The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough tim...(展开全部)

As the only person to rise from entry-level analyst to Director of the CIA and to serve on the White House staffs of four Presidents, Robert Gates is uniquely qualified to tell the unprecedented inside story of the Cold War. Drawing on his access to classified information and top-level involvement in policy decisions, Gates lays bare the hidden wars and operations the United St...(展开全部)

罗伯特•M.盖茨 1943年出生。他被誉为“改变五角大楼的八朝元老”、冷战后美国军政界“活化石”、美国政坛“不倒翁”。1966年，他加入中情局，成为一名苏联问题分析师。1974-1979年，进入美国国家安全委员会工作，期间先后经历了尼克松、福特和卡特三位总统执政。1979年之后盖茨回到中情局，得到当时的局长凯西的提拔重用，历掌要职。1991年11月，老布什总统提名他接掌中情局，1993年1月，随着老布什总统任期结束，盖茨卸去中情局局长职务。卸任后，他曾在2002年担任德克萨斯农工大学校长。2006年，在伊拉克局势面临失控、阿富汗战争局势持续恶化等大背景下，盖茨受命于危难之中，出任国防部长。2008年，奥巴马当选美国总统后，盖茨继续留任执掌五角大楼，2011年离任，是美国历史上唯一任期跨越总统换届并同时跨越两党的元老。

As the only person to rise from entry-level analyst to Director of the CIA and to serve on the White House staffs of four Presidents, Robert Gates is uniquely qualified to tell the unprecedented inside story of the Cold War. Drawing on his access to classified information and top-level involvement in policy decisions, Gates lays bare the hidden wars and operations the United St...(展开全部)

罗伯特•M.盖茨 1943年出生。他被誉为“改变五角大楼的八朝元老”、冷战后美国军政界“活化石”、美国政坛“不倒翁”。1966年，他加入中情局，成为一名苏联问题分析师。1974-1979年，进入美国国家安全委员会工作，期间先后经历了尼克松、福特和卡特三位总统执政。1979年之后盖茨回到中情局，得到当时的局长凯西的提拔重用，历掌要职。1991年11月，老布什总统提名他接掌中情局，1993年1月，随着老布什总统任期结束，盖茨卸去中情局局长职务。卸任后，他曾在2002年担任德克萨斯农工大学校长。2006年，在伊拉克局势面临失控、阿富汗战争局势持续恶化等大背景下，盖茨受命于危难之中，出任国防部长。2008年，奥巴马当选美国总统后，盖茨继续留任执掌五角大楼，2011年离任，是美国历史上唯一任期跨越总统换届并同时跨越两党的元老。

From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization. Given unprecedented access to one of the world’s busiest airports as a “writer-in-residence,” Alain de Botton found it to be a showcase for many of the major crosscurrents of the modern world—from o...(展开全部)

Tim O'Brien's modern classic that reset our understanding of fiction, nonfiction, and the way they can work together, as well as our understanding of the Vietnam war and its consequences, The Things They Carried now has well over a million copies in print.

蒂姆·奥布莱恩，美国作家。生于美国明尼苏达州沃辛顿，1968年毕业于圣保罗的麦卡莱斯特学院。1966至1970年，他作为步兵在越南服役。战后，他在哈佛大学攻读政府学研究生课程，后担任《华盛顿邮报》的国家事务记者。现居于马萨诸塞。 奥布莱恩的作品主要反映他在越战中的经历以及战争给美国士兵带来的巨大影响。1979年，《追寻卡奇亚托》荣获美国国家图书奖。1994年《湖畔迷网》被《纽约时报书评》评为年度最佳图书，亦被《时代周刊》评为年度最佳小说。1998年，《恋爱中的雄猫》一经出版立刻成为全美畅销书。

Amazon.com "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to." A finalist for both the...(展开全部)

Amazon.com "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to." A finalist for both the...(展开全部)