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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiv, 368 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Distilled from the Yale University seminar, "Studies in Grand Strategy," a master class in strategic thinking surveys statecraft from the ancient Greeks through FDR and beyond as vital historical lessons for future world leaders.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xviii, 483 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Using a diverse array of rich case studies - from pop culture, TV, movies, sports, politics and history - the author shows how nearly every business and personal interaction has a game-theory component to it.
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxviii, 541 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language
English
Description
"This Handbook offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of strategic culture by a mix of international scholars, consultants, military officers, and policymakers. The volume explicitly addresses the analytical conundrums faced by scholars who wish to employ or generate strategic cultural insights, with substantive commentary on defining and scoping strategic culture, analytic frameworks and approaches, levels of analysis, sources...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvi, 751 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked: What if precision bombing could, just by taking out critical choke points -- industrial or transportation hubs -- cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In his podcast, Revisionist History, Gladwell re-examines moments from the past and asks whether...
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (12 hr., 18 min.))
Language
English
Description
The literature of ideas. When author Pamela Sargent used those words to describe science fiction in 1975, the genre had exploded into the literary mainstream. As a literature of ideas, science fiction has proven to be a powerful metaphor for the world around us, offering a rich tapestry of imagination through which to explore how we lead, how we think, and how we interact. To Boldly Go assembles more than thirty writers from around the world to help...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An alarming, deeply reported analysis of how close--and how often--the world has come to nuclear annihilation, and why we are once again on the brink.
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