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Davis' Celluloid Mirrors

This book review of a work by Ronald Davis is the subject of focus. Celluloid Mirrors examines Hollywood during the twentieth cent...

New Joy of Gay Sex Book Review

In four pages this book is critiqued and reviewed with a discussion of topics covered in the text and AIDS related issues with the...

Lance Armstrong and the notion 'Its Not About the Bike'

on Armstrongs body but the real heroics are attributable to the man and to the body itself! Armstrong was diagnosed with te...

Review of Rodney Wilson's Economic Development in the Middle East

considering arguments that explain its development. Other questions tackled in the book include issues such as the role of religio...

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 ...

David McCullough The Great Bridge

over 276 feet above the high water; and weighed an overwhelming 14,680 tons (Wright 616). For anyone who had the opportunity to s...

Quantum Healing: By Deepak Chopra

has written; there are even video and audio cassettes/DVDs explaining his approach to healing. As with his other publications, Qua...

Transforming Discipleship by Greg Ogden

This book review focuses on the first three chapters of Greg Ogden's Transforming Discipleship, Making Disciples a Few at a Time. ...

A Theology As Big As the City by Ray Bakke

This book review pertains to Rau Bakke's A Theology As Big as the City. First of all, the writer/reviewer describes Bakke's primar...

Mary of Plymouth by James Otis

This book review pertains to a book authored by Otis in 1910, which is designed to appeal to young readers and provide them with a...

Chris Matthews/Hardball

with the name of Chris Matthews because this is the name of the MSNBC television show on which Matthews appears as the host. Howev...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

Searching for Urban Theology

This paper presents a book review of City of God, City of Satan by Linthicum. The main ideas in the book are reported as are the r...

Bondage Breaker by Neil Anderson

This book review is on Neil T. Anderson's "The Bondage Breaker." After summarizing the overall text, the writer offers commentary ...

The Fragile Bridge

which was eager to join with the silk workers in their fight against the oppression of the factories. The Wobblies were a radic...

Richard Orsi/Sunset Limited

been presented in dichotomous terms. On one side is the "selfish, greedy, corporate interests" and on the other, stand "the people...

Roots & Wings/York, Early Childhood Education

such as the idea that young children do not notice or understand bias. Chapter three discusses racism, addressing key questions an...

The California Gold Rush & the coming of the Civil War

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

Review of "Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society"

of the group of Detroits new competition. The purpose of the many trips to Japan was to "find out why the Japanese automakers wer...

Herbert Gans/Urban Villagers

slum" and while its residents had their own problems, these difficulties did not evolve from living in this neighborhood (Gans xiv...

Paulo Coelho/The Alchemist

he meets, as well as the lessons that he learns. This plot sounds simplistic and stereotypical, and in many ways this is true; how...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

The Alchemist by Coehlo

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...

Bennett: "The Book of Virtues"

responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...

Cry of the Urban Poor by Viv Grigg

This book review is on Viv Grigg's Cry of the Urban Poor, which relates the author's experiences living and ministering to the urb...

The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience by Ronald Sider

This book review pertain to Ronald Sider's The Scandal of Evangelical Conscience, which discusses the discrepancies between belief...

Common Sense Economics by Gwartney et al.

This book review is on Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity by James D. Gwartney and his ...

I and Thou by Martin Buber

This book review is on Martin Buber's "I and Thou." The writer explains Buber's arguments and position and recommends reading the...

Anne Moody's 1968 Memoir

Anne Moody was raised in the rural South where she suffered extreme racism throughout school and beyond. She was a very active mem...

Midnight Rising, Tony Horwitz

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...