Growth Book Reviews Samples For Students

The book, The Quest for Prosperity, is written by, Justin Yifu Lin. Mr. Lin is the chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. He illustrated in his book, a fascinating overview of development, development of economies, development for the underdeveloped countries and economies particularly after the Second World War. The book written by Justin Yifu Lin has been notable and it has been acknowledged as a knowledgeable and highly sophisticated book for people that have their interest in economic development, economic policies, economic growth, development of economies and development for third world countries that are struggling to improve ...

Overview of the National Banking Sectors in North Africa

Banking regulations on the acceptable standards have become a central point of discussion in most developed nations especially due to the recent financial crisis. A program or scheme that enforces the channeling of resources into more investments would boost the financial stability of the economies of most developing nations. A study of the regulations in the banking industry on the economic growth can reveal a lot concerning the economic growth in some specific South Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt). The banking efficiency and its proximity to internationally acceptable standards are measured using convergence methodologies such as β-convergence, Meta Frontier ...

Just to begin with, it is important to acknowledge the fact that the economic development when studied along with the history of the economic growth can provide a more analytical and comprehensive understanding of the development process. In his book, the “Wealth and Poverty of the Nations”. Landes peruses the history of the world economies in order to analyze the causes in the disparities in the wealth of the nations. In his book, Landes examines the problem of whether or not there is convergence of income disparities among different economies in the world have been critically and comprehensively examined in ...

(An Application of the Seven Major Sources of Economic Progress)

Authors: William Seyfried & Rollins College

- Article Summary
The article ‘Employment Intensity of Economic Growth’ seeks to examine the relationship between economic growth, as measured by the GDP, and employment levels, with the main focus being on the margin countries of Europe known as PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). It pertains to research done between 1999 and 2012 to study unemployment growth rates and GDP after the financial crisis proved that the peripheral countries were in a dire financial state.
The financial crunch immensely reduced the availability of financing, and hence ...

Assignment : Essay based on Chapter 5 of “Beggar thy neighbour”.

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Assignment –A (1238 words)
Essay-1
Question: The economic consequences of lending at compound interest resulted in loss of productive yield of the society. How finance dominated over economics and politics by using this concept of interest (Geisst 193)?

Introduction

The question given above poses a mandatory evaluation of the harmful impact of the compound interest based lending and consequent ease of loans for the people of America. The author, Charles Geisst, used the viewpoint of John Maynard Keynes to explain that the American society was so possessed by the idea of easily availing the loans using compounded ...

The book “Enough is Enough” is an excellent work done by authors, Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neil. The book very precisely details out how earth’s fitness resources are being utilized without making any improvement to people’s lives. Authors very brilliantly describe the realistic alternatives to continuous quest for economical growth and development: economy for which goal is not enough, any more. The book explicitly presents strategies to preserve natural resources, decrease disparity, stabilize population, generate jobs and fix financial system etc. All strategies emphasizes on capitalizing on long-term economic well-being than sort-term earnings. The book is ...

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation supports a “Development Dialogue” series in order to encourage and promote dialogue, communication and debate on subjects between North and South global divisions. In June 2012 the Foundation published a book edited by the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives titled No Future without Justice. The civil society reflection group was established in the fall of 2010 and is comprised of members of a variety of civil society organizations (CSOs). At first the group came together informally in order to discuss the numerous global crises that are happening simultaneously. By November of 2010 the group ...

Book Review of The Complete Green Letters by Miles J. Stanford

The Complete Green Letters by Miles J. Stanford is made up of five sections which actually summarize the important points of his five published works: The Green Letters, The Principle of Position, The Ground of Growth, The Reckoning That Counts, and Abide Above. This book is a compilation of Christ’s identity and individual spiritual formation. Though it is like an anthology of his books, each section is very brief and concise but still gives the reader an understanding of Christ and spirituality.

Summary

The first section, entitled Principles of Spiritual Growth, comprises eighteen chapters of values that lay the groundwork ...

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 is an economics book that was written by Paul Krugman. The book is an analysis of the 2008 financial crisis that followed an economic downturn amid huge economic activity in the financial sector of many economies including that of the United States of America. The book further follows and traces integration of the unfavorable economic conditions into the financial crisis experienced in the year 2008. In addition, Paul Krugman considers the parameters that characterize a relationship in an economic depression context basing the argument on the depression and the economic ...

Abstract

The following paper is a summary of the book “Globalization and its Discontents” by the Noble Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz. This book talks about how globalization has failed to achieve the economic equality it was meant to produce, enumerating the faults in the working of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization and what steps they must take to put reformed policies in place such that both developing and developed nations can benefit from their respective economies and free markets
Keywords: International Monetary Fund, finance, economy, free markets, World Bank

Introduction

The world is ...

Actin in Plant Cells

Actin, one of the most abundant proteins, occurs in all eukaryotic cells constituting almost five percent of cellular protein. Actin is the predominant component of the cytoskeleton. It is worth noting that the all-important cytoskeleton of a plant has three principal components; actin filament, microtubules and intermediate filaments (Jeon, 2003). As a component of the cytoskeleton of plant and animal cells, actin is of crucial importance in a plethora of cell processes that act in concert to govern cell growth and morphology. The cell processes influenced by the actin cytoskeleton include; cell division, organelle movement, vesicle trafficking, organelle motility, and cell signaling, ...

Part 4 and Part 5 Final Paper

Actual changes that are eminent in the expounded Chapter three of ‘A History of Usury and Debts’ entails an in-depth insight of the connection between war, capitalism, Protestants as well as their significance in the development of banking and debts around the world, an ordeal which reflects the current status of financial markets. The author well explains Protestants' connection to usury and debt, and how the selection from the Roman Catholic influenced other themes in the chapter, such as war and capitalism (Geisst 107).
Actual changes include the way the three themes related in the previous part is construed ...

Summary of Your Road Map for Success by Maxwell

Defining the term success may be a difficult task. More often than not, success is equated with power, happiness, and wealth. Nonetheless, true success cannot be achieved or acquired. Instead, it is a process, or journey people take in their entire life. In a straightforward style, Maxwell (2002), shares insights on what it implies to be successful. Maxwell (2002) gives a definition, which puts true success within people’s reach and motivates them to continue struggling to attain personal dreams.

In chapter one, Maxwell (2002) discusses the definition of success. John explains that success is for all people, its picture is not similar ...

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 ...

Book Report

Thomas R.M believes that studying and understanding the growth and development of a child is helpful to train the young on how to live well. Children differ in emotional growth, physical, social and cognitive patterns. Children differ even if they are identical twins. Think of a child; you will find out that their response to the play, affection, people, and objects be it living or non-living in their environment is very different. In this book, Thomas R.M helps us to understand children better by discussing the principles of child development, the brain growth, and development of a child. He ...

Book Review

Introduction
Cycles: The Science of Prediction by Edward R. Dewey and Edwin F. Dakin, published March 1947 by Henry Holt & Co. NY. This is a much-criticized book but it is very importance in the field of economic development. In this book the authors have tried to shows that the 54-year price-production cycle of commercial activities and the 18 1/3 year Real Estate Cycle have much more importance than any other cycles in forecasting the situation of the economy presently. The authors have name the 54-year price-production cycle as a "Kondratieff Cycle" and the "long wave" because its length is unclear. ...

Nature of Development in China

The mysterious growth of the Chinese economy today have had diverse effects on the social well-being of the country. The economic growth in the country failed to portray equal social development among the citizens. This fantastic but colossal growth of the economy have hence impacted negatively on the social lives of the people in the country. Through globalization, today, cultural crashes and the need to embrace the changes continuously affect the national development in a country (Williams, 2008). In the case of China, a communist country is trying to adapt to the capitalist world to sustain its development. With ...

Book Review of “Is China Buying the World”

As China grows to become the world’s largest economy, catching up with even the United States in the coming decade, it is important to understand the strategic growth objectives of the Chinese economy. Several authors have written books and research papers on the Asian Tiger, and the country is setting the pace of its economic growth. From becoming the manufacturing hub of the world at the end of the last millennium, China is now looking to expand its presence beyond its shores (Mitter, 2008). In the last decade, Chinese companies have begun acquiring companies and assets such as ...

Introduction

The Bottom Billion is a short book that addresses contemporary issues in the world today. Collier looks at the main problems causing Poverty in Africa. He contends the traditional definitions of underdeveloped, developing and developed countries. According to the author, poverty is only a fifty eighty countries. To resolve the problems in the third world countries whose inhabitants make up the bottom million, countries should resolve corruption, improve infrastructure and governance practices. He argues against the imposition of radical changes by the developed countries on the third world countries. Collier focuses on the problem facing the African countries and relates them ...

Book review of ‘Childhood and Society’ by Erik Erikson – Book review, Literary and Psychological Analysis, Reflections on reading the book

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Abstract

This paper will present you with the book review of ‘Childhood and Society’ by Erik Erikson. The review will focus on the analysis of its context in literary and psychological terms, its contribution to the field of psychology as well as on the reflections deriving from its reading. A short presentation of the book’s structure will be given providing you with a highlight of the basic elements of each chapter. Emphasis will be given on the psychological theory developed in this book on behalf of Erik Erikson, a widely acknowledged psychologist and psychoanalyst who has developed ...

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Introduction

Humans could not live without drinking. Apart from breathing, drinking is one activity humans must do in order to sustain themselves naturally. In fact, not even eating could satiate the feeling of thirst – if a person becomes thirsty, he must get a drink or else he could perish earlier than another person deprived of food does. Water stood as a natural resource humans consume for drinking. Yet, innovation led humans to use water to develop various kinds of drinks. Therefore, Tom Standage bases his book A History of the World in 6 Glasses on the unfolding of ...

1. What is Angela Davis’s overall objective (purpose) in writing this book? What is her overall THESIS (argument—her position on prisons)?
Since the 1970s, the growth of prisons has been exponential, and Angela Y. Davis worries why the community allows such a thing to happen. The growth is associated with the larger economic and social situations of the country. Davis argues that the growth of prisons is rarely seen, but it creates a cycle of incarceration and joblessness. She argues that prisons permit individuals to disassociate from the issues in their community (such as social, economic ...

Book Review-Blue Ocean Strategy by Kim and Mauborgne

Book Review-Blue Ocean Strategy by Kim and Mauborgne
Blue Ocean Strategy refers to a marketing strategy book that was written by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne of the Institute for Blue Ocean Strategy, professors at the France’s INSEAD business school and co-founders of the Institute for Value. The book was published by Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation in the year 2005. The Blue Ocean Strategy book depicts what the two authors think is the perfect marketing strategy to achieve profits and growth of the company. Blue Ocean Strategy proposes that for a company to be successful, ...

Introduction

‘Dibs in search of self’ by Virginia Axline presents series of chronicle play therapy sessions. It is an account that covers a year of therapy sessions for an emotionally crippled boy from a wealthy background. Although, ‘Dibs’, the boy shows the obvious signs of a gifted human being, their parents still insist that Dibs is mental retarded. This is because Dibs also present an abnormality in social behavior since he isolates himself from social contacts (Axline, 1964). Dibs further rarely speaks and physically lashes out at everyone including his parents, caretakers, sister and even classmates during school time. Throughout the ...

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 ...

Assignment Questions

Question one
According to Moyo, there are three categories of aid namely, charity-based aid, emergency or humanitarian aid and systematic aid. The author focuses on the systematic aid, which is the sum, total of grants and concessional loans that is given by the donor country to the recipient country (Moyo, 2009). It is a loan from the government of a developed country to the government of the developing country or from international financial institutions such as World Bank and IMF to the government of the developing countries. This type of aid is the most damaging and it is has detrimental ...

In the book “The end of poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time” Jeffrey Sachs explains the yawning gap between the rich world and the poor and what can be done to improve that dreadful situation.
First idea depicts the greatest tragedy of our time – poverty and its dimensions, in which the one-sixth of humanity lives. As the author says, these countries are not even on the development ladder. The comparison of the poverty situation in Malawi, Bangladesh and India makes clear that the world community has so far displayed just too little action. Professor Sachs stresses that globalization ...

Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline. New York: Broadway Business, 1997.
I was dreaming to read this book for several years and I found it excellent for clarity, content, and examples used by the author. I had moved through the book with lightning speed. I was able to remember main ideas due to the multiple details offered by the author which I found in the cases. Often, the authors of similar books draw banal examples. It was a nice surprise for me when I did not find any over-applied solutions in the book. I found the book very useful ...

The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon

The book ‘The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon” by David Elkind is a parenting book which is a cutting edge in the contemporary parenting. This book was written in the year 1981 even before the evolution and widespread use of the internet but had an illusion of the technological revolution that would come. As a result, the book contains a lot of parenting information on the contemporary parenting which by personal opinion is at stake.
Looking at the class in which this book falls under, it is an educative text in the parenting sector. Thus, I would recommend this ...

Introduction

The Postal Age, a book written by David Henkin and published in 2006, gives a historical account of the revolutionary changes in communication borne by the establishment of postal services in the United States. Although the practice of passing written information from one individual or place to another through a go-between can be traced to the early days when writing came to the fore, the establishment of postal services took place much later. In this interesting read, The Postal Age, Henkin examines the chain of events that led to the burgeoning of postal services, and how this was the turning point in ...

What does the author mean by India’s strange rise?

India’s ‘strange rise’ is a phrase which is the reader encounter on the title of the book, In Spite Of the Gods: the Rise of Modern India. It is hard to explain what the author meant by the phrase without looking into the detailed meaning of the whole title. It is also proper in the outset that the author wrote the book while living in India where he worked for the financial times in the period 2001 to 2006 in New Delhi. The contents of the book, In Spite Of the Gods: the Rise of Modern India, are therefore a ...

Joseph Smith’s religious vision has lead to the development of a uniquely American region. Smith was the founder of the latter day saints church (LDS) which holds 14.4 million members worldwide. In the United States, the church is rated as the 4th largest Christian denomination by the American council of churches. The church has led to the development of both the American religion and the economy because of its highest population in the United States. It is one of the most widespread churches in America and the wealthiest compared to other denominations. Through its expansion in the United States, ...

The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon

The book ‘The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon” by David Elkind is a parenting book which is a cutting edge in the contemporary parenting. This book was written in the year 1981 even before the evolution and widespread use of the internet but had an illusion of the technological revolution that would come. As a result, the book contains a lot of parenting information on the contemporary parenting which by personal opinion is at stake.

Looking at the class in which this book falls under, it is an educative text in the parenting sector. Thus, I would recommend this book ...

Introduction

In her book entitled The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, Harney discussed about the impact of the rapid industrialization in China. She pointed out how the industrialization and economic progress transformed the country to what people would consider as the world’s factory, yet, the author argued that this progress resulted in adverse consequences. Accordingly, the book talks about important elements that relate to the country’s geography.
a. Migrant Workers Issue
One of the factors that was discussed by Harney in her book is the issue of migrant workers. According to the author, there ...

Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business portends a concept of holistic entrepreneurial by emphasizing on the perception of the business as a calling. The implication of this understanding promotes the view that business people must engage in activities that represent the will of God. Grudem demonstrates the extent to which the business activities fall into the widespread Christian paradigm that are pegged on the opportunity to enhance the glory of God. Accordingly, the profit spectrum, private ownership, competition, employment as well as commercial transactions must portray the sovereignty ...

Sticky Church is a book by Larry Osborne, who is the lead pastor of a church in California himself. The main objective of writing this book was to show other pastors on how they can retain people from attending the church. Osborne noticed that most churches focus on attracting the people but don’t do much to retain them. He, therefore, writes this book to show how to make churches ‘stickier’, that is become better at retaining the people who visit the church.
There were a number of insights in the books that were helpful. One of the main insights in ...

Ethical behavior is one of the key factors that determine the success of a business. Ethics need to be maintained in all levels of business organization starting with the top level management to the senior most employees. Chapter 9 of the book Managing Business Ethics focuses on corporate social responsibility. There are various reasons why an organization should be involved in corporate social responsibility; the reasons include ethical, pragmatic and strategic reasons.
Every organization has a corporate responsibility to all the stakeholders involved. The face of a business is judged by how it treats its stakeholders. The existence of business depends ...

Compiled by Silberman together with his colleague Freda Hansburg, “PeopleSmart” is undoubtedly a useful tool for learning that should be adopted for operational managers as well as corporate executives. It is an easy book to understand that is well organized and user friendly. PeopleSmart is a book with the potential of transforming the work environment particularly due to its practicality. For people interested in sharpening their interpersonal skills and individual growth, the inspirational book is a sure guide for success.
The main aim of the book is to encourage its readers to be socially astute through attempting to mould them into ...

Jay McLeod’s book demonstrates that racism is an issue which dominates proceedings in more ways than one. The issue of social mobility is discussed extensively in the book as it shows that class consciousness is still very much rife and intrinsic amongst us. McLeod comes up with all the sociological concepts which are part and parcel of our thinking and these include class structure, poverty, the dehumanization of work, etc.
“I ain’t going to college, who wants to go to college? I’d end up getting a shitty job anyway” (p. 3)
This is what an ...

‘The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama’

The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama is a book set in the current historical setting but dating its foundation in the 1960. The book is a political satire that displays the origin and growth of democracy in terms of division and selection of ruling parties. Hayden creates a political picture that may shape the political perception of the current generation. In his book he challenges the current generation to appreciate the political struggles in the 1960’s and recognize the advantages of these efforts. Hayden also displays an old political picture that was never aware of democracy and free will. ...

Introduction

In the year 2008, the United States was plunged into a financial crisis that was the worst ever experienced since the Great depression. Most banks collapsed during this period and the state was involved in organizing for a transfer of wealth. Many scholars among them economists and financial experts were shocked by the speed at which the events took place. John Bellamy in his book “The Great Financial Crisis” gives a bold analysis of the financial meltdown, its causes, how it developed and the implications that it had to the general economic status of America and other countries across the globe.

This ...

The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America is a book by Upton Sinclair. It is a historical fiction that elaborates the story of American inventor and industrialist Henry Ford and his company's interaction with a fictitious character Abner Shutt and his family. Abner and a majority of his children end up working for Ford in different capacities (Sinclair, 1937).
The book is set against the backdrop of a fast-industrializing America in the early 19th century at a time when labor rights were not as expansive as they are at the moment. It follows the story of the growth of ...

Part 1: Subject Matter

Love and relationships appears to be a subject that touched the heart of Gary. Most of his poems revolve around the subject of love and the efforts of people to relate with those around them. The innocence of love relationships especially to young children who are growing and the fears that the adults have when they think of rejection has been perfectly addressed in Gary’s poems. The poem, oranges focus on two lovebirds in their early teens as they make sacrifices just to be with each other. The innocence and determination that has been displayed in their relationships through ...

Leadership is the main concept in the modern business and private life. It helps to distinguish successful managers and those who needs to learn more in order to become effective. Today there are many experts in the leadership sphere. However, John Maxwell is the most experienced writer and teacher on the subject of leadership. He has lots of writings and books in which he presents wealthy information on how to become a leader and how to improve the existing personal leadership qualities. Maxwell’s leadership book series cover different issues including attitude, equipping, relationships and leadership.
Leadership 101 is a ...

In many great companies, the Level 5 leader has been found to be the most important factor for the company’s factor. It is not because they are able to do a great job themselves. Rather, it is because they are able to bring together disciplined and talented people to do the task. The Level 5 Leader simply sets the way for all the others to do the work. Among the four stages or principles, the Level 5 Leader is the most important to understand and emulate in an education or school environment.
The Level 5 Leader is not ...

Management

Introduction
In his book, “Supportive Leadership: The New Role of Leaders in the 21st Century”, Gunther H. Schust declares that the paradigms of management and leadership are changing in an increasingly globalized world. Schust points out that leaders could get the job done with blunt tactics of hiring and firing. However, the need of the hour is for leaders to professionally select employees, support them in their endeavors, challenge them in the work environment, make them further qualified and enable them to function seamlessly in a networked world. Schust (8) uses the new requirements of leaders to call for ...

Introduction

Lu Hsiu-Lien depicts her dreadful struggle for democratization in Taiwan in her political autobiography “My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman’s Journey from Prison to Power.” The title of the book itself tells that this story is about a political journey of a common woman that she spent in prison and became vice president. She has released a fascinating memoir that tells her political life with humor in her recent book. It is considered as a rare political memoir that is presented with candid and self-aware. “My Fight for a New Taiwan” narrates the Taiwan’s unique coalesce of autochthonic and Chinese culture. ...

Why Nations Faillooks to the past as well as today’s world in order to answer the age old question of why some nations prosper while others fail. Historically some countries’ citizens are considered wealthy, their nations in rich material goods, education and freedoms while and others are perceived a generally poor, or divided by lines of wealth and poverty.
It is obvious by looking at more universal factors of culture, weather, and geography that countries with similar external and internal factors can enjoy, or suffer different circumstances. North and South Korea and East and West Germany are evidence ...

Introduction

Japan encountered both good and bad experiences after the war between the year 1945 and 1952. This was the period when occupation officially ended and later, followed by chaos and destruction in Japan. The emperor Hirohito gave his surrender speech, and most people felt betrayed and displaced. During the early days of occupation, Japans had to deal with hunger due to food shortage. There was excavating black market and Japans traditions were forgotten. Decisions made by USA resulted to change in societal conscious instead of focusing to change everyday life of the Japans. USA government did not punish the ...

Book Review

This is the most famous chapter in the book of Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, socialism, and Democracy. Can Capitalism Survive Is the book that introduces the theory of creative destruction of Joseph A. Schumpeter’s. The theory states that, in capitalist economies, the current established firms that provide unforeseen avenues of the growth of economy (Schumpeter 122) erode the innovations. The capitalist societies are the perennial gales of destruction that will wipe the fortunes away. The writer in details has discussed the economic landscape of capitalism; Schumpeter further argued that the technological innovation is the cause of the business ...

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Joseph E. Stiglitz surely knows a thing or two about International Economics. The Nobel Laureate Columbia University Economics Profe.ssor, who served from 1995 to 1997 under US President Bill Clinton as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and then from 1997 to 2000 as the Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank, debates in detail, the effect that globalization has had on the world.
Globalization, as a process, is the coming together of countries. It all but eliminates the needs for boundaries, making countries interconnected. The resulting effects are increased trade, better communication, and ...

The book illustrates the dynamic ideas that shape black politicians, intellectuals, and social movement activists’ behavior as they participate in U.S foreign issues towards Africa. The author is an African descendant interested with knowledge on racism. This is because of the rich and reassuring conversations he had on race relations from his immediate family and the shadow of civil rights associations. At the same time, his parents had exposed him to the realities of Africa through art, museums, and books hence able to counter psychological assault by the whites.
Black Americans are deeply ambivalent on their status as ...

Various principals surround the financial transactions of the Islamic finance. In the Islamic finance, the purpose of financing should not involve an activity that is against the Islamic law. The financing is not supposed to receive or give interest (riba) as well as risk which is known as gharar in Islamic. However, Islamic finance is very relevant to society because it promotes the sharing of risk and reward between contracting persons. The investor always goes for projects that has a high degree of risk and reward sharing because they are for profitable. In order to achieve all these principals, the ...

Margaret Mitchell’s sweeping epic about the Civil War has been called many things since its publication. Admirers have classified Gone With the Wind as an elegy for a lost and noble civilization, others as nothing more than cheap melodrama. Ultimately, it stands as a remarkable literary achievement in American myth-making, an idealized saga about a way of life that relied on the enslavement and exploitation of human beings. As a Southern writer, Mitchell can hardly be classified among the likes of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor. Rather, Gone With the Wind exists in its own territory, partly by virtue of its ...

Introduction

The book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers raises the issues that surrounded the decline of major economic powers of the world between the years 1500 to 1980. The author, Paul Kennedy, makes a comparison of the economic and political position of great world powers which were; the United States, Japan, China, Europe and the Soviet Union. The book also provides an analysis of the economic and political performance of these countries in the 20th century.

About the author

Paul Kennedy was born in 1945 in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear in Britain. He is a historian and economist at the Yale University. ...

Galbraith’s book ‘The Affluent Society’ looks at the socio-economic organization of the United States and the political forces that are necessary for creating a strong economy not only in the short-run but also in the long-run. Galbraith central macro-economic concept is that the US economic is based on the European Economic theory. In his argument, Galbraith argues that there has been an inclination by the US market to take a trajectory that seeks to maximize production rates. Effects such as increased technology and the machine-based industries have been adopted over the years so as to maximize production. However, Galbraith criticizes this ...

Judith E Brown in her book, Nutrition and Pregnancy, a complete guide from preconception to post delivery addresses one of the most important issues in pregnancy, Nutrition. The author successfully delves into the issue of nutrition, a very important aspect of human life, and especially during the pregnancy and lactating period for mothers and their new born.
The author dispels a number of myths associated with pregnancy, consistently emphasizing on the importance of a balanced diet to the health of both the mother and the child.

The core of the book is geared towards establishing the effects of nutrition on pregnancy and ...

Jeffrey D. Sachs is among the few economists from the developed world who empathize and sympathize with the world’s poor. He views the world as a global super-community in which the disparate human societies have a common destiny. A world in which true progress will only be possible if we rise as a unit, if the world’s poor are helped out of the circumstances of their birth. His book, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, especially forcefully argues this view. It follows that a recurring theme in the book is the need for a paradigm shift in our global ...

In A People's History of the United States, Zinn devotes chapter 13 to socialist movements during the early 1900's. Is this justified or is he overstating the impact of the socialist movement?
Socialist movements gained tract in the turn of the century, and many workers were keen getting a fair share of their efforts from the employers. Also, people demanded more from the government, pushing for the protection of the old, sick and poor through programs that would reach out to the people. The formation of the National Civic Federation by Ralph Easley spelled doom and hard times for ...

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 ...