Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today's most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. The Turn of the Tide is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders' grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders' visions of success.

In January 1943, FDR and Churchill convened in Casablanca and established the Allied objectives for the war: to defeat the Nazi blitzkrieg; to control the Atlantic sea lanes and the air over western and central Europe; to take the fight to the European mainland; and to end Japan's imperialism. Astonishingly, a little over a year later, these ambitious goals had nearly all been accomplished. With riveting, tactical detail, The Turn of the Tide reveals how.

Kennedy recounts the inside stories of the invention of the cavity magnetron, a miniature radar “as small as a soup plate,” and the Hedgehog, a multi-headed grenade launcher that allowed the Allies to overcome the threat to their convoys crossing the Atlantic; the critical decision by engineers to install a super-charged Rolls-Royce engine in the P-51 Mustang, creating a fighter plane more powerful than the Luftwaffe's; and the innovative use of pontoon bridges (made from rafts strung together) to help Russian troops cross rivers and elude the Nazi blitzkrieg. He takes readers behind the scenes, unveiling exactly how thousands of individual Allied planes and fighting ships were choreographed to collectively pull off the invasion of Normandy, and illuminating how crew chiefs perfected the high-flying and inaccessible B-29 Superfortress that would drop the atomic bombs on Japan.

The story of World War II is often told as a grand narrative, as if it were fought by supermen or decided by fate. Here Kennedy uncovers the real heroes of the war, highlighting for the first time the creative strategies, tactics, and organizational decisions that made the lofty Allied objectives into a successful reality. In an even more significant way, The Turn of the Tide has another claim to our attention, for it restores “the middle level of war” to its rightful place in history.

To a noble family twins are born; Mathilde and Giselle, the Sisters Grey. For centuries the Greys have protected the Kaiser, ruler of Mitteleuropa - but this is a different time. At the dawn of the Industrial Age a great war rages. When the Kaiser is found dead Giselle is accused of his murder. Pursued by her sisters and hunted by the enemy, Giselle must unravel the prophecy of the Carbon Grey before history itself is rewritten. Carbon Grey Volume 1: Sisters at War includes all three issues of the sold-out first arc, plus deleted scenes, concept art, and additional new content.

Personal money management advice that make sense

In The True Cost of Happiness, financial journalist Stacey Tisdale and expert financial planner Paula Boyer Kennedy combine their extensive financial experience with a powerful series of interviews and real-world stories to help you make personal money management decisions that make more sense.

They begin by discussing how the factors that drive our financial choices and behavior not only run deep, but also represent the way we define ourselves. From there, they reveal how this truth will determine if you can create the kind of financial harmony that not only supports the life you want, but also makes an honest statement of who you really are. The questions they pose are challenging, but essential, because if your financial choices and behavior are not aligned with your true values, you'll always feel like 'something' is missing. And it is this disconnect that is at the root of most anxiety and unhappiness over money.

• Reveals how the first lessons we learn about money as children play out in our adult behavior
• Discusses how the messages that society sends us about the ways in which we should behave with money affect our financial choices
• Explores factors that can blind us to our true values, and prevent us from making the best decisions possible on issues such as debt, saving, and investing
• Illustrates how to create a financial plan that supports a truly happy life

Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The True Cost of Happiness will put you in a better position to enjoy a life that doesn't compromise who you are.

Academic, clinical and research aspects are offered in collaboration with clinical practitioners, who provide the clinical experience to foster the development of competencies in Health and Social Care.

• Provides a clear, authoritative and lively introduction to the practice of clinical psychology
  
• Explains succinctly the range of competencies which a psychologist is expected to possess, and how these can be applied in a variety of contexts
  
• Key issues covered include awareness of the social context, the need for responsive and flexible practice, and respect for diversity
  
• Examples and principles are provided which demonstrate the clinical psychologist in action, and explain why and how they work as they do

Transitions: Preparing for College Mathematics is designed to provide learners with the foundation necessary to place into college-level mathematics courses. Unit 1 is a review of basic arithmetic and elementary algebra skills. Units 2-5 are sequenced to provide learners with opportunities to master the essential concepts and skills related to equations, inequalities, and functions.

Human, All Too Human (1878) is often considered the start of Friedrich Nietzsche’s mature period. A complex work that explores many themes to which Nietzsche later returned, it marks a significant departure from his previous thinking. Here Nietzsche breaks with his early allegiance to Schopenhauer and Wagner, and establishes the overall framework of his later philosophy. In contrast to his previous disdain for science, now Nietzsche views science as key to undercutting traditional metaphysics. This he sees as a crucial step in the emergence of free spirits who will be the avant-garde of culture.
In summing up the crucial change of perspective expressed in Human, All Too Human, Nietzsche used the following words in his later work Ecce Homo:
Human, All Too Human is a memorial of a crisis…. [W]ith this book I liberated myself from that in my nature which did not belong to me. Idealism does not belong to me…realities were altogether lacking in my knowledge, and the ‘idealities’ were worth damn all! A downright burning thirst seized hold of me: thenceforward I pursued in fact nothing other than physiology, medicine, and natural science.
This is an essential work for anyone who wishes to understand Nietzsche’s incisive critique of Western culture and values.

Paul Fusco: RFK, published during the fortieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, is the long-awaited follow-up to Paul Fusco's acclaimed RFK Funeral Train, a body of work that has been heralded as a contemporary classic. This historic new publication features 120 images, including more than seventy never-before-published, many selected from the untapped treasure trove of slides that comprise the Library of Congress's LOOK Magazine Collection.
As a staff photographer for LOOK magazine in 1968, Fusco was commissioned to document the events surrounding the funeral. In addition to capturing the thousands of Americans who stood by the railroad tracks to greet the funeral train carrying Kennedy's coffin from New York City to Washington, D.C., he also photographed the mourners gathered that morning at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, as well as the dramatic night burial in Arlington National Cemetery. Newly discovered photographs are presented alongside classic images of the funeral train that have been seared into public consciousness from two pervious iterations of the work.
Paul Fusco: RFK provides a new perspective on this legendary photographer's remarkable achievement. It also helps solidify the status of this classic body of work as one of the great efforts in photographic reportage and an incomparable document of this pivotal moment in U.S. History.

The Parliament of Man is the first definitive history of the United Nations, from one of America's greatest living historians.

Distinguished scholar Paul Kennedy, author of the bestselling The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, gives us a thorough and timely account that explains the UN's roots and functions while also casting an objective eye on its effectiveness and its prospects for success in meeting the challenges that lie ahead. Kennedy shows the UN for what it is: fallible, human-based, often dependent on the whims of powerful national governments or the foibles of individual administrators—yet also utterly indispensable. With his insightful grasp of six decades of global history, Kennedy convincingly argues that 'it is difficult to imagine how much more riven and ruinous our world of six billion people would be if there had been no UN.'

In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was reviewed in several major law journals—unprecedented for a self-published work—and influenced a generation of law students and teachers.

In this well-known critique, Duncan Kennedy argues that legal education reinforces class, race, and gender inequality in our society. However, Kennedy proposes a radical egalitarian alternative vision of what legal education should become, and a strategy, starting from the anarchist idea of workplace organizing, for struggle in that direction. Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy is comprehensive, covering everything about law school from the first day to moot court to job placement to life after law school. Kennedy's book remains one of the most cited works on American legal education.

The visually striking original text is reprinted here, making it available to a new generation. The text is buttressed by commentaries by five prominent legal scholars who consider its meaning for today, as well as by an introduction and afterword by the author that describes the context in which Kennedy wrote the book, including a brief history of critical legal studies.

Esiste un momento in cui le spese per la difesa militare di una grande potenza superano in ogni caso le risorse della sua economia? Se sì, allora si può dire che una legge storica è stata fissata: quella che regola, per ogni grande potenza, il meccanismo dell'ascesa e della decadenza. È questo l'argomento di Ascesa e declino delle grandi potenze , una delle opere fondamentali del pensiero politico del nostro tempo, insignita del prestigioso Wolfson History Awards. Dal 1500 a oggi (tale è l'arco di tempo preso in esame da Paul Kennedy), la regola è sempre stata rispettata. Gli stessi mutamenti economico-tecnologici, dall'epoca pre-industriale a quella post-industriale, trovano spiegazione nel bilanciamento tra i due fattori in gioco. La sfida passa, dunque, alle nazioni che dominano la scena attuale: Europa Occidentale, Giappone e, soprattutto, America. Verso il loro futuro, e gli equilibri che ne determineranno le sorti, convergono le linee di questo studio, offrendo una suggestiva chiave di lettura per gli eventi a venire.

The author of Psycho Cybernetics and four of America's most successful sales instructors show salesmen and saleswomen how to use powerful mental training exercises and techniques to overcome customers' resistance and enhance their abilities. Original.

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