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1491 by Charles Mann

cultures, cities and towns that were, at the time, larger than many European cities that were of importance. His journey discusses...

Paul Roberts' 'The End of Oil'

industrial revolution and the transition to a coal-fired economy" (Pan). Roberts points out that the shift from an agrarian econom...

Book Review of Free At Last by Fred Powledge

In four pages a book review and analysis of this 1991 text by Fred Powledge are presented....

Review of '1919'

points made by Asinof, one must first realize that the year he discusses was the first of about twenty that would transpire betwee...

Book Review 3 for '1919'

: Americas Loss of Innocence" suggests so precisely-- all of these events transpired during that one fateful year..and it was in t...

Richard E. Porter and Larry A. Samovar's 'Intercultural Communication'

is titled "Intercultural Interaction: Taking Part in Intercultural Communication." It possesses three chapters, titled "Verbal Pro...

Studs Terkel's Hard Times An Oral History of the Great Depression

In five pages Terkel's text is the focus of this insightful book review....

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

in the book we first examine the introduction. In this introduction Lewis indicates that there are many different types of Chri...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

ANALYSIS: PRINCIPALS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

but hopefully an understanding of the issues he raises and attempts to address throughout the book. Overview While well de...

Book Review: “Charlemagne” by Matthias Becher

information about it, rather than trying to pick it to pieces. Becher has used primary sources where possible. He relies heavily ...

Pipes and Lee/Family to Family

to worship God, i.e., following the dictum given in Proverbs 22:6. Each chapter ends with a simple test, which, by answering it, h...

Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty First Century

general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...

Warren, Reeve and Fess's Accounting

all businesses accounting methods the same across the board. Although there are some differences between GAAP and International Ac...

Review of Anthony Horowitz's Point Blank

a book by its cover. The boys, when sent to Point Blanc, are bonafide, out of control, juvenile delinquents who suddenly become mo...

Randy Roberts and James S. Olson's A Line in the Sand, the Alamo in Blood and Memory

he was God" (6). As each man is introduced by the authors, such as William Barret Travis, the leader of the Texans; Davy Crockett,...

A Review of Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry

decision that he will go on an adventure and seek his own courage. He is a very brave boy for even beginning this journey because ...

Robert D. Hare on Psychopaths

offer some explanation for the egocentric and aggressive behavior of psychopathic individuals. As Hare locates deviant behavior ...

Fifty-Two Doctrines Explained

each chapter to help the reader discover what they have learned. There is a harmony to the book in that it begins with a discuss...

Let's Do Theology by Laurie Green

This book review pertains to Laurie Green's "Let's Do Theology." The author's main argument is described, and a summation of the b...

The Forensic Casebook by N.E. Genge

This book review is on "The Forensic Casebook" by N.E. Genge. The writer first summarizes the book's contents and then discusses i...

Book Review; the Fundamentals of Production Planning and Control by Stephen Chapman

book states that it focuses on the part of operations which are needed, without distracting the reader with unimportant or relevan...

A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

Picture Book on Autism

This book review is on Amanda D. Tourville's My Friend Has Autism, which is illustrated by Kristin Sorra. An informative, sensit...

Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

This book review is on the first three chapters of Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. The writer evaluates the boo...

3 Reviews on Religious Books

a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...

Another Politics and Critical Thinking

Chris Dixon wrote a book entitled Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Politics. For this paper, the writer rev...

George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism in Harry S. Stout's 'The Divine Dramatist'

This is a book review consisting of 5 pages. A 5 page paper which provides a book review of Harry S. Stout's "The Divine Dra...

Stuik’s “A Concise History of Mathematics”

and the development of the numbers such as three being the adding of the words for one and two being put together. When talking ...

Lance Armstrong and the notion 'Its Not About the Bike'

on Armstrongs body but the real heroics are attributable to the man and to the body itself! Armstrong was diagnosed with te...