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Kids Need Healthy Struggles to Succeed Every parent loves their kids. They want to protect them from pain and give them all the opportunities and comforts they never had growing up. But by removing certain struggles, parents may unknowingly jeopardize their children's future. What if you could give your kids a superpower to ensure their success outside the home? A lens to see the world in such a way that everything they encounter can be t...

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An art gallery is serious business...isn't it? Not when it involves manic artists and predatory female staff it isn't. "The funniest and sexiest of debut novels

Do you know your most important number? Numbers make or break you. Ask any bankrupt business or successful startup and they'll both agree, numbers don't lie. Unfortunately, most teams focus on too many numbers or the wrong numbers or maybe no numbers at all! Author Lee Benson knows numbers. He grew his business from 3 employees to 500 with 15 consecutive years of 20 percent compounded average annual growth. Friends and families asked for h...

A successful gallery runs on copious bottles of wine and colourfully intoxicated customers.' Discuss! More amusing interludes in the life of a gallery owner. Sequel to So You Want To Own An Art Gallery.

Three stages of mayhem... What does it take to pin your fortunes on owning an art gallery? Think about it, all those crazy artists, bargain-hunting customers and highly emotionally charged staff. Naturally it requires perseverance and plenty of wine. Of course you could always give it up and paint things yourself... That's art - that's life!

The gallery has gone and painting should be a relaxing hobby. Wrong! Selling yourself is far more problematic.

Steve Benson was born in St Paul, Minnesota and went to college in Minneapolis. He earned teaching degrees from the University of Minnesota and Mankato State College. He won a letter at the University of Minnesota in gymnastics and started as goalie on the soccer team for one season. His carpentry skills and love of adventure then lured him to Miami Florida, and shortly thereafter, was hired by an entrepreneur to accompany a team to South Amer...

Steve Benson was born in St Paul, Minnesota and went to college in Minneapolis. He earned teaching degrees from the University of Minnesota and Mankato State College. He won a letter at the University of Minnesota in gymnastics and started as goalie on the soccer team for one season. His carpentry skills and love of adventure then lured him to Miami Florida, and shortly thereafter, was hired by an entrepreneur to accompany a team to South Amer...

Uncovering the complex ways that first-generation students sort themselves and are sorted into very different college worlds, Benson and Lee show that these experiences are deeply shaped by organizational practices and vary by class, race, and gender with both immediate and long-term implications for climbing the socioeconomic ladder.

The story begins in the year 1819 when Nathaniel Coffin turns sixteen years, shortly after the tragic deaths of his parents and nine-year-old sister Christiana. Life became even more difficult after he was adopted by an alcoholic aunt named May Nickerson. Coincidentally, it was also the height of the sperm whale industry. His childhood wish to work on a whaling ship became all-consuming. Conflict soon arose after just six weeks at sea-the resu...

Root disease epidemics, because much of the activity takes place in soil and out of sight, pose special challenges to growers who seek to manage them and to scientists who study them. All relevant topics of root disease epidemics and their management are presented: The critical aspects of specific disease components including inoculum, host roots, mycorrhiza and the soil environment are explored. Challenges of disease assessment and the tempor...

Mexico and the United States each have a constitution and a federal system of government. This fact has led many historians to assume that the Mexican system of government, established in the 1820s, is an imitation of the U.S. model. But it is not. In this interpretation of the independence movement, Nettie Lee Benson tells the true story of Mexico's transition from colonial status to a federal state. She traces the Mexican government's beginn...

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Few developments in the history of the Spanish colonial system in Mexico have been more carelessly treated or more often misinterpreted than the attempt to establish constitutional government in New Spain under the Spanish monarchy during the 1809-1814 and 1820-1822 periods. Yet the broad outlines of the Mexican constitutional system were laid then, largely through the insistent efforts of the Mexican deputies to the Cortes, the Spanish legisl...

One of the most startlingly impressive aspects of the ... text is that the authors have recast Dewey's work by a close reading and re-analysis of his legacy. In so doing, they have re-energized the progressive intent in his original work and provided a contemporary focus for a renewal of the progressive agenda in education. I found the argument compelling and exciting and, in my view, the authors have fully succeeded in identifying key tasks f...

One of the most startlingly impressive aspects of the ... text is that the authors have recast Dewey's work by a close reading and re-analysis of his legacy. In so doing, they have re-energized the progressive intent in his original work and provided a contemporary focus for a renewal of the progressive agenda in education. I found the argument compelling and exciting and, in my view, the authors have fully succeeded in identifying key tasks f...

Jacksonian Democracy has become almost a commonplace in American history. But in this penetrating analysis of one state-its voting cycles, party makeup, and social, ethnic, and religious patterns-Lee Benson shows that the concept bears little or no relation to New York history during the Jacksonian period.New York voters between 1816 and 1844 did not follow the traditional distinctions between Whigs and Democrats. Ethnic and religious ties wer...

Lee Benson¿(1922–2012) was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of¿Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform¿(Temple).Ira Harkavy¿is Associate Vice President and Founding Director of the Barbara and Edward Netter¿Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of¿Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform¿(T...