Book Publisher and International Education Consulting Firm Agapy is a book publisher and international education consulting firm.
Book topics include education abroad, travel as a transformational experience, healthy-authentic-creative living from a cross-cultural perspective, travel fiction, and travel memoirs. Some of our books are best sellers in student travel guides. The name Agapy denotes a gregarious, creative, and versatile nature. We work closely with our authors to make their work shine. We also pay a higher than a
verage royalty. It can take anywhere from two months to a year to publish a book, depending on a variety of factors. If you have an idea or manuscript that you're interested in exploring, we can help you. International education consulting services for universities and institutes around the world include: strategic planning, campus internationalization, all areas of study abroad management and leadership, startups, international relationships, quality-driven program development, community collaborations, exchange agreements, faculty and staff development, faculty-led programs and procedures, student recruitment (U.S. and international), evaluation and assessment, accreditation for non-U.S. institutions, risk management, devising solutions to complex programs, and more.
Time for a rest -
“I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have, and I want to administer it intelligently.” –Ernest Hemingway I have medial epicondylitis on both elbows and only rest can heal me. I thought I could push through and...
Real Estate v. Nature -
“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” —Leonardo da Vinci There are endless things to read, watch, learn, and understand. Sometimes it’s our choice to learn things, just for fun, and....
The Oedipus complex in society -
“Our city—look around you, see with your own eyes—our ship pitches wildly, cannot lift her head from the depths, the red waves of death . . . Thebes is dying.”—Oedipus the King I didn’t watch the presidential debate, as I was prepping for my son’s graduation party. I heard about...
Narcissism is a natural parasitic process -
“Parasites are not our enemies; they are reminders of our precarious place in the natural world.” —Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex Last week I came across an article: America is the Narcissist of the World. Over the past few decades, extreme narcissism and other psychological disorders hav...
What are boys and girls made of? -
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”—Iris Murdoch I’m going through menopause, and I can tell you for a fact that I am not made of sugar, spice, and all things nice. Boys are not made of snips,...
Digital “Glitches” and Colleges Closing -
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” —Gerald R. Ford Last week, I opened my brokerage account and found one of my larger stock holdings down over 95 percent. I tried furiously to buy a...
U.S. Treasuries: From Yang to Yin -
“The world consists of Yin and Yang, and understanding this is crucial for anyone seeking to navigate life’s complexities.” Life is complicated. It seems that just when we think we’ve figured something out, the game changes. In Marketland, this usually starts with recency bias: a form of cog...
Is the USA becoming the former USSR? -
“Old Heraclitus, who was indeed a very great sage, discovered the most marvelous of all psychological laws: the regulative function of opposites. He called it enantiodromia, a running contrariwise, by which he meant that sooner or later everything runs into its opposite.” –Carl Jung There’s ...
To learn, or to unlearn, that is the question -
“It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” —Mark Twain When I went to visit my grandma as a young teenager, I remember showing off what I thought were my amazing superwoman skills. If you think I do...
On the difficult conversation we need to have… -
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” —Henry David Thoreau I woke up Wednesday morning to a message in my inbox from Dr. Toby Rogers on the difficult conversation we need to have with each other. In this post,...
Japanese Yen: The canary in the gold mine -
The global monetary system is a big blobby glob of sticky goo that somehow keeps on slugging along through endless waste and war. But stop what you’re doing and listen. Chirp, chirp, chirp…peep, peep, peep…chitter, chitter, twitter, twitter, TWEET! On April 30, Fortune published an article: Wh...
Albert Einstein’s Little Secret -
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”—Albert Einstein A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon an Einstein lecture by Douglas Hofstadter. He researches how we create analogies and how they permeate our languages and creative thought processes in physics and mathematics. In hi...
Balance Is Most Important -
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein I have never been a balanced human being, always struggling with extremism. I exercise too much. I work too hard. I eat too healthy. I take too many supplements. I focus too intently for...
Miners Makin’ Money -
“Gold—what can it not do, and undo?” – William Shakespeare I grew up in the 1970s and 80s. My dad was an environmental scientist with an obsession for gold. After he saw Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) with Henry Ford, he got himself an Indiana Jones hat, a bullwhip,...
Gold, Silver, or Bitcoin? -
“No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.”—The U.S. Constitution (Article 1: Section 10, Clause 1) Our Founding Fathers—Franklin (1706-1790), Washington (1732-1799), Adams (1735-1826), Jefferson (1743-1826), Madison (1751-1836), and Hamilton (175...
Collateral Is Not Debt -
“Gold is money. Everything else is credit.” —J.P. Morgan Last week, I had the opportunity to listen to a Steve St. Angelo interview, and it occurred to me that at some point in recent history, we edited reality and formed a new story that we then mistook for truth. Steve...
I was admitted to the hospital last week -
No grandma’s chicken noodle soup…no herbal teas, yoga mats, massages, workout gear…no green smoothies or turmeric shots…no vitamins or herbs…no communication…no continuity…and not much common sense. This week was the first time in my life that I’ve ever been admitted to a hospital fr...
A Healthy International Monetary System -
When I lived in Italy, my colleague used to point out a town to me that didn’t use money. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the name of the town, but it was on the way to Castiglione della Pescaia from our home in Badia a Passignano. It was quaint, small, and...
The Four Giants: Nvidia, Bitcoin, Dollar, and Gold -
“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.” —Isaac Newton In February, we saw something extraordinary—the price of gold was near all-time record highs, and the gold and silver miners were more oversold than ever before in history. There’s ne...
Stop Menticide Now -
When I was a college student at Indiana University in Bloomington, I often went to Collins Hall for lunch. Later I learned that Collins was where lived the infamous Jim Jones who led a mass su***de of 918 people in Guyana, on November 18, 1978. At his direction, followers in...
Are you sure want to save democracy? -
Something happened to me coming home from Malaysia. On my flight from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo, a skinny American gal with long straight black hair and big round glasses sat down next to me. She looked like a character from anime, so it didn’t surprise me when a moppy-haired Japanese...
Mystery of The Magnificent Seven -
It was my last night in Malaysia, on the way back from dinner. I stopped to get some fruit and a fresh coconut across the street from the hotel. While waiting for the salesman to harvest it for me, I couldn’t help but notice the contrast. To my left was...
Monkeys Like Me -
A few days ago, I saw a troop of monkeys meandering through the resort where I was staying in Langkawi. The resort was rather isolated and the food wasn’t super, but there were monkeys all over the grounds, and they weren’t afraid of us humans. Once in a while, I...
A Beautiful Woman -
I entered the dermatologist’s office with mild trepidation, having never had a total-body skin check before. Like many professional women here in Malaysia, the doctor was wearing a beige head covering, a tudong (Malay word for “cover”) with a matching jilbab (a long and loose-fit coat or outer...
My Exorbitant Privilege -
I opened my eyes, lifted the shade, and squinted out the window. A big, radiant sun was rising over a pristine white-washed city, surrounded by an army of idled cargo ships awaiting their call of duty. After seventeen straight hours of feeling like a canned sardine in my economy airplane...
Things are not as they appear -
I was looking into media psychology when my research led me to James F. Tracy, an ex-tenured Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He was fired in 2016 after accusing the government of hiring crisis actors for an incident that he didn’t think was real....
Repo and the Global Monetary Reset -
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquer...
The Land of Ounces (Oz) -
When I was a young girl, my family and I watched The Wizard of Oz every year. This timeless 1939 film was based on a 1900 children’s novel written by L. Frank Baum. Our culture now takes it for granted, but everything about this story is fascinating. What amazes me...
Beliefs, Perceptions, and Reality -
Few men have imagination enough for reality. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When majority rules, it feels like their beliefs and perceptions are grounded in facts, based on reality. But they are actually based on artificial constructs, on missing information, on things we don’t know and cannot see,...
The Three Gifts -
Merry Christmas! Today we celebrate a birthday in Bethlehem during the reign of King Herod. According to Matthew 2:1, some wise men from eastern lands arrived asking about the newborn king. They had seen his star and came to worship him. King Herod and everyone in Jerusalem was “deeply disturbed.....
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