America was built upon the enduring tension between strong leadership and constitutional restraint. What happens when this balance is challenged?Drawing upon a lifetime of experience in combat aviation, national security strategy, crisis leadership, education reform, and public service, John Barry's Power & Peril takes readers on a sweeping journey through the recurring struggles that have shaped both the American presidency and the nation itself. From the...

Keep it Simple Soccer was written to provide a new coach with all the information they need to manage and coach youth soccer at a basic level in a short amount of time.

For every income idea that gets shouted about online, there is a quieter one that actually pays the bills. 101 Remote Income Methods is a deliberate act of rebellion against the hype. Author John Barry, a decade-plus freelancer and product builder, does not hand you a listicle. He hands you an inventory, a 7 question method filter for scoring every option against your real time, skills, and risk tolerance, and a portfolio system for stacking the survivors into a business you own. The hones...

John Allen and the Long Revolution of Irish Republicanism, 1780–1855Born in the artisan Liberties of Dublin around 1780, John Allen grew up in a household saturated with the radical politics of the United Irishmen, his father a dyer and republican organiser in Pimlico. Arrested at Margate in 1798 while carrying a secret diplomatic mission to revolutionary France, Allen was acquitted at the Maidstone treason trial through the extraordinary solidarity of Father James...

Shot and Left for Dead: Robert Adrain, The Irish Revolutionary Who Invented Modern StatisticsRobert Adrain arrived in America in 1798 as a wounded fugitive, shot by one of his own men at the Battle of Antrim, hunted by a former employer, fleeing a failed rebellion with his wife and infant daughter. He arrived with nothing but a self-taught mathematical mind of extraordinary power. What he built from that beginning is one of the most remarkable stories in the histor...

Brazilian evangelical churches often depend on their pastors to do everything and in turn their pastors exercise a kind of managerial role over the flock. In Brazil, it is often only the pastor who can baptise or preside at the Lord's Supper. This becomes complicated when churches find themselves without a pastor for long periods at a time. Even in the general running of the church its members are sometimes restricted to the role of onlookers with a sense of admiration and frustration as t...

An essential roadmap for anyone serious about unique transformational leadership in educationIn Super Ownership: How Superintendents Can Elevate K-12 Systems, author John Barry distills several decades of leadership wisdom drawn from his distinguished career spanning the United States Air Force, public education, and nonprofit leadership and shaped into a blueprint for superintendents-and all educational leaders-who are committed to real, lasting change. His book ...

This book provides a contemporary panorama of advanced knowledge on the ureter. It covers basic knowledge and recent advances in a range of well-organized topics such as stone diagnosis, treatment, ureteroscopy, laser technology, reconstruction, oncology, trauma, embryology and radiology of the ureter. As shown in the table of contents, the book is written by a group of urology and non-urologic experts in their field and is enriched with many illustrations and summary tables. The 26 chapte...

Brazilian evangelical churches often depend on their pastors to do everything and in turn their pastors exercise a kind of managerial role over the flock. In Brazil, it is often only the pastor who can baptise or preside at the Lord's Supper. This becomes complicated when churches find themselves without a pastor for long periods at a time. Even in the general running of the church its members are sometimes restricted to the role of onlookers with a sense of admiration and frustration as t...

Does interpersonal political communication improve the quality of individual decision making? While deliberative theorists offer reasons for hope, experimental researchers have demonstrated that biased messages can travel via interpersonal social networks. We argue that the value of interpersonal political communication depends on the motivations of the people involved, which can be shifted by different contexts. Using small-group experiments that randomly assign participants' motivations ...

Expert news sources offer context and act as translators, communicating complex policy issues to the public. Therefore, these sources have implications for who, and what is elevated and legitimized by news coverage. This element considers patterns in expert sources, focusing on a particular area of expertise: politics. As a starting point, it conducts a content analysis tracking which types of political experts are most likely to be interviewed, using this analysis to explain patterns in e...

There is little doubt that increasing polarization over the last decade has transformed the American political landscape. In The Other Divide, Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan challenge the nature and extent of that polarization. They find that more than party, Americans are divided by involvement in politics. On one side is a group of Americans who are deeply involved in politics and very expressive about their political views; on the other side is a group much less involved in day-to-...