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2013年12月3日星期二
Amazon.com: Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces (Audible Audio Edition): Steven R. Ward, Kevin Pierce: Books
Amazon.com: My Second Death: A Novel (Audible Audio Edition): Lydia Cooper, Dina Pearlman: Books
Amazon.com: The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel (Audible Audio Edition): Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Jonathan Marosz: Books
2013年11月13日星期三
Powers of Attorney: Health Care, Property: Pauline G. Dembicki: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
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Illinois has two durable powers of attorney, one for health care (including day-to-day and end-of-life medical decisions) and one for property (money). With a power of attorney you can nominate the person you chose to help you if the need arises. In the document you include instructions about what you want.
By planning you can save money, aggravation and protect your decisions and privacy. This book, written under Illinois law breaks the topic down into manageable bits and pieces to help you understand that you are placing your life and money into the hands of a third party. A dictionary is included of the terms that relate to powers of attorney.
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Attorneys manage crisis and help people plan for the unexpected. Wills and trusts are plans directing who will inherit your estate. Powers of attorney are plans for taking care of your decisions, personal and financial, if you are unable to make the decisions for yourself.Illinois has two durable powers of attorney, one for health care (including day-to-day and end-of-life medical decisions) and one for property (money). With a power of attorney you can nominate the person you chose to help you if the need arises. In the document you include instructions about what you want.
By planning you can save money, aggravation and protect your decisions and privacy. This book, written under Illinois law breaks the topic down into manageable bits and pieces to help you understand that you are placing your life and money into the hands of a third party. A dictionary is included of the terms that relate to powers of attorney.
Handbook of Research on Environmental Taxation (Elgar Original Reference): Janet Milne, Mikael Andersen: 9781848449978: Amazon.com: Books
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Publication Date: February 13, 2013 | ISBN-10: 1848449976 | ISBN-13: 978-1848449978 The Handbook of Research on Environmental Taxation captures the state of the art of research on environmental taxation. Written by 36 specialists in environmental taxation from 16 countries, it takes an interdisciplinary and international approach, focusing on issues that are universal to using taxation to achieve environmental goals. The Handbook explores the conceptual foundations of environmental taxation, essential elements for designing environmental tax measures, factors that influence the acceptance of environmental taxation, the variety of ways to implement environmental taxes, their environmental and economic impact and, finally, the larger question of the role of taxation among other policy approaches to environmental protection. Intermixing theory with case studies, the Handbook offers readers lessons that can be applied around the world. It identifies key bodies of research for people who are already working in the field or entering the field and highlights issues that call for more research in the future. With systematic analysis of key issues in environmental taxation, this book will appeal to researchers, government, think tanks, NGOs, academics in law, economics, political science and public finance, as well as students specializing in environmental taxation and other market-based instruments.Product Details
- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub (February 13, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1848449976
- ISBN-13: 978-1848449978
- Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 1.3 inches
Native American Natural Resources Law: Cases and Materials, Third Edition: Judith V. Royster, Michael C. Blumm, Elizabeth Ann Kronk: 9781611631364: Amazon.com: Books
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The third edition updates the casebook to include recent Supreme Court cases as well as other judicial and legislative developments since 2008. The new edition also expands the materials on cultural and religious resources, the federal trust doctrine, the Cobell settlement, water rights settlements, natural resources damages, and international law.
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Publication Date: January 7, 2013 | ISBN-10: 161163136X | ISBN-13: 978-1611631364 | Edition: 3 This casebook explores issues relating to property rights, environmental protection, and natural resources in Indian country. The book explores tribal, cultural and religious relationships with the land, fundamental principles of federal Indian law, land ownership and property rights of tribes, land use and environmental protection, natural resources development, taxation of lands and resources, water rights, usufructuary (hunting, fishing, gathering) rights, and international approaches to indigenous rights in land and natural resources. It is designed to be used in a stand-alone course or as a supplemental reader for courses in environmental law, natural resources law, or Native American studies.The third edition updates the casebook to include recent Supreme Court cases as well as other judicial and legislative developments since 2008. The new edition also expands the materials on cultural and religious resources, the federal trust doctrine, the Cobell settlement, water rights settlements, natural resources damages, and international law.
Climate Law in Eu Member States: Towards National Legislation for Climate (New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law Series): Marjan Peeters, Mark Stallworthy, Javier de Cendra de Larragan: 9781781002773: Amazon.com: Books
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Publication Date: January 30, 2013 | ISBN-10: 1781002770 | ISBN-13: 978-1781002773 'The book gives detailed discussions of essential EU climate law and presents profound national reports which cover the transposition of EU law and focus on national climate strategies, which are often complex and sometimes also ambitious. Comparative studies at the grassroots level are an important source of ideas and possibilities and also useful documentation both for researchers and political actors.'- Erkki Hollo, University of Helsinki, Finland
'This is an outstanding collection of essays by a multi-national team of leading scholars. It reminds us that in a system of multi-level governance, it is crucial to examine and appraise developments not only at the level of the European Union but also within the Member States. This task has become easier with the publication of this excellent book.'
- Joanne Scott, University College London, UK
The complex and multifaceted nature of EU climate legislation poses a major challenge for EU Member States. This timely book focuses on national climate action, addressing the regulatory responses required for the purposes of meeting greenhouse gas emissions reduction objectives for 2020 (and beyond).
The book seeks to answer such questions as: what kind of legislative approaches should be developed to comply with EU climate law? What room for national discretion should remain? What opportunities exist to go beyond EU ambitions? In addition, distinguished authors analyze national regulatory developments across selected Member States, identifying potential areas for review and improvement. The book offers further discussion and legal analysis of core themes such as: long-term target setting; contrasting legislative approaches; instrument mixes; and key linkages between environmental and energy law.
In light of the challenges confronting national legislators, this book offers important insights into the role and contribution of law towards improved climate protection, with potential lessons for countries both within and outside the EU. With this in mind, Climate Law in EU Member States will be a valuable read for policymakers and civil servants at national ministries and at the European Commission, carbon consultants and environmental non-governmental organizations, as well as for academics in and outside the EU.
Contributors: E. Bergsma, J. de Cendra de Larragán, K. de Graaf, J. Gupta, N. Hervé-Fournereau, M. Holwerda, G. Kaminskaite-Salters, L. Karski, A. Langlais, T. Parejo Navajas, M. Peeters, B. Pozzo, C. Reid, T. Schomerus, L. Squintani, M. Stallworthy, N. van der Grijp, S. Weishaar
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- Hardcover: 392 pages
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub (January 30, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1781002770
- ISBN-13: 978-1781002773
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 inches
2013年11月12日星期二
Amazon.com: Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (9781458780287): Muhammad Yunus: Books
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Publication Date: December 28, 2012 Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing; a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are near 100 percent. Around the world, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen are blossoming, with more than three hundred programs established in the United States alone. Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus's memoir of how he decided to change his life in order to help the world's poor. In it he traces the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him to fundamentally rethink the economic relationship between rich and poor, and the challenges he and his colleagues faced in founding Grameen. He also provides wise, hopeful guidance for anyone who would like to join him in ''putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long.'' The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is necessary and inspirational reading for anyone interested in economics, public policy, philanthropy, social history, and business. Muhammad Yunus was born in Bangladesh and earned his Ph.D. in economics in the United States at Vanderbilt University, where he was deeply influenced by the civil rights movement. He still lives in Bangladesh, and travels widely around the world on behalf of Grameen Bank and the concept of micro-credit.Product Details
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: ReadHowYouWant (December 28, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1458780287
- ISBN-13: 978-1458780287
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.9 x 9.8 inches
Past Lives of the Rich and Famous LP: Sylvia Browne: 9780062201591: Amazon.com: Books
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Release date: December 26, 2012In this engaging exploration of the past lives of some of our most beloved celebrities, world-renowned psychic Sylvia Browne tells the story of more than fifty celebrities who have passed on and gives us details of the lives they led before their most recent one, and describes how those lives (some filled with joy, some with heartbreak and loss) shaped the celebrated people they became.
Previously Sylvia has written about what transpires after death, but now she explains what happens before birth. Who would have guessed that Amy Winehouse was once born to a homeless couple in Haiti and then sold into a wealthy family, or that Elizabeth Taylor lived forty-seven times before she became the famous star that we all adore?
Finally, Sylvia outlines a three-step plan so that you yourself can take a fascinating journey back and find out what you were doing in your past lives that helped make you the person that you are today!
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- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: HarperLuxe; Lrg edition (December 26, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 006220159X
- ISBN-13: 978-0062201591
- Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Amazon.com: Buddha In the Waiting Room: Simple Truths About Health, Illness, and Healing (9781442967076): Paul Brenner: Books
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Publication Date: December 28, 2012 A physician's training is not complete until it integrates the wisdom of his or her patients. I feel like the ancient mariner. I have taken a long, stormy, forty-year journey in search of the medical Holy Grail: what makes people sick and what makes people well? This journey has taken me through traditional medical training, an obstetrics and gynecology practice, an American Cancer Society Fellowship, a doctorate in psychology, counseling the dying, and the holistic health movement: hypnosis, acupuncture, meditation, and shamanism. Throughout, the albatross around my neck has been the contained wisdom I have learned from my patients, mentors, and my own aloneness. It is now time to share that wisdom. Although this book traces the thread of my journey through the healing arts, Buddha in the Waiting Room is written for you and in honor of those who taught me the truth about health. Paradoxically, most of my teachers were ill. However, despite their apparent physical state, these individuals were vibrant, wise beyond their years, and very much alive - even those diagnosed with terminal illnesses. They defined the meaning of health. They knew something that I had to learn; despite their physical state they taught me the art of healthy living. Each of them was a Buddha to me, a source of pure wisdom. Other Buddhas in this book are those mentors and events that shaped my awareness concerning health, illness, and the human potential.Product Details
- Paperback: 212 pages
- Publisher: ReadHowYouWant; Large Print 16 pt edition (December 28, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1442967072
- ISBN-13: 978-1442967076
- Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
2013年11月9日星期六
Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing: The Editors MAKE of: 9781449357375: Amazon.com: Books
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Publication Date: December 19, 2012 | ISBN-10: 1449357377 | ISBN-13: 978-1449357375The 3D printing revolution is well upon us, with new machines appearing at an amazing rate. With the abundance of information and options out there, how are makers to choose the 3D printer that's right for them? MAKE is here to help, with our Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing. We brought 16 of the top printers to our headquarters and hosted a weekend-long printer shootout staffed by the editors of MAKE and a number of luminaries in the field. We documented out-of-box experiences and subjected the printers to a number of print and torture tests. This issue presents our findings for you in a clear, concise manner.
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- Paperback: 116 pages
- Publisher: Make (December 19, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449357377
- ISBN-13: 978-1449357375
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.2 x 9 inches
One Show, Volume 34: The One Club: 9780929837536: Amazon.com: Books
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Publication Date: January 1, 2013 | Series: One Show (Book 34)Great design and advertising can truly impact the world. The One Show celebrates all of the qualities that go into making a successful ad campaign or design. Considered by many to be the benchmark in advertising annuals, this year's edition features the very best work from around the world from the 2012 One Show and One Show Design contests. In these pages are more than 1,600 four-color images from the finalists and winning entries, insider perspectives from the Gold Pencil winners, a spotlight on the Client of the Year, the college competition winners, and a look into the judging process with a Judge's Choice section. Categories covered include print, design, integrated branding, television, and radio. Lavishly produced with full-color throughout, this book is the must-have annual for creatives, clients, students, and anyone interested in advertising and design.
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- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Rockport Publishers; Har/DVD edition (January 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0929837533
- ISBN-13: 978-0929837536
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 1.5 x 12 inches
Splash 14 - The Best of Watercolor: Light and Color: Rachel Rubin Wolf: 9781440320910: Amazon.com: Books
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Publication Date: July 19, 2013 Readers discover new insights into the methods of top contemporary watercolor artists with each edition of Splash, now an annual competition with an accompanying book after more than 20 years as a series. Splash 14 will be loaded with about 120 paintings by more than 100 artists selected from thousands of watercolor and water-media painters across the world invited to submit work for consideration. Each painting will be accompanied by a caption that will show readers something about each artist's processes pertaining to the theme of light and color.2013年11月6日星期三
Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road: William Least Heat-Moon: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
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For decades, William Least Heat-Moon's readers have been clamoring for him to gather his shorter pieces; now, that wait is over. A perfect treasury of prose and wry provocation for readers old and new, HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE is further confirmation of Least Heat-Moon's status as an American master.
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HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Taking us from Japan, England, Italy, and Mexico to Long Island, Oregon, Arizona, and more, HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE is a sharply observed, funny, and touching series of uncommon adventures narrated by America's keenest writer of place, people, and sublime connection.For decades, William Least Heat-Moon's readers have been clamoring for him to gather his shorter pieces; now, that wait is over. A perfect treasury of prose and wry provocation for readers old and new, HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE is further confirmation of Least Heat-Moon's status as an American master.
Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road: William Least Heat-Moon: 9780316110242: Amazon.com: Books
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For decades, William Least Heat-Moon's readers have been clamoring for him to gather his shorter pieces; now, that wait is over. A perfect treasury of prose and wry provocation for readers old and new, HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE is further confirmation of Least Heat-Moon's status as an American master.
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Release date: January 8, 2013 HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Taking us from Japan, England, Italy, and Mexico to Long Island, Oregon, Arizona, and more, HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE is a sharply observed, funny, and touching series of uncommon adventures narrated by America's keenest writer of place, people, and sublime connection.For decades, William Least Heat-Moon's readers have been clamoring for him to gather his shorter pieces; now, that wait is over. A perfect treasury of prose and wry provocation for readers old and new, HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE is further confirmation of Least Heat-Moon's status as an American master.
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- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 8, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0316110248
- ISBN-13: 978-0316110242
- Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 9.8 inches
Ten Thousand Miles by Freight Train: A Memoir of Beauty and Freedom on the Rails: Carrot Quinn: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
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the continent on wild freight trains in search of beauty, freedom and
adventure. There is weather, wind, and peril; she becomes hopelessly lost; she
lives for days in magical, forgotten forests; there is dehydration and
loneliness; there are other human beings, impossibly brilliant, who shine like
bright stars in the dark and endless universe.
Riding freight trains- the last great American adventure!
This is a story for anyone who has ever wanted to ignore the rules and find the
real edges of what is and is not possible. This is a story for those who have
dreamed of hopping freight trains. This is a story of freight train travel, of
hitchhiking, of adventure; but it is also a story of the search for meaning and
connection in a sometimes stark and empty land.
You can learn more about the author at carrotquinn.wordpress.com
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This is the true story of a young woman who sets out acrossthe continent on wild freight trains in search of beauty, freedom and
adventure. There is weather, wind, and peril; she becomes hopelessly lost; she
lives for days in magical, forgotten forests; there is dehydration and
loneliness; there are other human beings, impossibly brilliant, who shine like
bright stars in the dark and endless universe.
Riding freight trains- the last great American adventure!
This is a story for anyone who has ever wanted to ignore the rules and find the
real edges of what is and is not possible. This is a story for those who have
dreamed of hopping freight trains. This is a story of freight train travel, of
hitchhiking, of adventure; but it is also a story of the search for meaning and
connection in a sometimes stark and empty land.
You can learn more about the author at carrotquinn.wordpress.com
Amazon.com: 100 Places That Can Change Your Child‘s Life: From Your Backyard to the Ends of the Earth (9781426208591): Keith Bellows, Natalie Morales: Books
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The book showcases 100 places, each anchored by someone who knows the place intimately. You'll meet Lorenzo Fatzi, a Venetian gondolier, who will share his secrets of the canals; a Nantucket fisherman who gives you a very special nautical tour of the?island; animal tracker Vram Seth, who talks about life in India's Ranthambore tiger reserve; and countless others who are cultural treasures, great storytellers, and keepers of a sense of place.
Each chapter answers these simple questions: What is the one experience you must have here that will help you understand it better? That will give you insights into its culture and people? That is unforgettable? And that will enrich the life of a child and at what age?
Each chapter also includes sidebars:
- Culture Pack: Books, recipes, music, and films to preview and supplement actual travel experiences.
- Key Intelligence: Carefully curated lists of kid-friendly things to do and see, where to eat and stay, and what parents should be sensitive to or prepared for.
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Release date: February 5, 2013 This evocative book provides all you need to create life-changing vacations around the world with your kids. You won't find rote itineraries or windy, discursive text, lists of museums and landmarks, festivals and events. Instead, you'll get slice-of-life, ageappropriate experiences in special places that offer life experiences and peeks into different cultures.The book showcases 100 places, each anchored by someone who knows the place intimately. You'll meet Lorenzo Fatzi, a Venetian gondolier, who will share his secrets of the canals; a Nantucket fisherman who gives you a very special nautical tour of the?island; animal tracker Vram Seth, who talks about life in India's Ranthambore tiger reserve; and countless others who are cultural treasures, great storytellers, and keepers of a sense of place.
Each chapter answers these simple questions: What is the one experience you must have here that will help you understand it better? That will give you insights into its culture and people? That is unforgettable? And that will enrich the life of a child and at what age?
Each chapter also includes sidebars:
- Culture Pack: Books, recipes, music, and films to preview and supplement actual travel experiences.
- Key Intelligence: Carefully curated lists of kid-friendly things to do and see, where to eat and stay, and what parents should be sensitive to or prepared for.
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- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: National Geographic (February 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1426208596
- ISBN-13: 978-1426208591
- Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
2013年10月23日星期三
I, Rhoda: Valerie Harper: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
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As Mary Richards's lovable and self-deprecating best friend Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Valerie Harper, too, turned the world on with her smile. Viewers could relate to Rhoda, native New Yorker and struggling working girl, who was unlucky in love and insecure about her weight but who always kept her sense of humor.Valerie was an unknown actress when she won the part that made her famous, and by the time Rhoda, her popular spin-off show, ended, she had won four Emmys and a Golden Globe. The role was groundbreaking. On-screen, she represented a self-reliant new identity for women of the 1970s while off-screen she fought alongside feminists Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug for equal rights, among other issues that were important to her.
Valerie's showbiz journey has taken her from Broadway, where she performed as a dancer and eventually found herself onstage with Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason, to Hollywood, where she went down in history as one of television's best-loved characters, and back to the Great White Way, where she recently won a Tony Award nomination for her critically acclaimed role as Tallulah Bankhead. Her inspiring story is laced with triumphs and a few transformative obstacles along the way, but she remains upbeat and funny throughout, always confident that no matter what, she's going to make it after all.
Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table: Cita Stelzer: 9781605984018: Amazon.com: Books
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Publication Date: January 9, 2013A colorful and eloquent look at Churchill as he has never been seen before. With fascinating new insights into the food he ate, the champagne he loved, and the important guests he charmed,?this delectable volume?is a sumptuous and intellectual treat.
A friend once said of Churchill "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything."???????????
But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food, excellent champagnes and Havana cigars. "Everything" included the opportunity to use the dinner table both as a stage on which to display his brilliant conversational talents, and an intimate setting in which to glean gossip and diplomatic insights, and to argue for the many policies he espoused over a long life.
In this riveting, informative and entertaining book, Stelzer draws on previously untapped material, diaries of guests, and a wide variety of other sources to tell of some of the key dinners at which Churchill presided before, during and after World War II– including the important conferences at which he used his considerable skills to attempt to persuade his allies, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, to fight the war according to his strategic vision.
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- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Pegasus; 1 edition (January 9, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1605984019
- ISBN-13: 978-1605984018
- Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.5 x 9.1 inches
My Share of the Task: A Memoir: General Stanley McChrystal: 9781591844754: Amazon.com: Books
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Release date: January 7, 2013 "Never shall I fail my comrades. . . . I will shoulder more than my share of the task, whatever it may be, one hundred percent and then some." —from the Ranger Creed?In early March 2010, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, walked with President Hamid Karzai through a small rural bazaar. As Afghan townspeo-ple crowded around them, a Taliban rocket loudly thudded into the ground some distance away. Karzai looked to McChrystal, who shrugged. The two leaders continued greeting the townspeople and listening to their views.?That trip was typical of McChrystal's entire career, from his first day as a West Point plebe to his last day as a four-star general. The values he has come to be widely admired for were evident: a hunger to know the truth on the ground, the courage to find it, and the humility to listen to those around him. Even as a senior commander, McChrystal stationed him-self forward, and frequently went on patrols with his troops to experience their challenges firsthand.?In this illuminating memoir, McChrystal frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career. He delves candidly into the intersection of history, leadership, and his own experience to produce a book of enduring value.?Joining the troubled post-Vietnam army as a young officer, McChrystal witnessed and participated in some of our military's most difficult struggles. He describes the many outstanding leaders he served with and the handful of bad leaders he learned not to emulate. He paints a vivid portrait of the traditional military establishment that turned itself, in one gen-eration, into the adaptive, resilient force that would soon be tested in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wider War on Terror.?McChrystal spent much of his early career in the world of special operations, at a time when these elite forces became increasingly effective—and necessary. He writes of a fight waged in the shadows by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which he led from 2003 to 2008. JSOC became one of our most effective counterterrorism weapons, facing off against Al Qaeda in Iraq.?Over time, JSOC gathered staggering amounts of intelligence in order to find and remove the most influential and dangerous terrorists, including the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The hunt for Zarqawi drives some of the most grip-ping scenes in this book, as McChrystal's team grappled with tricky interrogations, advanced but scarce technology, weeks of unbroken surveillance, and agonizing decisions.?McChrystal brought the same energy to the war in Afghanistan, where the challenges loomed even larger. His revealing account draws on his close relationships with Afghan leaders, giving readers a unique window into the war and the country.?Ultimately, My Share of the Task is about much more than war and peace, terrorism and counterin-surgency. As McChrystal writes, "More by luck than design, I'd been a part of some events, organizations, and efforts that will loom large in history, and more that will not. I saw selfless commitment, petty politics, unspeakable cruelty, and quiet courage in places and quantities that I'd never have imagined. But what I will remember most are the leaders."Product Details
- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (January 7, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1591844754
- ISBN-13: 978-1591844754
- Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches
2013年10月22日星期二
Amazon.com: The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today (Audible Audio Edition): Thomas E. Ricks, William Hughes: Books
Amazon.com: The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved (Audible Audio Edition): Jonathan Fenby, Robin Bloodworth: Books
Amazon.com: Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire (Audible Audio Edition): Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian: Books
Amazon.com: The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy (Audible Audio Edition): David Nasaw, Malcolm Hillgartner: Books
Amazon.com: My Share of the Task: A Memoir (Audible Audio Edition): General Stanley McChrystal, Kevin Collins: Books
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