Linderman traces each soldier's path from the exhilaration of enlistment to the disillusionment of battle to postwar alienation. He provides a rare glimpse of the personal battle that raged within soldiers then and now.
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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Gerald Mortimer
"Integrating the wisdom of ancient mystics and the insights of contemporary thinkers, May examines the spiritual longings that are often hidden and controlled by society's pressures and expectations."--Publishers Weekly
This pioneering work on the relationship between psychiatry and spiritual direction--from an acclaimed author, psychiatrist and spiritual director--shows how spiritual direction and psychiatry are alike, how they can complement one another, and how they ultimately diverge.
A psychiatrist and spiritual counselor explains how such challenges as doubt, dislocation, and transition are essential to authentic and healthy spiritual growth, encouraging readers to embrace feelings of fear, emptiness, and despair in order to develop a mature spiritual life. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Explores the psychology and physiology of addiction from the perspective of contemplative spirituality, describing the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness.
The Wisdom of Wilderness: Experiencing the Healing Power of Nature
Gerald G. May
HarperOne
2007
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A distinguished psychiatrist and author of the best-selling Addiction & Grace explains how to tap into the psychological and spiritual healing power of the natural world as he reveals how we can discover great lessons of life by retreating from our busy and hectic lives to find the serenity of the wilderness. Reprint.
"This is as important a book on this subject as I recall ever having read." -- Huston Smith"Brilliant.... Schroeder's book demands the attention of anyone who wonders if God must be exiled from the modern, enlightened mind." -- David J. Wolpe, author of Why Faith Matters In his first book since 2002's acclaimed The Hidden Face of God, popular scientist Gerald Schroeder combines decades of scientific research and biblical study to present a groundbreaking new paradigm of how to understand God. Readers of Jack Miles' God: A Biography, Francis Collins's The Language of God, and Richard Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible will find much to contemplate in God According to God.
From his status as Heavyweight Champion of the World to his ongoing battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali is a celebrated icon known the world over for his athletic championships and his civic and humanitarian enterprises. Ali has been both underdog and champion, villain and prince, playboy and staunch Muslim, exalted hero and reviled conscientious objector- the very spirit of the 20th Century, (Norman Mailer). Organized by decade and illustrated with sixteen pages of classic photos, "The Muhammad Ali Reader" tells Ali's story in more than thirty essays from a stellar array of authors, athletes, and social commentators, including A. J. Liebling, Tom Wolfe, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Pete Hamill, Gary Wills, Hunter Thompson, and Joyce Carol Oates. Floyd Patterson defends Ali's right to criticize the Vietnam War; Malcolm X explains how Ali went from entertainer to threat with his declaration as a man of race; Ali shares some intimate and definitive thoughts in a Playboy magazine interview; and Gay Talese gives us a front seat on a 1996 ride to Cuba where Ali meets up with Fidel Castro. Fascinating and diverse, this collective portrait reveals the many facets of the awe-inspiring, controversial, and beloved man and legend known to all as The Greatest: the one and only Muhammad Ali.
A New York City police surgeon finds himself in the middle of an international drug-smuggling ring--or is it an even more dangerous conspiracy?After a heart-thumping drop in altitude on a flight from London to New York, NYPD police surgeon Wendell Black is called on to try to save a woman who has gone into cardiac arrest. He's just carrying out his duty, but his aid places him at the center of an international drug-smuggling investigation.As Black, and his English girlfriend, Alice--a knockout beauty and a surgeon to boot--digs deeper into the activities of the drug ring, he begins to suspect that a number of British doctors are involved. And when one of Alice's colleagues is brutally murdered and Alice suddenly disappears, the NYPD starts looking to Black for answers. His search peels away rings of conspiracy that expose a shocking threat to the nation.
A Concise Guide to Community Planning
Gerald Porterfield; Kenneth Hall
McGraw-Hill Professional
1994
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Sun Tzu Strategies for Selling: How to Use The Art of War to Build Lifelong Customer Relationships
Gerald Michaelson; Steven Michaelson
McGraw-Hill Professional
2003
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This title offers winning sales strategies from the greatest strategist of all time. In "Sun Tzu Strategies for Selling", the world's leading interpreter of Sun Tzu's timeless strategies for the modern business audience shows you how the ancient Chinese General's classic strategies can lead you to victory on the increasingly competitive sales battlefield - or, better yet, without doing battle at all!Packed with brilliant insights that will help you establish long-term relationships with your clients and prevail over any competitor this new translation of "The Art of War" includes special notations underscoring the relevance of Sun Tzu's writings to sales strategy. It also transforms Sun Tzu's wisdom into contemporary sales advice, object lessons, and real life actions that will help you win big sales and keep your customers coming back for more. You'll learn how to: occupy the high ground - think positively; be willing to lose - take risks; win without fighting - develop a superior strategy; seize the initiative - beat your competitors to the punch; be flexible - change your tactics to fit changing circumstances; and, consolidate your achievements - sell solutions.
Sun Tzu Strategies for Marketing: 12 Essential Principles for Winning the War for Customers
Gerald Michaelson; Steven Michaelson
McGraw-Hill Professional
2003
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This book presents winning marketing principles from the greatest strategist of all time. What can an ancient Chinese military genius teach modern businesspeople about winning the marketing war? Everything! In "Sun Tzu Strategies for Marketing", the bestselling author of "Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers" interprets the crafty general's classic battle strategies specifically for today's marketing professionals. Packed with brilliant insights that will help you apply this ancient wisdom in the modern world, this powerful new translation includes special notations that underscore the relevance of Sun Tzu's writings to marketing strategy. Gerald Michaelson restates these timeless ideas as 'the principles of the marketing war'. Each principle is illustrated with strategic and tactical applications drawn from the world's most successful marketing campaigns.These principles include: organization of intelligence - know your market as well as you know yourself; a secure position - occupy a position that cannot easily be taken by your opponent; surprise - gain psychological dominance and deny the initiative to you opponent; economy of force - assess accurately where you deploy your resources; command structure - good management unleashes the power of human resources; and, simplicity - even the simplest plans are difficult to execute. Let the wisdom of the past brighten your future. Read "Sun Tzu Strategies for Marketing" and become a master at the art of winning.
Merge Ahead: Mastering the Five Enduring Trends of Artful M&A
Gerald Adolph; Justin Pettit; Michael Sisk
McGraw-Hill Professional
2009
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Prior to the economic downturn of 2008–2009, thenumber of mergers and acquisitions reached anhistoric high. Whatever happens next, one thing isclear: mergers, acquisitions, and growth will bemore important than ever. Those who preparetheir organizations for a multifaceted growthstrategy—integrating acquisitions, organic growth,and alliances—will be the ones most likely tosurvive the difficult years and seize the opportunitiesin tomorrow’s restructured industries. Ifyou’re a corporate leader—of a company large orsmall—there’s a merge ahead in your future.With Merge Ahead, corporate leaders and M&Aprofessionals across the deal-making spectrumwill have at their fingertips an insightful, accessibleguide to the forces driving today’s deal environmentand the most effective strategic andtactical responses for managing them.Merge Ahead provides key advice on managing thefive major M&A trends that are shaping the corporatelandscape:Creating the relevant scale and coherence acompany needs for profitable growthUsing deliberate speed to manage increasingvelocity and stakeholder impatienceCoping with increased competition as the newblue chip companies from emerging marketspursue deals globallyCompeting with a host of agile and deeppocketedfinancial buyers, including privateequity and sovereign wealth fundsManaging growing waves and bubbles ofM&A activity that can drive valuations tounsustainable heightsMerge Ahead contains the most up-to-date informationavailable on recent mergers and trends inthe world of M&A. It conveys critical information inconcise and fast-paced language, providing busyexecutives a hands-on resource that won’t bogthem down.All signs point to M&A as one of the most usefulvehicles of growth now and in the future. LetMerge Ahead be your guide through the sometimesrocky but ultimately fruitful and excitingnew landscape of mergers and acquisitions.
'In my work I am ruthless about one thing. My clients cannot lie to me... They can lie to their ex-wives, their children, their employers, their friends. But they cannot lie to me.'When someone who is used to having it all is faced with losing everything things can get pretty ugly. A big-money divorce showcases the extremes of human behaviour - betrayal, jealousy, lust, rage and revenge. When resentment is high and pride is damaged those involved will go to extraordinary lengths to stop their ex partner getting what they want.In his forty-year career Nissenbaum's high-profile cases have involved custody fights (including a battle over a human skull), international kidnappings, prostitution, extortion, fraud, mental health and addiction issues, the Mafia, and murder. This fascinating and gripping exposé shows how rich and desperate can be a very explosive combination.
Together with other volumes in this series, Volume 56 of Current Topics in Developmental Biology presents thoughtful and forward-looking articles on developmental biology and developmental medicine. Reviews include: Selfishness in moderation: evolutionary success of the yeast plasmid Nongenomic actions of androgen in sertoli cells Regulation of chromatin structure and gene activity by Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases Centromeres and Kinetochores, Who Needs 'Em? The Role of Non-centromeric Chromatin in Spindle Assembly Modeling Cardiogenesis: The Challenges and Promises of 3D Reconstruction Plasmid and Chromosome Traffic Control: How ParA and ParB Drive Partition The exceptional reviews in this volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology will be valuable to both clinical and fundamental researchers, as well as students and other professionals who want an introduction to current topics in cellular and molecular approaches to developmental biology and clinical problems of aberrant development.
Traffic Engineering and QoS Optimization of Integrated Voice and Data Networks
Gerald R. Ash
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
2006
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This book describes, analyzes, and recommends traffic engineering (TE) and quality of service (QoS) optimization methods for integrated voice/data dynamic routing networks. These functions control a network's response to traffic demands and other stimuli, such as link failures or node failures. TE and QoS optimization is concerned with measurement, modeling, characterization, and control of network traffic, and the application of techniques to achieve specific performance objectives. The scope of the analysis and recommendations include dimensioning, call/flow and connection routing, QoS resource management, routing table management, dynamic transport routing, and operational requirements. Case studies are included which provide the reader with a concrete way into the technical details and highlight why and how to use the techniques described in the book.
This practical reference provides the basics for instituting a corporate anti-fraud program that helps prepare corporate security professionals and other corporate managers for fighting corporate fraud from inside the company. Fighting Fraud provides an exceptional foundation for security professionals or business executives involved in developing and implementing a corporate anti-fraud program as part of a corporate assets protection program. The author’s intent is to provide the reader with a practitioner’s guide (a “how-to? book), augmented by some background information to put it all in perspective. The approach used should enable the readers to immediately put in place a useful anti-fraud program under the leadership of the corporate security officer (CSO), or other corporate professional.
This book constitutes a first- or second-year graduate course in operator theory. It is a field that has great importance for other areas of mathematics and physics, such as algebraic topology, differential geometry, and quantum mechanics. It assumes a basic knowledge in functional analysis but no prior acquaintance with operator theory is required.
Organometallic Vapor-Phase Epitaxy describes the operation of a particular technique for the production of compound semiconductor materials. It describes how the technique works, how it can be used for the growth of particular materials and structures, and the application of these materials for specific devices. It contains not only a fundamental description of the operation of the technique but also contains lists of data useful for the everyday operation of OMVPE reactors. It also offers specific recipes that can be used to produce a wide range of specific materials, structures, and devices.
The Information Systems Security Officer's Guide
Gerald L. Kovacich
Butterworth-Heinemann Inc
2016
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The Information Systems Security Officer's Guide: Establishing and Managing a Cyber Security Program, Third Edition, provides users with information on how to combat the ever-changing myriad of threats security professionals face. This entirely updated edition presents practical advice on establishing, managing, and evaluating a successful information protection program in a corporation or government agency, covering everything from effective communication to career guidance for the information security officer. The book outlines how to implement a new plan or evaluate an existing one, and is especially targeted to those who are new to the topic. It is the definitive resource for learning the key characteristics of an effective information systems security officer (ISSO), and paints a comprehensive portrait of an ISSO's duties, their challenges, and working environments, from handling new technologies and threats, to performing information security duties in a national security environment.