In the book, the author uses the analytical wisdom of a successful career in investing, carefully evaluating the performance of companies and their leaders. You will meet eight individualistic leaders, and you will learn about the traits and methods, striking in their consistency and ruthless rationality, that have helped these unique leaders achieve exceptional results

Military classics, which is a military-intellectual path with a critical analysis of the developing art of war in a historical and theoretical perspective, based on case studies in specific countries, describes how the concepts underlying operational art arose, how they received practical expression in various campaigns, and how they developed over time. The starting point is the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte

The book gives a probing analysis of modern war, demonstrates why today’s conflicts must be understood as intertwined political and military events, and makes clear why the current model of total war has failed

The author has fully demonstrated his ability to consider the broad problems of history from the point of view of geographical influences, and has produced a fresh commentary on modern world politics. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work that has been digitally restored from a historical publication

The book presents unique accounts of Western warfare from antiquity to the present day, and examines the history of all aspects of the subject

In the book, Dewey shares his views on the role of the teacher in teaching students to think well, basing his statements on the belief that knowledge is strictly related to human interaction with the world, he considers the need for learning thinking, its use of natural resources and its place in school settings; inductive and deductive reasoning, interpretation of facts, concrete and abstract thinking; the functions of activity, language and observation in teaching thinking

The book describes the place of the Civil War in the history of warfare, its technology, organization, maneuver and strategy

Building on the concepts of professional competence that he introduced in his classic The Reflective Practitioner, Schon offers an approach for educating professional in all areas that will prepare them to handle the complex and unpredictable problems of actual practice with confidence, skill, and care

From the American Revolution to the fifty-year struggle with communism and conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, From Colony to Superpower tells the dramatic story of America's emergence as superpower - its birth in revolution, its troubled present, and its uncertain future

With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in settings that range from the local to the transnational, the mundane to the spectacular, to provide a unique perspective on how politics is performed in everyday life