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A Review of the Promises Vs the Ethics of Stem Cell Research

of stem cell research. These first three chapters benefit from the contributions of James Thompson himself (the man that first is...

May's Addiction and Grace

ideas about religion or spirituality as after all, most addiction treatment is found in such areas. This psychiatrist draws on his...

Copyright, Google and Its Digital Library

in which Google does business with authors and publishers (Waters, 2009). The most important part of the scenario appears to be ...

Addictions and Their Cure

using heroin and other drugs" (3). The counselors were focused on getting him into another rehab or recovery program, or going to ...

Stop Fearing, Start Thinking

and try to block all attempts at reform, whether its health care, keeping the Internet free of corporate gatekeepers, improving ed...

Carol Berkin on Women in the American Revolution

propaganda; they raised money for the army and to support the new government ("About this book"). Berkin shows how they ran farms ...

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 ...

Lincoln and His Odd Cabinet

The writer discusses Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book “Team of Rivals,” which describes President Lincoln’s cabinet. It was unusual in ...

Elkind’s The Hurried Child

of the book the author speaks of schools and society, technology and parents as they all push children in many ways. In a statemen...

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 Biblical Ruth

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

The Honor Code of the Old South

relatively inconsequential. For those interested in the Old South, however, the book provides an insight that is not so easily ma...

Developing The Leader Within You

evident over the last fifteen years almost makes long-range planning a waste of time but we know that long-range planning today sh...

Nicholas Copernicus and His Times

the duty of an astronomer, which is to observe the motion of celestial bodies and then devise explanations for these motions (Osia...

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...

To Be (long) or Not to Be (Long)

the idea that as father and son they belong together and belong to the same family group, but at the same time, as individuals, th...

This Republic of Suffering

things as the often unnoticed reality wherein many dead were never identified. It illustrate, even, how some people were believed...

The Quintessential Leader

One of the theories from the mid-1990s that is still getting a lot of press is Golemans introduction of emotional intelligence as ...

Howell Raines and the Civil Rights Movement

is today. In order to understand where were going, we have to know where weve been, and Raines shows part of that struggle in vivi...

Grisham Indicts the Criminal Justice System

cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...

Wanting to Belong

hes written the book in blank verse. This means that it calls attention to itself but it does so with a purpose. Each poem, becaus...

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...

Farewell to Manzanar

She further notes how her mother worked every day and he stayed home and she was "ashamed of him for that and, in a deeper way, fo...

Scott: The Logistics of War

the lessons learned from the process. It is the last that might be most valuable. As an example lets look at Grenada, since it is ...

Rereading America: Education

are quite different, and sadly so. He puts it right out there: Americas schools are as segregated now as they were in the 1950s, o...

Seneca Falls and the Women’s Movement

simply did an overview of the movement. One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Dec...

Galileo, Science, and the Church

that this success could mean tremendous wealth and prestige for Galileo (Maran and Marschall, 2009). Galileo was, after a...

“King Leopold’s Ghost”

earned (Hochschild, 1998). But there can be no doubt that he was a historian, and a good one; W.E.B. Dubois called him the "greate...

Pollan's Botany of Desire

of focus in this particular investigation-is interestingly the one that is equated with control; it is noted that the potatoes tha...

Who Freed The Slaves

that affirmation. McPherson uses Vincent Hardings book "There is a River..." as a source. Harding argued the slaves freed themselv...