The book contains six different chapters, each describing a separate story. ... Chapter five, "The Collaborators," deals with the failed presidency of John Adams. ... This book reaches out to those fond of American history. ... He manages a scholarly tone and has a subjective take on the events that transpire throughout the book. ... Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize in History for his book Founding Brothers in 2001. ...

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Ignatiev Book Review I found Noel Ignatiev's book, How the Irish became white, confusing in the way information was presented, it seemed as if it was not interwoven tightly enough with each sub-thesis presented for the individual chapters. ... Other chapters were more random and the examples went back and forth in time which caused me to re-read the introduction to refresh my memory on what the chapter set to prove. ... Many characters which were presented in the book had some sort of confusion as to where their true loyalty lay. ... Their need for belonging grew and the fo...

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The Bible Code -A Book Critique- Drosnin, Michael. ... Imagine that this writing of extraordinary prediction isn't locked away in some highly classified government facility, but rather hidden within the text of the best-selling book of all time. ... Is the information presented within the pages of this book the whole truth, or a fraction of a larger number of failed attempts to validate the codes? ... Although admitting early in the first chapter his complete skepticism and atheistic beliefs, Drosnin is clearly intent on persuading the average reader to believe word for word the di...

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According to F.R Leavis in his book The Great Tradition', a book can only deserve literary recognition if it has "serious, moral concern". ... The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... Sachar's use of short, yet condensed, chapters ensures students will find the book a very fast, but also informative read, making it very difficult to put the book down, and therefore creating a very addictive read. However, the short chapters, do not retract meaning from the p...

• Word Count: 1943
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According to F.R Leavis in his book The Great Tradition', a book can only deserve literary recognition if it has "serious, moral concern". ... The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... Sachar's use of short, yet condensed, chapters ensures students will find the book a very fast, but also informative read, making it very difficult to put the book down, and therefore creating a very addictive read. However, the short chapters, do not retract meaning from the p...

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Hope for the future A Critique of Chapter 11 in Neil Postman's Technopoly In chapter 11 ("The Loving Resistance Fighter") of the book Technopoly, published in 1992, Neil Postman focuses on a solution to the problems created by Technopoly. ... In chapter 11 Postman gives examples of people who resist the American Technopoly. ... The function of chapter 11 (the last chapter in the book) is to provide readers with a conclusion to all ideas and concerns expressed throughout the book, to offer advice to those readers whom are truly concerned with the effects of Technology, and to suggest ...

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The next chapter is also focusing on the general beginning of the Louisiana culture. ... In the next chapter, Hall begins to describe the Louisiana Creole culture. ... Her arguments in this chapter are the highlight of the book as everything comes to a point in describing why the culture in the lower Louisiana colony was so heavily Africanized. ... The last point in the book that Hall makes in this book is that the Louisiana cultural tradition of racial openness couldn't be entirely destroyed. ... At the end of the book, she also provides us with four different appendices on different to...

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The first book that I decided to read is The Economics of Technological Change the author of this book is Edwin Mansfield. ... The book began with an introductory chapter that paraphrased the topics of the following chapters in the book. This made the text interesting to read in the sense that the reader knew what was going to be coming up in the book, and was given a small idea of what each chapter was about. ... The next chapter discussed the different types of research and development. ... The next chapter was interesting because of the discussion of labor displacement, and because thi...

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The first few chapters of the book describe the history of cosmological thought, from the Greek philosophers and scientists to the modern times. ... The later chapters are devoted to unravelling the mysteries of radio galaxies and quasars. The final chapters assess the future course of the universe and discuss possible alternative theories that are compared to the Big Bang. ... In addition, prior to the end of the book, there are several chapters of mathematics with the explanations of the formulas used. ... The book only dedicates one chapter to the Big Bang theory and this issue and its ...

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Also, if there is no need to drive several miles to a library, walk the aisles looking for a book and to then stand in line to check out a book which can only be kept for a matter of weeks, then why put forth the effort? ... Time is better spent opening up a book and reading. ... When a person is reading an e-book, a mere swipe of a finger can advance the reader half way through a chapter or even a short book with ease. ... What will consumers do with a $300 dollar e-book reader if the e-book prices become unaffordable? When the internet is down, an e-book isn't accessible. ...

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This made kept the book interesting as I found the somewhat irrelevant side facts quite intriguing and it actually made the book more like a story. There are many things that I really enjoyed reading in my book. ... For example she organized it so that each chapter described a different event. The chapters were split up in two sections, The Constitutional Convention and The Fight for Ratification. ... Especially outstanding, though slightly misplaced, do the three chapters comprise a tour of the United States in the late 1780's. ...

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The book also examines responsibility and luck as there issues arise in tort law, criminal law, and distributive justice. ... One of the central claims of the book is that individual responsibility and social equality need to be understood together. ... Chapter 2 examines two libertarian approaches. ... In chapter five, Repstein offers a distinction between behavior that is criminal and behavior that is merely tortuous. ... Another view that I like was in chapter 4 about the general theory of moral responsibility. ...

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Each of his chapters pertains to a separate issue and all of them begin with a personal analogy that helps the reader understand what the chapter will discuss. ... He tends to devote parts of each chapter to the opposing sides and the chapter, Job Security, is no exception. ... But Mackay's notion of "finding a new world", something that is undercurrent throughout the book comes through more blatantly in the end. ... To me the structure and arguments in The Big Picture represent a condensed version of the whole book. ... An example of ineffectiveness of underlying values and assumption is...

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There are three scenes in the book which can easily be identified as direct editorials speaking out against the South. ... In chapters seventeen though nineteen, Huck crosses paths with a seemingly typical wealthy Southern family, but the reader is instantly aware that this is not a normal family. ... Mark Twain included these chapters in the novel to show the stupidity and violence of life in the Southern United states. ... Twain uses a character, Sherburn, who has no effect on the outcome or actions of the book apart from two chapters, to get all his thoughts on Southern Society off his c...

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In the book The Condor's Shadow, David S. ... Wilcove uses each chapter to expand on a different ecosystem and the fauna that lives there. ... For example, in the first chapter, Wilcove discusses how large predators and hoofed mammals that once roamed North America have been driven to extinction due to deforestation and overhunting. ... On the contrary, the book is only sprinkled with concrete statistics, thus allowing the book to flow much more easily. ... Wilcove talks about many different ecosystems, but the fact that humans are the main source of all the problems facing them is app...

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I chose this book to review because it contains valuable text that is useful for all humans to read. Although the book contains chapters such as "The Evolution of Animal Mating Systems" and "The Biological Basis of Human Patterns of Mating and Marriage" I chose primarily to devote much of the focus of this essay to the latter chapters of the book ("The Social Anthropology of Marriage and Mating" and "Mating, the Family, and Marriage: A Sociological View"). The most interesting parts of the book will be summarized in this essay. ... The chapters presented some interesting variations of mati...

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The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak is a powerful novel following the life of Liesel Meminger during the harrowing years of Hitler's reign over Germany. The Book Thief portrays many heart wrenching themes, reinforced through strong symbols such as color, Hans' accordion, and books. ... The symbolism of color in The Book Thief was evident throughout the entire novel. ... Death states "Summer came for the book thief, everything was going nicely. ... By the final chapters of the novel we observe Liesel as a mature empowered young woman. ...

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As this book can be found in most the places under the business section, this book has helped thousands of people. As all the seventeen chapters convey different, but related matter, where a reader can chose to increase his knowledge from a specific chapter only. ... As brainstorming and team work are the central theme of this book, everything this book has taught me is related to its central theme. This book focuses on process rather people unlike most of the traditional success book. Overall, this is a great book for inspiration and creativity. ...

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(Huxley, Chapter 1) is an illustration of how the government visualizes and trusts the genetically-altered reproducing methods to maintain stability in the society. ... You're a toughtcriminal you're a Eurasian spy I'll shoot you, I'll vaporize you, I'll send you to the salt mines - (Orwell, Book 1 Chapter 3) is one of the scary examples of how people had no privacy even at home because the children were trained to watch every move and thought of their parents. ... For example, the government was able to establish a rule one day and the next day they can convince...

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The book is divided into four parts: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs, and No Logo. ... The first section of the book, "No Space" deals with the physical and cultural ideas of advertising in the modern world. ... In chapter sixteen, "A Tale Of Three Logos", Klein looks at three specific cases in which large corporations, and by association the brands that they promote, got their wrists slapped. ... The choice now remains as open ended as the last chapter of the book. ... The last chapters of the book, although optimistic, do foreshadow impending doom, as it is difficult to stop the ball that has...

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He therefore focuses a great deal on different forms of illusions, their classifications and their possible interpretations in chapter 10, and in a great portion of the concluding chapter 11. ... Gregory, throughout his book, has used numerous illustrations to accompany the text. He has also taken the aid of various plates, added at the end of the book, to qualify his claims. ... The diagram, also used in a more simplified form in the Illusions chapter (208), is an excellent representation of how the thinking process regarding vision might work, and can be said to be the summary of the entire ...

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The Qur'an forms the basis of the Muslim faith- the religion of Islam, in which Muslims believe the book is a revelation from God. ... The first description that stood out the most to me was in Chapter Two, "The Cow", when the text described the process of making sacrifices to God. ... However, I also found the text a little difficult to follow sometimes due to how unrelated verses and chapters are, but the style serves a certain purpose. ... However, from a pure literary stylistic stand point, its scattered mode of composition takes the flow away from the book. ... The lack o...

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In fact, he refers to Fortune repeatedly in Book I, and does not mention causality until Book III. ... This explanation does not explain the appearance of Fortune, yet again, in Book XXXVI Chapter 17. ... In the very first chapter of Book I, he refers to Fortune by saying " indeed the only method of learning how to bear with dignity the vicissitudes of Fortune is to be reminded of the disasters suffered by others, " (Book I.1). ... Later on in Book II, Polybius attributes another military loss to Fortune. ... After all the references to Fortune in Book I of Polybius' writings, the idea i...

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The wealthy elite are first presented in the first chapter of the Great Gatsby. ... This is shown in the Great Gatsby when Owl Eyes crashes the car at Gatsby's party in chapter three (p43), and how he knew "very little about driving.... This is a theme explored in both books, especially at parties such as the one in chapter three in the Great Gatsby, where the drinks and food "floated," offering themselves to the guests, or in chapter ten of Vile Bodies, at the motor races, when Miss Runcible ignores the words of the official protesting about the dangers of smoking. ... L...

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They tried to ban the publication of her book "Silent Spring" and the printing of it in the New York Times. ... The key concept that Carson deals with in the article in the book was the folly of trying to control nature with chemical poisons. ... One part of the book, which is scary yet true, was the chapter, "A Fable For Tomorrow." This chapter is about a fictional town, which was once beautiful, but one spring; many of the animals and people became very ill. ... The key concept of her book "Living Downstream" was the need for further research on environmental factors in cancer incidences. ...

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