America's Money Trauma: How Washington Blunders Crippled the U. S. Financial System

O'Connell, William B.

Business & Money

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Inside the New Temple: The High Cost of Mistaking Medicine for Religion

Stacey, James

Health, Fitness & Dieting

The Board Member's Guide: A Beneficial Bestiary

Book by Bradner, Jeanne H., Granath, Carl

Bradner, Jeanne H.

Granath, Carl

Reference

This book uses a light-hearted look at the animal characteristics displayed by human board members to make serious points about such perpetual challenges as goal setting, power struggles and nonproductive behavior. Bradner, a nationally known consultant on not-for-profit and volunteer activity, offers practical guidelines for the role of the chair, the executive director and the board member in making board meetings more satisfying for all participants. The guide is helpful reading for volunteers and paid staff alike, whether on social service, arts, church, education, professional or governmental boards.

Some volunteer efforts are less successful than they could be because those in charge don't know the principles of volunteer management. Others are not successful because those in leadership don't exercise their leadership capacities. This book, by an experienced and thoughtful community leader, focuses on the important marriage of leadership and management skills that inspires consequential, results-oriented volunteer efforts. It will help directors of volunteers, executive directors, presidents of boards, chairpersons of committees, ad-hoc volunteer efforts and councils, as well as mayors and other public officials, to find ways to be more effective in mobilizing the people who can make a difference in their communities.

Leading Volunteers for Results: Building Communities Today

Job Hunting & Careers

Jake Trickle was a journeyman printer who loved reading, kept to himself and moved restlessly from small town to small town. Then in August 1949 he stepped off the bus in Williamstown, Illinois, and life opened like a flower in spring. He learned to love, to care about a community and to spot a problem in the local political system. But he also learned that "road oil and romance don't mix", through a series of discoveries tumbling one after another that changed lives all over Williamstown--including his. This insightful look at mid-century life in central Illinois will provide a walk down memory lane that touches your heart while it broadens your feeling for people and politics. Jim Nowlan knows what he is writing about, and it shows.
Your view of small town America will never be quite the same, but you will be richer in understanding people everywhere.

The Itinerant: A Heartland Story

Literature & Fiction

Nowlan, James D.

Genre Fiction

Tent Pegs and 2nd Lieutenants: Memoirs and Stories of the Korean War

"Tent Pegs and 2nd Lieutenants" is a seamless combination of memoir and fictionalized memoir set in the eastern mountains of Korea during the summer and fall of 1951. 
The book describes with sympathy and perspective the reality of death, mutilation and hardship which Marines and civilians experienced during those so-called "quiet" months of the Korean War. 
Marine 1st Lieutenant John W. Harper, recalled to active duty in 1951, saw action along what ultimately became the armistice line. He was wounded but subsequently returned to the front. His memoir reflects from a front-line perspective on the experience of junior officers, enlisted men and the homeless civilian refugees of that time.

History

Harper, John W.

Allen, Douglas S.

Military

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