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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...

William Bratton and Peter Knobler's Turnaround: A Book Review

the cornerstone of his plan to tackle crime in New York City concisely and with great clarity. Shortly after becoming commissione...

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...

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, Birch and Rasmussen

is a biblical scholar and the other is a Christian ethicist, and they bring together their individual competencies to offer a comp...

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...

How to Write & Give Speech Book Review

This essay reports and discusses the major points in How to Write & Give a Speech by Joan Detz. Steps in writing the speech and th...

Book Review of Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth

In three pages this paper analyzes the bittersweet novel that describes a summer fling between a wealthy and pampered sexually act...

2 Books on the Constitution of the United States Reviewed

The books Democracy Under Pressure by Cummings and Wise and Burkhart, Krislov, and Lee's The Clash of Issues are examined in six p...

Book Review of Distress by Greg Egan

In five pages this paper discusses the science fiction text in terms of present and future technological and scientific parallels....

Book Review of Jaroslav Pelikan's Jesus Through the Centuries

In ten pages this paper compares biblical facts to the author's personal interpretation of Jesus as revealed in his text. There a...

A Book Review of Cerebral Palsy and Irish Medical Care in the 1930's

In 3 pages ‘My Left Foot' by Christy Brown is reviewed and examines the story of how a man's struggles with severe paralysis...

The Wind Won't Know Me Book Review

In a paper consisting of five pages the conflict between the Hopi and Navajo is examined especially in terms of the impact this st...

Book Review of Robert S. Lorch's State and Local Politics

In five page this paper presents a review of Robert S. Lorch's text that emphasizes the importance of state governments in terms o...

Book Reviews on the U.S. and Democracy

In six pages various principles of democracy are examined within the context of the texts The Politics of Democracy by Pendleton H...

Book Review on Airline Industry Problems

In four pages the 1995 book Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger is reviewed with the focus being airline industry problems along with...

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 Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

Book Review of Lisa Delpit's Other People's Children

teacher instead acts as a "chum," the message sent is that this adult has no authority, and the children react accordingly" (Delpi...

Book Review of In The Presence of Dinosaurs

chapter begins by delving into the Mesozoic Era and provides dates that are factually correct. The illustrations in this book are ...

Book Review of Four Hours in My Lai by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim

who were interviewing members of Charlie Company. Simpson had taken part in the massacre at My Lai in March 1968; his subsequent l...

A Book Review of 'Adolf Hitler, aA Study In Tyranny' by Allan Bullock

1918. The Slavs were a potential reservoir of labor power formerly organized by Germans, and since 1917 by Jewish Bolsheviks who h...

Book Review of Surviving The Holocaust

In five pages this reaction paper reviews Avraham Tory's diary Surviving the Holocaust....

Book Review of A Place Among Nations by Benjamin Netanyahu

In five pages Netanyahu's 1993 text in which he provides powerful and insightful considerations of Israel and the world is discuss...

Book Review of David Holloway's Stalin and the Bomb

In nine pages a review of this text is presented. Five other sources are cited in the bibliography....

Book Review on the Life and Voyage of Christopher Columbus

Samuel Eliot Morrison's Admiral of the Ocean Sea about Christopher Columbus is the focus of this analysis and book review consisti...

Book Review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

been hired, almost on the spot. Her "almost on the spot" hire is a job with a hotel restaurant, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. for $2.43 ...

Book Review of Near Failure in Kosovo by Wesley Clark

Serbian "ethnic cleansing" (a euphemistic term for genocide) which was then going on in Kosovo. It was Clarks belief that it was i...

Main Street (Book Review)

a big city person comes to an outlying area and wants to make change. During the 1970s, Oliver Wendell Douglass was a character wh...