For some reason everyone gets hung up on obedience. You ask a kid to do something, and it may or may not get done. If it gets done it may be on the kid's terms and timeline. The problem is adults ask kids to do things; instead they should be telling kids what they want them to do and they should expect the child to do it when they are told. In short we have to stop asking and start telling. That's what this book is about. It gives the reader the evolution...

I have observed certain problems in our society going from ones that only affect a small segment of the population to the point where they have become epidemics and affect a large number of people. In order to deal with an epidemic it has to be recognized. Once it is recognized we have to begin to treat it. Treating it requires a plan that will take time and has to start with our children. The change may be something that we as a society won't see...

Our focus in education needs to be on steadying the target and improving student behavior, not on improving test scores. This book focuses on the 10 real reasons why educators need more professional development and training in the areas of anti-bullying and behavior management. The condition of our schools is begging for change. One more test is not going to help, but training in character, anti-bullying, and behavior management will make the difference....

Ne'er do well Jake, after a mediocre military service is just trying to get by in the galaxy. A string of odd jobs and bad luck have left him stranded and broke on the mining planet of Kerella V. A chance encounter with a beautiful woman named Shelain, an alien from a race called Meridian's, drags him into a plot by blood thirsty aliens known as the Basnigh, to overthrow the Consortium; a benevolent government created by the Aswari, an advanced alien...

From renowned political theorist and Pulitzer Prize winner James MacGregor Burns, an illuminating critique of how an unstable, unaccountable, and frequently partisan Supreme Court has come to wield more power than the founding fathers ever intended.

An "immensely interesting" account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough). The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who emerged from the closed society of New York's Knickerbocker elite to become the most prominent American political family of the twentieth century. As Pulitzer...

In Transforming Leadership, Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's ideals of liberty and happiness during the American Revolution. Along the way he looks at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders who attempted to transform their worlds-Elizabeth I, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Eleanor...

The first volume of Burns's stunning account of American history, from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation-its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic's early decades, as well as the roles of heroes from Washington to Lincoln and of lesser-known figures....

Leading scholars define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president. Washington's legacy is a successful experiment in collective leadership, great initiatives in establishing a strong executive branch and the formulation of innovative and lasting economic and foreign policies. Along with highlighting these accomplishments, the authors also trace Washington's later dissatisfaction with public life and the seeds of dissent and...