10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep it The youngest CEO of John Hancock Financial Services shares his unique strategy for achieving business success, using funny stories to show readers how to make others take a chance for them, how to cultivate a great reputation, and how to define and build character. The author presents ten rules for building a successful personal brand on thebusiness battlefield. Titel: Career Warfare Forfatter: David F. D'Alessandro, Michele Owens Forlag: McGraw-Hill Companies Udgivelsesår: 2004 Sider: 232 Sprog: Engelsk
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING ENEMIES-TO LOVERS FANTASY THAT WILL TAKE THE WORLD BY STORM 'I physically could not stop reading! Mark my words: lives will be changed by The Hurricane Wars trilogy' Ali Hazelwood, author of THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS 'One of my favourite books of this year!' Katee Robert, author of NEON GODS All Talasyn has ever known are the Hurricane Wars. An orphan of the struggle, she uses the power of light to fight for her people against the Night Empire. All Alaric has ever known is darkness. The son of the Night Emperor and their deadliest weapon, he wields terrifying shadow magic to crush the rebellion. Then he sees Talasyn, his sworn enemy burning bright across the battlefield. The moment they clash their lives are changed forever. Now a greater threat is rising and only they can stop it. The coming storm threatens to destroy everything. If they don't destroy each o
The Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Yet in the years that followed, Lincoln's vision of a genuinely united country never took root. Apart from a few brief months, when the presence of the Union army in the South proved liberating for newly freed Black Americans, the military victory was squandered. Old white supremacist efforts returned, more ferocious than before. In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri shows how resistance to a more equal Union began immediately. From the first postwar riots to the return of Confederate exiles, to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, to the highly contested and consequential election of 1876, Suri explores the conflicts and questions Americans wrestled with as competing visions of democracy, rac
Summary: "Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and less familiar battles such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh’s warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed 2 million people. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people,
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Regio Esercito: the Italian Royal Army in Mussolini's Wars, 1935-1943.A history of the Italian Army's wars in Ethiopia, Spain, Greece, Yugoslavia, Russia, North Africa, and Sicily. The campaigns are examined in a book that draws on Italian, Russian, German, and Yugoslav sources, among others. Includes translated Russian passages. Mr. Cloutier brings attention to Italian battlefield successes. He examines a few strategic situations of World War 2, and holds that Italian forces at times were a key asset, whose misuse by the Axis cost them important victories. Black and white; 198 pages, 77 maps, 66 photos, 19 drawings, appendix, and photo annex. 237 footnotes. Available as affordable download from www.lulu.com Titel: Regio Esercito: the Italian Royal Army in Mussolini's Wars, 1935-1943 Forfatter: patrick cloutier Forlag: Lulu.com Udgivelsesår: 2010 Sider: 198 Sprog: Engelsk
On April 12, 1861, the first shots were fired in a conflict that would become the bloodiest war to have ever occurred on American soil. It would continue to rage across the states for a further four years. In this Pulitzer Prize winning history of that period, James Ford Rhodes fully explains its causes, events, and effects. From the moment of secession by the southern states through to Lee's surrender, Rhodes encompasses the full narrative of the conflict in this single-volume history. Rhodes provides vivid portraits of the main leaders of the war as well as their actions, both on the battlefield and in the political discussions taking place in Washington and Richmond. Rich in scholarship and written in engrossing style, History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 is essential reading for anyone with an interest in nineteenth century American history. Type: Paperback
By Chris Kyle; Scott McEwen; Jim DeFelice, PRINT ISBN: 9780062238863 E-TEXT ISBN: 9780062082374. Titel: American Sniper (eBook) Forfattere: Chris Kyle,Scott McEwen,Jim DeFelice Genre: Biografi Sammendrag: From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history, earning legendary status among his fellow U.S. warriors. His masterful account of his battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time. Type: Paperback
