Cosimo is proud to announce the publication of Reading Baby Toes: What Your Baby’s Toes Know That You Don’t, by Imre and Margriet Somogyi, our August book of the month:

Every parent wonders, while looking down at their newborn child, what kind of person he or she will grow up to be. This book can help parents answer that question without waiting a dozen years or more for the child to grow up. Imre & Margriet Somogyi’s research as led them to believe that parents can learn to read their baby’s toes for clues to their personality and behavior. “We came to realize that the toes symbolize the many facts of our personalities. Not only is their shape important, butso are their various features and positions.” By learning how to read baby toes, not only will parents be able satisfy their curiosity about their newborn, but this knowledge will provide parents with a tool that will allow them to better understand their child’s earliest stages of life and development and help them optimize their child’s full potential, allowing him or her to develop into a healthy and well-balanced individual.

Imre Somogyi is a journalist and producer at Dutch Radio & Television. Margriet Somogyi worked as a medical assistant at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Both authors have been active polarity therapists and teachers.

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The Cosimo Classic of the Month: The Travels of Marco Polo, by Marco Polo:

It was perhaps the first book to achieve best-seller status before the invention of the printing press — it was certainly the most controversial. Did Venetian trader and explorer Marco Polo (1254-1324) actually reach the court of Kublai Khan, serve the emperor as his emissary, and journey the distant lands of Cathay for 17 years, as he relates in his Travels of Marco Polo? The question still hasn’t quite been settled today… but whether Polo experienced firsthand the wonders of ancient China, retold tales he heard from Arab travelers along the Silk Road, or simply invented half his stories, this remains a delightful read for fans of history, adventure, and medieval literature. The new edition features illustrations from a 14th-century French version of Polo’s manuscript.

The Cosimo Kindle of the Month: The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy:

He is considered one of the greatest novelists in any language in all of human history, but Leo Tolstoy was also an influential social reformer and peace advocate. Subtitled “Christianity Not as a Mystical Teaching but as a New Concept of Life,” this powerful exploration of the preachings of Jesus from a pacifistic perspective. First published in 1893, it introduced such important 20th-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King to the concept of nonviolent resistance. This edition is vital reading for anyone wishing to understand the history of protest around the world or gain a deeper appreciation of pacifistic Christianity.

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