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SMITH, CHRISTIAN. BIBLE MADE IMPOSSIBLE.2012.
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The text finds its origins from the ideas of Christianity with connection to the Bible. While Smith tries to explain the thoughts that circle around evangelism, he also adds his ideas about the adoption of the scriptures by Christians. “The Bible made Impossible” is developed with the use of societal behaviors, history, and theology that the author understands. Smith provides his ideas and findings in a systematic method that takes his readers through a gradual process of arguments, findings, and beliefs. It is important to note that, Smith ...

Literature

Major writers of early American literature by Emerson Wisconsin are a very interesting collection of works in literature by American writers.it gives the history of America through literature and from a literature point of view. Among these works in the collection s cotton Mather by Sacvan Bercovitch. Sacvan Bercovitch surgically dissects the personality and religious ideologies of cotton Mather. He lays the psychology of cotton Mather right on the table for public viewing and judgment. He especially focuses on the strain of religion advocated by cotton Mather and why this strain of religion had such a polarizing effect at ...

Book Review of Robert Hare’s “Without Conscience”

Robert Hare’s book “ Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us” is a transformational book that takes the reader deep into the woods where one gets in contact with the psychology of those we consider out order with our usual human emotions. While reading this book, one gets the feeling of being in one with the mind of a psychopath. In addition, the book answers questions of our mind revolving around the mindset of psychopaths as well as the protective measures to take to shield oneself from the attacks of a psychopath. Besides giving a detailed examination ...

This is a study by Jean Lipman-blumen shedding more light on disastrous leadership. It offers a deep understanding of the corporate scandal as well as political folly. The author argues that, bad leaders are not the ones to blame but rather the subjects led since they are the one who put them into power and allow them to cling there. After analyzing the story of Adolf Hitler of Germany and Jeff Skillinngs of Enron, she makes the conclusion that the followers of the toxic leaders are the victims who gave way to misguided leadership. This book gives a deep ...

Book Review “Religion in America: A political History”

Book Review “Religion in America: A Political History”
Introduction
Denis Lacorne is a French renowned history scholar, religious critical thinker, and a researcher. A part from writing various books and journals, Denis Lacorne is also known for shaping France and American religious history and French social development. In addition, Lacorne is an established commentator and an anchor in French televisions. The popularly of Lacorne in United States of America and European countries is especially enhanced by his brilliant contribution in the analysis of American religious development and global politics and economic development. Numerous scholars have described Denis Lacorne as ...

Book Reviews

Book Review # 1: Zeitoun
This book by Dave Eggers is a spellbinding and enthralling description of Hurricane Katrina. Zeitoun, a true story, tells the story of an unjust arrest of and racial discrimination against a Syrian-American named Abdulrahman Zeitoun. Eggers tells the shocking tale of Zeitoun family and has once again proves that he is one of the most impressive literary writers in the United States of America.
When New Orleans was struck by Hurricane Katrina, the prosperous Abdulrahman Zeitoun opted to stay at his place through the storm for protecting his house and business. After the passage of ...

Kathryn Tanner – Christ the Key (2010), 320 pp
Kathryn Tanner joined the faculty of Divinity in Yale in 2010. This was after teaching in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago for sixteen years and the department of Religious studies in Yale for ten years. She has engineered a lot of research on the history of Christian thought to current issues of theological concern using cultural, feminist, and social theory. She has written several books such as; God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny or Empowerment? The politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice, Theories of Culture: ...

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 ...

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 ...

“This is a book about the positive evidence that evolution is a fact. It is not intended as an anti-religious book. I’ve done that, it’s another T-shirt, this is not the place to wear it again,” says Dr. Richard Dawkins in the introduction to his book The Greatest Show on Earth (17). This book is an organized presentation of copious numbers of the examples that support the evolutionary change over time via the process of natural selection. It raises many issues to a reader’s mind, and it helps provide a fuller understanding of the theory of ...

1 and 2. Preface

Against depression is the title of the book written by Peter Kramer a renowned psychiatrist, the title of the book suggests more of a political inclination of some sort but the book narrates a different story all together. The book is majorly focused on the idea that most people are in support of depression as an aid to artistic expression. Its incorporation of latest research in the psychiatric field is also very crucial as it facilitates the comprehensive and explicit explanation as well as illustration of physical damages of the brain and its major causes.

It further explains in an easy to conceptualize manner some of the key factors that are responsible for depression before making a successful attempt in putting forth measures that can aid in curbing depression.

Peter Kramer, the author of this book is known for his bestselling book the Listening to Prozac which is known for the revolutionary role it played in the way most people think in relation to antidepressants. His specialisation in the field of depression as an American psychiatrist and former Marshall Scholar, makes his expertise in the area undoubtedly significant. He has also been a long time member of the Brown Medical School, which has in a great way played a vital role in the nurturing of his expertise in the area of depression besides creating a platform for conduction of research in his area of specialisation. From 2005 to 2006 Kramer served as a host to a radio program that was involved in the discussion of issues concerning depression and was thus branded as The Infinite Mind. He is presently involved in the writing as well as reviewing of psychiatric books where he has established a niche in the depression area.

The penguin group of publishers is the one responsible for the publication of this book. As a publishing firm they have a wide coverage in relation to their location, with branches in the UK, Canada, USA, Australia, India, china, south Africa as well as New zealand. This wide coverage reflects the publishing firms’ competence and position in the publishing industry. Therefore enhancing confidence in their work since it is based on a wealth of experience and skill. The copyrights of the book are reserved to the author and only him.

3. Direction taken by the book

Any reader with a keen interest to get an in depth understanding of the cause, effects as well as preventive measures of depression will certainly be satisfied with the content of the book. In the book Kramer makes and insistent argument that depression is a disease which individuals would do well if they whole heartedly try as hard as they possibly can to oppose it. What is intriguing is the manner in which he succeeds in consistently following up his argument with a great degree of explicitly and logical flow. This is vital as it enables the reader easily follow up an idea and eventually grasp the underlying concept being put forth in the discussion.

He further examines the cultural roots of notions of depressions in an attempt to underscore the gap that exist between what is scientifically known concerning the illness and what individuals perceive and feel about depression with close respect to their cultural beliefs and ways of life’s. This aspect enables the reader to get a clear understanding of the difference as well as the relationship that exists in the views held both the scientific and the cultural sectors.

The books curiosity, suspense and maintenance of perfect balance between science and human interest makes the book a mind arrester as it surprises the reader with new concepts and discovery with the launch of a each chapter. These concepts are founded on research hence are very educative to reader due to their wealth of insights.

4. Thesis of the book

The main thesis in the book is the different ideologies held in relation to the concept of depression and how they in one way or the other contribute to the depression phenomena. This is clearly captured in his arguments in the book about ideas both scientific and cultural that are for and against the truth behind depression which he argues to be an illness rather than a feeling. The title of the book too has not failed to capture this aspect as is reflected by the use of the word “against” which represents the ideology that are not in support of depression being an illness.

5. Structure of the book

6. Summaries of the book’s chapters

The first chapter is used to introduce the reader on what depression really is and how it could be addressed. He uses the example of tuberculosis as a reference on how depression might be a disease but the factor is being ignored.
The second and third chapters focus majorly on how the cultures of the western countries have romanticized depression making it look as if it is not a disease, here again he uses the example of TB and how it was romanticized, he focuses on the similarity of the perception of the two conditions while trying to prove that depression is undergoing what TB underwent.

In the fourth chapter, Dr. Peter Kramer uses examples to show how casually the “disease” is taken among adults, artists, celebrities, and even among his colleagues.
The fifth chapter looks at depression from his initial book on the same "Listening to Prozac". Where he considers depression, just as a TB, a disease rather than a casual condition as has been considered by both the victims of the “disease” and their subjects and even his colleagues. Here he ponders the question, "What if van Gogh had been on anti-depressants?” with this he manages to bring forth the argument against depression being taken lightly[ CITATION Kra06 \l 1033 ].

The sixth, seventh and eighth chapters concentrate on medical research covering depression, he bases on his experience as a doctor and others work. Here he uses the examples of his patients who visit him and the characteristics that show how biological depression is but is taken casually. He does this by framing his argument as such "Depression causes profound pain and impairment. It is syndromal, characterized by a reliable cluster of disabilities, such as sadness, appetite and sleep abnormalities, and problems with memory and concentration. Depression progresses, in the fashion of diseases. With recurrence, depression's symptoms become more diverse and less responsive to treatment. Depressives die young. Depression runs in families. Depression is found in every culture."[ CITATION Kra06 \l 1033 ]. He, in a great extent, succeeds in emphasizing his point that depression is a disease.

The medical gets deeper in the ninth and tenth chapters where he shifts his attention to the Biology behind brain and how depression has significant effects on the body and that is has a Biological substrate.
In the eleventh to fourteenth chapters, Dr. Kramer does not discard the neurotransmitter theory about the brain but supports it with explanations on how it is brought about by the depression.

In chapters fifteen and sixteenth, he looks at the neuron-cells and the genetic perspective of the disease. Kramer claims that the disease is genetic and tends to run in the blood. He however shows less confidence that the secrets of depression would be soon unraveled considering the less research focused on that side.
In chapters seventeen and eighteen he relays most of the vital chapters and brings culture history and art in face to face with Biology. Where he displays the two worlds as dependant on each other, the culture could influence the Biology by creating a wrong perception about the later. History has proved this to be true as in the case of TB, Leprosy, and e.t.c.[ CITATION Kra06 \l 1033 ]

Basically, Dr. Peter Kramer focuses his last three chapters on the achievement of a depression free world, to change peoples’ view about depression into viewing the same as a disease in order to save the world. He lists depression among known diseases that were formerly treated equally in a casual manner but were later accepted as diseases and since then measures have been taken to reduce them[ CITATION Kra06 \l 1033 ].

7.Analysis

Indeed the book has tried to capture both the cultural perspective/society’s understanding of what depression is and the current application of science in understanding factors that influence human life. From the people’s way of life/their time-honored practices, we can see that they had a view/ideology on certain aspects of influence to human life and their way of operation. The book tries to dispute the fact that some things we do overlook through our cultural understanding but the real fact is that they are threats to human existence.
He reflects on melancholy to be a serious illness with tangible physiological effects such as jumbling the brain and disturbing the role of the cardiovascular system. He criticizes society for romanticizing dejection in the equivalent way that tuberculosis was once idealized; these impractical conceptions engage claims of inventive sensitivity or of brilliance arising from depression.

The overall collision of the book is that, the author is trying to impart a message to the people on the dangers of romanticizing the piece of depression only to be censured afterward with the advancement of technology in science to prove it as a disease and not an aspect of “heroic melancholy.” The audience feels the impact and somehow responds positively. This is because of the ideologies articulated by the author who tries to convince the people not to romanticize everything and try to look at the reality behind everything.
The case that the author comes up with is of a social criticism and a scientific explanation for the purpose of his thesis/hypothesis is the reference to tuberculosis. This is a considerate case because of intensification transversely through history and customs to weave collectively a coerced representation of our modern sight of depression, and how its confusion as a ‘heroic melancholy’ was misused only to be positioned as a disease. Today’s effect of tuberculosis on the society is a true point of reflection to this case as an impassioned plea for our culture to recognize tuberculosis as a disease that is a threat to human kind. What was considered as symptoms of tuberculosis and there relativity to depression is a purpose enough to consider melancholy as a disease and not sighted as ennobling, a basis of inspiration, truth, imminent, and corporeality.

8.Conclusion

Prior to this time, a cultural ideology was the opium of the masses. Many people inclined their way of thinking to the overall mindset of the society. This has now created a situation of cultural divide between the adoption of science and the inclination of our thinking towards cultural ideologies that has averted us from recognizing depression as a disease. Considering the many symptoms of depression as explained in the text by the researchers who observed the revelation of decline in cortical thickness, cell size and cell compactness in brain tissues and its effect on the prefrontal cortex where cells correspond via norepinephrine and serotonin (the chemicals that have long been spotted as serving mood regulatory purposes). These are brain pathologies, which correlates to a disease because of the effects of such symptoms, which include profound pain and impairment. It is syndromal, characterized by a consistent huddle of disabilities, such as misery, craving and sleep defects, and tribulations of memory and deliberation. Through all these proof, depression henceforth can be controlled through medications, then depression should be positioned as a disease and not as an aspect of artistry.

Significance

The value of the book is its significance in trying to elucidate to the depressed how they should treat these defect, hence its recommendation for those who find themselves in a similar situation. In addition, it also reveals a clue on how specific defects affecting the human race emotionally should not be overlooked but a lot should be put in place to unearth its cause and its major effects to that person rather than exposing ourselves more as culturally impaired people. Moreover, it discourages the modern world with its adoption to science technology not to rely more on culturally bread ideologies on aspects affecting humanity.

Hence, the book is of worth more to general human race who are prone to the topic discussed and how they may be able to overcome the same. More precise to the people affected by the melancholy and are in need of help on how to handle the situation Hence its targeting more on the affected few.

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 ...

Abstract

This document includes the concepts and themes of leadership as presented in the book namely Transformational Leadership by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio. In addition, the principles of managements as discussed by Andrew J. Dubrin have also been incorporated in the paper. In this document, there is an argument presented by these gentlemen on leadership by using separate cases of different leaders around the world.
For instance, the case study presented by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio are Herb Kelleher as CEO and founder of Southwest Airlines’ success story while on the other hand, both ...

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In the book Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology, Johnson offers insight into the Christian religion by analyzing the origin and understanding of the same. Johnsons writing finds basis on the start of Jesus’ ministry on earth when he asked the gathered audience, “Who do you say I am?” Different answers have been given in response to this question by the religion clerics, scholars in the same field. To give an account of how the question has been answered over the years, Johnson embarks on a thorough research on the subject in ...

This particular book is seen as a bold step towards discovering science and its related issues from the point of view of the indigenous American and other native people from the various walks of life in the this northern Hemisphere(Cajete 14)
. Native science traces its origin from well established and deep philosophical views. This particular philosophy usually touches on the correct relationship with the natural setup of the world which is usually passed through unswerving and direct contact with the landscape and also by way of social and ritual situations that enable members of a society to learn ...

Aristotle’s notion of happiness is quite different from our understanding of happiness. He called happiness an “activity” while the contemporary interpretation of happiness is a placid state of human mind. Thus, happiness now is seen as an emotional state rather than the result of certain action. Greek word eudaimonia can be rendered as “success”. People who are successful according to this notion are not in a particular state, but they live successfully. Aristotle considered happiness as an ongoing state caused by actions, rather than temporary euphoria. He stated that virtuous people can be happy when they exercise their ...

The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

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Book Review on How Should We Then Live:
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 the Movement ...

The conflict between Tradition and Modernity

The ideas of tradition greatly differs and conflict with the ideas of the people living in the modern world. The people in the traditional world views the world in a different way from the way those in the modern world do. The conflict of traditions and modernity is clearly elaborated by Chaim Potok in this book where the two main characters viewed the world differently due to the aspects of modernity and tradition with respect to the Jewish religion. The book shows the different views the people with respect to the how the children were raised in the Jewish ...

Summary

Petersen, J. (2007). Why don't we listen better?: Communicating & connecting in relationships. Tigard, OR: Petersen Publications.
The text by Petersen was published in 2007, describing relationships and how one can relate in those relationships. Petersen strives to demonstrated effective communication by saying that one should not allow their emotions to rule what is being communicated. He also mentions incidents that made him come up with the theory ‘the flat –brain theory of emotions’. The literature provides a line graphic drawing of an individual, illustrating and differentiating emotional reaction in people. Petersen clarifies that the origin of reactions originates from ...

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, ...

Roberts God's Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible is a book that explains the bible’s 66 books in simple words and in one book. Roberts explains the bible in about 150 pages. This book takes us through the bible’s stories of creation, the fall of man, the early church, Israel and all the prophets and lastly, the coming of the new kingdom. Through the titles and chapters in Roberts’s book, the reader learns how God is working to redeem His fallen creation and restore back his rule to the earth. The book is divided ...

The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon

The book ‘The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon” by David Elkind is a parenting book which is a cutting edge in the contemporary parenting. This book was written in the year 1981 even before the evolution and widespread use of the internet but had an illusion of the technological revolution that would come. As a result, the book contains a lot of parenting information on the contemporary parenting which by personal opinion is at stake.
Looking at the class in which this book falls under, it is an educative text in the parenting sector. Thus, I ...

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 hurried child: growing up too fast too soon

The book ‘The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon” by David Elkind is a parenting book which is a cutting edge in the contemporary parenting. This book was written in the year 1981 even before the evolution and widespread use of the internet but had an illusion of the technological revolution that would come. As a result, the book contains a lot of parenting information on the contemporary parenting which by personal opinion is at stake.

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Josef Pieper argues that leisure is nothing but “an attitude of mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world ” (p.45). Pieper uses historical context of religion, and philosophy to show that culture leisure is always at the pinnacle of all cultures. However, Pieper laments that the modern understanding of leisure is skewed because by labor and constant pursuit of material comfort. The contemporary clamor for entertainment creates distraction that creates a misconception of understanding of leisure. Pieper reasons that unless the modern generation regains the meaning of silence and ...

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 ...

The author, Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III, was an American writer that worked mainly as a playwright in the American theater. He also published novels, poetry, short stories, screenplays, essays, and a great volume of memoirs. He received most of the top theatrical awards for his works on the stage, with A Streetcar Named Desire receiving the great Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Up to date, he is considered among the best known classical writers in the American fields of theatre.
Most of the themes dominant his works (loneliness, desire, sickness, death, alcoholism, depression, etc) are mined from ...

The famous and world widely recognized short story by well-known Chinese writer Lu Xun, the New Year Sacrifice conveys the distressing but touching story of a young woman with a heart-breaking life ultimately compels her to the outer reaches of the societal ethical standards. The story is neither a radical means nor an artistic inclined piece, but a way for encouraging social modification (eNotes.com). It has a special consideration to the dilemma of women in his time by incorporating in the story significant concepts regarding women’s liberty. The story transpired in the period earlier the Revolution of 1911, ...

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 provide ...

Introduction

Watching the development of modern society, culture and existence of the Church, theological reflection opinion concludes that certain contradictions understanding of the place of the Church in the social development of man and society. In the social concepts of Churches noted that the Church as a divine institution standing above the country, on which God entrusted specific functions spiritual renewal and moral evaluation of public institutions, integration of the person (citizen) to the spiritual and social being. But the simple faithful, ordinary Christians who in their daily live mostly not familiar with the guidelines Church's social doctrine, often do ...

Business Culture Inside and Out

Book Review: Reflective Reaction on the Compare and Contrast of Readings
Introduction
Business is business, the new world tends to define business as something that is rather considered more as an institution that tends to bring better culture and better opportunities to members of the society. However, when it comes to the actual value of business, the industry of commerce defines business as a machine that brings in the different resources altogether to create a system that tends to manipulate operations for the sake of earning more money and gaining more profit from whatever could be gained from what ...

The book, “the ocean at the end of the lane," by Neil Gaiman, starts with a prologue that acts as a window to the idea in it. The prologue begins with the narrator at a funeral, dressed for the occasion. He states that he has done his part through the speech that he was to give. The writer wants to escape the tense situation in meeting all the people that he had known when he lived in his hometown. Page nine discloses the narrator’s discomfort at being asked personal questions when his life was so unorthodox. He was ...

Book review – Men are from Mars, women are from Venus

Introduction
“Men are from mars, women are from Venus” is a user’s guide for married couples to understand each other better, and transform their differences to complement each other to enjoy their long journey together as man and wife. John Gray, renowned relationship counselor and the author of the book, views men and women as having inherently dissimilar values and views about life. In marriage people often expect the opposite sex to be more like themselves. Each desires the other to want the same thing and feel the same way. For example, the husband takes for granted that ...

A Book Review Susan Sontag's book, "On Photography”

About the Author
Susan Sontag is known for a variety of her works from different genres that have all garnered distinct attention from the public. Relatively, this recognition of her good practice in writing has provided her with the proper reputation she needs to be able to get the attention of the general public. In her book “On Photography”, she notes of the most complex ways by which the evolution of photography has become a distinct course of determining the evolution of how humans from different generations are able to express their appreciation for the said form of art ...

Introduction

Samantha Abeel has authored two books and is also a public speaker. She is a young woman who grew up with dyscalculia, a learning disability related with math. In her memoir ‘My Thirteenth Winter’ she narrates about important events from when she was a child right through the years she was a young adult and how this disability compelled her to search for inner strength and find courage in the face of all the challenges. In this book, she profusely narrates how this disability has greatly impacted her life. She says she is old enough, but she is unable ...

The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1763” by Daniel H. Usner, Jr. – A Review

Review of the Usner book “Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy:

The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1763” provides a historical perspective on the economic framework of the frontier life among the native people, the settlers, and the Native American slaves of lower the Mississippi Valley in the southeastern part of the British colonies in North America nearly a decade prior to the War of Independence (1992). The author’s argument in writing “Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1763” intentionally provides an historical account of the French and Spanish ownership ...

Organization

Introduction
The most appreciated and widely applied parenting programme in the world today is the Parental Effectiveness Training (P.E.T), which was devised by Thomas Gordon, an internationally reputed psychologist. Gordon developed the PET programme while intensively researching on humanist psychology at the University of Chicago, with assistance from Carl Rogers. This programme attained popularity when Gordon published a comprehensive book by the same name in the year 1970, which has been reviewed as under. The book revolves around the idea that every group interaction involves conflicts and differences of perspective that must be resolved in order to sustain the ...

Philosophy

Like a large number of people I thought that serial killers were just Ramon people who lose their minds and start committing violent acts of random murder. The River man by Robert Keppel went a long way in enlightening me and changing my mind about the mindset of a serial killer and the reasons why serial killers do what they do. The book tells the story of the investigations that led to the capture of the serial killer that came to be known more famously as the green river killer.in order for Keppel to fully understand the things that ...

Introduction

In the book, “Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World,” Merchant has essentially written a handy introduction to the ecological problems as well as issues from a radical viewpoint. Capra (1996) agrees that ecological thinking emerged simultaneously in a number of disciplines in first half of the century particularly in 1920s. The ecological thinking was pioneered by the biologists, who stressed the opinion of living organisms as the integrated wholes a fact shared by Merchant. In Radical Ecology, Merchant manages to incorporate major topics of concern like social ecology, deep ecology, science and worldviews, ecofeminism, spiritual ecology, among ...

Book Review: Taking on the Trust and Outliers

Summary and Analysis
Central to the story of Taking on the Trust is the story of Ida Tarbell, a journalist who specialized in muckraking – a form of journalism that tackles the main issue directly by pointing out moral implications and subsequently instigating activism for reforms. The successful career of Tarbell in journalism has made her one of the most iconic American journalists during the early 20th century. One of the most famous controversies Tarbell has covered is the one involving Standard Oil Company (Weinberg).
Tarbell never regarded herself as a specialist in writing on business stories. Having no profound ...