The Profession

Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767931173
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Profession written by Steven Pressfield and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storyteller and bestselling author Steven Pressfield returns with a stunning, chillingly plausible near-future thriller about the rise of a privately financed and global military industrial complex. The year is 2032. The third Iran-Iraq war is over; the 11/11 dirty bomb attack on the port of Long Beach, California is receding into memory; Saudi Arabia has recently quelled a coup; Russians and Turks are clashing in the Caspian Basin; Iranian armored units, supported by the satellite and drone power of their Chinese allies, have emerged from their enclaves in Tehran and are sweeping south attempting to recapture the resource rich territory stolen from them, in their view, by Lukoil, BP, and ExxonMobil and their privately-funded armies. Everywhere, military force is for hire. Oil companies, multi-national corporations and banks employ powerful, cutting-edge mercenary armies to control global chaos and protect their riches. Even nation states enlist mercenary forces to suppress internal insurrections, hunt terrorists, and do the black bag jobs necessary to maintain the new New World Order. Force Insertion is the world's merc monopoly. Its leader is the disgraced former United States Marine General James Salter, stripped of his command by the president for nuclear saber-rattling with the Chinese and banished to the Far East. A grandmaster military and political strategist, Salter plans to take vengeance on those responsible for his exile and then come home...as Commander in Chief. The only man who can stop him is Gilbert "Gent" Gentilhomme, Salter's most loyal foot soldier, who launches a desperate mission to take out his mentor and save the United States from self destruction. Infused with a staggering breadth of research in military tactics and steeped in the timeless themes of the honor and valor of men at war that distinguish all of Pressfield’s fiction, The Profession is that rare novel that informs and challenges the reader almost as much as it entertains.

Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408831236
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr Churchill's Profession written by Peter Clarke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter century, his four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples.As an author, Churchill faced woes familiar to many others; chronically short of funds, late on deadlines, scrambling to sell new projects or cajoling his publishers for more advance money. He signed a contract for the English-Speaking project in 1932, a time when his political career seemed over. The magnum opus was to be delivered in 1939, but in that year, history overtook history-writing. When the Nazis swept across Europe, Churchill was summoned from political exile to become Prime Minister. The English-Speaking Peoples would have to wait.The book would indeed be written and become a bestseller, after Churchill left public life. But even before he took office, the massive project was shaping his worldview, his speeches and his leadership. In these pages, Peter Clarke follows Churchill's monumental quest to chronicle the English-Speaking Peoples - a quest that helped to define the enduring 'special relationship' between Britain and America. In the process, Clarke gives us not just an untold chapter in literary history, but a fresh perspective on this iconic figure: a life of Churchill the author.

Author : Sergei Obraztsov
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 158963456X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Profession written by Sergei Obraztsov and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profile of the authors life as a famous Soviet puppeteer and puppet theatre director. He describes childhood impressions, writes of earlier professions as artist and actor, and finally about his personal experiences with puppetry which helped him achieve mastery of his craft.Born in Moscow in 1901, he describes every step he took to his profession, how he worked on individual productions, and an account of all of his productions. In the 1920s Sergei Obraztsov founded the State Central Puppet Theatre in Moscow --- the biggest in Russia, an educational center of professional and amateurs theatre groups. The center houses the museum of theatrical puppets, a library on the theme, manuscript and pedagogical departments, and one of the worlds largest collection of theatrical puppets (about 3000 from 50 countries). Now over 50 years old, The Sergei Obraztsov Central Puppet Show has entertained tens-of-thousands of fans in 50 different countries, with a witty program that parodies slipshod variety performances.

Author : Frederick Busch
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0312246080
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Profession written by Frederick Busch and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Busch has an enduring love affair with great books, and here he brilliantly communicates his passion to us all. Whether expounding on Melville or Dickens, or celebrating Hemingway or O'Hara, he explains what literature can ineffably reveal about our own lives. For Busch, there was no other recourse save the "dangerous profession;" it was to be his calling, and in these piercing essays, he demonstrates that we as a culture ignore the fundamental truths about fiction only at our own peril. With keen ruminations that recall the critcs of yore- Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and Irving Howe-Busch, in this era of moral indirection, has revealed how the literature of our past is the key to our survival in the future.

Author : Sir John Hackett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Profession of Arms written by Sir John Hackett and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : L. Michael Posey
Publisher : American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pharmacy written by L. Michael Posey and published by American Pharmacists Association (APhA). This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmacy: An Introduction to the Profession, 2nd Edition is an ideal resource for orientation or introduction to pharmacy courses on both the professional and preprofessional level. It provides the basis for beginning pharmacy students to develop an accurate view of the profession they are entering, to understand the basic tenets of the profession, and to understand the critical issues the profession is facing. The book consists of ten chapters addressing core concepts about the profession of pharmacy. Chapter eleven provides a selection of readings from the recent pharmacy and biomedical literature. Key Features: * 10 thoroughly updated chapters * Chapter 3 on evolution of pharmacy practice toward MTMS * Chapter 4 on pharmacy communications by noted expert Bruce Berger * Chapter 11 includes all new readings from the literature * Definitions of key terms located throughout the text in the margin and in separate Glossary

Author : Andrew Abbott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618966X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The System of Professions written by Andrew Abbott and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their power? Will professionalism spread throughout the occupational world? While most inquiries in this field study one profession at a time, Abbott here considers the system of professions as a whole. Through comparative and historical study of the professions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, France, and America, Abbott builds a general theory of how and why professionals evolve.

Author : Louis A. Allen
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Management Profession written by Louis A. Allen and published by New York : McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1964 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook on the concepts, principles and practices of modern management, including personnel management. Leadership, planning, forecasting and budgeting, business organization, decision making, employee motivation, communication, recruitment and management development. Bibliography.

Author : Yvonne Cleary
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000407381
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Profession and Practice of Technical Communication written by Yvonne Cleary and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical, research-based overview of careers in technical communication featuring narratives from working professionals in a range of careers and international contexts Technical communication is a diverse, growing, and rapidly changing field, and an up-to-date guide to careers will be useful for students and junior professionals in the US and Europe Competing books on technical communication careers are outdated and do not include non-US contexts; this book contains current research and practitioner narratives that most closely examine careers as they operate today

Author : Andy Kutler
Publisher : Black Rose Writing
ISBN 13 : 1684338476
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Honorable Profession written by Andy Kutler and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's a former Secret Service agent. She's his college-aged idealistic, yet neglected daughter. Hoping to make amends and rebuild their relationship, he gets pulled into her professor's presidential campaign. Bonded in a way he never imagined, the pair is forced to navigate the treacherous waters of American politics together. Honorable Profession: A Novel of American Politics is a compelling, hopeful story of a cynical former Secret Service agent and his idealistic daughter as they follow a longshot candidate into the perilous arena of presidential politics. After resigning from his agency under an ethical cloud, 46-year-old Dan Cahill commits himself to rebuilding his relationship with Megan, the college-aged daughter in Las Vegas he has long neglected. She persuades a reluctant Cahill to join the student-led campaign of a popular professor competing in the Nevada presidential primary against impossible odds. As they face powerful forces conspiring to clear the field, Cahill's deep-seated disdain for electoral politics collides with Megan's higher ideals. Each of their faiths are tested by political allies and adversaries, all desperate for victory, no matter the costs. Crafted by award-winning author Andy Kutler, Honorable Profession is an absorbing, modern-day political drama filled with authentic and indelible characters, each struggling with their own loyalties and principles as they duel with unscrupulous rivals and the meaning of public service.