 | The Pilates Body: The Ultimate At-Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening, and Toning Your Body--Without Machines by Brooke Siler
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $1.88 Exercise to build strength and tone without the macho nonsense of the free-weights world, works well with Tai Chi
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 | Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women's Solo Meditation Texts by Douglas Wile
Buy new: $22.59 / Used from: $12.99 Health includes good sex and the nurturing of energy, not its depletion
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 | Cheng Man-Ching's Advanced Tai-Chi Form Instructions by Manqing Zheng
Buy new: $10.95 / Used from: $7.25 Essential Cheng Man Ching, great Tai Chi material
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 | Master Cheng's Thirteen Chapters on Tai Chi Ch Uan by Man-Ch'Ing
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $5.35 Difficult, but excellent material
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 | Tai Chi Touchstones: Yang Family Secret Transmissions by Douglas Wile
Buy used from: $5.00 Original Yang Family style Tai Chi texts
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 | Lost Tai'-Chi Classics from the Late Ch'Ing Dynasty (Chinese Philosophy and Culture) by Douglas Wile
Buy new: $22.59 / Used from: $8.61 Douglas Wile is a brilliant historian and does a wonderful job of restoring classic tai chi texts from the Yang tradition
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 | Taiji Sword by Chen Wei-Ming
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.00 Excellent reference from a master swordsman
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 | The Multi-Orgasmic Couple: Sexual Secrets Every Couple Should Know by Mantak & Maneewan Chia
Buy used from: $1.98 Well, practice makes perfect, and practice with a loving partner makes for a healthier relationship - and don't miss his book for men! Very practical.
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 | Xing Yi Quan Xue: The Study of Form-Mind Boxing by Sun Lu Tang
Buy new: $21.51 / Used from: $13.48 Probably the classic of Xingyi Quan (Hsing-i Chuan) by Sun Lu Tang. Probably better martially for many people than Tai Chi - requires less time to become proficient.
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 | Fundamentals of Pa Kua Chan, Vol. 1 by Bok Nam Park
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $8.64 Two volumes of clear, intelligent well-developed discussion of the third major Neijia (internal art) - on practicality, see comment on Xingyi.
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 | Martial Musings: A Portrayal of Martial Arts in the 20th Century by Robert W. Smith
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $11.83 The best book in the United State for separating fact from fiction. Always realistic and utterly human, with a range of knowledge and experience unexcelled. His other books are all worth reading.
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 | Comprehensive Asian Fighting Arts (Bushido--The Way of the Warrior) by Donn F. Draeger
Buy new: $18.25 / Used from: $2.54 Still one of the best histories of Asian martial arts, but has to be supplemented with other works (duh!)
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 | A Zen approach to bodytherapy: From Rolf to Feldenkrais to Tanouye Roshi by William S Leigh
Buy used from: $0.99 Good luck finding it, but I was worked over by one of Dub's students for about 6-8 months and it was painful as hell, but wonderful afterwards.
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 | Chen Style Taijiquan by Feng Zhiquang
Buy used from: $30.00 Not a lot of good stuff on Chen Style, the originator, but this is pretty decent.
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 | Cheng-Tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'ai Chi Ch'uan by Cheng Man Ch'Ing
Buy used from: $6.97 Close attention to his form will help your own technique. The pictures alone are worth it., as is every one of his works.
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 | The Essence and Applications of Taijiquan by Yang Chengfu
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.81 Very valuable, unavailable in English before, the teacher of Cheng Man Ching
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 | Tai Chi Secrets of the Yang Style: Chinese Classics, Translations, Commentary by Jwing-Ming
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $5.97 Very valuable, unavailable in English before, the teacher of Yang Cheng-Fu
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 | The Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation by Barbara Davis
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.06 Chen Wei ming's commentary can help a serious student
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 | A Study of Taijiquan by Sun Lutang
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.04 Finally the original work of the founder of the Sun style
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 | Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan by Fu Zhongwen
Buy used from: $1.82 |
 | Gateway to the Miraculous: Further Explorations in the Tao of Cheng Man Ch'ing by Wolfe Lowenthal
Buy used from: $12.80 This and the other text are genuinely wonderful reads
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 | There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing and His T'ai Chi Chuan by Wolfe Lowenthal
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.99 |
 | Pa Kua by Robert Smith
Buy used from: $2.42 Student of many Bagua players and of Chen Man Ching, very useful introduction, good alongside Bok Park Nam's books.
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 | Hsing-I: Chinese Internal Boxing (Chinese Martial Arts Library) by Robert W. Smith
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $4.00 Student of many Xingyi players and of Chen Man Ching, very useful introduction, good alongside Sun-Lu T'ang's work.
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 | Pa-kua: Eight-Trigram Boxing (Chinese Martial Arts Library) by Robert W. Smith
Buy used from: $1.99 The companion to the above book on Hsing-i/Xingyi.
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