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African Colonialism

A. Abu Boahen gives an unusual view of the colonial experience in African Perspective on Colonialism. Most books take the European...

A look at De Pauw's Battle Cries and Lullabies

This well written book by Linda De Pauw is discussed in depth. The book concerns the role of women in the military and especially ...

Overview of One Hell of a Gamble Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964 by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali

is evident that Fursenko played a major role in assessing some of the documents that became available following the opening of the...

David Lambert's, The Field Guide to Geology

This book report discusses the book, The Field Guide to Geology. The author covers topics such as the makeup of the Earth, rocks,...

Handy's Age of Paradox

to do it in todays economy. Additionally, he paints a picture of people working more and more hours of work in order to keep aflo...

Reason for Reeva Simon's The Middle East in Crime Fiction

In five pages this paper examines the author's reasons behind the writing of this text and how it impacts the book's structure. T...

'Don't Let a Good Scare Frighten You' Analyzed

and quite sensibly. Concept 2. The "scary" books give young adolescents reading material that is fun and far removed from ...

The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

This one book which is really four books in one is the focus of this paper. Slavery and slave issues are discussed in depth. This...

Chapter 5 of Race Rules by Michael Eric Dyson

In eleven pages this is a letter written to the book's author regarding chapter five. There are no other sources listed....

Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life by J. William T. Youngs

not only who she was as a person, but to also put her contributions and her legacy into a proper perspective. The book details sp...

An Analysis of Harold J. Rothwax Critique of the Criminal Justice System

This paper analyzes Judge Rothwax's book Guilty, The Collapse of Criminal Justice. The author concludes that Rothwax's arguments a...

Forrest Carter's The Education of Little Tree

In five pages this paper examines this book's enlightening information despite the dishonesty regarding its authenticity. There a...

Point Counterpoint by Aldous Huxley

In a paper that contains seven pages the book's style, subject, and changing story pace are explored and a character analysis is a...

William Wordsworth's The Prelude

In five pages Book IV and Book IX of William Wordsworth's The Prelude are thematically compared. There are no other sources liste...

Three Books on Marketing Compared and Contrasted

and goes right to the heart of the matter. He asserts that advertising (todays author would probably say "marketing") is not "ente...

A Review of First In His Class"

A 5 page essay exploring the book by Pulitzer prize winning journalist David Mariniss. This book focuses on Bill Clinton's climb...

A Discussion of Massacre in Mexico

A 5 page overview of the book by Elena Poniatowska. This book presents both sides of the massacre from the perspective of those th...

Research Paper on Human Genome

In five pages ten of the fifteen books contained in this bibliography are summarized in four sentence synopses. There are a total ...

A Review of the Print and Film Versions of The Joy Luck Club

A 6 essay comparing and contrasting the film version of Amy Tan's popular book and the book. The essay emphasizes Hollywood's ten...

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg

The writer analyzes the book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg and argues that ...

Howard Waitzkin's The Second Sickness

In five pages this paper presents an overview of The Second Sickness by Howard Waitzkin and discusses the various issues the autho...

Two Fathers in Cry, the Beloved Country

of a paltry 14 pounds 6, and with dogged determination, he searches for his family. Once he arrives, the naive Kumalo is immediate...

An Analysis of That's Not What I Meant by Author Deborah Tannen

misunderstood intentions can also influence communications styles. Add an indirect style of communication, more a tool used by wo...

Taylor and Mommsen on Bismarck

authors address the same topic, but in very different ways. Taylors approach has a more simplistic, general approach, since his ...

From Dawn to Decadence

A 13 page paper overview of the book by Jacques Barzun. The impact of this book on the author of the paper is emphasized. 1 sour...

A Review of Communicate with Confidence by Dianna Booher

An 8 analsysis of the book Communicate with Confidence: Say it Right the First Time and Every Time. Written by Dianna Booher this...

Asylums by Erving Goffman

In five pages this notorious text by the noted sociologist is examined with the emphasis being the book's last chapter. There is ...

Why Be Moral?

todays society, but the search for contentment goes back centuries. For many searchers, happiness comes and goes, but it is a popu...

Jack London/Call of the Wild

In deciding how to interpret Call of the Wild, another comment made by Labor is also insightful, as he writes that "In book after...

Old Testament Books of Jonah, Amos, and Hosea

In six pages this paper examines these Old Testament prophet books in terms of their names' meaning and also contrasts and compare...