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Searching for My Heart: Essays About Love by Dawn Downey

Searching for My Heart: Essays About Love by Dawn Downey is filled with beautiful and personal stories of the different types of love one can encounter in the world, as well as the fight with one’s self to find that place we can call “home.” Following the author on her journey from adolescence to adulthood feels in a way like reading her diary, an intensely personal and honest examination of one person’s journey through life.

Downey’s focus is not necessarily on romantic love, but on the larger concept of love for all things, especially oneself. This is not a book […]

SPR2019-01-11T14:50:22+02:00October 14th, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Essay Book Reviews, Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: Autonomous Vehicles by C D Leonard

Autonomous Vehicles by C D Leonard is a well-considered, wide-ranging examination of self-driven vehicles and their implications for the economy, ethics, and everyday life.

This comprehensive guide begins by posing two questions: What is autonomous driving, and how does it differ from normal driving as we currently know it? Indications are that the development of the autonomous car will require further new technologies to improve, protect and finally eliminate the driver. There are six possible levels of autonomous driving, ranging from complete human control, through partial, conditional, high and finally full control by the vehicle. Vehicular control would require the […]

SPR2018-11-20T08:01:00+02:00October 5th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews|

An Interview with Stanley Chao: Author of Selling to China

Stanley Chao has been doing working in China for over 20+ years assisting small and medium-sized companies in their China business. His company, All In Consulting, has done over 200 projects for over 100 Western companies. Chao resides in Los Angeles.

Tell us about your book.

Selling to China is a primer for any business wanting to go to China, or has gone to China and failed. It’s based on my 20+ years of doing business in China and my advise is based on real business cases and lessons.

Why did you want to write a book?

No one has […]

SPR2018-10-02T10:53:19+02:00October 2nd, 2018|Categories: Interviews|

Review: Selling to China by Stanley Chao

A Chinese American business expert presents his latest wisdom regarding how small trading companies can establish economic links with counterparts in China in Selling to China: A Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.

The primary tenet for an SMB (small to medium-sized business) to bear in mind, Chao states, is that Chinese and American entrepreneurs have the same goal – to make money. This is especially true since the older “Mao” generation is phasing out, being replaced with what the author calls the “Me Generation” (age 20-30), which is less traditional, and more prepared to make deals.

When Chao […]

SPR2018-10-27T12:22:57+02:00September 27th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews|

Wisdom from the Dojo and Other Tales by Soke Larry Barr

Wisdom from the Dojo and Other Tales by Soke Larry Barr 10 Dan is an inspirational work of self-help using martial arts as a basis.

Filled with stories from the author’s experiences and lessons learned from Karate, it gives the reader something to reflect on in every chapter. From the story about the arrogant young karate student who learned that it’s the focus that matters and not necessarily his perception of his skills, to the one about our God-Given Potential, there is a new lesson to be learned on each page.

While the book is inspiring and contains many nuggets […]

SPR2019-01-11T14:50:31+02:00September 24th, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Self-Help Book Reviews|

An Interview with Sylvia Mulholland: Author of A Nanny for Harry

Born and raised in Canada, worked as a lawyer and partner in a mega-law firm for many years then chucked everything and made a break for L.A. to pursue a (pipe) dream of being a working screenwriter. A couple of years later, I went crawling back to that jealous mistress THE LAW, and have been practicing law in my own solo firm, in the US and Canada, and writing novels and short pieces since.

I have two great and very creative kids, and a really cool and supportive husband, who encouraged me to pick up those early books of mine, […]

SPR2018-09-20T02:31:29+02:00September 20th, 2018|Categories: Interviews|

How to Be: A Guide to Spiritual Development by Tõnn Sarv

How to Be: A Guide to Spiritual Development by Tõnn Sarv is a contemplative exploration of life’s truths and how to use them, by someone who has given the matter much intensive thought.

Author Tõnn Sarv outlines how people are caught in a vicious circle: you try to do good, but the consequences may be negative, so gradually you may stop trying. How can you find a workable middle ground? Here are some of Sarv’s suggestions: admit your flaws, learn to live with less, recognize that the “gap” or quiet space may be where things really happen, take things as […]

SPR2018-09-18T08:47:36+02:00September 17th, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Self-Help Book Reviews, Spirituality Book Reviews|

Review: Storm Shelter by Raymond Payne

Storm Shelter by Raymond Payne is a vivid illustrated novel based on his 2004 novel Shelter from the Storm, which tells the tale of Juan “Johnny” Lopez and his plans to escape from a juvenile detention center.

With a fellow gang member to help him, Johnny thinks he has everything figured out. He will escape and tell anyone who will listen about the conditions at the facility. At the same time that Lopez is planning to obtain his freedom, Danny Matthews – a young boy who had spent a good part of his life in foster care – is on […]

SPR2019-01-11T14:50:42+02:00September 12th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Comics & Graphic Novel Reviews, Contemporary Fiction Book Reviews|