Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life That Matters
8 best books like Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life That Matters (Bernard Glassman): Bridge of Birds, Dry, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, The Goddess Pose, The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto
| Author | Barry Hughart |
| ISBN | 0345321383 |
When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together, they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure.
The quest led them to a host of...
| Author | Augusten Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0312423799 |
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when...
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
| Author | Daniel H. Pink |
| ISBN | 1594487154 |
From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprising--and surprisingly useful--new book that explores the power of selling in our lives.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people...
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0393352609 |
A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an...
| Author | Michelle Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0307593517 |
When the woman who would become Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced everywhere, from Brooklyn to Berlin to Ulaanbaatar. In The Goddess Pose, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Goldberg traces...
| Author | Frances Stonor Saunders |
| ISBN | 0060777303 |
A vibrant history of Italy in the cataclysmic fourteenth century as seen through the life of a brilliant military strategist and bandit lord
At the dawn of the Renaissance, hordes of mercenaries swooped down on the opulent city-states of Italy and commenced to drain them dry. The greatest...
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0393356973 |
Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows...
Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto
| Author | Anneli Rufus |
| ISBN | 1569245134 |
An essential defense of the people the world loves to revile--the loners--yet without whom it would be lost
The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, all--along with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to...
