Long before leadership became identified as the catalyst for corporate success, the Civil War's winning general was showing the world how dynamic leadership is the crucial determinant of victory or defeat. Ulysses S. Grant never sought fame of glory, nor did he try to tie his performance to personal[...]
FIX YOUR MINDSET AND UNLEASH YOUR TALENT Simon Hartley spent many years working with world class athletes and helping them to new levels of achievement.[...]
Everything you need to know about the most important trend in the history of the worldWithin most people's lifetimes, the developments in the biotechnology sector will allow us to live increasingly long and healthy lives, as well as provide us with technological innovations that will transform the w[...]
After Barack Obama's solid win in the 2012 election, it's easy to forget that there was a time, not long ago, when the Democrats were shut out of power for over a decade. But Al From remembers. In 1984, he led a small band of governors, US senators, and members of Congress to organize the Democratic[...]
In the economy class of a plane, the lives of two passengers intersect: Walid Dahman, a Palestinian writer, is returning to his family in Gaza for the first time in thirty-eight years, and Dana Ahova, an Israeli actress, is on her way back to Tel Aviv. As the night sky hurtles past, what each confid[...]
The history of some of most popular "Neverland" characters are told here including, Tinker Belle, Tiger Lily and Pan's monstrous mutant Croc.[...]
The boundary dispute between Saudi Arabia and Yemen during the past seventy years has periodically threatened regional peace and stability. This book offers the first systematic study of the resolution of this dispute. It provides a discussion of legal attempts to resolve the dispute with references[...]
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233 AD), entitled "al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh", is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author and, with the sources available to him, he attempted to embrace [...]
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233AD), entitled "al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh", is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author and, with the sources available to him, he attempted to embrace t[...]
From al-Shabaab to al-Nusra: how westerners joining terror groups overseas affect the homeland: hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, October 9, 2013.[...]
With the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Looming Tower, " Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in "The New Yorker, " he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken[...]
In this the first book ever written about the CIA's Office of Technical Service, former director Robert Wallace (a real-life Q, straight out of the James Bond films) and internationally renowned intelligence historian H. Keith Melton offer an unprecedented look at the CIA's most secretive operations[...]
A study on the influence of intelligence on war operations examines a series of historical wartime events to delineate the strategies and outcomes of each while linking the function of their intelligence operations, refuting perceptions that intelligence superiority is a key to war success.[...]
These powerful investigative pieces, which take us from the religious police of Saudi Arabia to the rise of the Islamic State, comprise an essential primer on jihadist movements in the Middle East--and the attempts of the West to contain them. In these pages, Lawrence Wright examines al-Qaeda as it [...]
En su mas provocativo y completo libro sobre los ultimos tiempos, el Dr. John Hagee cuenta regresivamente los minutos profeticos desde los dias de Daniel hasta nuestros dias. Si bien la bolsa de valores de Nueva York llena de euforia proclama que todo anda bien, De Daniel al Dia del Juicio informa s[...]