Dedication Book Reviews Samples For Students

BOOK REVIEW

Introduction
There has been many scientific and analytical books and articles written about the issue of case studies. First, it is significant to analyze every interesting case, because they may become backgrounds for new laws. However, not many cases became backgrounds for books. The case Gideon vs. Wainwright became the background not only for a book, but also for new laws that made a revolution in modern justice system. The peculiarity of this case is that, after it, not only the government of the United States of America, but also governments of all democratic countries in the world adopted laws ...

Book Review. Sor Juana by Octavio Paz.

Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden,
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988.
547 pp. ISBN o-674-82105-X (alk. paper)
Sor Juana or The Traps of Faith is the comprehensive research on the life and work of Sor Juana, a prominent Mexican poet of the seventeenth century, as well as it is a historical, sociological and cultural account of New Spain and the evolution of the mentality of Mexican people in the times the viceroyalty. This book is an attempt to depict the realities of the seventeenth century and ...

Book Review: Fashion Buying.

The author’s main concern is fashion buying process, namely, buying clothing, footwear and accessories. A significant part of the book is devoted to the UK fashion market research and its current tendencies. It also includes an outlook for job in the sphere of fashion buying, forecast of sales volume and commercial success within the market.
The author’s manner of wording is simple and clear, the chapters are well-structured, and the arguments are well-supported with the evidence of buyers of different levels working for well-known fashion companies including Vogue, Calvin Klein, Prada, Harvey, Nichols, Wal-Mart, Collezioni (Goworek ...

Phillip Pirip, known as Pip is the central character around which this great book revolves. In the beginning he is introduced as a young orphan forced to live with his cruel sister, Mrs Joe. In analyzing Pip's character, I have elected to portray his true colors as blue and gold and perhaps his true blue color was more evident in the first few chapters, followed by the gold color emerging as he broke away from the harshness of his childhood. Pip's true blue colors are expressed in the manner of his response to simple honesty and trust, in that he ...

My work is devoted to the book “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town” by Jon Krakauer. It is devoted to the series of sexual rapes which happened at the University of Montana, in the town of Missoula. Missoula is an ordinary college town, which has a state university with its own football team, the Grizzlies. Between years 2008 and 2012 there were over 300 sexual assaults reported to the local police station. Most of these cases were settled by the university or local authority. The author of the book examines several cases more deeply and ...

The book “Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching” by Diane Larsen-Freeman is devoted to different methods and approaches of language teaching which can be useful for teachers of foreign languages. According to the author, the book should also make its readers think about the approach to language teaching more and finally work out their own unique method or a set of methods which will accord to their personal beliefs and convictions regarding language teaching. In order to present the book as a useful instrument in teaching, the author also provides a system of techniques which can be implemented in ...

INSTITUTUION NAME

In the earlier times, which means around the middle of twentieth century, printing was one of the most significant method to communicate ones ideas to the masses. The printing press industry published manuals and that resulted in promoting literacy. Around that time, people got interested in learning the art of writing letters and the availability of manuals made their task easy. There was a rise in the number of people who could communicate by the method of writing. Circulation of written material started amongst such people. These written materials were the most prominent means for sharing thoughts and ideas. ...

Despite the popularity of soccer and basketball, baseball is a sport of great interest to a majority of the authors. The book titled “Legal Bases: Baseball and the Law” is an appreciable attempt of author Roger Abrams, who gives an account of the history related to labor-management relations . The author brings innovative insights not only to the subject, but also to the lawyers, baseball fans, students and historians who attempt making sense to the legal issues surrounding the sport. In the book, Abrams bases his story depending on the case studies of people who portrayed significant roles in validating the players’ ...

Business Culture Inside and Out

Book Review: Reflective Reaction on the Compare and Contrast of Readings
Introduction
Business is business, the new world tends to define business as something that is rather considered more as an institution that tends to bring better culture and better opportunities to members of the society. However, when it comes to the actual value of business, the industry of commerce defines business as a machine that brings in the different resources altogether to create a system that tends to manipulate operations for the sake of earning more money and gaining more profit from whatever could be gained from what ...

Question 1

Introduction
The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness is a story based on real life experience. It actually revolves around the life of Joel Ben who at the same time serves as the storyteller. Each chapter of the book begins with an international tales or a story or from places such as India, Middle East or China or the Chelm (Jewish town).These tales actually contribute a lot to building a good understanding of the narrator’s life. Joel shares different phases of his life as a husband, father, and cancer patient. Through his life, readers get to learn various life lessons, ...

Analysis of Contemporary Business Tendencies

Introduction
In his book “The World is Flat” Thomas Friedman addressed issues of contemporary global business environment and its latest changes over the past thirty years. The author analyzed the history of global business development applying the term “flat” to the world as a space for business operating and the term “flattener” for the factors influencing global business changes (Friedman, 2005).
The current paper is devoted to the critical analysis of three chapters of the book. Three factors making impact on business development are reviewed using material from the second chapter of the book. An analysis of practical ...

First Thessalonians is Paul’s first letter to the church at Thessalonica which he himself founded. This letter was written while Paul was ministering to the church at Corinth in the accompaniment of Timothy and Silas (1 Thessalonians 1:1). It is not clear about exactly how long Paul spent with the Thessalonians before leaving, but scholarly parlances place this period at around three weeks or three months, subject to different scholars (BTM). Being that Paul had received a number of offerings from the church at Philippi serves as enough evidence for having spent three months at Thessalonica (Philippians 4:16). ...

Abstract

In a comprehensive, reachable way, Jerry Pipes and Victor Lee share their doctrines, faith, and ideas regarding the bedrock of the Church being situated in the strong pillar of family. Their image of family is both inspiring and pragmatic, concluding in an encouragement toward the building of the family church and the preservation of familial spiritual life. Their book Family to Family: Leaving a Lasting Legacy helps their readers understand that they have to go back to a bold and unyielding proclamation of the truthfulness of the Word of God. It clearly explains the nature of the Church's founding, ...

Time and again, the history of consumer debt in the United States has been given the time and attention of many researchers although not too many have looked into the state of personal debts in the country and its evolution. In his book, Louis Hyman attempts to resolve this case, looking back into the personal credit of the Americans for the past 200 years. Hyman checks the four connecting themes: the many that consumers make their purchases, the institutions that grant personal loans, the government’s role in personal financing, and the development of technology that has paved the ...

Book Review: Produced By Faith

Book Review: Produced By Faith
The book Produced by Faith authored by Devon Franklin (2011) is a non-fiction motivational and a career guide book primarily written for the Christian audience of all ages. The author’s primary goal is to provide guiding principles for devoted Christian, striving to make significant life achievements for themselves without compromising their Christian beliefs.
The title suggests that religious faith is a fundamental ingredient needed to realize meaningful career success. Although the author uses liberal Biblical references, the book is extensively limited to a Christian audience. It is written from the point of view ...

The novel “Unbillable Hours: A True Story” by Ian Graham is a story about how a struggling fourth-year associate discovered that lawyering is not all about the money and prestige and found the deeper meaning of his profession when he took the case of a wrongly convicted indigent client and helped him win his freedom. Graham recounts how he started his career as a young lawyer after he landed a job at the prestigious law firm of Latham and Watkins located in L.A., where he was offered a substantial income. Initially, he knew that he was in the right ...

Harford’s book The Undercover Economist is devoted to the exploring of fundamental reasons for rich economies being rich and poor economies being poor. Formaini smartly notices that Harford in his book “seems to want to explain to noneconomists some of the interesting theoretical conclusions that economists use to explain observed behavior and wealth pattern” (204). Within the book, which is rather easy for understanding, a set of major concepts from economic theory are deeply analyzed and interestingly and, sometimes, entertainingly explained by the author. In terms of this paper, a brief summary of Harford’s book will be ...

Analysis of the Book "The Medicalization of Society" By Peter Conrad

The Main Author's Arguments
Peter Conrad, the author of the book "The Medicalization of Society," conducts a study of the most common problems of the modern society, which essence and nature have changed and obtained a medical character over the past 10-20 years. In other words, the author examines the social problems that have become the diagnoses at the beginning of the 21st century, though they were not related to medicine even a decade ago. At the very beginning of the book, Conrad emphasizes the investigated phenomenon, claiming that his analysis is connected only with the social connotations of ...

Journalism should never be underestimated. It is a flow of opinions through which one can gain his or her most important knowledge. Moreover, it gives not only positive knowledge, but also an opportunity to think critically, to analyze and to compare the material discussed in one or another article. So, when I am asked if a person was a potential model in the sphere of journalism, or not a model at all, I am not sure if we can come to a comprehensive and an explicit answer. Anyway, I am sure that Murray Kempton cannot be omitted while discussing ...

Training Needs

This topic has a range of tools that used to analyze training needs. Training depends on the subject that helps in identifying that which is required by an individual, department and an organization in general. With minimized budget and the need for solutions that prove to be cost-effective, every organization is responsible for ensuring that the invested resources in training are directed to areas where training is needed, and a more profitable return on the investment is guaranteed. Analyzing what training requires is an important approach for effectiveness in any training programs or events (Noe, 2002). The topic calls ...

Guadalupe in New York, by Alyshia Galvez, is a look inside the lives, culture, and faith of Mexican immigrants in the urban United States. The book is a collection of stories, histories, and information about the lives of Mexican Immigrants trying to make a living for themselves in the land of opportunity. Galvez describes how these immigrants find themselves living a difficult and fearful life, working long hours for low paying jobs, and in constant fear that they will be discovered as illegal immigrants. This book touches on a wide variety of subjects including immigration, Mexican-American culture, religion, and the American dream.

The author ...

1. What were conditions like for black people in the U.S. in the early 1960’s? From the textbook: What legal and societal mechanisms created and kept black people in these conditions?
Conditions for black people in the United States during the early 1960’s where bleak, they faced social, economic and educational discrimination. These forms of discrimination, created by an informal but controlling white male elite political governing consortium reached back into the anti-bellum tradition. These mechanisms kept black people in these conditions by allowing entrenched areas or the country to remain severely segregated. Even when Brown ...

Overview of the book

Yunus, Muhammad, and Karl Weber. Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs. New York: Public Affairs, 2010. Print.
The book was authored by Muhammad Yunus. Yunus is the founder of the Grameen Bank, which is a microcredit institution. Through his economic policies, Yunus made an immense contribution to the fight against poverty and through his economic paradigm; he manages to espouse an economic model that places humanity at the heart of polling resource together for positive potential. His efforts in the promotion of social business enabled him to win the 2006 Nobel ...

The book “The Grapes of Wrath” written by John Steinbeck and originally published in the year 1939 is one of the unique literary works in the genre of history. The book dates back to the period of Great Depression in America, which started in the year 1929 due to the crash of the stock market and lasted until the beginning of the Second World War . The period saw drought and high winds affecting several parts of the country, especially the Midwest region of America, including the Oklahoma state. Several residents of the state of Oklahoma moved to other places ...

Book Reviews

Book Review # 1: Zeitoun
This book by Dave Eggers is a spellbinding and enthralling description of Hurricane Katrina. Zeitoun, a true story, tells the story of an unjust arrest of and racial discrimination against a Syrian-American named Abdulrahman Zeitoun. Eggers tells the shocking tale of Zeitoun family and has once again proves that he is one of the most impressive literary writers in the United States of America.
When New Orleans was struck by Hurricane Katrina, the prosperous Abdulrahman Zeitoun opted to stay at his place through the storm for protecting his house and business. After the passage of the ...

No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL

After having been published in 2012, the book titled No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL by Mark Owen with co-author Kevin Maurer became a very popular work dedicated to the Navy Seals. Mark Owen was a member of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU). He took part in the mission dedicated to the elimination of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, 2011. Moreover, Owen was a team leader of the unit responsible for the death of bin Laden. Kevin Maurer was involved in military special missions for nine years. So, the experience of both authors became very useful for ...

The Great Church in Captivity

Diverse scholarly monographs dedicated to the Orthodox Church history during the reign of King Ottoman have recently been published. One such scholarly work is that of The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence by Steven Runciman. Sir Steven has successfully penned down the patriarchate history by chronicling the events during the Ottoman rule. It is indeed a detailed and a lucid piece of work which displays the research conducted on language relevant to this theme.
However, the book gives a detailed account of ...

Introduction

Global events threatening security of huge numbers of people are recognized as important triggers for introducing changes to the systems of international and national law, so that in the future similar events can become preventable. The brightest example to confirm this thesis is introduction of the UN system and development of international humanitarian and criminal law after the World War II, which was associated with lots of events, which are currently being classified as crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes. Apart from influencing the international law, World War II had variety of implications on different spheres of life ...

Business

Question one
Leadership is an important trait that each individual should seek to nurture and develop. In her book ,the 85% Solution: How Personal Accountability Guarantees Success No Nonsense, No Excuses, Linda Galindo articulates this idea. Galindo is of the view that the fundamental way that people can be able to develop leadership is by acquiring a sense of responsibility in terms of the choices, behaviors, and the actions that people take. The lack of responsibility among the people is what has led to detrimental effects such as economic meltdowns. For example, in the 2008 recession, the lack of ...

Abstract

This paper is a review of the book “Things Fall Apart”, which are two overlapping stories surrounding Onkonkwo a strong man of Ibo village in Nigeria. In the first story the novel features Onkonkwo as a man who has fallen from the grace of his tribal world where he was brought up. This gives the reader an overview of the extent of conflict between an individual and the society. In the second fable, explores destruction of Onkonkwo’s culture through encroachment by the European colonies. The story illuminates the true nature of African society and how different remote villages responded to this.

Summary

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McMinn, M. R. Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling. Revised ed. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2011. Print.

Summary

In Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling, Mark McMinn (2011) presents his view that Christian counseling does not merely involve psychology and theology. He emphasizes that we should not merely consider the interdisciplinary approach in itself, rather the inclusion of spirituality must also be considered. To make Christian counseling an intradisciplinary approach, both the counselor and the client must be involved. McMinn believes that a client cannot become spiritually mature unless the counselor is spiritually mature as well. Before the ...

- Analysis of the Author The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War is a historical fiction piece of writing by Michael Shaara, an American Born Italian immigrant, who has received Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this book in 1975. The book is based upon the battle of Gettysburg of American Civil War in 1863. It describes the events that took place during the war from the perspectives of troop leaders of both Confederacy and Union; how they have made their planning, took decisions and then implemented them during the war. Michael was able to understand all those ...

About the author

Scott Martelle is a veteran journalist and a former staff writer for the L. A. Times. He is a journalist of the third generation and was born in Scarborough, Maine. He spent part of his childhood there, and the rest in Wellsville, New York, which is two hours south of the town of Buffalo. He got his first newspaper job at age sixteen, where he wrote a sports column for a weekly high school newspaper called the Wellsville Patriot. He then started covering local news on a part-time basis for the Wellsville Daily Reporter.
Martelle attended Fredonia State University. Here, he was the editor ...

Wiesel Elie was among the few survivors who escaped death narrowly during the Holocaust World War II. Such names as Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Treblinka remind Elie of nightmares of pains and sufferings the Jews went through in Holocaust. Sometimes a person might wonder about the presence of God in such situations and fail to understand why people are left to suffer and die in pain like those experienced in Holocaust. Elie trusted upon the Lord ever since he was a child, and waited upon God to intervene in every challenging situation. It was not until the outbreak of war in Germany ...

Deaf in America: Voices from Culture

Amazingly, almost all books devoted to description of deaf people’s world were written by hearing people. Deaf in America represents an alternative view of deaf people which significantly differs from books written by hearing people. The book reflects deaf people point of view since the authors of the book, Carol A. Padden and Tom L. Humphries, are deaf. The goal of the book was to write about deaf people in a new way, introduce their culture, and draw attention to their life.
Carol A. Padden is a professor of Department of Communication teaching in the University of California. She ...

Book Review: William Penn and the Quaker Legacy

William Penn and the Quaker Legacy is a biography authored by John A. Moretta. First published in 2006 by Pearsons, the book consists of 288 pages and details the life of William Penn. Born in 1644, Penn was the son of the famous British hero, Sir William Penn. The younger Penn is most famous for having abandoned the Anglican Church and becoming a Quaker. He also secured a land grant from the king and founded Pennsylvania in 1681, at a young age of 35.

Penn’s life and his choices have been the topic of several biographies. However, Moretta follows a more holistic approach ...