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The Importance of Managing Emotions

the literature on the subject by visiting fables or creating stories to demonstrate the importance of emotion. Goleman (1997) ex...

Lessons On Leadership By Jack Stahl - Book Review

and this is what the book is about - seven basic broad skills. Jack Stahl held top executive positions at two global corporations ...

Rhoads' The Economist's View of the World

flexibility in economics, and again, he includes a blend of other social sciences, demonstrating that economics is inextricable wi...

Friedman’s The World is Flat

of companies such as Dell and AOL to outsource their telephone centres has created jobs, but also meant that the has been the abil...

Review of Project Management: A systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling

the project management approach a relatively modern idea and states he sees it as "characterized by methods of restructuring manag...

Why Be Moral?

todays society, but the search for contentment goes back centuries. For many searchers, happiness comes and goes, but it is a popu...

Jack London/Call of the Wild

In deciding how to interpret Call of the Wild, another comment made by Labor is also insightful, as he writes that "In book after...

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...

Book of Esther

no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...

DeParle/American Dream

Hauptmann School of Public Affairs defines "public affairs" in terms that underscore the significance of the inter-relationships t...

Campano/Immigrant Students and Literacy

child with immense social capabilities and skill, and someone capable of discussing weighty issues, such as the colonization of th...

Joseph Nye/Paradox of American Power

which hold the possibility of balancing "diplomatic and informational power."vii Nye believes that the U.S. should take a stand be...

“The Ancient Celts”

provides the details that are lacking in the classical accounts of the Celts. Cunliffe wrote "The Ancient Celts" with the f...

“Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

“The World Is Flat”: The Mixed Impacts of Globalization

The title of Friedmans book relates to the misperceptions Columbus dispelled in the fifteenth century. His trip across the seas l...

Diaz del Castillo/The Conquest of New Spain

and pride of race, a lust of gold and a blind faith in their religion, together with an absolute contempt for that of other men we...

Reflections on Nelson Mandela

justice of victims and their families, while allowing perpetrators who confessed to experience forgiveness and reconciliation" (So...

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...

Master of the Rohan Hours

("Master"). It is also believed by scholars that the extensive biblical cycle contained in the Rohan Hours is based on the Bible m...

Stuik’s “A Concise History of Mathematics”

and the development of the numbers such as three being the adding of the words for one and two being put together. When talking ...

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 ...

Wisdom from Caring for the Caregiver

experience with the technique of visualization. In examining all of these pointers, it will become clear that they can help one ex...

Dan Brown: "Angels and Demons"

modern, the setting and the rising stars, were in the sky together ... As the rift between the spiritual and the material values w...

Paulo Freire/Pedagogy of the Oppressed

pedagogical approach is his definition of what it means to be a "democratic" instructor, that is someone who encourages and facili...

The Christian Ideal of Love in "Dead Man Walking"

down, and shot them in the head. I look down at the name in horror. Do I really want to know such a man?" (Prejean, 1994). That i...

Yates/Politics of Management

by this organization. Yates begins his text with an introductory chapter that concentrates on the role that business leaders pla...