The best-selling conservation classic, completely expanded, revised, and updated David Morine was a briefcase conservationist specializing in human nature. During his fifteen years in charge of land acquisition for The Nature Conservancy, Morine helped protect more than three million acres of wilderness, finding plenty to laugh about and learn from along the way. Here are the stories behind the deals and the people who made them--an enlightening, entertaining, occasionally unsettling look at the dirty job of keeping America clean.

Managing the Creative Mind explores techniques in managing a team of technicians for the production of The Taming of the Shrew. It is also a documentation of a Technical Directors process. More than the organization of the project, it focuses on the people. I wanted to experience what made the technicians tick and test my theories on motivation and efficiency. I kept a log of conversations and happenings for each of the people involved in the production. I made assignment decisions based on my reaction to their personalities and experience. The goal was to make people excited to be there and, in turn, produce a forward thinking, can-do environment where the production would run itself. Included is a script analysis, statement of goals, process, evaluation, technical drawings, paperwork and photographs.