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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

from his name and his pursuits that he is something of a dishonest boy and a boy who will stop at nothing to gain some power and m...

John C. Maxwell's 'Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know'

agendas, personalities, and motivation toward a single and common goal. Truly successful leadership is the result of one person or...

Frank Abagnale's Catch Me if You Can

really required to fly. He pretended to be a pilot for about 2 years and then moved on to pretending he was a doctor, with no on...

The Paradox of American Power by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

difficult to keep in intervening in internal matters that may affect American security or revenues, but Nye suggests it is essenti...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

Ideas From Jeffrey Watson on Counseling

needs of the counselor or to support and affirm that counselors own personal beliefs. It is extremely difficult to practice Bibl...

Bennis and Nanus and Kouzes and Posner

Most academics promote the premise that one is born with leadership ability or not but management can be taught. When he discusse...

Ideas From Two Books on Terrorism

met numerous times to discuss the possibility of attacking nuclear power plants and using chemical warfare in other venues, which ...

Why Teams Win: 9 Keys to Success in Business, Sport, and Beyond by Saul Miller

health care and the arts is when teams achieve a "synergy of intelligence, energy, talent and spirit" (Miller, 2009, p. 8). Mill...

Overview of Amy Chua's Book

to practice a musical instrument for 30 minutes or an hour each day but Chua requires her children to practice for three four hou...

Ancient Jewish Leaders

The major challenge in constructing histories of Israel and Judah is the fact that they were individuals but they also had cities ...

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 ...

On Our Own

This essay offers a brief report on the first five chapters in a book entitled, On Our Own. America in the Sixties. It takes the r...

Meat-Eating or Not

This report is based on a book by Pollan entitled the Omnivore's Dilemma. The writer poses two issues: the cruelty of farm animals...

The Bible And The Koran - Christianity And Islam

on which a religion is based. It is one of the forms of communication in the religion along with ritual activities, architecture a...

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...

Life Without Parole by Victor Hassine

guilty. However, Hassine did find a "voice." He happened upon some examples of prison authorship and realized that he "really di...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

The Roosevelt Presence The Life and Legacy of FDR by Patrick J. Maney

number of secondary sources listed and subdivided into ten chapters covering Roosevelts privileged youth, his marriage and growing...

Stephen D. Brookfield's The Skillful Teacher

students are not approached as though they were adults, a reality that Brookfield sees as very damaging to the teacher and learnin...

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

their purpose. Part Two, "The Nature of Emotional Intelligence," consists of six chapters, which details this phenomena, and reve...

Jeanne Watkatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar

fit into the structure of a country that essentially considers her Caucasian, to a point, and her familys adherence to their Japan...

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew's Blind Man's Bluff The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

had faded. Everyone was frightened when approached" (Weinberg 11). The result of their labors, the years of painstaking resear...

Valerie Polakow's Lives on the Edge Single Mothers and their Children in the Other America

children, Polakow says makes it seem as the nations elected officials and policy-makers think and act as if poverty seen is a priv...

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

of her tormentor, Sir Hugo Baskerville. According to legend, a trio of men noticed that, "Standing over Hugo, and plucking at his...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

Stephen King's Misery

well known novelist, would have called authorities. Annie does no such thing. Rather, she keeps him captive. During the time that ...

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

Song of the Brook by Matilda Nordtvedt

school program. The teacher has told them all that they need to come up with something. The teacher tells them, "Maybe youd like t...