Books from Counterpoint LLC
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From the Forest: A Search for the Hidden Roots of Our Fairy Tales
By Sara MaitlandArgues that the forest landscapes in which fairy tales are often set are intimately representative of human conditions and challenges, retelling and analyzing twelve traditional stories to explore the role of nature in each.
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The New Order: Stories
By Karen E. BenderIn This Is Who You Are, a young girl walks the line between Hebrew school and her regular school, realizing that both are filled with unexpected moments of insight and violence.
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Three Flames
By Alan LightmanThe book spans the period from 1973, just before the Khmer Rouge genocide, to 2015"--
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Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (with Recipes)
By Nancy SpillerAn unnamed freelance writer for the LA glossy Food Writer undergoes a panic-stricken week before she must host the exclusive dinner party that she has actually invented in her columns.
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Botanical Prints: With Excerpts from the Artist's Notebooks
By Peter H. Raven, Wilfrid Blunt, Henry Herman EvansEvans began making botanical prints in 1958, depicting some 1,400 subjects in 31 years. In that time, he was accorded more than 250 one-man shows in countries around the world and in almost every state in the union.
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Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
By Susan GriffinPrevious edition: New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
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Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
By Nell PainterFollowing her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school--in her 60s--to earn a BFA and MFA in painting.
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The People of the Sea: A Journey in Search of the Seal Legend
By David ThomsonThe author, a Scotsman raised in a fishing village, chases after the enduring myth that seals were once human and occasionally resume human form. 10,000 first printing.
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In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
By David Leavitt, Mark Lindsey MitchellThe authors--expatriate Americans living in Italy--paint a vivid, heartwarming portrait of life in a southern Tuscany village as they describe their restoration of an abandoned and dilapidated farmhouse, their interaction with their ...
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The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy
By Michael MewshawAlthough they never managed to reconcile their differences completely, Conroy later urged Mewshaw to write about "me and you and what happened . . . i know it would cause much pain to both of us. but here is what that story has that none of ...
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Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties
By Geoffrey O'BrienThe sensibility of the sixties--the drug culture, mysticism, rock music, and revolutionary tactics employed in the name of peace and equality--is captured in this insightful blend of autobiography, prose montage, and cultural criticism.
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Threads of Time: Recollections
By Peter BrookThe noted director traces his career, from directing Shakespeare's dramas, to London's West End, to his work with Laurence Olivier, Salvador Dali, and other giants
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Impressionists on the Seine: A Celebration of Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party
By Phillips CollectionIt puts special focus on the centerpiece of The Phillips Collection, Renoir's much-loved Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881), and celebrates the importance of the Seine in the hearts and minds of Parisians during the late nineteenth ...
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The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
By Wendell BerryA critical inquiry into the ways Americans have exploited and continue to exploit the land that sustains them, tracing attitudes toward and methods of farming from the eighteenth century to the present
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Cataract: Some Notes After Having a Cataract Removed
By John Berger, Selçuk DemirelAn impressionistic essay documents the author's struggles with vision-compromising cataracts and the transformative effect of cataract removal operations, which reawaken abilities and illuminate how people adapt to sensory loss.
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Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters
By ZhuangziThe Inner Chapters are the only sustained sections of this text widely believed to be the work of Chuang Tzu himself, dating back to the fourth century BC. Witty and poetic, Chuang Tzu's Taoist insights are timely, eternal and deeply ...
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Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time
By Michael DowningThis history of Daylight Saving Time covers the century of confusion that swirls around this odd moment on the annual calendar.
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Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Health
By Rupert SheldrakeFor the nonreligious, this book will show how the core practices of spirituality are accessible to all. This is a book for anyone who suspects that in the drive toward radical secularism, something valuable has been left behind.
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The Dream of the Earth
By Thomas Berry"--Paul Winter, musician ""The Dream of the Earth "provides a brilliant, integrating perspective on our responsibility to the larger Earth community."--Terry Deacon, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
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Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City
By Nicholas ChristopherAn expanded edition of the author's tour of top film noir explains the use of labyrinth-style city settings to establish the genre's psychological and aesthetic framework, in a volume that analyzes more than three hundred films made between ...