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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...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind

them in Steps to an Ecology of Mind ("Bateson, Gregory 1904-1980"). At this time too his influence on mainstream anthropology beca...

Leadership and Self-Deception

A 5 page book review on Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute, which is a brief but prof...

A Review of The Peculiar Institution

many planters, and at least somewhat profitable for many others, a reality not truly experienced in any other institution at the t...

Robert F. Kennedy's 'Thirteen Days'

This paper consists of 14 pages and provides both a book review and a glimpse into the Cuban Missile Crisis as seen through the ey...

Professions and Disciplines by Daniel Rossides

deals with knowledge about how knowledge itself develops. From this starting point, Rossides goes on to discuss a brief history of...

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...

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...

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...

Cross My Heart

A 5 page review of the book by Maureen McCarthy. The focus is the character Michelle and the essay is presented in the form of a ...

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....

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...

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...

R. Kent Weaver's Ending Welfare As We Know It

All of this serves to work toward the betterment of labor productivity and a basic quality of life. Not everyone knows how or goe...

Ending Welfare As We Know It by R. Kent Weaver

All of this serves to work toward the betterment of labor productivity and a basic quality of life. Not everyone knows how or goe...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Book Reviews: "Holes" and "The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963"

all, Stanley is in the labor camp because of a mistake, not because hes guilty of anything. As the book progresses, and the boys d...

Churchill/The Gathering Storm

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

The Ethics of Death and Dying: Is There a Duty to Die?

right to live if it is possible, one could well argue that it is never anyones duty to die. Battins essay, however, speaks of th...

Boot: "The Savage Wars of Peace"

his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...

Early Intervention Programs and Student Achievement: A Review of Literature

result in substantial, widespread growth across both emergent literacy domains for those children most vulnerable for emergent and...

“Human Built World”

that probably springs to mind first is a computer. This is only one part, and a very small segment, of the vast human enterprise t...

Becoming Charlemagne by Sypeck

seemed incredibly successful, especially considering that his legacy is still powerful today. However, it also appears as though t...

The Last Voyage of Columbus by Dugard

2005; 44). In light of this information it appears as though Dugard is likely a very entertaining writer, but perhaps also ...

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...