Latina Author Wins the Going-Back-for-Success Game in Business Publishing and Takes You on a Pleasant -- and Profitable -- Journey

Deborah Gonzalez, published by iUniverse, Inc., the leading provider of publishing technology solutions for authors, announced today the publication of her new book, "Laberinto: A Tool from the Past for Business Success Today" and the launching of her international book tour.

Edgewater, NJ (PRWEB) August 9, 2006 -- Deborah Gonzalez, published by iUniverse, Inc., the leading provider of publishing technology solutions for authors, announced today the publication of her new book, "Laberinto: A Tool from the Past for Business Success Today" and the launching of her international book tour.

When asked what motivated the subject of her book, Deborah Gonzalez answered: “Is it so surprising that in today’s business literature so many authors have looked back to the 15th century -- to Leonardo himself -- to find the secrets of success for today? Titles such as: “How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci;” “If Socrates Ran General Motors;” “What Would Machiavelli Do?” “Power Plays: Shakespeare’s Lessons in Leadership and Management;” “Elizabeth I as CEO;” are just the tip of the iceberg.

“As this very brief list above provides, business professionals are fortunate in this free market economy to be able to choose from a vast selection of historical figures as business gurus and role models including: Plato, Brunelleschi, Columbus, Copernicus, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Gandhi, Einstein, etc., etc., etc. But since we are talking business, and business books are fierce competition, and in this genre, the success of a business book is who can go back the farthest, I will beat them all by going back not to the 15th century or to the 1st century but to the beginning of man’s awareness of inner reflection -- prehistory (which is “the time before man had writing to give us history”) -- in fact, I will take you back to a time before words, when symbols was the only language humans needed to understand each other.”

And does it work? According to Dr. Andrew Raleigh, business entrepreneur and professor at Berkeley College in New Jersey, “Laberinto is one of the most interesting and innovative approaches to business success. A must-have for any business library.”

About "Laberinto"
"Laberinto: A Tool from the Past for Business Success Today" promises to bring the secrets and power of the laberinto into your professional life.

The following is from the Introduction:

"This most archetypal of symbols can be found all around us: from the folds of coral and the internal structure of the Nautilus shell to the queue settings of Disneyland rides; in the monastic library of Melk in the novel and film In the Name of the Rose and Dorothy’s yellow-brick road from The Wizard of Oz, to the hero’s journeys undertaken by Neo in the Matrix, Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings.

"This book is meant to bring the secrets and power of the laberinto into your professional life. It is divided into three parts. Part I covers Chapters 1–3 and gives you a brief history of the laberinto, where it comes from, the myths associated with it and how they relate to business today. Part II consists of Chapter 4, which describes how to use the laberintos provided in this book and Chapter 5, which contains 16 laberintos focusing on business topics (including marketing, human resource management, leadership, etc.) plus 1 bonus laberinto on business wisdom. Part III concludes the book with laberinto templates and a reference listing."

About Deborah Gonzalez, Esq.
Deborah Gonzalez is a renaissance executive with a background that combines business, legal and technology skills with hands-on experience. An accomplished attorney, business professional and university professor she is known for her ability to integrate history in to her business projects, finding new and innovative ways to explore how ancient tools can help her modern day clients achieve success.

Book availability
Author: Deborah Gonzalez, Esq., Executive Vice-President of Parker Associates International. ISBN: 0-595-40730-7, Publication Date: August 2006; $16.95; iUniverse; Trade Paperback; Available from: Ingram Book Group, Baker & Taylor, and from iUniverse, Inc. To order call 1-800-authors or visit www.iuniverse.com.

About iUniverse
iUniverse provides individuals a simple, fast and affordable way to publish, market, and sell fiction and nonfiction books. The company is one of the largest book publishing companies in the United States. iUniverse eliminates the necessity of massive print runs, dramatically shortens time-to-market, and gives authors control over when and how their works are published. iUniverse publishing programs are endorsed by industry leading author organizations, including the Authors Guild and the ASJA. iUniverse is a proud member of the Association of American Publishers, Publishers Marketing Association, and Small Publishers Association of North America. The company's major investors include Warburg Pincus and Barnes & Noble.

About Labyrinths
A laberinto is a self-contained unicursal continuous path leading to a center that leads back out again on the same path. It is usually circular in form but is not required to be so to be defined as a laberinto. It must however, adhere to certain basic conditions:
1) it must have an entry point that will serve as an entrance and an exit;
2) it must go in only one direction with no choices to be made and no obstacles to be overcome;
3) it repeatedly folds in on itself, leading you past the center a number of times;
4) it must have a center; and
5) the only way out is the path that led you in.

Laberintos or at least labyrinthine forms have been found on every continent except Antarctica – the list of countries is impressive: Germany, Egypt, Finland, India, Estonia, Jericho, Nepal, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, China, Ireland, Italy, Syria, Iraq, Australia, Spain, The United States, and Peru. The largest concentration of pre-modern laberintos are in Scandinavia. But modern ones outnumber the ancient paths left by our ancestors. Today there are over 1000 laberintos in the United States alone. Truly an international trademark – a symbol understood on its own.

Laberintos have been made from tiles, sea shells, turf, and paint and have been found on stone carvings, cave paintings, clay tablets, mosaic floor tiles, tree bark, Neolithic rock art, petroglyphs, pottery decorations, coins, graffitos, jewelry, floor pavements, stain glass, renaissance portraits and manuscripts. They have been located by the sea and between mountains; in medieval cathedrals and Pakistani mosques.

They have been used for protection in childbirth (India), to teach lessons, to offer hope of the afterlife, for prayer, to trap demons and evil spirits (Scandinavia), and even as Chinese temple clocks (hsiang lu) by being the form the powdered incense is burned in. They have been used as games (North African Zulu’s usogexe), as dance steps (Ancient Greek Crain Dancing) and as “dreaming tracks” of the Australian aborigines. It is even argued that they served in some form of astrological function or as calendars or maps. But how, we do not know. We do know they were used as substitutes for great cities – a pilgrimage to Jerusalem or as a reenactment of the great battle for Troy.

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