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In 1767 travel into Florida was difficult. The Spanish held St. Augustine for almost 200 years as a military camp but now they were gone. British Governor James Grant wrote letters about his good friend, the Indian Grey Eyes who took 500 cattle from Georgia down into unmapped Florida. He helped to blaze a new road, one that would lead to the planned Minorcan settlement of New Smyrna to the south. It would be called The King's Road and would exist from 1774 to 1914 as the main entry into Florida An early Florida adventure with Grey Eyes See Colonial British Florida with the eyes of a Seminole Indian. The white men do strange things as a young boy meets the demands of passage and becomes a Sem...
A new framework for helping nonprofit organizations maximize the effectiveness of their boards. Written by noted consultants and researchers attuned to the needs of practitioners, Governance as Leadership redefines nonprofit governance. It provides a powerful framework for a new covenant between trustees and executives: more macrogovernance in exchange for less micromanagement. Informed by theories that have transformed the practice of organizational leadership, this book sheds new light on the traditional fiduciary and strategic work of the board and introduces a critical third dimension of effective trusteeship: generative governance. It serves boards as both a resource of fresh approaches...
This deeply personal, accessible work is an account of what emerged when Bill Ryan explored the journey of entering his sixtieth year. On a three day retreat in a rustic cabin, he holds council with all the different parts of self that have played a role in his life up to now, and also begins to connect with other parts of self that have been dormant, wounded, or, until, now, unknown.
A gripping mystery with a classic feel, for fans of Agatha Christie 'Haunting and exquisitely written. Part intricate mystery and part ghost story. This book will stay with me for a long time' Anna Mazzola The drive leads past the gate house and through the trees towards the big house, visible through the winter-bared branches. Its windows stare down at Harkin and the sea beyond . . . January 1921. Though the Great War is over, in Ireland a new, civil war is raging. The once-grand Kilcolgan House, a crumbling bastion shrouded in sea-mist, lies half empty and filled with ghosts - both real and imagined - the Prendevilles, the noble family within, co-existing only as the balance of their secre...
Includes material on education, illegitimacy, health care, housing, criminal justice, repression, and reform.
From the author of Women and Self-Esteem comes this supportive, practical guide to overcoming the inner obstacles that block intimacy. Love blocks, ingrained psychological patterns, prevent people from seeing themselves as worthy of love. Love Blocks identifies 15 of these patterns, and explains how to overcome them in order to find fulfillment in intimate relationships.