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Author: Lavie Tidhar Publisher: Watkins Media Limited ISBN: 0857666045 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 415
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When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer - and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain. Fresh from liberating a strange alien object in Abyssinia - which might just be the mythical Ark of the Covenant - young Lucy Westerna, Holmes' protégé, must follow her own path to the truth while, on the other side of the world, a young Harry Houdini must face his greatest feat of escape - death itself. As their paths converge the body count mounts up, the entire world is under threat, and in a foreboding castle in the mountains of Transylvania a mysterious old man weaves a spider's web of secrets and lies. Airship battles, Frankenstein monsters, alien tripods and death-defying acts: The Great Game is a cranked-up steampunk thriller in which nothing is certain - not even death. And furthermore... venture deeper into the Lost Files of the Bookman Histories, as Professor Tidhar explores the "Dynamics of an Asteroid"! File Under: Steampunk [ End Of Days | Only The Beginning | The Ark | Insane Thrills ]
Author: Peter Hopkirk Publisher: John Murray ISBN: 1848544774 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 661
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For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India. This classic book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horse-traders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some never returned. The violent repercussions of the Great Game are still convulsing Central Asia today.
Author: Evgeny Sergeev Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN: 9781421415574 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Great Game sheds new light on Asia’s political influence on Russia at the turn of the twentieth century. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL The Great Game, 1856–1907 presents a new view of the British-Russian competition for dominance in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Evgeny Sergeev offers a complex and novel point of view by synthesizing official collections of documents, parliamentary papers, political pamphlets, memoirs, contemporary journalism, and guidebooks from unpublished and less studied primary sources in Russian, British, Indian, Georgian, Uzbek, and Turkmen archives. His efforts amplify our knowledge of Russia by considering the important influences of local Asian powers. Ultimately, this book disputes the characterization of the Great Game as a proto–Cold War between East and West. By relating it to other regional actors, Sergeev creates a more accurate view of the game’s impact on later wars and on the shape of post–World War I Asia.
Author: Jack Stack Publisher: ISBN: 9781781251539 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 375
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In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. Today it's one of the most successful and competitive companies in the United States, with a share price 3000 times what it was thirty years ago. This miracle turnaround is all down to one man, Jack Stack, and his revolutionary system of Open-Book Management, in which every employee understands the company's key figures, can act on them and has a real stake in the business. In Stack's own words: 'When employees think, act and feel like owners ... everybody wins.'As a management strategy, 'the great game of business' is so simple and effective that it's been taken up by companies from Intel to Harley Davidson.
Author: Lavie Tidhar Publisher: Watkins Media Limited ISBN: 0857666045 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 415
Book Description
When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer - and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain. Fresh from liberating a strange alien object in Abyssinia - which might just be the mythical Ark of the Covenant - young Lucy Westerna, Holmes' protégé, must follow her own path to the truth while, on the other side of the world, a young Harry Houdini must face his greatest feat of escape - death itself. As their paths converge the body count mounts up, the entire world is under threat, and in a foreboding castle in the mountains of Transylvania a mysterious old man weaves a spider's web of secrets and lies. Airship battles, Frankenstein monsters, alien tripods and death-defying acts: The Great Game is a cranked-up steampunk thriller in which nothing is certain - not even death. And furthermore... venture deeper into the Lost Files of the Bookman Histories, as Professor Tidhar explores the "Dynamics of an Asteroid"! File Under: Steampunk [ End Of Days | Only The Beginning | The Ark | Insane Thrills ]
Author: Burt Smith Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 059545772X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 122
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The Great Game of Networking will help anyone from any experience level be more confident, more effective, more professional, and more successful at networking. As implied by the title, the author believes networking, and business in general, should be fun, and that what keeps it from being fun is often a lack of the skills needed to "play" at a professional level. It approaches what many consider a very challenging undertaking with a set of quickly grasped, easily applied techniques that can provide immediate returns. This straightforward book can be read and implemented in the same day! The author is an accomplished networking professional whose eagerness to share what he has learned comes through in a conversational, coaching tone. The Great Game of Networking provides strategies for both the novice getting started and an advanced section to help those who have been networking for any amount of time leverage their efforts. Guaranteed!
Author: Robert Thompson Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1546204717 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 460
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Stan, handsome, six feet two inches tall, with dark-brown hair and piercing blue eyes, and neighbor Pete, six feet, 180 pounds, met in scouting at twelve and became brothers in spirit. Their intertwined lives and adventures carry them through college and beyond. Their high school friend Butch leads them astray, but they are redeemed when they meet again at Quanticos CIA training and SEAL training facilities. They are paired in CIA mission assignments. They are EMT noncombatants in Iraq and Iran. Their last assignment is in Afghanistan at which time they are separatedButch is assigned to Damascus and Stan in Kabul. They are in reality espionage agents (spies). Stan sacrifices everything to fulfill his most dangerous secret assignment to infiltrate the highest level of opposition. In the process, physical requirement to ingratiate himself turns into emotional commitment, and he is caught in the trap of his own making. The subject of his surveillance is Prince Mohammed, whose illegitimate brother, Sayed, frees him from Taliban imprisonment. And there begins the beginning of the end.
Author: Tim Kurkjian Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0312362234 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 267
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ESPNUs Kurkjian combines his years of experience, uncanny knowledge, and deep love of the game to create a book filled with fascinating insight into Major League Baseball.
Author: Pamela Morgan Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 1452586500 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 30
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Journey back before time began to discover how the very first Angels came to be. Explore with the playful pixies as they invent and play the greatest game ever. This tale includes a beautifully illustrated Find the Angels game so your child can see how many they can discoverand then see how many Angels they can identify in their own life!
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