Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense

5 best books like Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense (Bruce Lee): A Man Without a Country, How They Croaked, The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV, Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality, Bruce Lee: A Life

A Man Without a Country

Author

Kurt Vonnegut

In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this era—or any era—holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. Whether he is describing his coming of age in America, his formative war experiences,...

How They Croaked

Author	Georgia Bragg
ISBN	0802798179

Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess-especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. How They Croaked relays all the gory details of how nineteen world figures gave up the ghost. For example:


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The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV

Author	W.H. Lewis
ISBN	0881339210

Pleasures and palaces are, of course, an enormously entertaining part of this vivid account of France under Louis XIV. More important is the author's exploration of the political, economic, social and artistic forces that developed during the long reign of the Sun-King. It was an age of contradictions...

Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality

Author	John Shelby Spong
ISBN	0060675071

Is celibacy the only moral alternative to marriage? Should the widowed be allowed to form intimate relationships without remarrying? Should the church receive homosexuals into its community and support committed gay and lesbian relationships? Should congregations publicly and liturgically...

Bruce Lee: A Life

Author	Matthew Polly
ISBN	1501187627

“The first noteworthy treatment of its subject—and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate.” —The New York Times Book Review

The most authoritative biography—featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs—of film legend Bruce Lee, who made...