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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Book Review Example

A story set in the early 1900s, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice talks about the basic issues that women in her time experience. Being an individual who is observant and [...]

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Christian Reflections on the Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Book Review Example

In this section of Christian Reflections on the Leadership Challenge, John C. Maxwell (2004) gives the reader four principles to follow in leadership: “1. Work on yourself before you work [...]

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Look Me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger’s, Book Review Example

In this highly entertaining book, John Elder Robison explores his personal life and struggle with Asperger’s Syndrome which he describes as dating back to 1981 via Austrian psychiatrist Hans Asperger; [...]

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Theodore Roethke and Robert Hayden, Book Review Example

Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” and Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” are clearly similar to the extent that they both deal with the theme of the relationship between father and [...]

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Christian Reflections: Leadership Challenge, Book Review Example

In chapter 6 of Kouzes and Posner’s Christian Reflections on the Leadership Challenge, written by Nancy Ortberg, the latter advances a somewhat paradoxical point, which makes her thesis all the [...]

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Christian Reflections on the Leadership Challenge, Book Review Example

In these pages from the text, there is a counterintuitive grouping together of intuitively compatible principles, such as “Leaders Inspire a Shared Vision” and “Leaders Enable Others to Act”, with [...]

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