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Michael Shaara's Killer Angels

the author notes, "the first troops of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee commanding...is an army of seventy thousand me...

The Craft of Investing

recommending two techniques he believes investors can use with reasonable success (3). First, he recommends buying "growth stocks...

What They Don't Tell You by Brown

p.103). In other words, the bible is real, but there are problems in its delivery. It is therefore seemingly wrong to argue everyt...

Richard Goode's Bach Concert Performance

Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor (BWV 826). Bachs Partitas are large, expansive musical compositions, which are comparable in length ...

Henry Petroski's The Pencil

Petroski notes this absence of information in Thoreaus list to point out how common pencils were, how they are often taken for gra...

Stephen King's Misery

well known novelist, would have called authorities. Annie does no such thing. Rather, she keeps him captive. During the time that ...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

Shiloh by Shelby Foote

other side. He had claimed "Id fight them if they were a million" (Foote 25). For the most part this section deals with Metcalfes ...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

The Cajuns by Bernard

In three pages this book report includes text summary, critiques its use of sources, discusses how it may be ordered and any other...

A Bell for Adano by Hersey

and goes so far as to shoot a peasants mule when it wont get out of the road so he can get through. He cloaks his foul temper and...

Kevin and Jackie Freiberg's Nuts!

retaliated by matching the $13 fare and offering a free bottle of liquor to anyone who paid full fare ($26) instead of the bargain...

George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky's The Power of Alignment

and Rosansky (1997) maintain that a well-deployed strategy is one that engages employees and customers alike, and draws a straight...

Red Midnight by Mikaelsen

through most novels, there are changes within the characters. Here, the main character or protagonist, is Santiago. At first, he ...

Hiroshima by John Hersey

not with him. Clearly, form the start of this compelling book, there is a face to the people of Japan. So many times, people think...

Hans Peter Richter's Friedrich

This book report tutorial on Hans Peter Richter's Friedrich consists of four pages. There are no other sources listed....

War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...

Michael Gurian's The Wonder of Boys

wrong. For the most part it appears as though Gurians work is focusing on how bad single mothering is for sons, and how mothers ...

Up Country by Nelson DeMille

may give information to the cause of the death and while Brenner has no idea why the military is so interested in the answer, he i...

McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom

Civil War. Battle Cry for Freedom McPhersons work covers, as mentioned, a great deal of subjects that directly involved the Ci...

17th Century American Economic Thought

The sole reason for a colony (in the eyes of the sponsoring Nation at least) was to provide greater wealth to the mother country. ...

Martin Rees' Our Cosmic Habitat

the question posed in his Prologue, "Could God Have Made the World Any Differently?" with a resounding, "Yes!" The author also ma...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

Brave Ship Brave Men by Arnold S. Lott

courtesy of the personal log book entries that comprise the narrative. The heart and soul of the story is May 3, 1945, which seem...

Frank Abagnale's Catch Me if You Can

really required to fly. He pretended to be a pilot for about 2 years and then moved on to pretending he was a doctor, with no on...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

The Paradox of American Power by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

difficult to keep in intervening in internal matters that may affect American security or revenues, but Nye suggests it is essenti...

Joseph Plumb Martin's Ordinary Courage

the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...

What My Heart Wants to Tell by Verna Mae Slone

about a life now gone. A Remarkable Family and Its History If there is any hesitancy about reading what is an unashamedly a...