Book Reports - Book Reviews

1. 2214 Book Review of J.L. Grantstein's "Yankee Go Home". This book discusses the problems of Canadian identity and Canadians' attempt to define themselves and their own values. This book also looks at how Canada since the beginning of their nationhood, defined themselves very much in opposition to the United States, rather than in defining themselves positively. 5.5 pgs. 0 f/c. 1b. Pages: 5.5 Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed Filename: 2214 Yankee Go Home.doc Price: US$49.22

2. 2215 The Handmaid's Tale. This paper reviews and examines both the film and novel that go by this title. 6 pgs. 0 f/c. 0b. Pages: 6 Bibliography: 0 source(s) listed Filename: 2215 The Handmaid's Tale.doc Price: US$53.70

3. 1514 The Ambiguous Moby Dick. This book review discusses how this book give us a powerful impression of ambiguity, of uncertain meaning in the face of an uncertain universe too canny and implacable to explain itself in simple or singular terms. This paper describes this book being about the equivocal nature of our human efforts (whatever they may be), the elusiveness of value and the tentative import of all human endeavour. 4 pgs. 3 f/c. 2b. Pages: 4 Bibliography: 2 source(s) listed Filename: 1514 Moby Dick.doc Price: US$35.80

4. 2229 Philip Hallie's "Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed". This book review looks at genocide and the moral dilemmas surrounding it. Hallie's book is about the moral heroism of this small town called Chambon-sur-Lignon. During the German occupation of France, a period during which Jews were being extinguished by the Nazi genocide machine, the people in this town saved the lives of thousands of Jewish refugees. Thus, even in the midst of such human cruelty, Hallie shows that there was still the light of goodness in many humans' hearts. But throughout the book, he struggles with the dilemma over whether good can prevail over such tremendous evil. 3 pgs. 0 f/c. 1b. Pages: 3 Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed Filename: 2229 Philip Hallie.doc Price: US$26.85

5. 2241 Review of Gardiner's "Egypt of the Pharaoh". This Review looks at Gardiner's greatest strength as showing that Egyptian thought, while very different from that of the modern West, was not really irretrievably alien, but a comprehensible attempt to make sense of human existence -- which obviously has recognisable parallels in many other civilisations. Indeed, no matter how foreign it may appear, Ancient Egypt embodied the same aspect of all peoples in the human condition: making sense of the chaos in life through the use of myths. 7 pgs. 0 f/c. 1b. Pages: 7 Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed Filename: 2241 Egypt of Pharaoh.doc Price: US$62.65

6. 1572 Book Report: Giovanni's Room by James Arthur Baldwin. This paper deals with the story of a young American named David who has repressed his sexuality all of his life. David is in Paris as he waits for a young woman to announce whether or not she will marry him when he becomes involved with the vulnerable Italian man named Giovanni. David comes to terms with the truth, it is his only chance of redeeming his soul. 8 pgs. 18 f/c. 6b. Pages: 8 Bibliography: 6 source(s) listed Filename: 1572 Giovanni's Room.doc Price: US$71.60

7. 1590 Book Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness by N. Postman (1985). In the following review, this paper will summarize Postman's main arguments, and share some of his examples of how television is the dominant mode of conversation and thought in the 20th century North America. This paper will also address some of Postman's own unexamined assumptions, and consider how these function to prevent Postman from developing a more critical perspective about social agency and intellectual participation, invention, and interpretation. 7.5 pgs. 13 f/c. 1b. Pages: 7.5 Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed Filename: 1590 Book Review Postman.doc Price: US$67.12

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