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Judicial Process

In five pages a book review of Benjamin N. Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process is presented. There are no other sources list...

Clorinda Matto de Turner's Birds Without a Nest

In five pages this book is discussed in a critical review along with a consideration of the author's intention. There are no othe...

John W. Thomason Junior's Fix Bayonets

In five pages Thomason's text is the focus of this book review. There are no other sources listed....

Battle Cry by Leon Uris

This paper consists of five pages and presents a book review on the author's stirring account of the U.S. Marine Corps during the ...

Tim O'Brien's If I Die in Combat

In five pages this book by Tim O'Brien regarding a young soldier's Vietnam War experiences is reviewed. There are no other source...

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...

Robert Munsch's Love You Forever

In five pages this children's book is reviewed in a discussion not only of the text but also considers Sheila McGraw's effective i...

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore's 'The Experience Economy'

Information is becoming a big component of the economic market as well. While at one time the consumer was dependent on informati...

Benjamin F. Schemmer's The Raid The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission

positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 ...

Shanghai Modern by Leo Ou Fan Lee

known political revolutions of this century. The movements principal focus was disdain for traditional Chinese culture, which was ...

She Walks These Hills by McCrumb

those velvet petals...--they looked just the same as they had in Mamas old ditch garden up home" (McCrumb 39). Rather than being r...

Thinking About Music, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music by Lewis Rowell

however, is preliminary, a basic orientation, if you will, before settling down to discussing the books main argument, which conce...

Karl Sabbagh Skyscraper

are decided benefits to a "fast track" situation. Developers are the guys who front the money for the building -- and theyre the o...

Woman and Man in Paul by Naubert Baumert

the other parts of this analysis. In part D, the final section of the text, the author avails himself of various other theological...

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 ...

The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

as it is assembled by robots (27). While one part of the world is concentrating on "building a better Lexus," and is dedicated to ...

Kathleen R. Fischer and Thomas N. Hart's Christian Foundations An Introduction To Faith In Our Time

relate their text to modern life. For instance, the authors discuss the fact that even though so many Americans have all of the ma...

Richard Bessel's 'Life in the Third Reich'

mentioned, there are eight essays in this work. The first one is by Richard Bessel and is titled "Political Violence and the Nazi ...

The Boxed Slave Known as Aunt Jemima

fictitious biography for her, while a succession of real-life women portrayed Aunt Jemima at county fairs and various bake-off com...

The River Why by Duncan

idea of a perfect year includes "4,000 actual fishing" hours. Gus explains that his fathers full name is Henning Hale Orviston a...

The European Miracle by E.L. Jones

as Asians, "would have adjusted its breeding strategy accordingly" (Jones 20). Jones argues that while disasters and war struck ...

Wendell Pritchett's Brownsville, Brooklyn

contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...

Chapters 4 through 7 of The Transformation of Governance by Donald Ketti

The position of Wilson, from his 1887 text "The Study of Administration" and supported by Goodnow, was that administrative practic...

Teaching Equality by Adam Fairclough

to both slavery and racial segregation. He points out that it did not take crusading "New England missionaries" to teach Southern ...

'Pursuit of God' by A.W. Tozer

that the doctrine of justification by faith "has in our time fallen into evil company and been interpreted...(in a manner) to bar ...

Social Problems in Africa New Visions Edited by Apollo Rwomire

In seven pages this 2001 book edited by Apollo Rwomire is reviewed. There are no other sources listed....

Gold, Dollars, and Power by Francis J. Gavin

by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...

Locked in the Cabinet by Robert Reich

more progressive and the extension of the Earned Income Tax would cover more of the working poor; however, without significant cut...

Galbraith's The Great Crash of 1929

It is true that on some level, the people are much wiser today than they were at the time and there are many new economic theories...

Steven Johnson/Everything Bad is Good For You

that the judgment of future generations as to what is valuable and what is in error in the past is frequently surprising. In other...