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The celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles offers inspiration and insight on finding one's muse and channeling it onto the page.
Acclaimed writer of novels and short stories as well as screen- and stage plays, Ray Bradbury has established himself as one of the most legendary voices in science fiction and fantasy. In Zen in the Art of Writing, he shares how his unbridled passion for creating worlds made him a master of the...
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Discover the Essential Lessons You Need to Learn When Writing Your First Book.
Writing a book about what you know in business or career path is a known way to establish credibility and instant authority about a subject. If you have achieved business or technical acumen while working at your job or career, you have the basis of a good book that can help others in their own journeys.
If you're a beginner, this audiobook...
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On Writing Well Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Zen in the Art of Writing and Writing it Down
One of the best things that you can do to help grow your business and to position yourself as an expert in whatever field you may work in is to write your own book. Writing a book about what you know in business or career path is a known way to establish credibility and instant authority about a subject. If you have achieved business or technical acumen while working...
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A classic work on Eastern philosophy, Zen in the Art of Archery is a charming and deeply illuminating story of one man's experience with Zen. Eugen Herrigel, a German professor of Philosophy in Tokyo, took up the study of archery as a step toward an understanding of Zen Buddhism. This book is the account of the six years he spent as a student of one of Japan's great kyudo (archery) masters, and of how he gradually overcame his initial inhibitions...
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The book sets forth theories about motor learning and control that provide lessons for learning any sport or physical activity. For example, a central idea in the book is that through years of practice, a physical activity becomes effortless both mentally and physically, as if the body executes complex and difficult movements without conscious control from the mind.
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From a Los Angeles Times–bestselling author, "a [vampire] novel that goes out of its way to not to glorify the villainy of vampirism" (Miami Herald).
How to control the bloodlust?
How to find inner peace as the living dead?
The Way of the Wooden Stake.
One man rises in a SoHo alleyway to find his lover dead and his own body terribly transformed . . .
He strains to overcome his murderous instincts through zen meditation and...
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How do you prepare for a test? Study the material, of course. But studying for the SAT is different - knowing facts is not enough. On the SAT, basic information is presented in tricky new combinations, and getting the right answers depends less on what you know than on how you think.
Zen in the Art of the SAT, written for those in grades 9-12, can help you achieve your highest score on the new SAT.
• Learn to let go of worries and fears, calm...
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This book brings together nineteen essays on the many moments of Zen to be found in the artful humor of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Want the real deal on fake news? Want to know how Jon Stewart stacks up against public intellectuals past and present? How The Daily Show hones your critical thinking skills in the war on bad media, bullshit, and political spin? Want to know more about The Daily Shows philosophy of religion? About what truthiness...
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“The Story I Want to Tell” pairs the work of 20 aspiring young writers-including immigrants from war-ravaged countries-with original stories, essays, and poems from Richard Blanco, Richard Russo, Elizabeth Gilbert, Dave Eggers, Lily King, Jonathan Lethem, Bill Roorbach, Monica Wood, and other top writers in a call-and-response anthology.
The book's supplemental materials make it a perfect tool for writers' groups and writing teachers.
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For the first time, readers are granted access to fifty years of the author's personal writings in this posthumous collection that includes previously unpublished texts, speeches, letters, interviews and private notes, as well as key excerpts from the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories-heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved,...
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A craftsman's meditation on finding clarity, purpose, and creativity in an era when there area countless competing claims on one's attention, how does one find the interna focus to be creative? In the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance and Shop Class as Soulcraft, Handmade is a profound meditation on the eternal value of manual work, creativity, human fallibility, and the stubborn pursuit of quality. Master furniture craftsman...
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"From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club--a wonderfully engaging new book: both a celebration of reading in general and an impassioned recommendation of specific books that can help guide us through our daily lives. 'I've always believed that everything you need to know you can find in a book, ' writes Will Schwalbe in his introduction to this thought-provoking, heartfelt, and inspiring new book about books....
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"Call it Zen and the Art of Farming or a Little Green Book, Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book 'is valuable...
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Tuttle Publishing
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[2018]
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The complete writings of famous Samuari Miyamoto Musashi, offering insights not just for warriors, but for anyone wishing to apply the Zen Buddhist principles of awareness and "no mind" to succeed in any endeavor. This book sheds new light on Japanese history and the true value of Bushido, the ancient code of the Japanese warrior.
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Random House
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[2019]
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"Garry Shandling was a singular trailblazer in the comedy world. His two hit shows, It's Garry Shandling's Show and The Larry Sanders Show, broke new ground and influenced future sitcoms like 30 Rock and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and his stand-up laid the foundation for a whole generation of comics. There's no one better to tell Garry's story than Judd Apatow--Garry gave Judd one of his first jobs on The Larry Sanders Show and remained Apatow's mentor...
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Broadleaf Books
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[2021]
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"In the wake of the horrific 9/11 terrorist attacks we, as an increasingly secular nation, were reminded that religion is, for good and bad, still significant in the modern world. Alongside this new awareness, religion reporters adopted the tools of so-called New Journalists, reporters of the 1960s and '70s like Truman Capote and Joan Didion who inserted themselves into the stories they covered while borrowing the narrative tool kit of fiction to...