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Hot off the press! 2 Books to Help Immigrants Succeed in America; now available at immigrantsuccess.com and amazon.com
Two new books, one a success guide and the other, a companion book of quotations, are grabbing the attention not only of prospective immigrants but also of long-time immigrants to America. The books include aspects of finding legal status, health, family, education, career, finance and business issues as well as the all important considerations of what success really means for the immigrant to America. Buy the books now.
Glendale, CA (PRWEB) February 20, 2004 --With President Bushs broad and sweeping outlines of how immigration is to take shape in the near future and with the coming national elections, immigration is once again at the forefront of what may reasonably be expected as a heated national debate. Immigration remains to be one hot issue that will forge how America transforms itself in this century. What may be lost in the shuffle and the endless political discussions is the view of immigrants as real people with challenging lives and with the same concerns just like the average Joe.
Glendale, California author, Monette Adeva Maglaya, has spent the last 11 years observing the immigrant way of life and has published two books that address immigrant concerns: The Complete Success Guide for the Immigrant Life: How to Survive, How to Thrive, How to be Fully Alive" and its companion book, The Immigrants Little Quote Book for Success - 1001 Brilliant Nuggets of Wit and Wisdom from the Best Men and Women who ever Trod the Earth." The Success Guide is meant to help immigrants in their search for those ways of thinking, doing and being that enable them to succeed through the progressive and sequential phases of surviving, thriving and evolving to become positive contributors to America through the seasons of their immigrant lives. The authors love for America is palpable in both books. The Success Guides tiny companion is a compelling book of quotations. While primarily intended for the immigrant soul, the quotations selected benefit native born Americans as well. This portable quote book, of the same size as the phenomenally successful Dont Sweat the Small Stuff" series by Richard Carlson, is proving to be increasingly popular among the younger demographics-teenagers and young adults just starting out on their own.
The books are hot off the press and are available online at immigrantsuccess.com and the amazon.com website. Early indicators suggest that the books are timely and relevant to the times for they answer a genuine and festering need that has been building up to critical mass for a long now. That need, up until now, has largely been glossed over, even ignored. Public interest in the books are strong not only among prospective immigrants overseas, but also among the crop of new arrivals to America. Surprisingly, the books have readers even among well entrenched immigrants who have lived in America for decades. Even native born readers of the books have found insights that are uplifting and inspiring. America, as a unique and beautiful concept of what constitutes a nation, is seen with fresh, appreciative eyes and a grateful heart. Numerous inquiries about editions in Spanish and Chinese have led the publisher to move up the timetables of foreign language editions in order to reach a wider and viable readership. While it may be argued that there may have been other books in the past that attempted to address immigrant concerns, these are the first books of their kind told in a direct, easy to understand, no nonsense writing style that gets to the root of the matter. These are books that talk" to immigrants of most ethnic backgrounds to help them make sense of an infinitely challenging way of life.
The books urge readers to use their intuition as they attempt to learn from the wisdom of those who have gone before them and have gone through the same process. Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data," the futurist John Naisbitt wrote in his seminal work, Megatrends." The Information Age has made available a volume of information that is unprecedented and simply staggering. The result? Many simply tune out. Now more than ever before, immigrants need to develop their smarts-a gut level intuition for discernment-that must serve as the enchanted sword that cuts through the thorny thicket and brambles of the dark, confusing jungle of the Information Age. The increasing reliance on media and technology can make men lose those latent, natural and homegrown instincts for survival already present in their genetic makeup. Nature and evolution subscribe to an immutable law when it comes to instincts, abilities and other natural gifts-USE IT OR LOSE IT. The concept is simple enough to understand. Use the calculator even for simple math operations, and pretty soon, the brain turns to mush, experiencing difficulty in solving elementary math problems without the use of a mental crutch.
If the immigrant is to harness those built-in instincts to help him endure, survive, thrive and become fully alive in the Promised Land called America, he needs to rely and cultivate those instincts that tell him how to winnow the chaff from the grain; how to peel off the blinders so he can see truth from bunk and hone those senses that equip him with the ability to discern quite incisively and precisely, the things that are essential to his own immigrant life.
By knowing what to seek, the immigrant can learn the smarts and develop the soul that can help him to endure and survive the early years; even move on to thrive in the rich American sociocultural soil and with luck, perseverance, experience and time, eventually dwell upon that wonderful state of grace of living a life of purpose and meaning that contributes to his adoptive country. Few other kinds of success matter as much. Many concepts in the Success Guide readily apply to both immigrant and native-born. Of the two, the immigrants situation is more at risk simply because there is always an inherent weakness in transition. A transplant to a new soil needs to survive the drastic change. He needs to learn how to walk first before he can run. He needs to go through the learning curve first before he can even begin to flesh out his hopes and dreams in America.
Digging deeper beneath the grossly apparent cultural differences and the color of skin among many ethnicities, the author finds a palpable, common thread running through the lives of an untold number of immigrants-an entire range and depth of curiously similar beliefs, hopes, aspirations and dreams about life and living that are nurtured with quiet passion, deep commitment and keen intelligence. Underneath the seeming fragmentation is a common soul seeking wisdom and guidance in living a meaningful and worthwhile immigrant life in a country that is evolving like no other.
About the Author: Monette Adeva Maglaya is an observer who writes about the immigrant way of life in America. Starting as an assistant editor for a series on Shakespeares works three decades ago, she has since meandered about and worked in a career that included being editor, teacher, seminar speaker, researcher, public relations specialist, sales executive and consultant in the fields of education, advertising, public relations, marketing and sales. She has come full circle and now divides her time between her family and writing. She moved from the Philippines in the mid-nineteen eighties and with her family, lives in Glendale, California.
Book Details:
Two Books for Immigrants to America
Title: The Complete Success Guide for the Immigrant Life
Subtitle: • How to Survive • How to Thrive • How to be Fully Alive
Author: Monette Adeva Maglaya
ISBN: 0974110299
Category: Reference/Success How-to/Immigration/Citizenship
Length: 320 pages
Retail price: $19.95
Size/Binding: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 Perfect
Graphics: Original halftones
Features: Americana Chapter dividers ; Quotation call-outs/footers
ON SALE at: http://www.immigrantsuccess.com
http://www.amazon.com
A Companion book to The Success Guide
Title: The Immigrants Little Quote Book for Success
1002 Brilliant Nuggets of Wit and Wisdom
from the Best Men and Women who ever Trod the Earth
Edited by: Monette Adeva Maglaya
ISBN: 0974110280
Category: Reference/Immigration/Citizenship
Length: 224 pages
Retail price: $11.95
Size/Binding: 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 Perfect
ON SALE at: http://www.immigrantsuccess.com
http://www.amazon.com
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