The biggest concentration of four-wheel-drive vehicles in the UK
is in London. For those of you who might be unfamiliar with London, it is not
renowned for its mountainous terrain. Arctic conditions around Piccadilly Circus
are rare. The Thames does not burst its banks every monsoon season, roads are
not dirt tracks and Oxford Street is hardly ever buried under mud slides, much
as we'd like it to be.
So why do you need a four-wheel-drive car in the city?
It can't be for the sake of the economy as these are big, thirsty machines. It
can't be for the sake of speed, because London is more or less gridlocked
anyway, so all vehicles travel at the same speed (except bikes). It can't be
because of heavy loads - as far as I can see, the main use of these vehicles is
to take the kids to school, which, unless your children are the size of heifers,
you could easily achieve in something smaller than a tank.
(Nick Page)
Books
This list represents a sample of the books we have found useful in
discovering the essence of
tai chi.
Please note that tai chi cannot be learned from a book.
Gateway to the Miraculous by Wolfe Lowenthal
God (A Beginners Guide) by Caroline Ogden
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
The Good Heart by Dalai Lama
Gravity Never Stops by Ron Sieh
The Great Stillness by Bruce Frantzis
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto
Haiku by Basho
Headstrong by Tony Buzan
Help Your Child to Perfect Eyesight Without Glasses by Janet Goodrich
Hildegard in a Nutshell by Robert
Van De Weyer
The Holy Bible
How to Defend Yourself: Effective and Practical Martial Arts Strategies by
Yang Jwing-Ming
How to Grasp the Bird's Tail if You Don't Speak Chinese by Jane
Schorre
How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Everyday
by
Michael Gelb
The How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci Notebook: Your Personal Companion to
"How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci" by Michael Gelb
Humane Pressure Point Self-Defense by George Dillman & Chris Thomas
I Ching
translated by Thomas Cleary
I Ching translated by Tom Riseman
The I Ching Made Easy by Roderic & Amy Sorrell
The Impossible
Question by Krishnamurti
In a Japanese Garden by Charmaine Aserappa
A beautiful, simple little book. Clear and direct.
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House by Atsushi Ueda
The Inner Warrior
by
Lau Kim Hong
A very good read with many examples of tai chi wisdom.
The Inner Way
by
Cheng Man Ching
A practical collection of tai chi insights.
Introducing Chaos by Ziauddin Sardar
Introducing Consciousness by David Papineau
Introducing Eastern Philosophy by Richard Osborne
Introducing Einstein by Joseph Schwartz & Michael McGuinness
Introducing Ethics by Dave Robinson & Chris Garratt
Introducing Mind and Brain by Angus Gellatly
Introducing Muhammad by Ziauddin Sardar and Zafar Abbas Malik
Introducing Nietzsche by Lawrence Gane
Introducing Philosophy by Dave Robinson
Introducing Quantum Theory by J P McEvoy and Oscar Zarate
Introducing Stephen Hawking by J P McEvoy and Oscar Zarate
Introducing the Universe by Felix Pirani
Iron Shirt Chi Kung by Mantak Chia
Japanese Detail Architecture by Sadao Hibi
Japanese Gardens by Gunter Nitschke
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward S. Morse
A Japanese Touch for Your Home by Koji Yagi
Jesus for Beginners by Anthony Oheare
Jesus the Son of Man by Kahlil Gibran
The Journey to the East
by Hermann Hesse
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