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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BOOK SUMMARY The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit‚ blistering suspense‚ and questionable morality‚ told by the most volatile‚ captivating‚ and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights‚ by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier‚ Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but
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Gelsthorpe‚ L. (2010) ‘Women‚ crime and control’ SAGE Publications This article was written by Loraine Gelsthorpe to ‘tease out Wacquant’s treatment of gender’ in his two books ‘Punishing the Poor’ and ‘Prisons in Poverty’ (Wacquant) Loraine takes a feminist approach towards Wacquant’s work and feels he needs to look into gender more. Agreeing with Loraine although Wacquant has written about the vulnerability of women in the regimes of workfare‚ he fails to understand how social policies escalate
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Wells‚ Peter. Barbarians to Angel: The Dark Ages Reconsidered. New York‚ NY: W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc.‚ 2008 Barbarians to Angels written by Peter Wells is an enlightening read that sheds light on to what really went on during “The Dark Ages”. The written word during 400-800 AD came from educated citizens of the Roman Empire and their recount could be judgmental. Many historians are led to believe that Barbarians destroyed Roman and everyone suffered from acts of violence‚ a mass migration‚
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SHANGHAI GIRLS‚ BY LISA SEE BOOK REVIEW I. INTRODUCTION A. Review Lisa See is an American writer and novelist born in 1955 in Paris‚ and grew up in the Chinatown section of Los Angeles. Her great-grandfather left his village in China to immigrate in Los Angeles at the beginning of the last century. Although she is only 1/8 Chinese‚ she spent he childhood in the Chinatown of Los Angeles‚ and her familial background has given her roots in Chinese culture and has had a great impact on her
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A review based on the book entitled Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds The book is all about how to approach presentation design as a visual aid rather than a document. Rather than do a review of the book‚ on how presentation developers might apply some of the rules. Presentation Zen was the book that bridged the gap and helped me understand that PowerPoint (or any visual aid for that matter) shouldn ’t be a means of present lots of information‚ but rather a way to
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Casey Anthony Trial Patricia Saylor Donna Dansey Computer Forensics November 25‚ 2012 Casey Anthony Case There have been many murder trials in the United States which have gripped the nation‚ OJ Simpson‚ BTK‚ Lee Harvey Oswald. But more shocking to the consciousness of America is the story of a child which has been killed. Such would be the case of Caylee Anthony‚ and the trial of Casey Anthony. In this assignment the discussion will focus on this case‚ exposing
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CYBERSHELF # 2 The required readings for the month of March brought me to another phase of learning‚ which allowed me to discover new things concerning the nature of mission and ministry. One of the things that surprised me in this group of readings was the idea on the end of life introduced by the Physician’s Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST).The idea of valuing the gift of life as experienced by those who are terminally-ill is given much importance through this kind of pastoral care
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1- Edgerton‚ S. Y.‚ & Pérez de Lara‚ J. (2001). Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in Colonial Mexico (1st Ed.). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. The “Theatres of Conversion” is the collection of illustrations including maps‚ plans‚ drawings‚ and colored photographs to display a remarkable mixture of European and native architectural and artistic styles. In order to this‚ the author argues the cultural context for conversion as well as the religious architectural
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Practical Book Review Liberty University Hearing and listening are two different things. Most of us have the ability to hear; but how many of us actually comprehend what is being said? Listening is a very complicated skill that many people do not posses. As humans‚ many of us go through life hearing what we want to hear and doing what we want with the information. In order to communicate effectively it is important to know when to
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