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Review: The Art of Making Bread by The Editors of CakeChatter

The Art of Making Bread by The Editors of Cake Chatter

A consortium of enthusiastic cooks have contributed to this lively look at baking just about any kind of bread you can think of, with recipes designed for real people, and a generous helping of commentary, jokes, poems, and added information, in The Art of Making Bread: An Anthology of Thirty, Down-Home Bread Baking Recipes!

Second in the Dough-Punchers eBook Series from CakeChatter, The Art of Making Bread invokes the past – both the cowboy cooks who fed the hard-working cattle herders, and Grandma, with an apron tied securely around her voluminous long skirts. Each of the thirty recipes was […]

SPR2020-09-23T04:46:59+02:00September 23rd, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Home & Garden Book Reviews|

Review: Enok and the Womb of Gods by A. SkoroBogáty

Enok and the Womb of Gods by A. SkoroBogáty

In the richly woven fantasy, Enok and the Womb of Gods by A. SkoroBogáty, a character named Enok living in a pre-Creation time will make discoveries that presage Biblical events.

The story begins at the isolated home of Eyda, now in her four hundred and eighty-seventh year, having given birth to thirty-eight children. On this day she is surprised by a visit from Sess, her youngest. On a trading boat he has brought a large figurine. To her horror, Eyda sees it is a miniature statute of the goddess-god who condemned her to death as a burnt offering, a fate […]

SPR2020-11-13T09:07:24+02:00September 23rd, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: Crossing the Digital Faultline by Sri Manchala

Crossing the Digital Faultline by Sri Manchala

Sri Manchala is a transformation expert, advising business leaders about not only the shining promise of new technologies, but also the hidden faultlines under the surface, in Crossing the Digital Faultline: 10 Leadership Rules to Win in the Age of Digitalization and Uncertainty.

Manchala begins his comprehensive overview by recounting his experience in Japan in March 2011. He and associates arrived the day before a huge earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck the island nation. Observing the widespread chaos and changes, he took charge, successfully navigating through the turmoil to ensure that he and his cohort would be able to […]

SPR2021-11-24T05:55:54+02:00September 22nd, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Leadership Book Reviews|

Review: Somewhere in Persia: Memoirs of a War Correspondent by Dward Lee Greenbird

Somewhere in Persia: Memoirs of a War Correspondent by Dward Lee Greenbird

The observations, writings, poems, photos and jokes created by his father, Sam Greenberg, in service overseas in World War II fill the highly readable biographical portrait by author Dward Lee Greenbird, Somewhere in Persia: Memoirs of a War Correspondent.

Greenberg, born in 1912, was a newspaper staff writer when the war broke out, enlisted and became a war correspondent stationed in an army garrison on the Persian Gulf in Iran. Described by his son as a “happy guy,” Greenberg saved and sometimes sent home photos of the foreign countries he inhabited or visited. The material in this memoir comes […]

SPR2020-10-06T06:32:58+02:00September 7th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Memoir Book Reviews, World War II Book Reviews|

Review: The Happiness Journal by Viet Hung

The Happiness Journal by Viet Hung

Author and entrepreneur Viet Hung offers an engaging collection of astute observations, motivations, and encouragements aimed at promoting a calmer, more enlightened perspective in The Happiness Journal.

As Hung reminds us in his Foreword, throughout our lives, we generally “plan to get one thing done, but then usually something different happens.” To accept the ever-changing array of events requires inner preparedness. Hung believes this can often be achieved through the practice of self-examination and mindfulness. The helpful selections he has chosen were originally composed for himself – mostly short essays or commentaries – divided into three sections: “Sensing Happiness,” […]

SPR2020-09-03T02:51:06+02:00September 2nd, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: Programming the Brain by Chandana Watagodakumbura

Professor and scientist Chandana Watagodakumbura examines the complex relationship between brain structure, neurological functioning, and how people behave based on their learning in Programming the Brain: Educational Neuroscience Perspective: Pedagogical Practices and Study Skills for Enhanced Learning and Metacognition.

As Watagodakumbura describes, educators are constantly exploring and quantifying the ways that students learn, in order to teach them most effectively. Neuroscience, a relatively new discipline, can offer insight into these processes, since human evolution parallels the evolution of the brain and neural system.

A salient example of the author’s thesis is presented in the introduction, looking at the difference […]

SPR2020-10-02T01:20:04+02:00August 29th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Education, Science Book Reviews|

Review: Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Judge Woerheide

Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Judge Woerheide

In this inspired collection, composed over seven crucial years in the life of poet Robert Judge Woerheide, we learn what it is like to be a prisoner and what it is like to be free, from within and without.

The first selection in Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow: A Journey of Poems, “Neanderthal Love,” pictures a prehistoric tribe carefully watching over a wounded comrade, his broken legs necessitating his cradling and foretelling his death, after which they will dig a grave a meter deep: “perhaps the first to ever be loved in this way.”

“Elegy for the […]

SPR2020-08-26T05:40:57+02:00August 25th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Poetry Book Reviews|

An Interview with Robert Nicholls: Author of Surviving the Darkness

Robert Nicholls Robert Nicholls is an Australian indie author and freelance writer. Surviving the Darkness is his first published book. Previously, Robert had a long and successful career in various roles as a specialist business lawyer, commercial mediator, chartered corporate secretary, company director, senior corporate executive, and business owner. Today, Robert’s writing focus extends to subjects including mental health, self-help and improvement, motivation, human endeavour, communication, life, and leadership, and to other writing genres, which are featured on his blog. Robert lives on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.