Beating Goliath

Author : Art Briles,Don Yaeger
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781466861305

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Beating Goliath by Art Briles,Don Yaeger Pdf

Beating Goliath is a memoir about overcoming loss and keeping faith by the innovative former head coach of the top ranked Baylor Bears college football team. Growing up in Rule, Texas, Art Briles learned at a young age the importance of hard work and faith from his parents. Soon that faith would be tested. On their way to see him play in a college football game, Briles' parents and aunt died in a car crash. This event shaped Briles into the man he is today. His father, Dennis, left him with a series of lessons. He taught his son that the world doesn't just hand you things, you have to earn them. And he taught him the influence that faith could have in his life. Briles put these lessons to work as a football coach, where he established his reputation for turning struggling teams into winners, from high school to the staff at Texas Tech to head coach at the University of Houston. Hired to coach Baylor in 2007, he was faced with a familiar task. Within three years, Briles led the Bears to their first bowl game in 15 years. Today, he instills those same lessons into his young players, helping them find a reason to excel. There are plenty of excuses for failure but Briles surrounds himself with people who are fearless when it comes to chasing success. That is one of the many lessons he imparts to his readers, with chapters that include: * God and the Teaching of Dennis Briles * Finding Your Passion * You Can Change Attitude, Not Talent * Passing in the Land of Earl Campbell * Everybody is a Captain Filled with dramatic football stories and lessons learned, this book will inspire and entertain.

Author : Jeffrey Record
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597973212

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Beating Goliath by Jeffrey Record Pdf

Beating Goliath examines the phenomenon of victories by the weak over the strong--more specifically, insurgencies that succeeded against great powers. Jeffrey Record reviews eleven insurgent wars from 1775 to the present and determines why the seemingly weaker side won. He concludes that external assistance correlates more consistently with insurgent success than any other explanation. He does not disparage the critical importance of will, strategy, and strong-side regime type or suggest that external assistance guarantees success. Indeed, in all cases, some combination of these factors is usually present. But Record finds few if any cases of unassisted insurgent victories except against the most decrepit regimes. Having identified the ingredients of insurgent success, Record examines the present insurgency in Iraq and whether the United States can win. In so doing, Record employs a comparative analysis of the Vietnam War and the Iraq War. He also identifies and assesses the influence of distinctive features of the American way of war on the U.S. forces' performance against the Iraqi insurgency. Make no mistake: insurgent victories are the exception, not the rule. But when David does beat Goliath, the consequences can be earth shattering and change the course of history. Jeffrey Record's persuasive logic and clear writing make this timely book a must read for scholars, policymakers, military strategists, and anyone interested in the Iraq War's outcome.

Author : Ellard Thomas MBA
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512706321

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Defeating Goliath by Ellard Thomas MBA Pdf

Destiny. Deliverance. Happiness. Love. Purpose. Success. God intends for you to achieve every desire, dream, or vision. He wants you to attain everything He placed in your heart or mind to pursue. The question then is, "How can I advance in my life when overwhelmed by so many obstacles or 'giants'?" Defeating Goliath exposes divine principles on how to slay the giants standing between you and your destiny. Drawing from David's astounding victory over Goliath, the book awakens the unstoppable and resilient power resting within you. If you're seeking to acquire the life God has for you, Defeating Goliath is your blueprint. The time-tested strategies inside will ensure your victory over each financial, physical, emotional or spiritual challenge that's facing you. Moreover, Defeating Goliath will help you achieve the destiny you've been waiting for.

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780316204385

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David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell Pdf

Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwellchallenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms—all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity. In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw—David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Unified operations (Military science)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133460373

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Joint Force Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666904703

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Goliath as Gentle Giant by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

In the Hebrew Bible and stories loyal to it, Goliath is the stereotypical giant of folklore: big, brash, violent, and dimwitted. Goliath as Gentle Giant sets out to rehabilitate the giant’s image by exploring the origins of the biblical behemoth, the limitations of the “underdog” metaphor, and the few sympathetic treatments of Goliath in popular media. What insights emerge when we imagine things from Goliath’s point of view? How might this affect our reading of the biblical account or its many retellings and interpretations? What sort of man was Goliath really? The nuanced portraits analyzed in this book serve as a catalyst to challenge readers to question stereotypes, reexamine old assumptions, and humanize the “other.”

Author : Scott Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317541707

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Private Security Companies during the Iraq War by Scott Fitzsimmons Pdf

This book explores the use of deadly force by private security companies during the Iraq War. The work focuses on and compares the activities of the US companies Blackwater and Dyncorp. Despite sharing several important characteristics, such as working for the same client (the US State Department) during the same time period, the employees of Blackwater fired their weapons far more often, and killed and seriously injured far more people in Iraq than their counterparts in DynCorp. In order to explain this disparity, the book undertakes the most comprehensive analysis ever attempted on the use of violence by the employees of these firms. Based on extensive empirical research, it offers a credible explanation for this difference: Blackwater maintained a relatively bellicose military culture that placed strong emphasis on norms encouraging its personnel to exercise personal initiative, proactive use of force, and an exclusive approach to security, which, together, motivated its personnel to use violence quite freely against anyone they suspected of posing a threat. Specifically, Blackwater’s military culture motivated its personnel to fire upon suspected threats more quickly, at greater distances, and with a greater quantity of bullets, and to more readily abandon the people they shot at when compared to DynCorp’s personnel, who maintained a military culture that encouraged far less violent behaviour. Utilizing the Private Security Company Violent Incident Dataset (PSCVID), created by the author in 2012, the book draws upon data on hundreds of violent incidents involving private security personnel in Iraq to identify trends in the behaviour exhibited by the employees of different firms. Based on this rich and original empirical data, the book provides the definitive study of contemporary private security personnel in the Iraq War. This book will be of much interest to students of the Iraq War, Private Security Companies, Military Studies, War and Conflict Studies and IR in general.

Author : Michael Kelch
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9798886541915

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Feelings of the Heart by Michael Kelch Pdf

Feelings of the heart comes from the feelings you have, happy days you have, sad days you have, exhilarating days, and you have awesome days, you have sad days. The poems inside this book speak to all of those feelings.

Author : Lawrence F. Holt
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460251126

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Goliath: the Giant of Palestine by Lawrence F. Holt Pdf

Uglier than Hugo’s Hunchback; more terrifying then Shelly’s Frankenstein and yet more affable then Steinbeck’s Lenny Small is Goliath: the Giant of Palestine. Not the renowned Old Testament villain but a child unwittingly manipulated into the rogue Goliath. While stopping short of suggesting another slinger on a grassy knoll is an intriguing skeptical dissecting of I Samuel’s telling of history’s most famous one-on-one battle. How and why the ancestors of present day Palestinians and Israelis came to struggle for the same land sheds new light on the argument of “Just whose land is it anyway?” Goliath, a seven-year-old boy trapped in the body of a fierce giant, endures many fantastic adventures at the hands of history’s greatest mariners, the Phoenician and ushered throughout the Mediterranean as pirate and circus attraction. The storyline returns to his homeland where his people continually clash with the Tribes of Israel. Initial terrorism, conspiracy, assassination and all-out war of this first Middle East conflict are accurately depicted and fueled by current headlines. Presented also is a tender love story of the granddaughter of the eminent biblical Ruth and a displaced Philistine. After all the necessary covenants are fulfilled a marriage takes place. Ten years of research based on historical evidence, biblical events and well-worn theories depicts the cultural, religious and technological differences of the two peoples.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : MSU:31293026189435

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Special Warfare by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medicine, Military
ISBN : MINN:31951P01181874M

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Journal of Special Operations Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Isabelle Duyvesteyn,Jan Angstrom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136969614

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Modern War and the Utility of Force by Isabelle Duyvesteyn,Jan Angstrom Pdf

This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war. After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry out missions that they traditionally have not been trained and equipped for, in environments that they often have not been prepared for. A number of these ‘new’ types of operations in allegedly ‘new’ wars stand out, such as peace enforcement, state-building, counter-insurgency, humanitarian aid, and not the least counter-terrorism. The success rate of these missions has, however, been mixed, providing fuel for an increasingly loud debate on the utility of force in modern war. This edited volume poses as its central question: what is in fact the utility of force? Is force useful for anything other than a complete conventional defeat of a regular opponent, who is confronted in the open field? This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, war and conflict studies, counter-insurgency, security studies and IR. Isabelle Duyvesteyn is an Associate Professor at the Department of History of International Relations, Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Jan Angstrom is a researcher at the Swedish National Defence College.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCAL:B5537129

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Professional Journal of the United States Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lee Robinson
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780957131118

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Beating Goliath by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Evans
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310490944

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1-2 Samuel by Paul Evans Pdf

A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike. Each volume employs three main, easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God's story: LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible's grand story. EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting. LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and students. —1 & 2 Samuel— The book of Samuel develops theological concepts that are important not only for reading in the context of the Old Testament but also for reading from a New Testament context and a twenty-first century context. The most prominent theological themes are the fulfillment of the prophetic word, trust in God, the seriousness of sin, the importance of true repentance, the Davidic covenant, and the Messiah. Edited by Scot McKnight and Tremper Longman III, and written by a number of top-notch theologians, The Story of God Bible Commentary series will bring relevant, balanced, and clear-minded theological insight to any biblical education or ministry.