![]() ![]() Victory cannot be achieved without leadership, which is why we say leadership is the most important thing on the battlefield, the most important thing in business, and the most important thing in life. Without leadership, nothing happens, and with bad leadership, the wrong things happen. So, when we talk about leaders, no matter where you are in the hierarchy of your organization, we are talking about YOU. It was leadership at every level that brought victory in the Battle of Ramadi, and it is leadership at every level that brings success to any company or team. We are talking about everyone -everyone is a leader-even the front-line worker who takes ownership of their part of the mission and executes. We are not only talking about leaders that are in charge of 50 people or 5. ![]() Navy SEALs Lead and Win, Dichotomy of Leadership, host of the top-rated Jocko Podcast, and co-founder of Echelon Front, where he serves as Chief Executive Officer, leadership instructor, speaker and strategic advisor. ![]() We are not only talking about leaders in charge of 5,000 or 500 people. Navy SEAL officer, co-author of the 1 New York Times bestseller Extreme Ownership: How U.S. When we talk about leaders, we are not only talking about senior leaders. While equipment, weaponry, intelligence, tactics, and strategy play a role, leadership is the single greatest factor in determining whether a team succeeds or fails. Leadership is the most important thing on the battlefield. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ‘A lovingly researched work of the highest scholarship. The enormous weight of its quality inspires amazement and awe … Academics should take note: Good history can still be a good story’ Washington Post ‘Easily the best book ever written on the subject … A work of rare beauty that combines meticulous research with sensitive analysis and elegant prose. ‘Formidable … one of the most impressive and stimulating studies of the period ever published’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times Above all, it shows how the failure to understand the seriousness of the chaotic, near genocidal fighting in the Balkans would drag Europe into catastrophe. ![]() In The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark retells the story of the outbreak of the First World War and its causes. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination? ![]() An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. Winner of the Los Angeles Times History Book Prize 2014 SUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012 The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark ![]() ![]() She tried one of the hats on then reached for a nearby hand mirror to check her look. She lingered around a long counter near the entrance, inspecting a decorative row of ladies hats laid across it. Jennie concentrated on the back of the store and Belle the front. When Jennie and Belle reached the store they tied their horses to a hitching post in front of the business and went inside.Ī handful of customers browsed through the assortment of merchandise on display blankets, canned goods, material, brooms, etc. Although few paid much attention to them, the women smiled politely to passersby going about their daily routines. The women, who would later be described by the people they robbed as “neither young, fair, nor dashing”, steered their rides toward a large, brick building that was a combination mercantile and post office. ![]() ![]() It was almost eight in the morning on June 3, 1895, when Jennie Freeman and Belle Black rode into the quiet, unassuming town of Fairview, Oklahoma. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Livvy was in the process of getting her MA in history when her mother died. That’s not to say that everything goes smoothly, because Livvy and Ray are very different people. He has long been lonely out there on his farm, and he welcomes Livvy with open arms. Ray has lost both parents, and his only brother was killed at Pearl Harbor. Livvy marries a shy, honest, hard-working man named Ray Singleton. When we find out that Livvy’s father is a stern minister and the baby’s father is an anonymous and absent soldier, it makes a little more sense. ![]() ![]() Livvy goes from being a college student in Denver to losing her mother, then finding herself pregnant, and married to a farmer in rural Colorado – in that order.Īt first it is a little shocking to see Livvy married to a total stranger, because we only learn of the pregnancy after she’s married. Set on the American homefront during World War II, The Magic of Ordinary Days chronicles the major changes in the life of Livvy Singleton. I couldn’t help but be drawn in by the premise of the book. But in the end, it was just slightly above average. Well, it had its moments, and I was entertained enough to keep turning the pages. I’ve reviewed a string of mediocre books, and I thought maybe some straight fiction, set in my home state, might be just the thing. I pulled The Magic of Ordinary Days out of the pile because I was looking for something different. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has been interesting, during this election, to register that places in America are vastly different and influence people’s ideologies. So many people in the States grow up in one place and settle. I studied English and creative writing at Stanford and Iowa. I was born in Ghana, grew up in America, have lived in Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama. Your novel raises interesting questions about identity – how has your identity been affected by place, circumstance and genes? In this post-election space, as Donald Trump takes over, we are wondering what fresh hell may be about to be devised ![]() Slavery is something we have not gotten over, it is on people’s minds and it affects us still. The subject of slavery has produced outstanding work from Toni Morrison ’s novel Beloved to Steve McQueen’s film 12 Years a Slave …Īnd this year alone, in America, there has been The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and Grace by Natashia Deón. You can imagine and you cannot possibly imagine. The terror they must have felt – not knowing what was to become of them. ![]() Hundreds of people were kept there for three months at a time before being sent God knew where. When they closed the door, there was no light. There was grime on the walls and a tiny air hole at the top. The dungeons still smell after hundreds of years. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was simple and yet had that captivating feel, descriptive and vivid. It wasn’t like anything I read in any book. The story was about East Asian culture, tradition, life style of crazy rich people, snobbery, prejudice, social class difference, perceptions towards people from mainland China or overseas, family, friendship, and love. ![]() ReviewĬrazy Rich Asians was interesting and dramatic fiction that revolved around Rachel’s summer vacation at Singapore with her boyfriend Nick and meeting Nick’s relatives that changed her whole life and her view of her boyfriend. On Nick’s arm, Rachel may as well have a target on her back the second she steps off the plane, and soon, her relaxed vacation turns into an obstacle course of old money, new money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars and three, that he just happens to be the country’s most eligible bachelor. ![]() But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first installment of the “Free Falling” series, the stage is set for one of the most riveting interracial love stories to grace the literary scene in quite some time. Thank you for respecting the author’s work. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should purchase your own copy. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. This e-book is licensed for personal enjoyment only. No part of this e-book may be reproduced or shared by any electronic or mechanical means, including but not limited to printing, file sharing, and email, without prior written permission from Raven St. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictitiously. This book contains strong sexual themes and content not suitable for persons under the age of 18. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What I remember mostly is how sorry I felt for poor gullible Hetty Sorrel, a milkmaid who dreamed of love and a life beyond the drudgery of the cowshed and dairy only to be abandoned by the dastardly squire’s son. I first read Adam Bede more than 30 years ago. But you can see in Adam Bede, the novel she wrote some 14 years earlier, (it was in fact her first full length novel) her first steps towards the themes and approaches that will become prevalent in Middlemarch. To read it is to see Eliot’s creative imagination as its most mature. Yet it’s also a very human novel one that deals with ambition and the loneliness of failure whether in love or theological research or the desire to bring great benefit to mankind. This is a novel stuffed with big ideas, from Darwin’s natural selection to advances in medical sciences, from the Great Reform Act to industrialisation all organised within a central metaphor of “the web” of society. It’s why I love George Eliot’s Middlemarch so much and why I never tire of going back to it. What distinguishes a truly great classic for me is that no-matter how many times I read it, I can still discover something fresh within its pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() My so-called parents hate my boyfriend, Shrimp. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But summer in the city is not what Cyd expects-and she’s far from the daughter or sister that anyone could have imagined. Trading in her parents for New York City grunge and getting to know her bio-dad and step-sibs is what Cyd has been waiting for her whole life. When Cyd’s rebelliousness gets out of hand, her parents ship her off to New York City to spend the summer with “Frank real-dad,” her biological father. Lucky for Cyd she’s got Gingerbread, her childhood rag doll and confidante, and her new surfer boyfriend. ![]() But there’s no way Cyd can survive in her parents’ pristine house. In this “funny and irreverent” ( School Library Journal, starred review) debut novel, Rachel Cohn, coauthor of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, tells the story of a spirited, rebellious, and teen in New York City for the first time.Īfter getting tossed from her posh boarding school, wild, willful, and coffee addicted Cyd Charisse returns to San Francisco to live with her parents. ![]() ![]() Its success was immediate and it has passed into many editions, spreading far and wide the devotion to this "little" saint of simplicity, and abandonment in God's service, of the perfect accomplishment of small duties. In 1901 it was translated into English, and in 1912 another translation, the first complete edition of the life of the Servant of God, containing the autobiography, "Letters and Spiritual Counsels", was published. The account of the eleven years of her religious life, marked by signal graces and constant growth in holiness, is given by Soeur Thérèse in her autobiography, written in obedience to her superior and published two years after her death. He preferred to leave the decision in the hands of the superior, who finally consented and on 9 April 1888, at the unusual age of fifteen, Thérèse Martin entered the convent of Lisieux where two of her sisters had preceded her. When she was fifteen she applied for permission to enter the Carmelite Convent, and being refused by the superior, went to Rome with her father, as eager to give her to God as she was to give herself, to seek the consent of Pope Leo XIII, then celebrating his jubilee. ![]() She was born at Alençon, France, 2 January 1873 died at Lisieux 30 September 1897. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Story of a Soul (Version 2) ![]() |