... I read Generation Ecstasy. There was so much information in the book about the rave scene and "ecstasy", I didn't know where to begin. It's been ten years since the English seized on Detroit techno, ... narrative in favor of sensation-he comes up with a portrait of hi-tech millennium that resonates well beyond its subculture confines. There are those who might find a book to analyze music that often aims for the effect of a sledgehammer to the head a mite pretentious. Yet the radicalism of dance music lies precisely in its "meaninglessness ... can occasionally lead to overestimation of...

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... George Kennan's American Diplomacy provides anyone studying American politics with an accurate glimpse of American ideology, misperception and thought in the first half of the twentieth century. Even though this book is a collection of lectures where there is obvious subjectivity, Kennan successfully displays an objective view on the topics he discusses in the lecture. Kennan's lecture gives the reader a panoramic ... our political purposes." Overall, I liked what I read because I thought Kennan's ideas about the American frame of mind were accurate, but at the same time was not preachi...

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... of art. It is this context in which "Ways of Seeing" has been written. The multitude of approaches to art suggested by the book's title is also reflected in its composition - if that is the word. Although consisting of numbered essays (both verbal as well as entirely ... pictorial) Berger explicitly advises the reader (the text begins in a whimsical and refreshing way already on the book's jacket) to go through them in whatever order he pleases, his principal aim merely being "to raise questions". This rather capricious approach somewhat obscures ... diverts attention from the need for...

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... between the Enlightenment ideas and contemporary society and the need for modification in the way of presenting the Enlightenment ideas. He presents this argument through the critique of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment written by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. By inserting his arguments into the critiques, Bronner points out the urgent need to reify the metaphysical concepts ... necessity to present Enlightenment ideas with practical politics approaches because of their tight connections. He starts the argument with the analysis of the Dialectic of Enlightenment. Bronner criticiz...

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... than attempting to construct the story in the form of a narrative like some writers would, Krakauer takes a more straightforward approach, creating a less wordy and easy to swallow story. Throughout the book Krakauer regularly refers to different mediums of his investigation, predominantly McCandless's journal entries and interviews with people McCandless encountered on his journeys, in order to give shape to the tramp ... these different accounts to strictly tell the events that occurred in McCandless's life, but he also uses them to characterize McCandless and to add to his complexity...

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... "humiliating failure" when Germany attacked Poland in 1939 (McDonough, 2002). This essay also evaluates two significant appraisals of the Munich agreement, described in McDonough's (2002) exhaustive book: a first, which asserts that it was an utterly unwholesome policy of despicable capitulation and a second, instigated by the 'revisionist historians' - exemplified by Taylor's (1963) controversial ... book - which comprehends it as an elaborated policy enabling Chamberlain to prevent an imminent war while he was opportunely preparing for it (McDonough, 2002). This essay concurrently...

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This classic is the first popular science book I can remember reading as a child, so I have a special nostalgic feeling for it. Microbe Hunters recounts, in an alarmingly bubbly tone replete with exclamation marks, the exploits of the early microbiologists: ... tender consciences. It is this two-sided pleasure in the human side of science that accounts for the continuing appeal of the book, and its ability to be enjoyed on different levels by adolescents as well as adults. The book was written in 1926 and some of its stylistic points are quite dated. The most obvious are the "infelicities" (...

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... , great selection, etc. while the product end of the business is purely the pricing of the product since books are commodity with no product differentiation. The fundamental advantage of online book selling comes on the supply side, through cost savings in inventory and in all the other costs of operating physical stores. Due to the information-rich nature of books, the ... ...

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... Sylvius Piccolomini asserted that a man must study the humanities to acquire virtue and to attain enlightenment. Likewise, Baldassare Castiglione, an Italian diplomat and author, instructed modern Renaissance gentleman in The Book of the Courtier to become learned in a wide variety of subjects including the humanities, classical poetry, and in writing verse and prose. These Italian humanist views were echoed by northern ... Christian humanists such as Desiderus Erasmus who wrote in his book On the Art of Learning that students should study the classics because "the whole of attainable kn...

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... 's body as a producer of crops and more laborers. Additionally, their "monstrous" bodies suggested savagery, substantiating European conceptions of African inferiority to further legitimize African subjugation. The first comprehensive book to be written about enslaved African American women is titled Ar'n't I a Woman by Deborah White. In it White discusses the dual prejudice of racism and sexism that black women of ... "went to great trouble to create and wear clothes of quality and, importantly, style." In addition, Bondswomen partook in highly improvised dance and musical performances....

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... than public investments that would enhance growth and collective social welfare. Natural resource-led development programs dependent on global commodity prices tend to be impractical. Terry Karl argues in her book, The Paradox of Plenty, that developing countries who are resource dependent tend to determine the revenues drawn from the resources in a competing, rather than a complementing manner like Norway. This leads ... has much greater potential for resource rents. Without property rights, rent-seeking leads to lawlessness and corruption, thus being detrimental to the state's economi...

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... conversation with her potential love interest at work. Within the family's home the only time any colour is shown to stand out is when the book containing the story of 'The Babadook' is first introduced, the book itself is completely red which immediately signifies the danger within it, a theme which reoccurs later in the film when Amelia see's the monster inside ... ...

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For film studies, the book defines genre as a category or classification of a group of movies in which the individual films share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing the subject through narrative and stylistic ... anticipate the meaning of a particular convention or direction of certain narrative formulas. Giving a film a genre can be very daunting, as there are many different hybrid genres and subgenres, but the book focuses on six different groupings of films that are generally defined as genres: comedies, westerns, melodramas, musicals, horror films and crime films. In c...

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... (389), which uses both the Latin translation and the Hebrew version as its basis. In addition, Jerome published Quaestiones hebraicae in Genesim (Hebrew Questions; 390), short interpretive essays on the book of Genesis; in these essays, Jerome considers rabbinical interpretations in order to provide justification for his corrections to the Old Latin Bible. His exegetical work also includes commentaries on the ... (finished 406) and on the four major prophets (begun 407, unfinished); these works are collected in Opus Prophetale. Jerome contributed several treatises to the recording of ch...

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Book Report: The Rebel The Rebel, a treatise of Albert Camus reflecting upon man's state of rebellion throughout history up through the Second World War, enthralls oneself with its abysmal depth into ... outstanding and impressive of this particular work and its author, is the total lack of opinionative and thus distorting activities of a meddlesome nature. By and large, The Rebel is a fantastic book that would be recommendable to any and all interested in true stories, of man's evolution and devolution, into that void that we know as the future. Like none other, it ... ...

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... Church had: "The threat of papal disapproval was real enough that the Lutheran theologian Andreas Osiandar thought it prudent to oil the waters by writing an unsigned preface to Copernicus's book, as if composed by the dying Copernicus himself, reassuring it's reader that divine revelation was the sole source of truth and that astronomical treatises like this one were intended merely ... on the Catholic church to accept Copernicus, the church reacted by decided that Copernicanism was contrary to the scriptures and resulted in Copernicus's De Revolutionibus being placed on the forbidden ...

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... rarer action is/ in virtue than in vengeance,' where alliteration stresses upon the contrasting ideologies. Further to this, Prospero's awareness of his ambitious seeks for power through, 'drown my book' and to put on his 'hat and rapier' indicates an acceptance of his responsibilities as Duke of Milan, foreshadowing the restoration of chaos and the reinforcement of the natural ... ...

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... to all of which, "the British security establishment has its eyes firmly shut as they 'sleepwalk' into collision with the enemy it should be fighting" (back of book by Melanie Philips). Therefore as British sleepwalks towards cultural oblivion with the Islamic Jihad leading the way the distraction of once implacable British threaten its special relation with America and ... ...

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... ancient sages, and has still more to flee. The most important thing is dependent on the text, in order to be able to read and absorb the essence of the book records the ancient sages thought, combined with the reality of life, so that fine tradition continues to flourish, we must first have a basic appreciation of classical reading and writing skills ... ...

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... are outweighed by its costs to employees' privacy and autonomy. While surveillance of employees is not a new phenomenon, electronic surveillance allows employers to monitor workers with unprecedented efficiency. In his book The Naked Employee, Frederick Lane describes offline ways in which employers have been permitted to intrude on employees' privacy for decades, such as drug testing, background checks, psychological exams, lie ... ...

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... of humans would not be notable. Matheny continues by explaining how the way we humans treat factory-farmed animals is chastised by utilitarianism, making it unethical. According to the ledger-book of utilitarianism, the advantages of consuming meat would need to exceed the price of animals being tortured in factory-farms. Matheny reasons how the torturing of 17 billion animals is ... ...

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... be his alter ego. The connection between Charlie and Algernon is so deep, that even after Charlie has regressed, he still thinks of Algernon and the last thought in the book from Charlie is that of him asking his friends to please put flowers on Algernon's grave (Flowers for Algernon). Thusly due to their deep rooted connection, Charlie and Algernon can ... ...

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... topic with each other to generate rich, detailed and collective information that cannot be obtained through other techniques such as individual interview (Morgan, 1993). Thus, as Morgan contended in his book, the focus group is "an excellent method at establishing the why behind the what in participant perspectives"" (Morgan, 1993). Benefits of Focus Group One of the major benefits of focus ... ...

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... how over time the speaker could no longer find escape in fiction as it soon becomes his reality. Immediately into the poem, Larkin writes "[w]hen getting my nose in a book/Cured more things short of school", revealing how through reading he was able to find remedy to his troubles. He then follows with "It was worth ruining my ... ...

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... interests" (Mathi, 2008). Civil society groups fulfill an important function as they work voluntarily to bring about positive social changes and provide better services to the people. According to the book Civil Society and Government, "productive tension " exists between civil society and government. When the government institutes too many rules and regulations over civil society, civil society will "wither away." However ... ...

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