Travel related books
Buddha is Hiding by Aihwa Ong shows the perils of multicultural policy compounded by multiculturalist thought. Ong's book follows the lives of 50,000 Cambodian refugees we accepted in the 1970s. During the reign of Pol Pot in Cambodia approximately one third of the population was killed. Many of
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When was the last time you ventured into the land of make believe? Every so often, I love to read fairy tales and folktales because we can learn from them. I read Best-Loved Folk Tales of the World by Joanna Cole and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wish that life were that simple where the good guy u
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Top Indian author Chetan Bhagat leads as India's latest youth icon and the author of three immensely popular novels Five Point Someone, One Night @ The Call Centre and The 3 Mistakes of my life. His latest novel "2 States: The Story of my Marriage" has hit the stands just recently, and have showed
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When you first look at the cover of East of the Mountains by David Guterson, you see a dark gray sky with barren mountains and a field full of dying grass. Throughout the picture runs a gravel road which passes an apple orchard on the way to the mountains in the background. The cover provides a go
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In the United States we have a very interesting thing happening. Many folks who are US Citizens have most of their family that is not living in Mexico. Along the US Borders are lots of towns where one part of the family lives on one side of the border and the other half of the family on the other,
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It seemed very far fetched to me that a country or a person would try to subvert an entire religion. It seemed even less possible to me that anyone could hate the thought that a God exists, so much that he would devote his entire life to subverting the Catholic Church. Surely this book must be a
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In the 20th century, many nations got independence from colonial powers and therefore, the effects of colonialism were important issues for writers in Africa. The work of Mongo Beti of Cameroon titled Mission Terminee(1957; Mission to Kala, 1958) is a tale of a young African man educated in Fran
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The Essential Little Book of Great Lawyering is aptly named: at just 52 pages (including the title page, copyright, and table of contents), you'll need less than an hour to discover the essential skills of great lawyering. Some readers may be wondering why anyone would need a book to learn what gr
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