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Into the Fire
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the enemy was positioned to wipe out one hundred men who were pinned down and were repeatedly refused artillery support. Ordered to remain behind with the vehicles, twenty-one year-old Marine corporal Dakota Meyer disobeyed orders and attacked to rescue his comrades. With a brave driver at the wheel, Meyer stood in the gun turret exposed to withering fire, rallying Afghan tr...
Selected Writings of Richard McKeon, Volume Two
Richard McKeon was a philosopher of extraordinary creativity who brought profoundly original ideas to bear on more standard ways of thinking and learning. A classicist, medievalist, and revolutionary intellectual, he fashioned an approach to philosophy as a plural conversation among varied traditions of thought, epochs, and civilizations. This second volume of McKeon's selected works demonstrates his approach to inquiry and practice in culture, education, and the arts. Together, the writings in this book show how McKeon reinvented the ancient arts of rhetoric, grammar, logic, and dialectic for the new circumstances of a global culture. In essays on creation and criticism, for instance, rhetoric is distinguished from grammar and shown to be the master art of invention, judgment, and pluralistic interpretation. Writings on themes of culture, meanwhile, explore the self-invention of mankind as justification for the arts, the development of the humanities, and the organization of the sciences. In the closing essays on education and philosophy, McKeon considers the implications of his ideas for the future of the liberal arts and higher learning.
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The Spirit of Leadership
During a mountain war, a young commando stealthily climbs up a steep mountain cliff in the freezing cold night. He is in the moment which is to turn the direction of the war. Even though he was the junior-most in his battalion, the General had made him lead the mission. In him rested hopes of his General and the hopes of his buddies. A young man returns to his village in the Western Ghats of India. The villagers are suffering from poverty, hunger, scarcity, famine, and hopelessness. He is their only hope, and their promise for a future. A scientist gives this idea to the world that space is bent and that there are holes in it. He dares to challenge the entire human belief, but still they believed in him and revered him. They all hoped he was right. How does leadership connect a soldier, a social reformer, and a scientist? What is that scintillating spirit in these people that earns them the solid devotion of their followers? The Spirit of Leadership takes you on a journey of understanding leadership...
Unconventional Success
The bestselling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management, the definitive template for institutional fund management, returns with a book that shows individual investors how to manage their financial assets. In Unconventional Success, investment legend David F. Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual fund industry consistently fails the average investor. From excessive management fees to the frequent "churning" of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profits by mutual fund management companies harms individual clients. Perhaps most destructive of all are the hidden schemes that limit investor choice and reduce returns, including "pay-to-play" product-placement fe...
