This book contains the latest trends in web writing, communication tools, the use of the Internet as a marketing tool, with lots of links for more information, websites to use to obtain work, and a whole lot of templates, samples…
Category: Non fiction reviews
A review of Book Marketing From A-Z by Francine Silverman
Francine Silverman, more editor than author on this project, has produced a book which is unique in its approach, even in this suddenly crowded market. What it does is to provide a series of examples, anecdotes or advice from experienced…
A review of A Month Of Sundays by Julie Mars
So often memoirs can be maudlin or portray the author as an innocent victim of circumstances. This is not the case in A MONTH OF SUNDAYS. The author mixes tears and humor and is not afraid to show herself or…
A review of Ainsley Harriott’s Friends and Family Cookbook
That isn’t to say that the recipes in this book produce unattractive and cranky meals–the food generally looks as good as it tastes, but simply that this is the kind of food you can serve and eat everyday, without running…
A review of Coaching the Artist Within by Eric Maisel
What Maisel presents here is a primer on how to live a life worth living. If you’re a blocked artist, Coaching the Artist Within will certainly help you get to the root of what is troubling you, while always spurring…
A review of Jasmine in Her Hair by Huma Siddiqui
This is more than a cookbook, although it does provide over 55 recipes for a wide variety of foods from Siddiqui’s native Pakistan, including appetizers (starters), meat and vegetarian main courses, desserts, rice and bread dishes, sauces and drinks. Each…
A review of Knock Their Socks Off by Mridu Khullar
Although at 130 pages, this isn’t a lengthy book, it is a pleasurable, humorous read full of pithy information designed solely to get the reader writing for the potentially lucrative magazine/freelance article market. Reviewed by Magdalena Ball Knock Their Socks…
A review of Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky by Charles Ginenthal
I was a young man when I read Velikovsky’s books, but I always though, in my mature years, that it was sad for Velikovsky to be denied recognition for his contribution to human understanding by so many prominent scientists, even after he was dead. And I always wondered how justified were his critics in their condemnation of him. This book by Charles Ginenthal: Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky clarifies what happened between Velikovsky and his critics, principally Carl Sagan.
A review of Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy by Henry H Bauer
In my readings, I have seen Velikovsky belittled in many scientific books, and yet, some of his widely ridiculed claims turned out to be correct, like the surface temperature of Venus being 800 °C. Because of the long standing controversy about Velikovsky, Henry Bauer wrote to set the record straight.
A review of Pharaohs and Kings by David M. Rohl
Forty-three years later, David Rohl published Pharaohs and Kings. Rohl, an eminent Egyptologist, spent twenty years examining the basis for the four pillars (or known dates) in Egyptian history. Benefitted by recent archaeological research, particularly by a catch of mummified Apis bulls (considered the sacred dwelling place of gods by the ancient Egyptians and carefully mummified when they died) Rohl and others constructed an unbroken line of dates intermeshing when the bulls were alive with the pharaohs who reigned when the bulls lived.