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The Craft of Investing

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Chapters 2 through 7 of The Transformation of Governance by Donald Ketti

A Jeffersonian tradition that celebrates Americas agrarian roots, that promote bottom-up government, and that seeks a weak executi...

Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO by Jack Welch and the GE Way

change. Chapter 3 - Cultivate Managers Who Share Your Vision Once you find individuals in the company who are as enthusiastic abo...

Stephen D. Brookfield's The Skillful Teacher

students are not approached as though they were adults, a reality that Brookfield sees as very damaging to the teacher and learnin...

Life Without Parole by Victor Hassine

guilty. However, Hassine did find a "voice." He happened upon some examples of prison authorship and realized that he "really di...

Jeanne Watkatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar

fit into the structure of a country that essentially considers her Caucasian, to a point, and her familys adherence to their Japan...

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...

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...

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...

Darwinism v. Creationism

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

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 ...

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...

Likely Interest Rate Change Assessment

the economy and will also reflect elements such as consumer confidence. Here there were positive signs and a general increase was ...

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...

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....

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...

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 ...