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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi · 110 pages
"'The Book of Five Rings' is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction. 'The Book of Five Ri
The Life-Giving Sword: Secret Teachings from the House of the Shogun
Yagyu Munenori · 192 pages
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Bruce Lee, John Little · 228 pages
Zen in the Art of Archery
Eugen Herrigel · 107 pages
The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this timeless account. This book is the result of the author’s six year quest to learn archery in the hands of Japanese Zen masters. It is an honest account of one man’s journey to complete abandonment of ‘the self’ and the Western principles that we use to define ourselve
Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police
Robert Twigger · 320 pages
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Matthew Polly · 359 pages
Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies, Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become a fighter like in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. Later, Matthew decided to pursue this quixotic dream: he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism. Expecting to find a
My Fight / Your Fight
Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz · 313 pages
Ronda Rousey, the Olympic medalist in judo, reigning UFC women's bantamweight champion, and new Hollywood action hero, charts her difficult path to glory. Rousey's account of the toughest fights of her life -- in and outside the Octagon -- reveals the painful loss of her father when she was eight years old, the intensity of her judo training, her battles with love, her meteoric rise to fame, the s
Iron and Silk
Mark Salzman · 211 pages
An American describes his experiences after his arrival in Hunan Province in 1982 to teach English, including wushu training and life in post-Mao China.
The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
Jonathan Gottschall · 296 pages
"When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge, and an opportunity. Pushing forty, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, part of him yearns to cross the street and join up. The other part is terrified. Gottschall eventually works up his nerve, and starts training for a real cage fight. He'
Thief of Time
Terry Pratchett · 384 pages
In Discworld, time is a resource managed by the highly capable Monks of History. Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it. While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He's going to stop. Well, stop time that is, by building the world's first truly accurate clock. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu
The Way of the Fight
Georges St-Pierre · 227 pages
UFC fighter, Georges "Rush" St. Pierre, shares the lessons he learned on his way to the top, in The Way of the Fight, revealing how he overcame bullying and injury to become an internationally celebrated athlete and champion.
The Wu-Tang Manual
The RZA, Chris Norris · 243 pages
Uses a manual format which uses a special code to understand RZA hip-hop and philosophy. Also provides information about each member of the group. Demonstrates its history and mythology, and releases the mysteries behind its earliest "dynasty."
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Josh Waitzkin · 288 pages
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
George Leonard · 144 pages
In this book, There are some ways to Master in the field you want. The author of this book "George Leonard" had shared some disciplined things of Aikedo Martial Arts form. These tips are not only to Master martial arts, these can be used for any purpose for learning things. I suggest you to read this book of amazing journey called Mastery.
The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
Anonymous · 143 pages
"When all the ties that bind the heart are unloosened, then a mortal becomes immortal." The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 BCE by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas -- the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma an
How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
Francis A. Schaeffer · 288 pages
As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society's state of affairs and presented the only viable alternative: living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God's revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible's morals, values, and meaning. -
On War
Carl von Clausewitz · 442 pages
Vom Kriege is the basic work on the Western way of war. For Clauswitz, war is "politics by other means". It concentrates on defeating the enemy by massing overwhelming force at the enemy's weak point. In his rationalistic model, the prince (or other governing elite) begins with a set of objectives and chooses the most cost-effective way of accomplishing them. If force is seen as that way, then the
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Alan W. Watts · 144 pages
amazing insight. helps westerners step back and look at their actions and how they relate to the world around them. the mere desire to "be secure" is what actually makes you insecure. all about time and pain. most influential book i've ever read, and i've read a lot, high iq, etc. from my point of view, a must read.
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton · 306 pages
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we’re judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety. We care about our status for a simple reason: because most people tend to be nice to us according to the amount of status we have (it is no coincidence that the f
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong · 419 pages
A history of the human attempt to answer hard questions through religious constructions, mainly the idea of God and mostly in Western monotheistic religions, principally Christianity.