The Dao of Taijiquan: Way to Rejuvenation
10 best books like The Dao of Taijiquan: Way to Rejuvenation (Tsung Hwa Jou): The Art of Happiness, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, The Crimson Queen, Gnomes, Broken Music, Go, Secrets of the Gnomes, Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, A Buddhist Bible
Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
ISBN | 1573221112 |
Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Author | Robert M. Pirsig |
ISBN | 0060589469 |
Maybe it's unfair to give a poor rating to a book I read in high school. However, I like to think that I was wise beyond my years and knew a phony, self-congratulatory, pretentious buffoon when I saw one. On the other hand, I did wear baggy overalls with Birkenstocks every day back then and wondered why I didn’t...
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Author | Aldous Huxley |
ISBN | 0060595183 |
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of
The Doors of Perception
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Author | Alec Hutson |
ISBN | 0998227609 |
2016 Ink and Insights Competition - Judges' Favorite
2017 Reader's Favorite Award for Epic Fantasy
2nd place in the 2017 SPFBO
Long ago the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south the Star Towers fell, swallowed...
Author | Rien Poortvliet |
ISBN | 0810909650 |
Abrams launched Gnomes into the hearts of Americans in 1977 and quickly racked up astrognomic sales in bookstores across the country, ultimately achieving a 62-week run on the New York Times best-seller list. Come join in the 20th-anniversary fun as gnomania strikes again!Did you know that gnome...
Author | Sting |
ISBN | 0385338651 |
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as...
Author | John Clellon Holmes |
ISBN | 0141188391 |
The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neil Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began On the Road, Go is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives the Beats lived before they became public figures....
Author | Rien Poortvliet |
ISBN | 0810916142 |
Rien Poortvliet and Wil Huygen, collaborating once again as they did so successfully in Abrams' best-selling GNOMES, now reveal to thousands of eager readers their recent encounters in the mysterious world of those tiny folk. SECRETS OF THE GNOMES is the fascinating account of a long, arduous journey...
Author | Allen Ginsberg |
ISBN | 0060926112 |
Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's first collection, "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece that overcame censorship trails to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. The annotated Howl is the poet's own re-creation of the long process of composition of a revolutionary...
Author | Dwight Goddard |
ISBN | 0807059110 |
A wide selection of readings from Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, and modern sources intended to provide the reader with a foundation in classical Buddhist thought.
The first book to bring together the key texts of modern Buddhism.
In the last hundred years, the world, especially...
Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
ISBN | 0007105045 |
Tree and Leaf, J.R.R. Tolkien
Repackaged to feature Tolkien's own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, 'On Fairy-Stories' and the story that exemplifies this, 'Leaf by Niggle'. Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will...