Автор: Hone, Thomas C. Hone, Trent Название: Battle line ISBN: 1591143780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781591143789 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 35820.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book examines the twenty-year period that saw the US fleet shrink under the pressures of arms-limitation treaties, and then grow again to a world-class force. The authors trace the Navy`s evolution from a fleet centred around slow battleships to one that deployed most of the warship types that proved so essential in World War II.
Автор: Hone Trent Название: Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898-1945 ISBN: 1682472930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682472934 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 36030.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The five decades between the Spanish-American War and the end of World War II were a time of revolutionary technological change. Navies struggled to assimilate newship types-dreadnought battleships, destroyers, aircraft carriers, and submarines and integrate them with new technologies, like analog fire control computers, radio, andradar. The U.S. Navy stood out in its ability to harness these new technologies and develop them to expand the fleet's fighting power. Between 1898 and 1945, the Navyevolved from a second-tier force to the world's strongest naval power. This transition was far more than an increase in size; victory in World War II taxed the Navy's capabilities to the limit. The Navy's rise to dominance was the result of its ability to learn and innovate.Learning War examines the Navy's doctrinal development throughout the 1898-1945 period and explains why it was so successful at embracing change. It is a revolutionary study of one of history's greatest success stories. It draws profoundly important conclusions that give new insight, not only into how the Navy succeeded in becoming the best, but also into how modern organizations can exploit today's rapid technological and social changes in their pursuit of success.Learning War argues that the Navy created a sophisticated learning system in the early years of the twentieth century that led to repeated innovations in the development of surface warfare tactics and doctrine. The conditions that allowedthese innovations to emerge are analyzed by considering the Navy as a complex adaptive system. Complexity has provided new perspectives for understanding in a variety of fields, including biology, economics, artificial intelligence, and international development. Learning War is the first major work to apply this approach to militaryhistory. It permits a richer understanding of the mechanisms that enable human organizations to evolve, innovate, and learn.These mechanisms are very important. In the Navy's case, the learning continued through the early years of World War II. Contrary to the standard view of military doctrine-that it changes in peacetime and is employed in wartime-this book makes the argument that the ability to modify doctrine in light of experience is crucial to wartime success. Organizations must evolve to be able to meet changing circumstances. This is true of all human organizations, military, business, or otherwise. The Navy's experience in the early twentieth century provides a window into how this kind of evolutionary change can be fostered and maintained.
Thanks to the internet, it's easier than ever for consumers to research a company's true beliefs and practices. Today's consumers have enormous power to decide which brands are worth their time and money--and their consideration involves far more than product quality alone.
Caught woefully unprepared, most businesses are still struggling to adapt as they continue to follow archaic, detrimental business practices. Meanwhile, as both shoppers and employees, the rising Millennial generation is making their stance perfectly clear: They are not interested in supporting organizations that seem deceitful, soulless, or dishonest.
Given this monumental shift, the only way for today's leaders to achieve personal and professional success is to embrace honesty and authenticity as core values.
In Honest to Greatness, serial Inc.5000 entrepreneur Peter Kozodoy provides new, fundamental frameworks--built on the cornerstone of honesty--that everyone in business must adopt in order to achieve industry-leading success in the 21st century.
Through case studies and interviews with leaders at Bridgewater Associates, Sprint, Quicken Loans, Domino's Pizza, The Ritz-Carlton and more, Kozodoy presents fresh business concepts that anyone in the workplace can understand and implement in order to:
Reach, attract, and retain more of your best customers in a transparent world
Recruit and inspire the best talent from your industry
Create a culture of innovation that dominates your competitors
Drive industry-leading profitability and growth
Set and achieve the "right" goals for your life and business
Strategically position yourself and your organization for future success
Filled with powerful lessons for current and future leaders, this timely book demonstrates how to use both personal and organizational honesty to achieve true greatness in life and business.
Автор: Joseph Hone Название: Flowers of the Forest ISBN: 0571255930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571255931 Издательство: Faber Цена: 12320.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Joseph Hone Название: The sixth directorate ISBN: 0571255205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571255207 Издательство: Faber Цена: 11440.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Synopsis:
In prison his name had been Peter Marlow. When British Intelligence released him to impersonate a dangerous KGB agent, he became George Graham, a man with an incredible past, and with a very questionable future.
But even the British didn't know everything about Graham. There were secrets within secrets, as Marlow discovered. Then he came face to face with George Graham's mistress and thought the game was up. But it was just the beginning ...
'Joe Hone is a marvelously compelling, acute and subtle writer of spy novels. The “Peter Marlow” sequence should be rediscovered and acclaimed as enduring classics of the genre.' William Boyd
'Intelligent, sharp and deviously plotted ... Here is a new force in the field of spy stories.' Daily Telegraph
'Unusual, thinking man's thriller ... with echoes of writers like Greene and le Carre and a continual convincing atmosphere of uneasy menace and grey betrayal.' Sunday Express
'Joseph Hone's The Sixth Directorate ... is one of the best suspense novels of the last ten years. It has elegance, wit, sympathy, irony, surprise, action, a rueful love affair and a melancholy 'Decline of the West' mood. Only the crimes in its pages separate the book from what is known as serious novels.' Anatole Broyard, New York Times
'Fast, sophisticated, splendidly authentic, Joseph Hone writes like an angel about devil's work.' Charles McCarry
This is the second of Joseph Hone's Peter Marlow's spy novels, the other three being The Private Sector, The Valley of the Fox and The Flowers of the Forest. All are being reissued in Faber Finds.
Автор: Joseph Hone Название: The private sector ISBN: 0571255213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571255214 Издательство: Faber Цена: 11440.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Synopsis:
Eric Ambler, John Buchan, Erskine Childers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Len Deighton, Ian Fleming, Frederick Forsyth, Graham Greene, Geoffrey Household, John le Carre, Robert Ludlum and Joseph Hone. What do they have in common? They wrote spy thrillers and all have appeared in a recent survey of the fifty best books in that genre. Although he may be the least known, the inclusion of Joseph Hone was not eccentric. The particular title chosen was The Private Sector, the first of his Peter Marlow titles. The author and the title are fully deserving of this accolade.
'Joe Hone is a marvelously compelling, acute and subtle writer of spy novels. The “Peter Marlow” sequence should be rediscovered and acclaimed as enduring classics of the genre.' William Boyd
The time is May, 1967 in the weeks leading up to the Arab/Israeli six day war. The place is Cairo. The story is Peter Marlow's, an Irish teacher and secret agent sent from London to find his friend and fellow spy, Henry Edwards who has vanished from Cairo. During the course of this fool's errand, he also finds his former wife, Bridget, who is now deeply involved with Edwards both emotionally and professionally. Marlow moves easily in British and Egyptian intelligence branches, attaching his allegiance to neither until he becomes the unwitting victim of a failed plot to topple Nasser.
Credible and dramatic, this is a story of callous political and human intrigue and of a mission which can only succeed if none of the men return.
Faber Finds is reissuing all four of the Peter Marlow spy novels: The Private Sector, The Sixth Directorate, The Valley of the Fox and The Flowers of the Forest.
'An absolutely terrific espionage novel. It's always a mark of a good writer if he can take a genre that a good many other writers have worked in and bring something new and distinctive to it. That Joseph Hone has certainly done.' James Dickey
'A brilliant and calculated spy story ... His characters and the quality of the writing are so good that he has transcended the usual limitations of the genre.' Times Literary Supplement
'Mr Hone writes Len Deighton into the ground. It's much more than just a spy story, and set in the Egypt he knows so well that he occasionally out-Durrell's Durrell.' New Statesman
Автор: Clarke David E. Название: Honey, We Need to Talk: Get Honest and Intimate in 10 Essential Areas ISBN: 1629989673 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781629989679 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Take your communication from superficial to super-intimate in order to build a healthy, lasting relationship.
If a woman is in a relationship with a man, she wants to talk with him. She actually needs to talk with him. She believes--and she is correct--that if they can talk on a deeper level regularly, they will be much closer and much happier.
In an intensely practical, workbook style Honey, We Need to Talk will guide you through each of these ten essential areas:
Emotional intimacy
Spiritual intimacy
Conflict
Past pain experienced with others
Past pain experienced as a couple
Each partner's needs
Sins and areas of weakness
Finances
Parenting
Physical intimacy
Автор: Hone Joseph Название: Goodbye Again ISBN: 1480425745 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781480425743 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20220.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A discovery in his mother's attic leads a painter into the dark world of underground art dealings Since childhood, Ben Contini has been enchanted by nudes. The first painting ever to move him was a Modigliani, a portrait of a naked and beautiful reclining woman. Though it scandalized his mother at the time, it inspired him to become an artist; he specializes in portraits but paints nudes whenever he can. Only when his mother dies does Ben realize why Modigliani upset her so much: She had one hidden in her attic. It is the most beautiful painting he has ever seen, but he has no idea how the widow of an Italian refugee could have come upon it. With the help of a mysterious Austrian woman who appears at his mother's funeral, Ben discovers the painting's connection to the art thieves of Nazi Germany. The beautiful nude has made a strange journey to the Contini attic, and there are men who would kill to cover her up.
Автор: Hone Michael Название: Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood, Denham Fou: American Homosexual Giants ISBN: 1534792686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781534792685 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11380.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book will concentrate on both aspects, their creative genius and their need for a second form of beauty, that of the boys their art attracted--followed, later, by boys drawn to the money it engendered. Their incessant work allowed them to buy the objects of their lust, especially in the Europe of Paris and Rome and Venice, of Taormina, Capri and Ischia, as well as back home in the States, during the war when the blackout made California beaches a jungle of bodies, mostly those of sailors and soldiers. Capote, for me, was the greatest American writer to have lived, and Tennessee was America's never-equaled playwright; Vidal was a chronicler of an America gone forever and Denham a source of inspiration who played his role to the hilt, beginning with his startling lifestyle and his absolute determination to be the world's best-kept male whore, to turn day into never-ending night, sighs into memories his men would never forget. Of them all, only Isherwood came away with the world's greatest prize, a boy who loved him even beyond his last breath.These men have their own biographers, which is a godsend because it allows me to do what I do best: separate the wheat from the chaff, reducing the bulk of my subjects' lives to a concentrated perfume. It allows me to focus on their salad days, when the sap runs free and lust is at the corner of every street, promising encounters at every crossroads.In old age Tennessee compared himself to Hans Christian Anderson's ''The Snow Queen'' who had a splinter of ice in his heart and couldn't feel anything; Vidal, the man who got the last drop of media mileage from his talent, said he had no warmth, and for the majority of those who attempted to break through the ice they found the interior even more frozen; and Denham Fouts, of whom Capote wrote, ''Sour, sour, sour, rotten to the core.''
Автор: Hone Thomas C. Название: The Battle of Midway: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy`s Greatest Victory ISBN: 168247030X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682470305 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20020.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Includes some of the most vibrant and informed accounts by individuals who fought on both sides of the June 1942 battle. The anthology pulls together memoirs, articles, excerpts from other Naval Institute books, and relevant government documents to help readers understand what happened and explain why the battle was so significant to the naval service.
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