"Buddy" Knowland was dead, keeled over with a heart attack during the game. Buddy's fans knew him as the most successful football coach in Nebraska State University history. His colleagues knew him as a misogynistic, foul-mouthed bully. Replacing Buddy would be one of the biggest tests that Charlie Rosen, the president of Nebraska State University, would face during his career. How to hire a replacement for the irreplaceable coach? How to keep the university trustees happy? And how to deal...

Thomas Ehrlich served in the federal administrations of six presidents, beginning with Kennedy in 1962. He was also Dean of Stanford Law School, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, President of Indiana University, and one of the pioneers of the service-learning movement. Weaving together memorable family stories and valuable professional insights, Ehrlich tells how he developed the knowledge and skills to be a leader in both government and higher education, the lessons he learned in...

More than a century ago, John Dewey challenged the education community to look to civic involvement for the betterment of both community and campus. Today, the challenge remains. In his landmark book, editor Thomas Ehrlich has collected essays from national leaders who have focused on civic responsibility and higher education. Imparting both philosophy and working example, Ehrlich provides the inspiration for innovative new programs in this essential area of learning.

Civic Work, Civic Lessons explains how and why people of all ages, and particularly young people, should engage in public service as a vocation or avocation. Its authors are 57 years apart in age, but united in their passion for public service, which they term “civic work.” The book provides unique intergenerational perspectives. Thomas Ehrlich spent much of his career in the federal government. Ernestine Fu started a non-profit organization at an early age and then funded projects led by ...

The American Dream and Dreams Deferred: A Dialectical Fairy Tale shows how rival interpretations of the Dream reveal the dialectical tensions therein. Exploring often neglected voices, literatures, and histories, Carlton D. Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer highlight moments when the American Dream appears both simultaneously possible and out of reach. In so doing, the authors invite readers to make a new collective dream of a better future, on socially just, multicultural, and ecologically ...

Business is the largest undergraduate major in the United States and still growing. This reality, along with the immense power of the business sector and its significance for national and global well-being, makes quality education critical not only for the students themselves but also for the public good.The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's national study of undergraduate business education found that most undergraduate programs are too narrow, failing to chall...

Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: What, according to the Constitution, was the line separating interrogation from torture—and could that line be moved? The White House lawyers' answer—in the form of legal documents later known as the "Torture Memos"—became the US's justification for engaging in torture.The Torturer in the Mirror shows us how when one of us tortures, we ...

Menschen erzählen. Unverstellt, intensiv und voller Leben. In FACES geht es um echte Schicksale Geschichten von Verlust und Hoffnung, von Umbrüchen und Neuanfängen. Es sind die leisen Momente, die unter die Haut gehen, und die lauten, die das Herz zum Stolpern bringen. Geschichten, die zeigen, wie der Glaube an Gott einen Unterschied macht, wenn das Leben in Trümmern liegt. Thomas Meyerhöfer ist seit Jahren unterwegs, um Menschen zu treffen, und mit ihnen über ihr Leben zu sprechen. Aus se...

Fühlst du dich oft schon morgens wie erschlagen? Trotz genug Schlaf kommst du einfach nicht in die Gänge und der Alltag fühlt sich an wie ein schwerer Hindernislauf? Du bist nicht allein. In Warum du ständig müde bist findest du einen fundierten Begleiter, der dir hilft, die Signale deines Körpers endlich richtig zu deuten und die Ursachen deiner Erschöpfung zu verstehen.Dieses Hörbuch geht weit über einfache Ratschläge hinaus. Es beleuchtet tiefgreifende biologische und psychologi...

This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific background. Exploring ethical theory, environmental ethics, science and the environmental movement, Ea...

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Mit einem messerscharfen Verstand und einer Prise therapeutischer Überheblichkeit seziert Dr. Segimerus Scharf diese und andere absurde Leidensgeschichten. Er zeigt uns: Die größten Abgründe lauern oft dort, wo wir sie am wenigsten vermuten – direkt neben der Kante des Rasens. Eine heitere und doch schonungslose Einladung, über die Banalität des eigenen Elends zu lachen. Denn eines ist sicher: Nach dieser Lektüre werden Sie Ihre Probleme mit ganz anderen Augen sehen. Oder sie zumindest für...