Provides details about building organizations that prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond, and also about visionary companies. This book contains specific examples and is organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at var[...]
The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns--in part--a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidn[...]
It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of confl[...]
Romance, war, adventure, danger: no wonder James Fenimore Cooper's novel has inspired countless film and TV adaptations. The Last of the Mohicans is an epic tale of American frontier life, set in the colonial era when the French and the English fought for control of the New World--and needed the hel[...]
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel.[...]
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel.[...]
It was the beginning of the end for the James gang. In the past ten years Frank and Jesse James had gone from unknown ex-Confederate guerrillas to the most famous outlaws in the world. A string of daring robberies of banks, trains, and stagecoaches had brought them fame, admiration, hatred, and a su[...]
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lorraine Heath brings us the eagerly awaited final story in the Scoundrels of St. James series.William Graves is the last of Feagan's scoundrels. A onetime grave robber turned royal physician, he has devoted his life to saving others--because he knows [...]
Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin';I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.' When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview Jame[...]
At first light on July 6, 1685, the last battle ever fought on English soil was almost over. On one side of the watery pasture at Sedgemoor was the dashing thirty-six-year-old Duke of Monmouth, the charismatic son of Charles II, adored by the people. A reformer, a romantic, and a Protestant, he was [...]
Complete summary of James Collins and Jerry Porras' book: "e;Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies"e;.This summary of the ideas from James Collins and Jerry Porras' book "e;Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies' shows that the most impressive achieveme[...]