide for everyday living. The idea of balance in all things is stressed throughout, as is the ancient Chinese philosophy that underlies Bagua. In addition to illustrations of the Bagua movements, the book contains previously unpublished historical photographs. This book is equally useful for novice and seasoned practitioners, as well as students of Chinese culture and history.
$22.95 US / $25.95 CAN
Trade Paper
978-1-58394-218-5
264 pages, 7 x 9.25
On Sale August 19, 2008
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Living in the Moment: A Prescription for the Soul
By Gary Null, Ph.D.
Living in the Moment comprises health expert Dr. Gary Null’s lifetime of observation and wisdom. This book offers fresh, paradigm-breaking solutions to living our life to its fullest potential—through our relationships, health, and self-expression. Dr. Null’s “prescription for the soul” bids readers to take an active role in their own lives—to carefully distinguish truth from past conditioning. While he espouses a natural-foods and alternative-health lifestyle as part of our well-being, Null also shows us how crucial it is to do those things with the right awareness and intention. Living in the Moment enlightens readers on the many tools at their disposal for achieving the balance, self-esteem, and passion missing from their lives.
$23.95 US / $27.95 CAN
Hardcover
978-1-55643-763-2
296 pages, 6 x 9
On Sale August 19, 2008
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Poems for New Orleans
By Edward Sanders
The indomitable spirit of the people of New Orleans is the focus of this powerful suite of poems by counterculture icon Ed Sanders. The book begins with a series of vivid evocations of key events and personalities in the city’s history, and then brings this colorful legacy into the present with the harrowing force of Hurricane Katrina. That natural catastrophe, multiplied by human indifference, incompetence, and greed, is explored as a watershed demonstration of the sociopolitical fissures underlying modern America. Although the enormous, still-unfinished tragedy of Katrina suffuses Poems for New Orleans, human resilience in the face of adversity is its ultimate subject. Here is a New Orleans only glimpsed by the outside world, a place whose creativity, humor, and triumphant spirit no tragedy can overcome.
$14.95 US / $16.95 CAN
Trade paper
978-1-55643-742-7
128 pages, 6 x 9
On Sale August 19, 2008
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