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The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

Book Reviews on 3 Culinary Texts

highly susceptible to pathogens because of the high water content of its lean muscle and that poultry is often water chilled.2 Th...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

of nineteenth century author Jules Verne (1828-1905) helped to create the foundation of the modern science fiction genre. The fert...

Book Summary and Critique of The Feminine and the Sacred

This paper summarizes the book, but also includes a brief critique. The book is the only source listed in the bibliography of thi...

Book III of Psalms

p. 107). However, the psalmist goes on to indicate that this reaction was foolish as this simply took into account the current sta...

A Most Fortunate Ship

particular national treasure which has taken the military through many different periods in history. Such is further enhanced by M...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Wheatley/Leadership & the New Science

leaders create charts, statistics and graphs that have at their core the notion that an organization is like a complex machine tha...

"All the Shah's Men"

elected prime minister of Iran" (Keddie, 2003). Once Mossadegh was gone, the U.S. "reinstalled the countrys exiled monarch, Mohamm...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

The Idea of Dreams from Toni Morrison and Alain Locke

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

Handy's Age of Paradox

to do it in todays economy. Additionally, he paints a picture of people working more and more hours of work in order to keep aflo...

African Colonialism

A. Abu Boahen gives an unusual view of the colonial experience in African Perspective on Colonialism. Most books take the European...

David Lambert's, The Field Guide to Geology

This book report discusses the book, The Field Guide to Geology. The author covers topics such as the makeup of the Earth, rocks,...

Overview of One Hell of a Gamble Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964 by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali

is evident that Fursenko played a major role in assessing some of the documents that became available following the opening of the...

The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

This one book which is really four books in one is the focus of this paper. Slavery and slave issues are discussed in depth. This...

Chapter 5 of Race Rules by Michael Eric Dyson

In eleven pages this is a letter written to the book's author regarding chapter five. There are no other sources listed....

John Galtung/Theory and Methods of Social Research

located outside the social scientist himself, and we shall follow this tradition" (Galtung 9). As this indicates, Galtung does not...

Becoming New Yorkers

the facts revealed by Lopez concerns the way in which speaking Spanish is punitively regarded in the high school that was the focu...

“Same Kind of Difference as Me”

even today. There is a well defined societal gap between the rich of this country and the poor. Typically, the rich echelon of o...

Analysis of Sandra Steingraber’s Living Downstream

Both have been linked to cancer" (p. 6). This began, for Dr. Steingraber, a lifelong crusade to educate herself and others about ...

The Family Crucible (Reaction Paper)

This 5 page paper reacts to chapters 5 through the end of the book. Both a professional and personal reaction is provided for this...

Book Report on Mark Sanborn’s The Fred Factor

of course, it only takes one person in any organization to "make a difference" (Sanborn, 2004, p. 8). The second principle, Succe...

A Surgeon's War On Breast Cancer

In this three page essay, the writer provides a Critique, as well as a Summary of this book written by Molly O'Neill. One source w...

Literature Review

in that industry prior to the innovation (Enrico and Alessandro, 2007). The authors use Hewlett-Packard and the digital camera ind...

Karen Cronkite on Depression

sought. A third point that Cronkite makes is that human behavior is complex. There is a tendency in American society to want to ...

Organizations; Chapter Summaries

This 35 page paper provides a summary of 5 chapters of a book provided by the student. The book concerns the nature of organizatio...

The Accuracy of American History Books

faced. Foner explains that by the time the Savannah Colloquy would come around, slavery was already an institution3. He explains t...

Creating a Sense of Community

describes in his book, neither side truly listened to the other. They were all primarily concerned with converted the opposing sid...

“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down”

sense to Western medicine, but it didnt make sense to Lias parents; or rather, it wouldnt make sense even if they could find someo...