Todd Ryan: 10 books
Pierre Bayle's Cartesian Metaphysics
Rediscovering Early Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
In his magnum opus, the Historical and Critical Dictionary, Pierre Bayle offered a series of brilliant criticisms of the major philosophical and theological systems of the 17th Century. Although officially skeptical concerning the attempt to provide a definitive account of the truths of metaphysics,...
The Hero Maker
How Superintendents Can Get their School Boards to Do the Right Thing
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Learn how to turn your school board members into heroes by helping them make smart, worthwhile decisions that they will deserve to brag about. In this much-needed book, Ryan Donlan and Todd Whitaker offer practical strategies to help superintendents develop better working relationships with their...
The School Board Member's Guidebook
Becoming a Difference Maker for Your District
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Every student deserves a high-impact, well-qualified, and governance-driven school board. In this helpful book, best-selling authors Ryan Donlan and Todd Whitaker show you as a school board member how to make smart, worthwhile decisions that will lead to positive change in your district. The School...
One Horn to Rule Them All
A Purple Unicorn Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Unicorns, with their single ivory horn, are elusive and magical creatures of myth. Yet even more elusive are the purple unicorns.
First sighted at the Superstars Writing Seminar, their legend has grown year after year until it could only be contained in this anthology. Nineteen storytellers,...
Product Roadmaps Relaunched
How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
A good product roadmap is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can develop, publish, and continuously update. In fact, this one document can steer an entire organization when it comes to delivering on company strategy.
This practical guide teaches you how to create...
The Supernatural Revamped
From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend...
Rereading Appalachia
Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them...
by Alison Bodkin, Jason Del Gandio, Julia Handschuh
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Human degradation of the environment has been documented by scholars across a range of disciplines: the global temperature of the planet continues to rise, abandoned industrial sites stain once vibrant communities, and questions about the purity of our water and foods linger. In the shadow of these...
The Secret Solution
How One Principal Discovered the Path to Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
An entertaining look at the path to leadership excellence, this parable provides leaders with a non-threatening tool to discuss problematic attitudes in schools. By highlighting some of the most common leadership styles, the authors provide fodder for professional development discussions and open...
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump
Images from Literature and Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
*Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:*Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place”...