Power Book Reviews Samples For Students

Question 1

Discourse on a subject means that the subject is relevant and modern enough to warrant the concern of the people discussing it. This discourse usually leads to popular opinions and generalizations on the particular subject matter after continued engagement on the subject. Discourse on the subject of sexuality as tackled by Foucault reveals how discourse in the matter of sexuality led to sections of the society gaining power, over the others due to their sexual orientations. Power as understood by Foucault is an ability by a person or a circumstance to influence the decision-making and the actions of an ...

William Vernon Harris wrote the book titled ‘War & Imperialism in Republican Rome’. Oxford University Press published the book in the 1985. The author of this book attempts to review the grounds for wars and imperialism in Rome in 327 to 70 BC. It was the time when the Romans outstretched their empire to the Mediterranean. The book attempted to reviews the feelings of the Romans in their mission to get power and their actions. The urge for Romans to have power over all their neighbours ...

The notion that all men are created equal and that social barriers of wealth are nonexistent in God’s Kingdom has always held a central position in Christianity. In his book “The Upside Down Kingdom” the author discusses how in the kingdom of God those with wealth in this world will be at the very bottom whereas those that are poor will be at the top. Therefore to achieve higher status in the kingdom of God one should be compassionate and help the poor in this world.
The book is a exploration of religious thought and has been in ...

Review of Tamsyn Barton’s book ‘Ancient Astrology’

Ancient Astrology written by Tamyson Barton is a fresh and an objective perspective upon a persuasive yet often overlooked subject of social science. The book has two important theses, one is the premise that astrology, physiognomies, and few other "pseudo-sciences," as are under practice within the various societies where they are largely accepted, have similar claim to the authenticity of these fields as in the case with the other subjects that contemporary Western societies consider to be "scientific." Secondly, it is suggested by the author that the study should be based more on the history of the "sciences"; and ...

Book review The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince is a unique book which is not easy to categorize, even though it is a non-fiction book. One can try to define it as a historic book, especially for the contemporary reader, but at its time of publication it was more a kind of manual, a manual for leaders whom Machiavelli calls ‘Princes’ (Machiavelli, 2003, p.50), on how to behave when it comes to power. Because of this, the book is still negatively labeled and seen as a “dictator’s handbook” (Dove, 2011) and the author seen as a “synonym for intrigues of unsavory nature” (Goodwin, 2003 ...

It can be simply said of as the ability to exercise authority, control, influence, and rule over living and non-living things altogether. This is the act of influencing things to happen or go in a particular way. The power at hand may be for the benefit of one or many people around the person with authority.
We are informed of how God used his power to manipulate the existence of the living and non-living things both on earth and in heaven. These things he created were for the benefit of himself and the community of mankind he had created ...

Introduction

Ozzie Zehner in contrary to others makes it clear that the globe is not on an energy crisis but rather on an energy consumption crisis. The key issue as with Ozzie is on the weight that the environmentalism is given to this problem. It is more of what every individual in the use and concern of environment things about this issue and not just, how we publish and talk about it without a standing order to address this issue. Since the problem of environment has existed and seamed to advancing since then despite the various talks that appear to ...

"All animals are equal, but some animals

Are more equal than others"
Alexis de Tocqueville has been quoted as saying that the skills used to create marvelous literature do not necessarily produce coherent and well-founded political thought and in most cases one might say that he was right. But that was not the case for English novelist Eric Arthur Blair more commonly known as George Orwell, whose work is characterized by political insight, linguistic clarity and irrefutable literary value, a work that can still inspire almost sixty four years after his death. A keen analyst of his turbulent times, Orwell was, according to Newsweek magazine, the ...

Edward Luttwak, the Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third

At its peak, the Roman Empire was based on the following key components; security, stability, and prosperity for all. This is the reason why Luttwak believes that the Roman Empire’s grand strategy is by far the most superior in history and years of advancement in technology, strategy and as well as human behaviour will not get even close to unsettling the aforementioned fact. Before getting into the author’s argument, it is important to understand why Luttwak chose this subject matter. ...

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- Totalitarian movements are mass organizations of atomized, isolated individuals. (Chapter 10)
- It was recognized early and has frequently been asserted that in totalitarian countries propaganda and terror present two sides of the same coin (Chapter 11)
- Totalitarian propaganda raised ideological scientificality and its technique of making statements in the form of predictions to a height of efficiency of method and absurdity of content because, demagogically speaking, there is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future can reveal ...

Book Review of Henry Kissinger’s

MEMORANDUM

This book review aims to analyse the content of Henry Kissinger’s On China. The content will include critical evaluation of arguments, theories and viewpoints presented in the book as well as summarize the geopolitical and strategies mentioned therein.

1 On China – Points to be noted
For over two decades before Henry Kissinger visited China as president’s Nixon’s delegate, no high level diplomatic interaction had taken place between the U.S. and China. Very little was known about the nation and its foreign policies. However, post the cold war and the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., China has ...

In his very inspiring book, You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader, author Mark Sanborn presents to the reader how everyone stands to be a good leader in their lives by making a positive impact in the lives of many others in their own unique ways. He presents a number of unsung heroes and how they used something in their possession to make a difference in other people’s lives even when they were not recognized as leaders. It takes picking a piece of broken bottle from the side walk to be a hero or heroine. ...

Hitler’s Table Talk is written in a way to make you feel as if you are having a direct conversation with Hitler over the dining room table. Or maybe it is more like being lectured by him because the talk offered in the book are monologues. The date and time of day is noted as well as who is with him during his talk. His conversations in the book explain the beliefs he holds dear such as the superiority of the Aryan race and who he considers to be a part of that race. He discusses his feelings ...

Peter Block defines leadership as an act of stewardship where an individual commits to doing good for the sake of the community. This symbolic idea redefines the term leadership by ensuring that leadership is a form of partnership and commitment to improving a greater society and calls this act stewardship. In addition, leaders can be involved in building the economy by seeking teamwork from the people surrounding. This act is contrary to the mainstream idea of a leadership that defines it as singular and one with power and authority over the people. Thus, Peter Block asserts that leadership should ...

Deborah Meier’s book ‘The Power of Their Idea’ explores a number of issues affecting the public education system. These factors include the leadership in the education system, the philosophy of education, constraints facing teachers in delivering education among other factors. The book seems to be speaking from the author’s viewpoint. The education today is a result of various developments hatched for the purpose of changing the values or the philosophy of education. According Meier (2002), the teachers should have the greater autonomy of handling or running the affairs of public schools. Arguably, such autonomy enables teachers to ...

Chapter 7: Stratification.

Dalton has brought up the issues of social stratification in chapter 7 of his book, ‘You May Ask Yourself’. Social stratification refers to an unintentional drive within the family that determines the future of the family members. It also places members of the society into some economic groups. The society can shape an individual to become what it wants. For example, people from poor families are often associated with poverty and unfortunately most of them end up poor in their life. It known that it is the family where our life starts. Therefore the stratification places each family within ...

Book Review - Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America

In Harry L. Watson's Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America, the second party system era is examined on a national level (following up from his regional study of Cumberland County, North Carolina, during the same period of time), providing a rough overview of Jacksonian politics in general. Issues such as nullification, the Bank War, and Andrew Jackson himself are addressed in a detailed, yet unspecialized way, providing the reader with a passing glimpse at the entire era and how its politics affected the cultural and social landscape of America. Watson's thesis is that, despite the typical challenges ...

PART A

Portfolio of Creation Myths (182-191)
Question 1
Different myths have different images to represent their creator gods. For instance the Native American narrative of creation uses the spider woman as the god responsible for the creation story. In the same way, the Australian society presented in this excerpt upholds the fact that life emanated from the emu egg (Ford 185). One similarity that exists in the way that the creator gods are presented is that they have extra-ordinary power to be able to accomplish the creation task. It is also evident from each of the stories presented that the ...

Kotkin, Stephen. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1979-2000. New York: Oxford University Press. 2001.

Chapter 1: History’s Cruel Tricks

In the first chapter of his work, Kotkin argues that, in the years after the war, the Soviet Union entered a slow but steady economic decline, which could not be stopped even by its oil export. He also argues that due to the global oil crisis, the Soviet Union, and other oil exporters saw a financial boom which transformed their economy, but only temporarily, because the oil output decreased steadily and because of the fact that much of the Soviet Union’s industry had been ...

The book ‘Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire’ written by Martin Thomas is one of the unique books on the concept of decolonization. In the book, the author explains shows how Britain’s imminent withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and the dispatch of troops to the Central African Republic by France are the recent observations of a long-standing trend of decolonization. Author Thomas begins in the book, a vast and impressive study to examine the entire range of acts of decolonization, differentiating those where scurry or flight were the order. In the case of the ...

Thomas Friedman’s “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” book explains the future of the global society with the end of Cold War, and the emergence of globalization. He said that for the future to be sustainable, the “Lexus” and the “Olive Tree” should be balance. The Lexus represents the fast changing international trade, and the Olive Tree represents the socio-cultural aspect of the society. He pressed that international trade should not erode social and cultural values of communities and countries. He mentioned his three points in balancing the Lexus and the Olive Tree which are the power balance ...

What special insights did I gain from the readings?

Leadership is a skill that is developed through judicious application of power. I learned from Sharer that a leader goes through a lot of personal and corporate disappointments before making it. Effective use of power yields organizational success. I now understand that leadership is simply the effective utilization of various types of power to influence peers, subordinates and superiors towards a desired and noble ideal. Finally, visions and values give a human face to leadership.

Personal reflections

I know people are generally resistant to change. Now I understand that the panacea lies in the ability to influence and persuade fellow employees ...

REGULATORS

Published in 2003, Cindy Skrzycki’s book entitled The Regulators: Anonymous Power Brokers in American Politics collates her interesting column articles in her widely-read Washington Post and Bloomberg column, The Regulators which has been into print for the more than 20 years. A seasoned journalist and columnist, Cindy Skrzycki puts together her most compelling and most controversial columns that tackled issues of regulation and the influence of various administrations in shaping the regulations.
Skrzycki’s book gathers her insights on different issues on the regulatory system in the Washington and its impact on the American citizens. In the compilation, ...

I would not have responded to Linda’s public admonition. Responding to it would put her in a state of personal defense, in which case she would seek to strengthen her case even if it meant fabricating things. Besides, it would only make me seem guilty and insecure.
The story illustrates misuse of power in various ways; for one, the head of department uses his power to undermine the assistant head if department while heeding his wife. Linda also uses her husband power to influence the department even against the will of other members of the department. This is ...

‘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 ...

Main themes

The Greed of Colonialism
Hochschild shows King Leopold’s greed when he sent the explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley to collect signatures from the tribal leaders handing over their land to him, by taking advantage of their ignorance. They did not consider that the people living in Africa had their way of life and already had their own forms of government. The European colonizers did not consider the misery and pain they would be putting Africans through with their plans to take over their land. They considered Africa empty and the inhabitants primitive and uncivilized. This was not true. ...

Classic English Literature

Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee is a gripping tale of apartheid and in South Africa. The story mainly deals by subtly hinting the various thoughts and opinions of the main protagonist, David Lurie, in the beginning of the novel and certain gripping incidences which finally bring about a transformation in David Lurie. He is a professor in a university in Cape Town. Twice divorced, Lurie is well aware that he does not get along with women and yet he craves to be in intimate relationship with women.
The story begins by David meeting Soraya, a prostitute in a restaurant and ...

Abstract.

Salman Rushdie’s non fictional work The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey expresses the gongs on in Nicaragua after the revolution. In this paper, this will be focused on more so the feelings of the people, its culture and political environment and analysis of it. Rushdie seemed to question a lot of things and even back others from a political point of view. This portrays him as a honest visitor of the state who so wishes to explore the land and get to know what really happened behind the scenes of leadership and governance.

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

In the book The Jaguar ...

Abstract.

Salman Rushdie’s non fictional work The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey expresses the gongs on in Nicaragua after the revolution. In this paper, this will be focused on more so the feelings of the people, its culture and political environment and analysis of it. Rushdie seemed to question a lot of things and even back others from a political point of view. This portrays him as a honest visitor of the state who so wishes to explore the land and get to know what really happened behind the scenes of leadership and governance.

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

In the book The Jaguar ...

In Ward Just's 1997 novel Echo House, the titular house is a mansion that has been owned for three generations by the Behl family. This family is one of the hidden powerhouses behind American politics, who are always shaping public policy and keeping secrets for people. Three generations of the Behl family are focused on in the book, which demonstrates the potential for political power as well as its price in the 20th century. Senator Adolph Bell, in the 1930s, is first nearly guaranteed that he will have the vice-presidentship. However, once he is refused that title, he is ...

Book Review: Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75

In Joy Ann Williamson's Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75, the author charts an interesting time in higher education, as the Civil Rights Movement and its aftermath began to be felt on college campuses, integrating black and white students. The Black student movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was a perfect example of that phenomenon, as black students doubled in enrollment during this decade. Mostly white universities experienced the most dramatic increase in enrollment, creating a new black presence in the student body reflective of the need of American schools to accept a more ...

Book Review: A Slaveholder's Union

A Slaveholders' Union, written by legal scholar George William Van Cleve, presents an historical account of the forming of the Constitution and the early days of the United States of America through the context of slave policy and its subsequent politics. Van Cleve's book is an incredibly detailed and well-researched document that sheds new light on the motivations and true intentions of the founding fathers during the creation of the Constitution.

Van Cleve attempts to examine the politics of slavery throughout the Constitution and elsewhere in various forms. However, his broad thesis is that slavery was, despite many accounts ...

Book Review: Republicanism and Democracy

The American Revolution was a complex political process that was inevitable. This is because the wave of the revolution was shaped by logical forces and circumstances that faced the American colonists leaving them with no other choice than revolting against the tyranny of the absolute monarchy that extended its hand to the Americas. However, the pressure to revolt on the colonist was not only experienced in Northern America but also was evident in other parts of the world. This accounts for other historical revolts like the French revolution. Gordon Wood the author of this book focuses of the progressive ...

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The company that changed the world
England’s East India Company (EIC) was established by a royal charter on one cold New Year’s Eve in 1600. It was established in order to take part in beneficial space trade, the monopoly on which Spain had till 1588. Firstly, the company conducted separate voyages to India. Few years later, in India were built first factories, and since that time Britain begun its ardent activity in the region. The company had a full monopoly for all the trade between Britain and Asia. The greatest impact this company had in ...

Summary : Managing business ethicsLinda K. Trevino & Katherine A. Nelson. Wiley; 5th edition

Chapter 4 – Addressing individuals’ common ethical problems

Ethical issue when people work together (privacy, discrimination, sexual harassment or simply how people get along. Key is fairness meaning equity, reciprocity, impartiality
- Equitable is when something is divided between 2 people according to the worth & inputs of the 2 individuals. Most people think it’s unfair when 2 people have performed the same duty but receive a different share of the reward
- Reciprocity: “if you do this for me I’ll do this for you”. Most ppl think it’s unfair if one ...

Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann

- Clive Beggs had formerly been Chartered, BRE advisor, and engineer of the School of Civil Engineering under The University of Leeds and is the serving Professor of Medical Technology in the University of Bradford.
- He is a biomedical scientist and mechanical engineer and excels in the field of energy management.
- He, a world known speaker, has authored several scientific papers on designing of buildings that consume low energy, and are environment friendly.
- No wonder, he is the recipient of CIBSE Bronze Medal for his achievements in the field of desiccant cooling that uses water as ...

Management

Listening is an art and the power of listening has been a point of discussion among experts in the field of communication and decision-making. Ferrari (2012), in ‘Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All,’ says that “If you’re like I was, you’ve probably never thought very carefully about listening before; but I’ve realized that listening is a skill that demands conscious attention and constant practice, because only through good listening can any of us gather the information we need to do our jobs well.” This is a fact as in many business dealings, ...

Question 1

Karl Marx
Karl Marx theory of conflict has a lot to offer about wilding behaviour in the United States. Wilding behaviour is all about self interest, individualism and many others which do not conform or are not supported by others resulting in a conflict. Conflict is a misunderstanding that is derived from any decision made by another with or without the intentions of hurting others but mainly as a way of being in power. This is shown in the Karl Marx theory of conflict where there are two classes in the society, one is the ruling and the other ...

Introduction:

Politics and leadership have always been important parts of the world’s historical makeup and these will definitely never go away. Obviously one has to keep in mind that times change and the sort of leadership that was right and correct for the 19th century is probably anathema today. In his seminal book, Carnes Lord attempts to examine various world leaders who have made a name for themselves, be it as autocrats, as visionaries or as plain and simple democratic leaders. He also inserts an interesting but heavy dose on the politics of the renowned Florentine, Machiavelli whose ‘ ...

Introduction

The book “The French and their Revolution by Richard Cobb” describes the French Revolution that took place in the last decade of the 18th century, between 1789 and 1799. This period was marred with political and social turmoil in European history. The revolt resulted in the crumple of the ‘absolute’ kingdom that had governed France for several decades. This book gives a brief summary of the revolution and how the government reacted towards the same. The author states that monarchy had ruled France for years which resulted into different social classes emerging. There was a very big gap between ...

Chapter One: Down is Up

- The chapter starts with John the Baptist’s and Mary’s prophecies about the coming
of the new order, the kingdom of God. This new order, the upside-down kingdom, would bring a radical shift of social patterns in which social pyramid is about to turn the other way around.
- Jesus describes the kingdom of God and other kingdoms of this world as two inverted ladders.
- In Bible God’s kingdom is described as a collectivity, it is not an aggregate of individuals, but the network of people who fully dedicate themselves to the reign of God.
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Patrick Murphy’s leadership style focused greatly on accountability; he wanted to make sure people were held responsible for their actions and those under them. (p. 33). When Murphy took over the police force, he “considered himself a reform agent,” deciding he needed to clean house to get rid of the ghosts that were rampant in Leary’s tenure as commissioner. Believing that there was too much splintering and division within the department, he sought to bring everyone back together and eliminate this sort of waste.

Murphy also took special effort to curb corruption any way he could; he ...

Book Review on Walter Russell Mead's, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

The book Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead gives an analysis of the United States’ foreign policy and the effects that it has had to different parts of the world. The author lays more emphasis on the origin and the history of the US foreign policy, the developments it has had and the effects that the foreign policy to both the United States and other countries across ...

Summary of the highlights of the subject covered by the book

The book George Washington in the American Revolution by James Thomas Flexner is a book that covers the period of the revolutionary war in the United States of America. The book captures the key moments of George Washington; from the time of his selection as the commander of Continental Army to the moment he resigned and handed over his sword to the American Congress in the year 1783. The author covers that period and places much focus on the personal experience of George Washington in the army, while at the same time dwelling a little on the revolution in ...

The Second World War has been regarded as the Good War for many reasons, and many have defended the participation of the United States in it as morally and rationally justified. This justification is based on the belief that Germany and Japan were threatening the power balance of the world and would have posed an impending danger to America and the rest of the free world if they were not stopped.
The book was written in 1972, in a time where the United States had waged many other wars, and the public had started to question the stand taken ...

During the late 18th century, the power of the Ottoman Empire Began to decline, this is when the Eastern Question emerged. The Eastern Question in the European history refers to the political problems that came about once the Ottoman Empire started falling apart. The Eastern Questions does not refer to a particular question but refers to the many problems that came by once the Ottoman Empire declined in the 18th,19th and 20th Century. These problems were mainly on the European territories that were subjects of the Ottoman Empire; they were experiencing instabilities after the collapse of the empire.
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The Civil Rights Movement

The Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975:
A Brief History with Documents by Van Gosse
Hannah Wilson
In the 1960s, America underwent a monumental change, and everything changed in terms of its culture, status of specific population categories, domestic and foreign policies, and many other aspects under the large-scale, massive, and irreversible influence of the New Left movements. The 1960s were obviously a highly revolutionary period in the US history, mainly due to the rise of many fundamental social movements such as feminists, civil rights protectors, anti-Vietnam war pacifists, and voting rights. For example, Gosse (2005) noted that “in ...

Introduction

The book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is about how we think without thinking. This can be further explained by illustrating that the choices made instantly in the blink of an eye without actually thinking why they are made. The world around us requires that decisions should be footnoted. This means that if we say how we feel about something we must be ready to elaborate about why we feel a certain way. Blink discloses that a quality of good decision maker is not who can spend time providing deliberate answers or process the information effectively but the one who ...

Section 1: What is the something else that DeSoto argues is necessary for a capitalist economy to produce wealth? Choose and explain one example or counter example used by DeSoto to make his case.
The developed capitalist economies have the wealth to produce more financial resources for the investors. The individuals in the developed countries have houses, lands, and many other assets depending on those they can produce financial resources through the developed financial markets to make relatively more and more investments. Consequently, according to DeSoto, the capital is the most influential factor to be relatively more competitive in ...

8. From Postwar Demobilization Toward Great Power Status, 1865 – 1898
9. The Birth of an American Empire, 1898 – 1902
The Mexican Governor Valeriano Weyler initiated the re-concentration policy to cede independence to United States. America watched the Cuban war from a bird’s eye view since they were opposed to the humanitarian issue while any disruption effort to avert the war would threaten American investments. The American nation proclaimed neutrality while it was hard to maintain the coastal patrols, and it was costly to prosecute offenders. According to the authors, President McKinley was pro-intervention since he considered concentrating in ...

Analysis of Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel”

When reading about human history, there are patterns surrounding certain parts of the world, while other places don’t fit into these patterns; hunters and gatherers became farmers, spoken words became written language, villages became cities, etc. Most history books published in past decades contain a perspective that focuses on Europe when talking about the development of human societies. In the very same history books, it becomes obvious that the people of Europe and Asia were some of the first in the development of technology and their economy, but sometimes they were invaders and attacked others. This makes a ...

Spanning the years from 1940 to 1965, the story in the last lion commences shortly after Winston Spencer Churchill became the prime minister. This is the time when his tiny island nation stood in solitude against the overwhelming power of the Nazi Germany. As conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid, Churchill was a man of lighting fast intellect, indomitable courage, and an irresistible will to action. The thesis of the author is built around the brilliant recount of how Churchill organized his nation’s military response and defense, and personified the so called never surrender ethos. He ...

In her book, "My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power", Lu Hsiu-lien details a long history of Taiwan, one that is primarily dominated by Chinese Empire. She states that much of Taiwan's history was developed in the shadow of its large neighbor to the northwest, China. In her book, she paints a picture of present-day Taiwan as well and maps a course for the future of the small island nation.
Taiwan's traditions are rooted in Confucianism, a type of philosophy that can trace its origins to China about three millennia ago, a philosophy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chapter 1

NOTE 1 A
The government is defined by different branches that form the government which are distinguished and identified by the power and freedom that each of them exercises. Power is defined by the one who rules while freedom is determined by how much control of the government is allowed in a particular form of government. There can be an authoritarian system of government whereby the power is exercised through violence. A totalitarian system of government is a system of government whereby the extent of violence is far beyond that exercised by the authoritarian government (11).
The contrast of ...

Maruja Pachon de Villamizar and her husband Alberto approached their friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez to write about Maruja’s abduction. However, after realizing that he could combine the episodes and encounters of the nine other hostages that were held alongside Maruja, Gabriel decided to take more time on the project and write a comprehensive book on the kidnapping that took about six Months. The News of a kidnapping reveals the recurrent drug problems of the United States and Columbia that have existed to date (Neuman, 2012). In this book, the head of the Medellin cartel Pablo Escobar ordered for ...

Renowned historian and archeologist Bryan Ward Perkins has taken up to the task of looking into the actual reasons behind the fall of Roman Empire through publication of his book “The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization”. Published in 2006 under the publishing ownership of Oxford Publishing press, the book has attracted considerable attention for numerous reasons.
The aim behind the entire effort is a multifaceted one- correction of the facts that have long been deviated from the actual facts, and secondly presenting the factors that led to the downfall and what impacts it had on the ...

A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity

- Introduction
The book A Capitalism for the People is written by Luigi Zingales who is an American economist and currently based in University of Chicago as a professor of finance and entrepreneurship. Born in Italy, 1963, Zingales moved to United States in 1988 with an assertive passion that the economy of a country should not only benefit the big businesses rather it should be focused on the good of an overall market.
‘Capitalism for the People’ is a philosophical, moral, ethical and a monetary account of the current state of US economy. It articulates the author’s conviction ...

This book is the great work of a renowned scholar throughout the field that deals with weapons of the nuclear origin and also international relations. The book tries to examine the crisis of order emerging due to existence of mass destruction weapons. Therefore the book is majorly skewed towards the issue of nuclear power and if there could be any measures aimed to control the impasse caused by this problem.
The book cites that the key problem regarding the international order originated in the period of nineteenth century, a time when new sciences were coming about, industrialization was also ...