Know How Skills: 61 books

Life is unpredictable. How someone life is developed no one knows, or could predict. All depends on circumstances, fate, and environment.  They shape the person’s destiny. The author, a structural engineer, went to work in post colonial Africa, to help African countries to build their independence. In...

Look at the messenger: who is he? Whose interest is he pursuing? This statement, or life skills, my wise grandmother taught me when I was disappointed about other people: their behavior, intentions, actions, and attitudes. In this story I am applying the above axiom, or statement, as a starting point for my health problems that I started encountering as I started getting older. 

Comediante or Tragediante? Laugh or Cry? —in the 19th century a new form of literature and plays was born, comedy-tragedy in English. The play combines 2 great human emotions, comedy and tragedy, into one. To laugh or to cry, or do both at the same time, laughing through tears. In 1804, Napoleon...

How to Calculate Interest Earned on Money—is an essential tool, or skill, to use every day in order to be money wise and be a powerful person.  This story is teaches this tool, actually it gave a simple formula. The story is using real examples how to calculate earned interest in money accounts,...

How American women, after the passage of the Civil Act of 1964, took a risk and an opportunity —to fail or succeed on their own terms? Millions entered the labor force to compete with men in hostile working environment. How and why such victory wonder happened for the women?  How American...

This short story describes a real life example of an innovation. Here the author on her real life example guides readers on how to design innovations—starting from the idea—to the prototype and then—to  implementation of the final product/service. What are innovations? A simple definition...

After African continent throughout colonial power, thousands of engineers, technicians from all over the world, and the Peace Corp volunteers from the United States, went to work in Africa to help them to build their countries independence. During that time there were a lot of excitement and...

What is a natural cure for her headaches, migraines, peripheral neuropathy, and fibromyalgia? Earlier civilizations developed knowledge and information by observing natural world around them. Even today, less developing countries are relying for all their health cures on herbal natural medicine....

The Soviet Union disintegration in 1991 was a curse and not a blessing for the USA and the Western Europe. Their economies eventually spiraled down due to rampant laws of a fee market economy, categorized by "expansion in all directions without any restrictions." The USA is sinking...

On October 4, 1957, history was made. The Soviet Union Lunched Sputnik. Sputnik’s impact on the world and the USA was colossal, impressive, and unprecedented. And the space programs and arms races between the Soviet Union and the United States began. Find in this story how space programs...

It is astonishing to see how 2-year old children are intelligent. They even designed specially their natty behavior to test grandparents’ patience. How much they could push grandparents and get away with it. What a blessing to be a grandparent, provided one has access to grandchildren. Grandchildren...

When the author was a student, she and her friends loved the Maslow’s theory that they learned in one of their economics classes.  The theory has 5 steps of the “Hierarchy of Needs.” or “A Theory of Human Motivation.” The 1st step, or the lowest is—the most fundamental, basic physical...

For the USA to recover from today’s financial crisis it needs a noble President and a  decent, selfless, and nationalistic government who knows how to solve national problems.       Today the American middle class, that was a foundation of the nation, has disappeared.  The USA...

From the beginning the new America become an inspiration and attraction for all emigrants from the Old World. To become a millionaire was everyone’s dream—the American dream. A new concept of the American millionaire has developed, where everyone can become a millionaire in the USA in a traditional...