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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November 13th‚ 2012 From the beginning of the semester‚ when I see the “Book Review”‚ I looked through the list. I have read “a child called it‚” and a few others which are all great books‚ but one in particular stands of the most to me. When I first started my journey in college‚ I took a philosophy class right off the bat. The professor assigned a book to be read within the semester‚ and to be a small‚ simple book‚ literally gave me direction in my life through the hardest times. I chose
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BOOK REVIEW OF THE CHANGE MONSTER THE HUMAN FORCES THAT FUEL OR FOIL CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE AUTHOR: JEANIE DANIEL DUCK By: Rhonda Johnson MANAGEMENT 4426/G Spring 2007 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Jeanie Duck‚ author of The Change Monster proposes a plan‚ which she calls the Change Curve‚ to deal with the emotional dynamics humans face when confronted with a major change. The Change Curve was developed by Ms. Duck after years of experiences dealing with
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Stephanie Pernell Mrs. Hoyos AP Psych 23 May 2014 Book Review Outline: Blink 1) Introduction a) Hook: Suppose someone claimed that after viewing only minutes of a conversation of you and your spouse‚ they could predict how long your relationship would last with a ninety percent success rate. Would you believe them? b) Thesis: In this book‚ Gladwell brings light to judging a book by its cover. He takes note of how "our world requires that decisions be sourced and foot noted‚ and if we say how we
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INDIA‚ BY ITS PEOPLE 39 Imagining India : ideas for the new century/ Nandan Nilekani; New Delhi: Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books‚ 2009. (38-61‚ 158-175‚ 256-282‚ 363-383 p.) INDIA‚ BY ITS PEOPLE IN DELHI THIS Monday morning‚ it is chaos. Despite its pristine new metro and expanding highways‚ the city can barely contain the morning hubbub‚ the swarm of people all trying to get somewhere. By the time I reach Kaushik Basu’s home—set a little apart from the highway‚ on a quiet street
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Book Review on The Secret Garden Title: The Secret Garden Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Summary of the story Mary Lennox was a spoilt little girl and lived in India. Her parents were rich and she had maids working for her. But when her maids and parents died of a disease‚ 9 – year – old‚ Mary Lennox is sent to her Uncle’ s mansion on the Yorkshire Moors. But a tragedy happened ten years ago and her Uncle has never recovered from it. Miserable Mary started to explore the gardens of the house
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conjured up this novel. It is the second book of the series to When the Wind Blows. This man is most commonly known for his series of Alex Cross. Patterson wrote this book with a changing point of view. He mainly wrote it in third person but for many chapters‚ the story was in first person from Frannie O’ Neil’s point of view. The genre presented in this work is science fiction because of the children with wings. The main story line is that these beautiful children are created and they are now fighting
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phenylketonuria should follow their diet until the age five. After age five‚ children should avoid eating high-protein foods‚ which increases high Phe in the bloodstream. Although‚ doctors advised children to stay on a low-Phe diet that requires adequate consumption of energy‚ protein‚ and nutrients. If untreated in children‚ this can cause seizure‚ disability‚ and behavioral problems. Therefore‚ studies say PKU children require dietary intervention to maintain physical and mental health. Evidenced
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Austin Smith Book Review Killing Lincoln This past month I have been reading Bill Oreillys killing Lincoln. This book shows Lincolns process of ending slavery and dealing with the civil war. The book tells the story of our president trying to do good things‚ while John Wilkes Booth is planning to do a really bad deed by killing Lincoln. This book shows us that Lincoln had a lot on his plate dealing with the Civil war and the criticism from the south. He was obviously not supported in the
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Book Review 1 Slave Country: American Expansion and The Origins of the Deep South Adam Rothman Cambridge‚ Mass. : Harvard University Press‚ 2005. 312 pages Slave Country Slave Country‚ is a book on early America and it tells the story of the rapid growth of slavery in the newly formed states. Slavery slowly disappeared from the northern states and the importation of captive Africans was prohibited. But‚ at the same time‚ the country’s slave population grew‚ new plantation crops
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