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Freakonomics The Truth About the Economics of Dealing Drugs

Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

and reinforcement. In her case, this led to fairly early experimentation with sex and drugs. Lamott doesnt sensationalize her exp...

Hunter Thompson and The Hells Angels

topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...

Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber

nations universities, in order to stay viable financially, have placed undue emphasis on their sports programs, utilizing a perspe...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

Book Industry Approaches to Communication Technologies

communication technologies have led to our age being branded the "Information Age". What this means in todays business environment...

A Review of Mindfulness

very powerful truth. So often we rely on the information we learned as children, never stopping to examine the possibilities. And,...

Unorthodox Writings of American Poet James Merrill

blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...

Attitudes and Free Will in the Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost by John Milton

in clear opposition to what is found in Genesis. The student will want to point out that Adam and Eve can easily relate...

Literature and the Transition from Middle Ages Feudalism to the Industrial Era

is filled with allegorical references to the time of chivalry and has been described as an allegorical epic. As outlined in the i...

Self Identity and Doug Coupland's Shampoo Planet

the environment and is torn by the pollution that has almost destroyed Lancaster. On top of it all, he doesnt understand his pare...

Purchasing for Manufacturing by Harry B. Hough

purchasing function provides the reader with the some of the different methods used to organize this department and the reasoning ...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and History

This was the condition of slavery for women. They were often seen as breeding machines that were good for little more than produci...

Fall on Your Knees by Ann Marie McDonald and Multiculturalism

values the ideals that shaped his upbringing. He states plainly that his distaste for James has nothing to do with his lack of we...

Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian's Information Rules

not change. The authors provide lessons and examples throughout the book, making it easy for the reader to understand, even reader...

Caught in the Middle by Min

were destroyed. The Los Angeles riots were unique, according to the author, because the African American community targeted the Ko...

Race Matters from a Critical Perspective

important issues about racism and oppression for black Americans. It is difficult to argue with many of his premises because hist...

The Manchurian Candidate Conspiracy

his father did not approve (Maier, 1986). The article does not mention his relationship with individual family members beyond this...

Gayle L. Zieman The Handbook of Managed Behavioral Healthcare

hundred years of managed care Zieman steps backward in chapter 2 and offers a discussion of the history of prepaid health plans i...

High School Libraries and Book Banning

their buildings. They fear that students will imitate some of the things in the book. At least, whenever a violent incident happen...

Share Prices and Book Values

patents, copyrights and human capital. The intangible assets are difficult to assess and are rarely included in any accounts, so a...

“The World Is Flat”: The Mixed Impacts of Globalization

The title of Friedmans book relates to the misperceptions Columbus dispelled in the fifteenth century. His trip across the seas l...

Diaz del Castillo/The Conquest of New Spain

and pride of race, a lust of gold and a blind faith in their religion, together with an absolute contempt for that of other men we...

Joseph Nye/Paradox of American Power

which hold the possibility of balancing "diplomatic and informational power."vii Nye believes that the U.S. should take a stand be...

“The Ancient Celts”

provides the details that are lacking in the classical accounts of the Celts. Cunliffe wrote "The Ancient Celts" with the f...

“Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...

Politics and Latin America (Annotated Bibliography)

is a compelling subject addressed by the author in the context of various portions of the work. Also, the ideas are summed up nice...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Wheatley/Leadership & the New Science

leaders create charts, statistics and graphs that have at their core the notion that an organization is like a complex machine tha...

"All the Shah's Men"

elected prime minister of Iran" (Keddie, 2003). Once Mossadegh was gone, the U.S. "reinstalled the countrys exiled monarch, Mohamm...