Only a short while ago, it was unimaginable that our nation would face a baby formula shortage facilitated by a bureaucratic delay, or witness the national massive embarrassment of flawed military and diplomatic action, such as the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Yet, our leaders and our federal agencies consistently fail the American people, despite the massive growth of these institutions. When David Bernhardt became Secretary of the Interior in the Trump Administration, he witnessed the full dysfunction of our federal agencies and learned that America's sprawling civil service was often unresponsive to the will of the nation’s chief executive. In fact, agency staff aligned with the ideology of one political party often worked to actively "resist" the other. Meanwhile, our elected officials in Congress happily punted significant questions of public policy to those unaccountable agencies. In You Report to Me, Bernhardt provides a firsthand chronicle of how the bureaucratic swamp really works and reveals how unaccountable power has quietly concentrated in the administrative state over the last two decades. Drawing on his experiences working under two administrations, Bernhardt details how President Trump's enabling leadership revealed a path for curtailing the administrative state in the future. You Report to Me calls on America's leaders to turn off autopilot and retake control of this ever-multiplying, unaccountable federal bureaucracy before it completely destroys the Founders' vision of a government based on the consent of the governed.
This book is a non-orthopedic approach to sports medicine that will help athletic trainers, sports therapists, physicians, and health practitioners focus on athletes' general health issues. Readers will be able to understand the primary care concerns of athletes, earn their trust, and work more effectively with them
Visionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational change—from fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life. "Jewish Megatrends offers a vision for a community that can simultaneously strengthen the institutions that serve those who seek greater Jewish identification and attract younger Jews, many of whom are currently outside the orbit of Jewish communal life. Schwarz and his collaborators provide an exciting path, building on proven examples, that we ignore at our peril." —from the Foreword The American Jewish community is riddled with doubts about the viability of the institutions that well served the Jewish community of the twentieth century. Synagogues, Federations and Jewish membership organizations have yet to figure out how to meet the changing interests and needs of the next generation. In this challenging yet hopeful call for transformational change, visionary leader Rabbi Sidney Schwarz looks at the social norms that are shaping the habits and lifestyles of younger American Jews and why the next generation is so resistant to participate in the institutions of Jewish communal life as they currently exist. He sets out four guiding principles that can drive a renaissance in Jewish life and gives evidence of how, on the margins of the Jewish community, those principles are already generating enthusiasm and engagement from the very millennials that the organized Jewish community has yet to engage. Contributors—leading innovators from different sectors of the Jewish community—each use Rabbi Schwarz's framework as a springboard to set forth their particular vision for the future of their sector of Jewish life and beyond.
Sarah Bernhardt, Her Films, Her Recordings (Foreword by Kevin Brownlow, Academy Award-winning film historian.) Sarah Bernhardt was called the world's greatest actress. She spoke on one of Edison's first recordings. She appeared in one of the first sound movies. She earned a place in motion picture history with her highly influential Queen Elizabeth, a film that started Adolph Zukor on the road to success with Famous Players, the company that became Paramount Pictures. Sarah's work in early films and recordings takes center stage in David W. Menefee's monumental research work, an incredible, stunning collection of information and images rediscovered in the world's foremost archives. The book includes detailed analyses of her films, hundreds of rare photographs, plot synopses, casts, contemporary reviews, production notes, the rediscovered lost and unknown film of the death scene from Daniel, and the first French/English translations of her recordings. In a revised and expanded version of the brilliant Sarah Bernhardt in the Theater of Films and Sound Recordings, Sarah Bernhardt's unforgettable story is retold during Paramount Pictures' 2012 Centennial celebration by esteemed Pulitzer nominee David W. Menefee. David W. Menefee is the author of: Sweet Memories Wally: The True Wallace Reid Story (Foreword by Robert Osborne) The Remarkable Mr. Messing Falling Stars: 10 Who Tried to Be a Movie Star Richard Barthelmess: A Life in Pictures (Named one of the Top 10 Film Books) Brothers of the Storm The Rise and Fall of Lou-Tellegen George O'Brien: A Man's Man in Hollywood The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era The First Male Stars: Men of the Silent Era "Otay!" The Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas Story Charlie O'Doone's Second Chance and Other Stories Margot Cranston: The Mystery at Loon Lake Margot Cranston: The Secret of St. Laurent Lighthouse Margot Cranston: The Quest for the Jade Dragons
Combining state specific information with finance principals, this easy to read text explores the impact of financial markets on real estate transactions and discusses the growing role of technology in financing. It contains answer keys (PIN Access Only), and a chapter quiz at the end of each chapter.
What if the Space Shuttle failed? What would NASA have done? EMPIRE (Early Manned Planetary Interplanetary Roundtrip Expedition) was an option available. A 800 day flyby of Venus and Mars using augmented Apollo systems in the late 1970's offers a look at a space program and a nation that might have been.
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