Chasing Excellence
Chasing Excellence

Author: Pat Melgares

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781733188739

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Dr. Joe I. Vigil rose from poverty to become America's preeminent running coach, creating a collegiate sports dynasty, helping to revive American distance running, and co-founding the sport's coaching education program.

100 Years at Adams State University
100 Years at Adams State University

Author: Amy Kucera

Publisher:

Published: 2022-04

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578389721

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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Adams State University through historic and current photographs and text summarizing the school's founding, changes through the decades, presidents, athletic achievements, and the connection to the San Luis Valley community.

Linking Galaxies
Linking Galaxies

Author: William Custer

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-12-29

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13:

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It is undeniable that Star Wars is one of the greatest stories ever told about one of the greatest universes ever created. A reason for its popularity and greatness is that Star Wars resonates with parts of us that make the story compelling and relatable on a deep level. Using the theories of scholars such as Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and Jordan Peterson, Christian and Will apply concepts from psychology, philosophy, and storytelling to Star Wars to uncover what makes it so great. Christian and Will analyze multiple facets of the Star Wars franchise, including the movies, TV shows, books, comics, and video games (other examples from popular culture are also present) in order to truly uncover all of the hidden treasure within a galaxy that may not be so far away.

Leaving Mother Lake
Leaving Mother Lake

Author: Yang Erche Namu

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2007-09-03

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0316029300

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The haunting memoir of a girl growing up in the Moso country in the Himalayas -- a unique matrilineal society. But even in this land of women, familial tension is eternal. Namu is a strong-willed daughter, and conflicts between her and her rebellious mother lead her to break the taboo that holds the Moso world together -- she leaves her mother's house.

Sky Bridge
Sky Bridge

Author: Laura Pritchett

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Published: 2007-04

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781571310545

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A supermarket clerk in a small dusty town, 22-year-old Libby is full of dreams but lacks the means to pursue them. When her younger sister Tess becomes pregnant, Libby convinces her not to have an abortion by promising to raise the child herself. But then Tess takes off after the baby is born and Libby finds that her new role puts her dreams that much further away. Her already haphazard life becomes ever more chaotic. The baby's father, a Christian rodeo rider, suddenly demands custody. Libby loses her job, her boyfriend abandons her, and her own mother harps on how stupid she was to make that promise to Tess. More than a story of a single mother overcoming obstacles, Sky Bridge is a painfully honest, complex novel that leaves readers with a fresh understanding of what it means to inhabit a world in which dreams die, and are sometimes reborn.

Unmasking Administrative Evil
Unmasking Administrative Evil

Author: Guy B. Adams

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1998-05-05

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780761906698

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Although social scientists generally do not discuss "evil" in an academic setting, there is no denying that it has existed in public administration throughout human history. Hundreds of millions of human beings have died as a direct or indirect consequence of state-sponsored violence. The authors argue that administrative evil, or destructiveness, is part of the identity of all modern public administration (as it is part of psychoanalytic study at the individual level). It goes beyond a superficial critique of public administration and lays the groundwork for a more effective and humane profession.