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Interviews from Featured Authors
This is our most popular section where we conduct interviews with featured authors. During these interviews, you will hear about their writing process, the value they place on reading, mistakes they made along the way, and lessons for a junior leader.
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At a time of extraordinary uncertainty and anxiety, we are all searching for ways to stay calm and keep despair at bay. In STOIC WISDOM: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience, Nancy Sherman draws on the wisdom of Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and others to bring ancient ideas to bear on 21st-century concerns.
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Former US Marine Craig Grossi and his dog Fred have appeared on the “Today Show’ and ‘Rachael Ray’, and in schools, bookstores, and military bases across America as they told the uplifting story of how Craig found Fred, a stray, while serving in Afghanistan–and brought him home.
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Artificial intelligence may be the most beneficial technological development of the twenty-first century, but it is often misunderstood outside of specialists in the field. AI at War provides a balanced and practical understanding of this dawning new technology, explaining the importance of machine learning, human-machine interfaces, and big data analysis, components that are often omitted or misunderstood.
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Airpower in the War against ISIS chronicles the planning and conduct of Operation Inherent Resolve by U.S. Central Command from August 2014 to mid-2018, with a principal focus on the contributions of U.S. Air Forces Central Command
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The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War. The Marine Nationale continued fighting after the Armistice, a service divided against itself.
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Three Ordinary Girls is the richly researched story of the young women whose acts of heroism represent the story of the Dutch resistance during World War II. Cinematically crafted and reconstructed by award-winning history author Tim Brady, the book paints a portrait of sisters and friends who cleverly wielded the only weapons at their disposal – wits, bravery, audacity, intelligence, and youth – to repeatedly undermine the Nazis and their Dutch collaborators.
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Make Every Step Count on Your Leadership Journey. How did American Military leaders in the brutal POW camps of North Vietnam inspire their followers for six, seven, or eight years to remain committed to the mission, resist a cruel enemy, and return home with honor? What leadership principles engendered such extreme devotion, perseverance, and teamwork?
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This emotional rollercoaster takes
the reader through Char and Jacques’ courtship, his training to
become a Navy SEAL, several combat deployments, his tragic death,
Char’s intense grief, her anger with God, and finally, the road to
healing, with God’s assistance.
Transition on Purpose is a personal story illustrating success, failure, and resilience. If you want to live a resilient life, Transition on Purpose will have you thinking differently, behaving differently, and doing life differently!
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All types of organizations, for profit, not-for-profit, lawful, and unlawful, must be relentless in highly competitive, and constantly evolving environments. Every day iconic brands like Sears, Kodak, and Blockbuster vanish. Managers in lawful companies face disruptive technologies, groundbreaking new products, and competition from new entrants.
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Sergeant First Class (SFC) Ryan Hendrickson is a brave, determined, and courageous soldier — a Green Beret clearing the way for his twelve-man team while conducting combat operations against the Taliban.
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The Mac McDowell Series is about the Officer-in-Charge of the Test Operations Group (TOG), a Top Secret Navy saturation diving team. He and his team of daredevil divers take on the might of the Soviet Union during the Cold War in harrowing underwater missions that challenge his team’s abilities to their limit and beyond.
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In this inspiring memoir, Jake recounts how, over the past 10 years, he and his team have recruited over 130,000 volunteers to his disaster response organization Team Rubicon. Racing against the clock, these veterans battle hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, pandemics, and civil wars, while rediscovering their life’s purpose along the way.
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