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The Biblical Ruth

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

The Honor Code of the Old South

relatively inconsequential. For those interested in the Old South, however, the book provides an insight that is not so easily ma...

May's Addiction and Grace

ideas about religion or spirituality as after all, most addiction treatment is found in such areas. This psychiatrist draws on his...

Copyright, Google and Its Digital Library

in which Google does business with authors and publishers (Waters, 2009). The most important part of the scenario appears to be ...

Addictions and Their Cure

using heroin and other drugs" (3). The counselors were focused on getting him into another rehab or recovery program, or going to ...

Developing The Leader Within You

evident over the last fifteen years almost makes long-range planning a waste of time but we know that long-range planning today sh...

Nicholas Copernicus and His Times

the duty of an astronomer, which is to observe the motion of celestial bodies and then devise explanations for these motions (Osia...

The Cream of the Crime Crop

more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that wh...

Love in the Time of Cholera

Fuentes and Praust and then moves on to examining the power of the classic Don Quixote, indicating how there are not many, if any,...

James Oakes, Slavery and Liberal Capitalism

the playing field level" (Zimmerman). This idea is still alive today, proposed by progressives who feel that everyone should get a...

Carol Berkin on Women in the American Revolution

propaganda; they raised money for the army and to support the new government ("About this book"). Berkin shows how they ran farms ...

The Confessions of Nat Turner

questions the institution of slavery but it is not until this turning point that Nat truly decides to rebel. In the fourth chapter...

Obama's Dreams from my father

were tears running done the cheeks of many Americans, and even those who voted against him. They were touched by the fact that an ...

Puerto Rico as Fernando Pico Knows It

2009). This book is an expanded version of Picos earlier Historia general and is distinguished by Picos use of primary sources and...

Confederates in the Attic

their family connections to this time in history. For example, in looking at one particular mans journey Horwitz asked him why he ...

Property by Valerie Martin

her circumstance. The preface to the quote is that the narrator, Manon, is holding Joels hand while he talks about how things will...

A Review of the Promises Vs the Ethics of Stem Cell Research

of stem cell research. These first three chapters benefit from the contributions of James Thompson himself (the man that first is...

Orenstein's Smart but Stuck

(2001) draws on some of the personal experiences of those she interviewed for the book, providing the reader with a great deal of ...

Stop Fearing, Start Thinking

and try to block all attempts at reform, whether its health care, keeping the Internet free of corporate gatekeepers, improving ed...

Writing Back to the World

in jobs back in the States, but several committed suicide. Perhaps the most poignant letters are the ones in which the young man e...

How Successful People Think

founder of EQUIP, a non-profit organization that has trained more than 5 million leaders in 126 countries worldwide" (Maxwell [1])...

Death in the Forest

dead for ever" (Turnbull, 1987, p. 42). The reaction to this death is a "burst of uncontrollable grief, not only from relatives, b...

The Galleys at Lepanto

quite a bit, much of what he says could likely be found in other sources concerning the battle. What makes the work intriguing is ...

Hotel Rwanda/Not on Our Watch

Oliver, who placed guard at the entrance gate to the hotel. The student researching this topic should note that as far as this w...

Failure at the Paris Peace Talks

been easy to have become overwhelmed in the circumstances. Not surprisingly, Nicholson and Keynes present similar theses in reg...

Mahler and the Burning Bronx

hes a scrappy second baseman just traded to the Yankees from the Oakland Oaks. He asks the managers incessant questions and yells ...

Moses Wrote the Pentateuch or Did He?

the "Documentary Hypothesis," a theory that asserts that "the Pentateuch was written by a group of four authors, from various loca...

Essential Church? Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts

that church attendance plays an essential role in his or her life. In other words, the thrust of the book is not only to discern w...

Copyright Protection of Literary Works

the written word, either as a creative work or as a study (Lefevere, 1992). Under the 1988 a literary work has a broader definitio...

The Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren

any aspect of the church that is antithetical to the purposes of the church should be eradicated. Essentially, Challies points out...