Genovese: 43 books
A Scout's Report
My 70 Years in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Many in baseball consider the scout to be the most important figure in any organization: It is the scout’s work in the high school and college bleachers that unearths future legends. Few have achieved more—and in such grand style—than George Genovese. In a game that values numbers, Genovese’s...
Fatal Self-Deception
Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this...
From Rebellion to Revolution
Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
In perhaps his most provocative book Eugene Genovese examines the slave revolts of the New World and places them in the context of modern world history. By studying the conditions that favored these revolts and the history of slave guerrilla warfare throughout the western hemisphere, he connects the...
The Presidential Dilemma
Revisiting Democratic Leadership in the American System
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This brief, thought-provoking text evaluates the performance of recent presidents from Johnson to Bush, finding that, overall, each has failed to live up to public expectations. Written by one of the top presidency scholars today, The Presidential Dilemma reflects on the idea that as our country's...
by Jeremy E. C. Genovese
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Would You Like To Have A Mmemory Like GOOGLE? Have you tried the tricks other memory books teach and given up? Can you actually improve your memory? What does science say? Memory researcher Jeremy Genovese knows there's good news - science offers real help. A growing body of research has given us tools...
The Sweetness of Life
Southern Planters at Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the antebellum American South. Based on a lifetime of research by the late Eugene Genovese (1930–2012), with an introduction and epilogue by Douglas Ambrose, The Sweetness of Life presents a penetrating study of slaveholders and their families...
Leadership Matters
Unleashing the Power of Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Some leaders fundamentally alter the status quo whilst others guide quietly. Most leadership books emphasise specific rules, but Tom Cronin and Michael Genovese see leadership as filled with paradox. Leadership Matters offers a different view of leadership - one that builds community and responds...
A Presidential Nation
Causes, Consequences, and Cures
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial. Why do we devote monuments to the presidents? Why do we honor them, instead of Congress, or the courts? A Presidential Nation examines how the presidency (an office limited by the Constitution and separation of powers) became the...
The Future of Leadership
Leveraging Influence in an Age of Hyper-Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
The Future of Leadership considers how the rapid changes of today will affect the leaders of tomorrow. Renowned Leadership scholar Michael A. Genovese argues that one of the key challenges for future leaders will be to effectively and constructively manage the ‘hyper-change’ taking place both...
Roll, Jordan, Roll
The World the Slaves Made
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
This landmark history of slavery in the South—a winner of the Bancroft Prize—challenged conventional views of slaves by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society.
Rather than emphasizing the cruelty and degradation of slavery, historian...
The Mind of the Master Class
History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself...
by Lishone Genovese
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
In this first edition of 101 Self-Publishing Terms Every Author Needs To Know, author Lishone’ Genovese lays out a complete guide for the day-to-day terms used in book publishing, especially the self-publishing industry.
101 Self-Publishing Terms Every Author Needs To Know clearly outlines...
by Ni'chelle Genovese
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Nobody tells the story of women out for revenge quite like Ni’chelle Genovese does. Follow Michelle, Honey, and Novie as they struggle to protect themselves and hit back at the people who have wronged them.
Michelle has been broken down, restored, and at the hands of Honey, practically demolished....
The War Power in an Age of Terrorism
Debating Presidential Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This book features a lively debate between two prominent scholars—Michael A. Genovese and David Gray Adler—on the critical issue of whether the Constitution, written in the 18th Century, remains adequate to the national security challenges of our time. The question of the scope of the president’s...