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Book Report: Finance

evaluate expected future gain on the basis of present value. Assessing investment alternatives according to present value methods...

Conquest of Mexico

of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...

Hobsbawm/Age of Capital

subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...

Boylan’s “She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders”

transsexual individuals is that they do not feel that their true identity is fulfilled in being the sex they were born. Many strug...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

“Managers not MBA’s”

ate part of a larger team. In additional to this Mintzberg (2004) also argues that the type of people attracted to MBAs are not th...

Wiencek/On George Washington

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

Above All Earthly Pow'rs By David F. Wells

is only one truth and it is this truth that all Christian churches should be promoting. Citing another author, Wells reports that ...

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Goldratt and Cox

novel as the reader can not only relate to the characters life and his own personal struggles, such as within his relationship, bu...

Dan Brown: "Angels and Demons"

modern, the setting and the rising stars, were in the sky together ... As the rift between the spiritual and the material values w...

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird

was its initial audience?" The audience appears to be anyone interested in a first hand account of a place that they will likely n...

Karl Sabbagh Skyscraper

are decided benefits to a "fast track" situation. Developers are the guys who front the money for the building -- and theyre the o...

Woman and Man in Paul by Naubert Baumert

the other parts of this analysis. In part D, the final section of the text, the author avails himself of various other theological...

The Authoritarian Specter by Bob Altemeyer

is referring not to a political orientation, but rather to a general stance toward society. This is the same sentiment expressed ...

The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

as it is assembled by robots (27). While one part of the world is concentrating on "building a better Lexus," and is dedicated to ...

Shanghai Modern by Leo Ou Fan Lee

known political revolutions of this century. The movements principal focus was disdain for traditional Chinese culture, which was ...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma

but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...

Kathleen R. Fischer and Thomas N. Hart's Christian Foundations An Introduction To Faith In Our Time

relate their text to modern life. For instance, the authors discuss the fact that even though so many Americans have all of the ma...

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore's 'The Experience Economy'

Information is becoming a big component of the economic market as well. While at one time the consumer was dependent on informati...

Benjamin F. Schemmer's The Raid The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission

positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 ...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Thinking About Music, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music by Lewis Rowell

however, is preliminary, a basic orientation, if you will, before settling down to discussing the books main argument, which conce...

She Walks These Hills by McCrumb

those velvet petals...--they looked just the same as they had in Mamas old ditch garden up home" (McCrumb 39). Rather than being r...

A Review of Latin America at the Crossroads and Fast Forward, Latin America on the Edge of the 21st Century

"academic specialists, foreign policy analysts and practitioners, and those in the commercial banks and international lending agen...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Beirut Outtakes by Larry Pintak

The Muslims wanted more power and the Christians were doing their best to try to prevent them from achieving this goal. However, P...

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

for myself. I began to blame Danny, Butch and the Kid for my present fate...But then I thought, aw, hell, it wasnt their fault--as...

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

was an immediate celebrity. However, many racist whites and quite a few people in the black community were angered by his assumed ...