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  • AMERICA'S UNENDING CIVIL WAR
    WILLIAM NESTER
    Explores the Civil War’s related and enduring conflicts of ideas and principles through four centuries of a nation’s history. The Civil War fascinates Americans like no other war in their history. Many Americans are still fighting some of the war’s issues in an Odyssey that stretches back to the first settlement and will persist until the end of time. The war itself was an Ilia...

    $242.99

  • THE FOUNDATION OF JAPANESE POWER
    WILLIAM R. NESTER
    Recent events in Tianamen Square have made such books abruptly important, though in some aspects outdated. This one examines reforms in higher education from before the republic to March 1988, and focuses on educational and economic relations with groups outside China, and the effect the reforms may ...

    $5,100.00

  • NAPOLEON AND THE ART OF LEADERSHIP
    WILLIAM NESTER
    This deep dive into the mind of the complex, controversial political and military leader is "a great addition to the field of Napoleonics" ( Journal of Military History). No historical figure has provoked more controversy than Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he an enlightened ruler or brutal tyrant? An insatiable warmonger or a defender of France against the aggression of the other gre...

    $229.00

  • BRITAIN'S RISE TO GLOBAL SUPERPOWER IN THE AGE OF NAPOLEON
    WILLIAM NESTER
    The first study to explore all Britain's key land and sea campaigns from 179–1815 and the two military geniuses who vanquished France. The art of power consists of getting what one wants. That is never more challenging than when a nation is at war. Britain fought a nearly nonstop war against first revolutionary then Napoleonic France from 1793 to 1815. During those twenty-two y...

    $229.00

  • WINSTON CHURCHILL AND THE ART OF LEADERSHIP
    WILLIAM NESTER
    A unique biography that explores how Churchill viewed, pursued, and used power, by the award-winning author of Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy. Many indeed, are the biographies of Winston Churchill, one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. But what was that influence and how did he use it in the furtherance of his and his country's ambitions? For the firs...

    $229.00

  • PUTIN'S VIRTUAL WAR
    WILLIAM NESTER
    A look at the Russian leader's successful use of hard military and economic power and soft psychological power through information warfare, or "fake news." Vladimir Putin has tightly ruled Russia since 31 December 1999, and will firmly assert power from the Kremlin for the foreseeable future. Many fear and loath him for his brutality, for ordering opponents imprisoned on trumpe...

    $229.00

  • NAPOLEON AND THE ART OF DIPLOMACY
    WILLIAM NESTER
    A small library could be stocked with books written about Napoleon Bonaparte the general, whose battles and campaigns have been studied extensively. Warriors, however, are not generally known for their diplomatic skills and Napoleon is no exception. After all, conquerors are accustomed to imposing rather than negotiating terms. For Napoleon, however, the arts of war and diploma...

    $159.79

  • MICROBIOLOGIA HUMANA TRADUCIDA DE LA 5°EDIC.EN INGLES CON ACCESO A INTERNET
    NESTER
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    $750.00

  • JOSEPH STALIN AND THE ART OF TYRANNY
    WILLIAM NESTER
    Explores how Stalin’s regime exemplified authoritarian power, its methods, and enduring global influence. Joseph Stalin and the Art of Tyranny examines authoritarian rule, revealing how tyrants sustain power through a mix of comfort, terror, love, and fear, often convincing their subjects of their divine purpose. Such leaders build systems of loyalists and subservient instituti...

    $216.99

  • THE EPIC HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WEST
    WILLIAM NESTER
    Examines the American West's complex legacy, blending traditional and revisionist perspectives on its myths, conflicts, and injustices. The American West evokes powerful imagery—warriors on horseback, cowboys in saloons, and pioneers in wagons heading westward. It symbolizes freedom, reinvention, and the American Dream. However, this idealized image obscures the complex, often ...

    $216.99

  • GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON AND THE ART OF LEADERSHIP
    WILLIAM NESTER
    “Nester brings out clearly the features of Patton’s buoyant dynamic leadership… an important addition to the stock of modern military biographies.” – The NYMAS Review For General George S. Patton, “Leadership is the thing that wins battles. I have it—but I’ll be damned if I can define it. Probably it consists in knowing what you want to do and then doing it and getting mad if a...

    $216.99

  • FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE ART OF LEADERSHIP
    WILLIAM NESTER
    Scholar William Nester explores Franklin D. Roosevelt's character, personality, and presidential power. After their independence and civil wars, Americans never faced a greater threat than the sixteen years of global depression followed by global war from 1929 to 1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president for the last dozen of those years, during which he led the nation ...

    $216.99

  • THE COALITIONS AGAINST NAPOLEON
    WILLIAM NESTER
    A study of how Great Britain forged alliances to help defeat Napoleon. Britain alone could not hope to defeat the might of Napoleonic France which, through enforced conscription, had become a nation in arms. But British leaders had a long history of forging alliances to counter their rivals and when revolution ravaged France in 1793 and a  levée en masse raised a huge patriotic...

    $440.00

  • THE COALITIONS AGAINST NAPOLEON
    WILLIAM NESTER
    Britain alone could not hope to defeat the might of Napoleonic France which, through enforced conscription, had become a nation in arms. But British leaders had a long history of forging alliances to counter their rivals and when revolution ravaged France in 1793 and a levée en masse raised a huge patriotic army, it was through a coalition of monarchies that French ambitions we...

    $319.99