Asked for a recommendation for bizjournals.com holiday book guide I sent in: "From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East" by William Dalrymple Recommended by: Penny Herscher, president and chief executive of FirstRain. Why it's a must-read:"William Dalrymple's evocative descriptions of his journey give a profound context for the rapid changes happening in the Middle East today. This area was the cradle and center of Orthodox Christianity for the last 1,700 years, and it changed little for most of that time until the dramatic political [...]