Nelson's Pathfinders
Nelson's Pathfinders

Author: Michael Barritt

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2024-08-13

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0300280211

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The remarkable story of how a handful of intrepid scientific navigators underpinned British naval dominance in the conflict with Napoleon During the Napoleonic Wars, more than twice as many British warships were lost to shipwreck than in battle. The Royal Navy’s fleets had to operate in unfamiliar seas and dangerous coastal waters, where navigational ignorance was as great a threat as enemy guns. If Britain was to win the war, improved intelligence was vital. In this landmark account, Michael Barritt reveals how a cadre of specialist pathfinders led by Captain Thomas Hurd enabled Britain’s Hydrographic Office to meet this need. Sounding amongst hazards on the front line of conflict, alert for breaks in weather or onset of swell, these daring sailors gathered vital strategic data that would eventually secure the upper hand against Britain’s adversaries. Tracing this pathfinding around Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Barritt shows how the honing of this skill set revolutionised the British way of war at sea—ultimately securing a lasting naval dominance.

Adequate Commoner for Pathfinder
Adequate Commoner for Pathfinder

Author: J.M. Perkins

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1988021014

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The Adequate Commoner for the Pathfinder RPG is meant for distribution channels and presents a new perspective on what is probably the most overlooked character in any game: the Commoner NPC class. Now commoners can be more than just faces in a crowd and cannon fodder. They can be the player characters! Includes the Gear Commoner or Mythic Commoner, as well as commoner jobs, New Commoner Feats and Traits, equipment, weapons, improvised traps, and more! Rounding out such goodies are tactics and suggestions for running a commoner character game, as well as Cooks' Day Out, a beginning adventure for commoner characters just hoping to survive the day. ... and there's more yet! So, if you're bored with the exceptional and fed-up with the extraordinary, how about giving the mundane a try? We promise, your commoners will never seem common again.

Adequate Commoner Deluxe for Pathfinder
Adequate Commoner Deluxe for Pathfinder

Author: J.M. Perkins

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1988021022

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The Adequate Commoner for the Pathfinder RPG is meant for distribution channels and presents a new perspective on what is probably the most overlooked character in any game: the Commoner NPC class. Now commoners can be more than just faces in a crowd and cannon fodder. They can be the player characters! Includes the Gear Commoner or Mythic Commoner, as well as commoner jobs, New Commoner Feats and Traits, equipment, weapons, improvised traps, and more! Rounding out such goodies are tactics and suggestions for running a commoner character game, as well as Cooks' Day Out, a beginning adventure for commoner characters just hoping to survive the day. ... and there's more yet! So, if you're bored with the exceptional and fed-up with the extraordinary, how about giving the mundane a try? We promise, your commoners will never seem common again.

The Role of Creative Ignorance: Portraits of Path Finders and Path Creators
The Role of Creative Ignorance: Portraits of Path Finders and Path Creators

Author: P. Formica

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-21

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1137492473

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Traditionally, company experts and outside collaborators innovate by developing the knowledge map. Success or failure of incremental innovation hinges on this path. The Role of Creative Ignorance suggests the knowledge map should be abandoned and replaced with a new methodology, that of creative ignorance. With over 30 years of experience in international economics and entrepreneurship, Piero Formica explores the concept of creative ignorance in combination with path creation and its disruptive effect on entrepreneurship. Using narrative examples of innovators and companies worldwide, he introduces the characteristics of successful path creators that overstep the boundaries set by knowledge maps to open up new, unprecedented routes and connect them each other. In doing so, path creators reveal latent, unexpressed needs of consumers and drive innovation forward.

The Credos of Eight Black Leaders
The Credos of Eight Black Leaders

Author: John J. Ansbro

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780761832140

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Based on a detailed analysis of 21,000 pages of primary works as well as numerous biographies, the book presents that author's formulations of the objectives, strategies, and tactics of eight African-American and African activists_Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.