It’s not enough to have a great idea; Parker shows one way to test and implement it. Eric Parker’s interesting book, Focus for the Fuzzy Front End of Product Development, presents a simple process for reducing front-end... Read More

Spot-on details shed light on a seldom discussed episode in American foreign policy. If high school history teachers assigned stories like Patrick Lee’s "Kickers", students would learn a lot more about the conflicts that have shaped... Read More

Myth becomes belief becomes behavior—in this inspiring work, Western yogis are encouraged to rewrite their stories to renew their spirits. Although it’s written for “Western” yogis, Bernie Clark’s enjoyable exploration of the... Read More

While playful and witty, this narrator allows us to be rooted in the rich soil of Chinese history and culture. Sharon Winters’s "Cutted Chicken in Shanghai" is a delightful and dryly humorous marriage of memoir and travelogue with... Read More

Smith’s talent for crisp comparisons and ear for music turn many passages into beautiful considerations of the search for inner peace. Amid the “fragmentation” and loss of selfhood she felt after having children, Christie Havey... Read More

Intellectual dialogue adds depth to this love story with two refreshing characters. A lonely couple defies the brutal blows of circumstance in this transatlantic journey to self-discovery. After learning to accept the loss of their life... Read More

Easy-to-understand analogies describing the healing power of sleep offer the basis of research to help insomnia. Anthony Canelo describes "Sleep" as a book about rest based on the premise that although sleep is vital, society on the... Read More

Moulthrop draws moral human lessons from thoroughly believable people in this literary short story collection. Robert Moulthrop offers eleven short stories that function as neat windows of realism through which people of a certain age... Read More