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  • Fireside Chats of a Retired College President

    President Tom Cronin was regarded as one of the most effective college presidents in the American west. Whitman College, under his leadership, was regularly hailed by THE PRINCETON REVIEW of BEST COLLEGES for extraordinary administrative leadership and high student satisfaction. It also twice earned the highest accreditation rankings of any college or university in that part of the country.Fellow ... Read more

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  • American Politics Film Festival

    Understanding US Politics through Film

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is an innovative and inspirational examination of films and documentaries that helps us explain the evolution of, struggles of, and aspirations of the American experiment.This book sorts politics into categories and then identifies films, TV shows, and documentaries that illuminate various aspects of that category. For each chapter, the authors list and discuss an impressive variety of films, ... Read more

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  • Paleoclimates

    Understanding Climate Change Past and Present

    by Thomas Cronin ...
    The field of paleoclimatology relies on physical, chemical, and biological proxies of past climate changes that have been preserved in natural archives such as glacial ice, tree rings, sediments, corals, and speleothems. Paleoclimate archives obtained through field investigations, ocean sediment coring expeditions, ice sheet coring programs, and other projects allow scientists to reconstruct ... Read more

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  • Visual Ecology

    A comprehensive treatment of visual ecologyVisual ecology is the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are specialized for particular visual tasks. Visual Ecology provides the first up-to-date synthesis of the field to appear in more than three decades. Featuring some 225 illustrations, including more than 140 in color, ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • On the Presidency

    In an election year in which everyone seems to be looking for change, Tom Cronin reminds us that it is important to look back at presidential precedents and pitfalls, carrying forward these lessons as we look ahead in the "search for the perfect president." America has never had a perfect president, nor are we likely to. We yearn for qualities of mind, character, and experience that are rarely ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • WRITING AS A PERFORMING ART

    on taking it to the house ...

    WRITING AS A PERFORMING ART is written to encourage, motivate and inspire non-fiction writers of all ages. It celebrates why we write, why we must write, and reviews the strategies veteran writers employ. One of its aims is to cultivate the Inner Editor--to remind writers of the importance of editing, rewriting and polishing their work.Author Tom Cronin earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Imagining a Great Republic

    Political Novels and the Idea of America

    In the first comprehensive reading of dozens of American literary and social culture classics, Tom Cronin, one of America’s most astute students of the American political tradition, tells the story of the American political experiment through the eyes of forty major novelists, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Hunter S. Thompson. They have been moral and civic consciousness-raisers as we have ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Leadership Matters

    Unleashing the Power of Paradox

    Some leaders fundamentally alter the status quo whilst others guide quietly. Most leadership books emphasise specific rules, but Tom Cronin and Michael Genovese see leadership as filled with paradox. Leadership Matters offers a different view of leadership - one that builds community and responds creatively to new situations. Cronin and Genovese argue that leadership is about more than just ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Comedy-O-Rama Hour: The XM Satellite Years

    Unabridged

    30 hours 2 min

    Now available in one collection for you to enjoy!Long before Sgt. Lefty and the Camp Waterlogg gang took over, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour residents were parody versions of Mysteries (Sherlock Holmes), Old-time Radio (The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, etc.), SCI-FI (Willoughby and the Professor), Superheroes (Teaman and Polfroon), and more.“Those were the XM years,” explains Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev), who ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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