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Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy: The Timeless Leadership Lessons of History's Greatest Empire Builderby Partha BoseISBN 1592400531 (1-59240-053-1)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy: The Timeless Lessons of Historys Greatest Empire Builderby Partha BoseISBN 159240006X (1-59240-006-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergiesby Robert S. Kaplan, David P. NortonISBN 1591396905 (1-59139-690-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Business School Pr
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The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Masteryby Jeremy SilmanISBN 1890085022 (1-890085-02-2)
Softcover, Silman-James Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery'Book summary:This book takes the student on a journey through his own mind and returns him to the chess board with a wealth of new-found knowledge and the promise of a significant gain in strength. Most amateurs possess erroneous thinking processes that remain with them throughout their chess lives. These flaws in their mental armour result in stinging defeats and painful reversals. Books can be bought and studied, lessons can be taken -- but in the end, these elusive problems always prove to be extremely difficult to eradicate. Seeking a solution to this dilemma, the author wrote down the thoughts of his students while they played actual games, analysed them, and catalogued the most common misconceptions that arose. This second edition greatly expands on the information contained in the popular first edition. [via]
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The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policyby Russell Frank WeigleyISBN 025328029X (0-253-28029-X)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy'Book summary:"... a strong and stimulating book. It has no rival in either scope or quality. For libraries, history buffs, and armchair warriors, it is a must. For political science students, career diplomats, and officers in the armed services, its reading should be required." History
"A particularly timely account." Kansas City Times
"It reads easily but is not a popularized history... nor does the book become a history of battles.... Weigleys analyses and interpretations are searching, competent, and useful." Perspective
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Another Bloody Century: Future Warfareby Colin S. GrayISBN 0304367346 (0-304-36734-6)
Softcover, Phoenix
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare'Book summary:Colin S. Gray has advised governments on both sides of the Atlantic about military affairs, and he looks into the future to provide some intriguing answers about the ways Western armed forceswhich have traditionally been trained to fight conventional, not guerrilla, warfaremay have to evolve.[via]More editions of Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare:
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The Art of Warby Niccolo Machiavelli, Christopher LynchISBN 0226500462 (0-226-50046-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War'Book summary:Voltaire said, "Machiavelli taught Europe the art of war; it had long been practiced, without being known." For Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), war was war, and victory the supreme aim to which all other considerations must be subordinated. The Art of War is far from an anachronismits pages outline fundamental questions that theorists of war continue to examine today, making it essential reading for any student of military history, strategy, or theory. Machiavelli believed The Art of War to be his most important work.[via]More editions of The Art of War:
- The Art of War: ISBN 030681076X (0-306-81076-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - The Art of War: ISBN 0226500403 (0-226-50040-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Art of War: ISBN 0146002008 (0-14-600200-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Art of War: A Revised Edition of the Ellis Farneworth Translation: ISBN 0306804123 (0-306-80412-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - The Art of War: ISBN 0226500462 (0-226-50046-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
- The Art of War: ISBN 030681076X (0-306-81076-X)
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of Warby Robert CoramISBN 0316796883 (0-316-79688-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usualby David Weinberger, Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc SearlsISBN 0738204315 (0-7382-0431-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usual'Book summary:How would you classify a book that begins with the salutation, "People of Earth..."? While the captains of industry might dismiss it as mere science fiction, The Cluetrain Manifesto is definitely of this day and age. Aiming squarely at the solar plexus of corporate America, authors Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger show how the Internet is turning business upside down. They proclaim that, thanks to conversations taking place on Web sites and message boards, and in e-mail and chat rooms, employees and customers alike have found voices that undermine the traditional command-and-control hierarchy that organizes most corporate marketing groups. "Markets are conversations," the authors write, and those conversations are "getting smarter faster than most companies." In their view, the lowly customer service rep wields far more power and influence in today's marketplace than the well-oiled front office PR machine.
The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (www.cluetrain.com) in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses that pronounced what they felt was the new reality of the networked marketplace. For example, thesis no. 2: "Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors"; thesis no. 20: "Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them"; thesis no. 62: "Markets do not want to talk to flacks and hucksters. They want to participate in the conversations going on behind the corporate firewall"; thesis no. 74: "We are immune to advertising. Just forget it." The book enlarges on these themes through seven essays filled with dozens of stories and observations about how business gets done in America and how the Internet will change it all. While Cluetrain will strike many as loud and over the top, the message itself remains quite relevant and unique. This book is for anyone interested in the Internet and e-commerce, and is especially important for those businesses struggling to navigate the topography of the wired marketplace. All aboard! --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usualby Rick Levine, Christopher LockeISBN 0273650238 (0-273-65023-8)
Softcover, FT.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usual'Book summary:How would you classify a book that begins with the salutation, "People of Earth..."? While the captains of industry might dismiss it as mere science fiction, The Cluetrain Manifesto is definitely of this day and age. Aiming squarely at the solar plexus of corporate America, authors Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger show how the Internet is turning business upside down. They proclaim that, thanks to conversations taking place on Web sites and message boards, and in e-mail and chat rooms, employees and customers alike have found voices that undermine the traditional command-and-control hierarchy that organizes most corporate marketing groups. "Markets are conversations," the authors write, and those conversations are "getting smarter faster than most companies." In their view, the lowly customer service rep wields far more power and influence in today's marketplace than the well-oiled front office PR machine.
The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (www.cluetrain.com) in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses that pronounced what they felt was the new reality of the networked marketplace. For example, thesis no. 2: "Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors"; thesis no. 20: "Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them"; thesis no. 62: "Markets do not want to talk to flacks and hucksters. They want to participate in the conversations going on behind the corporate firewall"; thesis no. 74: "We are immune to advertising. Just forget it." The book enlarges on these themes through seven essays filled with dozens of stories and observations about how business gets done in America and how the Internet will change it all. While Cluetrain will strike many as loud and over the top, the message itself remains quite relevant and unique. This book is for anyone interested in the Internet and e-commerce, and is especially important for those businesses struggling to navigate the topography of the wired marketplace. All aboard! --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Competing for the Futureby C.K. Prahalad, Gary HamelISBN 0875847161 (0-87584-716-1)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Competing for the Future'Book summary:Winning in business today is not about being number one--it's about who "gets to the future first," write management consultants Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad. In Competing for the Future, they urge companies to create their own futures, envision new markets, and reinvent themselves.
Hamel and Prahalad caution that complacent managers who get too comfortable in doing things the way they've always done will see their companies fall behind. For instance, the authors consider the battle between IBM and Apple in the 1970s. Entrenched as the leading mainframe-computer maker, IBM failed to see the potential market for personal computers. That left the door wide open for Apple, which envisioned a computer for every man, woman, and child. The authors write, "At worst, laggards follow the path of greatest familiarity. Challengers, on the other hand, follow the path of greatest opportunity, wherever it leads." They argue that business leaders need to be more than "maintenance engineers," worrying only about budget cutting, streamlining, re-engineering, and other old tactics. Definitely not for dilettantes, Competing for the Future is for managers who are serious getting their companies in front. -- Dan Ring [via]
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Competing for the Futureby Gary Hamel, C. K. PrahaladISBN 0875844162 (0-87584-416-2)
Hardcover, Harvard Business School Press
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Developing Business Strategiesby David A. AakerISBN 0471064114 (0-471-06411-4)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Marketby Michael Treacy, Fred WiersemaISBN 0201407191 (0-201-40719-1)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market'Book summary:For what it does and the way it does it this book deserves a 10. It directly and enjoyably addresses the point it sets out to make, and gets there. The basic point is this, companies that excel in the marketplace deliver on their customer's 'value expectation' with regard to themselves. The authors describe three areas where firms can and do excel in delivering on 'value expectation', operational excellence (best value), customer intimacy (service), and product leadership (innovation). They then describe in detail each of these positions. For each of the three basic positions presented the authors offer real examples of companies using the approach their describing, as well as how they succeed using it. This is the background to the idea of product positioning - instead of a product focus, the idea here is a market sector focus. The emphasis in "Discipline of Market Leaders" is on the customer's expectation for that particular market niche. Then, with sufficient details and examples to make it understandable and applicable, the mind set and process is developed and described. You'll see some familiar and not so familiar names like Wal-Mart, Sony, and Airborne Express used as examples throughout the book. Rather than using these names as an exercise in self-promotion the authors actually make interesting and applicable points through these examples and illustrations. I found the book an eye opening and memorable business read. I probably read between 75-100 business books a year and this is one I've remembered, and I've applied the material repeatedly with success. Most of my colleagues agree that in business, time is a precious commodity and wasting it is not suffered gladly. Read this book you'll find the investment worth it. /BEST VALUE/FAST SHIPPING/OUTSTANDING CUSTOMER SERVICE/ [via]
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- The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market: ISBN 0201406489 (0-201-40648-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group - The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market: ISBN 0201407191 (0-201-40719-1)
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The E-myth Revisitedby Michael E. GerberISBN 0060766611 (0-06-076661-1)
Softcover, Harperbusiness
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The E-myth Revisited'Book summary:Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited should be required reading for anyone thinking about starting a business or for those who have already taken that fateful step. The title refers to the author's belief that entrepreneurs--typically brimming with good but distracting ideas--make poor businesspeople. He establishes an incredibly organised and regimented plan, so that daily details are scripted, freeing the entrepreneur's mind to build the long-term success or failure of the business. You don't need an MBA to understand or follow its directives; Gerber takes time to explain buzzwords and complex theories. Written in a clear and well-paced manner, The E-Myth Revisited is like receiving advice from an old friend. --Sharon Griggins [via]
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About Itby Michael E. GerberISBN 0887307280 (0-88730-728-0)
Softcover, Harperbusiness
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It'Book summary:Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited should be required reading for anyone thinking about starting a business or for those who have already taken that fateful step. The title refers to the author's belief that entrepreneurs--typically brimming with good but distracting ideas--make poor businesspeople. He establishes an incredibly organised and regimented plan, so that daily details are scripted, freeing the entrepreneur's mind to build the long-term success or failure of the business. You don't need an MBA to understand or follow its directives; Gerber takes time to explain buzzwords and complex theories. Written in a clear and well-paced manner, The E-Myth Revisited is like receiving advice from an old friend. --Sharon Griggins [via]
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Ender's Gameby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312853238 (0-312-85323-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ender's Game'Book summary:In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Back on Earth, Peter and Valentine forge an intellectual alliance and attempt to change the course of history.
This futuristic tale involves aliens, political discourse on the Internet, sophisticated computer games, and an orbiting battle station. Yet the reason it rings true for so many is that it is first and foremost a tale of humanity; a tale of a boy struggling to grow up into someone he can respect while living in an environment stripped of choices. Ender's Game is a must-read book for science fiction lovers, and a key conversion read for their friends who "don't read science fiction."
Ender's Game won both the Hugo and the Nebula the year it came out. Writer Orson Scott Card followed up this honor with the first-time feat of winning both awards again the next year for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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- Ender's Game: ISBN 0765342294 (0-7653-4229-4)
Softcover, Tor Books - Ender's Game: ISBN 0812550706 (0-8125-5070-6)
Softcover, Tor Books - Ender's Game: ISBN 0312932081 (0-312-93208-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Ender's Game Gift Edition: ISBN 0765317389 (0-7653-1738-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Ender's Game: ISBN 0812589041 (0-8125-8904-1)
Softcover, Tor Books - Ender's Game: ISBN 0808586165 (0-8085-8616-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Ender's Game: ISBN 0312853238 (0-312-85323-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
- Ender's Game: ISBN 0765342294 (0-7653-4229-4)
Ender's Gameby Tami J. StregeISBN 1560778024 (1-56077-802-4)
Softcover, Center for Learning
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The Evolution of Cooperationby Robert AxelrodISBN 0465005640 (0-465-00564-0)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution of Cooperation'Book summary:This widely praised and much-discussed book explores how cooperation can emerge in a world of self-seeking egoistswhether superpowers, businesses, or individualswhen there is no central authority to police their actions.[via]More editions of The Evolution of Cooperation:
- Evolution of Cooperation: ISBN 0465021212 (0-465-02121-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - The Evolution of Cooperation: ISBN 0140124950 (0-14-012495-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Books - The Evolution of Cooperation: ISBN 0465021220 (0-465-02122-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group - The Evolution of Cooperation: ISBN 0465005640 (0-465-00564-0)
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- Evolution of Cooperation: ISBN 0465021212 (0-465-02121-2)
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The Evolution of Nuclear Strategyby Lawrence FreedmanISBN 0333972392 (0-333-97239-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy'Book summary:First published 20 years ago, Lawrence Freedman's Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, taking the story to contemporary arguments about missile defense.[via]More editions of The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy:
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Doneby Ram Charan, Larry Bossidy, Charles BurckISBN 0609610570 (0-609-61057-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done'Book summary:Disciplines like strategy, leadership development, and innovation are the sexier aspects of being at the helm of a successful business; actually getting things done never seems quite as glamorous. But as Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan demonstrate in Execution, the ultimate difference between a company and its competitor is, in fact, the ability to execute.
Execution is "the missing link between aspirations and results," and as such, making it happen is the business leader's most important job. While failure in today's business environment is often attributed to other causes, Bossidy and Charan argue that the biggest obstacle to success is the absence of execution. They point out that without execution, breakthrough thinking on managing change breaks down, and they emphasize the fact that execution is a discipline to learn, not merely the tactical side of business. Supporting this with stories of the "execution difference" being won (EDS) and lost (Xerox and Lucent), the authors describe the building blocks--leaders with the right behaviors, a culture that rewards execution, and a reliable system for having the right people in the right jobs--that need to be in place to manage the three core business processes of people, strategy, and operations. Both Bossidy, CEO of Honeywell International, Inc., and Charan, advisor to corporate executives and author of such books as What the CEO Wants You to Know and Boards That Work, present experience-tested insight into how the smooth linking of these three processes can differentiate one company from the rest. Developing the discipline of execution isn't made out to be simple, nor is this book a quick, easy read. Bossidy and Charan do, however, offer good advice on a neglected topic, making Execution a smart business leader's guide to enacting success rather than permitting demise. --S. Ketchum [via]
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A Framework for Marketing Managementby Philip KotlerISBN 1428808779 (1-4288-0877-9)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Framework for Marketing Management'Book summary:Guides the reader toward proficiency in navigating the Internet marketing world, showing the reader how the Internet lets marketers make quick adjustments to market conditions, lower costs, and build relationships. Offers insight into permission-based marketing. DLC: Marketing-Management. [via]
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- A Framework for Marketing Management: ISBN 0131452584 (0-13-145258-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - A Framework for Marketing Management: ISBN 0130185256 (0-13-018525-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - A Framework for Marketing Management: ISBN 0131001175 (0-13-100117-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - A Framework for Marketing Management: ISBN 1428808779 (1-4288-0877-9)
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Harrington On Hold 'em: Expert Strategy For No-Limit Tournaments, Strategic Playby Bill Robertie, Dan HarringtonISBN 1880685337 (1-880685-33-7)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harrington On Hold 'em: Expert Strategy For No-Limit Tournaments, Strategic Play'Book summary:Poker has taken America by storm. But it s not just any form of poker that has people across the country so excited it s No-Limit Hold Em the main event game. And now thanks to televised tournaments tens of thousands of new players are eager to claim their share of poker glory.
Harrington on Hold Em takes you to the part of the game the cameras ignore the tactics required to get through the hundreds and sometimes thousands of hands you must win to make it to the final table. Harrington s sophisticated and time-tested winning strategies, focusing on what it takes to survive the early and middle stages of a No-Limit Hold Em tournament, are appearing here for the first time in print. These are techniques that top players use again and again to get to make it to final tables around the globe.
Now, learn from one of the world s most successful No-Limit Hold Em players how to vary your style, optimize your betting patterns, analyze hands, respond to a re-raise, play to win the most money possible, react when a bad card hits and much, much more.
Dan Harrington won the gold bracelet and the World Champion title at the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold Em Championship at the 1995 World Series of Poker. And he was the only player to make it to the final table in 2003 (field of 839) and 2004 (field of 2576) considered by cognoscenti to be the greatest accomplishment in WSOP history. In Harrington on Hold Em, Harrington and 2-time World Backgammon Champion Bill Robertie have written the definitive book on No-Limit Hold Em for players who want to win ... and win big. [via]
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History of the Peloponnesian Warby ThucydidesISBN 1593080913 (1-59308-091-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Peloponnesian War'Book summary:Thucydides claimed that his account of the devastating war between the Athenians and the Spartans was a "possession for all time". An Athenian general, he was exiled for a military failure and drew for his writing on his personal experience and information from an extensive network of contacts on both sides to the epic conflict. His work is shaped by his judgements about the exercise of power in a democracy which ruled an empire and by his analysis of the impact of war on the social fabric. Thucydides's technique draws on the culture of his time, including sophist rhetoric, the drama of Greek tragedy and the diagnostic methods of the Hippocratic medical writers. The issues Thucydides addressed are as germane today as they were in the 5th-century BC. [via]
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Infantry Attacksby Erwin RommelISBN 1853671991 (1-85367-199-1)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infantry Attacks'Book summary:[via]Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in World War II. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied. In this classic study of the art of war, Rommel analyzes the tactics that lay behind his success. First published in 1937, it quickly became a highly regarded military textbook and also brought its author to the attention of Adolph Hitler. Rommel was to subsequently advance through the ranks to the high command in World War II.
Though most people immediately connect Rommel with the African campaigns of World War II, he made his initial legendary giant steps during the First World War. In this 1935 title, he recalls his greatest battles, outlines how he won them, and provides his strategies on the use of armor in the field lessons ultimately used by Patton and other Allied tank commanders to defeat him.--Library Journal
As a leader of a small unit in the First World War, Rommel proved himself an aggressive and versatile commander, with a reputation for using the battleground terrain to his own advantage, for gathering intelligence, and for seeking out and exploiting enemy weaknesses. Rommel graphically describes his own achievements, and those of his units, in the swift-moving battles on the Western Front, in the ensuing trench warfare, in the 1917 campaign in Romania, and in the pursuit across the Tagliamento and Piave rivers. This classic account seeks out the basis of his astonishing leadership skills, providing an indispensable guide to the art of war written by one of its greatest exponents.
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Infantry Attacksby Not Available, Manfred RommelISBN 1853677078 (1-85367-707-8)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infantry Attacks'Book summary:Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied. As a leader of a small unit in the First World War, he proved himself an aggressive and versatile commander, with a reputation for using the battleground terrain to his own advantage, for gathering intelligence, and for seeking out and exploiting enemy weaknesses. Rommel graphically describes his own achievements, and those of his units, in the swift-moving battles on the Western Front, in the ensuing trench warfare, in the 1917 campaign in Romania, and in the pursuit across the Tagliamento and Piave rivers. This classic account seeks out the basis of his astonishing leadership skills, providing an indispensable guide to the art of war written by one of its greatest exponents.[via]More editions of Infantry Attacks:
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary National Book That Will Change the Way You Do Businessby Clayton M. ChristensenISBN 0060521996 (0-06-052199-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary National Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business'Book summary:In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership -- or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate. Focusing on "disruptive technology" -- the Honda Super Cub, Intel's 8088 processor, or the hydraulic excavator, for example -- Christensen shows why most companies miss "the next great wave." Whether in electronics or retailing, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know when to abandon traditional business practices. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, The Innovator's Dilemma presents a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. Find out: ?When it is right not to listen to customers. ?When to invest in developing lower-performance products that promise lower margins. ?When to pursue small markets at the expense of seemingly ?larger and more lucrative ones. Sharp, cogent, and provocative, The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the most talked-about books of our time -- and one no savvy manager or entrepreneur should be without. [via]
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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Failby Clayton M. ChristensenISBN 0066620694 (0-06-662069-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail'Book summary:In The Innovator's Dilemma, author Clayton M Christensen shows what the Honda Supercub, Intel's 8088 processor, and hydraulic excavators have in common. They are all examples of disruptive technologies that helped to redefine the competitive landscape of their respective markets. These products did not come about as the result of successful companies carrying out sound business practices in established markets. Christensen shows how these and other products cut into the low end of the marketplace and eventually evolved to displace high-end competitors and their reigning technologies.
At the heart of The Innovator's Dilemma is how a successful company with established products keeps from being pushed aside by newer, cheaper products that will, over time, get better and become a serious threat. Christensen writes that even the best-managed companies, in spite of their attention to customers and continual investment in new technology, are susceptible to failure no matter what the industry, be it hard drives or consumer retailing. Succinct and clearly written, The Innovator's Dilemma is an important book that belongs on every manager's bookshelf. --Harry C Edwards [via]
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Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley's Cutting Edgeby Geoffrey A. MooreISBN 0887307655 (0-88730-765-5)
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Inside the Tornado: Strategies for Developing, Leveraging, and Surviving Hypergrowth Marketsby Geoffrey A. MooreISBN 0060745819 (0-06-074581-9)
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Leading the Revolutionby Gary HamelISBN 1578511895 (1-57851-189-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Business School Pr
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Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Lifeby Gary HamelISBN 1591391466 (1-59139-146-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life'Book summary:So much for the old economy, new economy divide. According to Gary Hamel, the professor-turned-strategy-guru author of Leading the Revolution, complacent establishment giants and one-strategy start-ups are on the same side of the fence--the wrong side. Corporate complacency and single-strategy business plans leave no room for what Hamel describes as the key to thriving in today's world of business: a deeply embedded capability for continual, radical innovation.
Leading the Revolution is not a calm analysis of what will or won't work in a post-industrial world. Instead, it's an impassioned call for revolutionary activists to shake the foundations of their companies' beliefs and move from a linear age of getting better, smarter, and faster, to a nonlinear age of becoming different. While in the past incremental improvements in products and services were accepted as good enough, Hamel shows that true innovation is the demolition and re-creation of an entire business concept. He blows apart the popular myth that innovation lies solely in the hands of dot.com dynamos like AOL and Amazon by scrutinizing the examples of such "gray-haired revolutionaries" as Enron and Charles Schwab, companies that have managed to reinvent both themselves and their entire industries, time and again.
After an in-depth examination of what business-concept innovation involves (for starters, it's "based on avoidance, not attack"), Hamel goes on to motivate his readers to see their own revolutionary future, and train them in the art of being an activist. As he puts it in various headings, be a novelty addict, be a heretic, know what's not changing, surface the dogmas. And then get out there and transform your ideas into reality. Not simply a round-up call, Hamel's book provides would-be activists with an intelligent, comprehensive plan of action. He illustrates each imperative with examples of real-life corporate rebels, such as John Patrick and David Grossman at IBM, Ken Kutaragi at Sony, and Georges Dupont-Roc at Shell. His message is the same to "old" and "new" companies alike: "Industry revolutionaries are like a missile up the tail pipe. Boom! You're irrelevant!" So join the revolution and avoid the explosion.
Hamel writes in a clear and compelling voice, preaching with passion but supporting what he says with detailed, experiential evidence. Each chapter is packed with probing questions and inspirational examples that aim to dig through the apathetic corners of your mind and throw hand grenades into any creative synapses still slumbering. Even the alternative (read innovative) design of Leading the Revolution will jolt you into a new level of awareness and imagination. Indeed, the only problem you might have with this book is an increasing desire to put it down before the end, get out there into the wild world of the activist, and start living the revolution. --S. Ketchum [via]
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The Lost Art of Warby Sun Tzu, Thomas F. ClearyISBN 0062514059 (0-06-251405-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Lost Art of Warby Thomas F. Cleary, Pin SunISBN 0062513613 (0-06-251361-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Art of War'Book summary:The recently discovered companion to the bestselling The Art of War by Sun Tzu, written by his lineal descendant Sun Bin, also known as Sun Tzu II. Like those of his distinguished ancestor, Sun Tzu II's metaphors can be applied to life situations far beyond warfare--including business, government, diplomacy, relationships, and social action. [via]
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Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfareby Samuel B. GriffithISBN 1877853100 (1-877853-10-0)
Hardcover, Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer
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Marketing Managementby Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane KellerISBN 0131457578 (0-13-145757-8)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marketing Management'Book summary:This worldwide best-selling book highlights the most recent trends and developments in global marketing-with an emphasis on the importance of teamwork between marketing and all the other functions of the business. It introduces new perspectives in successful strategic market planning, and presents additional company examples of creative, market-focused, and customer-driven action. Coverage includes a focus on customer relationship management, partner relationship management, the Internet and its effects and uses, brand building and brand asset management, alternative go-to-market channels, and marketing around the globe. Chapter topics discuss building customer satisfaction, market-oriented strategic planning, analyzing consumer markets and buyer behavior, dealing with the competition, designing pricing strategies and programs, and managing the sales force For marketing managers who want to increase their understanding of the major issues of strategic, tactical, and administrative marketing-along with the opportunities and needs of the marketplace in the years ahead.
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Marketing Management: An Asian Perspectiveby Kotler, Swee Hoon Ang, Chin Tiong Tan, Siew Meng LeongISBN 0131066250 (0-13-106625-0)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, and Controlby Philip KotlerISBN 0135579597 (0-13-557959-7)
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Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation, and Controlby Philip KotlerISBN 0132435101 (0-13-243510-1)
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Marketing Management : Millennium Editionby Philip KotlerISBN 0130122173 (0-13-012217-3)
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Mind of the Strategistby Kenichi OhmaeISBN 0140067221 (0-14-006722-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind of the Strategist'Book summary:IN A GROUND BREAKING APPROACH TO STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS KENICHI OHMAE GOES BEYOND THE STANDARD FORMULA FOR SUCCESS INTO THE MIND OF THE CREATIVE CORPORATE THINKER. IT IS DR. OHMAE'S CONTENTTION - SUPPORTED WITH FACTS AND FIGURES FROM COMPANIES SUCH AS SONY, NISSAN, HONDA AND YAHAMA - TAHT IN TODAY'S MARKET STRATEGIC THINKING IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS. HE SHOWS THE CREATIVE PLANNER IN ACTION - DISSECTING THE MARKET, WEIGHING THE COMPETITION'S STRENGHTS AND WEAKNESSES, QUESTIONING THE PREVAILING ASSUMPTIONS OF AN INDUSTRY, DISCOVE- RING THE ACTUAL NEEDS AND WANTS OF THE CUSTOMER, AND FINALLY, IMPLEMENTING THE STRATEGIES THAT MEAN SUCCESS IN THE MARKETPLACE. FILLED WITH VIVID, ON-TARGET ANECDOTES AND INNOVATIVE CHALLENGES TO CONVEN- TIONAL BUSINESS WISDOM IT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY YOU DO BUSINESS. [via]
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The Mind of the Strategist: The Art of Japanese Businessby Kenichi OhmaeISBN 0070479046 (0-07-047904-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind of the Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business'Book summary:A Masterful Analysis of Company, Customer, and Competition Kenichi Ohmae - voted by The Economist as "one of the world's top five management gurus" - changed the landscape of management strategy in "The Mind of the Strategist". In this compelling account of global business domination, Ohmae reveals the vital thinking processes and planning techniques of prominent companies, showing why they work, and how any company can benefit from them. Filled with case studies of strategic thinking in action, Ohmae's classic work inspires today's managers to excel to new heights of bold, imaginative thinking and solutions. "In many ways, Ohmae can be considered the modern reincarnation of a much older guru, Adam Smith." -"Journal of Marketing". "A fascinating window into the mind of one of Japan's premier strategists...full of ideas about how to improve strategic thinking."- Michael E. Porter, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University [via]
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Modern Strategyby Colin S. GrayISBN 0198782519 (0-19-878251-9)
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On Competitionby Michael E. PorterISBN 0875847951 (0-87584-795-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Competition'Book summary:On Competition, a collection of works by Michael E. Porter, is a critical examination of the dog-eat-dog international economy. A Harvard Business School professor, Porter is one of the most respected and innovative economists of his time. Author of 15 books, he advises key elected officials and business leaders in all parts of the world. On Competition features 13 of his best articles over the past 15 years, including 2 new ones. The essence of Porter's message is that every company, country, and person must master competition to thrive in brutal international and domestic economies. Competition is the key to excellence. Worried about losing your job or your services becoming obsolete? Porter believes that a little fear is good for everyone. "Companies that value stability, obedient customers, dependent suppliers and sleepy competitors are inviting inertia and, ultimately, failure," he writes in his 1990 study and essay "The Competitive Advantage of Nations." Porter is a longtime critic of the short-term thinking on Wall Street that often stifles competition and hurts the economy. In "Capital Disadvantage: America's Failing Capital Investment System," he calls for much lower capital-gains rates for people who invest for the long term. He also urges investors and businesses to start thinking together. He contends that pension funds and institutional investors should get a greater say over the companies they own. It's wacky to have company directors with little expertise or financial interest in the company, he writes.
Porter is often unconventional and asserts that businessmen must be, too. In his essay "Green and Competitive," he shows little sympathy for businesses that complain about environmental regulations. Rules to protect the environment don't have to strangle companies--they can actually improve productivity with the right attitude and approach. Rhone-Poulenc, a French chemical and drug company, proved this when it stopped incinerating a certain byproduct and began selling it as an additive for dyes and tanning. Readable and provocative, On Competition is vital for business, government, and financial leaders as well as small-business people and investors. --Dan Ring [via]
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Perspectives on Strategy: From the Boston Consulting Groupby Boston Consulting Group, George Stalk, Carl W. SternISBN 0471248339 (0-471-24833-9)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perspectives on Strategy: From the Boston Consulting Group'Book summary:a collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the world.
For the past thirty-five years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping the way business is done the world over, and now, Perspectives on Strategy offers a unique opportunity to acquaint readers with a broad selection of the firm's contributions. A compilation of seventy-five of BCG's most influential articles and thought pieces, this book is an indispensable source of fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here is a sampling of what's inside:
* "[Business] competition is a battle royal in which there are many contenders, each of whom must be dealt with individually. Victory, if achieved, is more often won in the mind of a competitor than in the economic arena."
* "The majority of products in most companies are cash traps. . . . [They] are not only worthless, but a perpetual drain on corporate resources."
* "Use more debt than your competition or get out of the business."
* "Displacement of high-cost competitors by lower prices benefits the customer."
* "As a strategic weapon, time is the equivalent of money, productivity, quality, even innovation."
* "When brands become business systems, brand management becomes far too important to leave to the marketing department."
* "The winning organization of the future will look more like a collection of jazz ensembles than a symphony orchestra."
* "Most of our organizations today derive from a model whose original purpose was to control creativity."
* "Dumping should be encouraged. It is a gift from the nation that provides the products."
* "Taxes should be levied when, and only when, individuals disinvest in order to consume. Capital still at work should not be taxed at all."
The Boston Consulting Group is an innovator in business strategy worldwide. In fact, BCG and its founder, Bruce D. Henderson, may be best known internationally as the creators and architects of the discipline of business strategy. Innovative business concepts originating at the firm include "cash cow," "experience curve," "segment-of-one(r) marketing," "time-based competition," and "capabilities-based competition." Now, for the first time, BCG's most influential writings are gathered in a comprehen-sive collection, offering serious-minded readers access to BCG's thinking on the theory, development, and practice of business strategy.
One way BCG shares its insights on strategy is through a series of publications known as Perspectives. Perspectives offer sharply focused views and recommendations on strategic business topics. Distributed to executives worldwide, Perspectives are typically no more than 1,200 words in length.
This book brings together many of the most influential Perspectives, as well as several acclaimed articles published in the Harvard Business Review. Both timely and timeless, the seventy-five pieces included here are among the most innovative, controversial, and stimulating to have appeared over the past three decades.
An anthology of the most provocative thinking from one of the world's most esteemed management consulting firms, Perspectives on Strategy is essential reading for senior managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and students of strategy and business. [via]More editions of Perspectives on Strategy: From the Boston Consulting Group:
Roots of Strategy, Book 2: 3 Military Classicsby J.D. HittleISBN 0811722600 (0-8117-2260-0)
Softcover, Stackpole Books
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Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversationby Kees Van Der HeijdenISBN 0470023686 (0-470-02368-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Business - USA Edition: Freeing the Corporate Mind from Doom-Loop Thinkingby Eileen C. ShapiroISBN 1841120189 (1-84112-018-9)
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China: Wu Ching Chi Shuby Ralph D. Sawyer, Mei-Chun SawyerISBN 0813312280 (0-8133-1228-0)
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The Shield of Achilles : The Long War and the Market Stateby Philip BobbittISBN 0375412921 (0-375-41292-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of Historyby Philip BobbittISBN 0385721382 (0-385-72138-2)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Strategy of Conflictby Thomas C. SchellingISBN 0674840313 (0-674-84031-3)
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Sun Pin: Military Methodsby Pin Sun, Ralph D. SawyerISBN 0813388880 (0-8133-8888-0)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sun Pin: Military Methods'Book summary:The enormous recent popularity in America of Sun-tzu's Art of War has heightened awareness of the great Chinese tradition of writing on theory and practice of war. This tradition has always emphasized that warfare is as much the deployment of spiritual and mental forces as of combat forces, as much a matter of patience and attention as of brute strength. As a result, new generations of readers have found many of its precepts applicable to forms of struggle far from any actual battlefield.While it has brought this tradition greater exposure, the reception of Art of War threatens to overshadow and obscure the other significant texts that followed in its wake. Foremost among these is Military Methods of the Art of War, written in the fourth century B.C. by the purported great-grandson of Sun-tzu, the general Sun Pin. Military Methods is both an extension of the strategic philosophy of the earlier work and a development of a new strategic style--one that enabled Sun Pin to guide the armies of the province of Ch'i to decisive victories over their enemies in the battles of Kuei-ling and Ma-ling.Long believed lost, the text of Military Methods was recovered from a Han dynasty tomb in 1972. The salvaged original, fragmentary in nature, is divided into thirty-three sections covering such topics as unfavorable terrains, the origins of war, "guest" and "host" armies, "male" and "female" cities, and the ten strategic uses of cavalry. To bridge the gaps in the original, translator Ralph D. Sawyer, the leading authority on Chinese military history and its major texts, has provided extensive commentary and notes, as well as a detailed historical introduction.[via]More editions of Sun Pin: Military Methods:
Sun Pin: Military Methodsby Ralph D. Sawyer, Pin Sun, Mei-Chun SawyerISBN 0813388872 (0-8133-8887-2)
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Sun Pin : The Art of Warfareby D. C. Lau, Roger T. AmesISBN 0345379918 (0-345-37991-8)
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Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Pattonby Martin L. Van CreveldISBN 0521546575 (0-521-54657-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton'Book summary:Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Were the railways vital to Prussia's victory over France in 1870? Was the famous Schlieffen Plan militarily sound? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only a few of the questions that form the subject-matter of this meticulously researched, lively book. Drawing on a very wide range of unpublished and previously unexploited sources, Martin van Creveld examines the 'nuts and bolts' of war: namely, those formidable problems of movement and supply, transportation and administration, so often mentioned - but rarely explored - by the vast majority of books on military history. In doing so he casts his net far and wide, from Gustavus Adolphus to Rommel, from Marlborough to Patton, subjecting the operations of each to a thorough analysis from a fresh and unusual point of view. The result is a fascinating book that has something new to say about virtually every one of the most important campaigns waged in Europe during the last two centuries. [via]
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Three Nights In August: Strategy, Heartbreak, And Joy Inside The Mind Of A Managerby Buzz BissingerISBN 0618710531 (0-618-71053-1)
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Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competitionby Adrian J. SlywotzkyISBN 0875846327 (0-87584-632-7)
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El Arte De LA Guerra IIby Sun BiuISBN 8441401179 (84-414-0117-9)
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La Quinta Disciplina/ The Fith Disciplineby Peter SengeISBN 9506414300 (950-641-430-0)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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