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The Corner
Not long after Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia in the final years of his life, a small commercial community sprang up where the main road to Charlottesville intersected with the entrance to the University. Known as the Corner, this community reflected the often profound changes in student life at the University. From panhandlers to gentry, from movie stars to antiwar protesters, from soda fountains to discotheques, this wonderfully illustrated book provides a fascinating folk history.
The Centennial Senator
A portrait of US Senator J Strom Thurmond of South Carolina through personal reflections from more than one hundred fifty friends, staffers, colleagues, and constituents.
Thomas Jefferson on Leadership
The life and letters of Jefferson provide timeless principles of leadership--personal, civic, and political--which are the key ingredients to making a free society work.
Just Around Midnight
By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the music industry and in the minds of fans. Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted listeners and performers across the color line. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more seri...
The Promise of Public Service
In the United States, new government employees begin their careers by pledging their allegiance to the Constitution and by committing to conscientious service dedicated to solving public problems. But what do public servants get in return? For many, a chance to serve provides public servants with a higher purpose as well as professional and personal meaning in their lives and careers. In The Promise of Public Service: Ideas and Examples for Effective Service, Michael M. Stahl, a 40-year veteran in the executive and legislative branches of state and federal service, demonstrates what makes public servants effective by offering useful ideas and examining the accomplishments of public servants throughout American history. The book blends theory with practice, exploring the role that attitudes and philosophy play throughout one’s career, offering practical implementation advice, and demonstrating how one can measure success. Undergraduate- and graduate-level courses will benefit from The Promise of Public Service as a resource, and practitioners of public service in all its forms will benefit from these ideas and examples at any stage of their careers.
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Finding Vishnugupta
An insecure and domineering boss, suspected of abetting his colleague’s attempted suicide, is surprised by the meaningful lessons he receives on managing people from a police constable while waiting to be interrogated. The man who attempted suicide, while recuperating in the hospital, listens to some insightful advice on dealing with situations in life, responsibility for one’s actions and leadership from a young doctor, a medical intern. Impetus Software loses five deals in a row and many of its employees to Greyspace Technologies and this does not seem normal. Was there any sabotage involved? The Human Resource Head of Greyspace, smarting under the insult of the proprietor of a recruitment firm, is angry and resentful until a chance encounter with a management consultant leaves him wiser. The constable, doctor and management consultant all have two things in common. All of them sport a tuft at the back of their heads and go by the name ‘Vishnugupta.’ Who is Vishnugupta? What happens in the lives of the men and women working in the two software companies?
Arthur Ashe
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A “thoroughly captivating biography” (The San Francisco Chronicle) of American icon Arthur Ashe—the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis—a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual. Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, by the age of eleven, Arthur Ashe was one of the state’s most talented black tennis players. He became the first African American to play for the US Davis Cup team in 1963, and two years later he won the NCAA singles championship. In 1968, he rose to a number one national ranking. Turning professional in 1969, he soon became one of the world’s m...
Jesus, Deliver Us
"Deliver us from (the) evil (one)" is the heart's cry from the Lord's Prayer. Evil wears many faces in our modern world. This book connects the Lord's Prayer to troubles of our times, be it attacks from Satan, the wars around the world, the scourge of racism, or the mass shootings of our time. The subtitle of the book identifies the scope. This book blends both deliverance from demonic bondage and witness to the powers in relation to political policies and government. While the book aims to be a biblical theology on these topics, it seeks also to address the praxis: how these evils are confronted through healing-deliverance ministries and what people of God say and do in witness to the powers. The two streams of response to evil are really one as a faithful response to the saving work of the Lord God Almighty through Jesus Christ's victory over Satan, sin, evil, and death. "Love your enemy" confronts evil with power to transform
