Preparing For Power
Title | Preparing For Power PDF eBook |
Author | Peter W Cookson Jr |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2008-08-04 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0786724161 |
Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep–school life and underlife.
Preparing for Power
Title | Preparing for Power PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Cookson (W., Jr) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1985 |
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Preparing for Power
Title | Preparing for Power PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Tambo |
Publisher | George Braziller |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
This unique collection of speeches, writings and rare interviews by the President of the African National Congress, with a foreword by Nelson Mandela, and compiled by Mrs Adelaide Tambo, both within South Africa and on a world-wide scale, over three decades. For much of this time Oliver Tambo had been the movement's leading spokesman.
Military Air Power in Europe Preparing for War
Title | Military Air Power in Europe Preparing for War PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Ridley |
Publisher | Air World |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2023-01-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1399066870 |
The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare. Battle fronts had become immobilized in the grip of machine-guns and heavy artillery, leading to slaughter on an unprecedented scale. The end of the war saw exhausted governments extricating themselves from the carnage, but some leaders were concerned that, sooner or later, another major war would follow. As France’s Marshal Foch put it, the Treaty of Versailles was only a ‘twenty-year truce’. The overriding concern was to find ways in future of avoiding the kind of static battle fronts that had consumed so many in such futile efforts. Military aviation was seen as the one great innovation that had the potential to do this by revolutionizing warfare. It would not only augment the effectiveness of ground forces in a tactical role, but it also had the means of reaching out strategically beyond the battlefronts to strike at the enemy’s trade, supplies, communications and industrial production. All through the war, military aviation had been firmly under the control of army commanders but there was soon a fierce debate over the way it should develop. The development of an ‘air doctrine’ within each of the major European powers was fraught with difficulty as the nascent air arms struggled, with varying degrees of success, to free themselves from army control to find a new, independent identity. This book examines the way in which these air arms competed for prominence within the military structures of six major European nations – Germany, Britain, France, Soviet Union, Poland and Italy – with different resources, ambitions and philosophies, in the years from the beginning of aviation right up to the start of the Second World War.
Power
Title | Power PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1280 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Machinery |
ISBN |
People Get Ready!
Title | People Get Ready! PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Berry |
Publisher | OR Books |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2019-05-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1682191982 |
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour stands on the brink of power, promising a fundamental re-ordering of British politics. But what, in practice, will this entail? How can a radical government stand up to an establishment that is hostile to any significant redistribution of wealth and power? People Get Ready!dives into the nitty gritty of what’s needed to bring about transformative change. Unlike a decade ago, the left’s problem is no longer a shortage of big ideas. Inside and outside the Labour Party, an agenda for new forms of public and community ownership is taking shape. Today the biggest danger facing the left is lack of preparedness—the absence of strategies that can make these ideas a reality. People Get Ready! draws on previous attempts at radical change, from the election of Labour at the end of the Second World War and the progressive early days of Mitterrand’s presidency in France, to Tony Benn’s battles with Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher’s icy insistence that there was no alternative to free markets. These stories highlight the importance of knowing your allies and, even more, your enemies, of being ready to deal with sabotage and resistance from the highest levels, of being bold enough to transform the structures of government, and of having a mass movement that can both support the leadership and hold it to its radical programme when the going gets tough. Remarkably, democratic socialism in Britain is closer to government than in any other European country. The responsibilities this brings for those supporting the Corbyn project are as great as the opportunities it presents. But there isn’t much time to get ready …
Preparing the Ground for Renewal of Nuclear Power
Title | Preparing the Ground for Renewal of Nuclear Power PDF eBook |
Author | Behram N. Kursunogammalu |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1461546796 |
This conference proceedings explores issues surrounding the replacement of existing nuclear power plants when they reach the end of their useful life. Topics covered include: Nuclear competitiveness regarding politics and power plant evolution; social acceptance regarding communication, information, waste, and safety proliferation; and durability regarding resources and effects on the environment.