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Counseling According to Scripture

can help. Anderson points out that secular counseling is not holistic in that it does not generally include the persons spiritual...

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...

Geraldine Brooks and the Lessons of History

that the flight attendant had "one of those big, perfect German smiles" and referring to her a few lines later as Fraulein Smiley-...

Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber

nations universities, in order to stay viable financially, have placed undue emphasis on their sports programs, utilizing a perspe...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

and reinforcement. In her case, this led to fairly early experimentation with sex and drugs. Lamott doesnt sensationalize her exp...

SUZE ORMAN AND BOOK REVIEW

paying upwards of 10% on interest for credit cards verses the paltry 3% or 4% that one earns on a savings account, this is a solid...

Code of Ethics for Nurses/The ANA Guide

evolved through various versions of the ANA Code. In addition to describing the duties and obligations that provision 1 entails, T...

Mother's Perspective/Asperger Syndrome

years before Jimmys parents even had a definitive diagnosis of AS. Once Fling and her husband had a diagnosis, they found that exp...

Unshakable Foundations By Norman L. Geisler And Peter Bocchino

and anyone the person speaks with. The authors explain that a worldview is like "an intellectual lens through which people view ...

John C. Maxwell/Thinking For A Change

the authors father observed that successful people tended to have positive thoughts not only about themselves, but also of others....

Lerner/Grimke Sisters

is not a phenomenon that emerges overnight. It builds over decades. Angelina and Sarah Grimke argued for womens rights a full ten ...

Leon Bing/Do or Die/Youth Gangs

youre that thirteen or fourteen-year-old kid youre probably sitting quietly, trying to wind your thoughts into as tight a package...

Kennedy/Profiles in Courage

Senators that follows. Kennedy begins with a profile of John Quincy Adams, and how Adams was castigated by members of his own pa...

Ryan's Empire of the Mother

must have felt. Child makes a bold statement and Ryan sees fit to include it in her work. Ryan (1985) adds in the context of Child...

Examination of Beneficence/For the Patient's Good

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

Biographies of Charles Dickens

Several biographies are compared and contrasted in this essay that focuses on two books. An additional book is also reviewed in th...

An Overview of 2 Corinthians

you know the depth of my love for you." Other scholars believe 2 Corinthians is actually a fourth letter that Paul wrote to them (...

Going to Law School by Harry Castleman and Christopher Niewoehner

In five pages this report reviews the book's first few chapters in order to examine what valuable personality characteristics a la...

Stephen Ambrose The Triumph of a Politician

The writer reviews the Stephen Ambrose book The Triumph of a Politician, which regards Richard Nixon as an effective political lea...

Past and Present American Negro Dilemma According to Dr. Martin Luther King

In eight pages this essay considers Dr. King's Where Do We Go From Here Chaos or Community? and compares the conditions to 30 yea...

Jesus, CEO, Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership

The writer reviews the Laurie Beth Jones book Jesus, CEO, which gives business advice based on the leadership techniques demonstra...

The D. Keightly Book Shang & Zhou Dynasties An Historical Examination

The writer reviews the D. Keightly book Shang & Zhou Dynasties, which provides an analysis of the Chinese civilization includi...

Reviewing Rhetoric in William Wilson's The Truly Disadvantaged

In this five page review the book's content, language use and organization as ways of establishing credibility are analyzed. Thi...

The Crusades by Riley-Smith

of crusaders, demonstrating that it was religious zeal and absolute devotion to the Roman Catholic Church, which was associated an...

A Theology Book For Everyone

words of major scholars and theologians from the past and present to explain ideas. There is another statement the author makes ...

Introduction to Evangelism by Alvin Reid

chapters in the first two sections and eight in the final section of the book. The first section covers ministers and church leade...

Mathabane/Kaffir Boy

a distinct segment of the society. In US history, anyone with even a drop of African blood was considered culturally to be "black"...

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...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...