In Pursuit of Military Excellence: The Evolution of Operational Theory (Cummings Center Series)
By: Shimon Naveh
3.98
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
This work offers an interpretation of the intermediate field of military knowledge situated between…
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1. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)
By: David M. Glantz , Jonathan M. House
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
By the time Pearl Harbor had ripped apart America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg ha… read more
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2. The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective
By: Hew Strachan
4.16
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sen… read more
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3. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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- philosophy
- history
4. The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War
By: Donald Stoker
3.68
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fac… read more
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5. Team of Teams: The Power of Small Groups in a Fragmented World
By: Stanley McChrystal , Chris Fussell
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Hardcover
The retired four-star general and and bestselling author ofMy Share of the Taskshares a powerful ne… read more
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- military fiction
6. Everything's an Argument
By: Andrea A. Lunsford , John J. Ruszkiewicz
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This best-selling brief text shows students how to analyze all kinds of arguments -- not just essay… read more
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7. Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic, and Postmodern Perspectives
By: Mary Jo Hatch , Ann L. Cunliffe
4.08
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
Organization Theory offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the study of organizations and… read more
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8. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
By: Peter L. Berger , Thomas Luckmann
4.25
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
This book reformulates the sociological subdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge. Knowledg… read more
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9. Young Men and Fire
By: Norman Maclean
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefight… read more
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10. The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
By: Dan Roam
3.56
Format: None pages,
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11. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
By: Peter Paret , Felix Gilbert , Gordon A. Craig
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social … read more
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12. Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.41
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
The balance of King Arthur's unified kingdom is threatened by Merlin's quest for the last of Britai… read more
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"If you understand everything, then there is no room for magic."-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me."-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"Mas quando você tem ordem, você não precisa dos Deuses. Quando tudo está bem ordenado e disciplinado, nada é inesperado. Se você entende tudo, não resta espaço para a magia. Só quando está perdido, a…"-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left f…"-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
13. The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.26
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
Uther, the High King, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal a… read more
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"I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,"-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"Dizem que este Deus (deus cristão) é do perdão. Melhor ofender um desses do que qualquer outro."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
"I don't believe he was as bad as you make him sound. Igraine protested. No, I think he was worse."-Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
14. Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.43
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make t… read more
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"Il tempo è una storia e io voglio essere colui che la racconta, non colui che la crea."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Quando a gente está com problemas é útil descobrir alguém que esteve na mesma dificuldade."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Se gli uomini possono comprare la legge, diceva sempre Artù, allora la legge diventa inutile."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Dreams are like songs. Their task is not to offer an exact image of the world, but a suggestion of it."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
15. A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign
By: None
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
In 1847 General Winfield Scott boldly led a small but undaunted army from the Mexican coast all the… read more
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16. Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd
By: None
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
John Boyd is often known exclusively for the so-called 'OODA' loop model he developed. This model r… read more
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17. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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18. The Campaigns of Napoleon
By: David G. Chandler
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex -- an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions,… read more
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19. Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking
By: M. Neil Browne , Stuart M. Keeley
3.50
Format: None pages,
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20. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
21. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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- philosophy
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
22. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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23. Under the Shadow of Napoleon: French Influence on the American Way of Warfare from Independence to the Eve of World War II (Warfare and Culture, 3)
By: Michael A. Bonura
3.32
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, t… read more
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24. 7 Seconds to Die: A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting
By: John Antal
3.86
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The first full analysis of the second Nagorno-Karabakh War―the first war in history won primarily b… read more
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25. In Pursuit of Military Excellence: The Evolution of Operational Theory (Cummings Center Series)
By: Shimon Naveh
3.98
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
This work offers an interpretation of the intermediate field of military knowledge situated between… read more
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26. Carrying the War to the Enemy: American Operational Art to 1945 (Volume 28) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
By: Michael R. Matheny
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Military commanders turn tactics into strategic victory by means of "operational art," the knowledg… read more
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27. Napoleon's Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War (Modern War Studies)
By: Robert M. Epstein
3.72
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Presenting a significant new interpretation of Napoleonic warfare, Robert M. Epstein argues persuas… read more
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28. Strategy
By: Alexander Svechin
4.18
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
A translation of the second edition of Aleksandr Svechin’s seminal work, Strategy. Svechin (1878-19… read more
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29. Fighting by Minutes: Time and the Art of War
By: Robert R. Leonhard
4.44
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
This book argues that time is the primary dimension in modern war and explores the paradoxes of war… read more
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30. The Evolution of Operational Art
By: Georgii Samoilovich Isserson
4.26
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
One can argue that the development of true doctrine required the formal adoption of the concept of … read more
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31. Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century
By: Jonathan M. House
4.00
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
For centuries, the world has witnessed the development and use of increasingly complex and powerful… read more
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