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Review of "Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society"

of the group of Detroits new competition. The purpose of the many trips to Japan was to "find out why the Japanese automakers wer...

Herbert Gans/Urban Villagers

slum" and while its residents had their own problems, these difficulties did not evolve from living in this neighborhood (Gans xiv...

Raboteau & Elkins/2 Views of Slavery

performing these rites for the multitude of abducted Africans who died in transit to the Americas. In the second chapter, Rabote...

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...

Paulo Coelho/The Alchemist

he meets, as well as the lessons that he learns. This plot sounds simplistic and stereotypical, and in many ways this is true; how...

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...

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown

This book review concerns Dr. Mike's Brown text that recounts how his discoveries resulted in the reclassification of Pluto. Seven...

Hiroshima by John Hersey

This book review offers an overview of Hersey's 1946 description of survivors' experience at Hiroshima. Three pages in length, onl...

A Private and Public Faith by William Stringfellow,

This book review is on William Stringfellow's A Private and Public Faith. The writer recounts Stringfellow's criticisms of contemp...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr

This book review presents summaries of the chapters that comprise Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr. Seven pages in length,...

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

This book review is on Stacy Schiff's fascinating biography of Cleopatra, which relates the life narrative of a woman who was an i...

Hollywood Worldviews by Brian Godawa

and intriguing guide that advises readers on how to watch movies from a Christian perspective. Godawas purpose is not to evaluate ...

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Sigmund Freud and his theory of penis envy, as well as the influence of sociology and the school of functionalism, which dictated ...

Book Review, Birch and Rasmussen

is a biblical scholar and the other is a Christian ethicist, and they bring together their individual competencies to offer a comp...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Women Guarding Men by Lynn E. Zimmer

One of the most difficult tasks involved in data collection came from trying to obtain permission to interview male inmates. Howev...

Jacques Maritain's 'The Dream of Descartes'

chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...

A Book Review of Modern Middle East History

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

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...

Book Review of Franklin Harold's The Way of the Cell:

organism in nature exists. While it is simple to say that the biological "riddle" of life, the understanding of cellular biology,...

'Rocket Boys' by Homer Hickam

of resignation which sent young mind after young mind into the coal mines, but there were a few who hoped to change that statistic...