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Medicinal Herbs of California

A Field Guide to Common Healing Plants

By: Lanny Kaufer

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Medicinal Herbs of California

A Field Guide to Common Healing Plants

By: Lanny Kaufer

Medicinal Herbs of California is the first statewide field guide to more than 70 common medicinal plants of California. This vital addition to the California naturalist’s shelf will introduce readers to the principles of herbal remedies, history and roots in native cultures, scientific information, and how to find and incorporate medicinal plants into daily life. Inside you’ll find: Photos and descriptions to help with positive identification Common and scientific names and the plant families Conservation status Modern and traditional uses The science behind natural phytochemicals that have earned these plants a place in Native American medicine for thousands of years.

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1493058037

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Secrets of the Grand Canyon

A Spiritual Journey

By: Lanny Kuester

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Secrets of the Grand Canyon

A Spiritual Journey

By: Lanny Kuester

The next step in the journey brought us to a sturdy Park Service bus waiting nearby. According to guidebooks, this bus would carry us to the top of the South Kaibab Trail. Amy and I climbed up the steps and down the narrow aisle lugging our backpacks loaded with sleeping mats, clothes and food. The water, a gallon for each of us, gurgled reassuringly in plastic bottles. We sat down near the back of the bus. After waiting for late arrivals, the bus driver closed the squeaky door, started the bus, glanced at the rear-view mirror and shifted the gears. The driver, a frumpy, middle-aged woman with hints of gray in her hair, started her route with a slight lurch of the bus. Even at this early hour, several people got on and off at various trailheads and scenic overlooks that lined the rim of the Canyon. The driver seemed relaxed and friendly. I felt a mixture of rising anticipation and panic sweep over me as we moved from the known into the unknown. One part of me felt giddy with exhilaration as we neared the trailhead. Another cautious part inside wanted answers and a reassurance I could not supply. This voice began with the usual question, Now what did we forget to pack? Other questions nagged at me beneath the surface. What am I doing? Am I getting in way over my head? I felt embarrassed and reluctant to share my reservations with Amy at this early stage of our journey. Amy silently gazed out the window as the bus bumped along. Several other people on board spoke quietly, but with eager, nervous voices. One younger couple sat quietly, staring out at the passing trees, clear sky and a few scattered park buildings. Time seemed to shift during that ride to the top of the South Kaibab trail. Even through the windows, the views from the top of the Canyon were magical. The elevation on the South Rim of the Canyon reached over 7,000 feet. At certain points, we saw visitors walking along the edge to admire the scenery. I had visited the Canyon just once during a winter vacation to Arizona with my ex-wife just a few years before. Unfortunately, the trail was icy at the time and we cautiously hiked down only a short distance before turning back. Like most awestruck tourist, I spent the previous visit walking along the rim, snapping too many pictures and admiring the views from the top of the Canyon. As we gazed out the window of the bus, I could catch glimpses of the same views that enchanted me years before. I recalled that at certain points along the rim you could catch a glimpse of the Colorado River almost a mile below, although the folds and contours of the Canyon walls usually hide it. During the ride, all of our plans for hiking down into the Canyon took on a new reality. I finally realized in the pit of my stomach that we were really going on this trek and that we were going to be descending an entire mile in elevation carrying a heavy backpack every step of the way. To calm my inner turmoil, I reviewed once again why we had chosen the South Kaibab Trail to reach the Colorado River. For one thing, it offered a rich history. The South Kaibab consisted of a six-mile hike down a steep track first used by natives who, legend has it, followed a game path into the Canyon. Later, in the nineteenth century, miners searching for gold and silver widened and developed the trail. By the beginning of the twentieth century, most of the mines proved unprofitable and the miners abandoned them. However, the trails the miners developed became popular with the growing number of tourists drawn to the Canyon. During the 1930s, the park service started improving and maintaining a number of these trails into the Canyon, including the South Kaibab Trail. The South Kaibab quickly gained a reputation for its beauty. Many hikers selected this route because, unlike other popular routes, it often followed ridgelines and offered a number of unobstructed views of the Canyon. However, the trai

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After the Rush

By: Lanny Martinson

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After the Rush

By: Lanny Martinson

After the Rush represents author Lanny Martinson's debut into the literary world. His gritty, tell-it-like-it-is style leaves little to the imagination in his no-holds-barred account of a young man's journey into manhood. Although the book is fiction, it's based on actual events experienced by the author or his fellow Marines who served in the Vietnam War. Follow Jack as he travels from a small town in Northern Minnesota to the battlefields of Vietnam and back. Experience the bond between him and his brothers, the unimaginable horrors and brutality of war they experience firsthand, and the heartbreak of a forbidden love. Once home, Jack's biggest desire is to feel the rush he felt in combat. His unrelenting struggle with survivour's guilt and PTSD leave him needing to find the person he once was.

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Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency

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1628574402

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Human Resource Management and Change

A Practising Manager's Guide

By: Lanny Entrekin,Brenda D. Scott-Ladd

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Human Resource Management and Change

A Practising Manager's Guide

By: Lanny Entrekin,Brenda D. Scott-Ladd

This exciting new book has grown from a need to provide practical advice to managers who deal with contemporary human resource and change issues. A crucial role of a manager is to respond in the best interests of the organisation and at the same time retain talent. Skill shortages and ageing populations in developed economies and the need for emerging economies to develop their workforce coincide to present managers with unique challenges. Human Resource Management and Change: A practising managers guide offers a timely overview of recent environmental and economic changes as depicted by the DELTA forces of change. These include demographic, environmental, legal, technical and attitudinal changes that are in part the product of globalization, and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The fundamental strategies for managing change and implementing human resource practices are clearly explained. End of chapter study guides further explain the topics of the chapters by providing case studies and review and discussion questions as well as further reading. The text reflects the everyday challenge managers face in a turbulent environment and focuses on providing practical guidelines to managers who may not have higher academic qualifications to help them manage people and change.

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Routledge

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1135926360

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Innovation Theology

A Biblical Inquiry and Exploration

By: Lanny Vincent

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Innovation Theology

A Biblical Inquiry and Exploration

By: Lanny Vincent

Innovation Theology: A Biblical Inquiry and Exploration invites seminary leaders to explore an uncharted territory--theology for innovating. This unexplored terrain of practical and applied theology holds gems of substantive and practical wisdom for innovating in the marketplace, society, and church. Innovation Theology brings theological perspectives to the challenges of innovating and promises to transform how we make sense of change and where (and why) we choose to innovate. Innovation Theology makes the case that God continues to create and continues to invite us, through change, to co-create new value for others (i.e., innovate). Innovation Theology explores where discovery, invention, and value creation intersect (or not) with the intentions of God. Not to be confused with workplace spirituality, business ethics, or critiques of technology, theology for innovating can encourage scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to aim their innovating toward the common good, not just in response to the invisible hand of the market. Innovation Theology invites us to make meaning before money, aim for plumb lines before bottom lines, and reattach extrinsic to intrinsic value. The one for whom all things are possible is interested, invested, and engaged in innovating. Are we innovating with him, or not?

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532608691

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Evan's Wail

By: Lanny Ray Lee

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Evan's Wail

By: Lanny Ray Lee

Evan Blair was about to start his first semester in college, when one night while driving down to his girlfriend, Beverly, he was chased by the gang of bikers. Later that night at Evans house, his father, Ron, received officer Kerry with the heartbreaking news that Evan was dead and Beverly was in the hospital. According to the short investigation, Evan crashed his new motorcycle into the fence and died instantly. Submerge yourself into this intriguing fictional tale and listen to Evans Wail to unravel the truth. Feel the intensity of love and sorrow, experience denial before accepting the truth, and embrace the joy of giving freedom for the one you love. Author Lanny Ray Lee - Born in Owensboro, Kentucky the home to more world class people than any other town of its size in the country; Lanny Ray Lee is continuing the legacy. He has spent most of my life as a designer in the aerospace field that reaches to the early development of the Hubbell Spacecraft . Trust me, he says, Theres a story and lots of skeletons there! Working with the defense contractors and NASA is probably the best possible training in creative by writing reports on slipped schedules or over budget. A few years ago, he decided that he didnt want the hassle of clearances. So, now most of his assignments are interesting and creative, such as design works on light armor vehicles. Lanny is busy writing a new novel about of the Acadian people and developing a not for profit foundation for child safe guns.

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Routledge Revivals: The Greatest Happiness Principle (1986)

An Examination of Utilitarianism

By: Lanny O. Ebenstein

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Routledge Revivals: The Greatest Happiness Principle (1986)

An Examination of Utilitarianism

By: Lanny O. Ebenstein

First published in 1991, The Greatest Happiness Principle traces the history of the theory of utility, starting with the Bible, and running through Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus. It goes on to discuss the utilitarian theories of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill in detail, commenting on the latter’s view of the Christianity of his day and his optimal socialist society. The book argues that the key theory of utility is fundamentally concerned with happiness, stating that happiness has largely been left out of discussions of utility. It also goes on to argue that utility can be used as a moral theory, ultimately posing the question, what is happiness?

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1351112457

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Chicagonomics

The Evolution of Chicago Free Market Economics

By: Lanny Ebenstein

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Chicagonomics

The Evolution of Chicago Free Market Economics

By: Lanny Ebenstein

Chicagonomics explores the history and development of classical liberalism as taught and explored at the University of Chicago. Ebenstein's tenth book in the history of economic and political thought, it deals specifically in the area of classical liberalism, examining the ideas of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, and is the first comprehensive history of economics at the University of Chicago from the founding of the University in 1892 until the present. The reader will learn why Chicago had such influence, to what extent different schools of thought in economics existed at Chicago, the Chicago tradition, vision, and what Chicago economic perspectives have to say about current economic and social circumstances. Ebenstein enlightens the personal and intellectual relationships among leading figures in economics at the University of Chicago, including Jacob Viner, Frank Knight, Henry Simons, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Aaron Director, and Friedrich Hayek. He recasts classical liberal thought from Adam Smith to the present.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466891122

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Scandal

How "Gotcha" Politics Is Destroying America

By: Lanny Davis

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Scandal

How "Gotcha" Politics Is Destroying America

By: Lanny Davis

For more than four decades, polarized politics in America has been driven by a vicious scandal machine comprised of partisan politicians, extremists on the left and right, and a sensationalist media energized by bringing public officials down. In this sorely needed book Lanny Davis, who has been in the belly of the beast as Special Counsel to the Clinton White House, explains--starting with historical scandals like Alexander Hamilton's extramarital affairs and moving on to the unsurpassable Watergate and beyond--how we reached this sorry state. Davis tells us how this poisonous atmosphere is damaging not just politics but American society as a whole. Davis also offers hope by revealing how a coalition of centrist politicians focusing on core policies that appeal to the frustrated electorate marooned in the middle can pull us back from the brink.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466892803

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Parliaments and Coalitions

The Role of Legislative Institutions in Multiparty Governance

By: Lanny W. Martin,Georg Vanberg

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Parliaments and Coalitions

The Role of Legislative Institutions in Multiparty Governance

By: Lanny W. Martin,Georg Vanberg

Coalition governments are the norm in most of the world's parliamentary democracies. Because these governments are comprised of multiple political parties, they are subject to tensions that are largely absent under single-party government. The pressures of electoral competition and the necessity of delegating substantial authority to ministers affiliated with specific parties threaten the compromise agreements that are at the heart of coalition governance. The central argument of this book is that strong legislative institutions play a critical role in allowing parties to deal with these tensions and to enforce coalition bargains. Based on an analysis of roughly 1,300 government bills across five democracies (Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands), the book paints a detailed picture of the treatment of government legislation in contemporary parliaments. Two central contributions emerge. First, the book forces a reconsideration of the common perception that legislatures are largely irrelevant institutions in European democracies. The data presented here make a compelling case that parliaments that feature strong committee systems play an influential role in shaping policy. Second, the book contributes to the field of coalition governance. While scholars have developed detailed accounts of the birth and death of coalitions, much less is known about the manner in which coalitions govern between these bookend events. Parliaments and Coalitions contributes to a richer understanding of how multiparty governments make policy. Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr

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OUP Oxford

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0191619469

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The Unmaking of the President 2016

How FBI Director James Comey Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency

By: Lanny J. Davis

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The Unmaking of the President 2016

How FBI Director James Comey Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency

By: Lanny J. Davis

The first comprehensive account that proves that James Comey threw the 2016 election to Donald Trump. “Compelling criticism…lapsed Trump supporters might well open their minds to this attorney’s scholarly, entirely convincing proof of the damage done” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). During the week of October 24, 2016, Hillary Clinton was decisively ahead of Donald Trump in most polls. Then FBI Director James Comey sent his infamous letter to Congress on October 28, saying the bureau was investigating additional emails, potentially relevant to the Hillary Clinton email case. In The Unmaking of the President 2016, attorney Lanny J. Davis shows how Comey’s misguided announcement—just eleven days before the election—swung a significant number of voters away from Clinton, winning Trump an Electoral College victory—and the presidency. Drawing on sources in the intelligence community and Justice Department, Davis challenges Comey's legal rationale for opening a criminal investigation of Clinton's email practices, questions whether Comey received sufficient Justice Department oversight, and cites the odd clairvoyance of Trump ally Rudolph Giuliani, who publicly predicted an "October surprise." Davis proves state by state, using authoritative polling data, how voter support for Clinton dropped after the Comey letter was made public, especially in key battleground states. Despite so many other issues in the election—Trump’s behavior, the Russian hacking, Clinton's campaign missteps—after the October 28 Comey letter, everything changed. Now Davis proves with raw, indisputable data how Comey’s October letter cost Hillary Clinton the presidency and America turned the course of history in the blink of an eye.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501180401

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9781501180408

Multiple Sclerosis

Your Legal Rights

By: Lanny Perkins,Sara D Perkins

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Multiple Sclerosis

Your Legal Rights

By: Lanny Perkins,Sara D Perkins

This extensively revised third edition continues to provide reliable basic information and possible solutions to the legal problems that often affect people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In the past seven years, since the publication of the last edition, significant legislative changes have taken place that affect the lives of anyone living with MS. Trying to decipher new laws can be overwhelming, even for the most educated individual. Multiple Sclerosis: Your Legal Rights, 3rd Edition enables readers to plan for the future and face tough decisions, such as: Can I return to work without compromising my Social Security disability benefits in the long term? How does the expansion of Medicare Part D affect me? Is there any legal recourse for managing my debts? These and other topics are thoroughly discussed in this updated edition.

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Demos Medical Publishing

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1934559946

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Exit Wounds

A Vietnam Elegy

By: Lanny Hunter

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Exit Wounds

A Vietnam Elegy

By: Lanny Hunter

Exit Wounds: A Vietnam Elegy is an intimate, boots-on-the-ground memoir that chronicles one captain’s brutal experience in the Vietnam War. On October 19, 1965, American Special Forces in Vietnam came under attack at their camp at Plei Me. This marked the first major confrontation between the North Vietnamese and US armies during the war. Throughout six days of constant hostile fire, Captain Lanny Hunter sorted the seriously wounded from the dead and saved those comrades-in-arms he could. For his actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In Exit Wounds, Hunter recalls his tour in the central highlands of Vietnam in 1965/66 at the bloody interface of medicine and combat. Paralleling this story is his return in 1997 to find and help his Montagnard interpreter, Y-Kre Mlo, after ten years in a communist reeducation camp. This pilgrimage takes Hunter back to old haunts and battlegrounds—and to a war now seen through a very different lens. Peopled with those who were dedicated, courageous, gentle, proud, profane, and a little mad, this book explores what happens when leaders place personal ambition over honor, and America’s “moral high ground” is soaked with the blood of its young men and women. So much more than a memoir, Exit Wounds is a poetic and profound story that reflects on the human condition, duty, honor, faithfulness, and how the scars remain long after the war is over.

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Blackstone Publishing

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9798200905119

A Primer on Innovation Theology

Responding to Change in the Company of God

By: Lanny Vincent

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A Primer on Innovation Theology

Responding to Change in the Company of God

By: Lanny Vincent

What does innovation have in common with theology? More than you might think. Both are ways people attempt to make sense. Both have to do with value and knowledge creation. Both have much to say about change and how we respond to it (or not). And both affect human culture and physical realities with implications for generations to come. A Primer on Innovation Theology explores the territory where innovating and theology intersect. At this intersection, the Primer pours a theological foundation for innovators who aim to create new value for the common good, realize sustainable more than acquisitive value, and pursue generous and just relationships more than merely transactional ones. Adapted from the larger, original volume Innovation Theology: A Biblical Inquiry and Exploration, A Primer is intended for lay audiences, especially innovators, intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, and investors who are theologically curious about their own roles and responsibilities. Change is unrelenting. How we choose to respond can insolate, insulate, or innovate. If we choose to innovate, our aim is to create new value for others. The success and failure of these aims may reveal whether we are innovating where the plumb lines of God may be more important than the bottom lines of our efforts, in other words, in the company of God.

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1532608802

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Communicating with Today's Patient

Essentials to Save Time, Decrease Risk, and Increase Patient Compliance

By: Joanne Desmond,Lanny R. Copeland

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Communicating with Today's Patient

Essentials to Save Time, Decrease Risk, and Increase Patient Compliance

By: Joanne Desmond,Lanny R. Copeland

Drawing on the author's wealth of experience in health care communications and backed up by solid research, Communicating with Today's Patient is filled with proven techniques and time-tested strategies physicians and other clinicians can immediately put into action.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787947970

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9780787947972

Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith

From Neanderthals to the Postmodern Era

By: Victor Hunter,Lanny Hunter

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Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith

From Neanderthals to the Postmodern Era

By: Victor Hunter,Lanny Hunter

Stories are the foundation for identity and the ground of understanding. Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith addresses humankind’s search for identity and meaning through the stories of science and religion. Both arose in the mists of history. Both are awe inspiring. Both beggar the imagination. Both have always competed for authority. Science gained preeminence in our postmodern, pluralistic, globalized world as evidenced based, while religion (for many reasons) lost credibility. Yet religion has not disappeared. Stories is a concise, engaging, inspiring accessible account of the history of science (geological and biological evolution perceived through increasingly sophisticated technology) and the history of nine text-based world religions of antiquity. Stories avoids insider language, democratizing both God talk and scientific jargon without patronizing either. There is no attempt to identify the best or truest religion, and Stories disavows dogmatic religious triumphalism. The authors do follow the tradition of giving an account of their Christian faith, the only religious story with which they have experience. They invite others to do the same, paying attention to their own stories as they grapple with modern science, do theology, and engage faith. Stories proposes how and in what manner these disciplines can meaningfully converse in today’s world.

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1532662270

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Truth to Tell

Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself: Notes from My White House Education

By: Lanny J. Davis

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Truth to Tell

Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself: Notes from My White House Education

By: Lanny J. Davis

On a November afternoon in 1996, Lanny Davis got a phone call that would change his life. It was from a top aide at the White House, asking him if he was interested in joining the president's senior staff. Within a few short weeks he had signed on as special counsel to the president. Fourteen months later, his tour of duty almost over, he got another phone call, this time from a Washington Post reporter who asked, "Have you ever heard the name Monica Lewinsky?" In the time between those two phone calls, Davis received an extraordinary political education. As President Bill Clinton's chief spokesman for handling "scandal matters" he had the unenviable job of briefing reporters and answering their pointed questions on the most embarrassing allegations against the president and his aides, from charges of renting out the Lincoln Bedroom, to stories of selling plots in Arlington Cemetery, from irregular campaign fundraising to sexual improprieties. He was the White House's first line of defense against the press corps and the reporters' first point of entry to an increasingly reticent administration. His delicate task was to remain credible to both sides while surviving the inevitable crossfire. Upon entering the White House, Davis discovered that he was never going to be able to turn bad news into good news, but he could place the bad news in its proper context and work with reporters to present a fuller picture. While some in the White House grew increasingly leery of helping a press corps that they regarded as hostile, Davis moved in the opposite direction, pitching unfavorable stories to reporters and helping them garner the facts to write those stories accurately. Most surprisingly of all, he realized that to do his job properly, he sometimes had to turn himself into a reporter within the White House, interviewing his colleagues and ferreting out information. Along the way, he learned the true lessons of why politicians, lawyers, and reporters so often act at cross-purposes and gained some remarkable and counterintuitive insights into why this need not be the case. Searching out the facts wherever he could find them, even if he had to proceed covertly, Davis discovered that he could simultaneously help the reporters do their jobs and not put the president in legal or political jeopardy. With refreshing candor, Davis admits his own mistakes and reveals those instances where he dug a deeper hole for himself by denying the obvious and obfuscating the truth. And in a powerful reassessment of the scandal that led to the president's impeachment, Davis suggests that if the White House had been more receptive to these same hard-won lessons, the Monica Lewinsky story might not have come so close to bringing down an otherwise popular president. For as Davis learned above all, you can always make a bad story better by telling it early, telling it all, and telling it yourself.

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0684864134

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The Ageless Call to Serve

Rethinking Military Service for a Changing World

By: Lanny L. Snodgrass

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The Ageless Call to Serve

Rethinking Military Service for a Changing World

By: Lanny L. Snodgrass

“Defying age barriers, Dr. Snodgrass joined as a soldier at 63, shifting from psychiatrist to trailblazer in military thinking. In The Ageless Call to Serve he champions the seasoned battlefield, advocating for wisdom over youth in warfare. This thought-provoking narrative traverses military readiness, policy evolution, and the psychological impacts of deploying teenagers into conflict.” — Robert J. Schneider, Lieutenant Colonel, USA (Ret.), former Director of Research, Department of Military Psychiatry An 18-year-old in the United States is still barred from buying alcohol, acquiring a pilot’s license, or stepping into a casino. Yet, astonishingly, they can be enlisted in the military, trained in weapon handling, and deployed to a war zone. On the other side of the age spectrum, individuals over 39, regardless of their skills or experience, often encounter insurmountable obstacles to enlistment. Break this mold and meet Lanny Snodgrass, who, at the age of 63, became the oldest American to join the Army and complete officer basic training. It was 2003, the Iraq War had just started, and the Pentagon, grappling with a severe shortage of military doctors, momentarily relaxed age requirements. Recognizing an opportunity, Dr. Snodgrass stepped in to serve. With around four decades of experience treating veterans and active-duty military personnel, many teenagers grappling with psychiatric illnesses such as PTSD, depression, and suicidality, Dr. Snodgrass bears unique insight into the perils of sending young soldiers to war. He has seen firsthand the walking wounded, those who have served in multiple deployments and are often on the brink of despair. This book represents a culmination of these experiences. As a late-joining physician and one of the leading experts on PTSD, Dr. Snodgrass poses critical questions about the limits of service and whether these age constraints should be maintained or relaxed. He scrutinizes the age limits on military service, addressing the antiquated criteria that have remained largely unchanged for over a century. If we continue to send our young to war while overlooking the potential of older, willing Americans, tragic consequences will persist. It’s not an overstatement, then, to say that The Ageless Call to Serve presents a life-and-death proposition on how to build a more resilient, professional military force.

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Casemate

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1636244181

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My Guardian Angel

By: Lanny Saumer

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My Guardian Angel

By: Lanny Saumer

What is that voice in your mind that is trying to guide you to make the right choice? Why have you survived events in your life that should have taken your life? My Guardian Angel approaches its reader on many levels: On a personal level, it is a story of a series of real life events that turned a boy into a man. On a spiritual level, it is a testament of a person's faith in God's promise in Psalm 91, and how that person has made God real in his life. On an entertainment level, the stories are simply humanly emotional, in that some are funny, some are suspenseful, some are sad, and some are happy. We all have stories about our life. We share them around the dinner table, on the front porch or back deck, in the fishing boat, around the camp fire, or maybe at work. Sometimes those moments bring about a story of confession that ends up answering a lifelong family mystery. Sometimes one of those stories might reveal something about you that nobody knows.

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iUniverse

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1440169233

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Prisoners of Hope

How Engineers and Others Get Lift for Innovating

By: Lanny Vincent

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Prisoners of Hope

How Engineers and Others Get Lift for Innovating

By: Lanny Vincent

Prisoners of Hope opens a unique window into the minds and hearts of engineers, revealing two characteristics that every successful innovator must havefaith and hope. Steering clear of spiritual clichs, Prisoners of Hope provides practical insights and fresh accounts of innovators doing what they do best. Lanny Vincent writes his book from his thirty years experience as facilitator, coach, and midwife of corporate innovating. He draws useful parallels between two seemingly different worlds of science and faith. Prior to working with companies like Hewlett-Packard, Sony Electronics, British Telecom, Rockwell, Weyerhaeuser or Whirlpool, Lanny was an ordained Presbyterian minister. From his early experiences within the research and development department of the company, Kimberly-Clark, the author saw familiar patterns among innovating scientists and engineersfaith patterns studied in a completely different context years before. Prisoners of Hope is filled with firsthand accounts of what really happens in the messy, serendipitous process of innovation, and how engineers use faith as their silent partner. Richly woven with the threads of current experience and ancient wisdom, Prisoners makes explicit what innovators do naturally to bring their vision to the marketplacedone largely on the wings of faith and hope. The authors reinterpretations of biblical stories such as David and Goliath, Moses burning bush, and Abrahams aborted sacrifice of Isaac, will help you see the mysteries of faith in action. This book is an inspiring description of how innovators use these patterns to get the lift they need for innovating, and a practical play on the power and potential of faith. Find out how innovators get lift. You will get it too. A cohesive laminate of logic on innovation Doug Gilmour, artist, advertising veteran, Clif Bar & Co. [It] reconnected me with the fundamental power of faith and belief. Bruce Beihoff, inventor, technologist, systems modeler

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1449728251

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Crisis Tales

Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life

By: Lanny J. Davis

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Crisis Tales

Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life

By: Lanny J. Davis

Damaging stories and rumors can go viral in an instant—now, the nation’s premier political spin doctor teaches you how to cope with disasters in business, politics, and life by telling it all, telling it early, and telling it yourself. TELL IT ALL, TELL IT EARLY, TELL IT YOURSELF These days, every scandal is tried in the court of public opinion. Political insider and legal crisis manager Lanny Davis has spent years helping politicians, sports figures, business executives, and corporations—including Bill Clinton, Martha Stewart, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, and Macy’s, to name a few—through the biggest reputation crises of our times. In this fascinating and practical resource, Davis tells the real stories behind his famous clients’ very public scandals and how each case has aided him in the creation of five invaluable rules that absolutely anyone can use to protect himself. Damaging falsehoods can go viral in an instant. The nation’s premier political spin doctor will teach you how to fight back.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451679297

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9781451679298

Imperial Archipelago

Representation and Rule in the Insular Territories under U.S. Dominion after 1898

By: Lanny Thompson

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Imperial Archipelago

Representation and Rule in the Insular Territories under U.S. Dominion after 1898

By: Lanny Thompson

Imperial Archipelago is a comparative study of the symbolic representations, both textual and photographic, of Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico that appeared in popular and official publications in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898. It examines the connections between these representations and the forms of rule established by the U.S. in each at the turn of the century—thus answering the question why different governments were set up in the five sites. Lanny Thompson critically engages and elaborates on the postcolonial thesis that symbolic representations are a means to conceive, mobilize, and justify colonial rule. Colonial discourses construe cultural differences among colonial subjects with the intent to rule them differently; in other words, representations are neither mere reflections of material interests nor inconsequential fantasies, rather they are fundamental to colonial practice. To demonstrate this, Thompson analyzes, on the one hand, the differences among the representations of the islands in popular, illustrated books about the "new possessions" and the official reports produced by U.S. colonial administrators. On the other, he explicates the connections between these distinct representations and the governments actually established. A clear, comparative analysis is provided of the legal arguments that took place in the leading law journals of the day, the Congressional debates, the laws that established governments, and the decisions of the Supreme Court that validated these laws. Interweaving postcolonial studies, sociology, U.S. history, cultural studies, and critical legal theory, Imperial Archipelago offers a fresh, transdisciplinary perspective that will be welcomed especially by scholars and students of U.S. imperialism and its efforts to "extend democracy" overseas, both past and present.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824860454

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9780824860455

Rainbow Garden Walking Stick® Tour

By: Percy "Lanny" Neel, Phd.

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Rainbow Garden Walking Stick® Tour

By: Percy "Lanny" Neel, Phd.

The Rainbow Garden at World Botanical Gardens Walking Stick Tour is a compilation of plants that are on the audio tour. This book is for those that may not be able to hear the audio tour. This first version has the script of the tour and added information about the gardens and the author.

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Lulu.com

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1304845958

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9781304845955

Footsteps on Other Shores

By: Lanny Waitsman

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Footsteps on Other Shores

By: Lanny Waitsman

Take a series of journeys to other worlds: some close in space and time, others so far removed that they may not be in the same universe. Habitat: What happens when two old friends fight over ways to save people on Earth from the effects of global warming by creating habitats in space? When the two men, now rivals, must work together to save their respective projects, can they put aside their differences? Dragon Redux: How did dragons appear on Earth? Will they be our friends? Or will humans just be food? Castle Erehwon: in which a young prince comes of age and must confront his destiny by going through the Door, leaving behind a family in crisis. Will he go alone? Where will he end up? Prism of Lost Leng: When a man comes back to his fiancé after years of travel with no communication, what did he find? Does it have anything to do with the outré sculptures she has been producing?

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1647501105

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9781647501105

Distillation Control, Optimization, and Tuning

Fundamentals and Strategies

By: Lanny Robbins

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Distillation Control, Optimization, and Tuning

Fundamentals and Strategies

By: Lanny Robbins

With a focus on the fundamentals and strategies of distillation columns, this book covers the process variables for continuous distillation columns, as well as four basic control strategies and the typical cases in which they are used. The author defines the inlet and outlet streams and process variables for a distillation column and then explains the overall concept of the separation and purification that is performed. Performance and product quality are described in terms of specification requirements, and tools and techniques for the optimization of quality performance are provided. Figures and graphs are included within the reference to illustrate concepts.

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CRC Press

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1000218627

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Milton Friedman

A Biography

By: Lanny Ebenstein

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Milton Friedman

A Biography

By: Lanny Ebenstein

The first biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest economic thinkers, Milton Friedman. Born the son of immigrant parents, Milton Friedman went on to become a major figure during the resurgence of American conservatism. As an advisor to the Reagan administration and a widely read columnist, he played a vital role in shaping government policy and public opinion while he made headlines for his controversial views. Drawing on author Lanny Ebenstein's unprecedented access to personal archives and to Friedman himself, this is the first book to trace his life and development as an economic theorist. With a combination of intimate personal detail and fascinating exploration of economic theory, Milton Friedman: A Biography provides a revealing look at the man regarded by many as a hero of libertarianism and laissez-faire economics.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0230603459

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9780230603455

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