With an unprecedented mix of cultures in the American work environment today, employees at all levels of organizations need to learn to properly deal with the expectations of people from different cultures. “Mistakes are not limited to... Read More

Poker is played in a roughly similar fashion, with the same rules around the world, but the feelings of the players and the distinctiveness of each gathering’s atmosphere make every game unique. In this book of short stories, the... Read More

“When I consider the brilliant observations and analyses made in the last century by the great pioneers in child development, I am astonished that the key element, children’s inherent spiritual nature, was missed for so long,” says... Read More

Images of Italy one wouldn’t encounter in travel guides are presented in this collection of short stories, each describing a different city or region while not making the location the focal point of the story. For instance, in “The... Read More

“The task of psychoanalysis is not so much to undo forgetting, but to put poetry back into the mind,” writes the author, a novelist, biographer of Sylvia Plath, professor of English at the University of London, and humane reader of... Read More

“I have to state that Philology, both Comparative and special, has been my favourite pursuit,” said James Murray. Never before or since has an army of amateurs produced so vast and professional a product as the OED, the Mount Everest... Read More

Young Bertie Canfield wrote in his diary that although he thought his new home in Kansas looked “very funnie” because the landscape had no fences, he was nonetheless enthusiastic about his family’s move west from New York state... Read More

In 1936, on an inauspicious night in Peking, two American Christian missionaries are mysteriously beheaded in their own home. Two years later, their orphaned daughter, Jane, gives birth to a half-Asian baby, a daughter she will spend a... Read More