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Book Review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

been hired, almost on the spot. Her "almost on the spot" hire is a job with a hotel restaurant, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. for $2.43 ...

Book Review of Near Failure in Kosovo by Wesley Clark

Serbian "ethnic cleansing" (a euphemistic term for genocide) which was then going on in Kosovo. It was Clarks belief that it was i...

Book Reviews on 3 Culinary Texts

highly susceptible to pathogens because of the high water content of its lean muscle and that poultry is often water chilled.2 Th...

BOOK REVIEW: MIND HUNTER

because it shows the toll of Douglas work on his health and personal life. This is very clear from the first paragraph of the prol...

African Underclass by Andrew Burton, a Book Review

objectives: In African Underclass: Urbanization, Crime and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam, 1919-61, author Andrew Burton provides...

Remembrance of Repasts (Book Review)

that is consumed and purchased perhaps more than anything else, as it is something that people need to live. Yet, food is also att...

The General in His Labyrinth (Book Review)

a short period of time, it should be said that what is distinguished is Bolivars story. The novel is biographical more than it is ...

What's Wrong with Democracy (Book Review)

geared for someone who already knows much about Athens. That said, this will appeal to those with much knowledge about the roots o...

Gideon's Trumpet: Book Review

a lifetime of prison sentences], a flame still burned in Clarence Earl Gideon. He had not given up caring about life or freedom; ...

Book Review of Lisa Delpit's Other People's Children

teacher instead acts as a "chum," the message sent is that this adult has no authority, and the children react accordingly" (Delpi...

Book Review of Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt

In five pages this book review considers the Ogala Sioux holy man's story and the lessons readers can learn from it. One source i...

Book Review of Han Unbound

perhaps what was most telling was the relationship between South Korea and the United States during the Asian Economic Crisis. ...

Book Review of Henry James' Daisy Miller

of Henry James work. James was both an author and a playwright and indeed he left a legacy of tremendous artistic accomplishments...

Book Review of The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

reader wish he or she could share in the adventure. The fantastic inventions and methods used by the Robinson family to make thei...

Book Review of The Study of Spirituality Edited by Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, and Edward Yarnold

that on the evolution of spirituality in the Middle Ages. For instance, Anthony Russells article, "Sociology and the Study of Spi...

Book Review of Story of Zahra by Hana al Shaykh

finds problems there, too, when her uncle becomes sexually interested in her and she agrees, in order to fend of his advances, to ...

A Book Review of Ben Hamper's 'Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line'

the majority of the workers at GM during this time period in that his life at GM was not the best in terms of the conditions that ...

Book Reviews on the Japanese Samurai

In ten pages this paper reviews various texts on the Japanese Samurai class including Harry Cook's Samurai: The Story of a Warrior...

Book Review of James Fallow's Breaking the News How the Media Undermine American Democracy

the press separating itself from its ability to act as a public forum for political issues. Fallow brings to our attention ...

A Review of Mike Rose's Book, Lives on the Boundary

house. Sometimes that extended to taking Mike to the large library downtown. Lou would teach Mike about astronomy, taught him how ...

A Book Review of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men

under surveillance. The government does all they can to frustrate the story, sending them erroneous leads which go nowhere. In fac...

Samuel Adams Radical Puritan Book Review

in his life. ""Delivering five children, three deaths among them took a heavy toll on Elizabeth...Elizabeth died on 25 July" (Fow...

A Review of Two Books on Poverty by Newman and Gans

And, about half of the working poor have no health benefits at all, they earn too much for Medicaid and they cannot possibly buy h...

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...

A Review of the William Cronan Book Changes in the Land

back to England for profit. The colonists approached New England from a capitalistic stance, a stance that included detai...

Book Review of Management Accounting

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

We Were Soldiers Once and Young Book Review

a mission after being in the midst of one of Vietnams most notorious battles. It was there that there was a 44% casualty rate as t...

Book Reviews China's Growth

regular basis. One story is very nearly unbelievable. A young woman took her application to college tests and was informed that sh...

A Book Review of a Classic

and that He should have in todays world. unfortunately, that statement made in 1950 is even more true today, more than 50 years la...

Book review/Niccolo's Smile

it and hold it, are equated in contemporary society with the most ruthless of dictatorship, that is, leadership that is characteri...