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Anatomy of the Sacred

methods presented by Livingston, and where they may well fit, we provide a brief look at the approaches, beginning with literary c...

Bourgeois Utopias The Rise and Fall of Suburbia by Robert Fishman

Euro-American culture whose formation was not necessitated by the Industrial Revolution or changing transportation technology, but...

Mark A. Burkholder's Politics of a Colonial Career Jose Baquijano and the Audiencia of Lima Reviewed

but rather is focused more on his efforts during a time in Perus history when Americans sought high offices and the discrimination...

Everyday Life in Traditional Japan by Charles J. Dunn

alone could carry the long swords (Dunn, 1977, Sellen, 2002). Dunns appreciation of some of the key elements of the classes explai...

Review of 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Professors by Magnan

p.21). Something as simple as that can create an atmosphere in the classroom that is exciting. Unfortunately, in many classrooms t...

David Hackett Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride

battles of Lexington and Concord: the famous midnight ride is therefore presented in the wider context of the American struggle ag...

Janet Gonzalez Mena's Multicultural Issues in Child Care

Many teachers use this direct eye contact as a way of gathering their students attention, but if this goes against ones upbringing...

Review of J.C. Montgomery and L.O. Levine's The Transition to Agile Manufacturing: Staying Flexible for Competitive Advantage

successfully. When seeking to be agile the companies need to understand what this will mean for them and the benefits. When looki...

Review and Analysis of Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday

life following WWI and it essentially ends after the stock market crash of 1929. His book truly begins when he discusses the year ...

Half and Half Writers on Growing Up Biracial Plus Bicultural Edited by Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn

taking from different cultures to provide the most appropriate terms. The way in which OHearn fitted into the society around her...

Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down A Story of Modern War

it devotes practically all of its attention to a bullet-by-bullet account of the fighting surrounding the downing of the American ...

Richard Hoggart's Scholarship Boy

from even his or her family for trying to improve himself. Hoggart also addresses the working class who have taught themselves s...

Review of John Gray's Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

Gray chooses to characterize men as Martians, creatures who are competent when it comes to activities which require manual skills ...

Gary Nash's Red, White, and Black The Peoples of Early North America

Obviously for each culture this goal largely ignored the importance of the survival and enhancement of the opposing culture. Such...

The End of the Victory Culture by Tom Engelhardt

the United States was proved wrong. Engelhardt argues that through these two things, combined with the threat of nuclear war, the ...

Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

Jill Lepore's The Name of War and King Philip's War

the war with King Philip are addressed as well as the Native Americans view of the outcome of the war. Both the Prologue and the E...

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...

Summary, Review and Critique of Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6 by Fountas and Pinnell

the teachers or can be used as scheduling factors in setting up classroom units. In addition to the resources which relate directl...

Summary and Review of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

to their religious existence. Pointing an accusatory finger at the progressive nature of globalization, Huntington (1998) c...

In Praise of Wolves by R.D. Lawrence Reviewed

not to present any sort of challenge to the animals as he remained "crouching", "speaking softly" and "kept his gaze away" not wan...

The Park and the People A History of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar

4) Redefining Central Park; 5) The Nineteenth-Century Park in the Twentieth-Century City; and, 6) The Past Fifty Years, in additio...

Melvyn Leffler's The Specter of Communism

to promote hostility and fear in the American public. As such, then, liberals and progressives were able to sell their programs an...

Analysis of Fouad Ajami's The Arab Predicament

said to fail miserably in the modern application, Islam fights against the nature of man. Some say that this is not necessarily a ...

Review of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Schlosser is among one of just a handful of writers to explore this darkest side of the fast food industry, its impact on the most...

United States and and the End of the Cold War by John L. Gaddis

confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...