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The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master

7 best books like The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master (Gichin Funakoshi): The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?, Red Harvest, The Earthsea Quartet, The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies, Gagner la guerre, Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy, Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker

The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
AuthorJan Zalasiewicz
ISBN0199214972
Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz takes the reader on a fascinating trip one hundred million years into the future--long after the human race becomes extinct--to explore what will remain of our brief but dramatic sojourn on Earth. He describes how geologists in the far future might piece together the history...
Red Harvest
AuthorDashiell Hammett
ISBN0752852612

I’ll give you three good reasons—from least to most—why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel,...
The Earthsea Quartet
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0140154272
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RIP Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 – 2018: The Earthsea Quartet (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4) by Ursula K. Le Guin



"To light a candle, is to cast a shadow": Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 – 2018


Who now has the stature...
The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies
AuthorRobert Kirk
ISBN1590171772
"Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology." — Times Literary Supplement
In the late 17th century, a Scottish minister went looking for supernatural creatures of "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." Robert Kirk roamed the Highlands, talking...
Gagner la guerre
AuthorJean-Philippe Jaworski
ISBN2915793646
Au bout de dix heures de combat, quand j’ai vu la flotte du Chah flamber d’un bout à l’autre de l’horizon, je me suis dit : « Benvenuto, mon fagot, t’as encore tiré tes os d’un rude merdier. » Sous le commandement de mon patron, le podestat Leonide Ducatore, les galères de la République...
Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy
AuthorKatsuki Sekida
ISBN0834801140
I don't pretend to understand most of this book. It was a heavy read, at times plodding - and yet I'm glad to have had the chance to read it. Certain passages struck me:

Someday you will have this kind of experience. And one day, when you emerge from it, rising from your seat, stepping across the doorsill,...
Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
AuthorKieron Gillen
ISBN1534312706
The Wicked + The Divine writer Kieron Gillen teams up with artist supernova Stephanie Hans (WicDiv, Journey Into Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. Die is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror they only just survived as teenage...
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