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Visions of Philanthropy / by Lessard, Paul JAuthor(local)tlcaut6004912261833100;

Jesse & Jim Millis, Sr. -- Marsha & Jack Slane -- David Hayworth -- Bill Horney -- Jane & Bud McInnis -- Mariana & Nido Qubein -- Robert J. Brown -- Hilda Fountain -- Kitty & Earl Congdon -- Parker White -- About the High Point Community Foundation -- High Point Community Foundation past recipients [Philanthropist of the Year Award and Spirit of the Foundation Award] -- Photography credits and contact information.

Subjects: High Point Community Foundation.; Fountain, Hilda.; White, Parker.; Millis, Jesse.; Millis, Jim.; Slane, Marsha.; Slane, Jack.; Hayworth, David.; Horney, Bill.; McInnis, Bud.; McInnis, Jane.; Quebein, Mariana.; Quebein, Nido.; Brown, Robert J.; Congdon, Earl.; Congdon, Kitty.; High Point Community Foundation.; Philanthropists;

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Partnering with purpose : a guide to strategic partnership development for libraries and other organizations / by Crowther, Janet L.(CARDINAL)465183; Trott, Barry,1961-(CARDINAL)465182;

Includes bibliographical references (page 137) and index.

Subjects: Libraries and community.; Libraries and business.; Public-private sector cooperation.; Partnership.; Libraries;

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Dead reckoning : a Yorkshire mystery / by Hall, Patricia,1940-(CARDINAL)342497;

Earnshaw's Mill, one of last remaining foundations of Bradfield's industrial heritage, harkening back to Yorkshire's glorious past, has seen better days. As the times have changed, the future of the Earnshaw mill has become even more uncertain. With impending staff cuts necessary to keep the mill alive, the union is unhappy and the workers are threatening to strike. Racial tensions are already high enough in Bradfield's Muslim community, so with the possibility of large unemployment in town looming, trouble is in the air. When one of the Earnshaw children turns up dead, DCI Michael Thackeray heads up the investigation into his death. The victim, a major shareholder in the company, has left no will and the future of the mill has become even more unclear. In the meantime, Thackeray's girlfriend, reporter Laura Ackroyd, is researching a story on the racial tensions in the Muslim community. After witnessing a hostile race-related mishap on the street, she wanted to take a closer look at the circumstances underlying Bradfield's racial problems. Then she learns about the case of Saira Khan, a gifted student from a Muslim family who has gone missing and her story takes off, plunging her right into the middle of an escalating crisis. As both industrial and race relations reach the boiling point.

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Ackroyd, Laura (Fictitious character); Ackroyd, Laura (Fictitious character); Labor unions; Pakistanis; Police; Racism; Thackeray, Michael (Fictitious character); Thackeray, Michael (Fictitious character); Women journalists; Police.; Racism.;

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Ten9eight [videorecording] shoot for the moon / by Mazzio, Mary.; 50 Eggs (Firm); National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship.;

Editor, Paul Gattuso ; director of photography, Richard Klug ; composer, Alex Lasarenko.Narrated by Rodney Walker.Special features: trailer; interview with the director; stories of Rahfeal, Huong, Eric, Sekeithia; performances by Eric, Sekeithia, Howard, Empire Group; teaching guide.Ten9Eight chronicles the inspirational stories of several teens from low-income communities (from Harlem to Compton and all points in between) as they compete in the 2008 "National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge" annual business plan competition sponsored by National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).Not rated.DVD-ROM and Adobe Acrobat Reader required for teaching guide in PDF file format.DVD; NTSC, all regions; widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, stereo.

Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Feature films.; Business education; Education, Secondary; Educational change; Entrepreneurship; High school students; School improvement programs; Young businesspeople;

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Sixty-one : life lessons from papa, on and off the court / by Paul, Chris,1985-author.(CARDINAL)493294; Wilbon, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)672082;

The game -- Papa -- Relentless -- Going back -- The game -- Dreamland -- Don't quit -- Fathers, sons, and brothers -- The game -- Don't cheat the DEACS -- Community -- Social responsibility -- The game -- That Mamba mentality -- Team CP3, another kind of family -- A glorious day -- Build a leader -- It takes a village -- An untimely ending -- Game over -- Rest in power, Papa -- The aftermath -- A difference."By the NBA superstar: A powerful and unexpected memoir of family, faith, tragedy, and life's most important lessons. The day after future NBA superstar Chris Paul signed his letter of intent to play college basketball for Wake Forest, he received a world-shattering phone call. His grandfather, Nathaniel "Papa" Jones, a pillar of the Winston-Salem community where he owned and operated the first Black-owned service station in North Carolina, was mugged and ultimately died from a heart attack resulting from the assault. His funeral filled the largest church in the county, which held over one thousand people. He was sixty-one years old. The day after burying his grandfather, Chris was coping the best way he knew how: by playing basketball for his high school team. After pouring in shot after shot, his last attempt was an airball purposely flung out of bounds from the foul line before Chris exited the game. The next day, local news headlines declared that he fell six points shy of the statewide single game high school scoring record. But he accomplished exactly what he set out to do: scoring sixty-one points, one for each year of life lived by his grandfather. In Sixty-One, Chris opens up about life beyond basketball and the role his grandfather played in molding him into the man and father he is today. He'll speak about the foundation of faith and family he built his life upon, what it means to be a positive light within your community and beyond, and the importance of setting the proper example for future generations. Most importantly, Chris will talk about his home, Winston-Salem, and the close-knit family and village that raised him to become one of the most respected leaders in all of sports."--

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Paul, Chris, 1985-; Paul, Chris, 1985-; Community life; Grandparent and child.;

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The bee eater : Michelle Rhee takes on the nation's worst school district / by Whitmire, Richard.(CARDINAL)497820;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: Preface. -- Acknowledgments. -- Introduction. -- 1 An (Asian) American Life. -- 2 Learn, Teach, Rinse, Repeat. -- 3 Going National. -- 4 Welcome to the Nation's Education Superfund Site. -- 5 Closing Schools. -- 6 Randi and Michelle. -- 7 New Hires, New Fires. -- 8 Up from the Foundations: The Challenge of High School Reform. -- 9 Rhee's Critics Find a Winning Storyline. -- 10 The Mayor's Race. -- 11 Lessons Learned. -- 12 What's Next? -- Notes. -- About the Author. -- Index."The inside story of a maverick reformer with a take-no-prisoners management style Hailed by Oprah as a "warrior woman for our times," reviled by teachers unions as the enemy, Michelle Rhee, outgoing chancellor of Washington DC public schools, has become the controversial face of school reform. She has appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, and is currently featured as a hero in the documentary "Waiting for Superman." This is the story of her journey from good-girl daughter of Korean immigrants to tough-minded political game-changer. When Rhee first arrived in Washington, she found a school district that had been so broken for so long, that everyone had long since given up.? The book provides an inside view of the union battles, the school closings, and contentious community politics that have been the subject of intense public interest and debate ? along with a rare look at Rhee's upbringing and life before DC. Rhee has been featured in the documentary "Waiting for Superman" Rhee's story points to a fresh way of addressing school improvement? Addresses fundamental problems in our current education system, and the politics of leadership The book includes an insert with photos from Rhee's personal and professional life, and an "exit" interview that sheds light on what she's learned and where the future might take her."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Biographies.; Rhee, Michelle.; Education; Educational change; Educational leadership; Educators; Public schools; School administrators; School improvement programs;

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Ten days in Harlem / by Hall, Simon,1976-author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-268) and index.Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionized the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His visit to the UN represents a golden opportunity to make his mark on the world stage. Fidel's shock arrival in Harlem is met with a rapturous reception from the local African American community. He holds court from the iconic Hotel Theresa as a succession of world leaders, black freedom fighters and counter-cultural luminaries - everyone from Nikita Khrushchev to Gamal Abdel Nasser, Malcolm X to Allen Ginsberg - come calling. Then, during his landmark address to the UN General Assembly - one of the longest speeches in the organisation's history - he promotes the politics of anti-imperialism with a fervour, and an audacity, that makes him an icon of the 1960s. In this unforgettable slice of modern history, Simon Hall reveals how these ten days were a foundational moment in the trajectory of the Cold War, a turning point in the history of anti-colonial struggle, and a launching pad for the social, cultural and political tumult of the decade that followed. "A highly readable, engaging, astute microhistory of an overlooked event." - Kirkus

Subjects: Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016.; Cold War.; World politics;

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Résumé magic : trade secrets of a professional résumé writer / by Whitcomb, Susan Britton,1957-(CARDINAL)654339;

1. A résumé primer -- Tools for the task -- The résumé tool : asset or liability? -- Employers and candidates usually view résumés as having different purposes -- A résumé is most effective when it follows face-to-face or voice contact with a hiring manager -- A support person or computer program will probably be the one to screen your résumé -- Résumés are not read thoroughly -- You won't always need a résumé to land a job -- Then why write a résumé? -- And why this book? -- Some success stories -- Your most important tool -- Top 10 tips to create résumé magic --10. Cover letters and other parts of the puzzle -- Strategy and style -- The value mantra -- Sell, don't tell -- Reveal a secret -- The segments of a cover letter -- The carrot -- The corroboration -- The close -- The anatomy of the cover letter -- Sticky wickets -- To whom it may concern? -- Missed a filing deadline? -- Terminated from a job? -- Relocating? -- Dealing with salary -- Other types of letters -- Direct-mail campaigns -- Writing to a recruiting firm -- Thank-you letters, a chance to resell yourself -- Other pieces of the puzzle -- References -- When to send references -- When and how to ask for references -- Rethinking the 'reference page" with some creative persuasion -- Networking cards -- Addenda -- Paper -- Sending your cover letter and résumé -- By surface mail -- By fax -- By e-mail -- Futurist career management -- Top 10 cover letter tips -- Appendix A. Worksheets to catalog professional history -- Appendix B. Survey : what employers really want in a résumé and cover letter -- Résumés -- Cover letters -- Appendix C. Action verbs with sample phrases.2. How to use branding and advertising strategies to get an interview -- Using brand and ad agency strategies to win an interview -- Elements of your career brand -- Authentic image -- Advantages -- Awareness -- The proven ad agency formula -- Step 1 : how to grab your reader's attention -- Headlines and hard-hitting leads -- Visual appeal -- Step 2 : how to capture your reader's interest -- Selling points, front and center -- Where's the center of the page? -- Place supporting information below the visual center -- Skimmable material goes at the bottom of the page -- Step 3 : how to create desire for your product, you! -- Why you buy -- Why employers buy -- Prove your superiority -- Step 4 : call to action -- Top 10 résumé strategy tips --3. How to choose the most flattering format -- Two tried-and-true winning formats : chronological and functional -- The chronological format -- The functional format -- Genetic variants of the two main résumé types -- The accomplishments format -- The combination format -- The creative format -- The curriculum vitae (CV) -- The dateless chronological format -- The international résumé -- The linear format -- The newsletter format -- The reordered chronological format -- The targeted format -- If it works, it's right -- Top 10 résumé formatting tips --4. The blueprint for a blockbuster résumé -- Data bits, or contact info -- To list or not to list your business telephone number -- Other solutions for daytime contacts -- Sample résumé headers -- Dealing with relocation on your résumé -- Objective, or focus statement -- Key features, or qualifications summary -- Professional experience -- Skills -- Education, credentials, and licenses -- Affiliations -- Publications, presentations, or patents -- Awards and honors -- Bio bites -- Endorsements -- What not to include -- Putting it all together -- Top 10 résumé blueprint tips --5. How to write great copy -- Keywords -- What are keywords? -- Where to find keywords -- Off-line resources for keywords -- Online resources for keywords -- How to position keywords -- How to improve your "hit" ratio -- Top 10 résumé keyword tips -- The objective or focus statement -- Cover letter focus statement -- Title statement -- Traditional objective -- Exercise for assembling a focus statement -- The qualifications summary -- Professional experience -- How far back? -- Where to find material for your job descriptions -- How long is too long? -- Solutions for downplaying less-relevant positions -- Skills -- Education, credentials, licensure -- Recent high school graduate -- Recent college graduate -- Degree obtained a number of years ago -- Degree in a field different from your major -- Degree not completed -- Two-year degree -- Degree equivalent -- No degree -- Including credentials, licenses, and certificates -- Affiliations -- Publications, presentations, and patents -- Publications -- Presentations -- Patents -- Awards and honors -- Bio bites -- Endorsements -- Top 10 tips for writing great copy --6. Accomplishments : the linchpin of a great résumé -- What's in it for me? -- Words to woo employers -- Buying motivator #1 : make money -- Buying motivator #2 : save money -- Buying motivator #3 : save time -- Buying motivator #4 : make work easier -- Buying motivator #5 : solve a specific problem -- Buying motivator #6 : be more competitive -- Buying motivator #7 : build relationships/image with internal/external customers, vendors, and the public -- Buying motivator #8 : expand business -- Buying motivator #9 : attract new customers -- Buying motivator #10 : retain existing customers -- Strategies for presenting accomplishments -- Numbers : the universal language -- Comparison, a powerful form of communication -- ROI, how quickly can you deliver? -- The company's mission statement, make it your mission -- The CAR technique, challenge, action, and result -- Where to find material for your accomplishments -- Performance appraisals -- Your career management file -- Impact-mining : probing questions to unearth hidden treasures -- Sifting through the accomplishments you've gathered -- Use impact statements to portray yourself as the right fit -- Top 10 tips for writing accomplishments --7. Editing : résumé-speak 101 -- Development editing : a primer in power writing -- Top 10 tenets of developing your résumé -- Examples of résumé-speak -- The keys to writing compelling copy -- Address the needs of your audience -- Summarize by using the ABC method -- Focus on transferable skills -- Résumé-speak 101 -- Deliver the goods up front -- Start sentences with action verbs or noun phrases -- Sidestep potential negatives -- Give outdated experience a feeling of real time -- Avoid an employer pet peeve : baseless personality attributes -- Convey confidential information without giving away proprietary/trade secrets -- Technical editing/copyediting : the mechanics of résumé-speak -- Abbreviations -- Acronyms -- Active voice -- Articles (in absentia) -- Auxiliary or helping verbs -- Capitalization -- Colons and semicolons -- Commas -- Commas that separate -- Commas that set off -- Comma trauma -- Contractions -- Dashes -- Ellipsis marks -- Elliptical sentences -- Gender equity -- Hyphenation -- Numbers -- Parallel sentence structure -- Parentheses -- Parts of speech -- Passive voice -- Periods -- Possessives -- Prepositions -- Quotation marks -- Sentence fragments -- Slashes -- Split infinitives -- Tense -- Verbs -- Writing in the first person -- Prune, prune, prune -- Proof, proof, proof -- Top 10 résumé proofreading tips --8. Visual artistry : the missing link -- Design elements -- Create a visual pattern -- Consistency counts -- Use tab stops sparingly -- Apply white space liberally -- Make bullets work for you -- Think in threes -- Keep headings to a minimum -- Segment paragraphs -- Balance is beautiful -- Pay attention to vertical balance -- Balancing a two-column format -- Balancing a full-width layout -- Balancing unevenly distributed copy -- Balancing impact statements -- Justification, ragged right or full justification? -- Hang it on the wall! -- Use typefaces tastefully -- Choosing a font -- Fonts that buy more space -- Use discretion in mixing fonts -- Go easy on bold, underline, and italic -- Establish a logical sizing hierarchy -- Tweaking tips -- Technical tools to create tables -- Add white space -- Adding space between paragraphs in MS Word -- Adding space between paragraphs in Corel WordPerfect -- Change line height -- Adjusting vertical space between lines within paragraphs in MS Word -- Adjusting vertical space between lines within paragraphs in Corel WordPerfect -- Expand character spacing -- Expanding text in MS Word -- Expanding text in Corel WordPerfect -- Tricks to make text fit -- Shrinking text in MS Word -- Shrinking text in Corel WordPerfect -- Use bullets strategically -- Creating bullets in MS Word -- Creating bullets in Corel WordPerfect -- Adding or subtracting spacing between bullets and text in MS Word -- Adding or subtracting spacing between bullets and text in Corel WordPerfect -- Changing the type of bullet in MS Word -- Changing the type of bullet in Corel WordPerfect -- Size of bullets -- Use rule lines -- Inserting a rule line in MS Word -- Inserting a rule line in Corel WordPerfect -- Other graphic elements -- Top 10 visual appeal tips --9. E-résumés, e-portfolios, and blogs -- ASCII text résumés -- The advantages and disadvantages of ASCII résumés -- ASCII résumé do's and don'ts -- Steps for ASCII conversion -- Converting to ASCII for e-mailing using MS Word or Corel WordPerfect -- Converting to ASCII for pasting into e-forms -- Quick cleanup of an ASCII conversion -- How to post an ASCII résumé to a Web site -- Web résumés, e-portfolios, and blogs -- The advantages and disadvantages of Web résumés -- The technical how-tos of Web résumés -- Online résumé-builder services -- Do-it-yourself Web résumés -- Hire a pro -- Web résumé do's and don'ts -- What to include in an e-portfolio -- Hyperlinks or hyperjinx? -- Using your Web résumé -- Marketing your Web résumé -- Getting on the blog bandwagon -- What to include in a blog -- Creating a blog -- Using RSS (really simple syndication) technology -- Marketing your blog -- Scannable résumés -- Scannable résumé do's and don'ts -- Applicant-tracking systems : what happens after you e-mail or post your résumé? -- Positive aspects of applicant-tracking technology -- Negative aspects of applicant-tracking technology -- Conflicting advice -- Résumés of the future -- Top 10 technology tips for e-résumés, e-portfolios, and blogs --

Subjects: Résumés (Employment); Community Foundation of Western North Carolina;

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Lyle Ashton Harris : today I shall judge nothing that occurs : selections from the Ektachrome archive / by Harris, Lyle Ashton,1965-artist,photographer.(CARDINAL)884226; Aletti, Vince,contributor.(CARDINAL)682375; Attille, Martina,contributor.(CARDINAL)884280; Baer, Ulrich,contributor.(CARDINAL)680746; Bordowitz, Gregg,contributor.(CARDINAL)873201; Burton, Johanna,contributor.(CARDINAL)279934; Edwards, Adrienne(Art critic),contributor.(CARDINAL)782756; Gaines, Malik,contributor.(CARDINAL)855605; Gallun, Lucy,contributor.(CARDINAL)565504; Harris, Thomas Allen,contributor.(CARDINAL)884387; Johnson, Rashid,1977-contributor.(CARDINAL)353066; Lax, Thomas J.,contributor.(CARDINAL)855500; Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth,1979-contributor.(CARDINAL)281757; Lin, Parissah,contributor.; Lord, Catherine,1949-contributor.(CARDINAL)856456; Marconi, Roxana,contributor.; Newkirk, Pamela,contributor.(CARDINAL)704298; Otis, Clarence,Jr.,contributor.; Reid-Pharr, Robert,1965-contributor.(CARDINAL)278720; Storr, Robert,contributor.(CARDINAL)183035; Thomas, Mickalene,1971-contributor.(CARDINAL)316691; Udé, Iké,contributor.(CARDINAL)884233; Aperture Foundation,publisher.(CARDINAL)195492;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, a radical cultural scene emerged in cities across the globe, finding expression in the galleries, nightclubs, and bedrooms of New York, London, Los Angeles, and Rome. In Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs, the artist's archive of 35 mm Ektachrome images are presented alongside journal entries and recollections from a host of artistic and cultural figures. It offers a unique document of what Harris has described as "ephemeral moments and emblematic figures shot in the 1980s and '90s, against a backdrop of seismic shifts in the art world, the emergence of multiculturalism, the second wave of AIDS activism, and incipient globalization." As a young artist experimenting with installation, performance, and collage at the time, Harris obsessively photographed his friends, lovers, and individuals who either were, or would become, figures of influence, such as Marlon Riggs, Cornel West, bell hooks, Stuart Hall, Klaus Biesenbach, Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie, Glenn Ligon, and others. The images record the confluence of multiple international communities--gathering points for the exchange of ideas and the development of theoretical positions on art and culture that continue to resonate to this day. Together, these photographs and the journals not only sketch a personal history of a unique time of importance to contemporary art, but also show the development and shaping of Harris's eye and influences as an artist. -- From Publisher's website:Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photography and collage to installation and performance art. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Harris has been widely exhibited internationally, including most recently in "Photography's Last Century" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; in "Basquiat's 'Defacement': The Untold Story'' and "Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; in "United by AIDS" at Migros Museum f|r Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; in "Kiss My Genders" at the Haywood Gallery, London; in "Tell Me Your Story" at Kunsthal KaDE, Amersfoort, NL; in "Elements of Vogue" at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (traveled to Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City). Harris's work was included in the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), the Busan Biennial, South Korea (2008), the Bienal de Ŝo Paulo (2016), the Whitney Biennial (2017), and presented by Ciňma Du Řel at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018). Harris is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annendale-on-Hudson, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; P̌rez Art Museum, Miami; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Tate Modern, London, UK; Museo de Arte Contempor̀neo de Castilla y Le̤n, Spain; Migros Museum f|r Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland, among others. Harris has also presented performances at a range of venues, most recently at Volksb|hne Gr|ner Salon sponsored by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2019); a lecture/performance on Andy Warhol presented by the DIA Art Foundation, New York (2018); and an installation/performance at Participant Inc., New York (2018); and a lecture/performance on experimentation, politics and sexuality in the work of filmmaker Marlon T. Riggs at Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver BC, Canada (2020).arris received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2016), the David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2014), and the Rome Prize Fellowship (2000) among other awards and honors. Harris joined the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome in 2014 and was appointed a trustee of the Tiffany Foundation in 2016. Born in the Bronx, New York, raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and New York, Harris obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. His work is available from the following fine art galleries: Salon 94 (New York, NY, USA); David Castillo (Miami, FL, USA); Albert Merola Gallery (Provincetown, MA, USA); Maruani Mercier (Brussels, BE). Harris is a Professor of Art at New York University and lives in New York.-- From artist's website (January 2024):

Subjects: Harris, Lyle Ashton, 1965-; African American artists; African American gay people; African Americans in art.; Artists, Black; Black people in art.; Gay people, Black; Gay men, Black; Gay people; African American photographers.; Photographers, Black.; Photography, Artistic.; Photography; Vernacular photography.; Queer gaze.; Queer (Verb); Queer art.; Queer artists.; LGBTQ+ artists.; LGBTQ+ arts.; African American queer people.; Black queer people.; Queer people.; LGBTQ+ people.; Black gay men.; Homosexuals.;

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The good lawyer : seeking quality in the practice of law / by Linder, Douglas O.,1951-author.(CARDINAL)433468; Levit, Nancy,author.(CARDINAL)394594;

Machine generated contents note: -- PREFACE -- The Wolf at Lost Lake -- Obsessed with Quality -- INTRODUCTORY NOTE -- Chapter 1: THE GOOD LAWYER IS EMPATHETIC -- Feeling Clients' Pain on Thunderhead Ranch -- The Importance of Being Empathetic -- Using Empathy to Tell Better Stories -- The Origins and Science of Empathy -- Can Lawyers Learn to Be More Empathetic? -- The Challenge of Developing Empathy in Law Schools -- Is More Empathy Always Better? -- The Empathy Debate -- Do We Want Judges to Be Empathetic? -- Empathy and Moral Action -- Chapter 2: THE GOOD LAWYER IS COURAGEOUS -- A Profile in Courage -- Physical Courage -- Moral Courage -- Psychological Courage -- Can We Learn Courage? -- Courage in Law Schools -- Codes and Courage: Two Stories -- Courage and Justice -- Chapter 3: THE GOOD LAWYER PURSUES JUSTICE WITH INTEGRITY -- A Framed Corduroy Jacket -- Seeking Justice for People -- Chattanooga Revisited: One Lawyer's Sense of Justice -- Is the Pursuit of Justice Nothing More Than Helping Your Clients? -- 'Big Picture' Justice -- When It Is Your Job to Do Justice -- The Evolutionary Roots of Our Passion for Justice -- Emotions, Reason, and Our Sense of Justice -- Pursuing Justice, But with Integrity -- The Importance of Honesty -- Can Lawyers Be Honest All the Time? -- Honesty in the Practice -- 'Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens May Fall' -- Pursuing Justice with Passion -- Chapter 4: THE GOOD LAWYER VALUES OTHERS IN THE LEGAL COMMUNITY -- A Humble (But Very Famous) Attorney -- Remembering What Matters -- The Power of Humility: One Lawyer's Approach to Negotiations -- Mellow Beats Bellow -- What to Do About Incivility -- The Idea of Political Fraternity -- Our Political Differences: Whose Side Are You On? -- Can Liberals and Conservatives Be Friends? -- Roots of Our Political Differences -- The Six Foundations for Moral Judgments -- 'Follow the Sacredness' and Seek Diversity -- Chapter 5: THE GOOD LAWYER USES BOTH INTUTION AND DELIBERATIVE THINKING -- The Medical Instrument That Wasn't -- Expert Intuition Is Simply Good Pattern Recognition -- The Costs and Benefits of Intuition -- Confirmation Bias -- Mental Blind Spots -- All We See Is All There Is -- Anchoring -- Too Narrow Framing -- Negative Implicit Attitudes -- It's Hard to Keep an Open Mind -- Chapter 6: THE GOOD LAWYER THINKS REALISTICALLY -- ABOUT THE FUTURE -- What Research Reveals About the Predictive Abilities of Lawyers -- We Want to Believe the World Is More Predictable Than It Is -- Here Come the Computers -- Being Smart About Probability -- Decision Trees, Game Theory and the Hope of a Better Settlement Process -- Imagining the Future (An Amazing Human Trick) -- The Future Is Hard to See -- Promise Keeping -- A Balance Between Knowing and Doubting -- Chapter 7: THE GOOD LAWYER SERVES THE TRUE INTERESTS OF CLIENTS -- A Story of a Wise Lawyer -- Being Clear About Aims -- Advocates and Counselors -- The Four Possible Aims of Lawyers -- What's Wrong with 'Winning Is Everything"? -- Lawyers as Hired Guns: What's Wrong With Maximizing Client Autonomy? -- Guru Lawyers: What's Wrong with Simply Doing Right as the Lawyer Sees It? -- Lawyers as Friends: Aiming for Client Goodness -- Establishing Trust -- Involving the Client in the Process -- Categorizing and Framing the Issues -- Identifying and Serving the Client's True Interests -- Thinking Like a Judge, Not a Lawyer -- Chapter 8: THE GOOD LAWYER HAS AMPLE WILLPOWER -- One Persistent Lawyer -- Willpower in a Stress-Filled Profession -- The Importance of Willpower -- Mindsets and Willpower -- Willpower Lessons -- Our Finite Supply of Willpower -- Can Willpower Be Strengthened? -- Emotional Traps that Drain Willpower and Harm Decision-Making -- Making the Future Bigger -- Chapter 9: THE GOOD LAWYER IS PERSUASIVE -- Being Honest and Courageous -- Being Empathetic -- Appealing to Moral Intuitions -- Using Words and Sounds That Stick -- Anchoring and Framing -- Respecting Opponents and Making Strategic Concessions -- Preparing Thoroughly -- Chapter 10: SEEKING QUALITY -- The Trajectory of Careers -- The Nature of Practice and What It Means for Quality -- Creating Environments Where Good Lawyers Can Flourish -- The Scourge of Billable Hours -- What a Good Lawyer Does -- Finding Work that Fits Your Strengths -- If You Are a Good Lawyer, Who Will Know? -- At Career's End: Remembrance of Things Past."Doug Linder and Nancy Levit combine evidence from the latest social science research with numerous engaging accounts of able attorneys at work to explain just what makes a good lawyer -- courage, empathy, integrity, realism, a strong sense of justice, clarity of purpose, and an ability to transcend emotionalism"--"Every lawyer wants to be a good lawyer. They want to do right by their clients, contribute to the professional community, become good colleagues, interact effectively with people of all persuasions, and choose the right cases. All of these skills and behaviors are important, but they spring from hard-to-identify foundational qualities necessary for good lawyering. After focusing for three years on getting high grades and sharpening analytical skills, far too many lawyers leave law school without a real sense of what it takes to be a good lawyer. In The Good Lawyer, a follow up to their book The Happy Lawyer, law professors Douglas O. Linder and Nancy Levit combine evidence from the latest social science research with numerous engaging accounts of able attorneys at work to explain just what makes a good lawyer. They organize the book around the qualities they see as crucial: courage, empathy, integrity, realism, a strong sense of justice, clarity of purpose, and an ability to transcend emotionalism. But as the authors point out, each one must be apportioned in the right measure, and achieving the right balance is difficult. Lawyers need to know when to empathize and also when to detach; courage without an appreciation of consequences becomes recklessness. And what do you do in tricky situations, where the urge to deceive is high? How can you maintain focus through a mind-taxing (or mind-numbing) project? Every lawyer faces these problems at some point -- they're inherent in the nature of the work-but if properly recognized and approached, they can be overcome. It's not easy being good -- quality is less something one grasps and hangs onto than a goal that requires constant striving and attention -- but this engaging guide will serve as a handbook for any lawyer trying not only to figure out how to respond to difficult situations, but how to become a better -- meaning both more competent and more virtuous -- lawyer"--

Subjects: Lawyers.; Practice of law.;

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