Even The Defeats

Author : John Silk
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781785318115

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Even the Defeats by John Silk Pdf

Even the Defeats is the story of how painful moments in Sir Alex Ferguson's early reign inspired him to lead Manchester United to some of their greatest successes. A heavy 5-1 loss at Manchester City in Ferguson's early tenure led pundits and supporters to question the Scot's position, but by the season's end he was holding aloft his first trophy at the club -- the FA Cup. This trend continued when an end-of-season collapse handed Leeds United the league title in the spring of 1992, only to galvanise United to their first championship in 26 years the very next year. From struggles in Europe to winning the treble, from losing the title on goal difference to their city rivals to winning the Premier League in Ferguson's final season in charge - rising from the depths of despair to achieve glory, and using failure to fuel success, was arguably Sir Alex's greatest strength. John Silk brings you the inside story of what made Ferguson tick, with views from players, coaches and other members of staff from the great Scot's reign.

Author : John Silk
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1785316850

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Even the Defeats by John Silk Pdf

Even the Defeats is the story of how painful moments in Sir Alex Ferguson's early reign inspired him to lead Manchester United to some of their greatest successes. A heavy 5-1 loss at Manchester City in Ferguson's early tenure led pundits and supporters to question the Scot's position, but by the season's end he was holding aloft his first trophy at the club--the FA Cup. This trend continued when an end-of-season collapse handed Leeds United the league title in the spring of 1992, only to galvanize United to their first championship in 26 years the very next year. From struggles in Europe to winning the treble, from losing the title on goal difference to their city rivals to winning the Premier League in Ferguson's final season in charge--rising from the depths of despair to achieve glory, and using failure to fuel success, was arguably Sir Alex's greatest strength. John Silk brings you the inside story of what made Ferguson tick, with views from players, coaches, and other members of staff from the great Scot's reign.

Author : Henry Grady Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UCBK:C003352792

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Planning the Defeat of Japan by Henry Grady Morgan Pdf

Author : Francis E Hutchinson,Lee Hwok Aun
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814843904

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The Defeat of Barisan Nasional by Francis E Hutchinson,Lee Hwok Aun Pdf

The results of Malaysia’s 14th General Elections of May 2018 were unexpected and transformative. Against conventional wisdom, the newly reconfigured opposition grouping Pakatan Harapan (PH) decisively defeated the incumbent Barisan Nasional (BN), ending six decades of uninterrupted dominant one-party rule. Despite a long-running financial scandal dogging the ruling coalition, pollsters and commentators predicted a solid BN victory or, at least, a narrow parliamentary majority. Yet, on the day, deeply rooted political dynamics and influential actors came together, sweeping aside many prevailing assumptions and reconfiguring the country’s political reality in the process. In order to understand the elections and their implications, this edited volume brings together contributions from ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute researchers and a group of selected collaborators to examine the elections from three angles: campaign dynamics; important trends among major interest groups; and local-level dynamics and developments in key states. This analytical work is complemented by personal narratives from a selection of GE-14 participants.

Author : James Anthony Froude
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HN28PE

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History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada by James Anthony Froude Pdf

Author : Francesco Guicciardini
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271084336

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The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual by Francesco Guicciardini Pdf

A papal advisor and sixteenth-century power broker, Francesco Guicciardini wrote voluminously throughout his time in service to the Medici. The texts in this volume chart his career chronologically, revealing an intellectual whose philosophy of self-interest failed not only to perceive the interests of others but ultimately to serve his own. During Guicciardini’s life, Florentine politics was dominated by the struggle of republican leaders to retain civic political autonomy against the ambitions of the Medici family. Like Machiavelli and Petrarch, and arguably even Dante, Guicciardini was what Carlo Celli calls an “establishment intellectual,” one whose talents furthered the hegemony of authoritarian rule against the interests of his own class. The letters, treatises, reports, and orations included in this volume span Guicciardini’s long career, from his first appointment as ambassador to the Spanish court to just a few years before his forced retirement from political life. They reveal Guicciardini’s role as a protagonist in the events related in his famous History of Italy (1540), shed light on the self-recriminations and remorse that sometimes gnawed at his conscience, and explain why, ultimately, Guicciardini fell from political grace into irrelevance. Through these previously untranslated writings, The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual evidences the hard lessons Guicciardini learned in service to the Medici: working within a corrupt system does not lead to solutions, and reason and self-interest are not foolproof guides for predicting human behavior. This book will appeal especially to scholars who study the Medici clan, the Italian Wars, and Renaissance politics and history.

Author : Almaz Braev
Publisher : Litres
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785042435782

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Tradition against communism. Explanation of the defeat by Almaz Braev Pdf

No one was tempted by the teachings of Karl Marx, except countries with openly traditional morals. The lower classes, who were not cultured and did not reflect much, destroyed the more cultured and talented people. The clearest grotesque version occurred in Kampuchea, where the Khmer Rouge killed people simply for the glasses of intellectuals. Does it turn out that Marx was very popular in Asia?

Author : John Gunn
Publisher : john gunn
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0702217077

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The Defeat of Distance by John Gunn Pdf

Author : Gareth Glover
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848327443

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Waterloo: The Defeat of Napoleon's Imperial Guard by Gareth Glover Pdf

This is the most detailed account of the 2nd Division at Waterloo ever published. It is based on the papers of its commander Sir Henry Clinton and it reveals for the first time the previously unrecognised vital role this division made in the defeat of Napoleon. ??They Swept the Field Clear explains how the division was placed ahead of the main allied squares thus impeding the charges of the French cavalry, and how the 2nd Division supported the defence of Hougoumont, considered by the Duke of Wellington as the key to his victory on 18 June 1815.??Perhaps the most significant aspect of this book is the description of the defeat of Napoleon's Imperial Guard. Just who and how the incomparable Guard was stopped and the driven from the battlefield is explained in detail. Once and for all, this 200-year controversy is finally resolved.

Author : Alain Finkielkraut
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 9780231080231

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The Defeat of the Mind by Alain Finkielkraut Pdf

The Defeat of the Mind examines the opposition to Enlightenment thought from the eighteenth century to the present. Finkielkraut asserts that the ostensibly progressive cast of third world anticolonial and anti-Western sentiment, paradoxically, has its antecedent in Eurocentric sources - chiefly the German romantic concept of the Volksgeist, or spirit of the people. Straightforward and succinct, Finkielkraut draws a line between the idea of culture as an expression of the life of the mind and culture as an expression of national spirit. He deplores the appropriation of the concept of the Volksgeist by ethnic nationalists, who employ the notion in justification of such horrors as the Final Solution in Nazi Germany and the current waves of "ethnic cleansing." Equally worrying, he claims, are the seemingly harmless infusions of the Volksgeist into campaigns for ethnic diversity espoused by some social scientists and third world intellectuals. The Defeat of the Mind questions notions of cultural relativism espoused by such intellectual and political leaders as Claude Levi-Strauss and Frantz Fanon. Finkielkraut points to the United Nations and UNESCO - founded to propagate the universalist ideals of Enlightenment Europe, these organizations have co-opted the notion of cultural relativism to a fault, now speaking on behalf of every ethnic prejudice. "The objective remained the same," Finkielkraut maintains of this shift in ideology, "but to achieve its goal, it was no longer a matter of opening others to reason, but of opening ourselves to the reason of others." Defending values that seem absent from many contemporary frames of reference, the book concludes with a chapter challenging post-modernist thought, for Finkielkraut claims that it equates the value of novels by Flaubert with television movies and lacks concern for the survival of culture and reason.

Author : Mick Powis
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526701497

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The Defeat of the Zeppelins by Mick Powis Pdf

Mick Powis describes the novel threat posed to the British war effort by the raids of German airships, or Zeppelins, and the struggle to develop effective defenses against them. Despite their size and relatively slow speed, the Zeppelins were hard to locate and destroy at first. They could fly higher than existing fighters and the early raids benefited from a lack of coordination between British services. The development of radio, better aircraft, incendiary ammunition, and, above all, a more coordinated defensive policy, gradually allowed the British to inflict heavy losses on the Zeppelins. The innovative use of seaplanes and planes launched from aircraft carriers allowed the Zeppelins to be intercepted before they reached Britain and to strike back with raids on the Zeppelin sheds. July 1918 saw the RAF and Royal Navy cooperate to destroy two Zeppelins in their base at Tondern (the first attack by aircraft launched from a carrier deck). The last Zeppelin raid on England came in August 1918 and resulted in the destruction of Zeppelin L70 and the death of Peter Strasser, Commander of the Imperial German Navys Zeppelin force.

Author : James Anthony Froude
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BNLP000011017

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History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada by James Anthony Froude, M. A by James Anthony Froude Pdf

Author : K M de Silva
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184757118

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Sri Lanka and the Defeat of the LTTE by K M de Silva Pdf

In this comprehensive and authoritative study of terrorism in Sri Lanka, K.M. de Silva turns the spotlight on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and its role in Sri Lanka’s upheavals over the last few decades. While tracing the emergence of this separatist group and the events that led to its recent collapse, de Silva also seeks to explore the complex relationship between the so-called moderates in Sri Lankan Tamil politics and the Tamil terrorist groups. What emerges is a layered portrait of the dynamics of Sri Lanka’s political system. Extensively researched and loaded with perceptive insights, Sri Lanka and the Defeat of the LTTE is the most wide-ranging analysis so far on the LTTE and its violent legacy.

Author : Winston Ramsey
Publisher : After the Battle
Page : 1302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399076272

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The Defeat of Germany by Winston Ramsey Pdf

In January 1944, the headquarters of the Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force was set up in London. Although over 500 correspondents, photographers and broadcasters had been accredited by the Public Relations Division to cover the invasion of France, SHAEF also decided to issue its own daily communiqués, charting the progress of the battle and over the following months nearly 400 were released. Alongside the measured text of the official communiqués hundreds of photographs — many complete with censor deletions — taken by war photographers in France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and Germany, are reproduced alongside ‘then and now’ comparison photos taken by After the Battle. Illustrating the battles by the western Allies to liberate western Europe, we follow the fighting day by day, beginning from D-Day in Normandy until the final defeat of Nazi Germany in Berlin.

Author : James Anthony Froude
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108035682

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History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada by James Anthony Froude Pdf

First published between 1858 and 1870, this twelve-volume history argues that the English Reformation enabled modernity.