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Book Reviews China's Growth

regular basis. One story is very nearly unbelievable. A young woman took her application to college tests and was informed that sh...

Review of the T. Berry Brazelton Book Feeding Your Child

the scene, one would look at emotions as opposed to the brain being a processor of information (2003). Essentially, there has been...

Book Review: Bourneman's Biography of James K. Polk

One example is Polks executive involvement with Fremont, Gillespie and Larkin in California just prior to the war. The story is bl...

The Origins of Chinese Communism (Book Review)

that China was extremely influenced by Russia and that instead, China was mostly influenced by a movement towards socialism (Dirli...

Book Review of Franklin Harold's The Way of the Cell:

organism in nature exists. While it is simple to say that the biological "riddle" of life, the understanding of cellular biology,...

Book Review of Tom Standage’s A History of the World in 6 Glasses

served as a form of currency in these regions because it was used as wage compensation. A crucial point Standage made is that bee...

A Book Review of a Classic

and that He should have in todays world. unfortunately, that statement made in 1950 is even more true today, more than 50 years la...

We Were Soldiers Once and Young Book Review

a mission after being in the midst of one of Vietnams most notorious battles. It was there that there was a 44% casualty rate as t...

Book Review of Child Victims Crime, Impact, and Criminal Justice

by many experts to be a "breakthrough" book - for the most part, while studies of victimization of adults of crime have been print...

Book review/Niccolo's Smile

it and hold it, are equated in contemporary society with the most ruthless of dictatorship, that is, leadership that is characteri...

Book Review of Han Unbound

perhaps what was most telling was the relationship between South Korea and the United States during the Asian Economic Crisis. ...

Book Review of Henry James' Daisy Miller

of Henry James work. James was both an author and a playwright and indeed he left a legacy of tremendous artistic accomplishments...

Book Review of The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

reader wish he or she could share in the adventure. The fantastic inventions and methods used by the Robinson family to make thei...

Book Review of The Study of Spirituality Edited by Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, and Edward Yarnold

that on the evolution of spirituality in the Middle Ages. For instance, Anthony Russells article, "Sociology and the Study of Spi...

Book Review of Story of Zahra by Hana al Shaykh

finds problems there, too, when her uncle becomes sexually interested in her and she agrees, in order to fend of his advances, to ...

Book Review of The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights

the Asian culture itself. Other than that, some of the authors point out that on the one hand, many times, Asian governmen...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

Book Review of The Artificial Silk Girl

soul, for cash? Throughout the work, the theme of money is inherent. She gets a job as an office worker. She wants to be on stage ...

Book Review of Sydney Finkelstein's Why Smart Executives Fail

the book is to help others avoid committing similar errors. The book focuses on a variety of firms which are mostly American comp...

A Book Review of Modern Middle East History

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

Book Review of Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt

In five pages this book review considers the Ogala Sioux holy man's story and the lessons readers can learn from it. One source i...

Reviewing Books on Architectural Design and Culture Building

wiring, plumbing, etc...have to be changed out every few decades or so. Space and stuff are the last to s layers in Brands book....

Book Review of Ann Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

would dare to challenge the social mores to effect societal change. She would become on of the first blacks to protest unfair trea...

Reviewing The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch by Thomas Mann

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

Book Review of Theda Perdue's Cherokee Women Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835

Perdue (1999) examines the role of gender in Cherokee life during one of the most turbulent times of their history. During the...

Summarizing and Reviewing Four Spirtuality Articles and Books

writers in this genre do the same thing, Andrews does seem to provide an extra sense of authenticity as dialogue is included to de...

Book Review of Morningstar Mercredi's Fort Chipewyan Homecoming, A Journey to Native Canada

home, Matthew normally lives one year with his mother and the following year with his father. This introduces a number of complex...

Book Review of Burton Gordon Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Malkiels particularly applicable considerations is the fact that risk capacities vary for individual investors according to a numb...

Book Reviews on the Japanese Samurai

In ten pages this paper reviews various texts on the Japanese Samurai class including Harry Cook's Samurai: The Story of a Warrior...

Book Review of Warpaths by Steele

group. Generally, American history books portray the white man as invading the Indians territory and that the Indians were meek. B...