Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits

5 best books like Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits (Bill Porter): Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, A Life of One's Own, Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Author	Frans de Waal
ISBN	0393635066

New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.

Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

Author	David Deutsch
ISBN	0670022756

I am not sure that another book has influenced my thinking quite as much as The Beginning of Infinity.

As I read through Deutsch's many provocative assertions, I often reacted with instinctive scorn and disbelief. But with only a few exceptions, I found myself within a few pages not only persuaded...

A Life of One's Own

Author	Marion Milner
ISBN	0874771935

How often do we ask ourselves, ‘What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?’ In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner explores these questions and embarks on a seven year personal journey to discover what it is that makes her happy.
On its first publication, W. H. Auden found the book...

Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

Author	David Dayen
ISBN	1620971585

In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families...

The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

Author	Pico Iyer
ISBN	1476784728

A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,” The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.

Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has...