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Where the Red Fern Grows

"I asked him not to say anything to my father. He promised me he wouldnt" (Rawls 20). He finally has enough money to buy the puppi...

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...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

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

Freakonomics The Truth About the Economics of Dealing Drugs

Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or...

The Day of Battle - Rick Atkinson Looks at the Italian Campaign

on whether or not to invade Italy; its quite another to read about the meeting between FDR and Churchill, the dickering that took ...

Hunter Thompson and The Hells Angels

topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...

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...

Emerging Christianity in the Book of Acts

have had too much wine" (Acts 2:13). Peter addresses the crowd, pointing out that the men are sober and relating this mira...

Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...

Review of An Article on a Text on “The Yellow Wallpaper”

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

University Of Virginia = Recruitment Process

include both staff and faculty (University of Virginia, Employment, 2008). Types of employees include professional teaching facult...

Makdisi/Beirut Fragments

Maronite Militancy: The Creation and Disintegration of Lebanon," perhaps, offers implications for Makdisis seemingly inexplicable ...

Post-WWII Canada/2 books

baby-boomers from their beginning, at wars end, to the end of the sixties" (Owram xii). His then states that his discussion also i...

Mary Pipher/Another Country

age that are frequently expressed within Western society evolve, at least partially, from the changes in social status that occur ...

Topographical Approaches to Architectural History

"quiet zone of large mansions and parks."iv While a large tract of land was needed for the building of the cathedral, this locatio...

Raboteau & Elkins/2 Views of Slavery

performing these rites for the multitude of abducted Africans who died in transit to the Americas. In the second chapter, Rabote...

Review of "Making Horses Drink: How to Lead and Succeed in Business"

rider must understand each other so well that they can move as one, which requires that true two-way communication exists between ...

Churchill/The Gathering Storm

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

Leadership and Self-Deception

A 5 page book review on Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute, which is a brief but prof...

Comparison of The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan and Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

were women who had achieved positions of social respectability. There is admittedly little in the way of biographical information...

Book Report on Carl Sagan's The Cosmos

Earth is both unique and insignificant at the same time. This serves to both make the reader humble and proud at the same time. Ma...

Evaluating Websites for Purchasing Books

books. Thus, Barnes & Noble appears to be the best choice as far as money is concerned. Barnes & Noble is by far the most popula...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

2 Books on the French Revolution Analyzed

the political and social upheaval involved in the coming of the French Revolution. He primarily focuses on the political struggles...

A Book Review of Modern Middle East History

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

A Comparison of the Book and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

the only ones allowed to have money, only serve to reinforce the institutions which helped them rise to power in the first place. ...

Analysis of the Book of Daniel

being able to recognize the great number of his prophecies that have come to pass. III. Daniel and Prayer IV. The Antichrist V. P...

Book 2 of Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

the American population was not native born American; in the minds of United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly ...

Reviewing The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch by Thomas Mann

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...