North Atlantic Books imprint: 461 books
Invisible Rainbow
A Physicist's Introduction to the Science behind Classical Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Changlin Zhang provides a scientific basis for the success behind alternative therapies such as acupuncture, qigong, Ayurveda, and other traditional therapies in an illuminating discussion that explains the efficacy of these approaches in treating a number of chronic conditions. Underlining how public...
The Untold History of Healing
Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The Untold History of Healing takes the reader on an exciting, expansive journey of the history of medicine from the Stone Age to modern times, explaining that Western medicine has its true origins in the healing lore of Paleolithic hunters and gatherers, herding nomads, and the early sedentary farmers...
Nine Dimensions of Madness
Redefining Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In a book that reframes the mental health debate, Robert L. Gallon challenges the widely-held notion that mental disorders are medical diseases. Drawing on his extensive experience as a psychologist who has worked with thousands of patients, he argues that there are no objective indicators of mental...
The Resonance Effect
How Frequency Specific Microcurrent Is Changing Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The Resonance Effect is both the author's story of her inspirational journey of having the courage to find her true calling and an account of the development of a remarkable newly rediscovered treatment, frequency specific microcurrent (FSM), that takes advantage of the body's ability to respond to...
Migraine Auras
When the Visual World Fails
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Migraine headaches are familiar and generally treatable ailments. Less understood are migraine auras or scotoma, visual distortions—sometimes accompanied by headache and sometimes not—that make it difficult, sometimes impossible, to see clearly. Migraine auras can be frightening, disorienting,...
Break Through with Breathwork
Jump-Starting Personal Growth in Counseling and the Healing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
When working with trauma and chronic health issues, it can often seem like the healing process gets stuck or is producing only minimal progress. In this groundbreaking book, clinical psychologist Jim Morningstar, PhD, shows therapists, bodyworkers, and other health care professionals how to achieve...
The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism
Basic Doctrine, Energetics, and Classification
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism places the function of western herbs in their true historical context, apart from homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and Ayurveda. Recently there has been a revival of interest in western herbalism, but practitioners haven't been able to explore...
by Michael J. Shea, Ph. D., Raymond Gasser
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In Volume 5 of his innovative series on biodynamic and craniosacral therapy, Michael Shea presents invaluable information about therapeutic approaches to pre- and neonatal babies--in particular, low-birth-weight babies. In addition, more than 50 meditations on stillness are provided for the benefit...
Making Sense of Human Anatomy and Physiology
A Learner-Friendly Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Designed to be user-friendly and informative for both students and teachers, this book provides a road map for understanding problems and issues that arise in the study of anatomy and physiology. Students will find tips to develop specific study skills that lead to maximum understanding and retention....
NeuroKinetic Therapy
An Innovative Approach to Manual Muscle Testing
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
NeuroKinetic Therapy is based on the premise that when an injury has occurred, certain muscles shut down or become inhibited, forcing other muscles to become overworked. This compensation pattern can create pain or tightness. By applying light pressure that the client then resists, the practitioner...
Healing through Trigger Point Therapy
A Guide to Fibromyalgia, Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
This book is about empowerment for chronic pain patients and care providers
alike. Every chronic pain condition has a treatable myofascial trigger point component, including fibromyalgia. Many of the localized symptoms now considered as fibromyalgia are actually due to trigger points. The central...
Healing Lyme Disease Naturally
History, Analysis, and Treatments
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
In Healing Lyme Disease Naturally, anthropologist Wolf D. Storl shares his own success in overcoming a difficult, sometimes deadly disease that is reaching epidemic proportions. When he was diagnosed, Dr. Storl refused standard treatments because of antibiotic intolerance. Instead, he researched healing...
by David Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Since its first publication, The Sunfood Diet Success System has been the definitive book on the raw food lifestyle. Now after more than seven years, David Wolfe has rigorously rewritten the entire book, beginning to end, in order to offer the most complete, up-to-date nutrition information possible....
The Earthwise Herbal, Volume II
A Complete Guide to New World Medicinal Plants
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Noted herbalist Matthew Wood brings twenty-five years of clinical experience to this comprehensive book on medicinal plants. The first in a two-volume set, The Earthwise Herbal profiles Old World plants (volume two will treat American plants). Organized alphabetically, the book encompasses all of...