Ideal Book Reviews Samples For Students

"The Prince" is one of the most important works of philosophy, which Machiavelli created in 1513. It was published only in 1532 - after the death of the author. Since it was written by Italian writer it is necessary to pay attention to what political situation in Italy in those days. Italy at that time was divided to few small states. In these states, have preserved the outward forms of the republican system, but in fact the city-states were ruled by representatives of a noble families.
Italy has become a kind of arena of wars, which was constantly attacked by ...

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 ...

Weber's Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism book traces its authorship from a German sociologist known as Max Weber. A part from being a professional sociologist, Max also qualifies based on professionalism to be a politician and economist in vast scopes of involvement. The book begins as a series of defined essays originally composed in German between the years 1904 and 1905. The first translation of the text to English was carried out in 1930 by Talcott Parsons. The book is thus considered as the founding text of general and economic sociology.
The protestant Ethic discussion by Weber captures on the basic ...

Book review: In search of respect by Philippe Bourgois

About the author

Philippe Bourgois is an experienced writer and researcher. He is also a professor and the chairman in the anthropology, history and social medicine department at the University of California. He mainly focuses his research on political mobilization of the ethnic communities in central and north America, political violence, labour relations in this region and the general life of the marginalized communities within America and especially the street families in the inner city dwellings of North America. He has also done research about the violence and the HIV prevalence in such dwellings, bringing out the suffering that is ...

War is almost as old as human history itself. Even the earliest writings in literature center on conflict: in The Epic of Gilgamesh, the central character goes to the supernatural realm to bring back the secret to eternal life, to bring his friend, who had died in war, back from the grave. The major literary works of ancient Greece either focus on wars between members of two different cultures, as with the Trojan War, or in smaller, more regional conflicts between clans or larger groups: one of the pink elephants in the room for Creon, the regent of Thebes ...

Republicanism and Democracy in the 18th Century

A Book Review
Introduction
Some of us have learned the history of the American Revolution in a way which leads us to think the revolution was inevitable. There were logical forces and circumstances leading to the revolution and like other people in other revolutions the American colonists reached a point where they had no other choice but to revolt. Some of us have learned that the revolution parallels the French Revolution. The author, Gordon S. Wood, takes aim especially at what he describes as the Progressive interpretations of the American Revolution and demonstrates neither the revolution nor the revolution’ ...

Introduction

As the world develops, more people expect a higher and better quality of life. In the 21st Century, architecture has evolved significantly and it seeks to maximise the quality of life that people have across the world. Thus, several works have been done, seeking to blend traditional architecture with other disciplines in order to enhance the nature of the built environment. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a book review on Cognitive Architecture: Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment by Professors Ann Sussman and Justin Hollander. This book review will include an overview of ...

Exam answers

“spirit of the time” Zeitgeist does not mean the same thing to everyone because it is like a snapshot of culture at any given time for any given medium of art, etc. Although some believed that Zeitgeist in art could represent an organic unity so that the unity created a total spirt.

Primitivism

art movement that viewed non-Western cultures and included the motifs from that culture into art forms (painting, ceramics, weaving, etc); respect for these cultures as better in some way from western culture

What is the difference between Modernization, Modernity and Modernism?

Let’s take a modern person, a modern person can accept the new art and ...

Complete Name of Professor

In his book entitled Redesigning Humans: Choosing Our Genes, Changing Our Future, Gregory Stock observes that genetic profiling and pre-conception screenings will soon become obligatory because of its supposed ideal advantages. He believes that humanity will soon be tracking the path to genetic manipulation. Many healthcare facilities in many parts of the world today offer pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, which aims to evaluate the health of embryos whether they are inflicted with diseases or have higher chances of developing genetic disorders. Also, there are medical procedures available today that would allow prospective parents to avail of sex selection. Stock finds ...

Robert Sapolsky, one of the famous professors of neurology and biology and at Stanford University wrote the book “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers,” to compare and contrast the stress responses in humans and animals. The book draws attention to experimental science to understand the concept of stress. Sapolsky’s research on animal behavior for several years in the forests of Africa forms the foundation of the book. The book gives an account of the impact of stress in humans and the strategies that enable to cope with the stress. The different chapters in the book explain the effect ...

The theatre an introduction is a book by Oscar G. Brockett. It is a seven hundred and forty two; fourth edition book that was published by Holt Rinehart and Winston in the year 1979. It is a book about theatre and art that explains its history, basic elements, and status in America. The book does not actually have an introduction but contains a preface that serves right as the actual introduction to the book. The book has been divided into three parts and the parts further divided into more chapters. Part one of the book has three chapters. Part one discusses the theoretical ...

- In what way did Dr. Martin King Luther King use non-violent protests in the Civil Rights Movement?
At the staff retreat of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), King talked about the dangers of violence. King said, “Violence has been the inseparable twin of materialism, the hallmark of its grandeur”, and he stood his ground against it on the basis that hate engenders violence. Hence, to curb hate and violence, King saw the importance of participating in peaceful protests no matter how unjust the situations they were in and how difficult it was for Black people to ...

Without conscience is a book by Dr. Hare, Robert D based on more than thirty years of his research on psychopathy. It is written in an easy and sincere readable fashion for all categories of audiences. It is a very useful book that gives full profiles of different psychopaths. This book is rich in insightful information that could help someone differentiate a day by day psychopath from the rest of the population. It generally speaks of prison cases, famous cases and covers a bit of ground which majorities of us walk on each day. It’s a scary book about psychopaths and Hare asserts ...

The book Adult Children of Alcoholics by Janet Woititz is one piece of writing that comprehensively touches the issue of many homes in the past decades. Nevertheless, the same principles apply even today. Alcohol drinking of many people is already an assumed problem in societies. Sadly, having such lifestyle has co-occurring effects that adversely affect even family relationships – particularly the children. In her book, Woititz provides the way for understanding such issue. Parents, whether alcoholic or not, and children should read it.
It is true that being in a home with an alcoholic family member – particularly a parent – in an ...

“The Prince” is a book by Niccolo Machiavelli that features an honesty leader who is only ideal to the real world of politics. Machiavelli is trying to say that he can be that faultless leader. He at times said much truth about him beyond what the people did not want to hear nor accept. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote the book following his failure in the field of politics and of what his honesty in the politics. The author brings out an honesty position regarding the way he puts his ideas all through his book.
Looking into the background surrounding Machiavelli ...

In the end of the first quarter of the XX century the world of literature was highlighted with the most famous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘The Great Gatsby’. The action takes place in 1922, so we can say for sure that the author’s modernity is described. The novel appears to be as a kind of a bridge between two of the most major events in the history of America – the World War I, which came to end in 1918 and the Great Depression which was to break out in several years. The period between them was known to be ...

Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South by Kenneth Bindas is an impressive book and the most intriguing thing about it is the diversity of the individuals that Bindas interviewed. The major theme in the book is the tender balance of austere poverty and bounteous selflessness. By using thematic presentation in his book, Bindas has interwoven a hail of voices and has run interpretive analysis. He has done this in order to skillfully demonstrate not only the crisis and destitution that was involved in the Depression but also the clear “collective consciousness” that left a lasting mark on the ones ...

When The Second Sex had been published in 1949, the author of the book Simone de Beauvoir was thirty-seven years old. The Second Sex took the literary market by storm and in just one week, 22,000 copies of the book were sold. Many readers were shocked by the way de Beauvoir frankly discusses the female body and female sexuality. The book was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican (Gray). Why did the society of the time scandalize the content of the book? Why did the de Beauvoir’s book end up breaking all taboos? ...

Human Resource Development (HRD) is a function that helps employees develop their abilities and skill sets to suit the job requisite and to enhance the growth within the organization. It includes training, mentoring, coaching, succession planning among others. HRD focuses on the development of the superior workforce for the organizations to achieve their goals in service to their customers. While planning to attain these requirements at its best, in the past, the leaders of the organizations have looked at the employees as a channel to attain the established targets. Their focus was on giving strength to these channels in all the ...

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to analyze the non-fiction short story "The Price of a Dream" by Andrew Lukonis. The analysis is conducted on the basis of correspondence of the short story to the contemporary reality and accuracy of the described issues. Attention is also paid to political, psychological, sociological and personal matters of the topic. Place of entrepreneur's action in the story is analyzed from the point of its correspondence to cultural traditions of his society.

Compassion - Hope of Humanity

With the development of human civilization, each society liked to consider that its rules and customs were more advanced and civilized ...

Question 1

Henry Thoreau introduces what has now become a classical philosophical ideology whereby he urges people, though subtly and indirectly, to embrace the natural scheme of things. This scheme, according to Thoreau (93), is inherently simple and does not require a great deal of exertion on a person’s part. Perhaps his stay in the wilderness as an experiment was aimed at verifying his own ideas of how people should approach life. In my opinion, this actually bolsters his explicit ideals of economy and simplicity in that he was willing to walk the walk and experience it for himself. This adds credence to ...

Basic Marketing with Student CD by William Perreault, Jr., E. Jerome McCarthy and Joseph Cannon

Chapter 1 – The Importance of Marketing
Outline:
1. What is Marketing?
2. Why is Marketing Important to Individuals
3. The Right Way to Define Marketing
4. What is Macro-Marketing?
5. The Function of Marketing in Economic Systems
6. Marketing’s Function as it Changed Through Time
7. The Concept of Marketing Defined
8. Marketing and the Value of Customers
9. Marketing in Nonprofit Organizations
10. Concepts of Marketing and Social Responsibility
11. Ethics of Marketing
12. Ending: Conclusion, Key Terms, Illustrated Cases, and Computer-Aided Problem

Summary:

This ...

Gaines M. Foster, ‘Ghosts of the Confederacy,’ Oxford University Press, 1987

On May 6, 1895, a 70-foot-high monument memorializing Confederate dead was dedicated before an enthusiastic crowd featuring local dignitaries and leaders of Confederate organizations. The statue was part of a wave of commemorations honoring martyrs to the Lost Cause, ceremonies that were commonplace throughout the South for nearly a half-century after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. This ceremony, however, took place in Louisville, Kentucky, the largest city in a state that never seceded from the union and which housed thousands of federal troops throughout the war. It is a measure of the power of the Lost Cause that 30 years after the war ended ...

The author, Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III, was an American writer that worked mainly as a playwright in the American theater. He also published novels, poetry, short stories, screenplays, essays, and a great volume of memoirs. He received most of the top theatrical awards for his works on the stage, with A Streetcar Named Desire receiving the great Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Up to date, he is considered among the best known classical writers in the American fields of theatre.
Most of the themes dominant his works (loneliness, desire, sickness, death, alcoholism, depression, etc) are mined from his ...