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Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten The West - a book review by Will
MLA citation: Steinfeld, Edward. Playing our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten    he West.New York.Oxford press.2010.print China as a country has expanded at an unbelievably rapid pace over the last decade. They are almost entirely diffe
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber - a book review by Carrie
Schreiber, Rheta Flora. Sybil. New York, NY: Warner, 1973. Print. 14 October, 2010. The book Sybil, by Flora Rheta Schreber, is about the life of a woman by the name of Sybil Dorsett. This woman, Sybil Dorsett, had developed sixteen different personalit
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch- a book review by Mike
Pausch, Randy. The Last Lecture. New York: Hyperion, 2008. Print. There are few works as inspiring and surreal as Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture. A brilliant professor at Carnegie Melon University, Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. With on
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff - a book review by Kim
Sheff,Nic. Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines. New York: Atheneum books for young readers.2007.Print. The book Tweak is about a guy named Nic Sheff going through life living on all kinds of drugs like crack, cocaine, heroin and crystal meth. He expla
Fast Food Nation: The Darkside of the American Meal by Eric Schlosser - a book review by Bobby
Schlosser, Eric. “Fast Food Nation: The Darkside of the All-American Mealâ€. New York:       Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. Print The premise of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation: The Darkside of the All-American Meal is to discuss the sto
Black Like Me by John H. Griffin - a book review by Emily
Griffin, John H. Black Like Me. New American Library. 1960. Print. John Griffin had always wanted to know what it would be like to become a negro in the deep south. He started his experiment and was shocked by the way he looked because he resembled not
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maas - a book review by Jenna
Maas, Peter. “Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.†New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 2009. Print. A country that possesses the power of oil, is generally doomed to have a total destruction of its political, social, and
Roach, Mary. Stiff. Stiff:The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers. - Anthony
Roach, Mary. Stiff. Stiff:The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers. New York: W. W. Norton 8 Â Â Â Â Â Â Company, 2003. Print. Summary With Quote: The book Stiff by Mary Roach discusses the many different ways that human bodies that are dedicated to scien
We Beat The Streets by Sharon M. Draper - A Book review by Shane
I read a book called We Beat The Streets. It’s a story of how Three boys friendship pact led to their success. Sam, George And Rameck Grew up in Newark, New Jersey a very poor area with  a lot of crime. They also had to fight violence and drugs in thei
The Blindside by Michael Lewis - a book review by Jeff
The Blindside by Michael Lewis - a book review by Jeff