In a culture where art and life are often inextricable, Magical Secrets about Thinking Creatively: The Art of Etching and the Truth of Life (Prestel Publishing, ISBN 3-7913-3654-1) comes as the latest in a series of books, sites and magazines that keep them entwined. In the last few years, the number of magazines and …
Self-help audio books have been silently tuning up the minds of people around the world for many years. These days, superfast technologies allow you to comfortably download audio books within minutes and start your self-help audio books “mind massage” on the double. That is if you’ve paid attention to the food-for-thought your mind’s been …
Surely everyone loves a good travel book but sometimes they can be disappointing, more often, say, than a recipe or handcraft book. There are ways to avoid missing the bus. Before forking out dollars for a travel book, ask yourself the following: am I in love with the idea of this book or the …
Johnny Cash, a Tennessee history buff, was especially interested in the Chickamaugan Indians and the geography of the Tennessee River just downstream from Chattanooga, and he wrote about both in a song called “The Whirl and the Suck.” Cash also went through a stage of his life when he was addicted to drugs. In …
“Immortality is but ubiquity in time” — wrote Herman Melville in “Moby-Dick.” That line, to me, is the most apt endorsement of the novel. Someone – a writer few among the readers today have heard of — once compared books to cars in his diary, meaning new models are produced each year, and the …