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Pulses of Abstraction uncovers important epistemological shifts around film and related media"--

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This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproduction...

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March 1958 was cold, unusually cold. The arrival of Spring seemed to be forever delayed as Britain remained in winter's grip. Flying into this frigid climate were Buddy Holly and The Crickets, for whom Saturday the 1st of March marked the beginning of their 25 date UK tour. Having landed at Heathrow Airport, then known merely as London Airport, two days previously the group were unprepared for the weather that met them. They had begun the week...

Small Changes, Big Results shows how most small and medium sector businesses can be producing a sustainably better result for the owner(s) in regards to profits, time involved and ease of running. Most business owners start a business because of their technical expertise but few have the knowledge necessary to grow the company to the next level. Such uncertainty can become debilitating and stressful. The information in this book provides actio...

If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and place is explored in Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name.Today we use smartphones and GPS, but navigating has not always been so easy. The oldest "clock" is Earth itself, and the oldest means of keeping time came from observing c...

Corporate Governance: Law and Context provides students of law and business with a thorough and richly textured grounding in corporate governance issues and processes within a contextual and critical framework. Set out in four sections the book begins by discussing those elements, historical and current, that shape the modern company. This section encompasses the impact of the market, and the origins of modern corporate governance and its curr...

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Traditionen leben von der Dialektik der Wiederholung, die das Gleiche stets anders inszeniert. Sie speisen sich aus den Erinnerungen, an der Grenze von bedacht und selbstverständlich getan lassen sie sich nur als selbstverständliche Überzeugungen bestimmen. Aber wie ist es dennoch möglich, Traditionen zu beeinflussen? Der vorliegende Band widmet sich der Frage, wie man mit Traditionen Symbolpolitik machen kann. Was sind die Zumutungen der Trad...

Fired Up: Kindling and Keeping the Spark in Creatives Teams is a one-of-a-kind leadership book specifically designed to help leaders with their creative team members. From what began as a conversation with a friend, and manifested itself around the fire-pit in his backyard, Dr. Johnston uses the key components of fire to help us get our teams Fired Up to be more creative. Those elements are: Oxygen Fuel, and Heat, know as the three components ...

Excerpt from Letters to a Nobleman, Proving a Late Prime Minister to Have Been Junius: And Developing the Secret Motives Which Induced Him to Write Under That and Other Signatures, With an Appendix, Containing a Celebrated Case, Published by Almon, in 1768With this conviction, I examined all the pam phlets written since the publication of Mr. Wood fall's book, to support the claims of various can didates for this literary distinction, but thei...

It was three o'clock in the morning. Along a deserted pavement of Riverside Drive strode briskly a young man whose square-set shoulders and erect poise suggested a military training. His coat, thrown carelessly open to the cold night wind, displayed an expanse of white indicative of evening dress. As he walked his heels clicked sharply on the concrete with the forceful firm tread of the type which does things quickly and decisively. The intens...

Excerpt from Letters to a Nobleman, Proving a Late Prime Minister to Have Been Junius, And Developing the Secret Motives Which Induced Him to Write Under That and Other Signatures: With an Appendix, Containing a Celebrated Case, Published by Almon, in 1768With this conviction, I examined all the pam phlets written since the publicatidii of' Mr. Wood fall's book, to support the claims of various can didates for this literary distinction, but th...

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Excerpt from The Illinois Central Heritage, 1851-1951: A Centenary AddressThey recommended, I nominated, and The Board elected Wayne Johnston President of the Illinois Cen tral Railroad, on February 23rd 1945.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology...