Race and Revolution: A book review American Revolution remains the cornerstone of Democracy the world over. It has helped shape the History of the world and its perception of Freedom‚ democracy and Human values. However it is a historic anomaly that the abolition of slavery‚ then rampant in the various states of U.S.A as slave-ownership or slave trade‚ did not coincide with its independence but actually took more than a century to take effect. This question is often glossed over in the historic
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Book Review: Stumbling on Happiness Despite the title of this book‚ Stumbling on Happiness is not‚ just as the author claims‚ “an instruction manual that will tell you anything useful about how to be happy.”1 Daniel Gilbert expresses the fact that happiness is often stumbled upon instead of successfully achieved through planning and imagination. Gilbert explains this theory through a social psychological approach of three shortcomings of imagination that often make people error when they imagine
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believe‚ her writing career really began after her sister Madge challenged her to write a novel. It took several years to get her first book The Mysterious Affair at Styles published - with the publisher suggesting an alternative final chapter - but the reviews were kind and the murder by poison so well described that Agatha received the unprecedented honour of a review in the
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sprite please. Oh‚ can we have some extra ketchup with that as well?” This answer may resemble something near how most people would respond to Pollans question‚ “What should we have for dinner?” posed at the beginning of his book‚ The Omnivores Dilemma. Pollan breaks his book down into three major components‚ the preface‚ the process‚ and the person. By clearly identifying what he is examining‚ and through firsthand experience‚ Pollan was able to discuss American diet‚ and all that goes along with
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Polytechnic University of the Philippines College of Education Department of Secondary and Elementary Education "THE LUCKY ONE" BOOK and MOVIE TIE-IN REVIEW (Developmental Reading) Ronald Q. Fortaliza “In the blink of an eye‚ something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned‚ into a future
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BOOK REVIEW AND LEADER ANALYSIS Submitted to Dr. Joseph Martelli by Maddula Ravi Chandra Student I.D: 491593 Email I.D: maddular@findlay.edu In partial fulfilment of course requirement for MBA Course Number: MBA610_01_FA2013 Course Title: Leadership and Organisation Behaviour. The University of Findlay 10-9-2013 ABSTRACT This book review is an analysis of the leadership qualities of J.R.D.Tata described with reference to theories from "Daft" (2011) and his biography "Beyond The Last
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James Romm wrote Ghost on the Throne with the purpose to inform the reader of Alexander the Great and the empire he established‚ with the ensuing chaos the came after when Alexander tragically died at a young age. The book was organized somewhat chronologically‚ starting from opening the tombs in which Alexander was buried and how he fell ill‚ to the closing of the tombs and a reflection of the fall of his empire. Romm tried to answer the question of how Alexander died‚ providing multiple theories
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The Evolution of Finance: A Review of Peter Bernstein’s Capital Ideas The world of finance is ever-changing. Over the last century‚ the modern form of economic and financial theory as we see today has been developed and shaped by the minds of many. What we have come to know and accept as fact today were seemingly unheard of nearly fifty years ago. It is with the endless efforts of these like-minded scholars that gives us the opportunity to appreciate the tools and fundamentals we used today to
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Warren Bryan 3/5/12 Book Review: Capitalism & Freedom Author: Milton Friedman Milton Friedman’s Capitalism & Freedom is one of the most important books regarding economics of the 20th century. His thoughts laid the groundwork for the emerging modern conservative movement‚ which was an evolution of the 19th century beliefs surrounding liberalism. Friedman’s major themes of his most famous work consist of the roles of competitive capitalism‚ as well as the role that government should
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shared transnational media and bound by a common identity” (Lynch‚ 9). In his book The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East‚ he sets out to put the events of the Arab uprising into perspective and to create a guide for the new Middle East. He does so pragmatically and theoretically but dismisses popular theories of international relations as outdated for the new Middle East. Throughout the book‚ Lynch emphasizes the significance and importance of the new Arab public sphere
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