The USC Rossier School of Education recently published my review of Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration on their blog for the online Master of Education program. Whether you are a professional space planner serving clients,…
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Book Review — Teaching for the Two-Sided Mind
The USC Rossier School of Education blog recently published my review of Teaching for the Two-Sided Mind: A Guide to Right-Brain, Left-Brain Education by Linda Verlee Williams. This unusual book, published in 1983, remains a popular guide to classroom teaching…
The (Watery) Margin of Victory
Book Review: WAR ON THE WATERS: THE UNION & CONFEDERATE NAVIES, 1861-1865 by James M. McPherson UNC Press, 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson begins War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 with a quote…
The Fire Inside
Book Review: AND SO IT GOES: KURT VONNEGUT: A LIFE by Charles J. Shields Henry Holt and Co., 2011 Many biographies include in their titles the phrase, “a life.” When it comes to Kurt Vonnegut, what a life it…
The Helicopter’s Unrealized Potential
Book Review: How the Helicopter Changed Modern Warfare by Walter J. Boyne Pelican Publishing Co., 2011 This book is a must-read for anyone interested in flying machines and particularly for those who like military history. For everyone attending the…
Biographers continue to mine Washington’s life
The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)—February 19, 2004 George Washington’s Feb. 22 birthday receives somewhat less attention since the creation of the generic Presidents Day, but he continues to inspire new books from historians and biographers. According to the most widely recognized…