Travel related books
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is a fantastically well conceived book by Robert M. Pirsig, author of the subsequent work "Lila: An Inquiry into Morals". In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance he presents a part-fiction part-fact account of a motorcycle journey through the back-ro
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I just finished reading the book Tribes, by Seth Godin. I found this book fascinating. It's about how groups form into tribes and how tribes are leading the changes that are happening in our world. It's also about the need for leaders to help tribes strengthen. (I purposely did not use the word g
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Company of Liars is a well written historical novel set at the time of the Great Plague in Europe, 1348. The disease has just reached the shores of England and the populace are starting to panic as it spreads across the country, sparing no-one. Although this is the background, the tale essentially
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When I first published my first novel, The Ebony Tree, I'll never forget how I found out later that my then, 23 year-old niece ran through the house and screamed with laughter, after she read the book. Now mind you, my niece had always been an avid reader of white romance novels since her early te
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A Wealth of Family by Thomas Brooks Alpha Multimedia, Inc. (2006) ISBN 0977462935 Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (6/06) "A Wealth of Family" has something to be enjoyed or learned by people from all walks of life, no matter what your gender, socio-economic background or c
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Different gladiators specialized in different weapons and tactics and have different armours. According to the weapons they use, there were several types (classes)of gladiators. The Samnites fought with a short sword, a rectangular shield, a sallet, an arm prorector on the right arm and a greave o
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