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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

The Confessions of Nat Turner

questions the institution of slavery but it is not until this turning point that Nat truly decides to rebel. In the fourth chapter...

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...

Hiroshima by John Hersey

not with him. Clearly, form the start of this compelling book, there is a face to the people of Japan. So many times, people think...

Hans Peter Richter's Friedrich

This book report tutorial on Hans Peter Richter's Friedrich consists of four pages. There are no other sources listed....

Gangs of America

The book goes into other companies through history such as the railroad and U.S. Steel. It is a work that examines how the corpora...

Kurt Eichenwald/The Informant

than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it i...

Synoptic Gospel Problem

means together with and optic means seeing.4 Other scholars have simply translated the word synoptic as meaning with the same eye....

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Discovering the Women in Slavery Edited by Patricia Morton

1817. While a master could lawfully punish a slave, using his own discretion and judgment, state law established a limit and that ...

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...

Book Two of Essay on Human Understanding by John Locke

On five pages this report considers Locke's subdivision of human ideas into relations, modes, and substances within the context of...

Howard Zinn and the Civil Rights Movement

This research report looks at this era but focuses on one book called A People's History of the United States. This five page pape...

The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell

In five pages this report examines the book by Paul Fussell in terms of the impact of the First World War upon attitudes and human...

Growing Up With Language by Naomi Baron

A book report of Baron's text is presented in eight pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Satisfied with Nothin' by Hill

In three pages this book report considers the text's plot, racial themes, and problems with sports reliance as a primary objective...

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 ...

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...

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...