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Greenleaf's Ideas 25 Years Later

Greenleaf's first essay on servant leadership in 1970 presented a very different way of looking at leadership. He argues that a pe...

Practical Guide for Policy Analysis/Eugene Bardach

This book review pertains to A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis by Eugene Bardach, which focuses on the introductory chapter as...

Is It Scholarly? Generation Me

This book review of Jean M. Twenge's Generation Me focuses on the question of whether this is a scholarly work. The writer present...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

This book review pertains to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The writer argues that this is a hilarious satire th...

Terrorism Fiction vs Nonfiction

This paper reviews the nonfiction book "News of a Kidnapping" and the fictional "Bel Canto". There are two sources listed in this...

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown

This book review concerns Dr. Mike's Brown text that recounts how his discoveries resulted in the reclassification of Pluto. Seven...

Health Care Reform by Paul Starr

This essay offers a review and analysis of Paul Starr's Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Refor...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Ondaatje/Anil’s Ghost

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

Layne/Peace of Illusions

the U.S. undermined the British Empire through a combination of "conditional aid and political leverage," which made eradication o...

Creation of Violent Criminals

unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argue...

Karen Armstrong's Buddha

happy married life. However, Siddhartha Gotama started to question what he observed in the world. At the time, it was accepted tha...

King Leo's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

his rights to the Congo--his personal rights. The region only became known as the Belgian Congo and was ruled by the Belgian gover...

1776 by McCullough

sense of completion after each portion. Further, the chapters do flow well into one another within the distinct parts. The book a...

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

Henry Petroski's 'Small Things Considered'

different ways. Another, even more important point is that good design isnt perfect design; indeed, there is no such thing as perf...

Henry James's 19th Century Critique of John S. Sargent's 'Lady with the Rose' Painting

lived a privileged upbringing throughout Europe (Downes 5). Lacking a university education did not deter this young sketch artist...

Cultural Dimension of International Business by Gary Ferraro

business. The topic of cultural competence is rather overwhelming as there are thousands of cultures throughout the world. Ferraro...

Phantoms in the Brain and Why Do They Act That Way? Annotated Book Reviews

tyrannize their teachers" (Walsh; Bennet, 2005; 1). They then indicate that adolescence is the time between childhood and adulthoo...

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

of the tension between the two boys is the fact that Amir, who is "quiet, bookish," is jealous of the attention that his father gi...

Books on the Mind Annotations

shirt while the other hand unbuttons it. The last section of the book deals with speculation about future discoveries relative to ...

Story of the Little Big Horn by Col. W.A. Graham

In 1874, according to Graham, Custer was sent into the Black Hills for exploratory purposes, which "naturally" aroused anger among...

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? by Louis Gerstner

Gerstner identified four immediate concerns: Should he break IBM "into many freestanding businesses?" (Duncan). How should he "cha...

Fantasia

was brutal and racist, and it "alienated the vast majority of Algerians" (French colonization, 2002). The French attempted to "acc...

Second Reconstruction and Southern Politics According to Numan Bartley and Hugh Graham

in the South following World War II. This section of the book describes the "one party politics" of the region, a time when Repub...

Summary and Review of 'A Gift of Hope'

second section called Survival Strategies, contains 5 parts and seems to be the meat of this book. The first part is entitled Pres...

Review of the Text Managing Finance for Quality

helped to who how TQM could be used in terms of accounting price in order to increase value in a firm and increase the profit or t...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

“The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”

and vision. The problem that immediately presents itself, as might be expected, is that many of these concepts are less than self...

“Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors”

through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...