happened in London‚ and how it completely changed glob view of urbanization. The book follows Dr. John Snow as he find the source of the outbreak and ultimately changed the way modern city-dwellers‚ city planners‚ physicians‚ and public officials think about the spread of disease and the development of the modern urban environment. His discovery was that the cholera come from contaminated water systems. The book also touches a lot on how urbanization is a positive and necessary trend for a healthy
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The book Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It divides into three parts: “Harsh Prison Conditions‚” “The Human Damage‚” and “The Alternative to Solitary.” In the first section‚ Terry Allen Kupers‚ the author‚ explores the rises of supermax prisons‚ the normalization of long-term solitary confinement and throughout‚ he explores how isolation damages people’s psyches and about what race violence and gender has to do with supermax confinement. In the final section
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Night Journeys by Avi is a story‚ set in 1768‚ of a teenage orphan named Peter York who lives with Everett Shinn and his family in Pennsylvania. Mr. Shinn is the leader of the Quaker Community and the local Justice of the Peace. Peter‚ who has been promised by the Shinn family to be treated well in exchange for his horse‚ Jumper‚ and hard work on their farm‚ is presented with what he refers to as a great crisis. The details of this crisis are revealed as Peter becomes deeply involved in a manhunt
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The Kite Runner The book I’ve read this term is called The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The novel is set mostly in Afghanistan and it’s written in first person. Amir‚ a well-to-do Pashtun boy‚ and Hassan‚ a Hazara and the son of Amir’s father’s servant‚ spend their days in a peaceful Kabul‚ kite fighting‚ roaming the streets and being boys. Hassan is a successful "kite runner" for Amir‚ knowing where the kite will land without even watching it. One triumphant day‚ Amir wins the local tournament
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confessions of a shopaholic! :D a book by SOPHIE KINSELLA {A.K.A the secret dreamworld of a shopaholic} Oh!When she saw the GUCCI boots‚thats it!Takes out her credit card‚swipes and its hers!Oh! The joy on her face that she can finally say that its hers and she owns the boots! Rebecca Bloomwood‚23‚a financial expert she called herself but very few knew that she was in a great debt! A girl who hides her credit card bills under her bed and gives financial advises to everyone?That was Becky Bloomwood
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could shape our future‚ whether for worse or better. Bruce Mau has utilised eleven main chapters‚ which focus mainly on various economies‚ different designers who discuss their views and general questions about their specific subject area. The whole ’book guide’ includes example pictures of important occurrences‚ where design itself failed or could not be sustained. Each design includes a description or quote which give the reader a closer view to the instance and makes it more relatable. The author
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The Famous Moll Flanders: Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe was a book based on a woman who very much changes throughout the book; I based my report on the main character‚ Moll because she has the most parts in the story which makes her change relatively easier to notice. This character changes in many ways she goes from an incredibly innocent girl to a criminal. Though ever since she was a child she was clever and independent she begins to learn different things about the world that eventually
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Owen was a member of SEAL Team Six and was on the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden and many other less known missions. In the autobiography No Easy Day‚ Mark takes us into the world and life of America’s most elite special operations soldier. This book portrays his life story and sheds light into the secretive world of counterinsurgency. The story starts out in Green Team which is the name of the training process to get into DEVGRU (Shortened name for Special Warfare Development
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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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the years immediately preceding the settlement of 1670‚ as well as those that immediately followed‚ as a direct result of‚ the Stono Rebellion and their respective relationships to the black majority that existed in the colony. Wood introduces the book as possibly the first real study of this black majority and its impact on the colony in its earliest years. Wood also proposes that many preceding social-historical studies of colonial South Carolina generally ignore or discredit the significance this
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