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10 best books like The Battersea Park Road to Paradise (Isabel Losada): Neon Pilgrim, Meeting Mr Kim: Or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi, Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings, Selected Essays, Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice, Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society, Essays, En esto creo, All of the Women of the Bible, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Neon Pilgrim
AuthorLisa Dempster
ISBN0980335175
Seriously unfit & unmotivated, Lisa Dempster is an unlikely candidate for a gruelling outdoor adventure. When her life needs a shake-up, she decides the only thing for it is to hike the henro michi, a 1200 kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan. Lisa’s journey from overweight...
Meeting Mr Kim: Or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi
AuthorJennifer Barclay
ISBN1840246766
The world knows more about secret North Korea than the free society of the South. As a peace summit heralded a new era for a country divided for 50 years, Jennifer Barclay searched for the spirit of South Korea, discovering a land full of passion, tradition and spirituality, good humor, and great food....
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings
AuthorManny Farber
Manny Farber (1917–2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called "termite art" (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to "white elephant" monumentality), master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent twists and...
Selected Essays
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN0192836218
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.

As seen in these...
Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice
AuthorChristy Turlington
ISBN0786868066
ccording to a recent Time magazine cover story, 15 million Americans include some form of yoga in their fitness regimes-nearly twice as many as five years ago. This healing art balances the mind with the body, incorporating physical strength with mental fitness to reach a place of deep, lasting peace,...
Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
AuthorDaniel Barenboim
ISBN1400075157
These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary...
Essays
AuthorWallace Shawn
ISBN1608460029
“Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality... politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as a force for change (or not)...It’s a treat to hear him speak his curious mind.”—O Magazine

In these beautiful...
En esto creo
AuthorCarlos Fuentes
ISBN8432216372
Bought this in a second-hand store so not too much money wasted. I'd forgotten how tiresomely liberal-elitist Fuentes can be, although I say that as an avowed anarchist-communist. The mandarin tone, the unnecessarily obtuse language, the attempt to (re)claim Bunuel for religiosity. Ugh. I enjoyed...
All of the Women of the Bible
AuthorEdith Deen
ISBN0060618523
All the women of the Bible offers a rich biographical perspective on evey female figure in scripture -- including the famous, the little-known, and even the unnamed. In more that 300 engaging and insightful portraits, Edith Deen brings alive the saints and sorceresses, queens and servants, mothers...
A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
AuthorSusan Griffin
     Here's another book that I read for a class that I otherwise would never have attempted.  I'm glad, I think, that I put my head down and staggered through Susan Griffin's A Chorus of Stones, but it's a book that takes a toll.

     Here's a happy thought: a lot has already been written about...
Deceived With Kindness
AuthorAngelica Garnett
ISBN0712662669
Angelica Garnett may truly be called a child of Bloomsbury. Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed herself, naturally enough, the daughter of Vanessa's husband Clive.

Her childhood homes, Charleston in...
Archives du Nord
AuthorMarguerite Yourcenar
ISBN2070373282
Comme dans Souvenirs Pieux, Marguerite Yourcenar part ici à la recherche de ses origines. Commençant par l'évocation de ces terres, de ces dunes, de ces forêts, qui deviendront un jour la Flandre française, elle descend le cours du temps. L'Histoire devient comparable à une immense circulation...
The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ and Other Essays
AuthorJay Haley
ISBN1845900219
In this classic volume available now once again, Jay Haley in the controversial title article, proposes an original interpretation of the Bible analysing Jesus actions as a man trying to build a mass movement to topple a power structure. Using wit and wry humor, Haley in the other essays discusses such...
Native American Wisdom
AuthorKent Nerburn
ISBN0931432782
We recognize the philosophy of the original Americans as coming from the earth we walk on, from those who preceded us. As we read the wisdom of these peoples, it is possible to feel a reconnection with our land and ourselves. This beautiful collection of the best of Native American wisdom features the...
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
AuthorTim Parks
ISBN1846553997
(3.5) Starting in his forties, Parks was plagued by urinary problems and abdominal pain. Each night he had to get up five or six times to urinate, and when he didn’t have fiery pangs shooting through his pelvic area he had a dull ache. Doctors assessed his prostate and bladder in tests that seemed more...
Love Always, Petra: A Story of Courage and the Discovery of Life's Hidden Gifts
AuthorPetra Němcová
ISBN0446579130
The main reason why the author choose to write the book is because it tells a story about a girl named Petra and her family and the girl Petra because it has to do with the communist party. To tell how Petra lived during the 1990's and how they were poor because it also had to do with the depression had also hit...
The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World
AuthorDan Millman
ISBN1932073493
Few writers approach the topic of life purpose with the clarity of Dan Millman, whose prior book The Life You Were Born to Live has reached more than a million readers worldwide. In The Four Purposes of Life, Millman distills decades of exploration and experience into a concise map of what we’re here...
David's Inferno: My Journey through the Dark Wood of Depression
AuthorDavid Blistein
ISBN1578264294
David’s Inferno combines personal narrative and literary references with practical medical information, including descriptions of diagnoses and the wide variety of prescription drugs and therapies used to treat depression, mania, and mixed states. It also discusses the impact of depression...
The Politics of the Family and Other Essays
AuthorR.D. Laing
ISBN0415198224
In his 1968 CBC Massey Lectures R. D. Laing discusses how and why we value society's notions of family over our own.

Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur...
A Walk in London
AuthorSalvatore Rubbino
ISBN0763652725
A child's-eye view of London's top attractions blends lively artwork with fascinating facts, and features a sweeping gatefold of the city skyline.

London is calling! Come along on a mother-daughter day trip as they wend their way past the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, through...
When In Rome: Chasing La Dolce Vita
AuthorPenelope Green
ISBN0733619037
A delightful. lighthearted story with an even narrative, a very relate-able main character and which is a lot of fun to read.

The story told by Penelope, is about how at the age of 28, despite having a perfect job and an enviable life in Sydney and ditched her life in order to pursue a lifelong dream...
I Was a Teenage Worrier
AuthorRos Asquith
ISBN0552552801
Letty Chubb is 15 and a mine of information about all things teenage. Her hilariously perceptive guide covers everything and anything teenage worriers need to know - spots, diets, parents, lurve, clothes, contraception and lots more . . . As well as being the ultimate teenage handbook, I Was a Teenage...
My 'Dam Life: Three Years in Holland
AuthorSean Condon
ISBN0864427816
I really wanted to like this book-- a lay-about ex-pat trying to make a go of it in Amsterdam? What's not to like? (It bears some resemblance to my life, after all!) But the stream of consciousness writing kept getting worse, more random and detached the longer it kept going. And by the end I was just relieved...
Krishnamurtis Notebook
AuthorJiddu Krishnamurti
ISBN1888004630
Krishnamurtis notebook is for me like a constant companion, even i have understand that live has no permanency, psychologicaly.
The notebook has its place now on my bedside table, but i pick it up too at daylight from time to time.
Over all the 40 years i read krishnamurtis writings, watched...
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