The Alternate Press, an imprint of Life Media, is a small, independent publishing house established in 1976.

We specialize in adult non-fiction books about ways that families and individuals can live on Planet Earth in a healthy, socially responsible, environmentally sound, self-reliant manner. Our list also includes books about progressive homeschooling, also known as unschooling, autonomous learning or life learning.

This site provides details about our currently available and upcoming titles, information for orders by the book trade and guidelines for submitting your manuscript to us for consideration. If you are an individual and would like to purchase our books, please visit our retail site.

For the Sake of Our Children by Léandre Bergeron, translated by Pamela Levac, foreword by John Taylor Gatto. Now available.

Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier by Wendy Priesnitz, ed. Now available.

Upcoming Titles

What Really Matters by David H. Albert & Joyce Reed (Fall, 2010)

Natural Life Magazine's Natural Child by Wendy Priesnitz (Spring, 2011)

Food and Fellowship: Projects and Recipes to Feed a Community by Andrea Belcham (Fall, 2011)

It Hasn't Shut  Me Up:  A Memoir of Mothering, Daughtering and Learning by Wendy Priesnitz (Fall, 2011)