Profession Book Reviews Samples For Students

1. How does the public see the nursing profession and nurses?

In the public's eye, it seems as though nurses are invisible, seeing the job as a supplementary and unskilled profession that does more wrong than right. The authors detail a 'problem narrative' that takes place in the media, one wherein the problems of nurse shortage, staff rations and problems with patients are the norm rather than the exception when it comes to learning about nurses. "This 'problem' narrative is not balanced in the media by a 'practice' narrative that would help the public understand what it ...

The book “Professional Creativity” written by Eugene K. Von Fange is about creativity. The author of the book writes about the contribution of creativity in person’s professional life. He explains a logical view of creativeness and its effective use in aptitudes, planning and resources. By reading the book, the reader gets an understanding that how creativity helps in accomplishing goals successfully. Also, the deep study will let the reader know how to choose the path that will guide him towards creativity. The author of this book share his experience of professional use of creativity in the daily life to ...

Organizational Leadership and Management

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The book “Who moved my cheese?” by Spencer Johnson, despite its international fame and common recognition, appears to be quite humble and simple. An average reader can cover all 96 pages of this book within an hour. Nevertheless this is one of the most prominent works about transformational leadership and delivers the intended message in the most popular and understandable form. The extended title “An amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life” summarizes the main topic - the change, the context – professional and personal activities as ...

Issue in Global Sport

Summary of the Book
Professional sports have come of age in the contemporary society. Whether it is soccer, athletics, golf or racing, professional sports are a force with which to reckon. Sports has developed into an agent of globalization, commonly described as universal language through which people from different races, ethnicities and walks of life connect. The global nature of professional sports notwithstanding, they also have a local perspective. This is seen in both local and regional teams that have the following of incessantly loyal fans. In light of this, the authors delve into the antagonism of global sports where ...

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

Finland is recognized by various organizations the most successful in the area of ​​school education. The main slogan of "Finnish dream" is an equal access to quality education. The main principles are the state's monopoly on schools, individual approach to student, and the prestige of the teaching profession. Finland in recent years has consistently been ranked as the country with the highest level of secondary education. Fifteen year Finnish students are significantly ahead of the students in other countries, showing a significant advantage in the natural sciences. It has been estimated, they are about 50-60 points ahead of the average ...

This book was written in the year 1999 by John W. Dower and published by W. W. Norton and Company. The book covers Allies Occupation of the country of Japan between the month of August 1945 and April 1952. It dwells in detail on topics such as the Tokyo’s crimes of war trials, Hirohito’s Humanity Declaration which is considered very controversial and Douglas MacArthur’s administration. New York Times describes this book as “beautifully and magisterially” written. The awards under the court of this writer are many. They include Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1999), Mark Lynton ...

Introduction

The ability to convey information through exchange of messages or thoughts is enhanced by a good understanding of English grammar. Writing as a medium of communication is complement to the spoken language or speech. Writing is basically a powerful tool for studying since it plays critical role in education. Among the benefits of writing include generating new ideas, helping us to both absorb and master fresh information, and discover what we know. A number of English textbooks have in one way or another improved the use of English grammar in both writing and speaking among many students. One of these books is “ ...

Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain’s memoires “Kitchen Confidential” is certainly a book like no other. It is an incredibly honest insight of several decades spent in the secret places of the cooking industry, the kitchens. Instead of fine restaurants, Bourdain spent a solid part of his career working in mid-range places. Of course, he is not at all ashamed by that fact. One of his passions is punk music, which he reveals often plays in the background of his kitchen while he works, so it is not unusual that its influence can be felt in his writing, which is raw, direct, definitely provocative, ...

Book Review: Produced By Faith

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

St Thomas was a philosopher in the concept of natural law and the role of God’s justice in the legal system. Ethical arguments between lawyers and judges confront on a daily basis is suggested as an occupational profile for the professional conduct of judges and lawyers in their everyday interactions. St Thomas offers procedural comments on the criminal and civil relations as well as sentencing guidelines. In this era in which a Christian lawyer is many times faced with situations that are unethical and the modus operandi is one of questionable choices, the Christian lawyer and judge have ...

Introduction

The books are considered the best friends one can have. The literature brings light and life to our bodies those will be dead otherwise. The political science is running as a synonym for corruption in the communities. However, the politics have a different literally, and academic meaning attached to it. The political science is a practical practice of social service. The element of trust also has to prevail between the elected government and the concerned masses (Grey, 180). The readiness for having political career starts from personal and professional development that one can experience on his or her own. The politics is a ...

Elizabeth Clerk-Lewis in her book narrates the experiences and lives of African American in Washington and how women worked for wealthy white families. This writer has given detailed and reliable information regarding the African American racism, since a grandmother was part of the great migration of the African American, and she could give an oral history regarding the migration. This has enabled her to publish a book with first-hand information that is not biased. Over the last few decades, the essential meaning of gender and sex had been transformed to mean something different apart from its actual meaning. Racial discrimination was ...

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

Koreans during their rich history, unfortunately, many times had to uphold their independence from the enemy invasions and friendly embrace of powerful neighbors. Korean War, which was the first open conflict between USSR and America, was a bloody conflict that for a long time concealed terrible crimes against humanity. We will raise the pages of the Korean War, see it preconditions and consequences. The paper’s main argument is to examine the historical elements of the book The Guest, written by Hwang Sok-yong, and to analyze the conditions of the Sinchon Massacre. We will discuss Hwang’s description of the deep ...

Reflections on the reading of the book ‘‘A Child called ‘IT’ – Themes, Main points, analysis of characters, impact on my professional and personal evolution as an individual
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Abstract

This paper will present you with the personal reflections caused by the reading of the book ‘A Child called ΄΄It΄΄’. Written by David Pelzer and published on September 1, 1995, this book depicts, in an extremely detailed description, the writer’s childhood of a severe abuse by his mother. David Pelzer suffered abuse by his mother and total apathy by his father, from the age of four till ...

What Is Your Attitude Being a Manager?

A manager in any field is deemed to have all the required attributes of being a manager. The manager is responsible for planning and then directing the duties allocated to individuals. They are expected to act in an effective manner through coordinated monitoring the work done and carrying out the necessary and sufficient correction of the failed actions. This is done when it is deemed necessary. Ideally, the management posts fit the individuals who have supervisory abilities. In most areas, the managers are expected to have the proceedings in the organization or firm that they are allocated the responsibilities. That ...

Summary- Thinking as a Nurse

Summary- Thinking as a Nurse
Bruce Austin Scott completed his B.S.N and M.S.N at University of Alabama in Huntsville and University of Texas in Austin respectively. He has over twenty-five years of teaching experience and over thirty-seven years’ experience of patient care. Before writing this book, Bruce Austin has written many articles for famous publications as well. All these statements prove Bruce’s expertise and wisdom. He has all the necessary skills, information, experience, and knowledge required to write a book.
Evaluating the expertise of an author is one of the most appropriate ways to judge the book content. ...

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Written by Edson Margaret, “Wit” revolves around the life of a woman who is faced by a number of challenges that force her to make different life choices. The storyline revolves around the life of Doctor Bearing Vivian, who throughout the novel deals with a diagnosis of ovarian cancer stage-four. Readers are made aware of the fact that Bearing’s life is governed by special relationships that in turn end up influencing the lives of those involved. For instance, there are apprentice-mentor connections that end up affecting the lives of those involved in aspects of behavior or society especially ...

A Christian View of Sexuality Within Marriage

Abstract
The Gift of Sex, by Clifford and Joyce Penner, is a comprehensive, Christian educational guide for married couples about sexuality. Divided into a preface and five sections, the book uses Scripture and the authors’ expertise in marriage therapy to offer important information to couples concerning sexuality so that readers may overcome problems or enhance a relationship that is already good. The book educates married couples on Bible-based considerations about sex, physical aspects of sex, and unifying the religions and physical aspects of sex in order to have a more fulfilling relationship with each other. It answers questions, offers exercises, uses anecdotes ...

Health policy entails the goals and decisions made so as to achieve the various health care objectives in the society. It just stipulates the future vision and establishes the expected roles of the people concerned in the health matters in the society. Health care in America has come a long way. In the recent past, health care was quite an expensive entity, but leaders have put in place measures to ensure that proper health services are accessible to every citizen. For instance, there is the Affordable care Act or else known as Obamacare, which was enacted into law by ...

E.B Sledge in his book China Marine retells the experiences of an American soldier, a veteran of the Pacific Theater of World War II as part of the First Marine Division’s occupation duty of China after the war was over. In China Marine, Sledge in the form of a memoir retells some of the most memorable experiences he had in northern China. The book is much more than just a simple story of an American serviceman living in China but it is also a description of life for the Chinese people living in the aftermath of World War ...

Elements of a Book Review

Book reviews is a very essential element of a sound criticism, which pushes literature to further development. The practice demonstrates that writing a good book is rarely done from the first attempt. Instead, the writers have to complete many editions, revise it continually and introduce modifications, so that their writing becomes heartily perceived even by the inveterate critics from the community. Thus, the main purpose of a book review is to interact with the writer, and to inform him or her whether the work was a) relevant to the today’s interests of the community and b) whether the ...

This is the only book that has comprehensively analyzed the globalization of the American Apparel industry. Allen Israel Rosen spent almost 10 years investigating the US domestic apparel workers’ problems. She is now probing for the changes in the trade policies and the global economics which have been responsible for changes in the global textile industry. In her book, “Making Sweatshops” she probes the possibility of promoting globalization in a way that blends both economic development and globalization in both developed and developing countries, (Rosen, 3). Rosen bases her concern on economic and social justice. She focuses mostly on ...

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

According to Orr, technicians love their job because of the nature of their profession. In many cases, technicians work under little or no supervision where they can implement their ideas in repairing the machines rather than rely on a manual. They work independently and apply their personal management ideas. Furthermore, they schedule their work and manage their time and records for accounting purposes. Their work is unpredictable in nature. For this reason, people cannot schedule a technician. Their job experience advances each time they handle a new job because each case differs from the previous jobs. Technicians perceive unhappy customers as opportunities ...

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 ...

An industrialist, a trend setter, entrepreneur, all these define one personality- Henry Ford. Starting off with a single car manufacturing, he went on to develop a completely new concept that would become world famous pattern of manufacturing in the longer run. He also had a trace of philanthropic element in him and aimed at improving the working conditions and overall life style of the workers involved in different industrial processes.
Henry Ford was born in the year 1863 in Michigan. His family had a descendance of farming and agricultural background. His personal inclinations did not show compatibility with the agricultural work and he ...

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 ...

This article gives an analysis of Irvin D. Yalom’s Lying on the Couch, a 369 psychoanalytic book published by the Harper Perennial publishers on 18/07/1997. This book gives a critical evaluation of the challenging role of the therapists. It records that even if one may be a distinguished expert in a given field; challenges are inevitable and should be faced with a lot of confidence and transparency.

Question 2

Ernest, 40 is an ambitious guy who discovers his passion for talking therapy after a long duration of practice of psychopharmacology. Besides, he is honest, open minded and looks forward to be an efficient therapist. Unlike his ...

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 the globe. This book gives a very good history of the America’s foreign policy. The author offers a cerebral outline which is based on ...

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Dorothy Johnson was among the first “grand theorists” with the views of a conceptual model (Callista Roy, 2013). Her model was the first to consider both the understanding as well as action in healthcare. Actually, the Johnson Behavioral System Model (JBSM) was developed from the philosophical ideas, theories, and researches, as well as thoughts of many years. The model is comprised of a behavioral system (person) that is present within an environment consisting of physical, interpersonal, and sociocultural components. These environmental components are necessary for better functioning of the behavioral system ( ...

Book Review – Outliers: The story of success by Malcolm Gladwell

It is popularly believed that hard work alone makes individuals successful in life. No wonder, many have bought into the belief that successful people are self-made. Gladwell challenges the accepted beliefs on success in his book, Outliers: The story of success. He discusses the societal and cultural factors that favor certain individuals to become successful through many case studies focused on certain well-known personalities representing various walks of life. According to Gladwell, outlier or a person who is a cut above the ordinary is in fact a beneficiary of time and opportunity.
The major argument Gladwell makes in the ...

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 ...

Book Review. Sor Juana by Octavio Paz.

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

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the book is dedicated to the values and identity of the Japanese samurai culture. The author talks about the bodily and spiritual Japanese culture, especially for nature and death, as it reveals the basic principles of Zen aesthetics.
Modern cultural-historical process that operating in the framework of a democratic society is focused on the formation of a strong personality, a man - "warrior" in a variety of concepts. It demonstrates the interest to the eastern military tradition and military ethics. Even now, from the perspective of a foreigner, the current generation of Japanese, regardless of age, bears the ...

Edmund Morris is best renowned as a biographies’ writer; especially for writing the biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, the United States’ Presidents. He acquired his early tutoring in Kenya. Afterwards, he went to South Africa to attend the Rhodes University. Later, he moved to London and became an advertising copywriter. In 1968, he migrated to the USA. "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt” is a classic non-fiction historical account of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris and stands out as one of the best biographies of the contemporary times. In 1980, the mentioned biography won the Pulitzer Prize and was also ...

Jim Cramer, the author of the book entitled Get Rich Carefully, is a renowned television personality, and he is at the epicenter of the investment success. Jim possesses a breadth of knowledge about stock and bonds. Moreover, he is a reservoir of the financial information. Contrary to his previous books, Jim’s Get Rich Carefully focuses more on the roadmap and a checklist for an intelligent and disciplined stock investment process. Through his previous professional experience and as a manager of thriving hedge fund, he has engaged in heavy lifting and his professional and life experiences in the financial industry provides the driving force ...

Abstract

Police department is considered to be evolved throughout the world on the basis of criminals and their modern ideas of the criminal activities. We will try to look at the various aspects of the society and its connection with the police or role of the law enforcement agencies. We will try to lay the foundation of the study on the information gathered from several sources that are subjected to the researched reports and intellectual work done on the book written by Roberg. The police department is considered to be an important governmental institution and it must be organized merely ...

Summary – Response of Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Doc is one person who is lived and respected by everybody in the society. One would expect him to be a very happy man because his relations with the community may be at its best. But this does not reflect in his personal life because deep down inside of him is a very sad and lonely man. Perhaps this can be equated to Steinbeck himself after having moved from his home to New York never to return home. He may have been lonely after moving from home to a new place where he knew no one. Steinbeck’s moving away from home ...

1. What are the main themes in the book as they relate to the world of work?
2. How can I see these themes being applied in my experience of the workplace?
You must first set a mission in your life; it could be your professional life as well. Having set your mission, you have to set your goal, short or long-term, in such a way to achieve the goals without any deviation from your original mission, regardless of the changing scenario in your professional or business environment. You must not give room to others, like the devil in ...

The Nine is a non-fictitious book written by Jeffrey Toobin, who is a legal analyst and former assistant attorney in the United States. He uses his knowledge in law to bring to light the changing aspects and forces at work at the Supreme Court. He also uses his knowledge to establish major decisions that were made by the Supreme Court. In his book, he describes how political masterminds used the Supreme Court to gain their political milestones. For instance, according to Toobin, when President George Bush added John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court, it ...

Book Review: Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom

Place: Berkeley, California
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: February, 2013
Edition: 1
Price: $33.35
ISBN: 978-0-520-95448-9
Introduction
Is it possible for the modern twenty-something woman to have it all; sexual freedom coupled with good relationships and good career? This is the question that author Leslie Ball explores in her book in “Hard to get: Twenty-something women and the paradox of sexual freedom”. In this book, Bell conducts an intimate and powerful examination of the lives of twenty-something women; one of America’s most liberated generation of women. Bell explores the ...

The novel "Guilty Pleasures" by Laurell K. Hamilton, is the first book in a series about a female vampire hunter named Anita Blake. Anita is an animator, a term used to refer to someone with the powers of necromancy, or the ability to bring the dead back to life. She raises the dead as a profession and is usually paid by a family who want to gain closure with dead relatives, although Anita is sometimes also hired by the police and government agencies to raise the dead in order to solve crimes or handle sticky legal issues. Through her job as an animator she ...

The Hart-Celler Act is also known as the Nationality and Immigration Act of 1965. It replaced what was formerly known as National Origins Formula which had been enacted in the United States since 1924. The NOF was enacted to put a quota on the immigration of national from other foreign countries into the United States. The Hart-Cellar Act therefore abolished the quota system of national origins. Instead of putting the numerical restriction of immigrants at 150,000 people per year as was in NOF, this Act extended it to a maximum of 170,000.
The Johnson-Reed Act was the Act ...

The main theme for the book entitled “The Spirit Level: Why equal societies almost always do better” was about how inequality can affect even those who are not well off. This information is vital for someone in the planning profession because the economy and the labor force affects the job outlook as well as the other important factors in a certain area. The book was well written and was done with extensive years of research, not focusing on only one country, but doing a case study on many. When it comes to someone from the planning profession, it is important that ...

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 ...

‘Name’‘Class name, number & prof.’‘Paper #’July 10, 2013

Thick Face black Heart, as a philosophy, was first introduced by Li Zongwu, a Chinese politician cum philosopher, in the early part of the twentieth century, and this philosophy is the basic ideology behind the book written by Chin-Ning Chu. Thick face denotes the ability of a person to hide his intentions from others, and black heart denotes the ability of a person to force his resolve on others. Chu has captured the essence of this theory in her book “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”. First published in the year 1992, this book ...

Steven Deyle. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

What is the book's thesis?
The book’s main thesis is the Slave Trade in American life and its impact. The book takes as through the slave trade in America from 18th century and its impact on various families, the U.S economy among others. For instance, one of the effects of slave trade is that it led to buying and selling of human beings which in turn led to increased human trafficking. Slave trade also led to the separation of ...

A basic challenge in climbing peaks like Everest is that air past 800o meters becomes exceptionally obscure. There are just 14 mountains globally with maximum heights of more than 8000 meters and though top climbers strive to conquer all of them this also implies that the faculties of their brains is impeded severely, and cannot spend longer time periods in zones over 8,000 meters devoid of risking their lives, even without storm. Rob Hall was to rule on turnaround times to ensure that his worn out clients could make it back to camp before it became dark, as ...

Positive Psychology

Donald O. Clifton, a pioneer in positive psychology, and his grandson, Tom Rath, developed the "bucket" and "dipper" theory of happy emotions based on Clifton's research and those of others. Using the metaphor of a bucket and dipper, the authors purport that our sense of well-being is determined by every interaction, which either fills our bucket or drains it. Their main claim is that when using positive psychology in everyday interactions, anyone can experience a happier life – it’s a matter of choice. Whether a co-worker, spouse, child, friend, student, acquaintance or even a stranger, all can benefit – including ourselves when applying this principle.
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The main points from the cooper reading

The cooper reading addresses many issues concerning responsible conduct within the public administration. The main points addressed by Cooper (2012) include the internal and external forces impacting on responsible behavior within the public domain, ethical dilemmas and ethics in situational contexts. These three main points address the extent to which legislation and other factors affect responsible conduct in public offices. According to chapter six of the cooper reading, legislation, media and codes of ethics are the main external forces affecting responsible behavior.

Summary of the article

The article Leadership, Ethics Focus of New UA Center concerns itself with moral conduct in a public sector ...

In the contemporary world, there has been a snowballing concern on historical objectivity aimed at historical writing void of biases. McCullagh in his article, Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation speaks of biased accounts of past historians. This paper seeks to review the article written by McCullagh, Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation.
McCullagh starts his article with a brief synopsis of the exertion of historians F.R. Ankersmit and Hayden White who have written groundbreaking work involving the subjectivity of narrative in history. According to McCullagh, who appreciate the work of Hayden and Ankersmit, claims that, they ignore ...

Introduction

Dr Stephen Covey is as a highly influential management guru, whose book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, become a useful and sequential framework for understanding personal development. Some have argued that The Seven Habits may prove easy to understand but not easy to apply. The author tries to put across life changing ideas on being more effective in all areas of life including family, professional, emotional, and spiritual, thereby creating satisfaction and happiness from all life endeavors. The importance of the book has increased than ever before, as the business world has shifted to humanistic concepts. The values proposed ...

The author of the book Travel Etcetera: the World on another Plane (Stephen Scourfield) is a well known travel writer. Stephen is a re-known Australian writer whose capital base is in Perth. In his lifestyle, the author is mostly passionate about music, travelling as well as the wide brown Australian land. Capitalized on fictional grounds, some of his winning awards include the other country novel which featured in the 2007 book Premier awards. In the most resent commonwealth writer’s prize awards, Stephen Scourfield was shotlisted and acknowledged for his work. In addition, he was further appraised in the 2009 International ...

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

Lionel Casson is a renowned classicist and a Professor Emeritus of Classics, New York University. Besides Libraries in the Accent World, he has also written other books such as Ships and Seamship in the Ancient World as well as various other books on the history of the ancient maritime and ancient travel. However, it can be argued that tracking the emergence of the ancient libraries, in Libraries in the Accent World, was quite a tall order for him. This is evidenced in aspects of broken connections in the book, for instance, in recounting the emergence of the Museum at Alexandria.

Casson’s ...

Book Review - How to Be a People Helper

General Subject Matter: Biblical Self-Help
Price: $11.75
ISBN: 9780842313858

In How to Be a People Helper, Collins (1995) seeks to use Biblical principles and acts of kindness and consideration in order to increase our sensitivity to others' needs. In writing this book, Collins hopes to inspire paraprofessionals (those who are not experts or professionally trained, but have taken workshops or have some experience in Biblical counseling) to have the tools to effectively help others. The book is also written from the perspective of these paraprofessionals, in order to provide information as to how to relate to others and ...

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 the poor ...

1: Book Information

This book is as a result of informative essays on the daily life during the French revolution. The essays are presented from a Master historian who had the gift of understanding some great historic events in terms of ordinary human relations. The author admired chronicles of daily life in Revolutionary France. He gathers the accounts into one volume with an enlightening introduction by his former pupil David Gilmour. In the book, the reader is able to not only meet history makers like Danton and Robespierre but is able to understand the occurrence of several events during the time of the revolutions. ...