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Michael Dobbs is a reporter for the Washington Post, who devoted much of his journalistic career to covering the collapse of communism. He was the Post's bureau chief in Warsaw (1980-82), Paris (1983-86) and Moscow (1988-1993). He has held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton University and is the author of three books: Down with Big Brother (1996), Madeleine Albright (1999) and Saboteurs (2004). Down with Big Brother was a runner-up for the 1...

Examines the Jewish philospher's influence on theology, philosophy, medicine, and law, and his impact on later thinkers.

A landmark study of the 'founder of modern science'.

Examines the Jewish philospher's influence on theology, philosophy, medicine, and law, and his impact on later thinkers.

This book discusses dramatic power struggles within and between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the United States of America during Lyndon Johnson's presidency. This book explains Johnson's goals for easing Cold War tensions and how his best intentions fell prey to triangles, symbols, and constraints.

This book sets the foundations of Newton's alchemy in their historical context in Restoration England.

Two of Wellington's officers tell their stories of war This book contains personal accounts giving the perspectives of two young British officers of infantry during the Peninsular War in Spain against Napoleon's French forces. Each account is comparatively short and they have been published in a single volume by Leonaur not only because they represent aspects of common experience, but also to provide readers with essential texts of the Napole...

Two of Wellington's officers tell their stories of war This book contains personal accounts giving the perspectives of two young British officers of infantry during the Peninsular War in Spain against Napoleon's French forces. Each account is comparatively short and they have been published in a single volume by Leonaur not only because they represent aspects of common experience, but also to provide readers with essential texts of the Napole...

In this stunning novel, political insider Michael Dobbs brings alive the curmudgeon persona of Winston Churchill.

Avere stima di sé significa portarsi rispetto in quanto persone, considerarsi unici, riconoscere il proprio valore e le proprie competenze. L'autostima è una capacità che può essere perfezionata nel corso di una vita intera. Cominciamo fin d'ora!

Churchill's Triumph allows the reader to eavesdrop on the world's most powerful men, as they lie, cheat, and deceive each other as they struggle to reach agreement and secure their places in history.

Cohomological dimension of fields.- On Cech dimension theories for rings.- A generalization of cohomological dimension for rings.- Number theoretic applications of a cech dimension theory.

A majority of organizations employ workteams as the cornerstone to getting work done efficiently along with producing innovative ideas and gaining a competitive edge in the marketplace. The premise of team work is that it is a relational process of people working together to accomplish a common goal. In other words, team work is all about relationships. To survive--and to thrive--teams and team leaders have recognized the need to create hea...

Springfield is a city rich with history and a tradition of innovation. Dubbed the "City of Firsts, " it has been influencing change since 1786, when the city was the site of Shays' Rebellion, the revolutionary uprising that prompted early Americans to form the Constitutional Convention. The city is the birthplace of the first American gas-powered car and the American motorcycle. In the 1930s, the pioneering Granville Brothers manufactured the ...

From The New York Times bestselling author of War on the Middle Class, a powerful look at the critical issues facing America on the eve of the 2008 Presidential electionWith up to a million viewers each day, Lou Dobbs Tonight has become one of the most popular news programs in the nation. Now Dobbs, whose last book, War on the Middle Class, captured the plight of working Americans, asks the question: What has happened to the American dream? By...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

The book is called "Life in the Wrong Lane" because that's where journalists live: in the one lane heading toward a catastrophe. Everyone who's normal is in the other lane, any other lane, going the other way. They're getting out. Although Dobbs's travels, first for ABC News and now for HDNet Television, have taken him to many troubled corners of the country and the world, "Life in the Wrong Lane" isn't a travel guide about exotic places or a ...

Re-visit the life of history's most notorious lover, from childhood to Casanova's daring escape from the State Inquisition's prison. Using eighteenth-century poetic conventions that Casanova himself would have cherished, Kildare Dobbs infuses this renegade's legacy with a modern, witty and very hilarious bite.

Harry Jones, hero of The Edge of Madness, is caught in a web of international intrigue, with an old friend as bait and a female scorpion at his side