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Michael Klare's Resource Wars

violence, thus setting a deplorable example that will certainly result in more violence, and another round of resource wars. Chapt...

Hero in Vasilis Arvanitis by Stratis Myrivilis

working for the occupying Turks to anti-Turk resistance (Machin, 1998). Vasilis, similarly, changes his role, both in relation to ...

Review of Coming Apart An Informal History of America in the 1960s by William L. O'Neill

extended outline of the 1960s and piquing our interest. ONeill clearly illustrates the decade as one of change, and one of desi...

William Greider's 'Who Will Tell the People'

faithfully perform its most basic function-enforcing laws." (Greider, 1993; 107). His work is focused on letting the reader know...

Communities of Violence by David Nirenberg

the Shepherds Crusade, as Nirenberg posits that this was, indeed, the case, that is, that the poor people who enacted the violence...

Seeing is Believing by Margaret Miles

religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

Quran and Woman by Amina Wadud

within a larger holistic framework. For instance, in considering the first verse of the surah, which is entitled "Women" and dis...

Toward a World Theology by Wilfred Cantrell Smith

another level, it is a matter of theological truth. His goal in this study is provide evidence and links between these two realiti...

Francis A. Schaeffer's How Should We Then Live

Schaeffer moves into the time of Enlightenment and then modern science. It is perhaps this section on modern science that one can ...

T.J. Davis's Rumor of Revolt

fire to many of the largest buildings in the middle of town, and when the firemen and volunteers came to put out the blaze they we...

The Missing Link by Maitland Edey

According to this author, Lugenbeal (2004), even creationist can find this book convincing for its simplistic beauty at first, and...

The Hitler Myth by Ian Kershaw

had been only political, economic and social division. Kershaw begins by explaining that the "idea and image of a Fuhrer of the ...

Paradise Lost, California's Experience, America's Future by Peter Schrag

that imposed minimum spending formulas on schools, three-strikes sentencing laws, land conservation measures and measures abolishi...

Gender, Politics and Islam Edited by Saliba, Allen, and Howard

significance of networks in formulating that identity (Meyer 424). The specific topics covered are diverse. For example, Hegland a...

Eve's Seed by Robert S. McElvaine

evolution" (McElvaine 5). In accomplishing this goal, McElvaine also states as one of his texts objectives the goal of exploring h...

Cod, A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

view at that time which saw nature as indestructible. However, as Kurlansky also shows, no species or aspect of nature has this qu...

Managing with a Global Mindset by Jean Pierre Jeannet

experiences may not lead to a global mindset. By contrast, the executive who has a truly global mindset is able to see across mult...

Reviewing Feminism's Evolutionary Nature

until the womens liberation movement of the 1960s. As women focused on greater political, social, and economic equality, however,...

Al Ries and Laura Ries' The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding Reviewed

and the law of singularity. These are the laws that al give an impression of the way that branding is approached, but to get a bet...

Review of Animal Farm by George Orwell

could have happened when the intentions were so noble. In other words, this novel/fable is a "must read" for anyone trying to unde...

Critical Pedagogy Primer by Joe Kincheloe

the events of September 11, 2001 to advance an imperialist agenda (Kincheloe 40). In three densely-constructed subsequent chapte...

The Jesus Myth by Andrew Greeley

edification of readers who seek, like him, to try to deepen their understanding of Christianity. In accomplishing this task, Gre...

Undermining the Kremlin by Gregory Mitrovich

this time, which includes the fears of policymakers regarding the Soviet threat, as well as their perspective on the ramifications...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

Martha Barletta's Marketing to Women

profitable-per marketing dollar invested" (6). Another important reality that Barletta (2002) presents us with in this chapter i...

Book Review of Richard Nelson Bolles’ and Carol Christen’s What Color is Your Parachute? For Teens

The message of the book is simple: People who actually like their jobs and enjoy what they are doing are both happier and successf...

Scott Cook/Colonial Encounters

in his conclusions, the "patterns of subjugation, resistance, readjustment and accommodation" that are evident in this period of h...

Summary and Review of Lynne Curry’s The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...

Strauss and Howe/The Fourth Turning

Summary and review of the major points made by Strauss and Howe in this fascinating history text, which predicts near future for t...