John Boyd

Philip Zimbardo

Reveals how your individual time perspective shapes your life and is shaped by the world around you, interacting to create national cultures, economics, and personal destinies.

The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

The Time Paradox

Sun Tzu

Erik Schön

Simon Wardley

What is strategy? Why do you need it? How do you do it? And, how can you be more certain to succeed? THE ART OF STRATEGY provides timeless answers to these eternal questions. It is an introduction to strategy through the insights of three legendary strategists: Sun Tzu, John Boyd & Simon Wardley. It is a modern interpretation of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. For more information, see http://yokosopress.se

Steps Towards Business Agility

The Art of Strategy

Boyd's initial focus was a 193 slide summation of military history in the "Patterns of Conflict" brief and his effort soon expanded dramatically. His insights led him to introduce the theory of maneuver warfare as critical to military success in general, as it had been for successful air-to-air tactics where his intellectual journey began. His study and thought led him to produce a series of other briefings. They included a 37 slide briefing entitled "An Organic Design for Command and Control," a 58-slide briefing entitled "The Strategic Game of ? and ?," a 27-slide briefing entitled "The Conceptual Spiral," and one of the few essays he ever wrote called "Destruction and Creation." The larger "Discourse" ends with his summation entitled "Revelation." To this is added a four slide brief on "The Essence of Winning and Losing" produced on 28 June 1995. It is an effort to compress all that he had learned into a simple, yet elegant and comprehensive, conclusion embedded in his concept of O-O-D-A Loops, what they mean and why they are important.--Provided by publisher.

A Discourse on Winning and Losing

Former Navy Seal Denver Noles lives in the Florida Keys on Isla Lacra (Scar Island) left to him by his Uncle Harry. He enjoys running his bar and minding his own business. One day one of his employees comes to him for help and things get interesting very quickly. Maria is an immigrant from Mexico whose daughter, Mariana, has been kidnapped by the largest drug cartel in Mexico. Her son Raul is also missing along with a drug shipment he was to collect. With the help of his former Seal Team members and some helpful DEA agents, Denver works to find Mariana and Raul and the rest of Maria’s family to bring them home safely. But what they don’t know is that their problems are just starting when they will end up in the middle of two powerful cartels trying to be top dog.

Scar Island

Isla Lacra

A SEAL team is ambushed deep in the mountains of Afghanistan trying to capture the terrorist known as "The Banker".The team members are thought dead, but LT CMDR Jose Carmona survives and is captured and placed in a cave to be held and interrogated.Carmona is imprisoned with two others and leads them to freedom through a daring escape.The United States President decides to begin closing Guantanamo Prison and start holding Terror Trials on U.S. soil.The U.S. citizenry and some members of the President's cabinet are against the trials. Some take measures in their own hands to stop them.A legal team that is involved in the first terror trial disappears. The demands for their release made by terrorists came at a steep price, one that even the President can't accept.Carmona returns to the U.S. to try to discover how his team was set up in Afghanistan, but he has to help his father first, who was hospitalized after a vicious attack.The search for his father's attackers leads him into another ambush, the results send him into a collision course with an unbelievable discovery that sends the reader where the lines are drawn in the war against terror.

Corrupters Series

Terror on Trial

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Annals and Family Records of Winchester, Conn.

The Middle of My Journey

Sex and the High Command

Christopher Hull Gallery (London, England).

An Exhibition of Paintings : 3rd-28th November 1992, Christopher Hull Gallery

John Boyd 1992

Contemporary Fine Art Gallery (Eton, England)

An Exhibition of Recent Works

John Boyd, R.P., R.G.I.

What happens when two U.S. Naval Astronauts land on the planet Harlech, where there is no government, no law -- indeed, no concept of sin! Public nudity is a way of life and the paternalism of children is of little interest to their mothers. This wry, amusing, and suspenseful satire is truly John Boyd at his best. Praise for John Boyd's The Last Starship from Earth "This is the best anti-Utopia, the strongest satire on trends in our present culture, I have seen since '1984' appeared. I enjoyed its humor, its half-buried allusions. The puns, the almost-not-quite-quotations, the thinly-veiled references to our 'real' world—all of these delighted me. It belongs up at the top, along with 'Brave New World' and '1984'." --Robert A. Heinlein "A fascinating novel that kept me amused and interested to the end. The future society it describes is one of the most convincing I've ever encountered.” -- Arthur C. Clarke "In the tradition of Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury... A work of extraordinary impact." -- The Los Angeles Times

The Rakehells of Heaven

Collected Plays

The Girl with Jade Green Eyes

Andromeda Gun

A Report on New-Brunswick Railways to the Chamber of Commerce, St. John, New-Brunswick

The flats. The farm. Guest

With Exercises of the Centennial Celebration, on the 16th and 17th Days of August, 1871

Annals and Family Records of Winchester, Conn

When the encounter long sought by mankind -- first contact with intelligent beings from outer space -- occurred two years ago in a remote area of the Idaho Panhandle, the event was not marked in the heavens with strange lights or on Earth with newspaper headlines. It began prosaically one Thursday morning in late May... "Where are you from?" She glanced toward the eastern ridge, studying it, and for a moment he thought she might point to a rock or a tree. Weighing her answer carefully, she pointed toward the top of the ridge and said, "From there." "From the other side of the mountain?" he asked. "No. From the other side of the morning."

The Girl with the Jade Green Eyes

Philip G. Zimbardo

Fast jede wichtige Entscheidung, die wir in unserem Leben treffen, wird von einer Kraft beeinflusst, die tief in unserer Psyche verankert ist: von unserer individuellen Zeitperspektive – unserer persönlichen inneren Zeitzone. So wirksam diese Kraft ist, so wenig sind wir uns ihr gewöhnlich bewusst. Doch sobald wir unsere Zeitperspektive erkennen, sind wir in der Lage, sie zu verändern und zu einem glücklicheren und erfüllteren Leben zu gelangen.

und wie sie Ihr Leben verändern wird

Die neue Psychologie der Zeit

Packaged in slim-line jewel box, with full-color label on CD

John Boyd

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