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Finding Their Voices--A Rhetorical Reflection, Gary S. Selby Dec 2017

Finding Their Voices--A Rhetorical Reflection, Gary S. Selby

Leaven

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Scott L. Montgomery And Daniel Chirot, The Shape Of The New: Four Big Ideas And How They Made The Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2015., Laina Farhat-Holzman Nov 2017

Scott L. Montgomery And Daniel Chirot, The Shape Of The New: Four Big Ideas And How They Made The Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2015., Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

Daniel Chirot is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies in the University of Washington’s Henry Jackson School of International Studies. Chirot’s most recent book, co-authored with Scott Montgomery, is The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2015.) Chirot’s other books have been about genocide, ethnic conflicts, tyranny, social change, and Eastern Europe.


J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis. Harpercollins, 2016., Laina Farhat-Holzman Nov 2017

J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis. Harpercollins, 2016., Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

The growing gap in the traditional trajectory from poverty to middle class may have less to do with color than with culture. We can see during this present election process the anger and distress of poor white men, flocking to the rallies of candidate Donald Trump. These men, who were once doing well during the post-WWII era, when our country was a manufacturing giant, are now victims of a changing economy.


The Reaper's Garden: Death And Power In The World Of Atlantic Slavery, Michael Williams Nov 2017

The Reaper's Garden: Death And Power In The World Of Atlantic Slavery, Michael Williams

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

Micheal Williams is a senior history major at Middle Georgia State University. Micheal has been a peer tutor in his department for two years, as well as serving as vice president of the History Student Organization for three semesters. He has presented his research at local, state, and national undergraduate conferences, and enjoys learning and sharing his interest in history with others. His research interests lie in the cultural and sociopolitical histories of Native Americans of the Southeast, both prehistoric and historic. He is currently looking forward to applying to graduate school.


Intellectual Maintenance And Misguided Educational Reform. A Book Review Of What Philosophy Can Do, Nakia Pope May 2017

Intellectual Maintenance And Misguided Educational Reform. A Book Review Of What Philosophy Can Do, Nakia Pope

Democracy and Education

This is a book review of What Philosophy Can Do by Gary Gutting.


Perfume River (Book Review), Howard Schaap Mar 2017

Perfume River (Book Review), Howard Schaap

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Perfume River. Butler, Robert Olen. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. 273 pp. ISBN: 9780802125750.


Crisis Of Evangelical Christianity: Roots, Consequences, And Resolutions (Book Review), Scott Culpepper Mar 2017

Crisis Of Evangelical Christianity: Roots, Consequences, And Resolutions (Book Review), Scott Culpepper

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: The Crisis of Evangelical Christianity: Roots, Consequences, and Resolutions. Sewell, Keith C. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2016. 292 pp. ISBN: 9781498238755.


Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's A Book Of American Martyrs, Eric K. Anderson Feb 2017

Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's A Book Of American Martyrs, Eric K. Anderson

Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies

A review of Joyce Carol Oates's novel A Book of American Martyrs considering her fiction's dialogue with controversial political issues in American society.


Book Review: Elder Northfield's Home Or, Sacrificed On The Mormon Altar: A Story Of The Blighting Curse Of Polygamy, Pamela Hayes-Bohanan Jan 2017

Book Review: Elder Northfield's Home Or, Sacrificed On The Mormon Altar: A Story Of The Blighting Curse Of Polygamy, Pamela Hayes-Bohanan

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Elder Northfield’s Home or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar: A Story of the Blighting Curse of Polygamy, by A. Jennie Bartlett. University of Nebraska Press, 2015


Book Review: Feminist Edges Of The Qur'an, Merna Aboul-Ezz Jan 2017

Book Review: Feminist Edges Of The Qur'an, Merna Aboul-Ezz

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Feminist Edges of the Qur'an, by Aysha A. Hidayatullah. Oxford University Press, 2014


Book Review: Survival On The Edge: Seawomen Of Iceland, Wendy K. Rockne Jan 2017

Book Review: Survival On The Edge: Seawomen Of Iceland, Wendy K. Rockne

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Survival on the Edge: Seawomen of Iceland, by Margaret Willson. University of Washington, 2016


Book Review: Science, Gender, And History: The Fantastic In Mary Shelley And Margaret Atwood, William Tringali Jan 2017

Book Review: Science, Gender, And History: The Fantastic In Mary Shelley And Margaret Atwood, William Tringali

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Science, Gender, and History: The Fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, by Suparna Banerjee. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014


Book Review: Questioning The 'Muslim Woman': Identity And Insecurity In An Urban Indian Locality, Aatina N. Malik Jan 2017

Book Review: Questioning The 'Muslim Woman': Identity And Insecurity In An Urban Indian Locality, Aatina N. Malik

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Questioning the ‘Muslim Woman’: Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality, by Nida Kirmani. Routledge, 2013


Book Review: Virginia Woolf: Essays On The Self, Margarita Esther Sánchez Cuervo Jan 2017

Book Review: Virginia Woolf: Essays On The Self, Margarita Esther Sánchez Cuervo

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Virginia Woolf: Essays on the Self, by Joanna Kavenna. Notting Hill Editions, 2014


Book Review: Women And The City, Women In The City: A Gendered Perspective On Ottoman Urban History, Deniz Zeynep Leuenberger Jan 2017

Book Review: Women And The City, Women In The City: A Gendered Perspective On Ottoman Urban History, Deniz Zeynep Leuenberger

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History, by Nazan Maksudya. Berghahn Books, 2014


Book Review: Making Change - Nordic Examples Of Working Towards Gender Equality In The Media, Meghan Murphy Jan 2017

Book Review: Making Change - Nordic Examples Of Working Towards Gender Equality In The Media, Meghan Murphy

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Making Change – Nordic Examples of Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media, edited by Maria Edström & Ragnhild Mølster. Nordicom, 2014


Evolving Faith: Wanderings Of A Mormon Biologist, Blake T. Ostler Jan 2017

Evolving Faith: Wanderings Of A Mormon Biologist, Blake T. Ostler

BYU Studies Quarterly

Steven L. Peck. Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist.

Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2015.


Mormonism And The Making Of A British Zion, Ronald E. Bartholomew Jan 2017

Mormonism And The Making Of A British Zion, Ronald E. Bartholomew

BYU Studies Quarterly

Matthew Lyman Rasmussen. Mormonism and the Making of a British Zion.

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016.


Hosea Stout: Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender, Jay H. Buckley Jan 2017

Hosea Stout: Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender, Jay H. Buckley

BYU Studies Quarterly

Stephen L. Prince. Hosea Stout: Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender.

Logan: Utah State University Press; Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2016.


Defender: The Life Of Daniel H. Wells, Cherry B. Silver Jan 2017

Defender: The Life Of Daniel H. Wells, Cherry B. Silver

BYU Studies Quarterly

Quentin Thomas Wells. Defender: The Life of Daniel H. Wells.

Logan: Utah State University Press, 2016.


American Universities And The Birth Of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940, Heather M. Seferovich Jan 2017

American Universities And The Birth Of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940, Heather M. Seferovich

BYU Studies Quarterly

Thomas W. Simpson. American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.


The Mormon Missionary: Who Is That Knocking At My Door?, Tim Zeidner Jan 2017

The Mormon Missionary: Who Is That Knocking At My Door?, Tim Zeidner

BYU Studies Quarterly

Robert L. Lively Jr. The Mormon Missionary: Who IS That Knocking at My Door?

Wilton, Maine: By the Author, 2015.


The Field Is White: Harvest In The Three Counties Of England, Ronald E. Bartholomew Jan 2017

The Field Is White: Harvest In The Three Counties Of England, Ronald E. Bartholomew

BYU Studies Quarterly

Carol Wilkinson and Cynthia Doxey Green. The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England.

Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2017.


The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From The Diaries Of Mormon Pioneer Women, Andrea G. Radke-Moss Jan 2017

The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From The Diaries Of Mormon Pioneer Women, Andrea G. Radke-Moss

BYU Studies Quarterly

Paula Kelly Harline. The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women.

New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.


America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, And The Presidential Election That Transformed The Nation, Benjamin E. Park Jan 2017

America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, And The Presidential Election That Transformed The Nation, Benjamin E. Park

BYU Studies Quarterly

John Bicknell. America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation.

Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2015.


Geology Of The Book Of Mormon, Benjamin R. Jordan Jan 2017

Geology Of The Book Of Mormon, Benjamin R. Jordan

BYU Studies Quarterly

Jerry D. Grover Jr. Geology oof the Book of Mormon.

Provo, Utah: By the author, 2014.


Eighth Witness: The Biography Of John Whitmer, Kyle R. Walker Jan 2017

Eighth Witness: The Biography Of John Whitmer, Kyle R. Walker

BYU Studies Quarterly

Ronald E. Romig. Eighth Witness: The Biography of John Whitmer.

Independence, Mo.: John Whitmer Books, 2014.


William B. Smith: In The Shadow Of A Prophet, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel Jan 2017

William B. Smith: In The Shadow Of A Prophet, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel

BYU Studies Quarterly

Kyle R. Walker. William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet.

Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2015.


Mormons In The Piazza: History Of The Latter-Day Saints In Italy, Mauro Properzi Jan 2017

Mormons In The Piazza: History Of The Latter-Day Saints In Italy, Mauro Properzi

BYU Studies Quarterly

James A. Toronto, Eric R. Dursteler, and Michael W. Homer. Mormons in the Piazza: History of the Latter-day Saints in Italy.

Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017.


Catholic And Mormon: A Theological Conversation, Elliott D. Wise Jan 2017

Catholic And Mormon: A Theological Conversation, Elliott D. Wise

BYU Studies Quarterly

Stephen H. Webb and Alonzo L. Gaskill. Catholic and Mormon: A Theological Conversation.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.