North Point Press imprint: 95 books
A Country Practice
Scenes from the Veterinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004
Chuck Shaw is a vanishing breed--an old-style veterinarian with a quarter of a century of experience who runs a "mixed practice" in rural New Hampshire, treating everything from house cats to milk cows. Week after demanding week, he and his associate, horse expert Roger Osinchuk, make house...
The Gloves
A Boxing Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2003
A gritty, spirited inside look at the world of amateur boxing today
The Golden Gloves tournament is center stage in amateur boxing-a single-elimination contest in which young hopefuls square off in steamy gyms with the boxing elite looking on.
Robert Anasi took up boxing in his twenties...
Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism
"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates...
Out of Sheer Rage
Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
"In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . ....
The Upcycle
Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
From the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn what's next: The Upcycle
The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time. Now, drawing on the green living lessons gained from 10 years of putting the Cradle to Cradle...
by A. J. Liebling
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate...
by David Dubal
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener
Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive only if there are "gifted listeners." But today's listeners must choose between classical and rock, opera and rap, and the choices...
Inside Bruegel
The Play of Images in Children's Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1997
In this brilliant, original and lavishly illustrated book, Edward Snow undertakes an inquiry into a single painting by the Flemish master Peter Bruegel the Elder—the kaleidoscopic Children's Games—in order to unlock the secrets of the great painter's art.
Appetite City
A Culinary History of New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen.
In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York's dining culture. Beginning with the era when simple chophouses and oyster bars dominated the culinary...
The Accidental Connoisseur
An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
What is taste? Is it individual or imposed on us from the outside? Why are so many of us so intimidated when presented with the wine list at a restaurant? In The Accidental Connoisseur, journalist Lawrence Osborne takes off on a personal voyage through a little-known world in pursuit of some answers....
A Sabbath Life
One Woman's Search for Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Poetic and provocative, a challenge to women to create more spiritually rich and balanced lives. A successful writer and a committed feminist, Kathleen Hirsch, at age forty, finds herself searching for something more. How, she asks, can women's lives be more spiritually alive and whole? Can we reclaim...
To Reach the Clouds
My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2002
An artist of the air re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination
One late-summer day, a feat of unimaginable audacity was perpetrated on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The year was 1974. A hundred thousand people gathered on the ground...
But Beautiful
A Book About Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
"May be the best book ever written about jazz."—David Thomson, Los Angeles Times
In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer...
A Neutral Corner
Boxing Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Fifteen previously unpublished boxing pieces written between 1952 and 1963.
Demonstrating A.J. Liebling's abiding passion for the "sweet science" of boxing, A Neutral Corner brings together fifteen previously unpublished pieces written between 1952 and 1963. Antic, clear-eyed, and...