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Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France18 reviews
Kermit Lynch

North Point Press, 1990

Awesome!
Kermit Lynch is knowledge and very passionate about wine and the craft behind it. Reading the book, you are overwhelmed with how passionate he is, all the while being entertained by his stories. A must read. 		  
  







  
  
Yoga Mala7 reviews
Sri K. Jois, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

North Point Press, 2002

Necessary for anyone practicing Ashtanga yoga
This book is a must for any Ashtanga practicioner. The beginning of the book describes the philosophy. The rest shows pictures of Jois and grandson Sharath in the poses as well as detailed explainations. 		  
  







  
  
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream82 reviews
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, ...

North Point Press, 2000

The Suburbia Style In Its Worst - And Real - Perspective + Solutions For The Future Ahead
It's no wonder that the suburbia style brought so much finance and - why not - mental damage to our everyday lives. We gave up living smartly for living in beautifulness. I believe that the sense of ownership prevails in suburbia much more than the sense of community. If you live in one for a long time, you probably know what I am talking about. Even if you don't, you might imagine how it ... 		  
  







  
  
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History9 reviews
Katherine Ashenburg

North Point Press, 2007

hygiene history
An excellent history on human behavior related to hygiene over the centuries. Very well written, plenty of references. 		  
  







  
  
West with the Night115 reviews
Beryl Markham

North Point Press, 1982

More than a memoir
Much more than a memoir, Beryl Markham's work is a means of transport, not dissimilar to her beloved plane. It took me back to the Africa I lived in as a young bride, to its stark beauty, its dignified and desparate people, the language of its silences. Her tale of matter-of-fact mercies, and of cruelty equally unremarkable, is the stuff of life, as full of hope as of despair, for its millions of ... 		  
  







  
  
Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish26 reviews
Tom Shachtman

North Point Press, 2007

Revealing Look at Amish Life
"Rumspringa" is mainly about the Amish coming of age ritual in which the Amish youth are allowed to run around with the "English", but it is also a fascinating look at Amish life in general. The Amish life is a rigid one, especially for the women, and it is not surprising that some of the youth don't return after their Rumspringa. The price they pay if they don't return is a steep one - not only ... 		  
  







  
  
What Are People For?: Essays7 reviews
Wendell Berry

North Point Press, 1990

If Only More People Listened
I do not agree with everything Berry says in this book, but I must confess that he changed the way I see the world. His lucid dissections of American culture and economical practices, his bottom-up solutions to the problems facing us today, and his unselfish, honest prose convinced me of most of his points. Here is a writer not in it for fame or awards or prestige. Here we have a truly ... 		  
  







  
  
What to Eat49 reviews
Marion Nestle

North Point Press, 2007

"Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods."
Marion Nestle's What to Eat is a scientific examination of the health claims that food manufacturers and marketers use to move products. Organized by supermarket aisle, the book covers every food product in the produce, diary, meat, fish, frozen, processed, baby and specialty food aisles. Nestle helps the reader decipher both nutrition labels and marketing claims such as `certified organic,' ... 		  
  







  
  
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn53 reviews
Evan S. Connell

North Point Press, 1997

Totally Entertaining
Being a longstanding, confirmed student of the frontier Indian War era, Custer and his likes, etc., by now I must have read and collected several hundred books on these topics. In my opinion, Connell's is one of the very best and most entertaining, compelling, witty, and informative "reads" in this genre. Perhaps its not "perfect" (I have long been aware of some of the criticisms that have been ... 		  
  







  
  
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things138 reviews
William McDonough, Michael Braungart

North Point Press, 2002

solutions for a future
this book introduces one to a new way of making things and eliminating the worry about pollution and garbage. It should be read by every manufacturer, politician, teacher, parent... in short by everyone who lives on this planet!!!!! it shows the right approach to production and consumption ....cradle to cradle, where waste becomes food or is comletely reused by the industry without leaving ... 		  
  







  
  
Book of Job13 reviews

North Point Press, 1988

Why?
To meaningfully ask the question "why?" in a religious context, one must first be familiar with Job--there is simply nothing in scripture that approaches the question of human suffering with such detail. Sadly, Mr. Mitchell correctly notes that the original book is long gone--victimized by the mistakes of translators. Yet the story remains universal; any reader can sympathize with Job's ... 		  
  







  
  
The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-19825 reviews
Wendell Berry

North Point Press, 1987

The book that stays on my nightstand
Like a river I love to swim in 		  
  







  
  
Genes, Peoples and Languages29 reviews
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

North Point Press, 2000

A great introduction to the history of mankind.
This is an excellent and easy to read book about the fascinating analysis of the heritage of mankind. The author has developed an extensive multidisciplinary approach that includes: a) archeology, b) history, c) genetics, d) linguistics, and e) mathematics. Although the author never stresses mathematics as a key discipline to analyze mankind heritage, his work relied on Principal Component ... 		  
  







  
  
Hard Laughter: A Novel25 reviews
Anne Lamott

North Point Press, 1979

love the brutal honesty
How could anyone not love this book (and the author)?!? Never have I read such a brutally honest account of ones life. Anne Lamott's writing is so refreshly sincere. All believers in Christ should rally around Ms. Lamott and encourage her to continue to bare her naked soul to the rest of the world. I read reviews that said she was irreverent, which if you read with a closed mind you may find ... 		  
  







  
  
The Sweet Science8 reviews
A.J. Liebling

North Point Press, 2004

Boxing as culture
When asked which is the best book on boxing ever written, anyone with any inclination towards the literary side of The Manly Art will instinctively site Liebling's classic collection of essays written in the early '50s collected in this volume. On the evidence here, I cannot dispute the consensus. Liebling gives you not a history or a list of profiles of boxers but an entire world and a ... 		  
  







  
  
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land13 reviews
Amy Irvine

North Point Press, 2008

Amy weaves like the Basketmakers
Amy Irvine tells multiple stories in "Trespass" and weaves them with the skill of the Basketmaker Anasazi whose culture she explores. I am much her elder but what she shares of her life resonates inside me with my own hardfought truths, my mixed bag of insights, and my own convoluted spiritual growth. This is a multifaceted gem. It can't be explained. It has to be experienced by the individual ... 		  
  







  
  
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina62 reviews
David Hajdu

North Point Press, 2002

Ballad of some thin men
It takes a great biography to both read like fiction and create enough historical specifics to truly adjust your mindset to the setting at hand. That's how I felt in Positively 4th Street - that I was amongst the atmosphere that treated folk music in the 1960's as if it were current pop music, the stuff of teen obsession and high celebrity. Following the folk scene that turned Joan Baez and ... 		  
  







  
  
Consider the Oyster5 reviews
M. F. K. Fisher

North Point Press, 1988

Consider it a classic
I am not a great fan of oysters, but I am a very great fan of M.F.K. Fischer, and she makes an extraordinarily convincing case for the humble bivalve. In her sensuous, intelligent, witty and charming prose, she tells tales and relates recipes and historical trivia that will have even the most hardened anti-oyster reader craving the savor of oyster stew, or good old-fashioned oyster stuffing, ... 		  
  







  
  
The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic18 reviews
Ramesh Menon

North Point Press, 2004

A great English translation of an Indian Classic
Gods, Demons and Heroes, locked in titanic battle in the mythical days of yore, and performing great feats of strength and/or self sacrifice ... what's not to love about that ? The Ramayana is one of the great literary epics of Ancient India, retold in this version in full-length and easy-to-read English prose form. It's the story of the life and trials of Rama, a mortal incarnation (avatar) ... 		  
  







  
  
Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen11 reviews
Eihei Dogen

North Point Press, 1995

The Best Single Volume of Dogen's Writings
Eihei Dogen is without a doubt the greatest writer in Zen history. His masterwork, the Shobogenzo, represents one of the most comprehensive, fascinating, and valuable works of Buddhist literature. In Moon in a Dewdrop, Kazuaki Tanahashi has compiled the best single volume Dogen in the English language. This contains the best translations I have ever read of several of Dogen's seminal works - ... 		  
  







  




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