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Summary of Where Wizards Stay Up Late

Where Wizards Stay Up Late is written by Katie Hafner and Mathew Lyon which focus on the origin and development of the internet. The book came out from a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the internet, and narrates a story of a small group of engineers and scientific researchers who put down the foundation for the most influential and the most extensive communication breakthrough ever since the telephone was invented.
The book talks about what brought about the internet as well as the Advanced Research Projects Agency, who offered all of the innovative funding for the net. ...

Please Do Not Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs to Be Done (Bob Nelson)

The book by Bob Nelson thrives to give morale to employees and educate them on the best ways they could be successive in the places of work. This book is like a handbook designed for employees who seem to be frustrated at their places of work. This book educates the employees of four critical issues: reasons as to why employees should always seek initiative; why the employees should seek to do more at work that is required of them; giving a tip to the employees on the benefits of volunteering at work; most importantly how to develop, plan and implement good ...

Book Review on First to Fight: An Inside View Of the U.S. Marine Corps

Firsts to fight is a book that gives an account of the history of the American Marine corps. The book accounts of the personal experiences of brave men who helped in serving the United States government well. The book reviews different characters and facts in its different chapters which are essential in examining the history of the Marine Corp (Krulak 253). There are also accounts of the difficulties members of the Marine Corps endured to achieve a status as an independent organization free from the control ...

All those who work in the field of linguistics or related subjects must be aware of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, language shapes our thoughts, it influences our culture and the way we see the world. This idea became very popular and led to the belief that there are as many worldviews as there are languages. However, John H. McWhorter, in his book “The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the same in any Language” has disproved the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; he posits that language reflects culture and the speaker’s worldview; it offers a cultural viewpoint of the ...

Fashion has raised a great deal of contention, resistance and criticism over the years. The media provides the society with a display of images that range from the real to the perceived. Large mass marketing clothing companies and influential fashion houses determine the direction of fashion, influence the opinion of the public and put up production and distribution structures worldwide. Fashion continues to exist in the public domain amid feelings of strong links with pride, misuse and craziness. This situation can be conveniently attributed to a myriad of factors ranging from psychological problems to feeling of spite on reality television. However, it can ...

Manning, Marable, Dispatches From the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience, New York, Columbia University Press, 2000-written by manning Marable.

Manning -one of the leading scholars of African American history is a professor of political science and history at Columbia University in New York City where he also holds the position of director in the institute for research in Africa American studies. He is considered as one of the America’s most widely convert and influential scholars.
Manning has brought together insightful minds who display a willingness to be outspoken in their criticisms, yet who are without a ...

Against the Gods: The remarkable story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein

People have always believed that no human being can go against the will of the gods. However, Peter Bernstein tries to explain how human beings have gone against all odds to beat the gods at their own game. In his book, ‘against the gods: the remarkable story if risk’ he tells the story of grasping risky opportunities to change the fate of the world. Peter narrates the story of a few scientists and their assistant amateurs who risked everything to bring the future to the present. What they discovered and invented aided the world with the necessary tools for foretelling ...

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The book “Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian” written by John Lukacs published in 2004 depicted the life of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the time of the Second World War towards the end of his career and death. Several chapters were assigned for Churchill’s relations with other World War II leaders and politicians who challenged his policies. Other sections were attached to how the world saw Churchill, the criticisms that continued to plague his life until his death. Churchill was former British soldier, writer, historian and journalist before he became the prime ...

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The jungle was written in the year 1906 by an American journalist and novelist by the name Upton Sinclair. The author wrote this novel to be able to portray the lives that immigrants lived in the United States especially Chicago and other similar industrialized cities .Most of his readers were mainly concerned with his exposure to especially health violations and unsanitary practices that had for a long time been in the American meat packing industry. This was during the 20th century when he did this investigation for a socialist newspaper. The book also tries to depict about the working ...

Written by Carr Nudge, ‘the shallows’ is a book that questions the capacity of our minds to grasp and store information for future use. The power to concentrate on a specific idea or something has been lost due to the frequent use of the Internet. Carr’s book tries to answer the effects of the use of the Internet on the human mind.

In his book, Carr states that he comes to realize that his brain had lost its concentration power, as info on anything he required was a click away on the Internet. He acknowledges that most of his life ...

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The actor used the words to refer to the reaction that the public had after he published his novel. The nation reacted in horror. The president at the time ordered an immediate investigation in the meat industry. However, he privately informed the author that he had no love for the socialist polemic, at the end of the novel. The words used by the author describe the activities that took place after the publishing of the book. Two months after publication of the book, the country created two legislations. These include the pure food and drug act and the meat ...

“Thinking, fast and slow” by Daniel Kahneman was among the best-selling books of the year 2011. Kahneman is Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economics for his work in prospect theory in 2002. He and his collaborator, Amos Tversky, one of the cognitive as well as mathematical psychologist from Israel, have revolutionized the way we think about economy in the book. This book has achieved numerous honors and awards such as New York Times’ one of the best books of 2011 and Best Book Award from National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Kahneman has humbly yet brilliantly and non-technically ...

Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War, by Anthony Arnove, is a book that gives us a vivid description of the war situation in Iraq. The Iraq war is a fight between two giants that are only concerned about their personal interests rather than that of the people. Apart from subjecting the people of Iraq to a lifetime of war, the author reveals of how the sanctions placed against the people continue to affect them socially and economically. Reading the book, one is more drawn to the suffering of children and women who have no idea of why the war ...

The issues in the network society have attracted enormous attention in the recent times. Rather than totalizing coeval working experience, the book “Work’s Intimacy” written by Melissa Gregg focuses on the ramifications and contradictions of professionals that hold a mid-rank, formerly defined as the white-collar workers. Mobile and online technologies have a great impact on the work, life and social relations of the people, especially professionals. After examining 26 professionals from four organizations, namely, education, telecommunications, government and broadcasting in Brisbane, Australia for three years, Gregg’s book bridges the gap in the existing literature on digital labor. In ...

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Youths living in North America and other areas of the world that are considered relatively liberated grow up with considerably more gender equality now more than in the past. This is seen through many aspects in the society like opportunities for education, status of the women in the society and the socialization of gender roles. These youths take up courses in institutions of higher learning that were predominantly thought to be a preserve of the men. This is because the society has evolved to perceive women as an equal gender, and one deservedly worthy of equal opportunities as the male ...

Book Review

Tilman Allert the author of “The Hitler Salute: One the Meaning of a Gesture” is a sociology as well as social psychology professor at the UF the (University of Frankfurt). “The Hitler Salute: One the Meaning of a Gesture” is the Tilman’s first book to written in English. In the book, Allert Tilman employs the Nazi transformation, the greeting, one of the ordinary human interactions to reveal how National Socialism initiated submission, as well as conformity of the entire society.

The Hitler salute as made mandatory in the year 1933 and became a daily reflex within few months, quickly the ...

Steckley, J. (2007). White lies about the inuit. 1st ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division.

The title of the book reveals the attitude of the author to the stereotypes that existed for many years. John Steckley confessed that he also became a victim of the stereotypes fostered by academic literature and other “reliable” sources of information.

The narrative style is simple and typical for a book. The narration is performed from a third person. The style of the author matches the subject material. The narration is typical for any other text-book.

The main strength of this book is that it added to the myth-destroying literature and contributed to the fight with racism and other anti-social phenomenon. ...

Teaching is a more an art than a skill, and any good teacher would agree to that point. A good teacher not only spreads knowledge, but also creates an environment that is conducive to learning, promoting the spread of knowledge. However, the modern day teacher faces many issues; issues that inhibit learning and the spread of knowledge. Knowing all too well about the myriad of issues that college teachers face, Stephen Brookfield, in his book 'The Skillful Teacher', aims to provide a guide for experienced and novice teachers alike.
In the first chapter of the book, the author states that ...

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‘State of Wonder’ is a gripping tale of love and intrigue set in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon forest where there are also themes of morality and culture explored. Patchett’s writing is pretty gripping and very intriguing; here is a masterful writer of sorts who has also received substantial praise from the book’s reviewers. Here we observe that the book explores the themes of love and morality in various subtle ways. Science is also an important factor and is accordingly given importance although it appears to be less apparent during certain episodes. Patchett’s quotes about ...

Adam Grant’s Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success is a momentous book that reveals the reason people succeed while others fail to make their dreams come true. Grant observes that effective influence, association, interacting, and leadership skills have one thing in common, that is, people’s manner of exchanging values.

Grant provides that, in dealings people operate either as takers, matchers, or givers. Grant presents takers as the people who constantly strive to obtain as much as they can from others while the intention of matchers is to trade evenly. Conversely, he presents givers as representing people ...

The book’s title gives a summary of the concepts explored in the book. Pollan creatively writes about nutrition to make the society acknowledge the need of assuming a habit of healthy living. In natural foods, the author means unprocessed food unlike the commonly consumed by the current generation that are highly processed. The author refers to modern day food as food- like substances. People eat these substances because they are edible and food-like (Pollan, 51). Pollan presents the modern day worry of food nutrition, regarding it as the American Paradox. He observes that the more people worry themselves about nutrition ...

Thomas is married to Vanessa Jebb who comes from a diplomatic family. Jebb’s father was the first acting Secretary General of the United Nations. Thomas Hugh was a professor of History at University of Readings from 1966-1975. In 1979-1991, Thomas High was the Director of the Center for Policy Studies in London. Thomas Hugh was an ally of Margaret Thatcher during Thatcher’s reign. In his argument, Thomas Hugh presents an argument that is usually pro-European and conservative.

In the book Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Thomas traces history from 1440-1870. He begins with the Portuguese ...

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“Sailing the Wine Dark-Sea: why the Greeks Matter” is the fourth volume of exploration by the great author Thomas Cahill. The author uses his unfathomable skill in literature and historical experience to take his readers to another world of both entertainment and extreme coverage of historical knowledge. In this book, he tags a wide range of historical unassailable features of the Greek by clearly holding an in-depth narration of the journey covered through the landmarks of art and intense bloodshed that lay the Greek culture in a historical legacy in an estimated period of nearly three millennia ago.

It is ...

Book review on: Band of Brothers By: Stephen E. Ambrose

The book “Band of Brothers” is written by Stephen Ambrose and was first published in 1992 under his authorization. The book can be partially relied as a true story although most of its part comes from a true life experience as illustrated by the author of this magnificent book. In addition to this, the book solely concentrates its themes around the company and the effects the world war had to the performance of this company. I am going to take note on every important detail about this book and review it to deepest end and draw the meaning and intention ...

In his description of himself, Baer acknowledges that he wasn’t born a patriot whose intention was to work for the CIA. He describes himself as a struggling student who had personal agendas (Baer, 2002). The book gives several accounts of what Baer describes as frustrations and mistakes he made while posted in Lebanon and India. The book also discusses the failings of the CIA. Baer gives the reasons for a failing CIA as: replacement of human intelligence with computer and satellite technology; a risk aversion approach by the agency that promoted bureaucratic practices and undermined intelligence gathering; and the prioritization of interests ...

Book Report on “The Maltese Falcon”

Book Report on “The Maltese Falcon” is a crime novel book that was written first in 1930 by the author Dashiell Hammet. The book belongs to the genre of crime fiction or mystery novel. At the time this was called “hard boiled” crime fiction and it was a very popular type of book. The story centers around the character Sam Spade, who is the protagonist of the book. Sam Spade along with another detective, Miles Archer, is hired by to follow a man named Floyd Thursdby. At first it is just a case of Thursby running off with the man who ...

Betty Friedan wrote ‘The Feminine Mystique’ in 1963. This is a non-fiction novel. The book focuses on feminism in the United States of America. Friedan conducted a survey of her former classmates during their 15th anniversary reunion and found that most of them hated their lives as housewives (Agonito, Rosemary 76). This made Friedan conduct interviews with other women who were housewives in the suburban areas, so ran introduction about the spread of unhappiness amongst women in the 1950s and 1960s. Friedan explains that despite living in material comfort, the housewives from America were unhappy. The situation in some states ...

Digital technology has impacted life in various ways. Maybe those who are the inhabitants of the Antarctica could make a case against being influenced by the technological advancements or even worry about digital technology and how lives have been impacted by the changes in the digital technology especially the changes that have been realized in the 21st century. However as depicted in Joel Brenner’s book entitled the America the Vulnerable, the ideas expressed in this book is definitely worth reading. In this well researched and addressed book, Joel addresses various issues of cyberspace as a way of getting exposed to ...

Many stories behind the history of the blacks and their contribution to modern developments have never been told. The slave trade period was one of the worst moments of history and especially to the black generation. Apart from the psychological and physical they were made to face, being denied basic needs of life and being looked down, there was still more to their predicament that has remained underground. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a book that reveals to us how the black race was looked down on and taken advantage of when in the real sense, the contribution ...

Book Report on “No Easy Day” by Mark Owen

This bestselling book is an autobiography of a United States Navy Seal who was involved in one of the major events in the fight against terrorism. The book is based on the super orchestrated mission that led to the killing of the world’s most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden in 2011. The book therefore gives us insightful information on what happened on the period that Laden was killed by the United States Navy Seals. Osama bin Laden was executed after a raid in his house in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In this book, the first chapters reveal that Owen is very passionate ...

Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine. By Jasper Becker. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 1998. 416 pp.

Introduction: Hungry Ghosts is an intense book. Even though recent articles and books have disclosed that it was the Great Leap Forward that caused the famine that engulfed China, however, Jasper Becker clarifies the entire destruction of the time through his alluring interviews and graphic stories.
Becker places the blame for the horrors directly and uncompromising on Mao Zedong’s shoulders. After all, these events took place during Mao’s watch. However, Becker does not stop there; he proceeds to argue that ...

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In her book, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, Arlie Hochschild sheds light on the various strategies used by men and women in two-career marriages to manage the pressure of work and the needs of their family all at the same time. Hochschild, who is a professor at the University of California in Berkeley, documents how household work is divided by husbands and wives who both have full-time careers after they are done with their official jobs. Her book basically revolves around the story of eleven couples out of the fifty she had her research associates ...

Rudolf Hoess, who should not be confused with Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s Deputy Fuehrer who flew to England in 1941, was a career S.S. officer whose memoirs are one of the most important primary sources about the Holocaust. No other camp commander produced an autobiography or wrote so extensively about his career, and none occupied a more important position in the machinery of extermination. Hoess introduced Zyklon-B (Cyclone-B) gas to Auschwitz in 1941, mainly because he thought it would be the most efficient method of mass killing, and his camp became the largest ‘customer’ for this cyanide gas, which had ...

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Me, my? My life in the Rough and Tumble World of New Jersey Politics is Richard Codey’s critical analysis of New Jersey politics through his strong memoirs. He was born in November 27, 1946 to a former county undertaker. He worked in the senate from 1982. He served as senator in New Jersey. He replaced McGreevy as New Jersey governor after he was trapped with a sex scandal involving a member of staff. Codey was not compatible with political kingpins. He knew they would pick a puppet they could control and manipulate that’s why the governor’s resignation was timely for the ...

This fascinating book, written by Asne Seierstad and first published in English in Great Britain in 2003 by Back Bay Books / Little Brown, is her own story, but is written as though a work of fiction. In the foreword she tells how she met Sultan Khan – the bookseller (not his real name) – while working in Afghanistan as a journalist in 2001. He invited her in to his home so that she could experience Afghan family life firsthand in the recently-liberated capital city. A man who loves books, Sultan took many risks over the years in order to trade ...

I believe this book helped me in multiple aspects which pushed me to succeed. It plays a positive role on my thought and enhanced my experiences and assisted me to discover my skills and develop them well through certain strategies. In deed, this book helped me to know a lot of things to do in order to be a good and successful student.

Besides, I also learnt how to write great papers. Freeman gave me a lot of tips on how to write quality and appealing term papers. These can be used both for academic and non academic purposes. If I follow all ...

During the 1930s, the Great Depression affected many states leading to major changes in most sectors of their economy. One of the countries that became a victim of the Great Depression was Canada. Owing to this, the issue has attracted the attention of many researchers. The aim of this review is to examine the work of one such researcher, Katrina Srigley, in her book, Breadwinning Daughters: Young Women working in a Depression- era City, 1929-1939 (2010). The Great Depression era affected the live patterns of young women in Canada. They experienced a great shift while trying to adapt to the economic changes ...

The business community is anchored on profitability and to this end companies implement a variety of strategies. The book “strategy for sustainability: A business manifesto” by Adam Werbach tries to prove to the business community that though sustainability programs may usurp some resources, they will in the long run increase the profitability of the business.

The book “strategy for sustainability: A business manifesto” explores the business strategies that companies need to pursue in order to maintain profitability and sustain the environment, address climate change concerns and social issues such as poverty. According to Werbach (2009), business strategies without ...

The book “Six Thinking Hats,” written by Edward DeBono (1999), is a text that presents thinking as a methodical and systematic process that can be controlled. In fact, it should be controlled because the author argues that using several perspectives at once is confusing and lacks efficiency. DeBono assigned each thinking hat a color that represented its characteristics. The white, red, blue, black, yellow, and green hats are presented in the book, and a detailed elaboration on perspectives and insights from each hat are presented to the reader. Personally, I found the sections dedicated to the white, red, and black hats ...

Fooled by Randomness is Taleb’s first non-technical book published in 2001. This book discusses the underestimation of the role or randomness and chance in day-to-day life experiences. One of the core concepts of this book is the idea of hopefulness for the best average consequence across all possible outcomes and the unpredictable ranges of possibilities as opposed to a fixed foreseeable outcome. This book looks at randomness at a broader context and even though it focuses more on market and trading, it stills spans to other spheres of life and general philosophy. Precisely stated, this book is about luck and ...

Clarissa's relationship with Sally Seton is one of the most interesting and controversial aspects of the novel, as it depicts a latent homosexual desire for Sally on the part of Clarissa. Clarissa and Sally had kissed at Bourton 34 years previous to that, and still remembers that as the happiest she has ever been - it was the "most exquisite moment of her whole life...Sally stopped; picked a flower, kissed her on the lips. The whole world might have turned upside down! The other's disappeared; there she was alone with Sally" (Wolff, 1925).

Clarissa's love for Sally ...

Book Review: Realistic Visionary A Portrait of George Washington

Introduction
Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington by Peter Henriques tries to explain the first president of the United States of America as a person and not a symbol as most books have done. It is because it focusses on both his public and private life. The author looks at the reputation of George Washington as he tries to merge them with the facts about him. The book describes the first president as a war hero who is very serious and uptight. It means that the book explains the character of the president and relates it with the way he ...

Publisher: New York, NY: Harper, 2005, ©2004.

Summary
The enormous explosion of the Kursk submarine happened on 12 august 2000 during a crucial military demonstration. The explosion resulted in the sinking of the Russian most expensive nuclear submarine, which was known as the Kursk. All those who were in the submarine perished as the Russian president refused the help of the foreign countries.
The note became the cry of the sea of the Russian souls that were tormented, as some of the people of the briefed families and the citizens confronted the Russian government. They were inquiring to know what was important to the Russian ...

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The Zodiac Killer: AKA the Silenced Badge is a book by Lyndon E. Lafferty that seeks to give the true identity of the Zodiac killer. The actual topic of the book is The Zodiac Killer: Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge. In his book, he outlines the reasons why no officer who knew the story dared to testify. Included in the book are the specific people who were the masterminds behind the act of concealing the Zodiac despite the evidence that led to him. It is a series of a high ranking corruption and dirty political games. Lyndon E. Lafferty mentions all that were ...

In his very inspiring book, You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader, author Mark Sanborn presents to the reader how everyone stands to be a good leader in their lives by making a positive impact in the lives of many others in their own unique ways. He presents a number of unsung heroes and how they used something in their possession to make a difference in other people’s lives even when they were not recognized as leaders. It takes picking a piece of broken bottle from the side walk to be a hero or heroine. A number of children might be kicking objects ...

D. D. Guttenplan's decision to make Irving David’s libel suit against Lipstadt Deborah and Penguin Books his subject matter in his book entitled “The Holocaust on Trial” seems to be quite challenging. It is, however, eventually justified. The American writer, Guttenplan who currently resides in London was present in every day of the trial that took place in the year 1999. There were two things of varying importance at stake: the status or the position in the legislation of the Holocaust and its constituents that were definable and the overall outlook of David Irving reputation. On the face ...

The Irish Way

Analysis of Chapters
The book, “The Irish Way” by James R. Barrett describes the life of Irish immigrants who went to start new lives in America after conditions at home became un-accommodative. The author of the book has structured it in a very interesting manner. To show the various interactions of the Irish immigrants, the book has been subdivided into sections namely, The Parish, The Street, The Stage, The Workplace, The Nation and The Machine. This essay however focus on two of three sections that is, The Workplace, The Stage and The Nation as well as the introductory part ...

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Ero-Samurai: An Obsessed Man's Loving Tribute to Japanese Women is written by David Duff. In this book, the author enlightens the reader’s mind by telling the gripping story of love, sexual desire, romantic accounts, sex and Japanese women. In fact, "Ero-Samurai" tries to find the answer to a longstanding question i.e. “what makes Japanese women so attractive and desirable?."
The erotic prose in Duff’s work gives the reader absolute pleasure and makes one admire the colorfulness and expressiveness. It can be said that Japanese women are represented as possessors of genuine magnetism and ...

Summary of the highlights of the subject covered by the book

The book George Washington in the American Revolution by James Thomas Flexner is a book that covers the period of the revolutionary war in the United States of America. The book captures the key moments of George Washington; from the time of his selection as the commander of Continental Army to the moment he resigned and handed over his sword to the American Congress in the year 1783. The author covers that period and places much focus on the personal experience of George Washington in the army, while at the same time dwelling a little on the revolution in other colonies.
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Slavomir Rawicz’s “The Long Walk” is set during the Second World War, revolving around seven men who manage to escape a Soviet labor camp, one of them being Rawicz himself. As the leader of the group, Rawicz chose to escape with men who were determined and strong enough to endure the harshness of the treat. Rawicz was a patriotic man, and the Russians had to drug him in order to make him “confess” to crimes he had not committed. Rawicz escapes with the hope and intention of rejoining his troops and reuniting with his wife.
The group that escapes also ...

Executive Summary

“Be Different: My Adventures with Asperger's and My Advice for Fellow Aspergians, Misfits, Families, and Teachers”, is written by John Elder Robison. This is a bestselling memoir of the author, who was born with Asperger, when there was no mechanism to diagnose this condition. By that time he got to know about this condition, he had developed some unique strategies to deal with this condition. He identified his strengths and turned them into opportunities for himself. This book is unique in a way because it has been developed with a positive thought. It does not consider this syndrome as a burden, but recognizes ...

Critical review of the book Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm was born in 1963. He is a Canadian Journalist, bestselling author, as well as speaker. He was the writer of the New Yorker magazine since 1996, in Fareham Hemisphere, in England by Joyce Gladwell, and his father Graham Gladwell. In his life, he was a young single-minded and ambitious boy, whose interest was writing and reading books.

His writings

He has also managed to write and publish five books at the tipping point; ‘How Little Things Can Make a Big difference’ (2002), ‘There is Blink: The power of Thinking without Thinking’ (2005), and ‘What the Dog Saw and the Other Adventures’ (2009), which ...

The Lynsay Sand’s Love is blind is a unique story than other love stories as it shows that love doesn’t happen all the time among the beautiful couples or among the strong and perfect people it can be among two normal and even ugly people can have love emotions. Secondly this world is also full of such examples, where people live happily if they have compatibility rather than only looks make people happy. So is the point of the writer who has very beautifully explained in the form of a story.
Let’s see the summary in which the ...

Bainbridge, B. (1991). The Birthday Boys. London: Hachette UK.
“The Birthday Boys” is an acclaimed piece of literary work by Beryl Bainbridge. This novel was published in the year 1991and presents an imaginary tale of South Pole mission by captain Robert Falcon Scott. This story describes the emotional aspect of human endurance and misguided audacity in a very realistic manner. This paper intends to discuss the novel with a focuses on courage as central them of the story.
Beryl Bainbridge is an English author who is named as one of the greatest authors of the United Kingdom. The author ...

“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave” is a memoir of Frederick Douglas. Douglas was an African American who born as a slave and spent his early life in slavery. Douglas, in his memoir, describes his own life, experiences, sufferings and life of other slaves in a very realistic manner. This narrative was published in 1845 and has been revised several times due to its popularity. This paper proposes to discuss Frederick Douglass and analyses his memoir and several other related aspects.
Frederick Douglas talks about his date of birth and about his parents in First chapter of ...

Book Review

In the chapter four- Friendship, Democracy and Citizen Journalism, Charles Ess discusses about aspects on online behavior which determine the interactions between people from different geographical, cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds. As Ess examines, diversity is a natural phenomenon which should be embraced by everyone. The development of technology has promoted online interactions. However, many people have not complied with the principles of online communication. Instead of appropriately using it to promote cohesion, they perceive it as a platform through which they can advance their imperialist ideologies.
In this chapter, Ess displays his literary prowess by producing a very insightful piece ...

The commentary takes us through a historical and literal perspective of the bible. It gives us more than just the scriptures. The author takes us through specific passages of the scriptures and gives an overview basing on historical facts. This commentary is essential in helping people understand the bible better. There is a lot of information that has not been included in the scriptures. Most bible readers find the scriptures sophisticated and not making sense because of some information that was considered irrelevant and was not included in the scripture. The author therefore, pick on such scriptures and expound on them ...

Culture is one thing that we human beings all have. Conversely, different ethnic communities are associated with different cultures. This is in most cases an added advantage as diversity caused by the different cultures is usually one that contributes to the fun in life. In the case that we all had the same cultures, then there would be nothing to learn. We would be waking up in the same routine day in day out and, in the long run, life would be rather boring. However, with the diversity created by the vast number of ethnical groups, it becomes fun ...

Islamic community treats women in an inferior way and a bad way. However, Muslims argue that they treat women in the best way possible. According to Fatima Mernissi, the author of Beyond the Veil, both notions and assumption are right up to a certain degree. The book covers religious, as well as political problems, faced by women in the Muslim community. Fatima gives the perspective of an insider and gives actual and theoretical accounts of what the women face in the Islamic community throughout the book.
Sexual inequality is the greatest focus of the author where he looks at the ...

The dictionary is a very useful book in any area of study; it provides the definition needed by students or any person who has an interest in any field of study. It provides the right reference now only to words but also some issues that need clarification. There are very few bible dictionaries; however, most of them are not detailed and just give a highlight and simple definitions without t making in-depth explanation.
The Bible Dictionary is written by John .Davis and who is a professor of Semitic Philology and the Old Testament History. The Bible Dictionary is very useful for ...