The arrival of January means a new year, new resolutions, and a continuation of the same blustery winter weather. This month’s releases provide both an escape from the outside world, and also give enlightening insights into various facets of life. From developing your inner self to improving your outer self, the books released this month will help you to achieve those New Years resolutions while you curl up in front of a fire and listen to the rain outside.
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In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By Gabor Maté, M.D.
Bestselling author Dr. Gabor Maté now comes to us with a definitive study on the nature of addiction, based on his personal experiences treating patients on Vancouver’s skid row. In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts contains groundbreaking insights into the study of addiction and holistic treatment approaches. Maté breaks from the current vein of thought by instead viewing addiction as an underlying affliction of society that results from a complex combination of internal and external factors. Dr. Maté presents both harrowing patient experiences and scientific evidence to demonstrate the irrationality of conventional wisdom, and provides readers with the information necessary to tackle the complicated and misunderstood issue of addiction.
$17.95 US/ $22 CAN
Trade paperback
978-1-55643-880-6
520 pages, 6 x 9
On sale January 5, 2010
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A Personal Aristocracy: Cultivating the Power of Spiritual Nobility
By True Blue Indigo
In A Personal Aristocracy, author True Blue Indigo begins with traditional Renaissance values and philosophy, and from there gives an aesthetic guide to the embodiment of such ideals through more modern concepts like New Thought, consciousness, and spiritual growth. A Personal Aristocracy encourages readers to explore beauty and graciousness as a solution to modern issues such as self-absorption and rudeness. Indigo seeks to combine European Renaissance ideals with what he terms the “Experiental Renaissance,” and in doing so prompts individuals to renew their inner nobility through a sense of both secular and spiritual.
$17.95 US/ $22 CAN
Trade paperback
978-1-55643-866-0
328 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
On sale January 5, 2010
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NeuroKinetic Therapy: An Innovative Approach to Manual Muscle Testing
By David Weinstock
David Weinstock’s NeuroKinetic Therapy is an easy-to-follow practitioner’s guide based on the premise that injuries cause muscle inhibition and overwork, resulting in physical pain. NeuroKinetic Therapy (NKT) addresses this by implementing manual muscle testing to determine the cause of various injuries and then retraining the body to eliminate the body’s compensation patterns. This anatomically-organized manual contains photographs, anatomical illustrations, and concise explanations, allowing practitioners to explore new was to alleviate their clients’ pain.
$18.95 US/ $23 CAN
Trade paperback
978-1-55643-877-6
144 pages, 7 x 9-1/4
On sale January 12, 2010
Shadow Yoga, Chaya Yoga: The Principles of Hatha Yoga
By Shandor Remete
By focusing specifically on the hatha yoga tradition, Shadow Yoga, Chaya Yoga clearly explains yoga’s theoretical foundations and ways in which to remove the “shadows” that classical yoga teachers see as blocking the student. This book focuses on key concepts of traditional yoga, including marmas, chakras, vayus, and nadis, as well as the accompanying techniques to improve the functioning of these concepts within the body. Shandor Remete uses detailed illustrations in combination with accessible language to restore the traditional information that has been lost in modern American yoga teaching.
$18.95 US/ $23 CAN
Trade paperback
978-1-55643-876-9
128 pages, 6 x 8
On sale January 12, 2010
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The Book of Not Knowing: Exploring the True Nature of Self, Mind, and Consciousness
By Peter Ralston
Resulting from decades of meditation practice, Ralston provides a journey through human consciousness that embraces the absence of knowledge as a means to gaining self-awareness. In The Book of Not Knowing, he prompts readers to abandon their previous beliefs, and instead, achieve awareness through an acceptance of a lack of knowledge about the nature of human life. By guiding the reader through an exploration of their consciousness, Ralston thus takes ancient Zen practices further and allows the reader to experience such concepts as Being and consciousness.
$24.95 US/ $29.95 CAN
Trade paperback
978-1-55643-857-8
600 pages, 6 x 9
On sale January 26, 2010
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