A logo is the visual name of a company, often known as brand value. Encyclopaedia of Logo Design by Jay Raval is a useful manual that gives information about logo design and how to make money from it. The tips, advice, and suggestions in the...

Ending the Tuition Extortion Racket: Make Colleges Replace Student Loans with Scholarships and Pay Back All Outstanding Loans is a nonfiction education finance expose written by Paul Streitz. Using his own alma mater, Hamilton College, and 24 other private colleges for reference, Streitz opens up...

Emojigraphy: The International Emoji Language Basic by the Emojigraphy Team teaches the basics of a new universal picture-based language. Emoji characters have, up until now, been used to convey emotions by adding the characters to the beginning or end of sentences. For example, various facial...

Lewis Alerson’s self-help guide, Emotional Intelligence: Be Mindful, reads as if you are listening to the ocean. The information is expressed in the calmest of voices. It is a brief, yet solid book about the benefits that one can gather from learning to keep our...

What did the early Egyptians know about electricity? Is it possible that they understood the concept of atomic energy? In the thought-provoking book Electric Ancient Egyptians: Manipulating Atomic Structure with Human Electricity by James Ernest Brown, these topics are considered and hypothesized. Using the substantial...

This country was founded on Christian principles and, while these beliefs were not perfect, they did provide an outline by which to guide the world and our lives. Entitled to Slavery: A Blueprint for Breaking the Chains That Threaten American Exceptionalism by Michael Abbott Jr...

Mayur Ramgir's Evolve like a Butterfly: A Metamorphic Approach to Leadership is a groundbreaking work on leadership with powerful lessons inspired by the life cycle of a butterfly. A butterfly! The title of the book got me intrigued and I was wondering “Why a butterfly”...

Engage Your Audience: The Tips and Tricks to a Magical Presentation by Dr. Ugoeze Asinobi is a useful guide that gives step by step instructions to show readers everything they need to know about the art of giving an outstanding presentation. Everyone gets a bit...

I teach English as a second language at a university in China, and I am always reading books that deal with education in my ongoing effort to improve myself, stay current in my field, and in general make my classes more fun and productive. Most...

I loved Essence of Existence by Paul Roman. The subtitle is Brief Story of Matter and People. In fact, it is a clear but very condensed history of the universe. A while back I wrote an essay calling for the addition of a course on...