Xlibris jun 2004 (19 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Advance reviews of Certain to WinCertain to Win [Sun Tzüs prognosis for generals who follow his advice] develops the strategy of the late US Air Force Colonel John R. Boyd for the world of business. Robert Coram's monumental biography, Boyd, the Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War, rekindled interest in this obscure pilot and documented his influence on military matters ranging from the design of the F-15 and F-16 fighters to the planning for Operation Desert Storm to the execution of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Unfortunately Boyd's written legacy, consisting of a single paper and a four-set cycle of briefings, addresses strategy only in war. [All Boyd¿s briefings are available on Defense and the National Interest.] Boyd and Business Boyd did study business. He read everything he could find on the Toyota Production System and came to consider it as an implementation of ideas similar to his own. He took business into account when he formulated the final version of his 'OODA loop' and in his last major briefing, Conceptual Spiral, on science and technology. He read and commented on early versions of this manuscript, but he never wrote on how business could operate more profitably by using his ideas. Other writers and business strategists have taken up the challenge, introducing Boyd's concepts and suggesting applications to business. Keith Hammonds, in the magazine Fast Company, George Stalk and Tom Hout in Competing Against Time, and Tom Peters most recently in Re-imagine! have described the OODA loop and its effects on competitors. They made significan.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a love story about Garrick who's days as a warrior were finally over. It was time for him to return home to his castle by the ocean. In his warm sanctuary, he though this life was complete, that is until he saw her.Angela was a beautiful noble woman who lived a life of ease. Until one night when fate brought a dark stranger into her life and stole away, any chance of her ever seeing the sunrise again. Since that cold autumn evening, she has wandered the world of shadows in sorrow and confusion that is until she saw him.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The story of an ordinary depression era kid playing a small part in a big war. It took a lot of luck to make it through four years of flying the various army fighter planes over a lot of the world. Starting from Aviation Cadet training the trail goes to Oahu and isolated atolls in the central Pacific, to the Solomons, then to New Guinea, and finally to the Mighty Eighth over Europe.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Spacebraid and Other Tales of a Dystopian Universe is a collection of one novella and seven short stories that explore the most powerful of human emotions, fears and desires in settings sometimes hostile, sometimes surreal, and always a bit off-kilter. The tales vary from the humorous to the tragic, from the idealistic yearning of the hero in Darwin to the horrifying fate of Godfrey in Heisenberg in the Macro. Spacebraid, the longest piece in the collection, is the story of a dedicated group of individuals led by a brilliant theoretical physicist in a dash through time to circumvent ecological disaster and, in so doing, to preserve the best hopes and dreams of humankind. Be forewarned that these stories are not for the faint of heart. They are meant to connect at a viscerally potent level, challenge thought and, in the end, place us in touch with our own values, hopes and fears. Take the journey. It'll be a great ride.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Living a privileged life of a well to do Englishman, Devlin Robards now wants a home. Dealing in antiques through the Internet, he finds a house needing restoration in the town of Snohomish, Washington, U.S.A. KC Lynnson is a mouthy policewoman who lives next door. Even striking sparks off of each other, they work well together solving the coincidence of strange notes in her possession and not Elektronisches Buch found in his renovated house. Her friends introduce Devlin to the vulgarities of potlucks and back yard barbecues, while he retaliates with a taste of refinement. Feelings come to a head when KC is shot in the line of duty when a drug bust goes bad.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'He was born and raised in a land that championed the worst evil ever seen on this planet. He was fortunate to flee to a land of the free and to serve proudly in its army, and then to the land of his ancestors - the land that G-d had promised to His people as an eternal inheritance. His duty would be to fight for the rest of his life for its continued existence as a sovereign state.' Joe Alster's personal memoirs record idyllic beginnings in Cologne, Germany to his escape to Holland following Kristallnact, life in America including service in the U.S. Army to daring escapades with Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense league, the search for Mengele, and his move to Isreal where he continues his activism against injustice. Since the quiet and unobserved life has never been enough for Alster, he unfolds his exciting story in a highly emotional and, at times, deeply philosophical stream of consciousness.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Imagine an artist that is painting the picture we experience as reality. What if we could reach out and take hold of the artist's brush. What if we could push those strokes in a positive direction . And what if the artist that paints your reality, was you The story I am about to tell, is about you. It is about how you are creating, through quantum reality, the world that you experience. It is a story of illusion and reality, and how they are in fact one and the same. As modern physicists and psychologists reach further for new answers, we find them standing face to face. The observer has become an integral part of the equation in physics, and physical creation has become an inseparable part of human psychology. Look in the mirror and you come face to face with the artist that is painting your life. You need to know the rules. You need to know how to hold the brush and mix the paint to create the life you really want. The gap between scientific knowledge and measurable experience was finally bridged in 1905. Einstein's 'Special Theory of Relativity' explained the relationships between the four physical dimensions of our experience, and created a whole new set of questions, questions about thought, perception, and energy. Questions about how our observation of the physical world affects what we see. Answers to those questions have come one by one over the last 98 years. Nearly a century of additional research has created a world of unprecedented new technologies, and with them, a new vision of our world has emerged, a vision of a world in which our observation has a dramatic effect on reality. We have been forced to bridge the gap between physics and psychology with a new theory; a theory that explains the relationship between physical experience and our observation of it, a theory that makes a direct connection between our thoughts and our experience of reality. This new theory has finally pierced the veil of illusion to reveal the inner workings and aweso.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sons are forced from the moment they first suckle on their mother's breast to compete with their fathers for the same ground, but fathers have an advantage. The voice of a father creeps into his son from an early age like the voice of God that spread across the water. Even sons who have never met their fathers can be infected through the blood that gives them life. They may take on the manners of their father without knowing it. Filicide can be a relative phenomenon; a son's spirit slowly crushed below the weight of his father's voice.The San Diego of 1872 desperately needs a railroad, but General Manuel Marquez de Leon wants to use the tracks for his own purposes while the Luiseno Indians know the train will destroy them. Brendan Gould navigates between these two powerful forces when he struggles to build the Texas and Pacific Railroad. If it wasn't for his father, the journey might not be dangerous. Brendan stands in his father's way. Raised during the hell of the Civil War, Brendan uses all his skills to rebuild the country. The Union Pacific Railroad spanned the continent a few years before, bringing prosperity to the northern states. A railroad from Texas to San Diego will bring the same freedom of movement to the shattered South, while linking San Diego to markets in the east. Brendan knows how to finance the project in order to fulfill his dream. Brendan's father, Herman Gould, has bigger plans for the railroad; he sees the Texas and Pacific as a golden pipeline bringing all the wealth of California to him. His megalomania doesn't include his son, except as a possible target. He sends Brendan through a gauntlet stretching from the mansions of Nob Hill in San Francisco to the slums of Five Corners, Manhattan. In San Diego, Brendan finds tough-minded dreamers, longing to turn the desert into paradise. Many will pay the ultimate price to accomplish a goal, which only their great-grandchildren will enjoy. Brendan Gould feels at home among these dr. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dumb the populace down and you can sell anything. Who needs Chopin and Mozart when you've got Britney Spears, Michael Bolton and Kenny G Why dine on penne con fungi when Hamburger Helper and Hungry Man frozen dinners are available Got white merlot to sell, no problem! Got a war to sell, no problem! Fill the local news broadcasts with the latest celebrity gossip, NASCAR results and fear of foreigners, all the while repeating 'Shut up and shop!', the preferred subliminal command. Provide Mammoth-sized shopping carts to transport the oversized haul to the gargantuan SUV, the only thing large enough to deliver the inflated modern day shopper and its truckload of heavily processed food. .'Obey and consume!' As with the relationship between the Morlocks and the Eloi, keep the populace placated, well fed, and most importantly, dumbed-down and supreme power is yours, at least that's the view of Sherlock Holmes' latest villain. But is it too late Can the horror be stopped Is the Red State plague (RSP) the great pestilence that will finally erode the American fabric So, you mean Puccini isn't a green vegetable Is recruiting Sherlock Holmes, with his stunning powers of deduction, the answer Can Holmes find the culprit, a ruthless culture-thief, and rescue the US In Kenneth Frawley¿s new book, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing American Culture revel in the fascinating, side-splitting story of Americäs cultural distress and how the legendary Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes is recruited to rescue a distraught nation. Inventive and satirical, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing American Culture is an influential work of modern fiction that compels readers to put in the open their own values and ponder American culture, and the roles its corporate and political entities have had upon it. With a welcome comeback of the celebrated detective and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, the book is a literary tour de force seen through the eyes of Frawley with his perceptive and relevant assessment of American culture. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Broadway is a commercial institution. It has nothing whatsoever to do with pretentious artistic notions. It's there for one purpose, and one purpose alone- to make money.' So begins the comments by the successful Broadway and television producer Alexander Cohen made just before his recent death-his thoughts on the state of Broadway today. 'The theatre is too much in transition [these days]. It's static; treading water, so to speak. I'm only interested in keeping my current shows open as long as I can.' The words of Sir Cameron Mackintosh-his personal views on the current state of the art. Executive Producer Steven Rivellino has taken a long hard look at the business of theatre-Broadway and the West End-at the turn of this new century, and Bright Lights, Big Changes is his own candid personal analysis. Rivellino, author of the successful Mysterious Places, Mysterious Dreams, has cleverly zeroed in on what makes the industry tick. He easily articulates how the industry has changed; how we arrived where we are today; and openly discusses some of the current and future trends in theatrical production we will be seeing in the coming years. Bright Lights, Big Changes is a cogent and succinct analysis of the business of theatre today, on both sides of the Atlantic-a must read for anyone working within the industry, students of theatre; and for those passionate theatre lovers worldwide.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book was written by me in order to hopefully assist greatly those busy pastors and evangelists, who fervently desire to obtain stimulating, sound, and biblically based sermonic ideas that would prime them to produce the very best in effective preaching and teaching of God's Holy Word and to serve as a master guide book for lay people from all walks of life who are eager to learn in a down-to-earth manner the truths of The Holy Bible.Indeed, every minister, Sunday School teacher, and all those others that love The Holy Scriptures should want to have on their book shelves copies of this exhaustive work of love that has the ability to well-arm the reader with knowledge to use in God's employ!My goal was to be used of God fully in such a way that He would allow me to pen that which would literally cause The Holy Bible to come alive in the hearts of every open-hearted partaker of what was imparted from The Lord for my delivery to others.I sincerely pray that those who study carefully this beloved labor of my soul will feel the grandeur of a walk through the beautiful art gallery of The Scriptures and will behold the masterpieces that God painted with masterful skill in the form of biblical unfoldings.It is my hope that this book will be wonderfully a blessing to countless numbers of people in helping them to look deeply into Bible prophecies with a perception that can aid them to see step by step what the future holds for the redeemed and the lost!During my life, I have spent much time in the careful process of thoroughly studying God's Word on a verse by verse basis from Genesis to Revelation; therefore, I have sought to express on paper some of the thoughts that I have received in a God-inspired way from this greatest of all books to me: The Bible.It is my desire that the fruit contained in my book, which represent many years of devoted labor will permit ministers to have easy to understand thoughts at their fingertips, as.…