Book Review Essays

Giuliani give in his book, appropriately called “Leadership”, his personal view on the important factors that should encompass leadership. In sixteen chapters he shares the views he learnt over the length of his career in combination with striking examples of his own professional and personal life. When he started to work on his book in […]

In their book Lead Like Jesus Ken Blanchard & Phil Hodges encourage readers to ask themselves three key questions: 1)Am I a leader? (pg. 4) 2)Am I willing to follow Jesus as my leadership role model? (pg. 11) 3)How do I lead like Jesus? (pg. 19) The authors try to define who is a leader. […]

Who Lives in “Dublin 4” The novel Dublin 4 was written by Maeve Binchy in 1983. This consists of four short stories which all took place in a town called Dublin. The four short stories that Binchy wrote about are Dinner in Donnybrook, Flat in Ringsend, Decision in Belfield, and Murmurs in Montrose. Each story […]

Catkins entered the Hunger Games in the place of her younger sister. She and a boy named PETA represent District twelve in the games. Their trainer, Hay Mitch, suggested that the two pretend to be friends and work together strategy that goes gaga nest the most basic rule of the Agamemnon one survives. The pair […]

The book I choose to write about is Opening Up by Tristan Taormino. This book is about open relationships and what it takes to sustain them. I admire Tristan for exposing a reality that a lot of people don’t see as well as the people it took to show people a different way of living. […]

On July 1 1916, in one of the largest military operations to ever be executed, the British army entered into the bloodiest battle it has ever known. This was the battle of the Somme, a conflict that is etched into the collective memory of Britain as a tragedy. The first day on the Somme, the […]

Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement by Kevin M. Gilmartin. Ph. D. is a book that seeks to inform and teach those seeking to be in jurisprudence enforcement. jurisprudence enforcement professionals and their households of the worlds of a calling in jurisprudence enforcement- professionally and personally. And how to outdo prepare for emotional endurance of “on-duty […]

The history of the social and economic impoverishment of aborigines of North America in general and Canada in particular is fairly well documented. But the effect of European colonization and settlements in Canada has had a destructive effect on aboriginal gaming and gambling as well. This latter aspect of the history of aboriginal life under […]

Book Review: Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 The way Americans lived their lives was drastically changed between the years of 1920 and 1940. Many different events and advances in technology happened within the country during this time period. Events such as the stock market crash in 1929, the dust bowl of the 1930’s, […]

The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written during the middle 1960’s but covers a span of about 35 years. The story of Malcolm’s life is set against a historical backdrop which takes us from the roaring 20s, through the depression, to World War II and the Civil Rights era. Malcolm’s personal struggles throughout his life […]

Jean Webster is an American writer and author of many books. Her works include Daddy-Long-Legs, Dear Enemy, and When Patty Goes to College. Her most famous books features young active female characters who are intellectually, morally, and socially competent. She also uses stylish dialogue in her stories that makes them interesting. Her works also reflect […]

Everyone has quirks that make him or her an individual. We filter through life, attempting to seamlessly weave our oddities into a “normal” person. As difficult as trying to fit circles into squares, the silver lining in these valiant attempts is that the “normal” person doesn’t exist. That is what writer-director David O. Russell understood […]

In 1951 and African American woman was diagnosed with cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital, since it was one of the only hospitals that would treat black patients. During one of her exams, cells were taken from her cervix without her consent or knowledge. Little did she or her family know that these cells would […]

During the end of the 15th century, almost everyone have the idea that the world was sphere in shape. However, the question at stake was focused on the circumference. Columbus, through his voyage to find Asia and discovery of the Americas, miscalculated the circumference of the earth by one-forth of the actual size ((Laufer in […]

“A learning time. Another thought from the night before, one that must have come while he was sleeping. He had to know more or he wouldn’t make it. He should try to learn each day. It was like Owen had said – he wanted to know everything. David felt that now, felt that he had […]

BOOK REVIEW POOR ECONOMICS: A RADICAL RETHINKING OF THE WAY TO FIGHT GLOBAL POVERTY Poor economic argues that so much of anti-poverty policy has failed over the years because of an inadequate understanding of poverty. The battle against poverty can be won, but it will take patience, careful thinking and a willingness to learn from […]

Success Built to Last builds on over 200 interviews with highly successful people to discern patterns on how they define success and how they achieved it. The authors spoke to remarkable people that were trimmed down from initial thousand lists to hundreds who were able to sustain success for over a 20 year period. The […]

Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win by William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre is a work of real insight. The authors wish the book could equip every reader to act more boldly as a leader and win more decisively as a competitor. After all, they wish the book provides readers […]

Introduction “Lead like Jesus” is a book written by two authors, Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges. Kenneth Blanchard – a prominent career speaker and a business consultant, who is universally characterized by his clients, friends and colleagues as one of the most insightful powerful and compassionate persons in business currently. He is one of the […]

Elizabeth Loftus provides an in-depth and informative look at the memory of a human being. The book is written for people who want to increase their memory as well as getting informed about the memory make up of the human being’s brain. Based on the current research in the related science fields, the article is […]

The author of the book aims at highlighting and explaining the strategies and the means by which an individual can succeed in the United States of America. America is a diverse country with lots of independent States and a high emphasis on the rule … A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court essay Mark Twain’s […]

Globalization is an issue that has raised concerns in many ways. The current world has been compared to a growing global village that continues to become smaller as days go by. Because of this, various changes have occurred that a person who lived in the eighteenth centaury will be taken for a rude shock had […]