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“Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors”

through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind

them in Steps to an Ecology of Mind ("Bateson, Gregory 1904-1980"). At this time too his influence on mainstream anthropology beca...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist

sources in examining some of the validity of Desmond and Moores work. Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist Clearly studying...

Jose Marti, A Narrative Bibliography

Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...

Congress and the Internet

and provides a springboard for discussion on this very important topic. The articles contained in the volume all relate to the In...

'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...

Kenneth Hensall's Dimensions of Japanese Society Gender, Margins and Mainstream

emotion we most often find in Western culture. Just three decades ago, however, literature on Japan would take a different tactic...

The Triune God of Christian Faith by Mary Ann Fatula

(17). First of all, Christian faith is predicated on the experience of Jesus as a human being -- "his life, death, resurrection, ...

Los Premios by Julio Cortazar

Lucio and Nora, and so forth until all of the players in the drama have been introduced. In addition to the teachers, there is Med...

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

them from the depths of depression, it also "deadens" the maniac side Of course, Jamison balances her account of the exhilaration ...

The Straight Path by John Esposito

West has had trouble reconciling Muhammad as a spiritual leader and also as a military conqueror. He explains this seeming dichoto...

Health Care Reform by Paul Starr

This essay offers a review and analysis of Paul Starr's Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Refor...

Public Administration Decisions

This paper reviews one chapter in a book by William Johnson on Public Administration. The chapter discusses decision making and co...

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...

Terrorism Fiction vs Nonfiction

This paper reviews the nonfiction book "News of a Kidnapping" and the fictional "Bel Canto". There are two sources listed in this...

Practical Guide for Policy Analysis/Eugene Bardach

This book review pertains to A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis by Eugene Bardach, which focuses on the introductory chapter as...

Logic Modeling

This paper reviews chapters one through three of authors' L. Knowlton and C. Philips book The Logic Model Guidebook: Better Strat...

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

This book review pertains to Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, a novel that describes animal rights abuses in the nineteenth century as ...

Is It Scholarly? Generation Me

This book review of Jean M. Twenge's Generation Me focuses on the question of whether this is a scholarly work. The writer present...

Greenleaf's Ideas 25 Years Later

Greenleaf's first essay on servant leadership in 1970 presented a very different way of looking at leadership. He argues that a pe...

Jean M. Twenge, Generation Me

This book review pertains to Jean M. Twenge's text Generation Me, which is a study of the differences between the attitudes and se...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

This book review pertains to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The writer argues that this is a hilarious satire th...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

This book review pertains to "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot and tells how HeLa cells, which have played ...

Sharon Hambrick, Arby Jenkins

This book review is on a juvenile, Christian novel that features a funny, charismatic sixth grader. The write assumes the persona ...

Economy and State by Bandelj, Sowers

This book review is on Economy and State, A Sociological Perspective by Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers. A summation, critique...

Melton McLaurin's Celia, A Slave A True Story

issues raised in "Celia, a Slave: A True Story", however, were not confined to the South alone, nor were they limited to the rela...

A Review of The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

news item which it is likely that the vast majority of those in the audience will recognize. For example, recent news stories of c...

Johnson: Who Moved My Cheese

the nature of ones goals (the cheese) and the role it plays in a persons life. The contrast, of course, is between...