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North Atlantic Books

Index North Atlantic Books

North Atlantic Books is a non-profit, independent publisher based in Berkeley, California, United States. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 94 relations: ABC News (United States), Alexander Ludwig, Alternative medicine, Amherst College, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Bagua, Baseball, Beat Generation, Berkeley, California, BJ Ward (poet), Book, Brooklyn August, Bruce Frantzis, Capoeira, Cecil Brown (writer), Charles Eisenstein, Charles Olson, Cosmology, Daniel Pinchbeck, Diane di Prima, Ed Dorn, Ed Sanders, Environmental design, Film, Gerrit Y. Lansing, Glenn Murray, Golden Crown Literary Society, Guggenheim Fellowship, Harmonic Convergence, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Howard Zinn, Jayne Anne Phillips, Jim Caviezel, Jonathan Lethem, José Argüelles, Judo, Jujutsu, Karate, Kenneth Irby, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Foundation, Laura Dern, Lenore Kandel, Martial arts, Mediabistro (website), Mediumship, Michael Chiklis, Michael McClure, Midwest Book Review, Miranda July, ... Expand index (44 more) »

  2. Publishing companies established in 1974

ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Alexander Ludwig

Alexander Richard Ludwig (born May 7, 1992) is a Canadian actor and country musician.

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Alternative medicine

Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness.

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Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Antigonish (Am Baile Mòr) is a town in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Bagua

The bagua is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.

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BJ Ward (poet)

BJ Ward (born 1967) is an American poet.

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Book

A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images.

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Brooklyn August

Brooklyn August is a poem by Stephen King that first appeared in 1971 in Io magazine and was later collected in King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes in 1993.

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Bruce Frantzis

Bruce Kumar Frantzis (born April 1949) is a Taoist educator who studied Taoism in China.

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Capoeira

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art and game that includes elements of dance, acrobatics, music and spirituality.

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Cecil Brown (writer)

Cecil Brown (born July 3, 1943) is an African-American writer and educator.

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Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein (born 1967) is an American public speaker, teacher and author.

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Charles Olson

Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation modernist American poet who was a link between earlier modernist figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the third generation modernist New American poets.

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Cosmology

Cosmology is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos.

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Daniel Pinchbeck

Daniel Pinchbeck is an American author.

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Diane di Prima

Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement.

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Ed Dorn

Edward Merton Dorn (April 2, 1929 – December 10, 1999, aged 70) was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets.

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Ed Sanders

Edward Sanders (born August 17, 1939) is an American poet, singer, activist, author, publisher and longtime member of the rock band the Fugs.

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Environmental design

Environmental design is the process of addressing surrounding environmental parameters when devising plans, programs, policies, buildings, or products.

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Film

A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

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Gerrit Y. Lansing

Gerrit Yates Lansing (August 4, 1783 – January 3, 1862) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1831 to 1837.

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Glenn Murray

Glenn Murray (born 25 September 1983) is an English former professional footballer and football pundit who played as a striker.

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Golden Crown Literary Society

Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) is an American nonprofit organization established in 2004 for those with an interest in Sapphic literature.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim.

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Harmonic Convergence

The Harmonic Convergence was the world's first synchronized global peace meditation, coinciding with an exceptional alignment of Solar System planets on August 16–17, 1987.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran.

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Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips (born July 19, 1952) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia.

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Jim Caviezel

James Patrick Caviezel Jr. (born September 26, 1968) is an American actor.

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Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

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José Argüelles

José Argüelles (born Joseph Anthony Argüelles; January 24, 1939 – March 23, 2011) was an American New Age writer and artist.

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Judo

is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.

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Jujutsu

Jujutsu (柔術), also known as jiu-jitsu and ju-jitsu, is a family of Japanese martial arts and a system of close combat (unarmed or with a minor weapon) that can be used in a defensive or offensive manner to kill or subdue one or more weaponless or armed and armored opponents.

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Karate

(Okinawan pronunciation), also, is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom.

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Kenneth Irby

Kenneth Lee Irby (November 18, 1936 – July 30, 2015) was an American poet.

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Lambda Literary Awards

Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world.

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Lambda Literary Foundation

The Lambda Literary Foundation (also known as Lambda Literary) is an American LGBTQ literary organization whose mission is to nurture and advocate for LGBTQ writers, elevating the impact of their words to create community, preserve their legacies, and affirm the value of LGBTQ stories and lives.

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Laura Dern

Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress.

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Lenore Kandel

Lenore Kandel (January 14, 1932, New York City – October 18, 2009, San Francisco, California) was an American poet, affiliated with the Beat Generation and Hippie counterculture.

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Martial arts

Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defence; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.

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Mediabistro (website)

Mediabistro is a website that offers career and job search resources for media professionals.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the pseudoscientific practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Michael Chiklis

Michael Charles Chiklis (born August 30, 1963) is an American actor, film television director, film and television producer and musician.

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Michael McClure

Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist.

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Midwest Book Review

Midwest Book Review, established in 1976, produces nine book-review publications per month.

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Miranda July

Miranda July (born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger; February 15, 1974) is an American film director, screenwriter, actress and author.

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Miryam Kabakov

Miryam Kabakov (born 1964) is an American Jewish social worker and community organizer.

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Muay Thai

Muay Thai (มวยไทย), sometimes referred to as Thai boxing, is a Thai martial art and full-contact combat sport that uses stand-up striking, sweeps, and various clinching techniques.

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Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Patricia Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.

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Nebula Award

The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.

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Neijia

Neijia (內家) is the collective name for the internal Chinese martial arts.

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New Age

New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.

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Nutrition

Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life.

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Occult

The occult (from occultus) is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mysticism.

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.

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Parapsychology

Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc.

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PEN Oakland awards

The PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award is for U.S. multicultural writers, to "promote works of excellence by writers of all cultural and racial backgrounds and to educate both the public and the media as to the nature of multicultural work." It was founded by PEN Oakland in 1991 and named in honor of Josephine Miles.

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Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House LLC is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House.

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Phoebe Gloeckner

Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner (born December 22, 1960) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist.

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Physical fitness

Physical fitness is a state of health and well-being and, more specifically, the ability to perform aspects of sports, occupations, and daily activities.

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Poetry Society of America

The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents.

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Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year.

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Raw foodism

Raw foodism, also known as rawism or a raw food diet, is the dietary practice of eating only or mostly food that is uncooked and unprocessed.

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Religion

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

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Richard Grossinger

Richard Grossinger (born Richard Towers) (born 1944) is an American writer and founder of North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California.

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Rob Brezsny

Rob Brezsny is an American astrologer, author, and musician.

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Robert Duncan (poet)

Robert Edward Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988) was an American poet and a devotee of Hilda "H.D." Doolittle and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco.

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Robert Kelly (poet)

Robert Kelly (born September 24, 1935) is an American poet associated with the deep image group.

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SF Weekly

SF Weekly is an online music publication and formerly alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California.

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Shamanism

Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Social justice

Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected.

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Spirituality

The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time.

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Tai chi

Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art.

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Thích Nhất Hạnh

Thích Nhất Hạnh (Huế dialect:; born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo; 11 October 1926 – 22 January 2022) was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism.

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The Buffalo News

The Buffalo News is the daily newspaper of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, located in downtown Buffalo, New York.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo, February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American fiction author of primarily fantasy, science fiction, and horror, as well as a critic.

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Tom Atlee

Tom Atlee (born 1947) is an American social, peace and environmental activist and author.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Walter the Farting Dog

Walter the Farting Dog is the title character of a series of five children's books written by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, and illustrated by Audrey Colman.

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Western esotericism

Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.

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When the Game Stands Tall

When the Game Stands Tall is a 2014 American sports drama film directed by Thomas Carter.

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William Kotzwinkle

William Kotzwinkle (born, or according to different sources) is an American novelist, children's writer, and screenwriter.

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Yoga

Yoga (lit) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind (Chitta) and mundane suffering (Duḥkha).

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See also

Publishing companies established in 1974

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Books

Also known as Blue Snake Books, Io (magazine).

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