Moving a Battleship with Your Bare Hands
Moving a Battleship with Your Bare Hands

Author: Laurence A. Weinstein

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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This volume offers personal reflections and professional advice on governing a state university system from the former president of the University of Wisconsin (UW) System Board of Regents, Laurence A. Weinstein. The book is organized into 10 chapters. Chapter I outlines Weinstein's background and his vision of the role of university system governance. Chapter II describes the two Wisconsin systems, their merger, and the resulting governance system. Chapter III looks at the regent selection process and political issues and how to deal with them. Chapter IV discusses regents' role and presents seven principles for regents that make change possible. Chapter V looks at internal and external obstacles to change and views of governance, tenure and faculty issues, inter-system politics, consensus, and lack of flexibility and efficiency. Chapter VI analyzes several actual regent actions for uniform policies, and regent actions when others failed to act. Chapter VII describes assessment of financial resources and discusses types of financial sources. Chapter VIII discusses educational quality and focuses on access issues, quality, and options for downsizing. Chapter IX looks at the role of regents, administrators, faculty, political leaders, and the media. Chapter X, a "postscript," offers an assessment of Donna Shalala, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and presents reasons for viewing her as a consummate campus administrator. Includes chapter notes and an index. (JB)

Earth Ship Protectress
Earth Ship Protectress

Author: John Ricks

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2015-11-10

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1491779861

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Dr. Freddy Anderson is on an important mission to save the world from destruction. Guarded by Navy SEALs, the ten-year-old super genius inventor is doing his best to balance his work designing a shuttle and developing a way to travel faster than the speed of light with a personal life that includes his first girlfriend ever. Unfortunately completing his mission is becoming exceedingly more difficult as aliens search his mind to learn how he demolished their greatest ship. Freddy is destined to become the strongest healer and telepath in the known universe. But just as the world learns of an impending earth-destroying disaster and panics, Freddy discovers the disaster is worse than what he originally believed it would be. As he starts the world on a new course that will either spiral out of control or rescue the human race from itself, now only time will tell if Freddy will succeed or if life as he knows it will change forever. Earth Ship Protectress shares the continuing tale of a young genius’s journey as he realizes the power of love, attempts to stop an evil plan, and inadvertently sets the stage for the battle of his life.

Galactic Bounty
Galactic Bounty

Author: William C. Dietz

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1497606918

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First in the action-packed series from the New York Times–bestselling author “known for the complex political and social layout of his future worlds” (Publishers Weekly). A traitor is on the loose. A treacherous navy captain plans to sell military secrets to the alien Il Ronn. The only man who can stop him is Sam McCade. Betrayed by his friends, stalked by his enemies, McCade is the only one standing between a terrifying alien threat--and the unimaginable devastation of the Terran Empire?

Imperial Bounty
Imperial Bounty

Author: William C. Dietz

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1497606888

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The interstellar bounty hunter returns in this adventure by the New York Times–bestselling author of Galactic Bounty. Since her brother's absence, Princess Claudia has seized the throne and brought the Empire to the brink of war with the Il Ronn. Only the missing Prince Alexander can stop Claudia's plans--and Sam McCade has only three months to find him. But Princess Claudia controls the Imperial Fleet and will stop at nothing to keep McCade from bringing in his imperial bounty?

Percepliquis
Percepliquis

Author: Michael J. Sullivan

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 2012-01-16

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0316203408

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IMPORTANT NOTE! This edition of Percepliquis is being released for readers of the original Ridan editions of The Crown Conspiracy. It does not include book 5, Wintertide. If you're reading the omnibus editions from Orbit, you should purchase Heir of Novron (which includes both Wintertide and Percepliquis). Percepliquis is the final installment of the epic fantasy, The Riyria Revelations. In this saga that began with The Crown Conspiracy, two thieves caught in the right place at the wrong time were launched on a series of ever escalating adventures that have all lead to this moment. Three thousand years have passed and the time for Novron's heir to act has arrived.