Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Faces by Ed. Emberley

Super book - makes it very easy for children to learn drawing faces

Super book - makes it very easy for children to learn drawing faces using simple shapes like dot, line, wave, oval, triangle, square etc.

The step-by-step approach is really good as the kid can see all the steps that go into making a cartoon face. It does get a bit repetitive (for parents) after some time but then children do like repeating the drawings so no matter.

Good book but a bit expensive - the author could've included other concepts besides just faces though

Multiple Intelligences (New Horizons) by Howard Gardner

If I remember right Rajiv Malhotra describes that Howard Gardner derived his "Theory of Multiple Intelligences" from exposure to Indian thought on cognition. Like most Western U-Turners there is no credits section which acknowledges the source of these ideas.

If you've already read up multiple intelligences then this book might update you on newer findings, research etc.
The author is too roundabout in what/how he says anything. It's almost like he's too afraid to say anything which can be misconstrued.
Finally he ends up reading like a "Law Professor".
Esp. for a book on multiple intelligences.
Very few visual aids too many words.
I'd have expected something which utilizes multiple intelligences to put the point across.

Maybe his first book "Frames of Mind" is better. Don't know yet but as he admits in this book that the earlier work was written for scientists/colleagues rather than general public.

I guess he just gave people a "scientific" terminology for things that were obvious to teachers (i.e. people learn differently) but unbacked by "science".

"Secret Teachings of Plants" by Buhner Stephen Harrod

The Universe in a grain of sand.

This book is simultaneously mind-boggling and touchingly simple and direct.

It explains using every-day words of scientifically brain-washed readers (like myself) about gentler, simpler, wholesome and ancient paths of Nature. The only way to communicate is to use terms commonly used by the readers.

Where it breaths and beats to its own ancient rhythms.
The only way to resonate with Nature's beats is to listen closely for resonance within the self - the Heart. The way we all once did in the womb - tuned to our mother's presence.

The first half of the book has these "science" based analogies which stick-on in the mind days after reading the book. Contrasting with this is the world of Nature, filled with rhythms and cycles of growth and sustenance.

In fact the contrast is so high that it forces you to wonder where we're headed with this over-dose of Technology and Science.

The Author makes it quite clear where we're headed as explained in his other book: "The Lost Language of Plants".

See also "The Secret Life of Plants"

Learn to Earn by Peter Lynch

How to go about learning, investing and earning as you go.

You'll appreciate this book best if you're totally new to investments (esp. in stocks), though the range of discussion is so broad as to include all kind of background information on many areas. This kind of experience can only come from an expert in the field. So it should be quite informative even for non-newbies.

This book is superb as it has the personal feel of a one-to-one talk.
As if the reader is having a talk with an expert investor uncle on how to go about investing for the future.

By the end of the book you end up feeling more knowledgeable and insightful than earlier as you start seeing the connections and patterns which were otherwise invisible before.

See also other books by Peter Lynch/John Rothchild: "Beating the Street" and "One Up on Wall Street".