Annie Thermidor Life Lessons from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler. Main theme: In this book‚ Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross teamed up with end-of-life specialist David Kessler to write for the first time about life and living. The authors present fourteen lessons passed on to us from the dying to help us deal better with the issues we face in life. Both authors consider the dying as great teachers because‚ "it’s when we are pushed to the edge of life that we see life more clearly" (Kessler
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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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Throughout the book‚ Gladwell walks us through the lives of several outliers: from death-defying places like Roseta‚ to geniuses like Chris Langan and Bill Gates‚ to comeback corporations and successful companies built by Jewish immigrants. Outliers manages to output multiple theories upon success‚ all the while providing example after example of how people and places came to be outliers; this novel is a series of true stories where opportunities elicit success. Gladwell didn’t write this book for the sake
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Abhilasha Thapa The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger BOOK REVIEW The Catcher in the Rye is an exhilarating and gripping work of fiction subject to a lot of controversy. Published in 1951‚ The Catcher in the Rye is a first person narrative and its genre is Bildungsroman: a novel relating to personal development or spiritual bond. The book was written by Jerome David Salinger who was born in a wealthy family and spent his early life being transferred between various preparatory schools. He
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Book review of The Little prince The day i came upon with The Little prince was anything but by chance.i was strolling slowly in a bookstore when i found The Little Pricess lying on the best---seller bookshelves. i flicked casually though as the drawing of a little boy with golden hair‚ a scarf and a lovable laugh caught my attention. Not knowing why‚ i have a strong impulse to buy this book‚ deciding to have a quick read. So i bought immediately‚ then read it at a quite and pleasant corner
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The book‚ Beyond Suffrage; Women in the New Deal‚ presents the role of women in the 1930’s in a much different light than many people think of it. The goal of this book is to enlighten the reader as to what role women played in politics during the New Deal. Because of it’s broad view I have taken several specific examples from the book and elaborated on them in order to give you a better understanding. The author‚ Susan Ware‚ begins by laying the groundwork for the women’s network. During
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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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BOOK REVIEW OF MIRROR MIRROR IDENTITY‚ RACE AND PROTEST IN JAMAICA by Rex Nettleford Taneisha Malcolm April 1‚ 2013 TABLE OF CONTENT Title Page ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- page3 Introduction --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 4 Summary of Content ---------------------------------------------------------------------- page 6 Conclusion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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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LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 4-MAT Book Review 3 Submitted to Dr. Hyun “David” Chung Professor in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of Lead 510 –B01 Biblical Foundations of Leadership by Joseph DeJesus March 7‚ 2015 Abstract In the book “The Making of a Leader” Clinton discusses what it means to be a leader. He gives us the formula of what it takes to become a leader. Clinton does a wonderful job at revealing the process
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