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Expect Great Things The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
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Description: To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 2017, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in our understanding of one modern history's most important spiritual visionaries by capturing the full arc of Thoreau's life as a mystic, spiritual seeker, and explorer in transcendental realms.
This sweeping, epic biography of Henry David Thoreau sees Thoreau's world as the mystic himself saw it: filled with wonder and mystery; Native American myths and lore; wood sylphs, nature spirits, and fairies; battles between good and evil; and heroic struggles to live as a natural being in an increasingly synthetic world.
Above all, Expect Great Things critically and authoritatively captures Thoreau's simultaneously wild and intellectually keen sense of the mystical, mythical, and supernatural.
Other historians have skipped past or undervalued these aspects of Thoreau's life. In this groundbreaking work, historian...
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The End of Protest A New Playbook for Revolution
epub | 2.64 MB | English | Micah White | 2016
Description: Is protest broken? Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, thinks so. Disruptive tactics have failed to halt the rise of Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election. Movements ranging from Black Lives Matter to environmentalism are leaving activists frustrated. Meanwhile, recent years have witnessed the largest protests in human history. Yet these mass mobilizations no longer change society. Now activism is at a crossroads: innovation or irrelevance.
In The End of Protest Micah White heralds the future of activism. Drawing on his unique experience with Occupy Wall Street, a contagious protest that spread to eighty-two countries, White articulates a unified theory of revolution and eight principles of tactical innovation that are destined to catalyze the next generation of social movements.
Despite global challenges-catastrophic climate change, economic collapse and the decline of democracy-White finds reason for optimism:...
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What Makes a Great City
epub | 71.71 MB | English | Alexander Garvin
Description: What makes a great city? City planner and architect Alexander Garvin set out to answer this question by observing cities, largely in North America and Europe, with special attention to Paris, London, New York, and Vienna.
For Garvin, greatness is about what people who shape cities candotomakea city great. A great city is a dynamic, constantly changing place that residents and their leaders can reshape to satisfy their demands. Most importantly, it is about the interplay between people and public realm, and how they have interacted throughout history to create great cities.
What Makes a Great Citywill help readers understand that any city can be changed for the better and inspire entrepreneurs, public officials, and city residents to do it themselves.
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1969 and Then Some A Memoir of Romance, Motorcycles, and Lingering Flashbacks of a Golden Age
epub | 1.34 MB | English | Robert Wintner
Description: The year when everything needed to be experienced and tried, when innocence was tempted, played, and lost.
1969 was that pivotal year for the baby boomers. Young and innocent, they were given the ultimate freedoms and were faced with growing up.
This touching, hilarious memoir is the true story of a late sixties grand tour of Europe-a life-defining parable, for those who remember and for those who can't. Never before and not since have a handful of seasons so exquisitely defined the difference between right and wrong. With the gift of youth they saw, sensed, and savored the laughably clear distinction between profit motive and greed, between truth and propaganda, between national interest and defense contractors, between a lovely cloud of smoke and the smoke of napalm, and between the phantoms of security and the dangers of complacency and atrophy.
Stoned to the gills and then some, these adventurers saw and felt and knew things that no generation before...
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Architecture Patterns with Python (True EPUB)
epub | 7.54 MB | English | Harry Percival
Description: As Python continues to grow in popularity, projects are becoming larger and more complex. Many Python developers are now taking an interest in high-level software design patterns such as hexagonal/clean architecture, event-driven architecture, and the strategic patterns prescribed by domain-driven design (DDD). But translating those patterns into Python isn't always straightforward.
With this hands-on guide, Harry Percival and Bob Gregory from MADE.com introduce proven architectural design patterns to help Python developers manage application complexity-and get the most value out of their test suites.
Each pattern is illustrated with concrete examples in beautiful, idiomatic Python, avoiding some of the verbosity of Java and C# syntax. Patterns include:
Dependency inversion and its links to ports and adapters (hexagonal/clean architecture)Domain-driven design's distinction between entities, value objects, and aggregatesRepository and...
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Archiving an Epidemic Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant Garde (Sexual Cultures)
epub | 122.08 MB | English | Robb Hernández
Description: Critically reimagines Chicanx art, unmasking its queer afterlife Emboldened by the boom in art, fashion, music, and retail culture in 1980s Los Angeles, the iconoclasts of queer Aztlán-as Robb Hernández terms the group of artists who emerged from East LA, Orange County, and other parts of Southern California during this period-developed a new vernacular with which to read the city in bloom. Tracing this important but understudied body of work, Archiving an Epidemic catalogs a queer retelling of the Chicana and Chicano art movement, from its origins in the 1960s, to the AIDS crisis and the destruction it wrought in the 1980s, and onto the remnants and legacies of these artists in the current moment. Hernández offers a vocabulary for this multi-modal avant-garde-one that contests the heteromasculinity and ocular surveillance visited upon it by the larger Chicanx community, as well as the formally straight conditions of...
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Chaos Engineering by Nora Jones, Casey Rosenthal
epub | 4.46 MB | English | Nora Jones, Casey Rosenthal | 2020
Description: As more companies move toward microservices and other distributed technologies, the complexity of these systems increases. You can't remove the complexity, but through Chaos Engineering you can discover vulnerabilities and prevent outages before they impact your customers. This practical guide sho engineers how to navigate complex systems while optimizing to meet business goals.
Two of the field's prominent figures, Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones, pioneered the discipline while working together at Netflix. In this book, they expound on the what, how, and why of Chaos Engineering while facilitating a conversation from practitioners across industries. Many chapters are written by contributing authors to widen the perspective across verticals within (and beyond) the software industry.
Learn how Chaos Engineering enables your organization to navigate complexityExplore a methodology to avoid failures within your application, network, and infrastructureMove from theory to practice through real-world stories from industry experts at Google, Microsoft, Slack, and LinkedIn, among othersEstablish a framework for thinking about complexity within software systemsDesign a Chaos Engineering program around game days and move toward highly targeted, automated experimentsLearn how to design continuous collaborative chaos experiments
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Choose Economic Freedom Enduring Policy Lessons from the 1970s and 1980s
epub | 24.59 MB | English | George P. Shultz and John B. Taylor | 2020
Description: What are the keys to good economic policy? George P. Shultz and John B. Taylor draw from their decades of experience to show how letting the market work on its own, without government intervention, is a recipe for success. The authors recount firsthand how failed policies of the 1970s were reversed in the prosperous 1980s. The words of Milton Friedman, whose "free to choose" ethos inspired the free-market revolution, bring the debates to life.
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Cloud Native Go
epub | 2.58 MB | English | Matthew A. Titmus
Description: What do Docker, Kubernetes, and Prometheus have in common? All of these cloud native technologies are written in the Go programming language. This practical book sho you how to use Go's strengths to develop cloud native services that are scalable and resilient, even in an unpredictable environment. You'll explore the composition and construction of these applications, from lower-level features of Go to mid-level design patterns to high-level architectural considerations.
Each chapter builds on the lessons of the last, walking intermediate to advanced developers through Go to construct a simple but fully featured distributed key-value store. You'll learn best practices for adopting Go as your cloud native development language for solving cloud native management and deployment issues.
Learn how cloud native applications differ from other software architecturesUnderstand how Go can solve the challenges of designing scalable, distributed servicesLeverage Go's lower-level features, such as channels and goroutines, to implement a reliable cloud native serviceExplore what "service reliability" is and what it has to do with "cloud native"Apply a variety of patterns, abstractions, and tooling to build and manage complex distributed systems
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Colours in the Sky The History of Autair and Court Line Aviation (EPUB)
epub | 74.15 MB | English | Graham M. Simons
Description: It's impossible to tell the story of Court Line without telling that of Autair, founded by helicopter pioneer William 'Bill' Armstrong. Autair itself was an offshoot of his global helicopter operation, but Bill also had his finger in many aviation 'pies' including a multitude of operations in Africa, where so many aircraft and airlines were created, bought and sold with such prolificacy that even he could not remember the names and how many there were! There is also the background to Court Line's shipping concerns and the Caribbean operations of the hotel chains and regional airline Leeward Islands Air Transport which Court owned for a while.
Covered in detail is the introduction, demonstration and use of the Lockheed TriStar wide-bodied airliner, the first of the type used in the Inclusive Tour business.
Court Line Aviation and Tom Gullick's Clarksons Holidays brought to the forefront the concept of value-for-money Inclusive Tour holidays following the 'vertical...
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Debt The First 5,000 Years
epub | 2.88 MB | English | David Graeber | 2014
Description: Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber's "fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely" (Financial Times) history of debt
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he sho that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods--that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
Graeber sho that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like "guilt," "sin," and...
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Dying to Be Normal Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics
epub | 1.05 MB | English | Brett Krutzsch | 2019
Description: On October 14, 1998, five thousand people gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to mourn the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who had been murdered in Wyoming eight days earlier. Politicians and celebrities addressed the crowd and the televised national audience to share their grief with the country. Never before had a gay citizen's murder elicited such widespread outrage or concern from straight Americans. In Dying to Be Normal, Brett Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians. Through an examination of publicly mourned gay deaths, Krutzsch counters the common perception that LGBT politics and religion have been oppositional and reveals how gay activists used religion to bolster the argument that gays are essentially the same as straights, and therefore deserving of equal rights. Krutzsch's analysis turns to...
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English with an Accent Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States, 2nd Edition
epub | 3.63 MB | English | Rosina Lippi-Green | 1997
Description: Since its initial publication, English with an Accent has provoked debate and controversy within classrooms through its in-depth scrutiny of American attitudes towards language. Rosina Lippi-Green discusses the ways in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. This second edition has been reorganized and revised to include: <LI>new dedicated chapters on Latino English and Asian American English </LI><LI>discussion questions, further reading, and suggested classroom exercises, </LI><LI>updated examples from the classroom, the judicial system, the media, and corporate culture </LI><LI>a discussion of the long-term implications of the Ebonics debate</LI><LI>a brand-new companion website with a glossary of key terms and links to audio, video, and images relevant to the each chapter's content. </LI> English with an Accent is essential reading for...
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Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America
epub | 6.88 MB | English | Winston James | 1998
Description: A major history of the impact of Caribbean migration to the United States. Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farakhan-the roster of immigrants from the Caribbean who have made a profound impact on the development of radical politics in the United States is extensive. In this magisterial and lavishly illustrated work, Winston James focuses on the twentieth century’s first waves of immigrants from the Caribbean and their contribution to political dissidence in America. Examining the way in which the characteristics of the societies they left shaped their perceptions of the land to which they traveled, Winston James dra sharp differences between Hispanic and English-speaking arrivals. He explores the interconnections between the Cuban independence struggle, Puerto Rican nationalism, Afro-American feminism, and black communism in the first turbulent decades of the twentieth century. He also provides fascinating...
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Good vs Good Why the 8 Great Goods Are Behind Every Good (and Bad) Decision
epub | 18.99 MB | English | 9780984749157 | John C Beck
Description: If most of us want to be good, how is it that many of us can seem so bad?
Drawing on the disciplines of brain science, management, moral philosophy, public policy, and psychology-and filled with original research, surveys, and case studies, Good vs Good explains how we each prioritize the 8 Great Goods in completely disparate order.
In surveys of over 2000 Americans, 1750 gave a unique sequence for their Goods. Yet, when we encounter people with whom we do not share the same prioritization of Goods, our natural inclination is to resist them and their vie; leading to boardroom coups, family spats, and lovers' quarrels. We may even find those who look at the world in divergent ways as somehow evil. The most important conflicts in human history (Cambodia's Killing Fields, ---c Jihads, civil wars and even presidential elections) are all about how we prioritize the Eight Great Goods.
The way we rank the 8 Goods-explicit or unspoken-determines who we are and what we will become as individuals, organizations, and nations. So for anyone who is a national leader, an organizational manager or just trying to get along with co-workers or family members, Good vs Good offers insights into what is going on in our minds and in the minds of others. More importantly, this book gives readers a step-by-step game plan for how to bridge the gulf between the Goods and each other. Good vs Good sho us how our differences can actually build understanding and create solutions that may permanently improve our lives and the world around us.
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A business management expert explains that disagreements and conflicts are not the products of good versus evil but of differences in how individuals prioritize what he calls the Eight Great Goods.
After conducting thousands of intervie and surveys with people from more than 20 cultures, Beck (Japan s Business Renaissance, with Mark Fuller, 2005, etc.) determined that making decisions is, for most people, an attempt to do the right thing or to do good. The decisions people make, Beck says, can be sorted into one of the Eight Great Goods, each illustrated here with interview snippets: Life, Growth, Relationships, Joy, Individuality, Stability, Equality and Belief. Individuals prioritize these goods differently, with great variation; Beck notes that, according to his research, less than 10 percent of a representative sample of Americans shares a pattern of priority with another person. Regardless of this individual variation, Beck cogently and effectively proposes that by using these eight goods to categorize even the most contentious debates, opponents will discover commonalities. Perhaps more importantly, opponents will stop viewing debated issues in terms of good versus evil and instead understand conflicts as a matter of good versus good. Once an individual organizes the eight goods according to his or her own priorities, Beck says decision-making can be accomplished by applying a simple algorithm to the problem at hand. At the organizational and national levels, where individual lists would, he presumes, vary significantly, problems are analyzed based on which goods are most applicable. Using the debate over Arizona s immigration law as an example, Beck illustrates this process by bringing a contentious group of debaters closer to agreement by identifying the goods of Relationships, Equality, Stability and Individuality the goods most affected by the law s passage, he says. Further evidence of how these eight goods factor into decision-making is described in Section III, which examines various nations and the policies that reflect how different countries have prioritized these goods. The book concludes with a section on how leaders can put the Eight Great Goods into practice and develop better, more focused and successful organizations. Due to Beck s conversational writing style, the concepts are made easy to understand without becoming too simplistic. Rather than offering tired analysis of the current trend toward deep polarization, he offers plausible, practicable steps toward a solution that requires little more than a fresh perspective and a willingness to try something new.
An eye-opening, even-keeled theory offering hope to those who disagree. --Kirkus Revie
Named one of the Best Books of 2013 by Kirkus Revie.
"In its glowing review of Good vs. Good, Kirkus praised a conversational writing style that s easy to understand without becoming too simplistic, along with Beck s program of plausible, practicable steps...that require little more than a fresh perspective and a willingness to try something new."
--Kirkus "Authors to Watch" - by Jim Franklin
About the Author
John C. Beck is Managing Director of Hult Labs, Professor at Hult International Business college, and President of the North Star Leadership Group, Inc. Previously, he served as the Dean of Globis University -- the first non-Japanese to lead a bilingual professional degree program in Japan and as a Professor and Senior Advisor at the Lee Kuan Yew college of Public Policy in Singapore. He is currently also a Senior Research Fellow at University of Southern California s Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, and formerly Director of International Research at Accenture and a Senior Advisor at Monitor Group and the International University of Japan. He was also a Professor of Global Management & Dean of Research at Thunderbird college of Global Management.
John earned his B.A. in East Asian Studies and Sociology summa cum laude from Harvard University, and was the first graduate of Harvard s integrative Ph.D. program in Organizational Behavior. Dr. Beck is a Visiting Professor at IMD (Switzerland) and IPADE (Mexico). He has also taught at numerous other universities like: Harvard, UCLA, USC, and the Ivey college in Canada.
Dr. Beck served as the senior strategic advisor to the First Prime Minister, Prince Ranariddh, during Cambodia s first three years as a democracy. John previously was Co-Director of the Project on Strategies of the World s Largest 50 Companies for the United Nations. He has served on the Board of Directors of a variety of corporations and universities, including the Monterey Institute of International Studies (California) and Choice Humanitarian, a non-profit organization supporting village development programs in six countries around the world.
Dr. Beck has published hundreds of books, articles, and business reports on the topics of business in Asia, strategic management, globalization, leadership, and technology. His latest book, Good vs. Good is the culmination of a half-decade of research. He has appeared on CNN, CBS Evening Ne, Fox Ne and is a frequent guest on National Public Radio. He is quoted and cited in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times and other leading papers and magazines. His co-authored book, The Attention Economy, was named one of the best ten business books of 2001 by Amazon, Border s and the Library Association. DoCoMo: The wireless tsunami (with Mitchell Wade) was published in September 2002 and acclaimed as an excellent book on leadership. His book (again with Mitchell Wade), Got Game: How a new generation of gamers is reshaping business forever has received wide press coverage. <Japan's Business Renaissance (co-authored with Mark Fuller) was published by McGraw-Hill in 2005. The Kids are Alright, released in late 2006, was listed as one of Harvard Business college Press s most popular books. His books have been translated into eleven languages. He is currently writing his next book, Old Brains.
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Hell Before Breakfast America's First War Correspondents
epub | 36.26 MB | English | Robert H. Patton | 2014
Description: The first "war correspondent," William H. Russell of The Times of London, described himself and his profession as "the miserable parent of a luckless tribe." Others saw it differently: the war correspondent became the stuff of dreams and an urgent romantic calling. . . .
Now, Robert H. Patton, acclaimed historian, author of The Pattons ("Exceptional"--The Washington Post; "Truly remarkable"--John S. Eisenhower) and Patriot Pirates ("Soul-stirring--as good as reading a Patrick O'Brian novel, except that every word is true"--Michael Korda), rediscovers and celebrates, in Hell Before Breakfast, America's first war correspondents, forgotten today but legends in their time. Here are the men who, between 1850 and 1914, and particularly during America's Civil War and the Spanish-American War, led the most romantic and thrilling of lives on the edgiest frontiers of time and space, where empires fell and dynasties flourished; they were...
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Into the Fire A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
epub | 6.66 MB | English | Dakota Meyer, Bing West | 2012
Description: "The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations."-President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer's Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the enemy was positioned to wipe out one hundred men who were pinned down and were repeatedly refused artillery support. Ordered to remain behind with the vehicles, twenty-one year-old Marine corporal Dakota Meyer disobeyed orders and attacked to rescue his comrades.With a brave driver at the wheel, Meyer stood in the gun turret exposed to withering fire, rallying Afghan troops to follow. Over the course of the five hours, he charged into the valley time and again. Employing a variety of machine guns, rifles, grenade launchers, and even a rock, Meyer repeatedly repulsed enemy attackers, carried wounded Afghan soldiers to safety, and provided cover for dozens of others to escape-supreme acts of valor and determination. In the end, Meyer and four stalwart comrades-an Army captain, an Afghan sergeant major, and two Marines-cleared the battlefield and came to grips with a tragedy they knew could have been avoided. For his actions on that day, Meyer became the first living Marine in three decades to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Into the Fire tells the full story of the chaotic battle of Ganjigal for the first time, in a compelling, human way that reveals it as a microcosm of our recent wars. Meyer takes us from his upbringing on a farm in Kentucky, through his Marine and sniper training, onto the battlefield, and into the vexed aftermath of his harrowing exploits in a battle that has become the stuff of legend. Investigations ensued, even as he was pitched back into battle alongside U.S. Army soldiers who embraced him as a fellow grunt. When it was over, he returned to the States to confront living with the loss of his closest friends. This is a tale of American values and upbringing, of stunning heroism, and of adjusting to loss and to civilian life.We see it all through Meyer's eyes, bullet by bullet, with raw honesty in telling of both the errors that resulted in tragedy and the resolve of American soldiers, U.S.Marines, and Afghan soldiers who'd been abandoned and faced certain death. Meticulously researched and thrillingly told, with nonstop pace and vivid detail, Into the Fire is the true story of a modern American hero.
Praise for *Into the Fire[b] [/b]"A story of men at their best and at their worst . . . leaves you gaping in admiration at Medal of Honor winner Dakota Meyer's courage."-National Review"Meyer's dazzling bravery wasn't momentary or impulsive but deliberate and sustained."-The Wall Street Journal "[A] cathartic, heartfelt account . . . Combat memoirs don't get any more personal."-Kirkus Revie"A great contribution to the discussion of an agonizingly complex subject."-The Virginian-Pilot "Black Hawk Down meets Lone Survivor."-Library Journal*
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"A story of men at their best and at their worst . . . leaves you gaping in admiration at Medal of Honor winner Dakota Meyer's courage." -National Review[b]"Meyer's dazzling bravery wasn't momentary or impulsive but deliberate and sustained."-*The Wall Street Journal *"[A] cathartic, heartfelt account . . . Combat memoirs don't get any more personal."[/b]-Kirkus Revie "A great contribution to the discussion of an agonizingly complex subject."-*The Virginian-Pilot "Black Hawk Down meets Lone Survivor." -*Library Journal
"Into the Fire is a deeply compelling tale of valor and duty. Dakota Meyer will not identify as a hero, but he will, I think, accept the title warrior. Dakota's storytelling is precise and, for a Medal of Honor recipient, touchingly humble. With deft prose he drops us smack in the middle of one of the most heinous small unit firefights of the current wars. His insights into military tactics and politics in a war zone are sharp and uncompromising and work as a primer on infantry war fighting for the uninitiated. Dakota was a magnificent marine and he is now an equally magnificent chronicler of warfare and the small group of people who do today's fighting for America." -Anthony Swofford, author of *Jarhead*
"The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations." -President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer's Medal of Honor ceremony
"Sergeant Meyer embodies all that is good about our nation's Corps of Marines. . . . [His] heroic actions . . . will forever be etched in our Corps' rich legacy of courage and valor." -General James F. Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps"[Bing] West's greatest strengths are his exceptional personal courage and his experienced perception of combat." -*The Washington Post[b]"West [is] the grunts' Homer."-Los Angeles Times Book Review[/b]*
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About the Author
Dakota Meyer was born and raised in Columbia, Kentucky, and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 2006. A college-trained sniper and highly skilled infantryman, Corporal Meyer deployed to Iraq in 2007 and to Afghanistan in 2009. In 2011, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his unyielding courage in the battle of Ganjigal. He now competes at charity events in skeet and rifle competitions. He also speaks frequently at colleges and veterans' events to raise awareness of our military and remains dedicated to the causes of our veterans. For the families of fallen troops, he has raised over one million dollars. Bing West, a Marine combat veteran, served as an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. He has been on hundreds of patrols in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. A nationally acclaimed war correspondent, he is the author of The Village; No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah; The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq; and The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, West has received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation award, the Colby Award for military nonfiction, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ne Media Award, and the Marine Corps University Foundation's Russell Leadership Award. He lives with his wife, Betsy, in Newport, Rhode Island.
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It's All in Your Head Get Out of Your Way
epub | 1.88 MB | English | Russ
Description: An inspirational book by self-made musical superstar, Russ, reminding you that it starts with YOU, to believe in yourself, and to get out of your own way.
Twenty-six-year-old rapper, songwriter, and producer Russ walks his own path, at his own pace. By doing so, he proved that he didn't need a major label to surpass over a billion streams on Spotify/Apple Music, get on Forbes' 2019 "30 Under 30," make the Forbes' "30 Under 30 Cash Kings" at number 20 for most earned, sell out arenas across the U.S. and around the globe, and become one of the most popular and engaged rappers right now. His method was simple: love and believe in yourself absolutely and work hard no matter what. In this memoir, Russ inspires readers to walk to their individual rhythms and beat their biggest obstacles: themselves.
With chapters named after his most powerful and popular songs, IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD will reflect on the lessons he's learned from his career, family, and...
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Leading in the Digital World How to Foster Creativity, Collaboration, and Inclusivity (Management on the Cutting Edge)
epub | 3.7 MB | English | Amit S. Mukherjee
Description: The definitive book on leadership in the digital era: why digital technologies call for leadership that emphasizes creativity, collaboration, and inclusivity.Certain ideas about business leadership are held to be timeless, and certain characteristics of leaders-often including a square jaw, a deep voice, and extroversion-are said to be universal. In Leading in the Digital World, Amit Mukherjee argues that since digital technologies are changing everything else, how could they notchange leadership ideologies and styles? As more people worldwide participate equally in business, those assumptions of a leader's ideal profile have become irrelevant. Offering a radical rethinking of leadership, Mukherjee sho why digital technologies call for a new kind of leader-one who emphasizes creativity, collaboration, and inclusivity.Drawing on a global survey of 700 mid-tier to senior executives and intervie with C-level executives from...
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Learning Serverless
epub | 2.45 MB | English | Jason Katzer
Description: Serverless is a hot topic. Many companies today are turning to this cloud-computing model as a way to avoid steep investments in DevOps while still reliably running production-grade systems. If you're a developer with one of these organizations, this practical book helps you determine whether serverless is right for your use case. You'll learn what's required to build maintainable and scalable services using this model.
Author Jason Katzer, director of software engineering at Capital One, helps you examine the integration offerings of each cloud provider and sho you ways to avoid the pitfalls of their serverless platforms and toolsets. Pick up this book and discover how serverless frees you from the tedious task of setting up and maintaining systems in production.
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Handle basic infrastructure, choose the right tools, and use serverless in productionMonitor, debug, and test your applications in this environmentUse serverless patterns and build applications with microservices
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