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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....

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...

Valerie Polakow's Lives on the Edge Single Mothers and their Children in the Other America

children, Polakow says makes it seem as the nations elected officials and policy-makers think and act as if poverty seen is a priv...

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew's Blind Man's Bluff The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

had faded. Everyone was frightened when approached" (Weinberg 11). The result of their labors, the years of painstaking resear...

Langdon Winner's The Whale and the Reactor

and private lives. Indeed, our private lives are becoming very much less private due to the way in which the internet feeds off o...

The Roosevelt Presence The Life and Legacy of FDR by Patrick J. Maney

number of secondary sources listed and subdivided into ten chapters covering Roosevelts privileged youth, his marriage and growing...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

of her tormentor, Sir Hugo Baskerville. According to legend, a trio of men noticed that, "Standing over Hugo, and plucking at his...

Anglo Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson

In a book report that consists of five pages the novel is examined in an overview with characters and opinions regarding the text ...

Human Reproduction and the Views of Aristotle

The other part listens to reason "as one would listen to a father." Aristotle asserted that there was no absolute, objectively, ...

Go Tell It on the Mountain and Invisible Man Compared

This research report examines these two well known works. The element of time is highlighted in analyzing these books. This five p...

Jonathon Kozol's 'Savage Inequalities'

This 6 page book report provides a chapter overview and a discussion of the sociological theoretical perspective that the author p...

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman

In five pages this book report tutorial focuses upon 4 chapters of this autobiography by Richard Feynman. There are no other sour...

Darwinism v. Creationism

creationism. The intelligent-design hypothesis (ID) has also recently gained public attention because of a science textbook, Of Pa...

Katia M. de Queiros Mattoso's 'To Be A Slave In Brazil: 1550-1880'

This is a book report consisting of 5 pages. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography....

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

"black hole" theory of John A. Wheeler, the pull of gravity actually causes space to curve, and as a result, matter collapses whic...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Its Controversial Nature

because of its controversial position, and content, that children should not be required to read it, or have it read in class. In ...

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...

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...

Susan Forward and Craig Buck's Betrayal of Innocence Incest and its Devastation

1988 reprint of Betrayal of Innocence, Dr. Forward wrote, "I, too, had been victimized in a similar way by my father. I had kept...

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

from his name and his pursuits that he is something of a dishonest boy and a boy who will stop at nothing to gain some power and m...

John C. Maxwell's 'Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know'

agendas, personalities, and motivation toward a single and common goal. Truly successful leadership is the result of one person or...

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...

Jesus in the Qua-ran and in the Bible

is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...

Demons, the Answer Book by Lester Sumrall

of blaming the victim for not being spiritually "pure" is something that goes back to the Middle Ages when the plague was thought ...

Imperialist Rome According to Classical Greek Opinion

one that was organic and holistic in which philosophy, politics, and literature were considered . . . Imperial Rome would prove th...

Nisa The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak

life experiences represent a world that echoes the way most of humanity has lived for the vast amount of time that human beings ha...

The Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff

needs of all human beings and must be translated into the politics and philosophies of modern life. He emphasizes the need that hu...