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Robert E. Kelley's How to be a Star at Work

star at work." Kelleys research with Bell Labs discovered that workers and bosses often did not even have the same "idea" of who ...

Timothy Egan's The Good Rain

In four pages the author's exploration of the Pacific Northwest is the focus of this text summary....

Max De Pree's Leadership Jazz

pull up a chair. De Pree correlates the skills of a jazz musician: improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration, with wo...

Paul Johnson's Modern Times

created the modern political zealot--and his crimes--so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the...

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Spartas men were its walls. Training: Pressfield divulges that training for Spartan "high-born" males begins at age thirteen. ...

Isabel Fonseca's Bury Me Standing and Ilona Lackova's A False Dawn

of being marginalized and stereotyped, and just beginning to understand that they have a collective identity (Maslin, 1995). The ...

Robert Putnan's Bowling Alone Summarized

group meetings like they used to. He brings in the idea of bowling, as seen in the title, indicating that there has been an incr...

Thomas and James Spradley's Deaf Like Me

how this is often the fault of the parents and society that insist they should be able to live in such a hearing world. The follow...

Infectious Greed by Frank Partnoy

been -- being overstated by as much as 25 percent. This drastically changed Bankers Trust balance sheet, effectively erasing the c...

Anthony Kemp's D-Day and the Invasion of Normandy

was paramount to any further success in ending the Second World War. His work is primarily aimed at simply offering facts, at show...

Analysis of William Ury's Getting Past No

"cluttered attic, full of old resentments and angers, gripes and stories" on page 59). In this regard, the steps involved mean def...

Yanomamo by Napoleon A. Chagnon

kinship and marriage. There is a great deal of marriage of cousins within this group. This trend is interesting as it differs a g...

Marcus Garvey's Africa for Africans and Alain Locke's The New Negro

black people of the nation to begin to take control, to rid themselves of 19th century dreams or ideals or expectations. His work ...

William Ivy Hair's Carnival of Fury Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900

about his troubled time and place" (Hair, 1986; 3). In this we see that Hair simply seems to desire to convey to the reader a hist...

John Leslie Livingston and Theodore Grossman's Edited Text The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting Third Edition

While the book is certainly comprehensive in most ways, it has a couple of problems. First, as with all "compilation" type of book...

Book Review of The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader by John C. Maxwell

Throughout the book, in fact, the key goal of Maxwell isnt necessarily how to grow and develop leadership, but rather, how to grow...

Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

the job at the time. It was his combination of intelligence and knowledge of the outdoors that made him the perfect candidate to b...

Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell

expected to appear in the public sphere, being confined to the household, Blundell notes that they do appear in the artwork and li...

Bossidy's Execution Getting Things Done

potential is never fulfilled. But dont most companies have some kind of a people process? According to this book, yes and no. The ...

Review of Cotton Belt to Sun Belt by Bruce Schulman

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

Fontana, California and Davis's City of Quartz

agricultural commune, with most people looking out for the other, in which agricultural products were the primary focus of barter....

Robert Cialdini's Influence The Psychology of Persuasion

the society has done well with this product and everyone will need one. Another term, scarcity seems to indicate that it is an app...

Homer on Life and Death by Jasper Griffin

example, he describes the heart-rending scene in which Andromache sees the dead body of her husband Hector being dragged behind Ac...

Review of Flyboys by James Bradley

- one that describes some pretty gruesome behavior on the part of the enemy, as well as a cover-up of two governments (United Stat...

Multiculturalism and Language Education

million in 1790 to 300 million in 2005" principally due to immigration (Kumaravadivelu, 2008, p. 69). However, while it is true th...

Voodoo Heritage by Michel Laguerre

In five pages this paper examines the anthropological text in an evaluation of the myths and rituals the author describes....

Toxic Sludge is Good for You by John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton

In five pages an analysis of this text is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Analysis of Gareth Morgan's Images of Organization

monitoring employee performance it can be determined whether appropriate work procedures are being followed and that the desired r...

Mortimer J. Adler's 10 Philosophical Mistakes

failure to recognize that ideas are meanings 4. the mistake of not acknowledging the contributions of philosophy are as important ...

1587, A Year of No Significance by Ray Huang

In five pages this paper examines the 1587 collapse of China's Ming dynasty as depicted in Ray Huang's text....