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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...

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...

Carobeth Laird's Limbo A Memoir About Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor

This book regarding the degrading treatment of senior citizens in nursing homes is reviewed in five pages. There are no other sou...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert

government, one which would serve the needs of the common people, France still fell into a state of corruption. At the youn...

Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway's We Were Soldiers Once and Young on the Vietnam War

The Ia Drang Battle is the focus of this book review consisting of five pages. There are no other sources listed....

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

The writer reviews the book Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning, which is a study of the way in which ordinary people can commit ...

Bomb and Hiroshima II

In five pages a book review of The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II by Herbert Feis is presented in an examination of the a...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind

them in Steps to an Ecology of Mind ("Bateson, Gregory 1904-1980"). At this time too his influence on mainstream anthropology beca...

Sam Harris/End of Faith

coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates t...

A Thousand Splendid Suns

there are also elements that speak of the political and military struggles in the region. For example, Laila has two brothers who ...

Layne/Peace of Illusions

the U.S. undermined the British Empire through a combination of "conditional aid and political leverage," which made eradication o...

Ondaatje/Anil’s Ghost

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

Creation of Violent Criminals

unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argue...

Horton & Horton/In Hope of Liberty

on history that shows how blacks of the Revolutionary War era perceived the issues pertaining to liberty that served to captivate ...

David McCullough, A Great Historian

The real question is, what kind of historian is he? II. Biography In examining the life and works of any writer, biography is ...

A Review of Time on the Cross

is true despite the fact that it is somewhat well known that economics were important in the context of this issue. Of course, the...

Victim Compensation

Smith (2006) defines victim compensation as a "form of income redistribution designed to redistribute wealth from offenders to vic...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Community Nursing and Sarton's As We Are Now

Rose, "sleeps somewhere else" (Sarton 16). Mrs. Hatfield only experience as a "trained nurse" was two years employment as a nurses...

Galbraith's The Great Crash of 1929

It is true that on some level, the people are much wiser today than they were at the time and there are many new economic theories...

Steven Johnson/Everything Bad is Good For You

that the judgment of future generations as to what is valuable and what is in error in the past is frequently surprising. In other...