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148 Charles Street: A Novel
by Tracy DaughertyTracy Daugherty&’s historical novel 148 Charles Street explores the fascinating story of Willa Cather&’s friendship with Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. The women shared a passion for writing, for New York, and for the desert Southwest, but their sensibilities could not have been more different: Cather, the novelist of lyrical landscapes and aesthetic refinement, and Sergeant, the muckraking journalist and literary activist. Their friendship is sorely tested when Cather fictionalizes a war that Sergeant covered as a reporter, calling into question, for both women, the uses of art and journalism, the power of imagination and witness. 148 Charles Street is a testament to the bonds that endure despite disagreements and misunderstandings, and in the relentlessness of a vanishing past.148 Charles Street explores, as only fiction can, the two writers&’ interior lives, and contrasts Sergeant&’s literary activism with Cather&’s more purely aesthetic approach to writing.
Axeman's Jazz
by Tracy DaughertyA stunning tour de force, Tracy Daugherty's fourth novel explores the volatility of race, class, and economics as they affect three generations of a Houston, Texas, family, and traces the rise and decline of an inner city neighborhood from the point of view of a prodigal daughter. Twenty-something Telisha Washington returns after many years to the decaying Houston neighborhood where she was born, to renew old ties and come to terms with her family's enigmatic heritage. The product of a racially mixed union, she has spent her life straddling received definitions of race, class, gender, and culture. Her personal odyssey is centered inside a black neighborhood's convulsions, where violence, poverty, and the politics of gentrification take their toll. An unflinching meditation on family, race, sex, and love, as well as a dissection of public and private identity, Axeman's Jazz is a stark, but loving, portrait of contemporary urban America.
Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens
by Tracy DaughertyExplore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867–1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Was Dante’s astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars. From the perspective of one remarkable amateur astronomer, readers will see how ideas developed during Galileo’s time evolved or were discarded in Newtonian conceptions of the cosmos and then recast in Einstein’s theories. The result is a book about the history of science but also a poetic meditation on literature, science, and the evolution of ideas.
Desire Provoked
by Tracy DaughertyDesire Provoked is an amusing look at modern living, while also a meditation on fatherhood, marriage and ambition. The cartographer protagonist of the novel, Sam Adams, can't seem to map out his own life while he maps everything else for a living.
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
by Tracy DaughertyIn the 1960s Donald Barthelme came to prominence as the leader of the Postmodern movement. He was a fixture at the New Yorker, publishing more than 100 short stories, including such masterpieces as "Me and Miss Mandible," the tale of a thirty-five-year-old sent to elementary school by clerical error, and "A Shower of Gold," in which a sculptor agrees to appear on the existentialist game show Who Am I? He had a dynamic relationship with his father that influenced much of his fiction. He worked as an editor, a designer, a curator, a news reporter, and a teacher. He was at the forefront of literary Greenwich Village which saw him develop lasting friendships with Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe, Grace Paley, and Norman Mailer. Married four times, he had a volatile private life. He died of cancer in 1989. The recipient of many prestigious literary awards, he is best remembered for the classic novels Snow White, The Dead Father, and many short stories, all of which remain in print today. Hiding Man is the first biography of Donald Barthelme, and it is nothing short of a masterpiece.
High Skies
by Tracy DaughertyA 1950s Texas small town reels from severe weather, Cold War paranoia, and school integration in this novella by the author of American Originals.High Skies recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small west Texas town in the 1950s, changing the futures of the families there and altering their perceptions of America. At the center of this perfect storm is Raymond &“Flyboy&” Seaker, a respected military veteran, now the vice principal of a school in which Troy, who tells the story, and his disabled friend Stevie will have their lives upended forever. Through a combination of his own well-meaning ambitions and the political maneuverings of others, Flyboy, and the families he serves come to grasp the meaning of community and of individual fortitude. Written with a vivid economy recalling Denis Johnson&’s Train Dreams and painting as indelible a portrait of small-town life as Larry McMurtry&’s The Last Picture Show, High Skies is a perfectly distilled American epic.Praise for High Skies &“Tracy Daugherty&’s characters have a stubborn, wonderful realness to them, the sign of a writer absolutely alert to the complex world around us.&” —Andrea Barrett, winner of the National Book Award &“Daugherty&’s writing is deeply rooted in time and place and the historical events that color the characters&’ lives. The effect of this is not nostalgia but a perspective on the relationship between the private and the public, the personal and the political. His characters are wholly realized, the writing as clean as sheets on a summer line.&” —Robert Boswell, PEN West Award finalist &“Daugherty adeptly creates a toxic environment where people&’s fears obscure their rationality and impair their judgment. The account of one man left out to dry makes for a stark, memorable outing.&” —Publishers Weekly
It Takes a Worried Man
by Tracy DaughertyThe narrative interweaves history, myth, rumor, and news with the experiences of a young girl living in the flatness of South Florida. Like Grace Paley's narrators, she is pensive and eager, hungry for experience but restrained. Into the sphere of her regard come a Ted Bundy reject, the God Osiris, a Caribbean slave turned pirate, a circus performer living in a box, broken horses, a Seminole chief in a swamp, and a murderous babysitter. What these preposterously commonplace figures all know is that murder is identity: "Of course what matters really is the psychokiller, what he's done, what he threatens to do. Of course to be the lucky one you have to be abducted in the first place. Without him, you wouldn't exist."
It Takes a Worried Man
by Tracy DaughertyThe eight stories in Tracy Daugherty's second collection move through the streets of Houston with the quick step of country music and the melancholy humor of the blues. Romance and friendship develop in unlikely places, as people meet across the divide of race and class. In the tradition of James Joyce's Dubliners, Daugherty's stories explore the highs and lows of city life with its messiness and grace, celebrate the surprises and contradictions of community, and present a kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary America's energy and vitality.
Larry McMurtry: A Life
by Tracy Daugherty*Pulitzer Prize Finalist* *Bonney MacDonald Award Winner for Outstanding Western Book* A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty.In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains’ keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Larry McMurtry: A Life traces his origins as one of the last American writers who had direct contact with this country’s pioneer traditions. It follows his astonishing career as bestselling novelist, Pulitzer-Prize winner, author of the beloved Lonesome Dove, Academy-Award winning screenwriter, public intellectual, and passionate bookseller. A sweeping and insightful look at a versatile, one-of-a-kind American writer, this book is a must-read for every Larry McMurtry fan.
Late in the Standoff
by Tracy DaughertyIn this, his third collection, Tracy Daugherty focuses on social and cultural forces shaping people's intimate behavior. Set in Texas and Oklahoma, the stories and novella suggest that even politics is a kind of family squabble whose elusive solutions often come from unexpected quarters. In "Power Lines," a young man's sexual awakening in Midland, Texas, coincides with lessons about heroism and loyalty one hot summer that is suddenly seared with violence. In "The Standoff," a retired politician and his asthmatic grandson rediscover their bond on a trip to a small Oklahoma town where the old man has been asked to settle an "Indian dispute." In "Cotton Flat Road," a brother and sister lift the lid on their differences as he discovers her secret life across the tracks in the Texas oil town they grew up in.
Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society
by Tracy Daugherty&“By turns a strong, clear biography (with shades of rock n roll memoir), a poetic ode to various places and people in midcentury Texas and an oral history.&” —Texas Observer Acclaimed by critics as a second F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Lee Brammer was once one of the most engaging young novelists in America. When he published his first and only novel, The Gay Place, in 1961, literary luminaries such as David Halberstam, Willie Morris, and Gore Vidal hailed his debut. Halberstam called it &“a classic . . . [A] stunning, original, intensely human novel inspired by Lyndon Johnson . . . It will be read a hundred years from now.&” More recently, James Fallows, Gary Fisketjon, and Christopher Lehmann have affirmed The Gay Place&’s continuing relevance, with Lehmann asserting that it is &“the one truly great modern American political novel.&” Leaving the Gay Place tells a sweeping story of American popular culture and politics through the life and work of a writer who tragically exemplifies the highs and lows of the country at mid-century. Tracy Daugherty follows Brammer from the halls of power in Washington, DC, where he worked for Senate majority leader Johnson, to rock-and-roll venues where he tripped out with Janis Joplin, and ultimately to back alleys of self-indulgence and self-destruction. Constantly driven to experiment with new ways of being and creating—often fueled by psychedelics—Brammer became a cult figure for an America on the cusp of monumental change, as the counterculture percolated through the Eisenhower years and burst out in the sixties. In Daugherty&’s masterful recounting, Brammer&’s story is a quintessential American story, and Billy Lee is our wayward American son.
One Day the Wind Changed
by Tracy DaughertyEveryday Psychokillers reaches to the edge of the psychoanalytical and jolts the reader back to daily life. The reader becomes the killer, the watcher, the person on the verge, hiding behind an everyday face.
The Boy Orator
by Tracy DaughertyIn Tracy Daugherty's third novel, childhood innocence and political ambition meet just prior to the First World War in the person of Harry Shaughnessy, an Oklahoma farmer' son. Gifted with a booming speaking voice and a charismatic presence, the boy learns the socialist credo from his father, who takes him on the road-from laborers' camps to county fairs to Oklahoma City-to spread the people's gospel to farmers, miners, and oil workers. Along the way young Harry encounters other socialist crusaders-Eugene V. Debs, Oscar Ameringer, and the dynamic red-haired feminist Kate O'Hare.
The Empire of the Dead (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)
by Tracy DaughertySearching for renewal in the face of unforeseeable tragedy and the daily changes wrought by time.In the spare and deliberate stories in The Empire of the Dead, through situations both comic and bluntly melancholy, the future remains open for people—but at an indeterminate cost. Daily, characters weigh their indecision against the consequences of choice.Through a series of five linked stories, we meet Bern, a New York City architect yearning for a return to "first principles"—the "initial euphoria, the falling-in-love" that led him to consider a life devoted to sheltering others. In his ministrations to colleagues and friends, his memories of magical building feats now in the past, he learns the limits and the expansiveness of joy and need. In another tale, we meet a young painter in a Gulf Coast refinery town struggling to differentiate beauty from affliction. His sister’s encounter with the singer Janis Joplin causes him to reconsider the nature of saintliness. And in the novella "The Magnitudes," a planetarium director, grieving over the unexpected loss of his parents, must learn how much of the universe—both the real sky beyond his reach and the firmament cast upon the planetarium dome—he can control. Like the other characters in Tracy Daugherty’s masterful collection, he moves through spaces at once sacred and spoiled, within cities, deserts, and other strange environments, reckoning, taking soundings, trying to find firm footing in the world.
The Woman in Oil Fields
by Tracy DaughertyThe themes woven through The Woman in the Oil Field involve action and passivity and the different perspectives they inspire. Tracy Daugherty's characters walk the margins of life; seeking the safe periphery from which they assess their friends, lovers, and relatives who lead real lives. Daugherty treats perspective and insight as topics in themselves.
Berliner Mietendeckel & Co. - Staatseingriffe in den Immobilienmarkt: Ein internationaler Vergleich mit historischem Rückblick
by Marc Helmold Tracy Dathe René Dathe Andreas Weise Isabel DatheDas Buch vereint die Erfahrungen mit der Deckelung von Mieten im internationalen Kontext, um mögliche Folgen einer solchen politischen Entscheidung in Deutschland ausreichend analysieren bzw. antizipieren zu können. Untersucht werden die Regulierung der Immobilienmärkte und deren Folgen sowohl analytisch anhand der gängigen wissenschaftlichen Theorien als auch anhand empirischer Studien über die ausgewählten Städte mit besonderer Immobilienpolitik im internationalen Umfeld. Immobilienpolitik gehört seit Jahren zu den zentralen Programmthemen der deutschen Politik. Die Regulierung des Immobilienmarktes durch den Staat zielt auf das Leitprinzip der sozialen Gerechtigkeit ab, wodurch Marktmechanismen nachhaltig beeinflusst werden. Mögliche Auswirkungen sind aufgrund von deren Komplexität schwer abzuschätzen. Die Einführung eines verschärften Mietendeckels in Berlin (Projekt der rot-rot-grünen Berliner Landesregierung) führt aktuell zu einer regen Debatte, die Auswirkungen auf den Rest Deutschlands haben wird. Da eine endgültige gerichtliche Entscheidung noch aussteht und voraussichtlich mehr Zeit in Anspruch nehmen wird, besteht bereits eine große Rechtsunsicherheit.Die Zusammensetzung der Autoren aus Forschern in den Fachgebieten Corporate Social Responsibility bzw. Immobilienmanagement und Wirtschaftspraktikern macht die Einzigartigkeit dieses Buchs aus.
Corporate Social Responsibility im internationalen Kontext: Wettbewerbsvorteile Durch Nachhaltige Wertschöpfung
by Marc Helmold Tracy Dathe Dominique-Pascal Groß Florian Hummel René DatheDieses Buch zeigt, wie es vom KMU bis zum größeren Konzern gelingt, nicht nur Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte in nationalen oder internationalen Geschäftstransaktionen zu berücksichtigen, sondern daraus langfristige Wettbewerbsvorteile zu generieren. Neben ausgewählten Theorien, Konzepten und Modellen, widmet es sich der zentralen Frage, wie Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) innerhalb der Wertschöpfungskette erfolgreich eingesetzt werden kann. Wertvolle Handlungsempfehlungen verknüpfen praktische und theoretische Erfahrungen der fünf Autoren im nationalen und internationalen Umfeld. Neben vielen Praxisbeispielen innerhalb der Primärfunktionen Beschaffung, Produktion, Absatz und Sekundärfunktionen wie Personal, Finanzen oder Buchführung werden spannende CSR-Innovationen vorgestellt. Die Lektüre schärft das Verständnis für nachhaltiges Verhalten im Geschäftsverkehr, gerade auch durch Kenntnis möglicher Stolperfallen im internationalen Geschäft.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Approaches to Ethical Management (Management for Professionals)
by Marc Helmold Tracy Dathe René Dathe Isabel DatheThis book provides a comprehensive overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its practical applications. In addition to the structured procedure with definitions and CSR approaches, functions within the value chain are described in comprehensive manner with reference to business practice. Business trends in special sectors such as innovation management and hospitality management are also covered. Numerous practical examples and country-specific recommendations for decisions in practical situations are also offered.
Entrepreneurship in Zeiten der Globalisierung und Digitalisierung: Für Startup-Gründer und solche, die es werden wollen
by Marc Helmold Tracy Dathe Isabel DatheDieses Buch unterstützt die Startup-Gründung mit vielen praxisbezogenen Erklärungen und Informationen. Eine Analyse der wesentlichen Trends, auch aufgrund der Digitalisierung und Globalisierung, hilft Gründern und solchen, die es werden wollen, um das Thema fundiert zu umfassen. Theoretische Elemente sind in der Buchstruktur enthalten und den Autoren gelingt damit eine Verbindung zwischen aktuellen akademischen Erkenntnissen und der unternehmerischen Geschäftspraxis. Für Startup-Unternehmer wie auch für den Einsatz zu Bildungszwecken im Hochschulbereich aufbereitet.
Erfolgreich im Chinageschäft
by Marc Helmold Tracy DatheDieses Buch schließt die Lücke in Literatur und Praxis mit einer Anleitung, wie es kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen gelingt, nicht nur den Markteintritt in China zu schaffen, sondern auch die weiteren Phasen dieses Geschäfts erfolgreich zu gestalten. Die wertvollen Handlungsempfehlungen verknüpfen praktische und konzeptionelle Aspekte gezielt mit kulturellen und theoretischen Komponenten auf Basis der langjährigen China-Erfahrungen der Autoren. Neben vielen Hinweisen auf interkulturelle Stolperfallen, wie verschiedene Rechtsverständnisse oder unterschiedliche Gepflogenheiten im Geschäftsleben, schärfen die Autoren ganz besonders das Verständnis für "guanxi", die chinesische Form des Netzwerkens. In seiner gelungenen Kombination aus deutschen und chinesischen Sichtweisen ist dieses fundierte, praxisnah geschriebene Werk ein idealer Begleiter für die Realisierung des Geschäftserfolgs von KMU in China.
Erfolgreiche Verhandlungen: Best-in-Class Empfehlungen für den Verhandlungsdurchbruch
by Marc Helmold Tracy Dathe Florian HummelNutzen Sie dieses Buch, um Ihre Verhandlungsstrategien zu verbessernWer sich in seinem Unternehmen dauerhaft vorteilhaft positionieren will, muss Verhandlungsstrategien beherrschen. Verschaffen Sie sich einen entscheidenden Vorteil gegenüber Ihren Geschäftspartnern und lernen Sie mit diesem Buch alles über erfolgreiches Verhandeln. Die Autoren geben einen wertvollen Überblick über konkrete Verhandlungssituationen in Industrie und Wirtschaft und zeigen Wege zum erfolgreichen Verhandlungsdurchbruch auf. Ihr Buch führt die folgenden Aspekte systematisch und logisch zusammen:• Verhandlungsvorbereitung • Verhandlungsdurchführung• Verhandlungspsychologie• VerhandlungserfolgNeben der strukturierten Vorgehensweise in einem Sechs-Phasen-Modell erläutern die Autoren praxisnah und anschaulich auch alle psychologischen und nonverbalen Werkzeuge, die zu einem erfolgreichen Verhandlungsabschluss führen. Die Autoren verfügen über profunde, langjährige internationale Führungserfahrung und geben hilfreiche Handlungsempfehlungen, um interkulturelle Elemente effektiv bei Verhandlungen zu berücksichtigen.Die Inhalte des Buches im ÜberblickLernen Sie, erfolgreich zu verhandeln und eigenen Sie sich fundiertes Wissen zu den folgenden Bereichen an: • Verhandlungskonzepte• Verhandlungsführung und -vorbereitung• Best-in-Class-Verhandlungen• Geeignete Werkzeuge und Taktiken in Verhandlungen• Analysetechniken der nonverbalen Kommunikation• Verhandlungen im internationalen Kontext• Verhandlungen bei finanziellen Schwierigkeiten und drohender Insolvenz• Verhandlungen in komplexen Projekten.Wer sollte dieses Buch über erfolgreiche Verhandlungen lesen? Mit seiner strukturierten Vorgehensweise empfiehlt sich das Buch besonders für Mitarbeiter in Entwicklung, Qualitätsmanagement, Einkauf, Produktion, Marketing und Verkauf. Aber auch Projektmanager, Führungskräfte und Unternehmer, die immer wieder über Leistungsmerkmale von Produkten und Dienstleistungen Kunden oder Lieferanten verhandeln müssen, profitieren von diesem Buch, denn hier lernen sie die Verhandlungstechniken, mit denen sie in wichtigen Gesprächen überzeugen. Durch die Symbiose von Theorie und Praxis eignet sich das Werk darüber hinaus auch für Anwendung im Hochschulbereich und verschafft Professoren, Lehrpersonal und Studierenden im internationalen Kontext einen Überblick über die Thematik.
Implementing Environmental, Social and Governance: A Practical Guide in Sustainability Management (Responsible Leadership and Sustainable Management)
by Marc Helmold Tracy Dathe René Dathe Isabel DatheThe concept of environmental, social and governance (ESG) is rapidly emerging as the new global industry standard and an important benchmarking tool for socially responsible investments. Major corporations seek the expertise of specialized consultants to develop and implement tailored ESG framework for their businesses. This book offers a guide to ESG and its practical applications. Beyond introducing the structured procedures of the most common ESG approaches, it delves into the comprehensive impact on the value chain, providing practical insights. The text explores the latest trends in various business sectors, offering insights into their ESG practices. Closing with a forward-looking perspective, the book anticipates future developments such as climate change management and ESG certifications, while also addressing potential pitfalls encapsulated by the term “greenwashing”.Written by authors with a solid background in teaching and research, the book establishes a robust theoretical foundation. The inclusion of numerous practical examples and country-specific recommendations enhances this book’s applicability and makes it an invaluable resource to those navigating the complexities of ESG.
New Work, Neues Arbeiten virtuell und in Präsenz: Konzepte und Werkzeuge zu innovativer, agiler und moderner Führung
by Miriam Landes Eberhard Steiner Marc Helmold Tracy Dathe Lars JeschioDieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über New Work und virtuelle Führungskonzepte. Es beschreibt fundiert und zugleich praxisbasiert, welche Tools und Methoden im New Work einsetzbar sind, um einen langfristigen Wettbewerbsvorteil zu erreichen. New Work bedeutet vor allem, dass Führung und Leadership neu ausgerichtet werden müssen. Die Autoren zeigen auf, warum die Demokratisierung von Entscheidung die neue Arbeitswelt prägen wird und New Work daher offene und transparente Kennzahlen und Ziele benötigt. Wichtige Themen der Roadmap zum New Work sind dabei Agilität und Kollaboration, Homeoffice und digitale Arbeitskonzepte, Ambidextrie der Führung und Complexity Leadership.
Qualität neu denken: Innovative, virtuelle und agile Ansätze entlang der Wertschöpfungskette
by Marc Helmold Tracy Dathe Jürgen Fritz Torsten Laub Bernd FlasharEntwicklungen, wie Urbanisierung, Internationalisierung, Klimakrise, Digitalisierung und COVID-19-Pandemie haben in Gesellschaft und Unternehmen zu einer näheren Betrachtung der Qualität von Produkten und Dienstleistungen in den global agierenden Wertschöpfungsketten geführt. Durch internationale Produktionsverbünde, Wertschöpfungsallianzen und Verlagerungen auf Lieferantennetzwerke, die im Wettbewerb zueinanderstehen, bilden sich neue Leitbilder, Strategien und Abläufe im Qualitätsverständnis. Das Buch beschreibt, wie ein agiles und nachhaltiges Qualitätsmanagement gestaltet werden kann und gibt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele, Fallstudien und Arbeitshilfen wertvolle Handlungsempfehlungen für eine erfolgreiche Transformation.
Successful International Negotiations: A Practical Guide for Managing Transactions and Deals (Management for Professionals)
by Marc Helmold Brian Terry Tracy Dathe Florian Hummel Jan PieperThis book describes how international negotiations can be conducted in a structured, professional and effective manner. It also offers recommendations based on examples of successful negotiations from both economically leading countries such as the USA, China and Japan, as well as smaller countries such as the Netherlands, Israel and Morocco. Providing practically relevant experiences from middle and top management positions in different business sectors, the contributors focus on all elements of negotiations, spanning from preparation, execution, strategies and tactics to non-verbal communication and psychological factors. Moreover, the chapters offer detailed introductions to more than 25 countries around the globe, which can be used as a reference guide to doing business in the specific contexts.