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The Republic and the The Laws by Cicero

in the traditional of Aristotle and Plato, but to do so in his native Latin and to address such matters as "moral education and ...

Thomas Bell's 'Out of This Furnace'l

may be that he hoped he was likewise leaving behind the endless poverty and oppression which were the birthrights of a Slovak peas...

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway's We Were Soldiers Once… and Young

battalion (2/7) in order to hold off the plentiful Peoples Army of North Vietnam (PANV). The following morning, the Peoples Army ...

Road to Malpsychia by Joyce Milton

the importance of self-esteem has misdirected society at-large and proposes that Christian fundamentalism is more successful at ov...

Slavery, Sabbath, War and Women by Willard Swartley

23). The author realizes that certain readers may wish to find definitive answers on the controversial issues explored, but Swartl...

A Review of Spiderwoman's Granddaughters

usually considered a teacher, or guide. The point is that the stories in this book use a great deal of symbolism, perhaps because...

Hunger's Dolot's Execution

of killing Jews. It was the fault of the government, and not an unfortunate or inevitable event. While the thesis is controversial...

Modernization as Ideology by Michael Latham

by scholars associated with the Kennedy Administration, such as Walt Rostow and Marion Levy. Latham shows how the heightened state...

A Review of Reframing Organizations

with a brief glimpse into history, into a snip of time where leadership and management decisions were at their utmost importance. ...

Faith and Freedom by Afkhami'

it also appears that many of the writers are quite knowledgeable about the Muslim world and everything comes to the table first ha...

Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner

as subject to social trends as his peers, recounts how he remained somewhat detached by not becoming a Nazi. Nevertheless, he also...

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory by Randall Balmer

are both liberated and trapped" by the piety of evangelical religious practice (Mudder). As someone who was raised in this subcu...

From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss Jr.

of race riots and voices rising in protest, led by such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois. An ad placed by the NAACP in several ...

Fields of Fire by James Webb

The reader meets Snake as he rationalizes mugging a patron at the movie theatre where he works. Snake assaults a man who is so sto...

Seven Habits of Stephen Covey

Likewise, his conclusions are logical and naturally fit with the reality of his readers. For example, Covey (1989) indicates that ...

Strong Congregations by Kennon Callahan

qualities that he identifies as intrinsic to small, strong congregations as the foundation for his chapters, building upon these t...

Chapters 4 through 7 of The Transformation of Governance by Donald Ketti

The position of Wilson, from his 1887 text "The Study of Administration" and supported by Goodnow, was that administrative practic...

The European Miracle by E.L. Jones

as Asians, "would have adjusted its breeding strategy accordingly" (Jones 20). Jones argues that while disasters and war struck ...

Karen Armstrong's Buddha

happy married life. However, Siddhartha Gotama started to question what he observed in the world. At the time, it was accepted tha...

King Leo's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

his rights to the Congo--his personal rights. The region only became known as the Belgian Congo and was ruled by the Belgian gover...

1776 by McCullough

sense of completion after each portion. Further, the chapters do flow well into one another within the distinct parts. The book a...

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

Henry Petroski's 'Small Things Considered'

different ways. Another, even more important point is that good design isnt perfect design; indeed, there is no such thing as perf...

Henry James's 19th Century Critique of John S. Sargent's 'Lady with the Rose' Painting

lived a privileged upbringing throughout Europe (Downes 5). Lacking a university education did not deter this young sketch artist...

Second Reconstruction and Southern Politics According to Numan Bartley and Hugh Graham

in the South following World War II. This section of the book describes the "one party politics" of the region, a time when Repub...

Summary and Review of 'A Gift of Hope'

second section called Survival Strategies, contains 5 parts and seems to be the meat of this book. The first part is entitled Pres...

Review of the Text Managing Finance for Quality

helped to who how TQM could be used in terms of accounting price in order to increase value in a firm and increase the profit or t...

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? by Louis Gerstner

Gerstner identified four immediate concerns: Should he break IBM "into many freestanding businesses?" (Duncan). How should he "cha...

Fantasia

was brutal and racist, and it "alienated the vast majority of Algerians" (French colonization, 2002). The French attempted to "acc...

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

of the tension between the two boys is the fact that Amir, who is "quiet, bookish," is jealous of the attention that his father gi...