North Point Press imprint: 95 books
The Iron Road
A Stand for Truth and Democracy in Burma
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
A startling account of an evil regime and one young man's efforts to defy it.
Twenty-eight-year-old James Mawdsley spent much of the past four years in grim Burmese prisons. The Iron Road is his story, and the story of the regime that jailed him, the way it jails, tortures, and kills hundreds...
American Ground
Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times
Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock access to the World Trade Center site....
by Scott Russell Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
An original and searching memoir from "one of America's finest essayists" (Phillip Lopate)
When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe—"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything."...
The Saints' Guide to Happiness
Everyday Wisdom from the Lives and Love of the Saints
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
A noted spiritual writer seeks answers to life's big questions in the stories of the saints
In All Saints---published in 1997 and already a classic of its kind---Robert Ellsberg told the stories of 365 holy people with great vividness and eloquence. In The Saints' Guide to Happiness, Ellsberg...
Health, Healing, and Beyond
Yoga and the Living Tradition of T. Krishnamacharya
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The much-sought-after, greatly beloved exploration of the work of Krishnamacharya, teacher of many of twentieth-century yoga's greatest and most influential exponents, Health, Healing, and Beyond is filled with deep wisdom—an indispensable guide to the philosophy, principles, and limitless possibilities...
The Gateless Barrier
The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan)
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The Gateless Barrier is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon), a thirteenth-century master of the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, it is composed of forty-eight koans, or cases, each accompanied by a brief comment and poem...
by Robert Aitken
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rationale, and ideology of Zen Buddhism with remarkable clarity.
The foundation of Zen is the practice...
The Yoga of the Yogi
The Legacy of T. Krishnamacharya
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This deeply personal biographical tribute by Krishnamacharya's grandson includes photographs, archival materials, and family recollections that have never been published elsewhere, as well as unique insights into the "master of masters" by some of his most famous students-Indra Devi, Sri...
The Dharma of The Princess Bride
What the Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us About Buddhism and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
An engagingly contemporary approach to Buddhism—through the lens of an iconic film and its memorable characters
Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Tao of Pooh, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience, The Dharma...
The Mind of Clover
Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
In Taking the Path of Zen, Robert Aitken provided a concise guide to zazen (Zen meditation) and other aspects of the practice of Zen. In The Mind of Clover he addresses the world beyond the zazen cushions, illuminating issues of appropriate personal and social action through an exploration of the...
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons
Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but...
Apple's America
The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2007
Unpretentious, sophisticated, and always appetizing advice from a celebrated authority
For more than thirty years, R. W. Apple Jr. roamed the United States as an eyewitness to history. Here, in Apple's America, his robust enthusiasm for the food and culture of New England, the South and West,...
The Road Home
A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A lively exploration of contemporary Buddhism from one of its most admired teachers
Do you feel at home right now? Or do you sense a hovering anxiety or uncertainty, an underlying unease that makes you feel just a bit uncomfortable, a bit distracted and disconnected from those around you?
In...
Chocolate
A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
A delectable journey into the world of chocolate--from manufacturing to marketing, French boutiques to American multinationals--by the award-winning author of Olives.
Science, over recent years, has confirmed what chocolate lovers have always known: the stuff is actually good for you. It's...