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SUZE ORMAN AND BOOK REVIEW

paying upwards of 10% on interest for credit cards verses the paltry 3% or 4% that one earns on a savings account, this is a solid...

Where the Red Fern Grows

"I asked him not to say anything to my father. He promised me he wouldnt" (Rawls 20). He finally has enough money to buy the puppi...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

and reinforcement. In her case, this led to fairly early experimentation with sex and drugs. Lamott doesnt sensationalize her exp...

Book Industry Approaches to Communication Technologies

communication technologies have led to our age being branded the "Information Age". What this means in todays business environment...

Emerging Christianity in the Book of Acts

have had too much wine" (Acts 2:13). Peter addresses the crowd, pointing out that the men are sober and relating this mira...

Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber

nations universities, in order to stay viable financially, have placed undue emphasis on their sports programs, utilizing a perspe...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

Freakonomics The Truth About the Economics of Dealing Drugs

Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or...

Orlando Beyond the Theme Parks - A Book Proposal

be updated on a regular basis. However, the majority of these travel books focus is exclusively, or predominantly, on the two majo...

The Day of Battle - Rick Atkinson Looks at the Italian Campaign

on whether or not to invade Italy; its quite another to read about the meeting between FDR and Churchill, the dickering that took ...

Hunter Thompson and The Hells Angels

topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...

Book Reviews China's Growth

regular basis. One story is very nearly unbelievable. A young woman took her application to college tests and was informed that sh...

Geraldine Brooks and the Lessons of History

that the flight attendant had "one of those big, perfect German smiles" and referring to her a few lines later as Fraulein Smiley-...

Introduction to Evangelism by Alvin Reid

chapters in the first two sections and eight in the final section of the book. The first section covers ministers and church leade...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

A Review of Mindfulness

very powerful truth. So often we rely on the information we learned as children, never stopping to examine the possibilities. And,...

Literature and the Transition from Middle Ages Feudalism to the Industrial Era

is filled with allegorical references to the time of chivalry and has been described as an allegorical epic. As outlined in the i...

Attitudes and Free Will in the Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost by John Milton

in clear opposition to what is found in Genesis. The student will want to point out that Adam and Eve can easily relate...

Self Identity and Doug Coupland's Shampoo Planet

the environment and is torn by the pollution that has almost destroyed Lancaster. On top of it all, he doesnt understand his pare...

Unorthodox Writings of American Poet James Merrill

blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...

American Society in Literature

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

Monocrief, Squire and Jewell: Who Runs for the Legislature

This 5 page paper reviews the book Who Runs for the Legislature by Malcolm E. Jewell, Gary F. Monocrief and Peverill Squire. The w...

George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism in Harry S. Stout's 'The Divine Dramatist'

This is a book review consisting of 5 pages. A 5 page paper which provides a book review of Harry S. Stout's "The Divine Dra...

Point Counterpoint by Aldous Huxley

In a paper that contains seven pages the book's style, subject, and changing story pace are explored and a character analysis is a...

William Wordsworth's The Prelude

In five pages Book IV and Book IX of William Wordsworth's The Prelude are thematically compared. There are no other sources liste...

Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life by J. William T. Youngs

not only who she was as a person, but to also put her contributions and her legacy into a proper perspective. The book details sp...

An Analysis of The Myth of Self Esteem

self-regard, not egotism" (Anonymous The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Rosenberg.html). But, it is only one aspect of the notion of ...

Net.Gain by John Hagel and Arthur Armstrong

In five pages this paper provides a textual analysis of the book by Hagel and Armstrong and also compares it with James Lewis' pro...

Globalization as Envisioned in The Lexus and the Olive Tree

identity and place that is important to cultures all over the world. Friedman pictures these two elements as coexisting in the pre...

A Review of Getting to Yes Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

A 5 page review of the the book Getting to Yes Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. This paper highlights the usefulness of t...