PublicAffairs,U.S.

The faculty of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University distill their extensive research and experience to teach you how to become a better leader every day, while giving you the tools to handle the inevitable crises that come your way.

This extraordinary investigation of the death of the author's grandson yields a powerful memoir of addiction, grief, and the stories we choose to tell our families and ourselves.

From Abraham Lincoln's political savvy and rhetorical gifts to James Buchanan's indecisiveness, this book teaches much about what makes a great leader--and what does not.Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America's presidents across a variety of categories -- their ability to persuade the public, their leadership skills, their moral authority, and more.

A leading global public intellectual explains how, while America became arrogant and distracted, a three-thousand-year-old civilization is well on the way to becoming the number one power in the world.

"[A]bounds with well-chosen anecdotes...enlightening...a pleasure to read." -Foreign Affairs

Examines societies where people of diverse ethnicities, races and/or religions live together in peace. In this book, the authors show how recognition of multiple identities can defuse rather than provoke conflict - providing, there is also insistence on respect for basic rights within as well as between ethnic, religious, and cultural groups.

"Nye is a master of his field at the height of his powers."--Washington Post

The curious life of the secretive billionaire-turned-philanthropist, now substantially updated with a fascinating coda