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Customer Retention and Maximization

other ties, such as technological or formal bonds (Dwyer and Tanner, 2001). The payoff from long-term relationships are obvious:...

INTO THE WILD -- A SUMMARY AND REVIEW

and mood of the chapter -- and through others, is able to bring together the portrait of a young man who met his end on the other ...

Hitler’s Army by Omer Bartov

reality of Germanys soldiers. By examining the attitudes of both the higher and the lower echelons of the army, this book will att...

The Importance Of Nehemiah

out by Nehemiah in two sets, initially and then, upon his return (Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897). The Book of Nehemiah informs t...

Friedman: “Free to Choose”

there is also some "voluntary exchange" contained within it (Friedman). His example here is the Soviet Union, which of course wa...

Beverly Daniel Tatum: “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”

to become part of black culture, she had to be able to get away from the dominant white culture entirely. This wasnt possible in a...

“The Interruption of Everything” and the Realities of Middle Life

first consideration at least, obsessed with little other than work and golf. Marilyns children are grown and she has little to do...

White Privilege and Black Kids

womens disadvantages so vigorously that any discussion of the phenomenon has taken on the aspect of a social taboo (McIntosh, 1988...

Book Censorship

series and they desired this because they believed that it encouraged witchcraft. For anyone who has read them and is not of that ...

The Nature of Evil

permit others to do so on your behalf" (p.5). Despite the fact that the book is titled The Lucifer Effect, what makes people tick ...

“The Beat of a Different Drummer”

to look at John Goodlads ideas and see if he really is a "different drummer." For centuries, the educational model has been teach...

Bennett: “Why We Fight”

to it. Bennett seems to think that even daring to pose the question is somehow disloyal. The subtitle of the book is Moral Clarity...

SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN: AN ESSAY

the United Kingdom. Ultimately, though, she realized that maybe the way to get to England was through her husband. Furthermore, sh...

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

“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...

The American Way of War (Book Report)

eighteenth century. The Bush Doctrine is discussed and the author goes on to explain that it is something that would come about i...

An Extra Chapter for “Johnny Tremaine”

fight with the musket Rab left him. The task now is to figure out what a logical next step will be for these characters, in parti...

Demos: “The Unredeemed Captive”

people into the faith was unsurpassed. But the Puritans had come to the New World to escape religion (Catholic) persecution and to...

Book of Judges

was dictated by the author or that every word is a word of God directed to human for their salvation," as many of the words in the...

PROMOTIONAL CONTEST - SELLING A BOOK

February 13, with the winner to be announced on February 14. We restrict it to this two-week period to put a sense of urgency into...

The Unthinkable - Surviving a Disaster

she was in the building in 1993 when another attack took place; and despite the fact that the building actually rocked from the fo...

Beach’s Run Silent, Run Deep

become the commander of the Walrus. At this point Bledsoe becomes the executive officer of the vessel. In relationship to adventur...

Limbaugh Tells Readers So

of bellowing his unsupported opinions as if they were facts. Perhaps the most egregious of his faults is his constant attacks on ...

Rocket Boys by Homer Hickham

(Hickham, 2000, p. 1). That one simple opening sentence tells readers what kind of conflicts the book explores: there is the confl...

Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill

For example, she is intrigued when the ship passes islands that have herd of cattle grazing on them. The captain explained that lo...

Harvey: “The Chiapas Rebellion”

image: the Zapatistas (the revolutionaries) were wearing ski masks, an article of clothing that has a great many unpleasant associ...

Bone to Pick by Ellis Cose

that surely they had experienced unjust realities, but not really. In short, while this reader/writer has experienced the death of...

Kremlin Capitalism (Book Report)

capitalism in Russia, but it was very weak (Blasi, Kroumova & Kruse, 1996). It is no wonder then that the Russian Revolution would...

Martinson: "Views from a Tuft of Grass"

life, which may help to explain why he wrote about it in detail in Views from a tuft of grass. This book is a collection of essays...

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

slavery concerns and economic viability. In truth, the ultimate foundations of the government and the people, regardless of the si...