David M : 1401 books
Spectre Gunner
The Ac-130 Gunship
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
This is the true story of Master Sergeant David M. Burns, an aerial gunner assigned to the deadliest squadron in air force history. Aboard the AC-130 Spectre gunship, he flew a total of 287 combat missions over Laos, South Vietnam, and Cambodia, in pursuit of the truck traffic coming down the Ho Chi...
Mania
The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
By the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his life. A two-year stint in a reformatory...
Die Ausschuettungspolitik europaeischer Unternehmen
Eine empirische Untersuchung
Language: German
Release Date: April 30, 2015
David Müller untersucht in seinem Buch die Ausschüttungspolitik börsennotierter Unternehmen der Länder Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Italien und Spanien. Nach einer Aufarbeitung grundlegender Literatur aus Theorie und Empirie beschreibt der Autor zunächst die Entwicklung der Ausschüttungspolitik...
After the Trade Is Made, Revised Ed.
Processing Securities Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
The fully updated classic guide to the mechanics of securities processing—a must for professional investors
This third edition of After the Trade Is Made reflects the changes that have taken place in recent years as a result of new products, technological breakthroughs, and the globalization...
Delivering on the Promise
How to Attract, Manage, and Retain Human Capital
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
Business has long struggled with the notion of "human capital," but do companies really know the value of their people? All too frequently, companies lay off thousands of workers to boost share price while, at the same time, their annual reports promise that "people are our greatest...
Of Dice and Men
The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The Lord of the Rings meets Moneyball in this unique and authoritative book on Dungeons & Dragons—from the game’s origins through its rise to cultural prominence, and its ripple effect on popular culture today.
Even if you’ve never played Dungeons & Dragons, you probably know someone...
The Judge
26 Machiavellian Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
There is no book of political strategy more canonical than Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, but few ethicists would advise policymakers to treat it as a bible. The lofty ideals of the law, especially, seem distant from the values that the word "Machiavellian" connotes, and judges are supposed to...
Fast Company
A Memoir of Life, Love, and Motorcycles in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
It's the thick of the mid-1990s boom, and David M. Gross is racking up billable hours for a Manhattan corporate law firm and thinking that there must be more to life. Out of the blue, a friend calls with a tantalizing and risky proposal: How would he feel about moving to Bologna to help turn around...
Misadventures in Tuscany
The Casebook of an Accident-Prone Tourist
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
David M. Addison provides a refreshing, alternative perspective in travel writing. A bit like Mr Bean on holiday, picking up the wrong piece of luggage at the airport is just the first in a series of misadventures which bedevil the author and his long-suffering wife on this ill-starred trip to Tuscany....
The Noble Room
The Inspired Conception and Tumultuous Creation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
"When I finished Unity Temple, I had it. I knew I had the beginning of a great thing, a great truth in architecture." —Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright's design for Unity Temple was radical in its simplicity—a monolithic concrete exterior—yet sublime in its detail and revolutionary...
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by Colonel David M Glantz
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
[Includes 36 maps and 10 tables]
Deep battle, a major element in both U.S. and Soviet doctrine, is a tenet that emphasizes destroying, suppressing, or disorganizing enemy forces not only at the line of contact, but throughout the depth of the battlefield. Airborne forces are a primary instrument...
by David M. Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians. This view of the Athenians misplaced...
by David M. Gwynn
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate the ancient Mediterranean. Led by her senatorial aristocracy, Republican armies defeated Carthage and...
Freedom from Fear:The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity....