Garrett nolan (105 resultados)
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Hanging Loose 62
Hershon, Robert; Lourie, Dick; Pawlak, Mark; Shreiber, Ron; Jarrett, Emmett; Aguero, Kathleen; Alexie, Sherman; Anderson, Jack; Bakowski, Peter; Berrigan, Edmund; Boe, Deborah; Broughton, James; Elliot, Nancy Miller; Ferguson, Judith; Furhman, Joanna; Garrett, Nancy Fales; Halsted, Isabella; Hillringhouse, Mark; Ignatow, David; Jones, John;Kasischke, Laura; Kaminsky, Marc; Nolan, Pat; North, Charles; Pawlak, Mark; Rankin, Rush; Schrader, Steven; Taylor, Keith; Topp, Mike; Wachtel, Chuck; Waksler, Norman; Aiken, Chris; Cortese, Christina; Ganesh, Chitra; Kaplan, Joy; Kompatzki, Anuschka; Kramer, Karen; Moreno, Christina; Shapiro, Samantha; Sollors, David Morgan; Vargas, Michelle; Waters, Jacqueline; et al
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, New York, 1993
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Librería: Village Works, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de AmericaVillage Works
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Añadir al carritoSoft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. ISSN # 0440-2316. From the collection of Robert Hershon.
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Librería: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, Estados Unidos de AmericaR Bookmark
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Infinity Science Fiction August 1958 (Vol. 3, No. 6)
Randall Garrett,Charles L. Fontenay,William F. Nolan,Robert Silverberg
Editorial: Royal Publications, 1958
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Librería: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, Estados Unidos de AmericaBooks From California
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Editorial: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 2000
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Librería: Booksavers of Virginia, Harrisonburg, VA, Estados Unidos de AmericaBooksavers of Virginia
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Librería: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, Reino UnidoRia Christie Collections
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Más imágenesMen & Malice
Dean Dickensheet (editor); Richard Deming, Randall Garrett, Joe Gores, Dana Lyon, William F. Nolan, Ray Russell, Jessamyn West, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, others
Editorial: Doubleday, 1973
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Librería: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, Estados Unidos de AmericaMy Book Heaven
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Añadir al carritodj. First Edition. First Edition. Tanning to the first page from a news clipping (still enclosed). Also with the flyer originally released with the book. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The most sophisticated financial plan is ultimately incomplete if it fails to answer one foundational question: what is the money actually for Beyond portfolio optimization, savings rates, and net worth calculations lies a deeper discipline - the d…eliberate alignment of financial resources with the experiences, relationships, and pursuits that constitute a genuinely fulfilling life. Money, treated purely as an accumulation target, becomes a tool unused for its highest purpose.This book examines the emerging financial philosophy of life-centered money management - a framework that repositions personal finance not as a system for deferring gratification indefinitely, but as a precision instrument for designing a life of sustained meaning and intentional experience. Drawing on behavioral economics, life satisfaction research, and the growing body of evidence that experiential spending generates significantly higher and more durable well-being than material acquisition, it explores how individuals can restructure their financial decisions to maximize return on life rather than return on capital alone.This is not an argument against financial discipline - it is an argument for its elevation. The most effective financial architects are those who define 'enoughness' with clarity, align spending with deeply held values, and deploy capital toward experiences that compound in memory, relationships, and personal growth rather than merely in portfolio statements. Wealth without design is simply deferred spending; wealth with purpose becomes the architecture of a life well lived.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Between 2020 and 2021, Fort Bragg - home to the United States Army's most elite special operations units, including Delta Force - recorded 109 fatalities, the highest death toll of any American military installation during that period. An investiga…tion by Iraq war veteran and journalist Seth Harp found that behind those numbers lay a web of unexplained killings, suspected drug trafficking networks, and alleged law enforcement complicity stretching from the base itself into the supply chains of international narcotics cartels. What began as a murder inquiry became an excavation of institutional rot.The Fort Bragg cases are not aberrations. Across the American military, elite soldiers have leveraged their training, operational security knowledge, and logistical access to embed themselves within criminal networks of extraordinary reach. A Green Beret trained at Bragg was convicted of trafficking narcotics with the Sinaloa cartel across the Arizona border. A Fort Bragg career counselor - twenty years in post - was convicted of recruiting soldiers directly into cartel employment and trafficking methamphetamine. Delta Force operator Phillip Lanning, arrested on six felony charges and still retained on active duty, admitted to using his surveillance and operational security training to serve as bodyguard, enforcer, and intelligence asset for major drug trafficking organizations operating in North Carolina. In each case, the culture of silence and elite-unit loyalty that defines special operations - assets in combat - became liabilities in accountability.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Every nation requires a founding story, and America chose the West. The frontier became the crucible of national identity - a landscape of rugged individualism, heroic lawmen, noble pioneers, and providential destiny stretching toward a Pacific hor…izon. Dime novels fed it. Paintings glorified it. Buffalo Bill staged it for European royalty in traveling shows that reduced a century of dispossession and bloodshed to choreographed spectacle. The myth of the American West was not an accident of culture - it was a construction, built with intention, maintained with repetition, and deployed to make palatable what the historical record, examined honestly, cannot easily bear.The violence that accompanied westward expansion was neither incidental nor exceptional. It was policy. The massacres at Sand Creek in 1864 and Wounded Knee in 1890 were not rogue events perpetrated by renegade soldiers - they were the logical extension of federal directives that defined Indigenous resistance as a military problem requiring military solutions. Vigilante justice on the frontier operated in a legal vacuum that served the interests of land speculators and cattle barons. The gunfighter mythology that celebrated figures like Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid obscured the economic and racial structures of violence that produced them - men who were less romantic outlaws than symptoms of a frontier society in which the law was selectively applied and lethal force was the primary instrument of order.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Annual planning is one of the most widely adopted and structurally flawed conventions in modern business execution. The human brain cannot sustain genuine urgency, focus, or motivational coherence across a twelve-month horizon - and so the year bec…omes a psychological fiction in which procrastination is normalized, priorities drift, and meaningful output is perpetually deferred to a future quarter that never quite arrives. The twelve-week cycle dismantles this dysfunction at its root by compressing the planning and execution year into a discrete, high-urgency window where every week carries the weight of a month and every day of deliberate action compounds toward a measurable outcome.This book examines the structural and psychological mechanics of twelve-week execution cycles as developed by Brian Moran and Michael Lennington in The 12 Week Year framework, and extends their application into team performance, organizational strategy, and professional output multiplication. It explores how periodization - the division of annual ambition into four focused cycles - activates the deadline effect, accelerates learning feedback loops, and creates the kind of predictable, measurable execution rhythm that annual planning structurally prevents. Research confirms that over 80% of practitioners who implement the system report multiplying their results fivefold within just two cycles.Beyond the mechanics of goal compression and weekly scorekeeping, this book addresses the organizational and behavioral disciplines required to sustain twelve-week execution at scale - from vision alignment and goal specificity to weekly accountability rhythms and end-of-cycle strategic resets. When individuals and teams internalize the twelve-week year as their primary planning architecture, the year does not shrink - it multiplies. Four focused cycles, executed with discipline and measured with precision, consistently produce more than twelve undifferentiated months of effort ever could.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - There is a place inside every life where what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what sustains you quietly converge. The Japanese call it ikigai - a reason to rise, a reason to remain, a reason to keep going even when the day…s grow long or uncertain.This book explores that intersection not as a destination to be found once and kept forever, but as a living quality - something sensed in small moments, ordinary rituals, and the gentle awareness of being exactly where one belongs. It invites readers to move away from the modern urgency of optimizing their lives and toward the older, quieter practice of inhabiting them.Research consistently shows that those who carry a clear sense of purpose tend to live longer, experience less anxiety and depression, and navigate difficulty with greater resilience. But this book is not about the science alone. It is about the felt experience of meaning - what it is like to wake up with a reason, to work with care, to age without dread, and to sense that one's life, however ordinary, is woven into something larger than the self.Drawing from the wisdom of ikigai as understood in everyday Japanese life - particularly among the long-lived communities of Okinawa - this book reflects on what it means to stay curious, connected, and alive to one's calling across all seasons of life. It does not tell you what your ikigai is. It invites you into the stillness where you might begin to recognize it yourself.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Every founder who builds a company eventually faces two defining challenges: how to scale without breaking what works, and how to exit without leaving value on the table. These two moments - scaling and exiting - are among the most consequential in… an entrepreneur's journey, yet they are also the stages where critical mistakes are most frequently made and least readily forgiven.This book examines the structural, financial, and strategic dimensions of both phases with disciplined clarity. On the scaling side, it addresses the most common traps that derail growing companies: premature expansion before product-market fit is consolidated, hiring ahead of revenue, building on fragile technical infrastructure, and falling into the capability trap of working harder rather than building smarter systems. It offers frameworks for scaling with intentionality - where each growth decision is anchored in operational readiness, not external pressure or internal enthusiasm.On the exit side, the book explores the full landscape of exit options - from acquisitions and mergers to management buyouts and IPOs - and examines why the majority of founders exit poorly, not from lack of ambition, but from inadequate preparation. Around 90% of startups never achieve meaningful exits, with M&A accounting for 43% of successful transitions against a mere 6% reaching IPO. Early exit planning, stakeholder alignment, clean financials, and a compelling business narrative are not luxuries - they are the prerequisites of a well-executed transition.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The mind, like the body, thrives when it is gently and consistently challenged. Not pushed to exhaustion, not left to idle - but engaged with the kind of purposeful, pleasurable activity that sharpens attention, strengthens memory, and quietly remi…nds us that thinking can still be a joy, regardless of age or circumstance.This book explores the underestimated power of large print puzzles as a meaningful form of daily mental stimulation. It invites readers - particularly those for whom small print has become a barrier rather than a bridge - to rediscover the deep satisfaction of a crossword solved, a word search completed, or a Sudoku grid finally resolved. Not as a competitive exercise, but as a gentle, screen-free ritual of cognitive care.The evidence is quietly compelling: regular puzzle engagement supports vocabulary, concentration, working memory, and logical reasoning - and one landmark study in the Alzheimer's and Dementia Journal found that consistent puzzle solving was linked to an average delay of 2.5 years in the onset of cognitive decline. Large print formats remove the physical friction that often discourages older adults from engaging regularly, making the cognitive benefits genuinely accessible rather than merely theoretical. What accessibility enables, habit sustains - and what habit sustains, the mind rewards.It explores the distinct cognitive benefits of each puzzle type: crosswords for language skills and vocabulary retrieval, word searches for sustained attention and pattern recognition, and Sudoku for working memory and logical processing. Together, these three form a quietly powerful trifecta of mental exercise - low pressure, deeply satisfying, and available to anyone willing to sit down with a pencil and a page. For those seeking a meaningful, enjoyable way to care for their mind in the second half of life, these pages offer both encouragement and a place to begin.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Team cohesion is not the product of shared meals, off-site retreats, or carefully worded values statements - it is the product of psychological safety: the shared belief among team members that the environment is genuinely safe for interpersonal ri…sk-taking, honest dialogue, and the kind of productive vulnerability that high performance demands. Google's Project Aristotle identified psychological safety as the single most important factor distinguishing high-performing teams from average ones - outranking talent, seniority, and individual skill combined. When people feel safe, they contribute more fully, challenge ideas more constructively, admit mistakes more readily, and collaborate with the depth and trust that cohesive cultures are built upon.This book examines the leadership disciplines required to build and sustain psychological safety as the foundational architecture of team culture - drawing on Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson's four-stage safety model, McKinsey's research on consultative and supportive leadership, and the emerging neuroscience of trust and belonging in organizational settings. It explores the five core leadership competency domains - social, emotional, communicative, cognitive, and organizational - that research identifies as essential for co-creating psychologically safe environments through daily leader-employee interactions. Psychological safety is not a structural policy - it is a relationally constructed climate, built or eroded through every conversation a leader chooses to have or avoid.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book explores the Stoic perspective on anxiety and difficult emotions as invitations to deeper self-understanding rather than problems to fix. It gently illuminates how emotions signal what matters to us, encouraging readers to pause and liste…n with compassion. Through reflections on focusing within one's sphere of influence, embracing the present moment, and cultivating inner steadiness, it offers a reflective companion for navigating life's uncertainties. The emphasis is on developing a kinder relationship with one's inner experience, fostering resilience through self-awareness rather than forceful change.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Stalin's terror did not only arrest individuals - it dismembered families. When the NKVD came for a father, the machinery of the Soviet state followed with calculated precision: wives were sentenced to five to eight years in forced labor camps, and… children as young as eighteen months were seized and placed in state orphanages, ordered to be monitored for 'anti-Soviet sentiments.' In less than one year of the Great Terror alone, over 15,000 children were sent to orphanages when their parents disappeared into the Gulag. For these families, the horror was not a single event - it was a structured unraveling, engineered step by step by the state.This book enters that unraveling through the intimate record of family experience - the letters sent from the transit trains, the mothers who hid their pregnancies in camp barracks, the children born behind wire who met their fathers only as strangers. It draws on the testimony of survivors like Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, whose father was executed in the purges, whose mother died by suicide in prison, and who was himself arrested and sent to the Gulag as a young husband - only to return and find his wife had remarried. These are not exceptional cases. They are the grammar of an era, repeated in millions of variations across the Soviet Union from 1937 onward.Children who survived the camp orphanages carried a particular silence into adulthood - labeled units, the children of 'enemies of the people,' they were taught to feel like criminals for the act of loving their parents. Those born inside the camps were taken from their mothers at age two and transferred to state institutions, entering a world in which teachers were forbidden to show them affection for fear of appearing sympathetic to the condemned. What the Gulag destroyed was not merely freedom - it was the language of family itself, the capacity to belong to someone without that belonging becoming a crime.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Congo became one of the most profitable territories in the colonial world precisely because human life there was treated as expendable. Behind the language of civilization and humanitarian progress stood a system designed to maximize the extrac…tion of rubber and ivory through terror, coercion, and relentless quotas.This book examines the economic machinery of the Congo Free State under the personal rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. Armed colonial agents enforced production demands across vast regions where local communities were compelled into labor through hostage-taking, violence, and starvation. Entire villages became tied to global industrial demand for rubber during the rapid expansion of modern manufacturing.The narrative also documents the methods of punishment used to maintain control. Amputations, executions, and collective reprisals formed part of a broader structure intended to enforce obedience through fear. Population collapse followed as disease, forced displacement, and systematic brutality spread throughout the region.Colonial exploitation appears here not as administrative failure or isolated cruelty, but as an economic system in which violence itself became infrastructure for imperial profit.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - There are days when the soul simply needs to be reminded that it is not alone - that beneath the weight of doubt, weariness, and quiet struggle, something steady and generous has always been present. Grace is that reminder. Not as reward, not as do…ctrine, but as the lived, daily experience of being held by a love that does not require earning.This book explores the gentle rhythm of returning - each morning, each evening, each ordinary moment - to the truth that grace is not something we find at the end of our efforts, but the very ground beneath them. It invites readers to sit with short, honest reflections that do not demand theological expertise or spiritual perfection, only a willingness to pause and receive.Drawing from the deep wells of scripture and lived faith, these pages offer what devotionals like New Morning Mercies and Grace for the Moment have offered generations of readers - not answers to every question, but the quiet assurance that each new day begins with grace already present. That God's comfort is not conditional on how well yesterday went, or how prepared today feels.It explores how grace-based reflection differs from self-improvement language - how it does not ask you to be better, but invites you to be seen. For those who have felt spiritually tired, quietly ashamed, or simply in need of a soft place to land, these pages are a daily reminder that you are already known, already loved, and already enough in the eyes of the One who formed you.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Behind every modern European nation-state stood a classroom. This book uncovers how governments from the Napoleonic era through the Cold War used compulsory education not primarily to enlighten, but to forge loyal subjects, obedient soldiers, and p…roductive workers. It traces the curriculum wars over history textbooks in France, the Prussian drills designed to instill punctuality and deference, the role of boarding schools in cementing imperial rule across British colonies, and the systematic purging of teachers under fascist regimes. Drawing on school records, parliamentary debates, and the writings of educators who resisted or enforced these policies, the narrative reveals education as a quiet battlefield where the soul of each generation was contested. The book argues that the modern European classroom was never neutral-it was the primary instrument through which states taught their citizens who to obey, what to remember, and how to belong. Its legacy persists in every debate about patriotism in schools today.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The path from sovereign debt to national collapse has never been a sudden rupture - it is a slow architecture of miscalculation, denial, and deferred pain, repeated across centuries with remarkable consistency. When a government can no longer borro…w to repay its debts, it faces a sequence that history has made grimly familiar: it prints money, devalues its currency, inflates away the real value of what it owes, and watches living standards collapse as the cost is transferred, without consent or transparency, from the state onto the households least able to absorb it. Inflation, as economists from John Cochrane to Kenneth Rogoff have observed, is not merely an economic phenomenon - it is a form of sovereign default conducted in plain sight, dressed in the language of monetary policy rather than admitted as the political failure it invariably represents.The historical record is unambiguous in its patterns. Weimar Germany between 1921 and 1923 saw hyperinflation so severe that workers were paid twice daily and rushed to spend their wages before the next hour's devaluation erased their value - a collapse driven not by market accident but by a government that had financed the First World War entirely through debt and continued printing money as reparation obligations mounted. Argentina's recurring debt crises - in 1890, 1982, 1989, 2001, and again in subsequent decades - trace the same structural failure: fiscal deficits financed by external borrowing, debt denominated in foreign currency the state could not print, and the eventual disintegration of public trust in institutions whose credibility had been sacrificed, crisis by crisis, to short-term political survival. Zimbabwe's hyperinflation of 2008 - which reached an estimated 89.7 sextillion percent annually - demonstrated, at the most extreme scale, what occurs when monetary policy is entirely subordinated to political necessity and no institutional constraint remains to resist it.
