“Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades’ bravery.”—Publishers Weekly Look for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix! They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe—an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, Dick Winters was their legendary commander. This is his story—told in his own words for the first time. On D-Day, Winters assumed leadership of the Band of Brothers when its commander was killed and led them through the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany—by which time each member had been wounded. Based on Winters’s wartime diary, Beyond Band of Brothers also includes his comrades’ untold stories. Virtually none of this material appeared in Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers. Neither a protest against nor a glamorization of war, this is a moving memoir by the man who earned the love and respect of the men of Easy Company—and who is a hero to new generations worldwide. Includes photos
Using a clear and practical framework, real-life experiences and back-of-the-napkin drawings based on years of leadership experience at the prestigious Mayo Clinic, You're the Leader. Now What? helps new and more seasoned leaders develop an organization that responds effectively to emerging challenges and threats, while reducing employee burnout and boosting satisfaction. Your colleagues are seated around the table, all looking at you as you arrive in the conference room. They disagree on what factors to consider and how to proceed. You decide it's critical to rely on your own extensive expertise to carry your team forward. Only your directives fall flat, your colleagues are even more disgruntled, and the way forward is muddier than ever. In You're the Leader. Now What?, Richard Winters, Mayo Clinic emergency physician, executive coach, and director of leadership development for the Mayo Clinic Care Network, explores the dangers of embracing the role of heroic expert in making decisions. Using a clear and practical framework, real-life experiences and back-of-the-napkin drawings, You're the Leader. Now What? shows how to leverage the emotional intelligence and collective strengths of your team to create an effective and successful way forward. Instead of telling everyone what to do, you'll develop a leadership style that responds effectively to emerging challenges and threats, while reducing employee burnout and boosting satisfaction. This book of Leadership 101 lessons from the world-renowned Mayo Clinic will help you lead when have no clear answer, when the processes and checklists put in place are inadequate, and when all eyes are on you, asking, "Now what?
Terry Winters’s work of the past decade weaves disparate strains of idea, object, and physical operations into the primary logic of his art. His art contains an astonishing array of forms and demonstrates the equally surprising breadth of his artistic language. This retrospective volume continues where the mid-career survey (1992) at the Whitney Museum concluded, presenting the past decade of Winters’s innovative work in paintings, prints, drawings, and artists’ books. Terry Winters presents the ways in which the artist creates sets and subsets of distinctive works that interact with bodies of previous and current work. Also included are images by the artist that have not previously been exhibited or published. Winters’s work is frequently included in conversations and studies relating to the interplay of art and science, and his recent paintings, drawings, and prints reflect his engagement with scientific and computational systems of thought and presentations of information. For Winters, abstract art has become a vehicle not for “reproducing and inventing form but for harnessing forces.” By utilizing expressive means, “data becomes pictorial and spatial.” This superbly illustrated volume displays the full range of Winters’s newest works and the complex relationships that link them to one another.
Manhattan Detective Thomas Francis Whelan, a.k.a. "the Jesuit," is a veteran NYPD police detective who spends a good amount of his free time in prayer, most often at St. Patrick's Cathedral. He is an unassuming man who does his best to maintain a state of grace. His reward for this prayerful diligence comes in the form of unusual insights, psychic in nature, that tend to arrive in obscure yet inescapable patterns of thought. It is a gift he has learned not to ignore. In this story of suspense, the Jesuit is confronted with several particularly brutal murders taking place in Central Park. The newspapers have already dubbed them, "The Dismemberment Murders." Unfortunately for the Jesuit, his exceptional gift never seems to come without a price, never fails to exact its toll. Too often, he is unsure if it even flows from the Spirit at all-or if his more human nature might be getting in the way, obscuring the truth. In this novel of tempo and pace, his deadly dance may ultimately become only too mortal an experience for the Jesuit.
Winter blankets the wreckage of the world. In the snow-covered ruins, four children scavenge for supplies to feed their dwindling group of survivors. Four, because Ian is gone – captured or killed by the mechanical death squads that hunt them all. SAM, his robotic guardian angel, has left as well. And without Ian, without his optimism, the survivors are losing hope. Until, one day, they recover the electronic device that their friend had built to communicate with SAM...
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