HISTORY ASSINGMENT “The Bamboo Flute” Will Groves BOOK REVIEW “The Bamboo Flute” is a book set in late 1920 and early 1930 Australia when times were hard and the economy was very bad. People had lost their jobs and had no money to buy necessities. It is about a young boy‚ Paul‚ who has to help a lot on the farm he lives on with his mother and father. He goes to school 5 miles away and takes him an hour to walk to school each day. Each day he falls asleep in class because he is so tired from
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Brian Lawson Mrs. Jochim Entrepreneurship Book Review 12/1/05 About the Author David Maister is a world-wide management consultant to professional service forms. He consults to lawyers‚ accountants‚ and other services. Has consulted globally for over 2 decades. David provides firms with different ideas‚ strategies‚ and designs‚ but ultimately the firm usually makes an internal committee to make the strategy. His areas of expertise are strategy‚ marketing‚ human resources‚ organization
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class deserves to be there‚ the middle class is getting poorer and the rich getting richer and therefore those who refute their oversimplified version of “the truth” must be lazy‚ poor‚ incompetent‚ or just plain out stupid. Essentially‚ what made America great‚ is dead. In this upcoming election we have two options. A vindictive con-man‚ seeking vengeance from a civilization that never did him wrong. He was born into wealth‚ and as a result he shall live out his days in wealth‚ never being able
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I received a review copy of Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway from Simon and Schuster in exchange for a review. This has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book. I heard about this book for a while. It sounded interesting and I was hearing really good things about it. So when it arrived in my PO I couldn’t wait to read it. Emmy & Oliver follows Emmy as she deals with the return of her best friend Oliver after he was kidnapped all those years ago. They were best friends before he
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on a particular phenomenon that the author considers unfortunate to the discipline. In this book‚ Amartya Sen talks about the continued and ever increasing distancing of economics from ethics. This book has three chapters and under each chapter‚ there are sub topics. That makes the book more structured and easy to understand even for a person who is not so competent in the study of Economics. Though the book was written in 1987‚ most of the arguments still apply in todays’ world. Amartya Sen starts
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w Book review Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen. It was written between 1796-1797 and originally titled First Impressions but wasn’t published until 1813. It was most probably turned down because of a female author. It is a story about society and the relationships of family‚ focusing on the Bennet’s‚ specifically the two eldest daughters Elizabeth and Jane. The book is filled with sarcasm‚ humor and romance. The author had a lot to say about
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Book Review “Leading Change” by John Kotter 1996 Review by Chris Shea John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of leadership and change. He is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership‚ Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and a graduate of MIT and Harvard‚ Kotter’s vast experience and knowledge on successful change and leadership have
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article entitled The Long Tail; which he later expanded into the 2006 book‚ The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. He is the co-founder and chairman of 3DRobotics‚ a robotic manufacturing company. His book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More appeared on the New York Times Nonfiction Best Sellers list. The details of which have been described in the review. His next book‚ entitled Free: The Future of a Radical Price (2009) examines the advantages
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Everyone has heard the saying that winning is not everything. In Suzanne Collin’s bestseller‚ The Hunger Games‚ it redefines that saying. In the novel‚ North America has been through some apocalyptic disasters and is known as Panam with twelve districts that are ruled by the Capitol. Each year the Hunger Games are held as a reminder of the bleak past and that the Capitol is still in control of the citizens of Panam. One girl and one boy between the ages twelve and eighteen from each district are
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Tuesdays With Morrie - a book review He wasn’t a superstar‚ neither a remowned personality but one could undoubtedly say that he was a person‚ who’d create a lifelong impression on you‚ if you were lucky enough to get to know him. Meet Morrie Schwartz‚ professor of social psychology who has come to understand that life’s complexities can be broken down into simple truths. Tuesdays With Morrie (TWM) is a non-fiction novel written by Mitch Albom ‚ quite unexpectedly‚ when he saw his old professor
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