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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Ideas From Two Books on Terrorism

met numerous times to discuss the possibility of attacking nuclear power plants and using chemical warfare in other venues, which ...

Bennis and Nanus and Kouzes and Posner

Most academics promote the premise that one is born with leadership ability or not but management can be taught. When he discusse...

Why Teams Win: 9 Keys to Success in Business, Sport, and Beyond by Saul Miller

health care and the arts is when teams achieve a "synergy of intelligence, energy, talent and spirit" (Miller, 2009, p. 8). Mill...

Meat-Eating or Not

This report is based on a book by Pollan entitled the Omnivore's Dilemma. The writer poses two issues: the cruelty of farm animals...

Place, Space, an the 'Infobahn' in City of Bits by William J. Mitchell

A book report on City of Bits by William J. Mitchell consists of five pages and considers the pervasive social and individual infl...

Information Superhighways Multimedia Users and Futures by Stephen J. Emmott

This book report consists of five pages and considers various types of multimedia applications available in computer technology. ...

Constitutional Convention of 1787

This report includes a quote from each of the four parts in Collier and Collier's book. The writer explains why that excerpt stood...

Corruption in China

In his book, Ariely gives the example of an accountant who was directed to change a report to make it sound better. This goes into...

Sharon Hambrick, Arby Jenkins

This book review is on a juvenile, Christian novel that features a funny, charismatic sixth grader. The write assumes the persona ...

Ancient Jewish Leaders

The major challenge in constructing histories of Israel and Judah is the fact that they were individuals but they also had cities ...

On Our Own

This essay offers a brief report on the first five chapters in a book entitled, On Our Own. America in the Sixties. It takes the r...

Soccerhead

Americans but that is not the game that was imported into the states. He speaks of a man, from the 20s, called Billy "The Big Bomb...

The Glass Castle

This setting moves, however, to West Virginia where things truly crumble. The father, who grew up in this town, seems to be immedi...

Spurgeon's Lectures

they must learn and use good English because if they use poor grammar the audience will remember that and not the Gospel lesson th...

How to Preserve the Earth's Environment According to Al Gore

In a report that consists of five pages the environmental position of Vice President and 2000 presidential candidate Al Gore are c...

Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa

Nothing is quite what it appears in this novel, least of all the characters or the plot. For example, the main character, Police...

The Censorship of Catcher in the Rye

A book with a long history of censorship is JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. This novel is discussed in depth along with the atte...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey - Comparing the Novel with the Film

This research report compares and contrasts this well known work. How the film differs from the book, and how similarities are inc...

In Harm’s Way by Doug Stanton

of the work is involved with events as the ship sunk and after the sinking. It is titled Sunk and is comprised of chapters four th...