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There is no other book that you could see out there that is up to date and very much readable like the “A wilderness so immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the destiny of America.” Studying history has always been a hobby for a lot of people and this is basically why there are a lot of books about history that are being released every year too. It appears that this book has inspired a lot of lovers of history that it generated a great deal of influence simply because it was able to state how an originally small nation transformed as one of the ...

Book Review of “The Politics of Air Pollution” By George Gonzalez

The Politics of Air Pollution by George Gonzalez
Introduction
Background
George Gonzalez is a renowned assistant professor based in the Department of Political Science at the University of Miami. He has been an avid advocate of the inner political workings of the environmental policy in the United States. The book entitled the politics of air pollution delves into the establishment of policies that govern emission standards with a specialization on California as a key study. The book generally describes California as one the leading states in the promotion of automobile emission standards.
As such, the book focuses on highlighting ...

This paper describes the social movements that Blacks participated in during the period from 1900 to date. It tackles the ways in which the movements can be described as one long civil rights movement, and also how were they distinct movements. The paper further assesses their goals and the manner in which they have effected change in the United States. The paper also points out prominent civil rights activists that played an important role in spearheading the civil rights movements.
Most of the black social movements from 1900 to date have basically been fighting against racism. The 20th Century ...

This paper has analyzed the problem of what impact does leadership have on quality. The scope of this work involves the specific work in the book called Leadership for quality by an author Juran J.M. It has reviewed various concepts by the author.

The approach to this problem has involved analyzing three functions of businesses, planning control and improvement in quality. Also, an analysis has been made in the work force part in order to get an idea of the factors that will lead to their improvement in quality.

The results in this analysis are that quality can be ...

Book Review of the Book, ‘The Story of the Quran’ by Ingrid Mattson

detailed book about the Quran and its place in historical and contemporary Muslim society. The author of the book is Ingrid Mattson, who originally published the book in 2008 in the United Kingdom. Dr. Mattson is an Islamic scholar and teacher as well as an interfaith activist. She is the first woman to hold prestigious positions as a Muslim scholar and a leader in the religious world. The book is written as an overall balanced and correct portrayal of the religion of Islam and the teachings of the Quran, in general. The author has mentioned other religions as well, ...

“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 ...

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Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History by Dagmar Herzog is a captivating and open original description of the turbulent history of sexuality in the European continent. The time period discussed starts from the decline of Victorianism to the Communism disintegration and the rise of Islam in Europe. Even though the 20th century is frequently regarded as “the century of sex” as well the time of rising liberalization, Dagmar Herzog has taken a different approach in describing this period. She has put emphasis on the complications and disagreements in needs and behaviors regarding the sexual attitudes. She has ...

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Anderson, James D. Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. The University of North Carolina Press.
In “Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935” Anderson covers the years before the Civil War (1861-1865) and those that followed. Anderson tries to “tell the story of the unique system of public and private education that developed by and for black southerners between 1860 and 1935” (1). As the pro-slavery force, the Southerners found it hard to view previous slaves as their equals. Slaves were viewed as mere property and ...

Summary of the chapters

The components of hospitality industry include recreation services, campground, tourism and products all of these are categorized into hospitality and tourism network. In chapter 2 in history, hospitality for the first time has worked with employees who are close and young at age. Understanding the generation and giving these employees what they need, leaders can be able to increase productivity and employee retention. Chapter three on the other hand, focuses on specifics of lodging these include then types of lodging facilities for example lodging facilities which offer all in one services which has extended beyond bed and breakfast. Issues ...

Before the establishment of the food safety agencies the food industry was largely self regulated. This led to problems where some manufacturers did not provide the minimum safety leading to cases of food borne illness. After dealing with these problems, laws were enacted which led to the establishment of the food safety agencies. After the establishment of the agencies that monitor food safety, the situation on the ground has improved dramatically. The United States has one of the strictest food safety policies, which has resulted in very high standards of food safety. The United States is a global leader in ...

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Book Review # 1: The Boston Tea Party: The Foundations of Revolution

The Boston Tea Party: the Foundations of Revolution is a book by James M. Volo. The book was published in 2012 at Westport, United States of America by Praeger Publishers Inc. The book is related to Regional History Genre and provides an exciting and enthralling synopsis of the Boston Tea Party. The vast majority of American people have hostile feelings regarding the extensive industrial aid and rescue and extravagant government expenditure that contributed to the tea party revolution. An identical kind of political supporting, offense, and reaction led to the insurgence of Boston Tea Party in ...

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Ron Deal in his book dating and the single parent (2012) identifies dating as a complex matter for single parents when children are involved. Dating requires consideration of its effects on children. A single parent or the dating partner must be ready to meet the challenges both emotionally and relationally. Deal (2012) provides single parents with solutions from a view of an expert that can help them prepare for dating. His book encourages single parents to consider different perspectives before starting to date. These considerations include whether the dating is beneficial for both children and the single parent at the time ...

The fundamental purpose for writing this book was to provide a through history about migration in the United States of America from the year 1492 to date. The author was interested in analyzing the various patterns and policies of migration since the colonial times. The author is also interested in unfolding some of the reasons which made different people to migrate to U.S.A. In addition, he also wanted to reveal to different people the various methods used by different people so as to get themselves in the United States of America. It is also prudent to note that the author ...

“This is a book about the positive evidence that evolution is a fact. It is not intended as an anti-religious book. I’ve done that, it’s another T-shirt, this is not the place to wear it again,” says Dr. Richard Dawkins in the introduction to his book The Greatest Show on Earth (17). This book is an organized presentation of copious numbers of the examples that support the evolutionary change over time via the process of natural selection. It raises many issues to a reader’s mind, and it helps provide a fuller understanding of the theory of evolution for the reader. ...

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

Lionel Casson is a renowned classicist and a Professor Emeritus of Classics, New York University. Besides Libraries in the Accent World, he has also written other books such as Ships and Seamship in the Ancient World as well as various other books on the history of the ancient maritime and ancient travel. However, it can be argued that tracking the emergence of the ancient libraries, in Libraries in the Accent World, was quite a tall order for him. This is evidenced in aspects of broken connections in the book, for instance, in recounting the emergence of the Museum at Alexandria.

Casson’s ...

Book Report- Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy

Introduction
Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy is a book by Professor Michael H. Hunt that describes the history of the American foreign policy and how it has affected the nation. The author has taken us through historical events and facts that led to the implementation of the policy and what the initiators thought would impart on the nation. This is made in relation to the events that followed its implementation, which includes various resistances from people who thought America was being too selfish1. The author looks at both the positive and negative impacts of the US foreign policy to ...

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Many people have lamented that the western history has of late been a field of diminishing expectations. The two books attempts to take an insight investigation into this concept and try to find out if this point is true or false. The issues being discussed in the following books revolve around the commonly accepted notion that the year 1890 marked the closing of the American frontier and the end of an era made unique by Indian wars, border skirmishes, outlaws, mining booms, land barons and pioneers. (Anne M. Butler & Michael J. Lansing, 2007)The books have a detailed account of the ...