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Bringhurst: "Elements of Typographic Style"

2002). Effective typography is also durable, not faddish; it changes when necessary but does not strive to keep up with the latest...

Procopius/The Secret History

was a counselor to Belisarius and accompanied him on several of his campaigns and he may have been a prefect of Constantinople (Ha...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

Fischer/Washington’s Crossing

action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then r...

Bogus Arguments Against Bilingual Education - Review

These background, including economic factors, have a proven impact on a childs ability and motivation to learn and affect that stu...

“The Story of Mathematics”

killed in battle. Whatever the precise thing or event they represented in that hazy chapter of mans early history, one thing is c...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

Above All Earthly Pow'rs By David F. Wells

is only one truth and it is this truth that all Christian churches should be promoting. Citing another author, Wells reports that ...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Goldratt and Cox

novel as the reader can not only relate to the characters life and his own personal struggles, such as within his relationship, bu...

Russell Bourne/Red King's Rebellion

starving settlers by sharing their corn (Bourne 1). Whenever it is appropriate, Bourne uses the words of both combatants and conte...

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird

was its initial audience?" The audience appears to be anyone interested in a first hand account of a place that they will likely n...

William Carey: Pioneer Missionary To India

p. 12). It was not until William had to seek new employment because his employer died that he began to take an interest in religi...

Oakes's Becoming Good American Schools

tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...

A Review of Masks in Modern Drama

depravity of which he is capable. The satiric mask isolates a characteristic, distorts or enlarges it, and freezes it permanently....

A Review of Galileo's Daughter

all previous centuries" (Sobel PG). Based upon one hundred and twenty-four remaining authentic letters that Maria Celeste wrote t...

Jacques Maritain's 'The Dream of Descartes'

chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...

Women Guarding Men by Lynn E. Zimmer

One of the most difficult tasks involved in data collection came from trying to obtain permission to interview male inmates. Howev...

Stephen Jay Gould Panda's Thumb

socially constructed food choices-and the availability of manufacturing plants, the creation of new food products and marketing-th...

Literature Overview on Medical Errors

Mistakes are sometimes made in transcribing data, or at the level of the practical or registered nurse. If patient data is not app...

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun and Canada

his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...

A Review of Genetic Turning Points The Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention

embryo warrant more respect and care than mere tissue. The embryo is potentially associated with a human person in the future" (Pe...

Randy Albeda and Chris Tilly's Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits Women's Work, Women's Poverty

blight on one of the strongest and wealthiest nations on Earth. The problems associated with poverty are tremendously complex and...

A Review of Coyote Blue

see him again he is Sam Hunter and he lives in Los Angeles, melding in with the population and the society. "Financially and socia...

Sanford Levinson's 'Written in Stone'

Soviet Union, examining Russia today. The program focused on how the people now have freedom, but dont quite know where to stop th...

H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights A Town, a Team, a Dream

that high school football in America is the product of a number of factors. Some of the more concerning, however, are illustrated...

Yogesh Chadha Gandhi A Life

and rely on previous works and historical documents to formulate a guideline. Since the publication of the entire 90 volumes of wo...

Living, Loving, and Learning by Leo F. Buscaglia

the US educational system. For example, take the problem of deciding on a curriculum that fits the needs of all school children....