My sister, three years older than me, was the one who introduced me to our town’s library. I was very proud that I could borrow books like the other people and I felt that I belong to their world. I still…
“There was an increasing obsession with the problem of age and how to avoid it personally, through diet, exercise, chemical formulas, plastic surgery, moisturizing creams, psychological defences, and outright denial– as early and as long as possible”. Nobody prepared me to…
Mark Twain “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” Even though I graduated from Textile University, I didn’t know a lot of things from this book. I was glad I had the opportunity to learn…
My friend Gabriela was the one who told me about Esther Perel and her book “Mating in captivity”. After I read it, I was lucky enough to listen to Esther Perel at a conference in Bucharest. While Esther was shocked to…
Lang Lang, the famous Chinese pianist, is telling us in his book the story of his life and how he became the world known pianist. “In China in 1991, a nine-year-old pianist had little hope for a career without attending the…
For his first Thanksgiving Day in the White House, President Barack Obama invited chef Marcus Samuelsson to cook the festive dinner. It was his primary mandate as the President of the United States and at that party were invited a lot…
“The STASI was the internal army by which the government kept control. Its job was to know everything about everyone, using any means it chose. It knew who your visitors were, it knew whom you telephoned, and it knew if your…
New York is a world in another world. The people who live in Manhattan represent a significant part of the wealthiest 1% of the richest in the world. Written by Wednesday Martin, an anthropologist with first-hand information about this particular world…
When I visited Singapore, I did not know about Lee Kuan Yew. The only things I knew were that it was a country with the Mussulman population predominantly, the economic growth was right and that the women were encouraged to work,…
I was extremely impressed by Barbara Walters’s career because she was the first female journalist in the USA that had her own talk show, but she was also the first female journalist that got one million dollars salary. We are talking…
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