Do you ever feel overwhelmed with the pressure to follow the crowd and conform? As a child, we are always told not to follow the crowd and to think for ourselves and yet as soon as we become an adult it seems like our entire life has already been mapped…
Imagine being charged with drug smuggling 1000s of miles away from home. Would you survive and thrive or sink to your lowest ever? Or what would happen if you had a surfing accident? Would you give up? What happens when you feel overwhelmed but under-supported in a relationship? Will you…
Imagine being the son of possibly the most notorious drug lord ever to wander the earth. Worst still, envisage believing your father is an English businessman only later to find out that in fact, he adopted you and was actually working undercover for MI6 and the British Intelligence Service to…
Why would anyone want to set fire to a library? Surely, nothing can be gained by causing such damage? In The Library Book by Susan Orlean she tries desperately to uncover what happened to the Los Angeles Library back on the 29th April 1986, when a fire swept through the…
The motivational book market is growing exponentially, with those that are excelling in business either writing their own or creating articles listing their favourite books that everyone should be reading if they want to get ahead. No one is immune to this type of book. If you haven’t picked up…
I am pretty sure that if Sir Richard Branson had been asked during his young adult life whether he honestly believed that one day he would become a billionaire even he would not have foreseen it. For me, Sir Richard Branson is one of those guys that we all wish…
I have never visited the United States so I am probably a naive white woman to the struggles faced by African-Americans. Yes, I watch the news; I hear about the oppression felt, the mistreatment by those in powerful roles, but I personally have never been witness to such treatment. I…
“The question is, ‘Are you doing it right or almost right?’” (Pg. 10) Network Marketing has turned John Haremza into a very successful business man, a man that has made a fortune by going into business for himself but how has he done it? What is Network Marketing? Network Marketing…
Star Rating: *** Published by Wiley Blackwell (October 2015) Pages: 206 (e-book version) Have you ever decided to read a book completely deviating away from your normal genre? For me, The Free Market Existentialist is that book. When I heard that William Irwin was publishing a book that would approach…
My Star Rating: **** Pages: 156 First Published in 1997 As I mentioned in a previous post, I have decided to return to the world of study albeit from home in my own time. This is not a revelation for family and friends who know me well; my father would…