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Desmond Seward’s Wars of the Roses

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

Difficult Conversations

that is, having a difficult conversation, was extremely difficult for this writer/tutor. I avoided confrontation at all costs. The...

“Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...

Campano/Immigrant Students and Literacy

child with immense social capabilities and skill, and someone capable of discussing weighty issues, such as the colonization of th...

O’Nell/Disciplined Hearts

Part three continues this analysis, focusing on narratives of experience. In creating these discussions of data and the issues the...

A Review of Issues in Economics by Robert Guell

in depth the basics of theory. The section starts out with the more basic ideas of economics, first there is a chapter on opportu...

Kennedy/Profiles in Courage

Senators that follows. Kennedy begins with a profile of John Quincy Adams, and how Adams was castigated by members of his own pa...

Ryan's Empire of the Mother

must have felt. Child makes a bold statement and Ryan sees fit to include it in her work. Ryan (1985) adds in the context of Child...

Examination of Beneficence/For the Patient's Good

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

Leon Bing/Do or Die/Youth Gangs

youre that thirteen or fourteen-year-old kid youre probably sitting quietly, trying to wind your thoughts into as tight a package...

John C. Maxwell/Thinking For A Change

the authors father observed that successful people tended to have positive thoughts not only about themselves, but also of others....

Lerner/Grimke Sisters

is not a phenomenon that emerges overnight. It builds over decades. Angelina and Sarah Grimke argued for womens rights a full ten ...

Mother's Perspective/Asperger Syndrome

years before Jimmys parents even had a definitive diagnosis of AS. Once Fling and her husband had a diagnosis, they found that exp...

Unshakable Foundations By Norman L. Geisler And Peter Bocchino

and anyone the person speaks with. The authors explain that a worldview is like "an intellectual lens through which people view ...

Paulo Freire/Pedagogy of the Oppressed

pedagogical approach is his definition of what it means to be a "democratic" instructor, that is someone who encourages and facili...

Fine Arts/Washington State Standards

The book also explores drawing and painting techniques, as well as offering numerous examples of fine art. Fifteen lessons explo...

Hinchey on Critical Theory

discusses student teachers who assign homework simply to be assigning homework, not for any specific goal or purpose. The student ...

Political Thinking: The Perennial Questions by Glenn Tinder

a student, or anyone else, this think, but can present some insights that students and teachers alike may find useful, he states ...

Yates/Politics of Management

by this organization. Yates begins his text with an introductory chapter that concentrates on the role that business leaders pla...

Wright/Armageddon in Waco

presents views that see the tragedy at Waco as entirely due to the mistakes of government agents in handling the situations and no...

Critical Chain By Eliyahu M. Goldratt

in Business Administration (MBA) is no longer as important in the business community as it once was. Higher education must change ...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Wheatley/Leadership & the New Science

leaders create charts, statistics and graphs that have at their core the notion that an organization is like a complex machine tha...

"Mama Might Be Better Off Dead," A Book Review

This essay offers a book review of Linda K. Abraham's book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Urban of Urban Heath Car...

Anne Moody's 1968 Memoir

Anne Moody was raised in the rural South where she suffered extreme racism throughout school and beyond. She was a very active mem...

Midnight Rising, Tony Horwitz

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

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...