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ROBERT OLMSTEAD
Book Title: The Coldest Night
Book Description:
Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly comsumes him. But when young Mercy's disapproving father threatens Henry's life, Henry runs as far as he can--to the other side of the world.
The time is 1950, and the Korean War hangs in the balance. Descended from a long line of soldiers, Henry enlists in the Marines and arrives in Korea on the eve of the brutal seventeen-day battle of the Chosin Reservoir—the turning point of the war—completely unprepared for the forbidding Korean landscape and the unimaginable circumstances of a war well beyond the scope of anything his ancestors ever faced. Through Henry, Olmstead charts the unspoken truth about combat: that for many men, the experience of war is the most enlivening, electric, and extraordinary experience of their lives.
Author Biography:
Robert Olmstead is the author of seven previous books. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction, the Ohioana Award, was a #1 Book Sense pick and a Border’s Discover pick. Far Bright Star was the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant and is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.
COLLEEN O'CONNOR OLSON
Book Title: Mammoth Cave by Lantern Light
Book Description:
Mammoth Cave by Lantern Light - Long before Yellowstone became the world's first National Park, vacationers were already flocking to see Mammoth Cave. When cave tours began in 1816, charging people money to go into a big hole in the ground seemed like a crazy scheme, but the idea worked and has been working ever since. Mammoth Cave by Lantern Light looks at how travelers in the 1800s saw the cave, their views of the ancient American Indians who came before them, celebrities who graced the cave, and the unusual lives of the slaves who guided tours and explored new passages. Scary Stories of Mammoth Cave - Take a cave that is always dark as midnight, add 200 years of stories about travelers and explorers who saw or heard the unexplanable, throw in a few shadows and weird noises and you have the perfect setting for plenty of scary tales. Prehistoric Cavers of Mammoth Cave - Four thousand years ago, Native Americans ventured into Mammoth Cave's dark passages, lighting their way with cane torches. Who were these ancient people, and why did they risk their lives to enter such a foreboding place? "A much needed summary of pre-Columbian exploration in the world's longest cave: enjoyable to read, with careful attention to the archaeological evidence." Patty Jo Watson, professor of anthropology, Washington University. |
Author Biography:
Colleen O'Connor Olson has been guiding visitors through Mammoth Cave's dark passages since 1993. The cave's fascinating history, stories, and archeology have inspired her to write three books about the cave.
ANNE B. ONYEKWULUJE
Book Title: Historical Influence: Reading Georgia Powers as a Grassroots Civil Rights Leader in the Rough Business of Kentucky Politics
Book Description:
Historical Influence is a thematic, political, grassroots civil rights history of Senator Georgia Powers. She made major contributions to the Commonwealth of Kentucky during the rough business of Kentucky politics - the politics of the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's. Life history assumes understanding the specific context of one person is paramount. In Powers' twenty-one years as a Kentucky state senator, she championed bills for open housing and labor, and against race, class, sex, education and job discrimination. Senator Powers sponsored and co-sponsored some 147 bills, 75 of which became laws during her tenure.
Author Biography:
Anne B. Onyekwuluje is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Western Kentucky University. She is an academic lender and activist in the Diversity movement of the twenty-first century.
Dr. Onyekwuluje's life and work supports the concept of community based culture with an enlarged capacity for mutual respect and care for humanity.
DAVID OWENS
Book Title: Creative People Must Be Stopped: Six Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)
Book Description:
Why do so many organizations continue to kill good ideas and to fail in their innovation attempts? Whil most organizations give lip service to promoting innovation and creative ideas, managers all too often sabotage "outside-the-box" thinking among employees. In this book, David Owens has identified the six creative new ideas from being formulated, developed into marketable products and services, or prevent them from being adopted by the intended users. Creative People Must Be Stopped organizes these innovation killers into a conceptual framework that demystifies what innovation is, how it happens, and how we stop it (without even trying).
This proven framework has been used to diagnose the primary cause of innovation failure within hundreds of organizations that have gone onto develop strategies that foster innovation rather than stopping it in its tracks. Filled with illustrative examples from real-world organizations, the book explores each type of constraint in detail and shows how it operates and why. Creative People Must Be Stopped gives leaders the tools they need to foster an atmosphere of creativity and innovation.
Author Biography:
David A. Owens is a professor of the practice of management at Vanderbilt's Graduate School of Management, where he also directs the Executive Development Institute. Specializing in innovation and new product development, he is known as a dynamic speaker and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. He provides consulting services for a wide range of clients around the world, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Guardian and San Jose Mercury News, as well as on NPR's Marketplace. Owens has consulted for NASA, The Smithsonian, Nissan LEAF, Gibson Music, American Conservatory Theater, Mars Petcare, Alcatel, Tetra Pak, The Tennessee Valley Authority, Cisco, LEGO, The Henry Ford Museum and many other organizations.
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