Until he joined the US government in 1934, Robert H. Jackson had been a lawyer in private practice in Upstate New York who was admitted to the bar without going to college and after completing only one year of law school. Jackson became, in rapid succession, United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, where he successfully defended New Deal programs before the Supreme Court. In 1941, FDR nominated him to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, on which he served ...

In The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results, renowned instructors and consultants Dr. Roy Pollock, Andrew Jefferson, and Calhoun Wick deliver a complete blueprint to maximize the effectiveness and ROI of training and development programs within any organization. In this newly revised and extensively updated Fourth Edition, listeners will find tools to implement meaningful strategies immediately, supported by the lates...

The fascinating true story of how Taos Pueblo's Indigenous people recruited members of the famous Taos art colony to help spark a movement for Native justice that reshaped the nation.When the first white artists arrived in Taos by horse-drawn wagons, centuries of military conquest and brutal government policies had pushed Indigenous people to the brink of collapse. New Mexico's pueblos had become some of America's last holdouts of traditional culture, resolutely pre...

New York City native Derick Lugo's life changed in 2012 when he spontaneously decided to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. In the years that followed, he became an advocate for the outdoors and eventually set out on his second thru-hike—this time on the Continental Divide Trail, one of the most challenging long trails in the world.A Fabulous Thru-Hike: 3,100 Miles on the Continental Divide Trail is the relatable, laugh-out-loud story of Derick Lugo's six-month adventure. Fr...

While some believe that you're either born a great time manager or you're not, that's not really the case at all. Anyone can learn the powerful habits of being more effective and more productive—and getting things done.Wait, You Need It When?!? is the essential guide to learning how to better manage your time, become more productive, and create the daily habits that will make this personal transformation stick in the long run—not just for a day or two. In today's ...

Take control of your and your family's health with The Vaccine Bible**, a common-sense, medically sound resource for everyone searching for the straightforward facts about vaccines.**For those looking for clear and reliable information on vaccines for themselves and their families, it can feel like an overwhelming amount of confusing information. Sorting through it all takes time. And for most people, it's nearly impossible to fully unders...

Harness the power of social media to attract new customers and transform your business!More than three billion people are now on social media. If you’re not in the social media marketing game, you’re not in the game at all. From one of the world’s leading figures in the world of social media marketing, Likeable Social Media reveals everything you need to know about building your brand and attracting & retaining loyal customers through smart, savvy social m...

Traditional personal finance books generally promote the same goals for everyone: make as much money as possible, fund your kids' college educations, and save for retirement. These books mechanistically advise us to budget, take out a mortgage, open savings accounts, and so on—without much thought as to who we are as individuals. But is that all? Will that formula make you happy?Good Money is about building a meaningful life, not just a bigger bank account. In this book, i...

Telling lies, and falling for them, is one of the things that makes us human. But when someone deceives another for material gain or profit, inflicting injury in the process, we give this kind of lie a special label: fraud.Most people are familiar with the concept and understand that fraud is prohibited by law. What many fail to appreciate, however, is that the law does not treat all frauds equally. In a perverse sense, the bigger the fraud, the more likely it is protected by the F...

In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as bestselling science writer David Baron chronicles in The Martians, his truly bizarre tale of a nation swept up in Mars mania.At the center of Baron's historical drama is Percival Lowell, the Boston Brahmin and Harvard scion, who observed "canals" etched into the surface of Mars. Lowell devised a grand theory that the red planet was home to a utopian society that had...

Bitcoin isn't just for criminals, speculators, or wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs—despite what the headlines say. In an imperfect world of rampant inflation, creeping authoritarianism, surveillance, censorship, and financial exclusion, bitcoin empowers individuals to elude the expanding reach and tightening grip of institutions both public and private. So although bitcoin is money, it isn't just money. Bitcoin is resistance money.Resistance Money: A Philosophical ...

In The Voice-Driven Leader,Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram deliver a transformative guide to help you cultivate leadership at every level of your organization. It's a tactical, hands-on roadmap to turning teams into high-performing powerhouses, one team member at a time.Kubicek and Cockram draw on decades of in-depth experience working with some of the world's most accomplished executives, leaders, and teams as they present their incisive 5 Voices framework. In ...