Product Description: The ability to develop and implement a successful strategy is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career.Written by Stephen Berry, a leading expert on strategy as both a coach and a practitioner, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order to build a winning strategy...read more

Product Description: In North Carolina English, 1861–1865, Michael E. Ellis offers an Oxford English Dictionary–like take on regional language based on more than two thousand letters and diaries composed by North Carolinians during the Civil War...read more

Product Description: For all the talk of the Civil War's pitting brother against brother, no book has told fully the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family better illustrates the personal toll the war took than Lincoln’s own. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between the Confederacy and the Union...read more

Addressing the personal costs of a family divided by the Civil War, a historian focuses on Mary Todd Lincoln's family, whose loyalties were split between the Union and Confederacy, examining the influence of the Todd family saga on how Lincoln approachedthe war.