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Summary and Review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed

for contemporary social issues has been reflected in her thirteen books. In 2001, her text Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By ...

Article Analysis: Japanese Architecture

a renowned Japanese architect who makes his home in Osaka. The new museum is "dedicated to the relics and techniques of ancient Ja...

Karen Secombe's So You Think I Drive a Cadillac

and how these welfare recipients dealt with those prejudices. "Some people", she said, believe that if a woman is on welfare in to...

Ekman et al's Smiles When Lying

these survivors. What Bonanno and his colleagues found that survivors of CSA tended to issue more polite smiles, whereas their non...

A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying A Critique

dominated every aspect of their lives. As a child Xie was not even supposed to play outside with members of the opposite sex, not...

Edwin S. Shneidman's The Suicidal Mind

her story. He agreed and sent her some tapes and a tape recorder. In a sad conclusion to Ariels story, Dr. Shneidman called Arie...

Eye on the Future Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900 by Henry C. Klassen

other scholars for generations to come, as Klassen has established himself as the foremost authority on local business history i...

Creating a Multicultural Organization by Taylor Cox

He defines diversity and then outlines the problems and opportunities connected with diversity. Then, he discusses diversity as a ...

Earlie Years of Count Basie

Basie his first start in the industry by taking him under his wing and teaching him the theater trade. Basie joined the vaudeville...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Crimes Against Nature

chapter he begins with the "Mess in Texas" which is the home state of Bush. He states, "According to the Texas Commission on Envir...

John Matthews' Anxious Souls Will Ask

but yet a man who also risked much of what he was and had for the benefit of others during WWII and Nazi Regime. What makes him an...

Don't Bother Me, Mom, I'm Learning by Marc Prensky

unknown 20 years ago (Exclusive interview, 2001). The world has changed dramatically, but education has not kept up with it; in fa...

No More, No More by Daniel Walker

express themselves on a wide range of topics, which included such issues as moral justice and the nature of community. For example...

Review of Army Transforms Information Systems Management Paradigm by James H. Ward

reports, it becomes more efficient and effective" (Ward, 2003). The logic behind Wards (2003) endorsement of ISM for the Army is...

One South by Jonathan Reed

(One South, 2005). The first of the three essays discusses ways in which sociology can contribute to regional studies; the second ...

Masaaki Imai's Gemba Kaizen A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management

that it is the reality that influences plans and can make them go wrong, so gemba is seen as a source of failure, whereas it is wh...

Arthur Lefkowitz's George Washington's Indispensable Men

for the daily running of a large army, was still more than a century in the future. Washington had only the "rudimentary elements"...

Guerrillas Journeys in the Insurgent World by Jon Lee Anderson

as a reporter, his reputation, and his experience working all over the globe that he brings to his account of the world of guerril...

Incredible War of 1812 by J. Mackay Hitsman

In four pages this text is reviewed with the role of Sir George Prevost, a general from Canada, the primary emphasis. There are n...

Meaning in the Visual Arts by Erwin Panofsky

"emotionally evocative qualities of pose, gesture, facial expression, atmosphere and so on" (Kahil). Panofskys second layer of m...

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean by Freeman Reviewed

variation of levels of acceptance of the book reflect its difficult subject matter. The Setting There have been volumes bot...

Summary of Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman

the book follows the television series on which it is based. There is a chapter for each of the ten episodes. The first chapter, ...

Making Peace with the Planet by Barry Commoner Reviewed

with the "other" world; that is, the world we created which revolves around our "homes, cars, farms, factories, laboratories, food...

Man, the State and War by Kenneth Waltz

at least, among nations during the late 1950s, but as well see, a lot of Waltzs theories are still in consideration, even close to...

Review of The Mystery Religions by Samuel Angus

maintain his claims. As one becomes lost in the unraveling of a very ancient tale, one becomes aware that the author is purposel...

Carey McWilliams' Factories in the Field

which it comprises today. This utilization of western lands actually didnt start until relatively recently in U.S. history, in fa...

Christopher Hill's Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

of the text we can see that Hill is taking the reader on a very structured journey which examines the turmoil in 17th century Euro...

America in the Gilded Age by Cashman Reviewed

Cashman (1994) describes the unfolding of the industrial landscape in the years following the end of the Civil War. There were se...

Overview of On the Beach

that a the protagonist will meet his or her demise, and adventure novels too often will show men and women risking their lives in ...

Amazing Grace The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol Review and Analysis

in that it calls upon American society to fix the ills within it based on its humanity and in many aspects Kozols arguments rely u...