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The Weeping Prophet

The Book of Jeremiah is the longest book in the Bible containing more words than any other book. The greatest majority of the Book...

Robert D. Hare on Psychopaths

offer some explanation for the egocentric and aggressive behavior of psychopathic individuals. As Hare locates deviant behavior ...

3 Reviews on Religious Books

a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

The Need for Hard-Back Books

numbers. Sometimes, those who digitize these books number the paragraphs, but often they do not. Most of the books in Project Gute...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Chrysler LLC - An Analysis

wheelbases, power steering, air bags, the first minivans, the first SUVs, the first muscle cars and so much more (Chrysler, About ...

History and Traps

discovered that she was pregnant after Harry left for the War. It sounds like a soap opera because Harry did not return from the ...

Book Review of Tom Standage’s A History of the World in 6 Glasses

served as a form of currency in these regions because it was used as wage compensation. A crucial point Standage made is that bee...

Book II of the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

even falling ill himself (Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica: Thucydides). During a heated campaign in 424, Thuc...

Jones & Moody/Known World

himself to be a benevolent master, and after his death, his wife Caldonia tries to uphold this legacy, the novel nevertheless show...

Latin America Transformed/Gwynne & Kay, Eds.

Modernity," contains 6 chapters, which are characterized by the editors preferred political economy approach. Part 2, "Political T...

Japanese History in The Pillow Book by Sie Shonagon

In fourteen pages this research paper examines this revealing look at the medieval history of Japan written by an Imperial Court's...

Herodotus Histories, Book 4, Chapters 176-183

as he refers to the way in which climate and geographical features serve to shape human behavior. For example, the Lotus Eaters ar...

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...

Weiss: "Marital Separation"

to develop, so that associating with the other makes them feel better about themselves (Weiss, 1975). That is, they have endowed t...

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

The civil rights movement occupies the primary focus of this book review which consists of two and a half pages....

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...

Amazon; Expansion and the Future of the Printed Book

This 3 page paper is written in two parts. The first part considers the potential of Amazon to expand into ore product lines. The ...

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

getting them to turn from God. Each letter essentially presents steps and information for Wormwood to use in tempting this young m...

Mukherjee: "Jasmine"

her own future. She is a rebel from the beginning, and her desire to be different could be one of the reasons her life takes on wh...

The Likely Effects Of E-Commerce On The Future Of Book Publishing

issues may still have the potential for a very large impact. The idea of the e-book is that a book may be bought in electronic f...

The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz

dungeon and as such is nothing more than a simple fun work (The Book of Good Love of Juan Ruiz Archpriest of Hita, 2007). There ar...

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...

Studs Terkel's Hard Times An Oral History of the Great Depression

In five pages Terkel's text is the focus of this insightful book review....

Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, 1819-1838 by Daniel Aaron

In six pages this book is considered in an informational overview that covers the book's purpose, its primary themes, the author's...

Richard E. Porter and Larry A. Samovar's 'Intercultural Communication'

is titled "Intercultural Interaction: Taking Part in Intercultural Communication." It possesses three chapters, titled "Verbal Pro...

Art Spiegelman on the Holocaust

the beast that was the Holocaust. It is presented as cold and unemotional in many ways, through these very depictions, and also su...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

Arthur Paul Boers' 'Never Call Them Jerks'

in the end of his first chapter Boers leaves the reader with an even deeper understanding of the purpose of the book, stating, "An...