Books Reports Samples For Students

1. The main theme of the book is the focus on the central idea that the personal character of a leader is above all positions or power. The book emphasizes that a leader must win its followers by its own virtue. He should be a role model, rather than a forceful person to lead his followers. The personal attributes may vary, but the leader must utilize these to make others obey his command. “Authentic Leader” is a term coined by David Irvine and Jim Reger to define the leader who leads by the strength of his characters.” Is he for real?” is the question ...

‘A Different Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures’ is a highly acclaimed book written by Quinn Bradlee and Jeff Himmelman. Quinn bradlee shares experiences of his personal life in this book. Quinn bradlee is son of sally Quinn, a best seller writer and Ben bradlee, a Washington post executive editor. This paper discusses the book, A Different Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures’ and talks about related aspects of the book.

Quinn shares how he came in this world with a hole in his heart and he had to undergo a number of surgeries when he was just three ...

REPORT FROM A BOOK

The book Africans in America is quite enlightening as it sheds light into the experiences of African Americans to the history of the United States as well as their related experiences. A good example is the lives of the Africans during the revolutionary era and how this life morphed during the slavery era. During the revolutionary era African Americans were held in much higher esteem than during the times of slavery. This can be attributed to the fact that they contributed to the revolutionary war and thus were precious to the country. The levels of respect for the African ...

Karen Rosenberg’s Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources is a must for anyone considering graduate study in any of the humanities. It’s one thing to be a whiz at reading the novels that populate the syllabi of English classes in undergraduate study; those classes are often the first opportunity for students to encounter literature on their own, without a question packet that the teacher handed out for them to answer or a series of quizzes to complete every day on part of the book. The only assessments about these novels, in many cases, comes in essay form, giving the student a ...

Introduction

The purpose of this experiment was to determine the speed of sound at room temperature using the microphone connected to a computer. Sound travels at a speed which is comparatively higher than the speed many objects. Consequently, the determination of speed of sound is technically challenging task. Most experiments rely on echo which is a reflection of sound to estimate this speed. The speed of sound at standard atmospheric pressure and temperature of 0º C is 331.5m/s. The experimental value of the speed of sound is expected to be less than the accepted value because low winter temperatures.

Materials and Methods

Materials
- Computer
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If Women Counted

Summary
While the work done by men outside the home is always acknowledged and included in the productivity figures of the economy, the contribution of women is always neglected and not cared for. Many economists have termed the neglect of women in the global economic activity as a sexist outrage that needs to be corrected. According to some analysts, neglecting the contribution of women to the society is equal to neglecting the intellectual property of a corporate entity. In both the developed and developing countries, a number of transactions are removed from the active economy and are do not involve any ...

Summary

The book, “Adam Smith in Beijing,” was written by Giovanni Arrighi. In his work, Giovanni portrays how China has extraordinarily risen over the years hence inviting the reassessment of the concept of “The Wealth of Nations”. In the eighteenth century, Adam Smith made predictions that eventually there would be equalization of power existing between the West and the territories conquered by the West. The book vividly explains the growth of capitalism from the days of Iberian Peninsula, Genoa, Venice, the Dutch Empire, the Spanish empire to today’s United States. Thus, the book provides a detailed explanation of the interconnections ...

Contributor: Thomas L. Saaty

Contribution: He holds the chair of University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering USA. He wrote a paper on “Decision making with the analytic hierarchy process”
Details: There are many intangibles involved in decision making which need to be traded off. In order to do that, it is important to measure and evaluate the intangibles along with the tangibles. Thomas L. Saaty, who is internationally recognized for his decision-making process, called as the AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process). It is a concept of measurement through pairwise comparisons and focuses on the opinion ...

A writer ventures into the writing business with the aim of entertaining the readers. These personalities write captivating stories that entertain the readers. However, in this case, Upton makes the above statement to try and bring out the fact that even though the book was written to entertain the readers, somewhat it tampered with their inner feeling. The book centers around a Lithuanian immigrant who comes to the USA with the hope of having a better life. However, the turnout of events does not impress both the writer and presumably the reader. The book describes the life of one Jurgigs life ...

Book Report: The American Language by H. L. Mencken
In the book The American Language, author H. L. Mencken acknowledges the fact that language evolves over time and by the development of an American version of English, it was clear that Americans had come up with their distinct language that could identify them. The author realized that Americanism could be defined by different factors chief among them a language that was Americanized. He goes ahead and highlights the variations of English that Americans came up with that were different from mainstream acceptable English. That reflected the dynamism of language ...

The character of Kiowa was the most decent and dignified characters in the book “The Things They Carried”. The character Kiowa was deeply religious by nature and was a devout Baptist. He was a Native American Indian. He always carried an illustrated New Testament, gifted to him by his father, who was a teacher at Sunday school in Oklahoma City. The way he carried his New Testament always and the way he felt Ted Lavender’s death was unchristian and his beliefs in the stories of New Testament confirm that he was a highly religious person. He would roll the New Testament and ...

Blue Ocean Strategy is a book authored by Renee Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim that dwells on strategic business moves companies can make to tap into uncontested markets. The book, published in 2005, embodies the emergence of rapid change and innovation in recent years while at the same time injecting dynamism in business strategy. The book classifies businesses into two groups; Red Oceans and Blue Oceans. The former group, Kim and Mauborgne note comprises of static businesses that dwell on battling competitors. A strategy that is highly unlikely to bring forth a prospect of profit growth to companies that practice it. ...

Introduction

Jeanne Randolph is an independent speaker who works as a public speaker and writer. Her work and performances have been based on spectator sports, doodads, advertising, visual arts, western philosophy, psychoanalytical theories (Donna, 2013). Her literary work has been highly acclaimed by the critics and readers. Her first book was Psychoanalysis and Synchronized Swimming, which gathered much appreciation among masses. Her other commendable writings include Symbolization and its Discontents (1997), Why Stoics Box: essays on art and society (2003). Her recent publication Ethics of luxury (2007) is also getting famous (Art History and Visual Art Department, 2014). The topic of ...

Do you like stories about dogs, friendship, family, and life on a farm? If so, you would enjoy reading the book “Where The Red Fern Grows” by author Wilson Rawls.
This book is about a ten-year-old boy named Billy who lived on a farm in the heavily forested Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression with his Mother, Father, Grandfather, and three sisters.
The conflict arises when Billy wanted to have two pups, but has no money to buy them. In tight times, Billy's parents do not want to spend on frills, and not keen to take chances on something risky ...

Business Report on Amazon

Introduction
Amazon is one of the most renowned and distinguished online retailer. It is an American run e-commerce firm. They have their headquarter in Seattle, Washington. It is known as the leading company which is operating electronically through the internet. Since more than ten years, they have managed to sustain their position. They have been comparatively unaffected by the changes in the external environment.
Initially Amazon was an online website which was involved in selling books online. Later, when they started being successful, they diversified their operations to sell videos, mp3 songs, video games, apparel, jewelry, packaged ...

Introduction

History of the Ottoman Empire is saturated with different thrilling events. The release of David Lean's movie “Lawrence of Arabia” made it possible for the general audience to see how the British Empire campaigned during World War I to achieve independence for the Arab countries from the Ottoman Empire. The movie, however, does not answer the question why the British troops supported the Arabs and why the Turkish chose Germans at their allies. The movie also does not explain what the mission of Lawrence of Arabia in the deserts was. Other prominent authors have widely speculated on the themes ...

In this report, I will review three articles pertaining to the classification of American Indian languages. The first one is Campbell review of Language in the Americas, by Joseph Greenberg. The second one is Response to Campbell Review by Greenberg, and the last one is Rankin review of Language in the Americas, by Joseph Greenberg. A very concise summary of these three articles is provided, and a comparison of the ways that Campbell and Rankin criticized Greenberg's classification is given, too.
Lyle Campbell states that the classification of the American Indian languages by Greenberg must be rejected. He claims ...

Executive Summary

The internet age has brought with it a revolution in business. It has been a departure from the age-old “manual” way of conducting business to an automated and computer generated applications which ensure that the producer, the retailer and the consumer are interlinked by the internet. As a result of the “internet revolution”, e-businesses have now emerged. These businesses conduct all their activities online, starting from marketing, advertising, display of products and even payment for the goods and services by the consumer (Kessler, 2003). This has reduced the expenditure and the time taken when marketers have to visit all the countries in ...

Introduction

The purpose of this project is to set out a proposal for conducting research to arrive at conclusions about the question that has been selected. The theme that has been selected for this research proposal is scope of social media marketing in the publishing industry.
The publishing industry has been seen as one of the most rapidly growing industries in the world as a result of globalization. Today readers have access not just to literature and books written by people in their own country, but also from every corner of the world. In the light of this, a huge scope has ...

The Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland is a publication by Jan Tomasz Gross in the year 2000. The book analyzes the events in the small town of Jedwabne around 1939. This was during the time when the Germans occupied Poland. The book looks at the manner in which the Polish non-Jewish inhabitants, on their own volition, decided to exterminate their Jewish neighbors during the year 1941. The author presents the causes of the massacre against the Jewish residents in Jedwabne by the neighbors who were non-Jews. In narrating the causes of the Jedwabne Jewish massacres, ...

My reaction to the NCLR National Conference of Law Reviews

On the first part of the conference was discussed a very interesting topic " How to be an Effective Editor and Chief". The topic covered the fittest rules of an editor and chief and include some useful advices for this position. My question to the professor was if the editor should edit from specific book in the law? He was pleased with appropriate question and replied that editing should be reviewed from blue book and use red book for the grammar guide. He informed me that plagiarism rules are very strict as unoriginal text cannot be published under any circumstances. In ...

The proposed system

The Swansea City is a small organisation that deals with history materials and adds up as a museum. There is a need to have an online library management system, which will enable the organization have their services online. This is a growing trend that is picking up for most organisations. This paper will focus on the functional requirements of the proposed system, the non-functional requirements, and the way the system will work and operate. These are important details that will enable the system developers come with a working system.

Functional requirements

One of the functional requirements of the new system is that it should have a database ...

According to the Wall Street Journal and Business Week, Mark Sanborn has produced a “National Best Seller” in his book: The Fred Factor. Sanborn’s book is based on his experience with a mail carrier known as Fred. For more than ten years, Fred consistently provided exceptional delivery service, going the extra mile that certainly exceeded his job description. He showed qualities that demonstrated he genuinely cared about the customers on his delivery route. Though some would describe Fred’s job being a postal carrier as dull, boring, monotonous, and other dreary words, his attitude and approach to work made it exciting ...

Book report: Fields of Fire

It is said that experience is the best knowledge which can be shared with others. James Henry Webb a former representative from Virginia in the United States’ Congress and a combat veteran of the War in Vietnam expressed personal experience in his book ‘Fields of War’ which came out in 1978 describing the events of the year 1969 during the Vietnam War.
Having served as a Commander of a Platoon for four years, he retired in the rank of the first lieutenant with exceptional awards such as the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts and a Navy Cross, being the second decoration in the ...

Book report: Flags of Our Fathers

The raising of the flag was the result of one the most gruesome battles in the Pacific Ocean during the World War II with numerous killed and injured soldiers. The five Marines, Rene Gagnon, Mike Strank, Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley and Harlon Block and one Navy Corps representative John Bradley became the main characters of both life and fiction events. Not all of the heroes survived the battle – Ira Hayes, Harlon Block and Franklin Sousley fell. All of them fought courageously and saved many lives. Strank, for example, being a Sergeant refused to proceed further, saying that the soldiers should ...

Book report: the Age of Unthinkable

Joshua Cooper Ramo – one of the partners of the Kissinger Associates in its Beijing department, who at the World Economic Forum was called ‘a leading China’s scholar’, presented a completely new understanding of modern and fast-moving world. His conception known as the theory of ‘the age of surprise’ was reflected in his book ‘The Age of Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do about It’.
The book was published in 2009 and was positively accepted by the target readers and critics. In spite of such deep and controversial topic as today’s ...

Book report: Gates of Fire

Reconstructing the details of the battles, which took place long-long time ago, not even in the new era is not an easy thing for historians, not to mention authors who struggle to describe the course of events both authentically and vividly. However, Steven Pressfield managed to create a novel, seen through the eyes of the only survivor Xeones in the battle of Thermopylae in the year 480 B.C. In other words, the book to be presented here is ‘Gates of Fire’ written in 1998 in the genre of the historical fiction.
The name ‘Gates of Fire’ or as some ...

Literature

My men are my hero is a book giving a graphic description of war from the perspective of the American marines who are usually on the front line. The book was written by sergeant major Brad Kasal. It documents his life and an experience in the military. It especially focuses on the war in Iraq and especially the battle for Fallujah. This is a tale of heroism and sacrifice told first hand by the people on the front line.
The motivation for the book was a picture taken of brad Kasal in Fallujah. The picture is graphic to say the least. In ...

The book The forgotten Soldier by Guy Soldier is an autobiography of Guy Sager, a member of the Red Troops, who served in the World War II, and was written in 1965. The book reveals the real life experiences of the German soldiers in the Eastern War front. Although most people have read from historical books about the Germans experience during the WWII, Sager’s personal account reveals the traumatizing incidences that enable the readers to conclude that it was a mistake for the Germans to engage in the war, because they did not have any chance to overcome the enemy ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a portrait of a book published in 2004 on an issue which has been increasing people’s concern on its worldwide effect as far as humans’ rights are concerned and respect towards human nature is ensured. The title of the book is ‘Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy’ and was written by Kevin Bales. Its title causes unpleasant surprise at first sight since it is not nice neither ethical or right for any kind of people to be characterized ‘Disposable’. So the title prepares its readers that what they ...

for the book

"Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys: The Songs that Tell Their Story by Mark Dillon"

Introduction
This book gives an interesting chronological account of a Rock band history in music for a 50 years period. For book lovers and aspiring readers, this is a book worth buying. The author recounts the journey of these boys in a way that leaves the reader yearning to turn the page after page.

Marketing Strategies

The pre-press strategies to market the book shall include:
Reviewing current lead generation activities: Lead generation activities such as online listings on Google should be reviewed to establish their effectiveness. The drawback is that if they are not having positive response, this can affect ...

Born Digital, understanding the first generation of digital natives, was written by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser. It was published by Basic books, a member of the Perseus Books group. It was published in the year 2008. It contains 375 pages in total. It explores about the consequences of the extensive availability of the internet connectivity to the present first generation people who are born to it. It studies how information is stored and used in this digital age. The authors act as envoys between the digital generation and the past generation by addressing issues that worry the parents and ...

The book is about a colonization “Bussard ramjet", named Leonora Christine with 50 colonists on-board put in space by the world with a mission to colonize a star. The crew aims at travelling to a planet thirty light years away; however with the ship set to travel at a speed close to speed of light, they hope to take just a few years thanks to relativity and time dilation.
- The book includes physics, chemistry and engineering. Based on relativity, high ship speed and passage of time. Inter-relation between gas atoms, ship speed and passage of time is the main subject. The space ship ...

Introduction

This book report considers an intercultural Communication book, Principles of Intercultural Communication, by Igor E. Klyukanov. The book was published in the year 2005 by Pearson Education Inc. The author of the book is an experienced professor of Communication studies at the Eastern Washington University. On top of serving as an editor for the international Journal of Communication, Igor E. Klyukanov has written at least 50 articles as well as books in the field of culture, communication, and language. With his experience Klyukanov has authored this particular book configuring it within ten essential principles, “Principles of Intercultural communication. “ He ...

The book “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins takes place in a dystopian fantasy world. This genre is adventure fantasy. While reading one quickly realizes that things are not as we now know them. There is a great gap between the poor and the rich. The rich take advantage of the poor by using their children for entertainment is a televised event called “The Hunger Games”. Children are thrown into a generated environment and forced to fight to the death. The brutality of this treatment eventually leads to need to change the current political system.
The setting of this book takes place ...

Summer of My German Soldier is a book written by Bette Greene. It is a creative writing novel which explains the activities of daily life during the Second World War. The story is an example of a creative writing by Greene which gives the person reading it an idea on social issues in an American culture. Greene introduces young people to problems in the society and ways on how to handle them and become good people in the society.
The setting of the story is in Jenkinsville, Arkansas during World War II. It was around in the early 1940s. The author ...

2008 WRITER’S MARKET

Small Press Publishing

Self published and seasoned writers often had their work published in the market through agents and publishing companies. However, aspiring writers who have the talent, but lacks the basic information on how their work can be published may refer to the 2008 Writer’s Market book for essentials tips and bits of getting written work gets published including a list of small and large press publishing.
An example for listing for 2008 Writer’s Market is the Tricycle Press, which is a Berkeley-based publishing house that features children’s books. Tricycle Press is a former subsidiary of ...

Synopsis: Appreciate life from the outside offers a new perspective. But it comes the time when everything shall be appreciated from the inside.
The book relates the story of a teenage and what does it feel growing and going through high school. It is more intimated than a dairy, Charlie´s letters can be define as well narrated, one of the kind, funny and devastating. Maybe we can take from all where he lives or to whom he writes to, all we know is the world he lives how he sees it and share it with us. Trap in the middle ...

Wikis refers to a collection of Webpage that the users can easily access and be able to edit as well as adding the extra information. They are a combination of interlinked web pages that can be expanded easily to access information in many databases. The use of wikis in language is increasing very rapidly making it an issue of concern that needs close monitoring. The contain drilldown capabilities so that the user can collect as much as possible information relating the subject or topic of study. Wikis are inherently simple to operate making sharing and access of information easy. An example ...

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
This is a report paper about the book written by James Collins and Jerry Porras entitled Built to Last. James Collins is a professor at the School of Business of Stanford University. He also engages in management research and teaches corporate leadership among executives like the Girl Scouts of America, the Marines, and John Hopkins Medical School. Collins is also the author of three other books namely Great by Choice, Good to Great, and How the Mighty Fall. Meanwhile, Jerry Porras is also a professor of organizational behavior behavior at the School of ...

Abstract

The experiment aimed at monitoring the change in volume of a gas in a confined container as the pressure on the gas was being increase. The experiment successfully demonstrated that volume decreases as the pressure on gas is increased.

Introduction

Boyle’s Law involves the relationship that exists between volume and pressure of an ideal gas, assuming that the mass and temperature of the gas is held constant. The law is stated that for a fixed ideal gas amount kept at a fixed temperature, pressure (P) and volume (V) are inversely proportional. This means that when one parameter is increased, the other one decreases. ...

Bathsheba by Rembrandt

Finally we have one of Rembrandt’s most famous paintings which is Bathsheba where the feminine form is most certainly idealized in more ways than one. Again the aesthetic qualities of the subject are clearly idealized here with emphasis on the nudity of the woman and her plump beauty in this respect which comes to the fore especially with the dark background and intrinsic subject matter.
One of his famous paintings is Bathsheba at her bath that was completed in 1654. The painting captures a moment from the Old Testament narrative in which King David sights Bathsheba having a bath. ...

John Q. Student

Augusta State University

Description:

Science Direct is a leading full-text scientific database which provides reference material for those who are in need of scholarly references covering various topics. There are about 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and over 11,000 books. It is very useful for every kind of research work about the sciences and will provide the most up-to-date and reliable information you can get over the internet.

How to use it:

- Go to http://www.sciencedirect.com.www.msvu.ca:2048/ and click on “Library”
- Once you arrive at the Library section of the website, click on “Databases A-Z”
- You will see an alphabetical listing of ...

Introduction

The Hindu-Arabic numerals are said to have come from the Hindus, Egyptians, Persians and Arabs. There is a presumption that the interrelation between traders served in carrying the symbols from one region to another and hence the accumulation from the different origins. Nonetheless, India is said to be the country that first used the largest number of numerals. The numeral system was established in ancient India. Prior to the emergence of Arab Empire the numeral system of the Hindu and Arabs was already going towards the West. The Arabs adopted the nine numerals in the 9th century. Initially, it was ...

Rabbinic Judaism is a way of life of the Jewish community as described by the Rabbis. The six centuries after the destruction of the Jerusalem temple are referred to as the late antiquity period. During that period, Rabbinic Judaism was among the prominent religions in Israel and Babylonia. The religious leaders during that time wrote three documents that have fostered the understanding of Rabbinic Judaism namely the Mishnah and the two Talmuds (p. 7584). Other documents include commentaries on the books of the Law (Torah) as well as Siddur-the Jewish prayer book. The Torah contains the sacred teachings of Moses ...

John Steinbeck's Cup of Gold is a 1929 novel telling the story of Henry Morgan, his life and death, and his time spent in Panama City, also called the titular "Cup of Gold." The famous privateer, our protagonist, is followed from his childhood in 17th century Wales to his death, showing his conquests and his personal frustrations. Morgan's relationship to the Cup of Gold, its riches and its women are documented in detail, creating an adventure novel that delves into the mindset of this famous adventurer and pirate.
The book begins with Henry Morgan in the 17th century, growing ...

In what ways is Friday Night Lights a book about sports and sexuality? There are, of course, the Pepettes, but what else from this text is either explicitly or implicitly about sex or gender performance?
Friday Night Lights is a book that is mostly in part about a football team in a small town, Odessa Texas, that is faced with many struggles and trials, the guys on the football team is held in high regards in Odessa. They are looked at as the town hero’s, which places a major emphasis on male sexuality, in that the women are considered minuet, as the ...

1. Word Order
The Swahili language uses the SVO word order. This implies that in a sentence the subject comes first followed by the verb and lastly the object.
(1) NI- li- enda
shule

‘I went to the hospital’

It is important to note that in the SVO word order object marking is done for animate objects and is optional when it comes to inanimate objects
(2) a. Wa- li- (mw)- angalia
mtoto

SMP- PAST- OM- looked: AF - DEC baby: NOM

‘I looked at the baby’
b. Ni- li- (ki) – rarua
kitabu

SMS- PAST- OM – tore: AF - DEC book: NOM

‘I tore the book’
c. Ni- li- rarua kitabu

SM1S- PAST- tore book

‘I tore the ...

Feasibility report on the need of a library in the community

Executive summary
Libraries are made for systematic organization, collection, dissemination and preservation of information and knowledge. It is therefore important for man to maintain and preserve the valuable information and knowledge which is contained in books for us and even the coming generations. This report shows the importance of the community library in our areas and how this can benefit the people who love reading and also as a means of cultivating the reading culture of our people.
The report also shows the trends of library usage since some few years ago and gives a future insight of how ...

Although Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group has countless competitors who also offer exceptional services, none of these competitors can match the level of service found in Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. This is coming from the fact that Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is an international hotel that has won a number of global awards due the prestigious services it offers (Hephaestus Books 2011, p. 25). This group gets recognition as a result of its international hotel investment, as well as management group with luxurious and first class hotels, resorts together with residences in destinations sought-after all over the world. Currently, the Group controls, ...

Accounting is by itself indeed information to various parties in an organization who includes management, employees, as well as external parties such as the suppliers and government. It provides information concerning various aspects of needs in the organization and outside the organization. The accounting information provides the basis for making most of the crucial decisions in the organization. Accounting information processing is a branch of accounting information system, which is mainly concerned with the processing of information collected and stored. The accounting information is obtained from the daily activities done by organizations named as accounting transactions. The process derives the ...

This book is so captivating because I found a lot of interesting sections that kept me keep on reading and analyzing it. However, the most interesting thing I learnt in this book is the commitments of the leading protagonists: Joe Ehrmann and Jeffrey Marx. These are two former friends who have been together for more than four decades now. What perplex me most are their amazing perceptions towards life. Even if they have taken different paths of life now, they shame a similar world view and are out to positively transform the lives of the youths.
It was so interesting ...

Book critique: Season of Life by Jeffery Marx

Season of Life appeals to the readers’ understanding of masculinity in so many ways that it is difficult to identify any one aspect of the book as being the most positive influence. Masculinity has to be one of the most stereotyped concepts. This applies all the more to the male dominated sport – football. I appreciated the fact that Jeffery Marx not only challenges the traditional concepts of manliness, but dedicates and entire book to it! What makes this effort all the more laudable is the fact that Marx belongs to the ...

Overview

It has been traditionally accepted (Weinstein & Barber, 2004) as self-explanatory that there is a lot human beings can teach their dogs. In their revolutionary self-help motivational book, Dogs Don't Bite When a Growl Will Do, Weinstein and Barber (2004) maintain that there is a lot too that dogs can teach humans. The book is presented in the form of a lesson plan whereby the thoughts and ideals of the authors are delivered in 67 different chapters or lessons. Each of these chapters or lessons is essentially independent from the other and offers its own distinct view. The core focus of the lessons is ...

Part one: What did you like about the (topic)? What struck you as interesting? Why did the (topic) stimulate positive emotion?
The thing I liked about the book is the way the author tries to avoid conflicts in organizations through encouraging negotiations and perfect decision making processes. In addition, the book enables leaders to improve their judgment and decision making abilities. Perfect decision making processes enables people to organize various activities and avoid conflicts.

The most fascinating thing from the book is the way the author analysis people’s behavior and ranks them according to their outcomes. ...

What I liked about the topics (positive emotions)

In Bazerman’s book, what I liked most was the six major but simple steps especially meant for managers towards making a rational decision when solving various problems. The first step is to clearly defining the problem at hand, that is, the problem should be specific so as to arrive at an accurate solution. Secondly, the criteria to be used in the process should be indentified and then weighed according to the preferences from other criteria. The decision maker is then expected to prepare the alternatives for weighing the options to determine the best. The alternatives are then rated on ...

What I liked about the book

A part from being so informative, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making by Max. H. Bazerman, is a very interesting book. This is why many people, besides recommending it to others, regard it as a must read. However, when I was reading it, I was captivated by the following concepts:
First, it was so interesting to learn that many people fail to make well thought decisions due to their personality. As Max argues, they fail in realizing their aims due to bias. Their attitudes heavily influence their stand on various problems that need to be resolved. Moreover, many people, in their ...

John Piper’s book Don’t Waste Your Life, is a detailed book on Pipers real life experiences as he searched for an answer of the purpose of our life on earth. Piper’s search for answers trails through his father, Christian authors such as C.S Lewis, Harold John Ockenga and Jonathan Edwards just to mention a few, and the Bible. Piper addresses the correct mindset that is necessary for one to live a wholesome life as a good Christian. The book acts as a guide to Christians so that they can refocus on their lives and live according to God’s will and ...

John W. Gardner. Positive and negative emotions

What I liked about the topic (positive emotion)

John W. Gardner’s ‘On Leadership’ is one of the most valuable books on leaders and leadership. It is a must for anyone who aspires for a career in management. The book discusses leadership qualities and analyses what it means to be an effective leader. The book projects several leadership ideas to me, which provided a positive outlook for me, most of which I wasn’t aware of before. Distinguishing between leadership and management, Gardner notes that they often overlap. While managers at times exhibit leadership skills, leaders sometimes may require executing managerial functions.

An ...

The five dysfunctions of a team

Patrick Lencoini is a president of the Table Group, a San Francisco Bay Area management consulting firm. He is also a speaker invited by many corporations to talk about success of business enterprises; he worked at management consulting firm Bain & company, Oracle Corporation, and Sybase where he worked as a vice president of organizational development. He also works on many advisory boards and National Boards of Directors for the Make-A-wish Foundation of America. He lives in Alamo California with his wife and four sons in San Francisco Bay area. Patrick has written many business books which have helped leaders to improve their businesses. ...