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41) World order
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kissinger offers his analysis of the twenty-first century's ultimate challenge: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historic perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism.
42) Spycatcher
Author
Series
Spycatcher novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unpredictable agent Will Cochrane must catch the world's most wanted international terrorist mastermind, who was responsible for the death of his father in Iraq twenty-five years ago, and avert an attack the likes of which the world has never seen.
Author
Publisher
Pearson
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (6 pages)
Language
English
Description
This new case study shows how an operationally complex global pharmaceutical company based in Hyderabad, India, responds to the challenges of high demand variability and other uncertainties. It reviews operations spanning the entire pharmaceutical supply chain, including development, manufacturing, drug formulation, and packaging; its 20 manufacturing plants throughout India; and export operations to 40+ countries worldwide. Throughout, it focuses...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into the development of such concepts as competition, modern medicine, and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing Western techniques.
45) The right hand
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
There has always been a need in the spy game for covert missions so black no one in the American government, and almost no one in intelligence itself, knows of their existence. The left hand can't know what the right hand is doing. Austin Clay is that right hand, executing missions that would be disavowed by his own government if he's ever compromised. Clay is sent to track down a missing American operative, a man who was captured outside of Moscow,...
Author
Publisher
Center for Creative Leadership
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st edition
Physical Desc
1 online resource (26 pages)
Language
Français
Description
It is sometimes hard to accept change - particularly when it is delivered as a hardship, disappointment, or rejection. But by developing resiliency managers can not only accept change, but learn, grow, and thrive in it. This guidebook defines resiliency, explains why it's important, and describes how you can develop your own store of resiliency. It focuses on nine developmental components that, taken together, create a sense of resiliency and increase...
50) UN chronicle
Author
Publisher
United Nations, Office of Public Information
Pub. Date
1975-2019.
Physical Desc
45 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Leaders today, whether in corporations or associations, nonprofits or nations, face massive, messy, multidimensional problems. No one person or group can possibly solve them; they require the broadest possible cooperation. But, says Harvard scholar Dean Williams, our leadership models are still essentially tribal: individuals with formal authority leading in the interest of their own group. In this deeply needed new book, he outlines an approach that...
52) Plan of attack
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
The destruction of a Russian air base by robotic U.S. warplanes has reawakenedthe bear — and America must pay a terrible price. In retaliation, Russia's leader launches the most devastating military sneak attack since Pearl Harbor, decimating America's strategic air forces. Now an embattled U.S. president must choose between two horrific scenarios: a cease-fire on the enemy's terms ... or respond with every weapon in the nation's arsenal,
...53) Secrets of state
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sam Trainor's career of overseas work coupled with a penchant for being outspoken has left him on the outside of the competitive Washington establishment. Formerly the top South Asia expert in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Trainor has moved to the private sector ... But Sam soon discovers that for all their similarities, the government and their hired contractors have vastly different motives. As he struggles to adjust...
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Why is the French International Relations (IR) discipline different from the transnational-American discipline? By analysing argument structures in research articles across time, this book shows how the discipline in France is caught between the American character of the discipline and the French state as regulator of legitimate forms of expression. Concretely, French research arguments are less explicit about what their propositions are and what...
57) The last line
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Chris Teller may be the best in the intelligence business, but that doesn't mean he's the most popular. Far from it, in fact. While he may be a threat to the status quo, however, the only thing saving him from expulsion is an even greater threat to his country, one that's already within our borders. With Mexico descending into anarchy, the drug cartels have kicked up the heat, allying with Hezbollah and the Iranian secret service in a plot aimed at...
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