Range Book Reviews Samples For Students

Book Review: Fashion Buying.

The author’s main concern is fashion buying process, namely, buying clothing, footwear and accessories. A significant part of the book is devoted to the UK fashion market research and its current tendencies. It also includes an outlook for job in the sphere of fashion buying, forecast of sales volume and commercial success within the market.
The author’s manner of wording is simple and clear, the chapters are well-structured, and the arguments are well-supported with the evidence of buyers of different levels working for well-known fashion companies including Vogue, Calvin Klein, Prada, Harvey, Nichols, Wal-Mart, Collezioni (Goworek ...

Book Review - Secrets of Power Negotiating: Inside Secrets from a Master Negotiator

The book’s name is Secrets of Power Negotiating: Inside Secrets from a Master Negotiator. It was written by Roger Dawson. The book serves as a guide on “How to” negotiate. Dawson has provided with a set of criteria that makes a negotiation successful and guidelines on how to achieve it. This paper provides a book review of the book, focusing on the five main ideas presented by the books in different chapters.

One of the foremost ideas presented by Dawson is “Never say yes to the first offer”. The author discusses this idea in the first chapter. This chapter provides the ...

In the semi-arid south-west of the United States of America (U.S.), there exist rare and lush wetlands that form habitat to majority of the US’s desert most spectacular biota. Basic biological concepts confirm that where there is permanency of adequate water at the surface or even a few feet below the ground, numerous diverse water dependent floral communities can develop. In this part of the US, there is the Sonoran Desert Ecosystem. The ecosystem is one of the few rarest and most exquisite habitation in the continental North America since majority of the original riparian habitats has long dried ...

Introduction

The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals is a 2006 book by American author, Michael Pollan that takes readers through an enthralling expedition of the American food system. The basic question that Pollan tries to pose in this book is what people should essentially eat. To explore more on the modern food choices, Pollan divides his book into three parts that follow the particular food chains that sustains the human race. These are industrial food, pastoral food and the food that we normally store for ourselves (personal).
The second part of the book, which is the pastoral ...

Book Report on Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range

Introduction
A lot of things have happened over Northern New Mexico and its Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Mexicans at that time basically called it home even though there were a lot of changes about the mountains that they witnessed. This paper tackles the main themes presented by the book “Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and hard times of a New Mexico Mountain Range”. The book was divided into two. The first book discusses the changing character of New Mexico together, focusing on the three major cultures which were a significant part of its history: The Hispanic, Anglo and the Native American ...

Introduction

This report scrutinizes international terrorist threats, events, responses and policies, as well as analyzing the worldwide use of apparatus available to fight terrorism, from international cooperation, international relations, covert action, constructive dedication, economic sanctions, military force, to objective security improvement. A contemporary style in terrorism emerges to be toward self- financed insecurely organized, international association of terrorists. Ever more, fundamental Islamist groups who use religion, or as a excuse, pose a grave threat to United States of America interests and to its friendly establishments. But of great unease as well is the growing political involvement of extremist Islamist gathering in foreign ...

Wayland Baptist University

Public Administration Capstone PUAD 5340vc01
Abstract
This review presents the book Managing performance in the Public Sector by Hans de Bruijn, summarizes and analyzes it. The book discusses the issues that arose from ineffective performance measurement and offers ways to handle these issues and mitigate their negative impact. Having analyzed the real-life cases and the extensive literature on the topic, Hans de Bruijn describes the perverse effects of performance measurement on public organizations and the quality of their services. The author proposes the use of design principles that will improve the system of performance measurement. These principles are variety, ...

Abstract

Efficient teamwork is an important prerequisite of a company’s productivity (Maddux, 1994, p.8). This statement can be substantiated by the fact that synergistic effects arise, when several individuals and entities start to work together. However, as it was emphasized by P.Lencioni (2010), the team-building and subsequent effective functioning of the team requires meeting two criteria (pp.9-10).
Firstly, the group of people shall constitute a team by sharing goals, as well as rewards and responsibilities, stemming from the achievement of these goals (Lencioni, 2006, p.9). Secondly, the members to a team shall be ready to invest significant time and ...

Immigrants represent a worthy proportion of the population in the United States. The immigrants took part in the First World War when the United States entered it in 1917. It was quite subtle that one out of the five soldiers belongs to the immigrants who sacrifice themselves to serve the nation. In the book, The Long Way Home, David Laskin represents the heroic character of dozen immigrant men. These men were born in Europe who got emigrated to the United States in search of faith and liberty, and ended up fighting with American armed forces in The Great War. These ...

India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India by Akash Kapur

The enormous transformations that transpired in the history of India some two decades ago drove the country into a stronger economy while inexorably influencing the traditions and social relations. The book titled “India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern” presented the changes in India through photographs of a rural landlord, an individual working in a call center, and an activist of socialist environment. The author narrates stories of people who embody a range of Indian civilization.

India Becoming

In the book titled India Becoming, Akash Kapur traces the roots of modern India, a demarcation line that can be illustrated back in the 90s. Kapur made a ...

Introduction

Brookfield believes in treating people as adults and employing the “’3 R’s, respect, research, (and) responsiveness.” He uses a four step process to summarize, analyze and reflect to re-energize teaching. This is designed to encourage students to reflect their teacher’s energy and connect with the lessons’ content. He feels the purpose of a critical reflection is to enlighten teaching and the point of view of the student, colleagues, literature in addition to our own viewpoint should all be employed. He terms these viewpoints as “lenses” and uses this term throughout his writing. .
Brookfield recognizes the different modalities, and ...

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 publication ...