Origins of Agricultural Societies by Peter Bellwood Review by: Ann Christine Pastor Peter Bellwood’s First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies seeks to focus on the origins and dispersals of ancient agricultural communities with respect to a variety of fields of study to establish a historical interpretation from a comparative perspective. Although Bellwood admits to having training only in the discipline of archaeology‚ the book also considers the areas of comparative linguistics
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Escaping Salem Book Review Escaping Salem : The Other Witch Hunt of 1692‚ by Richard Godbeer. New York: Oxford University Press‚ 2005. In the city of Stamford year of 1692 there begins numerous odd events that are hard to make sense of or even explain for that matter. In colonial times the state of Connecticut isn’t automatically associated with any evil doings or witchcraft‚ but this wasn’t always the case for Stamford in the county of Fairfield. Richard Godbeer’s totally neutral very detailed
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The Making of a Quagmire Book Review David Halberstam was a reporter assigned to the Vietnam conflict during 1962 and 1963. After graduating from Harvard University‚ David Halberstam went on to work for various newspapers. He went to work for the New York Times Washington bureau in 1960. In the fall of 1962‚ Halberstam was assigned to the Vietnam conflict. David Halberstam’s book is an attempt to put into retrospect the portrait of the American experience in Vietnam‚ to capture the details
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The Cherokee Removal Book Review The Cherokee Removal is a brief history with documents by Theda Perdue and Michael Green. In 1838-1839 the US troops expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for land during the growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast‚ the discovery of gold on the Cherokees land‚ and the racial prejudice that many
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2013 Money and Power How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World William D. Cohan Contents of Book Review Page Introduction
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The Things They Carried: Book Review By: M**** F**** Often times‚ it’s difficult for generations set apart from a historical war‚ or for those who never served in the military‚ to truly understand the consequences of being a soldier. History books spell out the political and official side of a war story but it is only through personal accounts that one can come to appreciate the reality of the unnerving terror offered by war. In his novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien creates
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Book Review “Leading Change” by John Kotter 1996 Review by Chris Shea John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of leadership and change. He is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership‚ Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and a graduate of MIT and Harvard‚ Kotter’s vast experience and knowledge on successful change and leadership have
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Serial killers have always been a topic I’ve enjoyed. What most people find disturbing I find fascinating. A serial can just be some person who you think is normal but deep down inside they have an emptiness that can only be satisfied through murder and death. Which is why I chose the book dismembered by Susan d Mustafa and sue Israel which is based on Sean Vincent Gillis who is also known as the other Baton Rouge killer. He was responsible for the death of 8 women in Baton Rouge‚ Louisiana for
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BOOK REVIEW AND LEADER ANALYSIS Submitted to Dr. Joseph Martelli by Maddula Ravi Chandra Student I.D: 491593 Email I.D: maddular@findlay.edu In partial fulfilment of course requirement for MBA Course Number: MBA610_01_FA2013 Course Title: Leadership and Organisation Behaviour. The University of Findlay 10-9-2013 ABSTRACT This book review is an analysis of the leadership qualities of J.R.D.Tata described with reference to theories from "Daft" (2011) and his biography "Beyond The Last
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Frank McCourt: Teacher Man Book Review Prestipino April 30‚ 2012 Outline 1. Introduction 2. Frank McCourt’s Personality Traits 3.1 Honesty 3.2 Loyalty 3.3 Reflection 3. Themes 4.4 Misery of a Teacher 4.5 Multicultural Classrooms – Problems and Conveniences 4. Language 5.6 Humor‚ Sarcasm and Irony as Rhetoric Devices 5. Conclusion Frank McCourt: Teacher Man - Review We all know the rules in classrooms. “Children are to keep
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