Non Fiction

[close] Signed 4th Edition 2013
Award winning author

An essential and inspirational work that conveys the inexpressible truth of existence — “We are pure awareness at centre, human in appearance.”

Abiding in the very heart of humanity is the key to true peace and happiness. Each of the twenty-five chapters presents a voyage toward our inner, universal self, bringing a deeper and wider perspective along the way. Exploring the shores of human-beingness ever more deeply, we realise, “soul is the lighthouse—the light that guides us safely home.” By simply experiencing ourselves without distraction of mind, we see through personal drama to our true nature.

Illustrated in color by Amanda J. Clark, an international artist and illustrator deeply influenced by myths, fairy tales and folklore, her use of colors enchants the viewer with their celestial beauty.

Pure awareness is an art that requires practice to quiet the surface of mind and still the moving waters of our emotional seas. Awakening is recognising all appearances are illuminated from the light that shines in our heart.

We stand at the bow of our ship. The sky is clear, the sea is calm — "...Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find." —Walt Whitman

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[close] Eating Right in America chronicles the dietary reform movements that have shaped ideas about good nutrition and public health in the United States for more than a century. Charlotte Biltekoff's narrative begins in the late nineteenth century and culminates in accounts of two early-twenty-first-century phenomena, the alternative food movement and the campaign against obesity. Analyzing the history that she relates, Biltekoff contends that despite their scientific origins, dietary ideals are also cultural, subjective, and political. The primary aim of teaching people to "eat right" may be to improve health, but the process inevitably involves shaping certain kinds of subjects and citizens, a dynamic that is often overlooked because of our focus on the scientific aspects of dietary advice. [close]

[close] Frank Mintz’s classic study of collectivisation and economic experimentation during the Spanish revolution is available here for the first time in English.

This is the chronicle of the anarcho-syndicalists of Spain, who—with and without the help of their own organizations—fought and built a new world alongside everyday labourers in the chaos of revolution and Franco’s fascist coup. Participants in rural and industrial collectives totaled over 1,800,000—within an overall population of 6,000,000 in Republican Spain. Their experience as the backbone of revolution resonates still in today’s global anticapitalist movements.

Frank Mintz is a retired professor of Spanish who lives in Paris, France and is active with the CNT labor union. He is the recent author of Histoire de la mouvance anarchiste 1789–2012.

Includes a prologue by Chris Ealham, who is a specialist in Spanish labour history and movements and author of Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1917. Translated by Paul Sharkey, who has made a vast body of anarchist texts available in English. [close]