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Armed in America by Patrick J. Charles

Armed in America by Patrick J. Charles

by Norman West | Jun 5, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, History

In 2013, the latest year for firm statistics, over 33,000 deaths were related to firearms and indications are they increase after that. How did we get into this position, unrivalled in any other developed country? There are certainly over 200 million firearms in...
Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines are Trained by Kate Germano with Kelly Kennedy

Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines are Trained by Kate Germano with Kelly Kennedy

by Sarah Hutchins | May 16, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, War & Military

Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano arrived at the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island in South Carolina, an all-female unit, determined to improve the women’s performance. When she succeeded, she was fired. She realized that the Marine Corps,...
Stop the Press: How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune by James W. Ure

Stop the Press: How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune by James W. Ure

by Howard Leighton | May 9, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference, Religion

While this is a book reporting and exposing the effort on the part of the Mormon Church to “destroy” The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah’s largest newspaper, it is more. Being “more” is especially true for those individuals who know nothing or have read little about the...
Ignorance: Everything You Need to Know about Not Knowing by Robert Graef

Ignorance: Everything You Need to Know about Not Knowing by Robert Graef

by Norman West | May 7, 2018 | Uncategorized

Ignorance gets off to a shaky start for two reasons. The first is that at the outset, the author says that he is a heavy user of metaphors. His reasoning is “Metaphors open up ideas, while descriptors limit them.” The second reason is that he spent some years as a...
Murder in the News: An Inside Look at How Television Covers Crime by Robert H. Jordan Jr.

Murder in the News: An Inside Look at How Television Covers Crime by Robert H. Jordan Jr.

by Sarah Hutchins | Mar 26, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Film, TV & Theater

If a news station discovers there have been two local shootings, but they only have the resources to send one team at that precise moment, how do the producer, assignment editor, and reporters decide which murder to prioritize? How does the victim and culprit’s age,...
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