This volume puts a new twist on the textbook definition of a leader as a person who achieves results through others. It emphasizes that leaders must be of service to others. It’s another win for author Blanchard, a well-known speaker,... Read More

The movie Western was more than a quarter of a century old by the time Gene Autry galloped onto the screen in the mid-1930s. It had evolved during the silent-film era from a thinly disguised artifact of civic boosterism into a formulaic... Read More

When the author returned to America after working abroad for twelve years, he chose an unconventional way to become reacquainted with his native country: traveling solo the river routes taken by Lewis and Clark nearly two hundred years... Read More

“Five years ago, when I began this project, I never imagined how much one could learn about one’s culture from a pill.” Professor Loe, who teaches sociology and women’s studies at Colgate, began her documentary in 1998, when... Read More

What do dragons, feet, empty chairs, lilies and art deco architecture have in common? All have been incorporated into funerary art over the years and convey a host of meanings to cemetery wanderers in the know. If you’d like to be one... Read More

An immoderate life, indeed! It would be inconceivable for readers to expect anything else from the author, who was accused in 1994-and then cleared-of single-handedly defrauding a General Electric subsidiary, Kidder Peabody, of more than... Read More

Where some might say, “If you can’t win, why fight?” the author would ask, “If you don’t fight, how can you win?” Condemned by the Chinese Communist regime to live all his life as a cave-dwelling peasant, Shen-with an... Read More

“‘Sex?’ What is this ‘sex’ of which you speak? I’ve heard of it, but for the life of me I can’t remember what it is,” said one survey respondent quoted in this book. Another tired mom answered, “Who wants to have sex... Read More