The Girl Immigrant by Patricia Ruiz Steele is a wonderful biography of the author's family, specifically Manuela, the author's grandmother. Manuela's family comes from Spain, and they were promised a new life, education for their children, homes and jobs, if they immigrated to Hawaii to...

The Book of Orchid is an instructional art book written by I-Hsiung Ju, who was a Professor Emeritus at Washington & Lee University before his retirement and the founder of the Art Farm Gallery where he continued to teach the art of Chinese painting. This...

The Emerging Sensitive: A Guide for Finding Your Place in the World is a self-help book written by Maria Hill. Hill discusses a subset of the population who she and others have defined as being highly sensitive people based on Dr. Elaine Aron's DOES model....

The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts in 21st Century by Karl Lancaster is an 82-page non-fiction book about martial art systems that defines the art, how it was developed, and features of the art. The author, who is trained in several of the arts, also describes...

The title The Crazy Life of a Kid from Brooklyn says it all; Bill Morgenstein has a full and fascinating life and probably is still cooking up some new adventure. Every week, every month, every year there was a new adventure and all in the...

Things to Do in Amsterdam: Museums by Marko Kassenaar and Liesbeth Heenk presents art in a conversational and enjoyable way. This is a 4-book set of lavishly illustrated pages, with Book 1 showing the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Book 2 - Anne Frank House, Book 3...

Sweeping. Beautiful. Striking. I could go on, but one word descriptions of a book, especially one as wonderful as The Notorious Dream of Jesús Lázaro, would not suffice. This masterful work by author Terence Clarke follows the titular artist, Jesús Lázaro, on his journey to...

The Gift of Life: Family, Friends, Food & Fun by Dayeeta Roy is an excellent book which combines cooking with family stories. Not only is this book down to earth, entertaining and funny, but you get the impression at the end that you have gotten...

Three Hellene Cypriots by Andreas Antoniou Melas tells the history and achievements of Cyprus through the examples of a political leader, a religious leader and a sportsman, and how the turn of events in their lifetimes reflect the high points in Cypriot history. Discussions, more...

The 4Ps Framework: Advanced Negotiation and Influence Strategies for Global Effectiveness by Yadvinder S. Rana is a comprehensive book on international business administration and management, and focuses especially on how to deal with people from all over the world effectively during business deals and negotiations....