–By Sagar Satapathy

Welcome to the Festival of Good Books. We have selected some interesting and useful posts for the inaugural edition. Here are those posts in the order they were received.

Rebecca Newburn presents TeacherTube, An Educational Alternative to YouTube posted at Information Age Education. An educational alternative to YouTube is now available.

Vahid Chaychi presents Online Degree in Fashion Designing - Two Reputed Universities posted at WhoLearns.com. Fashion Designing is a very wide subject and specialization is an important part of doing a degree online or otherwise.

Ririan presents Four Profound Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz posted at Ririan Project. In his most famous and influential work, The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz offers his apprentices these four simple yet profound agreements as important tools on the path to personal freedom.

Adam presents Invasion of the Gatekeepers posted at Sophistpundit. The Vision of the Anointed is as sharp in analysis, and eloquent in prose, as is expected of Sowell. It takes on those ideologies that insulate themselves from the consequences of inaccuracy, as well as the rhetorical tactics employed by people in the place of real debate.

Julie Dunlap presents Thoreau-ly Useful posted at Pines Above Snow. All 20 volumes of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau are now available online, thanks to the Walden Woods Project.

Laurie Bluedorn presents Penrod posted at Laurie Bluedorn. Penrod Schofield is twelve and has been volunteered by his mother for “The Pageant of the Table Round” in which he is to play the Child Sir Lancelot du Lake. He gets himself into a mountain of trouble when he exchanges his gaudy costume of castoff silk stockings and flannel long-johns for the janitor’s overalls. This is one of those books which will cause you to lose your dignity and roll about the floor laughing hysterically.

Gracchi presents Martyrdom in Islam posted at Westminster Wisdom. Cook’s book is an interesting introduction to a fascinating subject, religion. Its well written, its short and provides a wealth of fascinating detail.

Hueina Su presents The Most Important Relationship in Your Life posted at Intensive Care for the Nurturer’s Soul. Most people are either looking for love in all the wrong places, or entering/staying in a relationship for the wrong reasons. There is one single most important relationship you need to work on, in order to ensure happiness in all of your other relationships. Don Miguel Ruiz has a very powerful analogy in his book "The Mastery of Love".

That concludes the first edition of the Festival of Good Books. Keep submitting your posts to the future editions of this carnival. Thank you for your support and contribution.