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Robert F. Kennedy's 'Thirteen Days'

This paper consists of 14 pages and provides both a book review and a glimpse into the Cuban Missile Crisis as seen through the ey...

Alice Hoffman's Here on Earth

In five pages this book is discussed in terms of synopsis and theme and is then reviewed in terms of organization, content, discus...

Professions and Disciplines by Daniel Rossides

deals with knowledge about how knowledge itself develops. From this starting point, Rossides goes on to discuss a brief history of...

The Slavery Journey of Africans in America

In this paper consisting of five pages a book review of Charles Johnson and Patricia Smith's Africans in America America's Journe...

Work-Life Balance and its Effect on Ethical Decision Making

dependent on their jobs for everything, including their sense of personal worth" (Gurchiek, 2007). Another ethical perspective is...

Becoming Charlemagne by Sypeck

seemed incredibly successful, especially considering that his legacy is still powerful today. However, it also appears as though t...

The Last Voyage of Columbus by Dugard

2005; 44). In light of this information it appears as though Dugard is likely a very entertaining writer, but perhaps also ...

Casement: "Learning from our Mistakes"

therapist becomes more concerned with conducting the therapy in an "approved" manner or following a particular school of thought, ...

Robert Dallek/FDR & American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945

the behind the scenes confrontations between the American leaders who shaped domestic and foreign policy during this crisis period...

Bringhurst: "Elements of Typographic Style"

2002). Effective typography is also durable, not faddish; it changes when necessary but does not strive to keep up with the latest...

Procopius/The Secret History

was a counselor to Belisarius and accompanied him on several of his campaigns and he may have been a prefect of Constantinople (Ha...

The Ethics of Death and Dying: Is There a Duty to Die?

right to live if it is possible, one could well argue that it is never anyones duty to die. Battins essay, however, speaks of th...

Sam Harris/End of Faith

coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates t...

A Thousand Splendid Suns

there are also elements that speak of the political and military struggles in the region. For example, Laila has two brothers who ...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Trimbur's Call to Write/Narrative of Frederick Douglass

the chapter that addresses writing profiles of specific people, Trimbur writes, "This impulse to describe, to analyze, and to unde...

Tim O'Brien's If I Die in Combat

In five pages this book by Tim O'Brien regarding a young soldier's Vietnam War experiences is reviewed. There are no other source...

Battle Cry by Leon Uris

This paper consists of five pages and presents a book review on the author's stirring account of the U.S. Marine Corps during the ...

Judicial Process

In five pages a book review of Benjamin N. Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process is presented. There are no other sources list...

John W. Thomason Junior's Fix Bayonets

In five pages Thomason's text is the focus of this book review. There are no other sources listed....

Clorinda Matto de Turner's Birds Without a Nest

In five pages this book is discussed in a critical review along with a consideration of the author's intention. There are no othe...

The Early Music Revival A History by Harry Haskell

with significant insight to the concepts about which he wrote; without such influence, it is likely that the writers intensity tow...

Galbraith's The Great Crash of 1929

It is true that on some level, the people are much wiser today than they were at the time and there are many new economic theories...

Steven Johnson/Everything Bad is Good For You

that the judgment of future generations as to what is valuable and what is in error in the past is frequently surprising. In other...

Community Nursing and Sarton's As We Are Now

Rose, "sleeps somewhere else" (Sarton 16). Mrs. Hatfield only experience as a "trained nurse" was two years employment as a nurses...

Reviewing Mary Ann Keller's Collision

In three pages this book review focuses on the auto industry and recent US migration. There are no other sources listed in the bi...

Thompson/Concentric Circles of Concern

Dr. Thompsons classic work, which was published posthumously and revised by Claude V. King, the reader finds a detailed model for ...

Smither/Augustine As Mentor

the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...

Kristin Ross/May '68 and Its Afterlives

down the entire country. Nine million people, "across all sectors of public and private employment-from department store clerks to...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...