Books

Have you ever found yourself asking this question, "what should I do with my life?" This may be due to a poor decision you have made or perhaps your inability to make a certain decision, or due to a recent depressing experience. Whichever one it might be, know that you are not alone. When one feels stuck and not...

Books are one of the commonest things we can find around us. They exist in various forms and volumes containing different types of information for various uses. They have come a long way and experienced several modifications since they were first mentioned in recorded history, circa 10th or 9th century BC. In all these years, books have been used...

The most expensive books in the world at this time might be hundreds of years old, but the value attached to them seems to appreciate with time. Apparently, they are like wine that gets better with age. John James Audubon’s Birds of America has sold several copies at record prices, with the highest pegged above $11 million, and there...

The first question on the lips of anyone trying to enter a particular career field is; "how much can I possibly make from doing this?" While a significant amount of people get into a career out of the passion they have for it, a lot more do it because of what they are to gain from doing so. Writers are...

Jon Krakauer is an extraordinary writer and a skilled mountaineer. He is known to have authored several best-selling books which are surprisingly non-fiction. He writes on an array of topics of interest and has contributed articles in several renowned magazines. Biography  Jon Krakauer was born in Brookline. Massachusetts on the 12th of April 1954. His parents Lewis Joseph and Caroline Ann...

If you are a fan of the famous 2015 American drama-film titled The End of the Tour which narrates the epic tale of the 5-day long interview between the popular writer and novelist David Foster Wallace and David Lipsky; then it doesn’t just stop there because there is more to the life and fantastic stories written by the renown...

On the list of the distinguished American writers to have won multiple literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Livingston Award, is a journalist and author Harry Gerard Bissinger III, better known as Buzz Bissinger. He is the writer of The New York Times number one bestseller, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream. A native...

Most known for his interests in self-fulfilling prophecies through non-verbal communication, and his extensive research and ground-breaking investigations into the Pygmalion Effect; the influence that a researcher can have on the outcome of an experiment, the effects of teacher’s expectations on students’ academic and physical performance, and the effects of clinicians’ expectations on their patients’ mental and physical health,...