Reading Groups Guide

2. The Love Poetry Of John Donne: Part 1 Of 3 - By: Ian Mackean
John Donne's Songs and Sonnets do not describe a single unchanging view of love; they express a wide variety of emotions and attitudes, as if Donne himself were trying to define his experience of love through his poetry. Love can be an experience of the body, the soul, or both; it can be...

3. Book Club Recommendations - By: Michael Russell
Youre away from your literate friends who have similar reading tastes, youve been out of school for quite some time, and you dont have access to a hip librarian or brick-and-mortar bookstore or informative publications like the New York Times Book Review. But you are hungry for some good literature...

4. Book Club Recommendations - By: Michael Russell
Most of us have groups of friends that wed like to see more often, but we just dont get a chance to get together as much as wed like to. Though it may sound strange, most people need or want some sort of an excuse to get together, from planning an event to having dinner together. One great way to ...

5. The Beat Goes On At Palm Springs Beat Hotel - By: Michael Russell
The Beat Goes On at Palm Springs Beat Hotel Read Jetsetters Magazine at www.jetsettersmagazine.com To read this entire feature FREE with photos cut and paste this link: http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/jetezine/hotels/calif/psprings/beat/beat.html The Beat Ho...

6. Publish A Book - By: Michael Russell
Some of us are writers from the moment we hold our first pencil, through the chewed pencil years, into the typewriter and then computer ages to the publishing and teaching years. A dream, no, a need, to publish a book takes us into literature and MFA programs in college, to reading, researching, pr...

7. Marketing Research Types - By: Kurt Mortensen
All marketing research falls into two basic categories: secondary and primary. Secondary research involves literature searches, article reviews and analysis of existing, available data. While secondary research is limited to the information you have on hand, it is usually much cheape...

8. Book Shops - By: Michael Russell
Book Shops One of my favorite activities is browsing round book shops. Even in Prague and Rome, I wandered in to look at the books, unable to understand a word. I love the atmosphere and the air of scholarship. A lot of book shops have coffee areas now, where you are allowed to look at a ...

9. Consultants Say The Darndest Things! - By: J. Douglas Jefferys
Part of being in the presentation skills training business is keeping up with current findings and new literature in the field. As any modern day researcher (read: web surfer) knows, this can consume huge amounts of time as each interesting looking hyperlink leads to another, and anothe...



10. How Ionic Calcium Influences The Function Of Our Body - By: George Meinig
The subject which occupied most of Dr. Price's research time was the multiple roles calcium plays in the functions of the body. These Studies virtually forced themselves upon him as medical and dental literature contained little information about calcium and its important functions....

11. Comic Art - By: Michael Russell
I know the most fanatical comic book collector. I would say that he is my friend if I could, but truth be told, I find him kind of annoying. He is actually surrounded at all times by comics stacked floor to ceiling in his apartment, and that is no lie. Since he was very young, it seems that his sole...

12. Promoting Your Poetry Book - By: Rose Desrochers
At long last your book is finished. As a self-publisher poet it is up to you to market your anthology or chapbook. Self-publishing requires you to self-market successfully. Marketing your book can become a full time job and it isnt going to happen overnight. So you might be asking yourself, Where do...

13. Bachelor Degree: Literature - By: Michael Russell
A bachelor degree student who studies literature learns to think creatively and critically.  You interrogate texts not because you have nothing better to do but because literature affords you powerful glimpses of lived experiences and philosophy in action.  When you study literature, you a...

14. A Brief History Of Astrology - By: Michael Russell
Do you read your daily horoscope? Sometimes it seems that it is difficult not to read it, since it seems to jump at you from each newspaper you read or webpage you open. Yahoo has in its calendar section your daily horoscope, and Google provides you with it at a click. You can get it over the phone....

15. Get Those Sleeves-rolled-up - By: Michael Russell
One important bit of planning for the brainstorm session is the invitation. Usually it's a good idea to phone first a week ahead and make sure the people you want are clear for the time you have planned. Since each panel is a small, specially chosen group, it can be disastrous if several members are...

16. Audio Books - Taking The Market By A Storm - By: Michael Russell
The age of card catalogs and going to the library to check out stacks of books, spending hours each day sitting and reading has become a thing of the past for many people.  Have people just quit absorbing information?  Do they no longer desire to know about the world around them?  Wel...

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