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  The Shifting Twenty-First...

  Tevi Troy

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  The role and range of the American presidency has undergone significant changes in the twenty-first century, with George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden transforming the office in distinct ways. Many but not all of these changes stem from the numerous crises of this young century: 9/11 and the resulting war on terror, Hurricane Katrina, the Great Recession, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the social unrest of 2020. 
   
   
   
  While crisis brings rapid change, there are other factors at work as well. Increased polarization has led presidents of both parties to press existing rules and norms to their limits in an attempt to accomplish more during their brief tenures. The result is a lot of policy and structural change in a short period, including new cabinet departments, new election rules, and significantly increased spending and debt, among other things. For the most part, these changes have occurred with little thought to what it all means for the functionality and stability of our democratic institutions and, consequently, our nation's capacity to address the needs as well as the aspirations of the American people. The Bipartisan Policy Center's Tevi Troy has brought together a group of presidential scholars and political experts to address these important issues and to reflect on how the presidency has changed and what it might mean for the future.

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  A Culture of Promise - The True...

  Fee Stubblefield

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  As a boy, Fee Stubblefield promised his fiercely independent grandmother that he would never “put her in an old folks’ home.” That aspirational promise, made with love and care, would be something he always remembered—and a commitment he eventually made within the senior housing and care industry.Seeking to create vibrant and engaging communities where we can thrive in our older years, Fee has encapsulated the best insights from his years in the industry in this book. He addresses everything from how to pick the right capital partners, hiring the best people for a culture of caring, introduces the concept of aspirational promises, addresses the deep issues in the industry exposed by Covid-19 and our attitudes toward a rapidly aging population.Fee’s passion was born of an unusual upbringing as part of a family that owned and operated Lehman Hot Springs and its sacred healing waters, a metaphor for the care needed by our senior citizens. He learned business lessons, like most entrepreneurs, through the difficulties and victories of the Springs Living communities. However, regardless of the lessons—the central core of the Culture of Promise is transparency, accountability, care, respect, and a commitment to the people at the heart of that promise.

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  Everything Left to Remember - My...

  Steph Jagger

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  "This audiobook is a touching testament to the power of stories, nature, and love to sustain and connect us." - AudioFile on Everything Left to Remember BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS meets WILD. In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are.Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and—perhaps most heartbreaking of all—Steph herself. Steph watches as the woman who loved and raised her slips away before getting the chance to tell her story, and so Steph makes a promise: her mother will walk it and she will write it.Too aware of her mother’s waning memory, Steph proposes that the two take a camping trip out to Montana—which her mother, on the urging of Steph’s father, agrees to embark upon. An adventure full of horseback riding, hiking, and “tenting” out West quickly turns into one woman’s reflection on childhood, motherhood, personhood—and what it means to love someone who doesn’t quite remember the person she spent her lifetime becoming.A staggeringly beautiful examination of how stories are passed down through generations and from Mother Nature, Everything Left to Remember brings us the wisdom of who our memories make us under the constellations of the vast Montana sky.A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

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  Summary: The Five Dysfunctions...

  Brooks Bryant

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  Disclaimer: This is not the official book, but a summary & it does not accompany the official book. 
  "Gain unparalleled insight into the dynamics of team dysfunction with 'The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Summary Guide,' a concise breakdown of Patrick M. Lencioni's compelling bestseller. 
  This summary guide captures the heart of Lencioni's groundbreaking fable, shedding light on the core dysfunctions that can cripple even the most promising teams. Discover how a lack of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results can impede the progress of any group effort. 
  Each chapter provides a clear, succinct recap of Lencioni's narrative, honing in on the primary takeaways and strategies for combatting these dysfunctions. You'll learn how to foster an environment of mutual trust, encourage productive conflict, build commitment, hold team members accountable, and stay focused on collective results.

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  Farewell to Arms by Ernest...

  Bright Summaries

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  Unlock the more straightforward side of A Farewell to Arms with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
  This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, which tells a story of turbulent romance against the backdrop of the First World War. Its protagonist Frederic Henry is serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army when he meets and falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a nurse in the British hospitals who lost her fiancé in the Battle of the Somme. The novel draws on Hemingway's own experiences (he was an ambulance driver for the Italian Red Cross during the First World War and fell in love with a nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky), and provides an intensely realistic and often horrifying brutal depiction of conflict and the ways it changes those who live through it.
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  Beyond States - Powers Peoples...

  Anthony Pagden

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  Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule of law, and a single source of sovereign authority. But will they continue to do so in the future? 
   
   
   
  None of the major challenges that confront humanity today—from climate change to disease, from terrorism to mass migration—can be handled effectively by single nation-states, no matter how powerful. The world is no longer made up only of states but also of an ever-increasing multitude of interstate networks and organizations which recognize no borders. We are beginning to be able to imagine the very real possibility of a new global civil society. But what political form should this take? 
   
   
   
  By examining the history of the evolution of human society from the world's first empires to today's world of interstate networks, this book argues that there now exists the possibility of the emergence of a new political form, a global 'federation of federations', that will bring the species closer to the possibility of a more harmonious, equitable, and secure future.

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