North Point Press imprint: 95 books
Essence and Alchemy
A Book of Perfume
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
An artisan perfumer reveals a lost art and its mysterious, sensual history.
For centuries, people have taken what seems to be an instinctive pleasure in rubbing scents into their skin. Perfume has helped them to pray, to heal, and to make love. And as long as there has been perfume, there have...
by Michael Sorkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in Manhattan,...
The Bhagavad Gita
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
A fresh, new prose translation of the classic Indian poem, ideally focused for students and teachers and for yoga teacher training
The Bhagavad Gita, a small section of the massive Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, is one of the central texts of Indian culture and philosophy, and one of the great...
The Body Toxic
How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health problems in ways just now being understood. These...
The Outlaw Sea
A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free.
With...
Mother Tongue
An American Life in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Fourteen years ago, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved with her husband and daughter to Parma, a prosperous city in northern Italy. Searching for a way to find a place within a city that has existed since Roman times, she conducted a highly personal investigation of the often baffling,...
by Marion Nestle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Since its publication in hardcover last year, Marion Nestle's What to Eat has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Praised as "radiant with maxims to live by" in The New York Times Book Review and "accessible, reliable and comprehensive"...
Rumspringa
To Be or Not to Be Amish
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
A revelatory look at Amish youth as they have never been looked at before
Rumspringa is a fascinating look at a little-known Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa—the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. Through vivid portraits of teenagers...
Birds in the Hand
Fiction and Poetry About Birds
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
A unique anthology of avian literature
From the myths of ancient Greece to the fables of Aesop, from Chaucer to contemporary poetry and fiction, birds are central to literature because they connect us intimately to the natural world. Whether we watch birds at our feeders, travel vast distances...
The Ramayana
A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2004
The great Indian epic rendered in modern prose
India's most beloved and enduring legend, the Ramayana is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's great literary masterpieces. Still an integral part of India's cultural and religious expression, the Ramayana was originally composed by the...
by Frederick Crews
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A sequel of sorts to the classic (and bestselling) sendup of literary criticism, The Pooh Perplex
Thirty-seven years ago, a slim parody of academic literary criticism called The Pooh Perplex became a surprise bestseller. Now Frederick Crews has written a hilarious new satire in the same vein....
Food's Frontier
The Next Green Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2000
An eye-opening look at how the world will feed itself in the coming decades
By now it is clear that the techniques of the first "Green Revolution" that averted mass starvation a generation ago --pesticides, chemical fertilizers, focusing on a few key crops--are threatening the food...
A Zen Harvest
Japanese Folk Zen Sayings (Haiku, Dodoitsu, and Waka)
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
One of the vital aspects of traditional Rinzai Zen koan study in Japan is jakugo, or capping-phrase exercises. When Zen students have attained sufficient mastery of meditation or concentration, they are given a koan (such as the familiar “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”) to study. When...
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces. Also included are several of Rilke's best-loved lyrics, such...