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Obtaining a quality education is the goal of most parents when they send their child to school each morning. Achieving that goal becomes difficult when your child has reading challenges. When your child, with reading challenges, is placed in the classroom of a few careless, impatient teachers, the result can be deadly. However, Joe Thomas in his book, Shhhhhhh, I Have Something to Say, encourages us to see that every child can survive and succeed. Joe tells the story of how God pulled him through some very difficult years of elementary, junior high and high school. In his new book, Shhhhhhh, I Have Something to Say, he inspires others, especially those with reading challenges to be strong and never give up. He wants every student to know that they too can make it. His story is an inspiration to every parent, student, and educators. Shhhhhhh, I Have Something to Say is one excellent story that you must read!
Leadership is a most demanding undertaking. How do some people make it seem so simple, so natural and instinctive? In the age-old debate as to whether leaders are born or made, Thomas contends that the answer is both. Great leaders throughout history were born with certain capabilities. Preparation honed those capabilities. Then that ability and preparation were combined with a will to lead. When circumstances demanded, the great leaders of history pulled these attributes together to create results that drove the course of history. While leaders are present in every aspect of human undertaking, we chose to illustrate each of the components of leadership through the most dramatic and demandin...
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his slave, Sally Hemmings; the enemy of government power who exercisdd it audaciously as president; the visionarty who remained curiously blind to the inconsistencies in his nature. American Sphinx is a marvel of scholarship, a delight to read, and an essential gloss on the Jeffersonian legacy.
Why do warriors fight? What is worth dying for? How should a warrior define words like "nobility," "honor," "courage," or "sacrifice"? What are the duties and obligations of a warrior, and to whom are they owed? What should bring a warrior honor or shame? These and other questions are considered in Shannon French's The Code of the Warrior, a book that explores eight warrior codes from around the globe, spanning such traditions as the Homeric, Roman, and Samurai cultures, through to the present day-culminating in a thoughtful analysis of a timely question: Are terrorists warriors?