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A Review of An Hour Before Daylight

and gather a crop. "Good or bad fortune for owners of smaller farms would inevitably be shared by their tenants," Carter noted....

Review of Anthony Horowitz's Point Blank

a book by its cover. The boys, when sent to Point Blanc, are bonafide, out of control, juvenile delinquents who suddenly become mo...

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...

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...

Sandra Brown's Mirror Image

the daughter who has lost a mother and does not know it: "She was growing too attached to the child and wanted desperately to help...

Randy Roberts and James S. Olson's A Line in the Sand, the Alamo in Blood and Memory

he was God" (6). As each man is introduced by the authors, such as William Barret Travis, the leader of the Texans; Davy Crockett,...

Analysis of the Movie How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days

be funny, but it winds up just being painful, sad, and unpleasant to watch. Since Andies goal is to drive Ben away, she delibera...

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...

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...

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 Management Accounting

But what, exactly, is management accounting information? The authors point out that, according to the Institute of Management Acco...

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...

Maxwell's There's No Such Thing As 'Business Ethics' There's Only One Rule Reviewed

As well see below, Maxwell is not highly in favor of so-called "ethical behavior," because he believes that ethics is very simply ...

A Review of The Longest Winter

men is a rare story, and a very powerful story in the history of WWII. It is a story of humanity, as well as the lack of humanity ...

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...

A Review of The Thief Lord

He steals so that he can make sure the boys get enough to eat and get clothes. At one point in the story there is a pawn shop o...

The Rosewood Casket by Sharyn McCrumb

Year and the Best Appalachian Novel (Who Dunnit). She has also received the Edgar, Nero, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity awards (Who ...

Seven Samurai

and precise technical skill" (Seven Samurai, 2007). He is the true hero in many ways for he is generous, sincere and stands a nobl...

Don Higginbotham's George Washington and the American Military Tradition

was developed to address people face-to-face and not only through written material. This puts a somewhat personal touch to his wor...

Review of Martha Ballard's Diary, A Midwife's Tale

perform verses women and the social differences which existed at that time between the two sexes. Ballards writings unveil ...

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

in the book we first examine the introduction. In this introduction Lewis indicates that there are many different types of Chri...

Jana Childers' Edited Text Birthing the Sermon

the most part, it is a book aimed at other preachers and religious individuals. It seems to aim at an audience that may, or may no...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War

Caputo's Vietnam War memoir is reviewed in a paper consisting of two and a half pages....

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

The civil rights movement occupies the primary focus of this book review which consists of two and a half pages....

James Wilson's The Earth Shall Weep A History of Native America

in the Americas. These include a migration over the Bering Strait land bridge, multiple migrations from multiple locations, and a...

Character Development in The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...

William Leach's Land of Desire

and leisure. Leach attempts to illustrate that the materialistic world of consumerism was around many decades prior to this time. ...

John Morton Blum's V Was for Victory Reviewed

the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through ...

Book Review of Burton Gordon Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Malkiels particularly applicable considerations is the fact that risk capacities vary for individual investors according to a numb...