Leader

I throughly enjoyed this book. More importantly I found easy to understand and easy to implement strategies to help me manage and lead people to the levels of productivity that I knew they were capable! I know that others must need and want help with the issues that we all deal with managing and motivating people today. This is what everyone has been looking for.

Kim Ward's conversational and entertaining approach to explaining not only the issues, but his common sense instructions to solutions make this the most useful and valuable decision and management tool I've seen to date!

I'm thrilled to have found such a "grass roots" solutions approach for current everyday problems.

In my opinion this book was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel that every one should read about Denmark Vessey and his contributions to Black History. If you have nothing to do, read this book. I promise you it will change your views on Black History.

This book is a basic for those wishing to compose and maintain a dynamic vital organization. Highly reccomended for middle level and upper managers. You will refer to it constantly.

I have found this book to be an essential resourse for our adult leaders as we are building and expanding our youth ministries. The book contains many ideas, suggestions, and forms for evaluating, discovering and giving direction to leaders. The student surveys have saved me hours of work and expanded the way I look at youth ministry. I recommend this book for every youth worker...professional or lay, new or experienced, this book will add a fresh new breath of energy to your ministry.

This is the basis that makes Dr. Maxwell to write all the series about leadership, it is a easy to read book, with clever ideas that will turn your life on!!
It is a great book to start your leadership Journey!!

In this newly revised, significantly updated, and very highly recommended edition, The Devil's Adjutant: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader by Michael Reynolds is the true and accurate story of one of Jochen Peiper, one of Germany's senior commanders in Adolf Hitler's infamous SS Bodyguard, and showcases his involvement in the Battle of the Bulge -- Hitler's last and most desperate attempt to turn back the Allies from their invasion of the German fatherland. An absolutely essential addition to any personal, academic, or community library World War II European Theatre Military reference collection, The Devil's Adjutant is an impressively informative account which is enhanced with sixteen pages of historical photography and twenty battle maps.

I got really excited for a moment when I say that this DK Eyewitness Book on the "Presidents" was written by James Barber, because I thought this would be James David Barber, the reknown Presidential scholar. Instead it turns out to be James G. Barber, who does a nice job of bringing out the details for all of the Presidents from Washington to Clinton. The book talks about Clinton's impeachment but does not get as far as the 2000 election (the year the book was published).

My expectation was that this book would look at the office as well as the men, but the organizational structure is a strictly chronology. Young readers get a sense for the relative importance of each President whether or not they get a "chapter" to themself and if they get just one or a pair of two-page spreads. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt all get four page spreads (and they are the ones on our coins). Theodore Roosevelts gets three pages with William Howard Taft getting the four in the "chapter," which makes perfect sense once you know their history. Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton all get two pages apiece, which shows an understandable bias towards the Presidents of our lifetime.

The format, as everyone who has enjoyed these DK Eyewitness books knows, is to provide a two page spread that is divided into a couple of paragraphs of text along with multiple illustrations on each page with detailed captions (these books set the standard for providing informative captions). For example, the spread on Ronald Reagan has one paragraph of text talking about his main achievements in office and another on the facing page talking about the "Challenger" shuttle disaster. The dominant illustrations are a painting of Reagan that appeared on the cover of "Time" and a space shuttle taking off, but there is also photos of a Reagan-Bush belt buckle for the 1984 campaign, Reagan and his chimp co-star from "Bedtime for Bonzo," a picture of the assassination attempt, Reagan with Mikhail Gorbachev, Oliver North testifying, and Nancy Reagan and her "Just say no to drugs" campaign. A information block identies his term in office, birth information, age at innaguration, First Lady, and children (blocks for other presidents list key events in their presidency as well as information about when and where they died).

The results are a series of brief introductions to the various presidents in which the illustrations underscore the highlights of each administration and the things that made them unique (e.g., FDR's dog Fala). Actually, for those who have read more standard juvenile biographies of various presidents this book will probably be more interesting because the pictures it provides get beyond the standard photographs to personal and political artifacts. For example, you will see lots of campaign posters, pins, and other things you would find at the Smithsonian Institute (e.g., a giant peanut with the Carter smile). So this is not the first place you would look to find out about the Presidents, but sooner or later young students interested in the study of the occupants of the White House will enjoy looking through these pages.

Leaders are one of the few pieces of gear that make an enormous difference in fly fishing. Judging by equipment sales, there are some people out there who would like to buy some piece of gear that would make them better fishers. The leader is far and away the most likely to allow you to buy an advantage. The obvious example being the Harvey Dry Fly leader, which guarantees you at least as much drag free drift as a week at the best fly fishing school. There are many other examples. My advice though is to search out a formula for a leader for polish nymphing, and get Presentation by Gary Borger. It has the best chapter on leaders I have read, and a few hundred other worthy pages to boot.

The three books of the Drucker Foundation Future series represent a wonderful collection of thinking by noted thought leaders. Each chapter in the LEADER of the FUTURE, the ORGANIZATION of the FUTURE, and the COMMUNITY of the FUTURE, is short, concise, and insightful. Authors include Peter Drucker, Stephen Covey, Peter Senge, Frances Hesselbein, Meg Wheatley, and others.

This package makes a wonderful gift for a student, a graduate, someone taking a new job, or someone hungry for renewal. The paperback editions of the books are attractive and easy to carry, and the boxed set is handsome.

Genealogical Data on Burleson Family, Gives data on the migration of the Family from N.C. to Tenn.,to Georga ,to Alabama and to Texas, Biographacal data on General Edward Burleson Early life, Indian Troubles, Mexico, Gen. Burleson Captures The Alamo from the mexicans, Ordered out of the area to train troops, Later a Sen. in the Republic of Texas , President Pro tem of Texas. Stories, Data, Family history, The History of Texas is in here. A great read.