The Hinge Factor

The Hinge Factor

Author: Erik Durschmied

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1628721774

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From the wooden horse at Troy to a harrowing photograph snapped in Vietnam, from Robert E. Lee’s lost battle plans to the evacuation of Dunkirk, world history has been shaped as much by chance and error as by courage and heroism. Time and again, invincible armies fall to weaker opponents in the face of impossible odds, when the outcome had seemed a foregone conclusion. How and why does this happen? What is it that decides the fate of battle? Writing with the style and flair that has made him an award-winning war correspondent, Durschmied takes us through the major battles of history, from the battlefields of ancient Greece to the Gulf War. In a series of gripping narratives, he vividly recreates the crucial events in all their mayhem and confusion while pointing out the decisive moments that changed the course of history. We see Agincourt, where rain combined with French arrogance to give Henry V the day; the Crimea, where a badly worded order led to the disastrous charge of the Light Brigade; and colonial Africa, where an attack by African killer bees, described by the London Times as Germany’s secret weapon, repulsed an Allied invasion. And in a chilling epilogue, we are given a disturbing glimpse of the secret attempt by Libya to buy atomic weapons from China for use against Israel. Drawing from a variety of sources, including personal accounts such as soldiers’ diaries and letters home, The Hinge Factor is an instructive, fascinating look at how the unpredictable, the absurd, and the bizarre have shaped the face of history in war.


The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership

The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership

Author: Rosa Antonia Carrillo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 0429614209

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At the core of The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership are eight beliefs about human nature that are common to leaders who successfully communicate that safety is important while meeting business results. Using stories and business language the book explains how to create and recover important stakeholder relationships by setting priorities and taking action based on these beliefs. The beliefs are based on the author’s 25 years of experience supporting operational and safety leaders with successful and unsuccessful change efforts in pharmaceutical, nuclear, mining, manufacturing and power generation. The author also offers compelling evidence from many social and scientific disciplines that support the conclusion that satisfying our need for relationship is a major motivator. The Five Orientations Model offers a perspective on solving complex problems when confronted with multiple demands. The book provides managers and supervisors with the motivation to build relationships and points to the conditions needed for success. It also describes a process to take united action but retain the flexibility to change course as necessary. The book is written for managers and leaders, at all levels, concerned with occupational health and safety, and wishing to learn how to leverage relationships to achieve higher employee engagement and performance.


OUR X FACTOR

OUR X FACTOR

Author: Xavier Van De Lanotte

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2014-07-25

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1628388587

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Among the many things that people aspire for, one that most people have in common is to be happy. Some go to great lengths just so they can secure happiness for themselves, but they often mistake transient pleasures and lofty achievements for happiness, not realizing that being happy is more a choice and a process than an end product. Author Xavier Van de Lanotte takes on the noble task of guiding the perennial seeker of happiness or success to the right path, which is paved with moments of self


Thoughts Become Things: Transform Your Life Through Spiritual, Scientific & Practical Approach

Thoughts Become Things: Transform Your Life Through Spiritual, Scientific & Practical Approach

Author: Sushil Hinge

Publisher: White Falcon Publishing

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 9389932548

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Today in this competitive world, where people are running for money, fame and success, they are losing excess time, health, love and peace of mind. On the other hand, there are people who are peaceful, but in their comfort zone with no goals and purpose in life. The Magic of this book “THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS” will help people to achieve success in life along with the purpose, peace of mind, health, wealth, love, happiness and abundance in all spheres of life. You will find many of the fundamentals from this book already read in the other National Best seller and International Best Seller books. However, the uniqueness of this books lies with the combinations of 3 important aspects which are Spiritual, Scientific and Practical fundamentals. Spirituality to connect your higher self and following the truth by some of the life’s amazing secrets. One of the greatest mediation techniques which enables to develop a higher focus and also to see the things as they really are. Such spirituality helps in opening all the mental blocks and makes the law of attraction to manifest things faster. The Secret of Science is already known. Science it is what we are made of and it is what every human being believes. It explains the power of your subconscious mind and conscious mind as a standard operating process on how your mind works. The book gives wisdom on the power of positive thoughts and affirmation process along with gratitude and visualization as the three major powerful processes that help people manifest their dreams and desires. Practical approach are the very basic foundations that we need to apply for everything in a right way. It includes some of the aspects including the power of habit like waking up in Brahmi Muhurta that is in the 5 AM. All the basic practical approach are very critical that creates and gives a long term highly impactful results transforming the entire life.


Feedback

Feedback

Author: Jane E. Pollock

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1412997437

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"Educators will find a wealth of classroom examples and success stories that bring this proven practice to life. In addition to boosting achievement, Feedback helps students develop a lifelong learning skill that they will use in everything they do." -- Back Cover.


Differentiated Instructional Strategies

Differentiated Instructional Strategies

Author: Gayle Gregory

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781412936408

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In this fascinating book, the author of The Hinge Factor and The Weather Factor surveys revolutions across the centuries, vividly portraying the people and events that brought wrenching, often enduring and always bloody change to countries and societies almost overnight. Durschmied begins with the French Revolution and goes on to examine the revolutions of Mexico in 1910, Russia in 1917, and Japan in 1945, as well as the failed putsch against Hitler in 1944. His account of the Cuban Revolution is peppered with personal anecdotes for he was the first foreign correspondent to meet Castro when the future leader was still in the Sierra Maestra. He concludes with the Iranian Revolution that ousted the Shah in 1979 another that he personally covered and, in a new preface, extends his analysis to the Arab Spring.Each revolution, Durschmied contends, has its own dynamic and memorable cast of characters, but all too often the end result is the same: mayhem, betrayal, glory, and death. Unlike the American Revolution, which is the counterexample, few revolutions are spared the harsh reality that most devour their own children. Durschmied is a supremely gifted reporter who has transformed the media he works in. Newsweek A] light and lively narrative that serves as a useful introduction for the general reader. Library Journal


The College Fear Factor

The College Fear Factor

Author: Rebecca D. Cox

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010-02-15

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0674053664

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They’re not the students strolling across the bucolic liberal arts campuses where their grandfathers played football. They are first-generation college students—children of immigrants and blue-collar workers—who know that their hopes for success hinge on a degree. But college is expensive, unfamiliar, and intimidating. Inexperienced students expect tough classes and demanding, remote faculty. They may not know what an assignment means, what a score indicates, or that a single grade is not a definitive measure of ability. And they certainly don’t feel entitled to be there. They do not presume success, and if they have a problem, they don’t expect to receive help or even a second chance. Rebecca D. Cox draws on five years of interviews and observations at community colleges. She shows how students and their instructors misunderstand and ultimately fail one another, despite good intentions. Most memorably, she describes how easily students can feel defeated—by their real-world responsibilities and by the demands of college—and come to conclude that they just don’t belong there after all. Eye-opening even for experienced faculty and administrators, The College Fear Factor reveals how the traditional college culture can actually pose obstacles to students’ success, and suggests strategies for effectively explaining academic expectations.


The Sot-Weed Factor

The Sot-Weed Factor

Author: John Barth

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 1628972009

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This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting...to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the 18th-century picaresque novel-think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy -is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence as it makes its unsteady way in the world. It's the late 17th century and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, dutiful son and determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco (or "sot weed") plantation. He is also eventually given to believe that he has been commissioned by the third Lord Baltimore to write an epic poem, The Marylandiad. But things are not always what they seem. Actually, things are almost never what they seem. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many perils. Pirates, Indians, shrewd prostitutes, armed insurrectionists - Cooke endures them all, plus assaults on his virginity from both women and men. Barth's language is impossibly rich, a wickedly funny take on old English rhetoric and American self-appraisals. For good measure he throws in stories within stories, including the funniest retelling of the Pocahontas tale -revealed to us in the "secret" journals of Capt. John Smith - that anyone has ever dared to tell." —Time Magazine


The Weather Factor

The Weather Factor

Author: Erik Durschmied

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2013-04-11

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1444769650

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Throughout history, natural elements have been responsible for the deaths of more people than the spear, bullet or atomic bomb. Floods have drowned millions, droughts and famines wiped out entire populations, frost has halted invincible armies, and storms have sunk unsinkable fleets. When facing the weather, its unpredictability can lead to incredible disasters. Though we have made major advancements in collecting and forecasting the weather, huge seas, skies, rain-falls and freezes have confounded us since the days when Noah was forced to take to the Ark. Erik Durschmied uses his formidable knowledge of military strategy and his skill at human observation to give examples of how man can never prepare for the unexpected.


The Hinge Factor

The Hinge Factor

Author: Erik Durschmied

Publisher: Arcade Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9781559705158

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Katani's favorite magazine, T-Biz!, is running a contest for young entrepreneurs, and she can't wait to surprise her family and the BSG with a prize-winning entry. With the deadline just a week away, major school projects due, and a promise to knit twenty(!) scarves for a Think Pink! fund-raiser, Katani is running out of time. It doesn't make things easier that Maeve has signed up for Betsy Fitzgerald's tutoring service. Betsy is Katani's competition! Katani wants to win the contest on her own, but she needs help -- and who can she turn to if not the BSG?