For a great 10 minute (free!) present for friend or family, give them a head massage following George Downing’s superb directions in The Massage Book First printed in 1972, and reprinted hugely in large, plain vanilla (manila) format, this is the basic, eye-opening manual to which everybody turns. Mr. Downing practiced and taught at Esalen Institute in Big Sur (near San Francisco), famous for its leading edge exercises of body and mind.