There are all types of mothers in the world, and there are many things that are written about mothers every day. Mothers have inspired everyone from world leaders to the kid down the block. Yet, most of these moms will never have their moment in the sun beyond their immediate circle of family and friends. By learning how to write a book about your mother, you have an opportunity to create something really special that will be a lasing tribute.

Tip One: Decide on a Memoir or Fictional Representation

To begin your journey of writing a book about your mom, you first need to know what type of book you want to write. You can write a memoir, which includes memories and stories about various aspects of your mother’s life.

Or, you can choose to make your mom a fictional character in a book that is inspired by her life story. Both choices will require you to know a lot of background information about your mother. A memoir will probably be more of an emotional experience for you than a fictional account.

Tip Two: Gather the Facts

Okay, now that you know which direction you’re going to take with this book, it’s time to gather lots of facts about mom. Sure, you grew up with her and have lots of memories, but you’re not the only one that she interacts with.

But still, you should start with your own special memories about her. Then you can go about interviewing various family, friends and acquaintances about what they know, or remember about her. You’ll be surprised at the things you don’t know about dear old mom.

If your book is not going to be a surprise gift for your mom, then go ahead and interview her about her life story. She’ll probably be more than happy to sit down with you over your favorite meal and chat about events from the past. Of course, if it is a gift, you can be sneaky and secretly record her memories.

Tip Three: Create an Outline

Even though you’re writing about your own mother, the book still needs to be organized in a way that makes it easy for readers. The easiest way would be to start from the beginning and take it all the way to the present day. Or, you can focus on a very specific time or event in her life, and use that as a basis for the book.

Each chapter will talk about a specific time and place or event.

For example, Chapter One: Running Errands for A Nickel and an Ice Cream Cone

This chapter sets up the story of how a mom often ran errands as a little girl, and had some funny things happen while doing it.

Tip Four: Stay Objective

Because you are so close to the subject of the book, you may at times get overly emotional and drift towards too much sentimental mush. Or, if you have a testy relationship with your mom, too much negativity can cloud a good story.

If you’re going to commit to being the author of your mother’s memoir, then think of yourself as a writer who has been hired to write this book. Your main goal is to write about your mother’s ups and downs in an entertaining and enlightening manner. You can only do this if you can keep your own deep emotions out of it. Save all of those pent up feelings for your own memoir.

Tip Five: Take Your Time

If other people are going to read this book, then take your time to do a good job of covering your mother’s story. If you are a first time author, you’ll quickly discover that writing a book is a step-by-step process that involves putting your thoughts into the right words.

I suggest that when working on the first draft, you just allow the words to flow out of you freely, without much thought about trying to make it perfect. This way, what you really want to say will come out of you a lot easier. You can always go back later and edit what you’ve written.

For health and safety training courses such as the NEBOSH General Certificate where a study book accompanies the course, many delegates often request to be sent the book beforehand so that they can familiarize themselves with the course content and what they are likely to face. Whilst this may seem on the surface to have some advantages, the disadvantages outweigh the benefits, which is why many providers prefer to give out the book on the first day of the course (or even a few days into the course) and are reluctant to send it out in advance.

The main reason for not allowing delegates to see the book beforehand is that for many it will be their first experience of classroom-based health and safety training. Whilst some may already have a good level of health and safety knowledge and be on the course simply because it is a legal requirement for them to hold a certain qualification, others will be attending the course because they do not currently have little or no health and safety knowledge, at least not to the level of complexity required by their position. Like a school child opening up a textbook designed for a university student, in all probability they will simply be overwhelmed by the level of detail it contains. Much of this information is designed to be taught first by a knowledgeable tutor before being read or looked up in a text book, so seeing the content written down in the book before it has been taught may frighten or at least discourage potential attendees. Some may even panic and decide that they will never be able to understand all that and not even show up to the course (it happens!). This is the main reason for not sending the textbook in advance.

Another reason is that different course tutors may prefer to teach the course syllabus in a different order to that of the book. A lot of the accredited health and safety courses are made up of modules which do not necessarily have to be taught one after the other or in a certain order. Some modules may even have a direct relevance to other modules, and the course tutor may prefer to teach one module before another one, even though they may be located in different sections of the book. If a delegate has read ahead, they may misunderstand the points being made, which could cause a problem if it relates to another module or unit as well. This is why course tutors much prefer to teach the delegates the information to ensure it is correctly understood, before they read about it in the book and potentially get the wrong end of the stick.

As well as the potential for misunderstanding, for some courses these textbooks can be big, weighty things which cost a lot of money. Not only does sending it in the post cost money in shopping charges, but there is also the possibility of it getting lost in transit. Just as likely, if not more so, is that if the delegate receives the book a couple of weeks or so before the start of the course, there is a good chance of them misplacing it, which means somebody has to fork out more money to replace it. Whether that's the training provider, the delegate's company, or the delegate themselves, somebody won't be too happy about shelling out for this avoidable cost!

For these reasons, it is much better to wait until the course has commenced before using the textbook, using it as a study aid for the information you have been taught, rather than for your first look.

Going green encompasses many different aspects. Included are companies that want to cash in on the eco-friendly movement. They advertise that their products are environmentally sound, when in fact they're not (Greenwashing). Going green involves its own language as well as different perceptions of those who practice its teachings. With all of the worthwhile causes available to support, it's easy to experience "compassion fatigue."

Tracey Bianchi is a married mother of three young children, living in Chicago. Her environmental concerns for both her family and future generations inspired her to write Green Mama: The Guilt-Free Guide to Helping You and Your Children Save the Planet .

Bianchi earned a master of divinity degree and is a frequent speaker and writer on topics of Christianity. Regardless of your religious beliefs or denomination, and whether or not you have children, Green Mama is an enlightening read. The state of the Earth's natural resources and how you can make a difference are the book's central themes. Here, compassion fatigue, eco language, and eco snobs are highlighted.

Compassion Fatigue. The world is full of needy causes, and it's easy to become exhausted by all the options to help. When this occurs we can develop "compassion fatigue," and stop caring about any of them. To offset this occurrence, discover your "one big thing." It's the ecological issue that moves you to action, including praying about it and learning about it.

Bianchi discovered an eye-opening flyer that read: "Your kids need to love the environment before they will want to save it." Like yourself, don't exhaust your children in your effort to make them more eco-savvy. Start small to help them discover their own "one big thing." Suggestions include joining a conservation organization and "adopting" an endangered species and promoting its survival. Converse with your children to unveil their environmental passions.

Eco Language. Green living, like anything in American culture, has its own vocabulary. Learning to navigate it is essential to joining a conversation about any of its pursuits. It's one part of the green journey that takes some time and is worth the investment.

Greenwashing . Greenwashing refers to a company's marketing that entices you to believe that the planet benefits from your patronage when in fact, there's little or no benefit. To avoid deceptive advertising, ask a few questions before purchasing, including:

• Does the product you're about to buy explain how exactly it's green or simply look green?
• Do front packaging claims match the ingredients listed on the back?
• Is the product certified by a reputable organization such as an organic or fair trade company?
• How much of the product is made from fillers (food industry additives to reduce costs and bulk up products)? Fillers can alter
• Does the company use the future health of children to sell products (ie commercials featuring children running through green fields, with hands up and smiling faces)?

MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet). Manufacturers aren't required to list all their ingredients on a label. Legally they must identify all of them on their MSDS. Originally designed to aid medical professionals in determining possible allergens, you too can request access to these documents.

Organic. An organic item is grown and manufactured in a way that respects the land, people and animals that produced it. It's minimally processed and any wastes generated from manufacturing or farming methods are either reused or disposed of in an earth-friendly way.

Natural Organic Program (NOP). Currently, NOP is the only nationwide organic labeling system backed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The highly recognizable green and white label is based on the percentage of the product that is organic:

• 100 percent organic = 100 percent organic in its agricultural origins.
• Organic = at least 95 percent organic material.
• Made with organic materials = at least 70 percent of the material is organic.
• No USDA label = anything less than 70 percent organic material.

Eco Snobs . Bianchi acknowledges that, "without a doubt there is a sort of eco-superiority that outdoorsy, eco-savvy people can emit." She describes her observations at a Denver airport en route to Chicago, including "fleece wearing locals, sporting high-end technical backpacks. They sipped from bulky Lexan water bottles that were often hooked on their packs by a carabiner."

Living a sustainable life is more about an open mind and heart; and making life work in a simple, responsible, cost-effective way. The green life is open to all regardless of current eco awareness, eco status or location.

Bianchi considers three quick categories when making green choices for her family: Once they're ranked, she determines their financial, ecological and social benefit before pursuing them. Those classifications are:

1. Conservation resources. Water and electric are examples, as monitoring their use typically begins to trim bills and save energy.
2. Earth-friendly substitutions . Food choices, cleaning and personal care routines full of chemicals or ones originating from a company with shabby environmental policies, can be replaced with more eco-friendly options.
3. Indirect financial benefit options . Making a contribution to an environmental organization may help both your family and society at large.

If you're interested in environmental issues, you're bound to learn something new by reading Green Mama: The Guilt-Free Guide to Helping You and Your Kids Save the Planet.

To see if goods and services you use are listed on the Green Washing Index, visit http://www.greenwashingindex.com .

Dreaming in Hindi

I was introduced to this book while browsing the web in search of interesting references. As somebody working almost daily in at least a bilingual context, I found fascinating the idea of ​​exploring the mind settings we develop while learning foreign languages. I become bilingual at five years old, without being aware of the philosophy of practicing another languages. I needed to understand and talk in more than one tongue, and didn't pay too much attention of the details: I was able to switch from a language to another, answering the various contexts I was part thereof. This almost natural-born bilingual structure of my mind was enriched by a new language at the age of 10. English is the fourth on my list – at around 17 -, almost self-taught, after the failure of my mother to play anymore the role of teacher. Years after, I can understand this situation as the result of our second language experience, I didn't want to acquire – who would like at the age of 5, to spend time making conversations in a language spoken exclusively by the adults? But this linguistic experience defines my linguistic history, as until now I am aware by the limitations of fully mastering all the other languages ​​I acquired by now (almost 10, out of which one who required to learn a new alphabet, learned as in the first grade, with pages of hand writing exercises and loudly voice spellings).

Given this experience, I am trying to do not insist too much upon because it is not my book I intend to write about now, the lecture of Dreaming in Hindi had for me the effect of a linguistic therapy.

Entering the dream

I started the lecture with a 75% enthusiasm. The rest of 25% was represented by the reserves on the topic of Hindi, India. My very recent experience was the Eat Pray Love book, an example about the stereotypes of spiritual journeys. We are learning foreign languages ​​because of personal or sentimental failures, we are keen to know the world and other countries because we failed to know ourselves. We are unable to go out of our lonely shells and we recognize the merits of the culture only in direct relation with the success brought in our personal achievement. There are some discrete references to this kind of issues in this book too, but there are wrapped intelligently. Of course we are looking for something when we are traveling or starting to learn something new – be it Chinese painting or Hindi – but this is more than killing some time between two relationships. We acquire knowledge for better understanding the world around and afterwards, using this knowledge to induce change.

The references to India are well pondered: you will not find here first-hand experiences about illuminations and spiritual awakenings after spending a couple of days, weeks or months in an ashram. In a very journalistic and alert style you will find information about this part of India Katherine Russell Rich is discovering while starting the learning of Hindi, during and shortly after 11/9. This part of India where people are living and making a living, dying or killed, facing terrorism and fear for the security of their children and their families, getting married, looking for a mate or falling in love, surviving as women, temporary visitors or tourists. The recent history or the history on the making, the ethnic or geopolitical conflicts being reflected at the level of the language. And I am the first to recognize that the success of learning a foreign language rely upon the immersion into the culture of the linguistic family whose richness you want to share. The pages dedicated to the social and historical description are limited by the purpose of reflecting the sociolinguistic processes taking place with the author aka. the Hindi student.

I found the style sometimes arid, sometimes mid-way between a scientifical expose and a journalistic description. In some fragments, it was like recollecting automatically segments from disparate notebooks recording the diary of the year spent in the ancient city of Udaipur. But this gave to the story a mysterious note of authenticity.

Knowing the brain

The main reason I loved reading this book was the intelligent mixture between the personal discoveries and the scientific research, looking for understanding the mechanisms developed in our secret black box while learning a new language. We are rarely aware of the complicate processes taking place during the linguistic adventures of the brain. I experienced some of them myself – and I observed more clearly to my daughter, who by the age of 12 was overexposed to multilingualism and forced to master daily three different languages. Our brain is both flexible – adapting to new sociolinguistic contexts – conservative – in relationship with the other languages, including our first tongue.

And I will give an example: we are aiming to learn a new language, for various reasons. By learning, direct practice, exercises, we could acquire the new skills in a certain amount of time. But, the linguistic structures already acquired, including our mother tongue, will be affected. If not used any more over time, we are forgetting the details of the grammar or our vocabulary is including funny and clumsy approximate translations from a language to another. During this process we can experience as well the unpleasant situation of blocking: we are unable to switch immediately, if ever, from a language to another. Or, the overexposure to a certain foreign linguistic environment create difficulties in recognizing what used to be once our familiar context. The social and psychological contexts are playing a very important role in our linguistic development – or blockage. A certain experience in relation with a certain event connected to a language might close the ways of communications in this language.

More we learn, the bigger our possibilities to make fast connections and to diversify our brain activity – with results including on our life-spam, according to recent studies. With influence on our deepest conscious and unconscious activities, as it is the case of dreaming. The strangest might be to dream in a foreign language without understanding the words you or the others present in the dream are talking. The intermediate level is, according with my understanding of the book, when you are able to tell and understand jokes in a foreign languages, meaning that you acquired a least familiarity and subtlety for juggling with significations. As for me, being able to read the newspaper is the best level you acquire before upgrading for having access to the language of the elites.

As well, being able to read and write on one hand, and being able to speak a language, however, are two different skills, not automatically inter-connected. In my case, for the non-European language I am in process of acquiring, I was able first to talk and understand the language of the street, but took me much more to read fluently while I am still facing problems in writing correctly. For the different alphabets the photographic memory might be helpful. I lived for one year in a Asian country and I was able to recognize a couple of disparate characters, only by over visual exposure – usual signs for "open", "closed", "metro", "street", the symbol of the currency etc.

The limits of our communications from a language to another are not exclusively limited to the cases when we have to switch from a system to another – as, such as, from a alphabet-based to a sign base. Not everything can be translated and for some cases the expression of privacy – in the case of Hindi a non-existent term – and feelings differs significantly. It is why we are assuming that some nations are "colder" and some are "warmer": we are what we talk.

My curiosities

The book opened me a series of questions and left unanswered a couple of curiosities. I don't find too much details about the experience of writing in another alphabet. Did she tried to? What are the transformations observed reading in a different writing universe.

The reader lacking expertise in Hindi is left frustrated with not acquiring any information about what it is this Hindi alphabet about. I found only one explicit about, at the end, when trying to read the terrible news about the killing of the journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. Do they read from left to right or from right to left? It is possible, as in Chinese or Japanese to read horizontally and / or vertically?

Maybe I would like to read and find out more also about the author's experiences with Hindi after this year spent in India: did she continue practicing? what happened with the linguistic luggage in her familiar cultural environment? Or did she start to learn other languages ​​too and how she connected this experience with the one of learning Hindi?

My plan was to dedicate one hour to this review. After three long and intensive writing hours, I am approaching "the last dot" moment with a certain shadow of regret. This book made me think about a couple of direct experiences, gave me some hints for reevaluation others and observing some evolutions in my future linguistic wanderings. Enough reasons for encouraging others to read it too and to start learning at least other foreign language than the one used by birth.

The way you market your book to the readers should be based on two things: your values ​​and the intentions for the book. If something feels slimy or inauthentic, don't do it. You should never let a bit of exposure destroy your values. Short-term gains that feel wrong seldom result in long-term growth as an author. They can also decrease your social capital.

Reach the Reviewers: If you really want to make the buzz in the market, then you have to reach to your readers and ask for the reviews. The Reviews of the book are nowadays very important and plays an important role in boosting up of the sale of the book. After reading your book, the reviewers can submit their thoughts on their personal blog or can also share them on social media.

Organize a Giveaway: Another free and easy way to market your book is to give sample chapters to the readers. You can do it by offering a pdf file out of your best chapters and give them to the readers and let them have the taste of your unique writing if your book story is likable by them, this will definitely put them to the buying page of your book. Think of this process as giving a chance to the readers to read the preface.

Organize competitions for distribution of Free Copies: Post the free competition about the book and let the readers know that you have written a book. You can organize competition through magazines, personal blogs, YouTube and paid Promotions.

Go Online: Another important tool to market your book is going online. There are many websites that provide free promotions to the newbie writers, if you are among them, then browse the internet for the same. Vowelor is one of the best online book platforms you can explore, where you will be provided with so many options to market your book in many different ways.

Ask your Near & Dear Ones: There is a very good saying which says Charity Begins at home. The best way to get the real response of the story is to ask your relatives for a rough read. You should get friends, colleagues, clients or anyone who likes your book to place reviews on Amazon and other online bookstores. Amazon is highly influential and the reviews matter so encourage anyone who says they enjoyed your book to place a review.

Ask for the Paid Reviews: There are many reviewers out there in the world of Social media who charge a minimal amount of money to review books. You can Hire 5-10 Reviews and ask them to put their genuine reviews on Amazon. The more reviews you on your Amazon Page, the more your book will be visible to the people in the best-selling category, and once it comes into that category, then automatically your book sales started to boost up. It will take time, but it is totally worth to wait for it. The Only thing you can make sure is to get the real response from the Reviewers.

The Sovereign Individual by James Dales Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg begins ominously, stating “The coming of the year 2000 has haunted the Western imagination for the past thousand years.” At that point the author goes on to state that the computer revolution is sure to subvert and destroy the nation state as globalization and cyber-commerce (not to mention cyber-currency) will slowly but surely diminish the power and influence of governments as regards taxation, politics, lobbyists and labor unions. Furthermore, the author states that even regulated professionals will lose their authority as talent becomes “democratized.” The workplace environment will give way to telecommuting, while citizenship will become obsolete. However, Davidson’s prophecy for the technology-fused future doesn’t end there. He also predicts that the 21st century (and onward) will produce its own medieval merchant republics that will form their own legislative proposals, mafias, covert agencies and criminal gangs.

Author James Dales Davidson isn’t ranting about doom though-he actually offers a very in-depth analysis of the world scene today-a world taken divided between financial freedom and financial control, all facilitated by the information age. In his book he writes on a possible societal transformation hauntingly reminiscent of the America of ancient days: the Roman Empire. He also compares the advent of digital technology to the revolution of gunpowder. The theme of it all? The rise of Sovereign Individual and the death of mass democracy as well as the welfare state. James Dale Davidson is the author of this controversial but politically piercing book about the dire effects of the informational age.

James Dale Davidson may already be known to you as an American investment newsletter writer, as well as the author of other issue-oriented books like The Great Reckoning and Blood in the Streets. He has co-authored all three books with William Rees-Mogg. Professionally, Davidson is the founder and former head of the National Taxpayers Union, and worked on the Arkansas Project against President Bill Clinton, as well as being an investor in NewsMax.com. Davidson went from graduating Oxford University and working as an assistant to serving as a chief financial officer and now a best-selling author. Indeed, the Sovereign Individual spawned a group called the “Sovereign Society” dedicated to individual financial freedom and libertarianism.

While Davidson’s book certainly has dark undertones, it is not a book of doom. The focal point is on how to survive and profit from the digital revolution-how to invest, find tax shelters, avoid criminal enterprises and even promote one’s own business on the Internet. “The Sovereign Individual” is Davidson’s most critically acclaimed book. The Library Journal calls The Sovereign Individual “visionary…strongly recommended for academic libraries.”

Readers have also expressed their appreciation for Davidson’s work, calling his book a must-read book for anyone that wants to avoid the coming crises and remain financially independent. Touchstone originally published this book in 1999 and now its predictions, once far-fetched, are gradually becoming a very real possibility, especially in lieu of the financial collapse of many banks in the USA and around the world.

You can still order The Sovereign Individual online (of course…who buys anything from a brick and mortar book store these days?) and see what all this 21st century hype is about!

In the mid-18th Century, Roman antiquities became popular by way of home decoration. Pots, bronzes and statuary recovered from archaeological sites were all sought after items. In order for the gentry to accommodate these (it was only the gentry who could afford to), their houses and or gardens needed to undergo a complete remodelling. As a result, their old furniture and decorative items were stored in outhouses, attics and relegated to use by the servants. It is these items, which are now so eagerly sought after.

In the early part of the 19th Century, people didn't collect things just because they were old. They may have collections of books, manuscripts, coins or maybe maps but furniture was for storage, sitting on or sleeping on and paintings were usually family portraits. Other items such as porcelain and glass were also purely functional. However, later that same century, with Queen Victoria's reign in full swing, her subjects began to take an interest in the origins of their possessions and that was the beginning of what we now know as the antiques industry.

The definition of "antique" originated in the 1930s when American customs officers needed a yardstick by which to judge whether duty was chargeable on works of art. As mass production of articles had begun some one hundred years earlier, an antique was deemed to be something more than one hundred years old. Today, however, the BBC's Antiques Roadshow defines an antique as "an older object valued because of its aesthetic or historical significance", in other words a collectible.

Obviously, there are those who deal in antiques for a living but even they may live a whole life in the field and never come across that elusive piece bought for a song and sold for a fortune. There are those, of course, who have what they call in the trade an "eye"; they have a natural ability to spot the "real thing" in the midst of a roomful of rubbish, but they are few and far between. For an amateur, the likelihood of striking it rich is even lower, so the best course of action is to collect what one likes. If one likes a piece, is happy to look at it on a daily basis and has paid a sum for it which one can afford, then it doesn't really matter whether it will bring an undreamed of sale price.

In most cases, an aged decorative item will increase in value. However, keen amateurs can disturb the market, as they did in the late 1980s, when Clarice Cliff pottery and lesser-known Impressionist paintings were in vogue. The market became flooded with the genuine and not-so-genuine and eventually, the bubble burst. It recovered in time of course, but too many people seeking items with not enough knowledge can cause a hiatus in the natural flow of buying and selling.

If he concentrates on one type of item; paintings, ceramics, furniture, etc., then an amateur has a greater chance of building up the knowledge needed not to be fleeced by unscrupulous dealers. Experience and knowledge can be gained by studying books and the objects themselves or better still hanging around with an expert. Even then, the diversity of styles and periods will take a great deal of learning and of necessity, information will overlap. For example, in order to fully understand English Georgian furniture and recognize it, one may need to study Louis XIV and XV furniture as well, for the purposes of comparison. There's nothing like experience, so the more time spent rummaging in antique shops and talking with the owners, the better.

If you see a book with a lot of reviews, does it make you want to buy it? If a ‘review’ simply says ‘it’s great’, or ‘buy this book’ is that enough for you to want to spend money to read the book?

A good book review will give the reader something to think about before they decide whether or not it is for them. Reviews are important to authors as certain algorithms show that the more reviews a book has, the more sales the book generates. Great books inspire readers so much that they want to talk about them and what better place to spread the word than to write a review and post it in a prominent place. Similarly, if you feel the author could have improved the book in some way, and you have some useful comments to contribute, leave a constructive review. If you feel disposed to write a review for a book you have just read, and aren’t sure how to do it, here is a simple guide.

Read the book. This seems obvious, but I have seen ‘reviews’ where people have said ‘I didn’t finish the book’ and then give it a very low rating. I have started some novels that are just so badly written that I can’t waste another minute of my time on them, but I just move on to the next book in my reading pile. If you don’t read the book, don’t leave a review.

Don’t feel obligated to give a glowing review. You can always tell the reviews that have been written by friends of the author. They usually have five stars and talk more about the author’s talent than give the reader any insight into the content of the book. Were you unsatisfied with the ending or did the blurb not accurately describe the story? For you to leave a review, the book must have had some impact on you, so state the facts simply and leave out the gushing adjectives.

Be constructive with your criticism. Whether you enjoy reading the book or not, there will be some people, places or events that stand out. If you feel there is too much dialogue, or not enough description, then say so in your review, but also point out anything you may have learned from reading the book or any characters that you could identify with in some way. Did the book make you laugh or cry? Was it a gripping read that you couldn’t put down? Did you like the author’s writing style? Whatever you say will have an impact on other readers and the author, so give your view but be kind.

Don’t leave a one sentence statement such as ‘it’s great’ or ‘buy this book’. It doesn’t help anyone.

As a reader, I have written reviews for a lot of great, good, and those-that-have-potential books. As an author, I have received a lot of great feedback in the form of reviews from people who have enjoyed my books. You get people who take issue with a particular subject because it offends their particular tastes, and that’s OK as long as they say that in their reviews. When I am looking to purchase new books, I look at the five-stars and the two-stars to get a good overview of readers’ thoughts.

Keep writing book reviews, but be kind, and if you can’t be kind just move on to the next book. A well-written book review will always be appreciated by an author.

Ever find a business book that is referred to again and again or that others say they re-read or continually use as a resource? So why not consider giving the business gift that keeps giving in the form of a good book? There are so many great new books and classic titles out there to meet every type of business need.

Below are ten unique ideas to consider as gifts that help with common business problems or provide for an individual’s professional growth.  These books are not listed in any particular order.  

1.  A book on how to give presentations can be used by any business professional to become a better speaker in front of co-workers or clients. 

2. Everyone can use more efficient and effective meetings, so a guide book on meeting management also makes a great gift for business team members or customers.  

3. Time management is important for any professional individual, so a book on this topic is often appreciated as even the best planner can get new ideas.  

4. If the person getting the business gift is a new manager, supervisor, or team leader, a book that will guide them in their new role may be an alternative to consider. 

5. Many professional individuals and teams need help setting goals and performance, as well as plans to achieve them. Therefore a goal-setting or planning book may be helpful.  

6. Conflict management or resolution is another business issue many individuals and teams may have to deal with, so this is another option to consider when looking for a gift book. 

7. Another business issue that often gets overlooked is communication. Consider books on improving interpersonal communication or writing business communications for those that may need this.   

8. Negotiations skills are important for salespeople, but books on this topic can also be helpful to other professionals as well.  

9. Most people like to think about how they can help their community as well as their own personal growth, so be sure to consider a book on making life matter or self-esteem as well. 

10. People who travel a lot for business are spend a lot of time waiting for meetings might find a book of essays or short case studies from other professionals a helpful and easy read since it can be taken in small amounts as their time permits. 

When considering the best business book to give, think about complaints or concerns the recipient has expressed in the past and look for a title on that subject or area. The person getting the book as a gift will appreciate the fact that someone remembered their problem as well as getting the gift.