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  • Leading for Tomorrow

    Unlocking Human Potential in the Era of Continuous Change and Endless Possibility

    An eye-opening collection of hands-on strategies for contemporary business leadershipIn Leading for Tomorrow, a group of accomplished executives, academics, and experts deliver a collection of persuasive, insightful solutions to common and difficult workplace problems. This compilation of essays charts a pathway to an understanding of what it takes to lead people effectively in the modern era.You ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Pigman Of Angola

    by Scott Kaufman ...
    On a lonely stretch of road in western New York, a name has survived in whispers for generations: the Pigman of Angola.Holland Road, near Angola, New York, has long been tied to one of the region's darker legends. Some tell of a strange figure glimpsed in the trees. Others speak of a masked recluse, a butcher, a man changed by violence, or something that appears near the road after nightfall. Like ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Impeachment in U.S. History

    Series series Seminar Studies
    This book offers the most comprehensive study yet of the history behind impeachment in the United States, considering its use against presidents, judges, justices, and members of the cabinet.Although the Founding Fathers intended for the impeachment of federal officials to take place rarely, and only for the most egregious instances of malfeasance, calls for impeaching members of the U.S. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Rosalynn Carter

    Equal Partner in the White House

    by Scott Kaufman ...
    Series series Modern First Ladies
    Before Hillary, there was Rosalynn.Rosalynn Carter—the most politically active first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt—was sometimes called the second most powerful person in the United States. Even when her husband Jimmy Carter’s approval ratings sank to record lows, she still tied with Mother Teresa as the most admired woman in the world.In this first biography of Rosalynn Carter since 1980 and first ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr.

    Series series American Presidency Series
    He has been called America’s greatest ex-president, a man who lost the White House after one term but went on to become a respected spokesman for peace and human rights.Burton Kaufman’s book on the Carter years was hailed as the best account of his administration. This new edition probes more deeply into Jimmy Carter’s approach to the presidency and the issues that he faced, placing his tenure in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Project Plowshare

    The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America

    by Scott Kaufman ...
    Inspired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California's Radiation Laboratory began in 1957 a program they called Plowshare. Joined by like-minded government officials, scientists, and business leaders, champions of "peaceful nuclear explosions" maintained that they could create new elements and isotopes ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Environment and International History

    Series series New Approaches to International History
    Studies of the history of international relations traditionally have focused on the decisions made by those at the highest levels of government. In more recent years, scholars have expanded their attention to cover economic, cultural, or social interactions among nations. What has remained largely ignored, however, is the impact of an increasingly-interdependent world upon the environment and, ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Carter Era

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras
    James Earl Carter, Jr. – better known as Jimmy Carter – was not the greatest or most popular president of the United States but he did accomplish quite a lot in the fields of civil rights, energy and foreign policy during his term from 1977 to 1981. However, the economy fared badly and he lost face in his dealings with Iran. So when he left after one term, he was not greatly missed… or so it ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter

    Edited by Scott Kaufman ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
    With 30 historiographical essays by established and rising scholars, this Companion is a comprehensive picture of the presidencies and legacies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.Examines important national and international events during the 1970s, as well as presidential initiatives, crises, and legislationDiscusses the biography of each man before entering the White House, his legacy and work ... Read more

    $181.00 USD

  • Georgia Women

    Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

    Series series
    Women were leading actors in twentieth-century developments in Georgia, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women, edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark, vividly portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role in the state’s history, from little-known Progressive Era activists to famous present-day figures ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    Ungifted

    Intelligence Redefined

    by Scott Kaufman ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 36 min

    Child prodigies. Gifted and Talented Programs. Perfect 2400s on the SAT. Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Those children tapped as possessing special abilities will go on to achieve great things, while the rest of us have little chance of realizing our dreams. Right?In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman—who was relegated to ... Read more

    $29.98 USD

  • Audiobook

    Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party

    A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford

    by Scott Kaufman ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 22 min

    Within eight turbulent months in 1974 Gerald Ford went from the United States House of Representatives, where he was the minority leader, to the White House as the country's first and only unelected president. His unprecedented rise to power, after Richard Nixon's equally unprecedented fall, has garnered the lion's share of scholarly attention devoted to America's thirty-eighth president. But ... Read more

    $22.49 USD