Reason Book Reviews Samples For Students

The epistolary novel by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu, the “Persian Letters” gives a reflection of the eighteenth century society. It is therefore a critical primary source in regard to eighteenth century history considering the major changes of historical significance that were taking place at the time. One such change was the dawn of the age of enlightenment also referred to as the age of reason. The historical perspective of the novel may be lost because of Montesquieu’s extensive use of satire. However, it is intended to draw the attention of the reader towards the primary themes ...

The relationship between art and reality is complex. Sir William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a novel that explores many complex themes about human nature and society. The novel’s allegorical style allows for many interpretations with respect to the construction of a new civilization. Its plot allows for a treatise on what would hypothetically occur if teenagers were left to their own devices, without parents or pre-ordained law enforcement to serve as precedent. Through the analysis of the symbols that the story presents, different conclusions can be reached, including opposing ones. Conservatism is presented as being an ideal that ...

For Hanson-Carnage and Culture, I agree with the theme of reason being an important aspect in comparison to technology. This is because without reason technology cannot aid overcoming social problems. Considering the Mexico battle, despite the ability of Spaniards to use advanced levels of technology, they lost in the battle. As the Spanish fought, they paid more focus on their higher levels of technology, which made them to look down upon the opponents. Unfortunately, they could not win the battle because the opponents used reason instead of technology to fight them back (Hanson, 2002). Moreover, reason and war are ...

Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, published by Pantheon Books of New York, NY in 2003, tells the author and artist’s own story of her childhood in Iran during the 1970s and 1980s during revolutionary times in her home country. Told in graphic novel or comic book form, Satrapi’s book illustrates what it was like to be a young girl growing up in Iran as regimes and social standards underwent monumental change. Presented from a young girl’s point of view, she navigates not only the typical hazards of growing up, but also encounters the violence ...

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Book Review: Poor Economics - A Radical Rethink of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
The book primarily focuses on the reasons of poverty and how to alleviate it from the world. The book discusses various topics and carries out program in different villages selected randomly . it also discusses how they are facing the problem of poverty and the measures taken to eradicate it.
The book also discuses about the policies that are implemented in eradicating poverty but are total failure. This is due to lack of understanding the exact reason of poverty. The main purpose of removing poverty ...

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 employee recruitment and retention in the workplace is essential in the continuity of business. Organizational performance is basically a function of the nature of the human resources it has in terms of skills and expertise. Varied factors contribute to a large extent on the reason why the organization possesses workforce within its premises. Similarly, the same applies on the reason why employees within a certain organization opt to remain within the entity. Based on various individuals and organization goals and objectives, there are observable trends that commonly appear in most organization settings. Individuals who are namely employees are leaving most organizations ...

Dante’s inferno is a story in the 14th century that was developed to show the experiences that are found in hell as well as in heaven. This story has been narrated by Dante himself, who had experienced problems in hell. This story has been very influential to many audiences in the world. It has also been narrated as a poem. In addition to this, there are games that reflect the happenings in this story. It forms the initial part of the poem of Divine Comedy. This poem was also written by Dante to express his experience both in the real ...

In the past few years, there have been shocking frequencies of sexual and physical aggression in marriages, dating, and cohabitation throughout the United States and other countries of the world. As a result of the high frequency of aggression in relationships, many scholars and researchers have carried out many studies with the intent of understanding the phenomenon. The “Dark side of courtship” is an instance of a book that documents one of the studied on the subject. The authors use qualitative interviews and other data collection methods to explore the negative interactions between males and females who are dating ...

12 Angry Men is a play written by Reginald Rose which deals with various topics describing human nature. People have to deal with prejudice, misconceptions and intuition by being devoted and taking time to find the truth. Serious decision cannot be brought quickly because forming a strong opinion about anything takes time and effort. There is much to learn from this play because it makes people question the possibility of human beings to grasp the truth.
Prejudice gets in the way of truth, distorts a person’s mind and makes them think in a way which is biased. It ...

In the contemporary times, the spread of the Asian flu, the Aids virus and the SARS epidemic have been instrumental in disease outbreaks and pandemics into mainstream consciousness. The pandemics of the modern day may seem unique, but they all have a connotation in history.
A staggering twenty-five million people lost their lives to the flu as it spread all over the world. The outbreak began in August of 1918, and it was finally contained in March 1919. To the American nation, over a half-million people lost their lives to the terrible flu. In the contemporary America, the pandemic ...

Thomas is married to Vanessa Jebb who comes from a diplomatic family. Jebb’s father was the first acting Secretary General of the United Nations. Thomas Hugh was a professor of History at University of Readings from 1966-1975. In 1979-1991, Thomas High was the Director of the Center for Policy Studies in London. Thomas Hugh was an ally of Margaret Thatcher during Thatcher’s reign. In his argument, Thomas Hugh presents an argument that is usually pro-European and conservative.

In the book Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Thomas traces history from 1440-1870. He begins with the Portuguese ...

Key Terms and Distinctions

Science is knowledge according to the causes. This implies that just knowledge about the facts cannot be considered as science. It is important to understand them, to know why something is true and to interpret this knowledge. Science requires development of the mind, it is caused by strengthening the intellect and working on it.
Practical science is compared to the theoretical science. The latter one is based on searching for the truth for the sake of itself. Theoretical science is aimed to explain the fact or event not its causes. On the contrary, practical science is designed to ...

Helping others is the greatest thing in the world. Helping others means you need not be helped. Most people would rather help others than be helped by others. Some people know that there are a lot of people who are in need, but they do not want to help those people. In the book
Hope’s Boy, Andrew Bridge describes Andy’s inner issues that are unnoticed by others. No one understands Andy. Andy does not want to help someone whom he does not like by his attitude towards Louis. At the same time, a lot of people do not ...

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 ...

“The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness, and Hope,” written by the famous journalist Claudia Kolker after inspired from her immigrant friends in the United States is one of the unique literary works. The book gives a description of various traditions and customs followed by the immigrants and their families dwelling in the United States. Most of the customs followed by the immigrants are unknown to several Americans; however, Kolker feels that the traditions of the immigrants make the Americans understand the reason for happiness and health of the immigrants and their families, ...

In "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," John Perkins tells the story about how he and others like him were able to have a huge impact on the world today in ways that many of the elite in society would rather keep secret. The story involves a lot of deceit, murderers, and traitors who are motivated by greed and power. Perkins gives details on how strong countries have the power to exploit another and even goes so far as to influence their politics. He explains how some countries are willing to go to extremes such as robbing another country of their natural resources, ...

Book Review: Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Introduction
The published dissertation for Millett’s PhD in Literature from Columbia University was a book called the Sexual Politics by Kate Millett. In 1970, Millet finished her dissertation however she started it way back in 1969 but successfully defended the dissertation and published it almost ten years later. The book was known to be a master piece and also looked at as being very much successful and notoriousduring the time it was written. Research shows that Sexual Politics and economics was a piece that assisted influence and inspiring the move of feminism. Millett’s controversial thesis in Sexual Politics and ...

4 MAT Book Review: Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement

Summary

Leming and Dickinson's book, Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement (2011) is one of the books that have best addressed the topic of death. Unlike many books that have endeavored to address the topic, this book gives the topic an interdisciplinary approach. Notably, the book employs the biological, the psychological, and the social, religious, artistic and philosophical approaches to explain this phenomenon that has remained mysterious for quite a long time – perhaps centuries. According to the book, death is not only medical but also social. Death has grown to be a common topic ...

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. ...

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 that a country’ ...

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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 Smile: A Nicaraguan ...

Jeffrey D. Sachs is among the few economists from the developed world who empathize and sympathize with the world’s poor. He views the world as a global super-community in which the disparate human societies have a common destiny. A world in which true progress will only be possible if we rise as a unit, if the world’s poor are helped out of the circumstances of their birth. His book, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, especially forcefully argues this view. It follows that a recurring theme in the book is the need for a paradigm shift in our global ...

Women in the U.S. Military: Improving the status of women
The selected book for review is “Women in the Military” by Rita James Simon. The book suggests that the US society has been developing since 1865 to present, and it is the reason that the US Armed forces are also focusing on their development for the preparation of war and the security of US. Therefore, US military added women services in their force to make their force strong. During the World War-II and then after WW-II women played a vigorous and efficient role in their society. Women changed the ...

America is a country that is believed to have been built on the tales and stories told by its very first immigrants. They arrived in new lands that looked promising, and thus composed myths that could, later on, become the mythical pillars that the later generations hold as true. Some of the themes that are identifiable with the stories and myths told by the pioneer settlers centered on immigration, religion, the American dream as well as individualism. In the book American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short Robert Wuthnow delves into the greatest ...

There are many events and problems faced by Americans in late seventy’s and early eighteen’s. Few of those issues led the Americans to the revolution in late eighteenth century. Many authors presented the revolutionary story of Americans. One of those authors is Jeff Wallenfeldt, who wrote this book to highlight the issues of that era when Americans faced various problems to due to the British. The main issues discussed in this book are related to unjust taxation in which Congress noticed taxation without representation. Then British related the other one to the intervention in colonial affairs. It ...

Relating Literature to Experience: Literary Masterpieces that Speak.

Literature has existed in our lives since the invention of formal standardized writing. Writers have used literature to express their thoughts and opinions on various subjects relating to human life. Fundamentally, literature has always been about relating to the human life and experiences. Literature employs elements of writing such a plot, point of view and dialogue to express the ideas of the author. In most cases, authors approach a subject by writing about experiences and using humor to pass the point across rather than approaching the subject head on. Literature has been used over time to record experiences and ...

The River and the Chimp is an analytical book written by David Quammen about how the HIV originated from chimpanzees in an African forest (Quammen, 2015). The acumen of this book challenges the many unscientific beliefs about the origin of HIV and spread. There is a great need to understand where this scourge originated to beat the diverse stereotypical and unscientific beliefs. By examining the works of David Quammen in the book The River and the Chimp, this research paper shall focus on discussing the origin of HIV. The knowledge of the origin of HIV is of immense importance ...

The four articles summarized and discussed in this annotated bibliography were selected because they deal with some of the civilizations of the first Americans, the Aztecs in particular. There always seems to be a lot of information and research into Western and pre-Western archaeology and anthropology, such as studies about Celtic, Roman, and Egyptian culture and mythology, but less about pre-Columbian America. All four of these articles were selected from peer-reviewed journals. Journals were selected instead of a book because it seemed like the best way to get a general idea about some very diverse topics regarding the Aztecs. Topics for three ...

Section 1. Before reading the book by Marjane Satrapi “Persopolis” I must admit that I knew quite sufficient information about the Islamic Iranian revolution, without a too thorough knowledge of details, though. The following is literally the background I had for the last couple of years, definitely prior to reading the book.
So, the Islamic Iranian revolution was a chain of developments that happened in Iran in 1979 and which resulted in overthrowing the shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who later became a fugitive and fled to the United States of America. In the wake of the revolution not only the new ...

Introduction

Aristotle, one of the eminent scholars of the times, has regarded humans as social animals. This is primarily because of the fact that humans are dependent on one another for the fulfillment of their needs and wants. Connecting with other people for the accomplishment of social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and physical needs, is indispensable for an individual. This connection and association forms the very basis of a society. Hence, penning it down in a different way, society is imperative for man. Since the evolution of human civilization, individuals have been living in groups with family being the smallest group and the ...

1. What were conditions like for black people in the U.S. in the early 1960’s? From the textbook: What legal and societal mechanisms created and kept black people in these conditions?
Conditions for black people in the United States during the early 1960’s where bleak, they faced social, economic and educational discrimination. These forms of discrimination, created by an informal but controlling white male elite political governing consortium reached back into the anti-bellum tradition. These mechanisms kept black people in these conditions by allowing entrenched areas or the country to remain severely segregated. Even when Brown ...

In the book, Urban Sprawl, Global warming, and the Empire of Capital, Gonzalez places all the faults on the Government and American business leaders. He says that they are responsible for the global climate change. He opposed all the efforts used in the account of global warming problem. The definition and explanation were based on transnational factors such as the greenhouse effect. The core researchers expounded and affirmed that global climatic change was due to economic transition and development. They also argued that it was due to enter border development of goods and services. Others argued the global climatic ...

Chapter 1

Summary of Chapter 1
“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” written by Frederick Douglass is one of the famous slave narratives of the North. Douglass, born as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Maryland begins his slave narrative with his birth in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He says that he does not know who his father was and that he saw his mother only four to five times in his life. Douglass also expresses his doubt that his master was his father. Separation from parents and lack of information about paternity and age were common among the slaves. The masters ...

The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

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The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture” deals with the major Christian culture written by Francis A. Schaeffer, and published in 1976. Basing on the book, a series of ten films were produced. In the book, Schaeffer objected to the influences of Renaissance, the Charles Darwin and the Enlightenment. His thoughts inspired many leaders of ...

Introduction

In “Willie’s Way: 6 Secrets for Wooing, Wowing, and Winning Customers”, Philip Van Hooser discussed six secrets of persuading and drawing the interest and loyalty of customers. Van Hooser based these secrets on his interaction with Willie Watson, a taxi driver that drove him from the airport once. Van Hooser was impressed by Willie’s service and considered it as a standard that service professionals should follow. Since Van Hooser discussed six secrets or guidelines in persuading and satisfying customers, the following discussion will be divided into these six. Each ‘secret’ will be discussed thoroughly and will consequently be linked ...

How Race Survived History by David R. Roediger explores various ways in which the idea of race was initially created and recreated in American history. In his book, David reveals how race played a critical role in a progressive national history. He illustrates the ways in which race intersected all that was progressive and dynamic in U.S history, right from economic development, democracy to globalization and immigration. Based on what has happened in the past, Roediger explores the evidence that U.S will eventually become a ‘non-white’ majority nation probably in the next fifty years or so. In a nutshell, this masterful history depicts ...

Ethical behavior is one of the key factors that determine the success of a business. Ethics need to be maintained in all levels of business organization starting with the top level management to the senior most employees. Chapter 9 of the book Managing Business Ethics focuses on corporate social responsibility. There are various reasons why an organization should be involved in corporate social responsibility; the reasons include ethical, pragmatic and strategic reasons.
Every organization has a corporate responsibility to all the stakeholders involved. The face of a business is judged by how it treats its stakeholders. The existence of business depends ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

- Analysis of the Author The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War is a historical fiction piece of writing by Michael Shaara, an American Born Italian immigrant, who has received Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this book in 1975. The book is based upon the battle of Gettysburg of American Civil War in 1863. It describes the events that took place during the war from the perspectives of troop leaders of both Confederacy and Union; how they have made their planning, took decisions and then implemented them during the war. Michael was able to understand all those ...

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 on ...

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Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein

It is the reason men have gone to the moon; the reason mars is being investigated; and the reason for medical advancement. Discovering the unknown should sometimes be left alone; in the case of Victor Frankenstein “a little knowledge is dangerous;” and his pursuit of knowledge only brings him misery.

Clearly Victor Frankenstein is not like the other boys with whom he is associated; he is gifted. His father’s decision to give him a rounded education is a wise choice. Victor is aware of his over-average intelligence and he does not hide it, he is conceited. “So much has been ...

This paper will analyze the several themes, emergency and record-breaking decisions in medical practice in the various story articles as edited by Lee Gutkind, including the critical analysis of the stories in relation to the current medical practices and psychology. All the twenty-two up close medical stories explore death, palliative care and dying.

In palliative care, the key objective is relieving suffering of these patients and the most suitable way is by means of effective pain relieving methods (Kastenbaum, 155). It is for this reason that I support the idea of s peaceful death, no awkward painful and occur ...

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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 Smile: A Nicaraguan ...

Introduction

The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British is a book that takes us through the life of a journalist who travelled to Britain for love. She was not prepared for the new cultural setting and thought there would no much difference. Being her first time in Britain, and probably, with the information that Britain was a developed country, she thought there would be mo much difference with what she has been accustomed to in United States. She had many expectations of which she ended up being frustrated (Lyall 29). From the accent, which was quite different, to the food, to ...

Book Review: The Village of Cannibals, Rage and Murder in France

Corbin, Alain. The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Introduction

Historian Alain Corbin explores the political and social significance of the killing of a young French nobleman in the remote village of Hautefaye in France. Corbin’s chronicle describes the gruesome event that happened in broad daylight involving the villagers accusing the young nobleman of shouting republican slogans that angered the villagers. What followed in the trail of events is the sparked indignation of the entire country. Rumors of cannibalism have circulated in the country and the author’s fascination of ...

Book Review of the Book, ‘The Story of the Quran’ by Ingrid Mattson

detailed book about the Quran and its place in historical and contemporary Muslim society. The author of the book is Ingrid Mattson, who originally published the book in 2008 in the United Kingdom. Dr. Mattson is an Islamic scholar and teacher as well as an interfaith activist. She is the first woman to hold prestigious positions as a Muslim scholar and a leader in the religious world. The book is written as an overall balanced and correct portrayal of the religion of Islam and the teachings of the Quran, in general. The author has mentioned other religions as well, ...

Before reviewing this book, it’ important to get some things out of the way regarding slavery and its importance as an institution and the impact that it has had on American history. Slavery more than any other single thing has shaped the history of the United States, it has created a divided country one where whites are superior to blacks and all of this was done in the name of creating wealth for one group on the backs of the other. There is a reason why stories like Nat Turner’s are so incredible is because they are the ...

Introduction: Historically, female Black slaves endured the worse treatment, but have received the least amount of attention than their male counterparts in North American Slavery (Hine, 2007). There are longstanding myths that surround the experiences of female Black slaves, and struggles they face daily trying to survive. Deborah Gray White provides an intimate look into female slavery that until 1985 was long overdue. In her book she stated “Slave women were the only women in America who were sexually exploited with impunity, stripped and whipped with a lash, and worked like oxen” (White, 1999, p. 162). In the nineteenth ...

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote the book “The Sorrows of Young Werther” in 1774. Originally, the book is in German language, and it was initially published in the year 1774. In English language, it was initially published in 1779.

Summary of the Book

The Sorrows of Young Werther has a number of letters by the main character, Werther, who is an artist having a passionate and sensitive temperament, to Wilhelm, one of the friends of Werther. Those letters of Werther help in telling about his life, his finding of love and losing it in a village known as Wahlheim, whose people captivate him ...

Socrates can be justly named the father of Western philosophy and as a consequence of the science itself. Even given that we have no factual evidence, except literary sources, of his existence at all, he still is regarded as one of the greatest if not the greatest philosopher in the history of Western thought. He is given such credits not without a reason. Despite his claim that he only knows that he knows nothing when reading his dialogs written by Plato, his most notable disciple, I got stunned and impressed with his wisdom and insight.
In Euthyphro, the story ...

“A man's life was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer to his ancestors” (Achebe 122). – One of the impacts of colonization is the disappearance of cultural or traditional practices. This quote shows how a life of an individual is related to his or her culture or origin.
“Behind them was the big and ancient silk-cotton tree which was sacred. Spirits of good children lived in that tree waiting to be born. On ordinary days young women who desired children came to sit under the shade” (Achebe 46). – This quote illustrates the richness of the culture of ...

Introduction

This paper critically analyses the book “Stories that Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century” by Carl Jensen. This will involve trying to put the book into various perspectives so as to improve a better understanding of Jensen’s work. To undertake a critical analysis, the writer will examine the foreground and the background of the author. Examining the author is important because she is the pivotal point of influence in the analysis and understanding of the book. Apart from examining the author, the paper will go ahead and analyze the various themes which were portrayed by the book. ...

Harford’s book The Undercover Economist is devoted to the exploring of fundamental reasons for rich economies being rich and poor economies being poor. Formaini smartly notices that Harford in his book “seems to want to explain to noneconomists some of the interesting theoretical conclusions that economists use to explain observed behavior and wealth pattern” (204). Within the book, which is rather easy for understanding, a set of major concepts from economic theory are deeply analyzed and interestingly and, sometimes, entertainingly explained by the author. In terms of this paper, a brief summary of Harford’s book will be ...

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Barbara de Angelis “Secrets about Men every Woman should know”
"There is nothing secret, which will not become known" - this old adage comes to mind when you become acquainted with the original and colorful book of famous American psychologist Barbara De Angelis. It is unlikely that the readers have ever held a manual on "How to handle a man”, such a mysterious and incomprehensible creature from another planet. At least, in such a way the author characterizes the stronger sex. Moreover, we must admit, not without reason. There is hardly a woman, even with the extensive experience of ...

INSTITUTUION NAME

In the earlier times, which means around the middle of twentieth century, printing was one of the most significant method to communicate ones ideas to the masses. The printing press industry published manuals and that resulted in promoting literacy. Around that time, people got interested in learning the art of writing letters and the availability of manuals made their task easy. There was a rise in the number of people who could communicate by the method of writing. Circulation of written material started amongst such people. These written materials were the most prominent means for sharing thoughts and ideas. ...

Chapter 5 Outline

The chapter begins by explaining that despite usury being considered as an execrable sin against human, it continued to be famous in the United States and British. It is apparent that in a population of 30,000 people, more than 8000 individuals embraced usury or took part in the practice (Geisst 192). The reason is that the necessity of doing business using borrowed money became frequent due to trade. Besides, the chapter offers a detailed explanation on the sophisticated debt revolution that emerged in the 19th century. This made people support industrialization so as to help people to avoid ...

Goldstein in his book Winning the War on War brings out a contrary opinion concerning the twentieth-century war. Specifically, he contests the claim that twentieth century was one of the bloodiest in the record. He argues that the wars were smaller in scale and fewer in number contrary to what many had reported (Goldstein p. 5). He analyzes the negative and positive effects of peacebuilding and peacekeeping considering the way United Nations (UN) has made a lot of strides in trying to reduce war proliferation in different member nations. He explains that this has been achieved through giving the ...

Introduction

The book is important to the people with an interest in homeland security of the United States of America. It is because of how the book author has developed the theme or the purpose of the book. Unlike many books published many years ago, the book is current having been published in the year 2011. It one of the greatest book in the market concerning the subject of the homeland security. The book TERRORISM HOMELAND SECURITY is the 7th edition of the publications, and it was published in the year 2011 being the latest in that series. It was ...