The Warrior in the Garden by Keith Thorn is a beautiful, reflective book that narrates the story of young Kaori. She starts her journey under the watchful guidance of her Sensei in a dojo. Most stories about any martial art focus on the discipline of...

Walking Along the Ancient Tokaido Road: A Pilgrim’s Path: Adventures and Transformations, Vol. 1: Departure by Ichiro Asanuma begins in 2006 along Japan’s historic Tōkaidō route, stretching from Tokyo toward Kyoto. The narrative opens with the author setting out from Nihonbashi, motivated by recovery after...

In her memoir Made In Vietnam: My Epic American Journey, Elaine Damschen describes growing up in a household with strict control and uneven affection, where she learned to monitor her behavior and limit her emotional expression for stability. As she enters adulthood, she leaves home...

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese technique for achieving balance and harmony. Contrary to the popular misconception, it is much more than rearranging the furniture, as Wendy Ellen Hanophy points out in Wind, Water and Wing: Feng Shui and the Nature of Home. It is...

In Discovering a Hidden Thread in My Family Tree: A Personal Genealogical Discovery Involving Lucille Ball, Susan Lorraine Kadera takes you on a journey about the significance of family connections, even remote ones. While clicking through genealogical sites online, she discovers that she shares ancestors...

In Education Empowered, Srinivas Jallepalli tells readers that we’ve begun teaching children in a way that doesn’t match how people actually develop. He breaks it down to biology, how the brain works, and how we learn from the world around us. He talks about how...

Does it serve us to be good? Prasanth Kumar Vinakota believes that it does not, and outlines his reasoning in Why Good People Are Actually Dangerous: The Hidden Cost of Moral Certainty. We have been programmed to aspire to be “good”, but this can have...

How Shakespeare Can Save the World by Ion Parreah offers an imaginative exploration of modern society through Shakespeare’s enduring insights, using the Fool’s voice as a guide through contemporary chaos. Parreah introduces the fictional town of Cold Cape, a community undone not by natural disaster...

Nuna Anodm by David Elkins presents a visual and conceptual work built around a single idea: that human meaning can be carried through the body itself. The work is spread out across six spaces and allows readers into an imagined system in which bodily sensation...

Zareen’s Pakistani Kitchen by Zareen Khan and Umair Khan is a beautifully illustrated cookbook, and also a memoir, travelogue, and celebration of a culture of love and nurturing. Full of nostalgic tributes to childhood, Karachi, Lahore, aunts and grandmothers, it promises and delivers a rich...