Nurture Book Reviews Samples For Students

The book revolves around two young men both with the same name Wes and who happen to share the same challenges of growing up in a poor neighbourhood, the people they interact during their growing stage and how those people shaped their lives in contributing on the decisions that they made that changed their fate.The book is divided into eight chapters, each chapter discussing the development stages and the changes that the two Wes encounter in life as they grew up. For the purpose of his paper I will consider two of the concepts which we can learn from this ...

Book Review

The book Why teach? : In defense of a real education by Mark Edmundson presents a collection of essays that focus on the state of education in the United States. While focusing on the manner in which the education system in America has deteriorated since the 1990s, Edmundson provides insights and advise to the students, parents, and his fellow teachers regarding how to return the American education system to its glory days. While comparing the current education system with the pre-1990s, the changes regarding the role of teachers, and the choices that students make, the author presents his ideas ...

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

This essay is offers a summary of the book, ‘Seven Keys to Create Leadership and a Sustainable Business Model’ by Howard Rasheed. This book is a resource for managers who wish to improve the performance in order to meet the competitive demands of the market and remain in business. In the current business context, businesses are evolving rapidly and there are new insights coming up every day. It is therefore not a matter of convenience that business managers should be innovative, but rather a matter of urgency and centrality for any business to remain afloat in the current dispensation. The seven keys are summarized, ...

ABSTRACT

Anne Fausto-Sterling is a biologist who has written Sex/Gender for a non-scientist audience of students and faculty in the humanities and social sciences. This book addresses a wide variety of topics including infant and childhood development, genetics, gender identity, brain development and structure, sexual orientation, and the future of gender in an engaging style that neither talks down to the readers nor goes over their heads. She completely rejects and idea of eugenics, Social Darwinism or genetic or biological determinism, as well as the worn out Nature/Nurture debate in relation to human development. Instead she maintains that all living organisms are part ...

Iron sharpens iron is a book by Orlando Saer that highlights on the principles required for a church leader or organization. It is mainly a leadership book that is aimed at guiding and mentoring leaders who aspire to make impacts in their groups whether small or big. The book is based on biblical principals and its title derived from a scripture in the bible. This mainly insists on the fact that people need to empower each other. A church leaders needs to have the ability to learn from the others, from their experiences, whether good or bad and to accept correction. The book ...