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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Book Review 1/27/2011 History A Pilots Life for Me: Life on the Mississippi It has been said that Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi is not his best work. One thing the book does very well is shed light on the lives of steamboat pilots during the 1800’s. The book shows peoples economical life‚ and their social life. The way Mark Twain strings some of the stories together kind or makes the book feel unorganized‚ and not really connected. Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi has some structure
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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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In James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues‚” the unsaid brotherly relationship amongst the speaker and his younger brother Sonny is illustrated throughout the narrator’s point of view. The two brothers have not spoken in time until the narrator receives a note from Sonny following his daughter’s death. He takes this moment as a vital indication from Sonny and feels the need to act in response. Despite the fact that both Sonny and the narrator reside in separate worlds‚ all Sonny desires is a brother to care
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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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event as a new rapid extinction predominantly caused by humans. One of the underlying causes of this 6th extinction event discussed in the book is the mass killing of both animals and humans. Another underlying cause of this extinction event discussed in the book‚ which is probably more prevalent now than ever before‚ is climate change caused by humans. This book goes chapter by chapter giving examples of various species that are on the verge of going
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Heather Morin Book Review: Getting to YES vs. Your Guide to Improve Your Negotiation Skills Greatly 09/26/2012 I started reading the book‚ Your Guide to Improve Your Negotiation Skills Greatly by Thomas Anderson which I felt the introduction was executed brilliantly by using the example of a rental property. The negotiation process according to the author is similar to that of the landlord/tenant relationship; where each individual must hold up their part of the deal for the rental property. The
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Ethnic Relations in the United States. Ninth Edition. Allyn and Bacon. (text book referred to for integrating concepts). NOTE: If you purchased an earlier edition of the Parrillo text‚ be advised that the material will in places be on different pages from the 9th edition and you are responsible for the material as it appears in the 9th Edition. Raymond Krech. The Ecological Indian. The Ecological Indian Book Review: For this assignment you will be required to answer five questions (20 points
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in the Christian world. BODY I will be conducting an in-depth interpretation of the character‚ Shylock from The Merchant of Venice. Shylock is a Jew and a money lender‚ and traditionally he is presented as treacherous and greedy. He is linked to many of the play’s themes‚ such as justice‚ prejudice and revenge. He controls one of the important plot elements through the forfeiture of Antonio’s bond and his demand for a pound of flesh. Shylock is motivated by revenge against the Christians who have
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