Getting Right with Tao: A Contemporary Spin on the Tao Te Ching

A decade in the making, Ron Hogan's Getting Right with Taoconveys the essence of the Tao Te Ching but with a modern, self-aware sensibility. The original pragmatic treatise on personal development gets a contemporary, Tarantinoesque gloss in eighty-one spare, stripped-down chapters. What does it mean to be alive? What do you want from life? With a unique voice and incisive style, Hogan gets right to what matters.

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