Denis: 1513 books

Napoleon called him “a Quixote who was not mad... a man who has a sacred fire in his soul.” President John Adams said his plan to liberate Spanish America was “as visionary as an excursion to the moon in a cart drawn by geese.” For 30 years the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda plotted to free...

In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held itsfirst annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai’s efforts to define and popularise...

Le Figaro : "Rythme échevelé, chapitres courts, dialogues incisifs, intrigues, rebondissements. (...) Difficile de ne pas s'attacher à ce héros à la mauvaise réputation, Tommaso MacDonnell, archéologue sous-marin, surendetté, au bord du divorce d'avec une femme aimante.(...) Les auteurs...

“ In compiling this brief history of Grand Prix racing, along with descriptions of the more successful cars, I have limited myself to the period since World War II as the present day Grand Prix cars are mostly derived from the development and design of the early post war years. Although many ideas...

Denis Gorman’s A Voyage to the Sea is an inspirational tale of following your dream, despite the set-backs that life can throw at you, and is delivered in a well-paced narrative that military historians and deep-water sailors will enjoy in equal measure.

United legends Denis Law and Pat Crerand tell their exclusive story of the years that followed the tragedy at munich - an outstanding decade in which United swept all before them in their quest to become the first English club to win the European Cup. 50 years later Law and Crerand give their personal...

The passagemaking bible updated to help you live your long-distance voyaging dreams First published in 1975, Robert Beebe’s Voyaging Under Power revolutionized long-distance cruising, encouraging powerboaters to enjoy what was once exclusive to sailboats and their crews: crossing oceans to...

The aim of this volume is to provide an extensive account of the most recent advances in statistics for discretely observed Lévy processes. These days, statistics for stochastic processes is a lively topic, driven by the needs of various fields of application, such as finance, the biosciences, and...

Business Ethics: Best Practices for Designing and Managing Ethical Organizations, Second Editionfocuses on how to create organizations of high integrity and superior performance. Author Denis Collins shows how to design organizations that reinforce ethical behavior and reduce ethical risks using his...

Now a billion dollar industry, executive coaching is one of the fastest-growing sections of the coaching market and is widely used by senior managers and chief executives in large organisations. In this accessible guide, fully updated for this second edition, Patricia Bossons, Jeremy Kourdi and Denis...

This book provides concise, straightforward, and easy-to-read information about the major components of estate planning – without going into endless detail about arcane options that apply only to the wealthy. Topics include: choosing beneficiaries estate planning by parents with minor children wills living...

When a tragic mountain-climbing accident left business professor Denis Shackel stranded on Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand, he turned to the leadership principles he’d been teaching for years to survive the longest night of his life. Alone, with temperatures plunging to -30 degrees Celsius,...

A clear and efficient balance between theory and application of statistical modeling techniques in the social and behavioral sciences Written as a general and accessible introduction, Applied Univariate, Bivariate, and Multivariate Statistics provides an overview of statistical modeling techniques...

Fruit d’un long processus, la fin du monopole occidental sur la puissance est une réalité largement admise. Symbole de cette remise en cause, le phénomène de l’« émergence » va bien au-delà des simples BRICS. Mais alors qu’un avenir radieux leur semblait promis, ces pays dits « émergents »...