Thad: 54 books
From Missouri
An American Farmer Looks Back
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
After years of subjecting the editors of St. Louis newspapers to eloquent letters on subjects as diverse as floods, tariffs, and mules, Thad Snow published his memoir From Missouri in his mid-seventies in 1954. He was barely retired from farming for more than half a century, mostly in the Missouri...
Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship
The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central question posed by critics of suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of the critique, it never sticks-Americans by the scores of millions have willingly moved into sprawling...
The Power of American Governors
Winning on Budgets and Losing on Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
With limited authority over state lawmaking, but ultimate responsibility for the performance of government, how effective are governors in moving their programs through the legislature? This book advances a new theory about what makes chief executives most successful and explores this theory through...
by Thad Phetteplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
It started with a chance encounter in the Student Union. She was definitely the most interesting woman Barry had met at Penbrooke College, but when she claimed to be a superhero, he realized she must be crazy. That was before he found himself being chased by drug dealers, kidnapped by gangsters, and...
Running From Fear
walking into the desert and finding life again
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
There is no shortage of good books, friends, support groups, therapies, religious teachings, advice and knowledge on how to live a life full of abundance, joy and love. Yet, in so many lives, it barely exists. Fear is the roadblock that keeps us from engaging a life we all desire, but cannot seem...
De Orka Award
de kracht van de positieve feedback
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Bij een orka denkt u waarschijnlijk aan een gevaarlijke killer, maar toch laten deze slimme dolfijnen zich maar wat graag allerlei kunstjes aanleren. Hoe doe je dat, vraagt manager Wes Kingsley zich af, laat je ze eerst verhongeren en dan reiken naar een visje? In gesprek met een orkatrainer leert...
by Thad M. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Bulb gardening in the southwestern and southern United States presents challenges unknown in cooler climates. Bulbs that turn Holland into a kaleidoscope of color droop and fade in our mild winters, hot summers, and uncertain rainfall. Yet hundreds of native and naturalized species of bulbs thrive in...
by Thad Carhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Born in 1805 on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau is the son of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau. He is raised both as William Clarkâs ward in St. Louis and by his parents among the villages of the Mandan tribe on the far northern reaches of the Missouri river. In 1823...
Nameless Towns
Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company "cut out" its last trees. But during their heyday, these company towns made Texas the nation's third-largest...
The Business of Genocide
The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff...
Whale Done!
The Power of Positive Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2003
A compendium of straightforward techniques on how to accentuate the positive and redirect the negative, increasing productivity at work and at home.
What do your people at work and your spouse and kids at home have in common with a five-ton killer whale?
Probably a whole lot more than...
Evaluating Elections
A Handbook of Methods and Standards
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In competitive and contested democratic elections, insuring integrity is critical. Evaluating Elections shows why systematic analysis and reporting of election performance is important and how data-driven performance management can be used by election officials to improve elections. The authors outline...
Fees Must Fall
Student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
#FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business,...
Making a Place for Community
Local Democracy in a Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When pundits refer to the death of community, they are speaking of a number of social ills, which include, but are not limited to, the general increase in isolation and cynicism of our citizens, widespread concerns about declining political participation and membership in civic organizations, and...