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Wendell Pritchett's Brownsville, Brooklyn

contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...

An Ecological Vision Captured in All Creation is Groaning Edited by Carol Dempsey and Russell Butkus

non-human alike" (3). This feeling is contrasted against the sense of "lived inter-relatedness," which is the obtained by acknowle...

'Crossing Border Street' by Peter Honigsberg

during that time. Whenever Honigsberg visited Bogalusa, Louisiana, where he had covert meetings with a black group, the Deacons of...

Al Ries and Jack Trout's Horse Sense The Key to Success is Finding a Horse to Ride

The difference between winning the race and pulling up the rear is not found within the jockey, but in picking the right horse to ...

Books on Advertising and Marketing

Claude Hopkins, author of Scientific Advertising, the ideas of whom appear to have had a string impact on the way Ogilvy has devel...

The Ramsay Scallop by Frances Temple

For example, the rationale offered to the couple for the pilgrimage is that they should atone for the sins of the local townspeopl...

How To Become a Rainmaker by Jeffrey J. Fox

Chapter III basically restates the first axiom in chapter I, which is to "cherish" customers, putting this thought in terms of the...

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...

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...

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 ...

The River Why by Duncan

idea of a perfect year includes "4,000 actual fishing" hours. Gus explains that his fathers full name is Henning Hale Orviston a...

Richard Bessel's 'Life in the Third Reich'

mentioned, there are eight essays in this work. The first one is by Richard Bessel and is titled "Political Violence and the Nazi ...

The Boxed Slave Known as Aunt Jemima

fictitious biography for her, while a succession of real-life women portrayed Aunt Jemima at county fairs and various bake-off com...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

How to Become a Rainmaker The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients by Jeffrey J. Fox

not get beyond the first three chapters, he or she will have already received all the practical information necessary to improve c...

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...

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...

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 ...

The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin by Alex De Jonge

De Jonge places particular emphasis on his spiritual transformation in early adulthood, pointing out that such transformations, su...

Overview of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Covey

The cognitive aspect of the work seems to be the most important. Making a paradigm shift, as the author reiterates, is the highlig...

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...

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

In eight pages this text which covers the 1980s Palestinian and Israeli conflict and tensions in Lebanon is the focus of a summary...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...