Travel related books
Wearing Chinese Glasses: How (Not) to Go Broke in Chinese Asia is a clever treatise on how to see the business world the way Chinese people do. It is apparent from author Greg Bissky's painfully funny stories that he learned this valuable lesson through much trial and error at the cultural school
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We don't really think about the meaning of flowers today whenever we give them, we just pick out a pretty flower and we give it to someone but actually the real meaning behind flowers and their secret language has been lost. The Victorians used flowers as a discreet form of communication. During
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.~Sir Francis Bacon I recently got to thinking about why readers read. I woke up early one morning trying to recall the exact words of Sir Francis Bacon's statement which I first encountered in high school.
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