Author: David P. Gardner
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: university, president, american, memoirs, degree, earning
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2005-03-21
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0520241835
ISBN-13: 9780520241831
David Pierpont Gardner was president of one of the world’s most distinguished centers of higher learning-the nine-campus University of California-from 1983 to 1992. In this remarkably candid and lively memoir he provides an insider’s account of what it was like for a very private, reflective man to live an extremely public life as leader of one of the most complex and controversial institutions in the country. Earning My Degree is a portrait of uncommon leadership and courage and a chronicle of how these traits shaped a treasured, and sometimes mystifying, American institution. B
Authors:Paul D. Schumaker, Burdett A. Loomis,
Publisher: CQ Press
Keywords: college, electoral, president, choosing
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1889119539
ISBN-13: 9781889119533
In the midst of the controversy over Election 2000, this new book examines the electoral college and six alternatives to it, such as proportional allocation of electors (rather than winner-take-all electors within the states) and a national popular vote with an instant runoff. A team of expert political scientists consider the implications of the Electoral College and proposed reforms, answering such questions as: How would each reform affect our federal system of government, the workings of national governmental institutions, and our party system? What effect would reform have on the conduct
Authors:Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw,
Publisher: Zonderva
Keywords: radicals, ordinary, politics, president, jesus
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0310278422
ISBN-13: 9780310278429
Amid all the buzz of politics and elections, Jesus for President is a refreshing reminder that our ultimate hope lies not in partisan political options but in the Jesus who gave his life for us. Polit
Author: Charles L. Schultze
Publisher: Brookings Institution Pre
Keywords: policymaker, macroeconomics, guide, president, memos
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1992-06-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815777779
ISBN-13: 9780815777779
Whether as politician, journalist, or concerned citizen, those who make judgments about how government policies are likely to affect the performance of the economy need to understand how the economy works. Otherwise, they are left with half-remembered college courses and a collection of slogans, myths, and rules-of-thumb that are often wrong. In this new book, Charles Schultze employs an unusual format for explaining to busy policymakers and interested citizens how the US economy works. He imagines that an incoming President has decided to set aside time each week to learn about the economy an
Author: David Sandalow
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: oil, addiction, states, president, freedom, united
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-09-13
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0071489061
ISBN-13: 9780071489065
“I plan to deliver an address from the Oval Office one month from today. The topic will be oil dependence.” With these opening words, Freedom from Oil takes the reader to the highest levels of government, as Cabinet members and White House aides debate how to break our addiction to oil. In a fast-moving narrative, David Sandalow shows how to solve this problem while offering a unique window into the White House at work. A White House veteran, Sandalow explores what would happen if the next President made breaking the United States’ addiction to oil a top priority. In crisp and clear
Author: Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Keywords: gateway, biographies, era, new, obama, president, barack
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2009-05
List price: $26.60
ISBN-10: 1575059509
ISBN-13: 9781575059501
On a cold day in February 2007, Barack Obama - the popular African American senator from Illinois - announced that he was running for president of the United States. He made the announcement in Springfield, Illinois, where almost 150 years earlier Abraham Lincoln had warned Americans of the danger of living in a country divided by slavery. Obama said that day, "Few obstacles can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change. By ourselves, this change will not happen. Divided, we are bound to fail. But the life of a tall, gangly, self-made Springfield lawyer tells us that a diffe
Authors:Seth Godin, Jay Conrad Levinson President,
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: handbook, marketing, guerrilla
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 1994-11-19
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0395700132
ISBN-13: 9780395700136
This book will guide marketers into the world of positioning and selling products and services. The authors lead the reader step by step through the process of developing a marketing campaign. They offer detailed descriptions of more than a hundred marketing tools from contests to affinity programs, from direct mail to billboard advertising. Anecdotes, graphics, and rules of thumb are also included.
