Frank Carlson Library

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely -- Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights) -- to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized...

This book supports teachers in translating standards-based content into the enriched project learning model, which is designed to not only meet standards but also to develop 21st century skills. These are skills that go beyond content and knowledge in order to meet the emerging work and learning demands that students will face as adults, and include communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and global and cross-cultural awareness....

The book features such people as Frank Lloyd Wright, of Guggenheim fame, Madam Curie with two Nobel Prizes, Bog Dylan a musical philosopher and ends with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame.

The book explains the confusion between a nation, state, province, county and a country. How nations and countries are made who made them and why. From the time of colonialism and why the colonial masters amalgamate nations into countries because of the fear of the unknown and for the reason of the bigger the better. So that any attack on any of the nations is an attack on all. This amalgamation because of the lack of proper understanding of the various...

Kurdish terrorists have attacked a dam inside the borders of Turkey, threatning the water supply of their very homeland, all to force all-out war in the Middle East.

Rock Your Life is filled with amazing stories by incredible people. Craig Duswalt asked some of his high-profile friends if they would share a success they had in their lives so that they might inspire future business leaders and world changers. They all said yes! This book features an impressive lineup of "RockStars" including Russell Hitchcock, lead singer of the amazing and successful pop duo, Air Supply; Dean Cain, played Superman on the hit television...

With standardized testing and predetermined subgroups garnering the attention of educational leaders, abused and neglected children have fallen deeper into the crevice of the system. For years these children have been ignored, save the obvious, visible bruises or child-initiated confessions. Because researching children is difficult without parental consent, it is nearly impossible to expose this problem with any level of legitimacy. By combining...

Creative ability is most frequently the opposite of good judgment. Creative ability includes the tendency to experiment with novel ideas that might be unsound. It includes a good deal of the gambler's spirit where the individual "sticks his neck out" and tries something new, perhaps even "wild" or "crazy."

Creativity isn't born, it's cultivated What exactly is creativity? Indeed, there are a number of ways you can define the word "creativity". However, the most modest way to define this mysterious element that is shared by all people is the fact that creativity is the ability of the person's mind to acquire facts, materials, and/or ideas and distinguish them in a distinctive manner or way.

You have power over your emotions, but it's limited, so you need to understand it. Here is a simple explanation of the chemicals that make us feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. You'll find out what turns them on in animals, and how you manage them with the animal part of your brain. Then you'll learn to rewire your happy chemicals by feeding your brain new inputs in a new way. We'll do the same for the unhappy chemical, cortisol,...