Bøger af Robert Morgan

It takes tremendous work, study, and years of practice to become a great leader. We need to stop throwing our managers to the wolves. Businesses everywhere in the world tend to name the wrong person manager and then train them on administrative things-- not how to maximize the human potential. Ten Disciplines is a guide, for reference, to remind us what being a leader means and how we can accomplish it. It will give managers everywhere a GPS to success. The ten disciplines are not all encompassing. They are traits from leaders who had an enormous effect on me. Many managers would be much more successful if we give them some guidance. Give them a solid foundation, mentor, council and push them, they can succeed. Leaders are not born; they are made, this book can be the beginning.

Containing contributions from leading theologians around the world, this work offers a concise survey of John Macquarrie's theology and philosophy. A considerable influence on many contemporary thinkers and theologians, John Macquarrie's work deals with diverse areas, such as Christology, mysticism and ecclesiology.

"Over 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed novelist and poet Robert Morgan offers a new biography of this gifted, complicated author. Focusing on Poe's personal relationships, Morgan chronicles how several women influenced his life and art. Eliza Poe, his mother, died before he turned three, but she haunted him ever after. The loss of Elmira Royster Shelton, his first and last love, devastated him and inspired much of his poetry. Morgan shows that Poe, known for his gothic and supernatural writing, was also a poet of the natural world who helped invent the detective story, science fiction, analytical criticism, and symbolist aesthetics. Though he died at age forty, Poe left behind works of great originality and vision that Fallen Angel explores with depth and feeling"--

Appalachian author Robert Morgan delivers eight new stories about life and legends in the mountains of Western North Carolina. An alligator in in the deep woods of a state park? Ghosts? The mob? Robert Morgan takes readers into the mountains where Spanish Conquistadors once hid out, where cougars and thieves stalk their prey, and where a rock with strange markings can conjure the unexpected.

A new collection of poetry and fiction by New York Times-bestselling and award-winning poet, novelist, biographer, and historian Robert Morgan.Readers of Robert Morgan's literature--the poems, the short stories, the novels, the biographies and histories--will be richly rewarded with this collection. Evoking personal memory and regional and national history, which for half a century Morgan has poignantly and enduringly rendered in his books, the fourteen poems and three short stories of THE ORATORIO THAT WAS TIME will inform, delight, and haunt its audience. "Morgan," notes Helena María Viramontes in the foreword, "is without comparison in writing about intergenerational history and geography, where we can uproot ourselves but never quite shake off the soil. These generous and intimate images and stories can only arise from a writer given over to the qualities of grace and gratitude, one who holds an equitable vision of the world. That and a profound belief in love.""No contemporary American poet can rival Robert Morgan's range and depth of knowledge--nature, astronomy, literature, science, music, history, physics, philosophy--and few can match his range of poetic forms; however, his craft and knowledge ultimately center on the wonders of human existence, and thus are as deeply moving emotionally as they are stimulating aesthetically. In these fourteen poems Morgan again confirms why he is our country's finest poet, especially in the collection's title poem. In addition, THE ORATORIO THAT WAS TIME offers three excellent new short stories, including 'Survey, ' in which an Englishman's 1711 journey into southern Appalachia culminates in a haunting vision of what the land has been and what it will become."--Ron Rash"Robert Morgan's writing is like a mind clawing back to consciousness in the early morning after deep sleep and finding the ordinary things left behind in darkness in a new freshness of elemental clarity that is at once startling, divine, and beautiful. Morgan's language is itself startling, divine, and beautiful and is as elementally fresh as the waking miracle it gives lasting solidity to."--Ishion Hutchinson"At the heart of Robert Morgan's latest and much anticipated collection THE ORATORIO THAT WAS TIME is reverence: in time, geographical setting, humming memories, and the shadows of consecrated narratives known as history. Sensually measured by objects of the past, by the regal sense of their shattering, both his stories and poems unspool between the marvelous and mundane, between the fantastic and fact, between memory and cross-generational history. Morgan is without comparison in writing about intergenerational history and geography, places where we can uproot ourselves but never quite shake off the soil."--Helena Maria ViramontesPoetry. Fiction.

One of America's most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling weaving of fact and fiction, Robert Morgan introduces a family's captivating story, set during World War II and the Great Depression. Driven by the uncertainties of the future, the family struggles to define itself against the vivid Appalachian landscape. The Road from Gap Creek explores modern American history through the lives of an ordinary family persevering through extraordinary times.

The long-awaited third installment!In 2003, Robert Morgan released what would become a future classic for over a million readers, a unique book entitled "Then Sings My Soul. "This collection of the world's greatest hymns and the stories behind them stirred an entire generation to better understand the heritage of our faith through song.Now, in the long-awaited third volume of this series, Morgan expands his material to include the great history of worship, the first biblical hymns, biographical sketches of the most interesting composers, and almost 60 generations of hymn singing. The new book also includes a collection of the greatest hymns you've never heard, with lead-sheets included.All of this is in addition to even more standard hymns and the stories of the composers behind them. Morgan's conclusion guides the reader into enjoying all of God's music, blending the old and the new into a symphony of praise that keeps the worship alive for a new generation.

From Thomas Jefferson's birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America's westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminate one another, and collectively impact history. Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary, dreamed that the United States would stretch across the North American continent, from ocean to ocean. The account of how that dream became reality unfolds in the stories of Jefferson and nine other Americans whose adventurous spirits and lust for land pushed the westward boundaries: Andrew Jackson, John ?Johnny Appleseed? Chapman, David Crockett, Sam Houston, James K. Polk, Winfield Scott, Kit Carson, Nicholas Trist, and John Quincy Adams. Their stories?and those of the nameless thousands who risked their lives to settle on the frontier, displacing thou- sands of Native Americans?form an extraordinary chapter in American history that led directly to the cataclysm of the Civil War. Filled with illustrations, portraits, maps, battle plans, notes, and time lines, Lions of the West is a richly authoritative biography of America?its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny.

A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club PickYoung Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better.But Julie and Hank's new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it's hard to tell what to fear most-the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate themselves into their new life. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with the disappointments and triumphs of their union make Gap Creek a timeless story of a marriage.

This book documents Richard Artschwager's last series of work, shown posthumously at Gagosian Gallery, New York, in 2014.

A study explaining what interpretation is and what special issues arise in biblical interpretation. It analyses the development of literary and historical criticism and more recent social, scientific and literary approaches by focusing on figures from Reimarus to Gerd Theissen.

This collection of poetry is a treasury of snapshots in time, celebrating the past and present in Robert Morgan's native region of western North Carolina and the Green River Valley. Subjects range from the Cherokee chief Attakullakulla in London to the way a zebra spider glides across the sky.

Robert Morgan, a native of the North Carolina mountains and a widely published poet, has been writing essays about his craft for more than twenty years. This book brings together some of his most thought-provoking pieces, reflections upon poetry from the dual perspective of poet and critic.

This book introduces to the Norton imprint a new poet with a strong original voice. Robert Morgan writes out of the central tradition of American poetry. His lyrics, rooted though they are in the specifics of the everyday--in earth and leaves, lakes and stones--reach through and beyond these to transcendence, to mystery; they intertwine animate and inanimate, inner and outer, idea and object. As David Kalstone puts it, Morgan is "faithful to the natural facts and yet so aware of the mysterious instincts which allow us in the first place to see, hear, observe such facts."

Brings colonial America to life. This book examines the domestic, political, cultural, and natural world of early America. It contains maps and illustrations.

These 93 poems by Robert Morgan span 35 years.

This is the story of a family who found, marked, and paved their way into America''s eastern frontier. Unfolding in the voices of three generations of mountaineer storytellers specializing in keeping listeners on the edges of their seats, this is fiction that plunks us down right into the thick of pioneer life. Using his own family stories as his inspiration, Robert Morgan has crafted a riveting folk history alive with adventure. Morgan''s three gifted storytellers tell it like it was--with a vengeance.