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Searching for Urban Theology

This paper presents a book review of City of God, City of Satan by Linthicum. The main ideas in the book are reported as are the r...

Transforming Discipleship by Greg Ogden

This book review focuses on the first three chapters of Greg Ogden's Transforming Discipleship, Making Disciples a Few at a Time. ...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

The Fragile Bridge

which was eager to join with the silk workers in their fight against the oppression of the factories. The Wobblies were a radic...

Richard Orsi/Sunset Limited

been presented in dichotomous terms. On one side is the "selfish, greedy, corporate interests" and on the other, stand "the people...

Chapter Summaries of a Text on Youth Gangs

The third point turns to scholarship on youth gangs and the fact that there is no consensus as to the definition of what precisely...

Fischer/Washington’s Crossing

action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then r...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

Procopius/The Secret History

was a counselor to Belisarius and accompanied him on several of his campaigns and he may have been a prefect of Constantinople (Ha...

Robert Dallek/FDR & American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945

the behind the scenes confrontations between the American leaders who shaped domestic and foreign policy during this crisis period...

Book Summary//Future of Primary Care

in the first half of the twentieth century, as compared with the realities of the second half. Previously the main deliver of prim...

Indeh An Apache Odyssey by Eve Ball

Ball encountered it in the late 1940s, was an untapped resource of historical investigation. It took Ball years to win the trust...

How Could You Do That? by Laura Schlessinger

In five pages the review of this book by the controversial radio talk show host examines responsibility, conscience, and character...

The Twelve Caesars/Suetonius

in presenting the various biographies that make up this text, citing the private documents of the emperors, as well as public sour...

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...

Jose Marti, A Narrative Bibliography

Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Trimbur's Call to Write/Narrative of Frederick Douglass

the chapter that addresses writing profiles of specific people, Trimbur writes, "This impulse to describe, to analyze, and to unde...

Smither/Augustine As Mentor

the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...

Kristin Ross/May '68 and Its Afterlives

down the entire country. Nine million people, "across all sectors of public and private employment-from department store clerks to...

Thompson/Concentric Circles of Concern

Dr. Thompsons classic work, which was published posthumously and revised by Claude V. King, the reader finds a detailed model for ...

Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

In five pages Ball's text is the subject of a book review with the author's relevance also evaluated. Four sources are cited in t...

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

In eight pages this text which covers the 1980s Palestinian and Israeli conflict and tensions in Lebanon is the focus of a summary...

'Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians' by Norma Basch

contends that, "Regional variations in divorce law were more pronounced on an east-west axis than a north-south one."3 For instan...

Beirut Outtakes by Larry Pintak

The Muslims wanted more power and the Christians were doing their best to try to prevent them from achieving this goal. However, P...

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

was an immediate celebrity. However, many racist whites and quite a few people in the black community were angered by his assumed ...

A Review of Latin America at the Crossroads and Fast Forward, Latin America on the Edge of the 21st Century

"academic specialists, foreign policy analysts and practitioners, and those in the commercial banks and international lending agen...

Mappings, Feminism and Cultural Geographies of Encounters by Susan S. Friedman

cultures" (Friedman 5). This is what Friedman attempts to offer her readers in this text. Part I focuses on the encounters betwe...

The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler

of managerial hierarchies and conclude with the observation that as businesses grew to dominate certain sectors of the US economy,...

The Authoritarian Specter by Bob Altemeyer

is referring not to a political orientation, but rather to a general stance toward society. This is the same sentiment expressed ...