North Point Press
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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
$19.00 Add to cartEvery 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 ignore… [more below]
- Author: Sorkin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477574
- Language: English
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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
$23.99 Add to cartA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such sta- Author: Hajdu, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 26 1997
- ISBN10: 0865475121
- Language: English
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Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge
$19.00 Add to cartTwo by sea: a couple rows the wild coasts of the far north in Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge.
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arct- Author: Fredston, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0865476551
- Language: English
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Last Night’s Fun: A Book about Irish Traditional Music
$19.00 Add to cartLast Night’s Fun’s is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson’s inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemi
- Author: Carson, Ciaran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0865475318
- Language: English
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The Gastronomical Me
$19.00 Read moreIn 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gas
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 1989
- ISBN10: 0865473927
- Language: English
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Health, Healing, and Beyond
$20.00 Add to cartThe 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 f
- Author: Desikachar, T. K. V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0865477523
- Language: English
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The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan)
$29.00 Add to cartThe 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)
- Author: Aitken, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0865474427
- Language: English
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One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life
$20.00 Add to cartYoga was created as a science for liberation, but in modern times it is used by many to improve physical and mental health, helping us become more productive at work, more caring in relationships, mor
- Author: Stern, Eddie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0865477809
- Language: English
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Indian Tales
$19.99 Add to cartHailed by Ezra Pound as the American Ovid and renowned as a linguist and a self-described amateur anthropologist, Jaime de Angulo drew on his forty years among the Pit River tribe of California to cre
- Author: de Angulo, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0865475237
- Language: English
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Serve It Forth
$15.00 Add to cartIn Serve It Forth, her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hun
- Series: Art of Eating
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0865473692
- Language: English
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Drinking the Rain
$20.00 Add to cartA memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning author
At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, left a city lif- Author: Shulman, Alix
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: July 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0865476977
- Language: English
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Just Enough Liebling
$36.99 Add to cartAbbott Joseph Liebling was one of the greatest of all New Yorker writers, a colorful figure who helped set the magazine’s urbane tone and style. Just Enough Liebling gathers in one volume the vividest
- Author: Liebling, A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0865477272
- Language: English
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
$40.00 Add to cartA 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 minimiz- Author: McDonough, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 22 2002
- ISBN10: 0865475873
- Language: English
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The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
$18.00 Add to cartA fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years af
- Author: Bodhidharma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0865473994
- Language: English
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Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
$18.00 Add to cartNew Yorker staff writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris.
“There would come a time when, if I h- Author: Liebling, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 29 2004
- ISBN10: 086547236X
- Language: English
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Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Add to cartWho, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart: I’d be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginni- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0865476071
- Language: English
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The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
$32.00 Add to cartThe 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 par- Author: Menon, Ramesh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 697
- Publish Date: May 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0865476950
- Language: English
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The Truth of Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide to Yoga’s History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices
$19.00 Add to cartA succinct, approachable guide to the origins, development, key texts, concepts, and practices of yoga.
Yoga is practiced by many millions of people worldwide and is celebrated for its mental, physica- Author: Simpson, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0865477817
- Language: English
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Consider the Oyster
$16.00 Add to cartM.F.K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our “poet of the appetites,” here pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods—the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, r… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 1, 1988
- ISBN10: 0865473358
- Language: English
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The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary
$37.00 Add to cartA landmark new translation and edition
Written almost two millennia ago, Pata jali’s work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, o- Author: Bryant, Edwin F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: July 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0865477361
- Language: English
