 | Head Strong: 10 Ways to Make the Most of Your Body and Mind by Tony Buzan
Buy used from: $15.00 Methods to get out of negative mental ruts and INTO positive ones
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 | How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day by Michael J. Gelb
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.90 Clarifies various kinds of intelligence and provides practical exercises to develop your human potential
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 | The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.99 Puts political correctness aside and considers the evolutionary role sex plays in shaping us as humans
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 | Zhuangzi Speaks by Chih-chung Ts'ai
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.14 Cartoon version of an Ancient Chinese classic - has a lot of charm
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 | The Tao Speaks: Lao-Tzu's Whispers of Wisdom by Chih-Chung Tsai
Buy used from: $9.00 Cartoon version of an Ancient Chinese classic - has a lot of charm
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 | The Art of War: The Denma Translation (Shambhala Classics) by Sun Tzu
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Reveals the subtle nature of all the factors may come to your aid in times of conflict.
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 | The Taoist Classics, Volume 1: The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary (Taoist Classics (Shambhala)) by Thomas Cleary
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $9.10 Taoist classics: modern presentation of an ancient philosophy.
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 | Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition) by Lao Tsu
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.49 Coffee table version of TTC - great photos + bite-sized contemplations
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 | Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters by Gia-fu Feng
Buy used from: $16.00 Glossy coffee table version of Chuang Tsu ( a more odd and comical ancient Chinese sage than Lao Tsu)
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 | Heaven & Earth: Unseen By The Naked Eye (Photography) by Katherine Roucoux
Buy used from: $11.00 Exploration into the vast unseen realms above and below the capability of our senses to percieve. Gorgeous photos showing intricate patterns and mysteriously intelligent constructions at every level
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 | Ideas That Changed the World by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Buy used from: $24.99 Colour photo illustrated, Concise 2-page spreads on almost 200 ideas that have shaped human thinking
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 | Tao: The Watercourse Way by Alan Watts
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $3.43 Excellent intro to Tao from Alan Watts
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 | The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.75 Excellent intro to Zen from Alan Watts
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 | Out of Your Mind by Alan Watts
Buy new: $62.97 / Used from: $59.82 My favorite off-beat philosopher... Listening to these 12 CD's might change your perspective on a lot of things.
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 | Hara: The Vital Centre of Man by Karlfried Graf Durckheim
Buy used from: $8.80 There is a depth to this short book.
It explains describes and commends a way of living which is securely rooted in our vital centre (Hara).
The author clarifies well the quality of life lived from that centre, as well as the weaknesses and troubles caused by living without it's cultivation.
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 | The Great Work: Our Way into the Future by Thomas Berry
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $4.00 Berry writes with a very broad scope. He covers the essential elements of the history of the Universe and the human history within in. He descibes how we have related to our universe so far; particulary he exposes the very widespread ecologically 'autistic' outlook which has developed in humans to our great cost and to the planet we depend upon.
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 | Evening Thoughts by Thomas Berry
Buy used from: $37.97 The same issues are addressed here as in the above, however I found this book more enjoyable reading than 'The Great Work', and it includes a summary of Berrys insights and outlook in 3 appendices.
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