Editora: BookRix
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What Shakespeare's plays can teach us about modern-day politics William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost. In The Hollow Crown, Eliot A. Cohen reveals how the battling princes of Henry IV and scheming senators of Julius Caesar can teach us to better understand power and politics today. The White House, after all, is a court—with intrigue and conflict rivaling those on the Globe's stage—as is an army, a business, or a university. And each court is full of driven characters, in all their ambition, cruelty, and humanity. Henry V's inspiring speeches reframe John F. Kennedy's appeal, Richard III's wantonness illuminates Vladimir Putin's brutality, and The Tempest's grace offers a window into the presidency of George Washington. An original and incisive perspective, The Hollow Crown shows how Shakespeare's works transform our understanding of the leaders who, for good or ill, make and rule our world.Ver livro
The lion’s share of the credit for Sparta’s victory in the Peloponnesian War went to Lysander, born to a father named Aristocritus and a family claiming descent from the demigod Hercules despite modest means that reportedly forced them to rely on the generosity of wealthier patrons during Lysander’s military training. Eventually, Lysander rose through Sparta's rigid military system to command its fleet at the exact moment the 27-year war against Athens had ground both sides toward exhaustion. Plutarch, whose biography remains the fullest surviving account of Lysanders career, emphasized that the wily Spartan admiral relied on deceit as much as martial ability, weighing justice and falsehood alike only by whichever proved most useful at any given time. Regardless of how he managed it, Lysander scored one of the most important victories in Greek history at the Battle of Aegospotami in 405 B.C., where his navy caught the Athenian fleet beached and unprepared along the shore of the Hellespont and destroyed it in a single afternoon. That decisive victory all but ended Athens' capacity to wage war at sea and, within a year, brought the entire Peloponnesian War to a close on terms dictated almost entirely by Sparta. Athens itself, starved into submission by the naval blockade Lysander's victory made possible, watched its long walls torn down to the sound of flute-girls playing what the victors called a celebration of freedom for the Greek world. However, Sparta would find it much more difficult to win the peace. Lysander oversaw the installation of an oligarchic council of 30 Athenian citizens, remembered ever after as the Thirty Tyrants, whose brief and bloody rule over their own people left a stain on Sparta's reputation for decades. Across the region, Lysander applied the same method to city after city, dismantling the democratic and pro-Athenian governments the war had left behind and replacing them with narrow councils of 10 men apiece.Ver livro
"...masterfully addresses the polarities which confront families in business." -John A. Warnick, Esq., founder, Purposeful Planning Institute "This book will endure for many years..."-Janet M. Harvey, CEO, inviteCHANGE, author of From Tension to Transformation: A Leader's Guide to Generative Change "This book should be an arm's length away for every family business advisor and business-owning family member." -Kristin Keffeler, chief learning officer, author of The Myth of the Silver Spoon: Navigating Family Wealth & Creating an Impactful Life, and co-author of Wealth 3.0: The Future of Family Wealth Advising Should you fire your deadweight brother-in-law or comply with your mom's pleas to give him a raise? Should you pay all your kids the same, based on the market, or based on how many of your grandkids they raise? These are the questions family business leaders confront due to the opposing expectations of the family and the business. Hug of War offers a new path forward. When the competing impulses of the family mindset and the business mindset are embraced as a polarity, leaders transcend either-or thinking and craft better solutions that embrace the best of both mindsets. With stories that take you into the hearts and heads of real-life family business leaders, Hug of War offers a bridge to greater harmony in your family, greater clarity in your mind, and greater peace in your heart.Ver livro
A WWII Soviet officer recalls leading a battalion of convict-soldiers in this rare firsthand account of a Red Army penal unit. Alexander Pyl’cyn was eighteen years old when he was drafted into the Red Army in 1941. He went on to serve with great distinction, earing the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Great Patriotic War, and the Order of the Red Star for his actions during the war. As the commander of a penal battalion on the Eastern Front, he led an unruly band of convict-soldiers, Gulag prisoners, and former Soviet POWs deemed untrustworthy. Relegated to the most difficult and dangerous assignments, Pyl’cyn’s unit was called up to break through the enemy’s defenses. He led his penal unit through the Soviets’ massive offensive in the summer of 1944, the Vistula-Oder operation into eastern Germany, and the bitter assault on Berlin in 1945. Though his men suffered massive casualties, and he himself withstood multiple wounds, he survived the war to tell this incredible story.Ver livro
Did you know you were constantly being manipulated without even realizing it? And that when you make a decision you don't consider relevant information, but only information that confirms your beliefs? Would you like to increase your intelligence? In this book, you will learn about and use critical thinking effectively and thereby strengthen your sense of self-confidence. You are what you believe. Everything you do, how you feel or what you want, is determined by your beliefs. As we have evolved as human beings, we have learned to convey information and beliefs through language, and for this very reason, many of the beliefs you hold right now are not based on objective information or personal experiences, but on transmitted information. from other people. The worst thing you can do to your mind is to accept information and beliefs as true without analyzing their veracity. Thanks to this book, you will find a valid ally in the face of any information or story that life offers you: critical thinking.Ver livro
The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism—since the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and the colonization of the Americas, capitalism, in both material and ideological senses, has been racial, deriving social and economic value from racial classification and stratification. Although Cedric J. Robinson popularized the term, racial capitalism has remained undertheorized for nearly four decades. Histories of Racial Capitalism brings together for the first time distinguished and rising scholars to consider the utility of the concept across historical settings. These scholars offer dynamic accounts of the relationship between social relations of exploitation and the racial terms through which they were organized, justified, and contested. Throughout, the contributors consider and challenge how some claims about the history and nature of capitalism are universalized while others remain marginalized. By theorizing and testing the concept of racial capitalism in different historical circumstances, this book shows its analytical and political power for today's scholars and activists.Ver livro
