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Wiencek/On George Washington

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

Book Report: Finance

evaluate expected future gain on the basis of present value. Assessing investment alternatives according to present value methods...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Conquest of Mexico

of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...

Boylan’s “She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders”

transsexual individuals is that they do not feel that their true identity is fulfilled in being the sex they were born. Many strug...

Hobsbawm/Age of Capital

subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...

Barrett/Interpreting Art/Chapters 2, 7 & 8

7 : In this chapter, the author broadens the topic of discussion, i.e., artistic interpretation, so that the reader is exposed to ...

Nickel Mountain by John Gardner

A book review of Nickel Mountain by John Gardner is presented in six pages. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

'The Iliad' Book 24

second is the code of Honor that prevails for both sides. The issues of courage, the sanctity of marriage and friendship and the h...

Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert

government, one which would serve the needs of the common people, France still fell into a state of corruption. At the youn...

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

The writer reviews the book Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning, which is a study of the way in which ordinary people can commit ...

Examining Existentialist Thought a Book by Ronald Grimsley

literary genre and includes writers such as Sartre himself but also Ibsen, Kafka and Ionesco (Crowell); these writers are usually ...

Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway's We Were Soldiers Once and Young on the Vietnam War

The Ia Drang Battle is the focus of this book review consisting of five pages. There are no other sources listed....

Orenstein's Smart but Stuck

(2001) draws on some of the personal experiences of those she interviewed for the book, providing the reader with a great deal of ...

Goblet of Fire

famed goblet of fire. The most important student in this aspect of the story is Cedric. Lastly there is the evil Voldemort....

The Cream of the Crime Crop

more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that wh...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

her story and by not putting in the names of locations either. Other than that her story is true. This is further documented in th...

Presidential Performance as it Relates to Character

Barber makes one fact exceptionally clear. That is that the characters of the men who have held the office of the U.S. Presidency...

The Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren

any aspect of the church that is antithetical to the purposes of the church should be eradicated. Essentially, Challies points out...

Essential Church? Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts

that church attendance plays an essential role in his or her life. In other words, the thrust of the book is not only to discern w...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

Out of Place

was as a child, but also later as an adult as he attended Princeton and Harvard. The theme involves both a historical examination ...

Jack Weatherford's 'Native Roots'

This is a book review consisting of 5 page that supports his belief that the basic constructs of society, culture, and politics in...

Intergovernmental Poltics and Uncovering the Dome by Amy Klobuchar

This is a book review consisting of six pages that discusses how politics impacted upon the early 1980s creation of Minneapolis's ...

Linda Gordon's Single Mothers and the History of Welfare - Pitied But Not Entitled

professionals were at best ambivalent on the question of whether women, married or unmarried, should be full-time mothers or peopl...

Living a Political Life by Madeline M. Kunin

In four pages the former Vermont Governor's book is reviewed emphasizing the political profession and its lack of women participan...

The Ungovernable City by Douglas Yates

2. the relationship between urban planning and the particular examples of New York and New Haven, with a definitive focus on the ...

The Progressive City by Pierre Clavel

In five pages the 1970s and 1980s civic government progression featured in Pierre Clavel's text is the focus of this book review. ...

A Review of Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory

views, and also goes on to suggest that his seemingly tenuous perspective on the application of science to social theory is based ...