Michael Jackson & the Music That Was by The Voice of One traces the trajectory of Michael Jackson’s career from his days as the youngest member of the Jackson Five to his tenure as the undisputed “King of Pop.” Written from an industry insider/number one...

Motions and Moments: More Essays on Tokyo by Michael Pronko is a collection of essays about life in Tokyo, and particularly how it deviates from the life Western people might be used to in engaging with Eastern culture. Each essay is like a self-contained explanation...

Mandarin Chinese: An Explanatory Guide to Key Language Issues is written by Orna Taub. This is a resource for Mandarin students by someone that has painstakingly sought the help of native speakers and masters, and seeks to impart her knowledge to anyone that can benefit...

In Mataluna: 151 Afghan Pashto Proverbs, Captain Edward Zellem introduces us to the culture of the Pashto language, spoken by people of Afghanistan through their proverbs. The preface is lengthy with explanations of how the book was formed through social media outlets; the sketches in...

Montreal from A to Z: An Alphabetical Guide by Laura Roberts is a collection of blogs by the author describing interesting places in Montreal, and her thought and feelings about these places. The chapters are arranged in alphabetical order and each describes a different place...

Swami Achuthananda is the author of Many Many Many Gods of Hinduism: Turning believers into non-believers and non-believers into believers. “In India, the religion is the culture and the culture is the religion. You cannot learn one without understanding the other.” Many books have been...

Marriage War: Lipstick Breadwinners, Erotic Housewives by Noel Terry speaks about marriages prevalent in the current society. He says that to get married well and be happy throughout nowadays is an art. It is not something that is easy. Women have become equal breadwinners and...

'Making a Meal of It' by Jui-shan Chang is centered on Dr. Jui-Shan Chang's cross cultural studies of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China versus the Western cultures in their ideology in relation to the study of sex. Dr. Chang's twenty years of comparative research of...

This is an interesting book, telling about the life and fashion of Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States. She is a remarkable woman both in her day to day life as well as in her sense of fashion. When you read Mrs. O,...