The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
9 best books like The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place (Ian Baker): The Snow Leopard, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, Make Good Art, Tibet: A History, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River, I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 0140255087 |
“The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.”...
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
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| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 0062266764 |
In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think...
| Author | Sam Van Schaik |
| ISBN | 0300154046 |
Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history.
Sam van Schaik brings the history of Tibet to life...
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
| Author | Parker J. Palmer |
| ISBN | 0787947350 |
With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose. Telling stories from his own life and the lives of others who have made a difference, he shares insights gained from darkness and depression...
| Author | Peter Heller |
| ISBN | 1579548725 |
A grand adventure-an elite kayaking team's heroic conquest of the worlds last great adventure prize: Tibet's Tsangpo River.
The Tsangpo Gorge in southeastern Tibet has lured explorers and adventurers since its discovery. Sacred to the Buddhists, the inspiration for Shangri La, the Gorge...
| Author | J.M.R. Higgs |
| ISBN | 1569803153 |
President Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America, while Terence McKenna believed he made more people happy than anyone else in history. Few People have divided opinion as strongly as Dr. Timothy Leary. Leary, a brilliant behavioral psychologist, persuaded millions to tune in, turn on,...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
| Author | Amaryllis Fox |
| ISBN | 0525654976 |
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter
Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford...
Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
| Author | Jill Heinerth |
| ISBN | 0062691546 |
From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet
More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep...
