The Tao of Chess 200 Principles to Transform Your Game and Your Life by Chess Master Peter Kurzdorfer is an excellent read.  Highly recommend it.

Thanks-sounds interesting!

Thx for the share

Any link of a preview of the book? thanks!

Hey ! where I find this highly recommended book?? Is it in amazon.com?

If you have Windows Vista, hold down the left mouse button and drag it over The Tao of Chess forum title.  Then click on the little button that appears.  Then click on search the web for The Tao of Chess.

I loved that book. I stupidly loaned it to a friend who is not very good at keeping track of things that don't belong to him. Thanks for reminding me. I really ought to just buy it again. 

 How can I get it?

I bought my copy at Barnes and Noble which a national bookstore chain here in the states. Check this link out ghostlyknight. Its going for $10.00 :]

http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Chess-Principles-Transform-Your/dp/1593370687/

i have it, i've never read any other chess books, and it is very good

 Cool Fonix! thanks a lot

Never heard of it, but 10x!

I can vouch for this book... it really is quite good, and very compact and portable to boot!

I snagged my copy from Books-A-Million, who also has a website www.bamm.com

I think it was only ten bucks, too!

What I like most about it, is that it has a little bit of everything:  space, tempo, pawn structure, tactis, strategy, physchology, even philosophy.  A neat little catch-all volume easy enough to carry around.

Does anybody have any books similar to this one that they would also recommend? I would like to expand my chess library and am open to suggestions

Another book with similar execution is Pandolfini's Chess Complete, by Bruce Pandolfini... layed out in an extremely similar format and covering every aspect of the game as well.  HOWEVER, even though I thought it was a good and helpful read, I must say that it did not use diagrams to illustrate what it was talking about... it is strictly a text-based book... and having been published in the early 1990s by the reputable Fireside Chess Library, I find this to be unforgiveable.  Even so, it is imformative, well-written, and at times even lighthearted and endearing!