Fighting Talk

2013-08-16 Sports & Recreation

Author : Bob Jones
Release : 2013-08-16
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 391/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Fighting Talk written by Bob Jones. This book was released on 2013-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 'A Low Blow' to 'Went the Distance', a fascinating and lively examination of the regular use of terms from the boxing ring in our everyday language. Have you ever stopped to notice how often your local newspaper or favourite magazine uses the terms 'On the Ropes', 'The Gloves Are Off' and 'Knockout Punch'? How often TV newsreaders will say that a politician has "Thrown His hat in the Ring', is a 'Big Hitter', is 'Taking it on the Chin', is 'Down for the Count' or has the 'Killer Instinct'? Knight of the realm, leading businessman, colourful and controversial commentator, and boxing aficionado Sir Robert — Bob —Jones certainly has. Over a period of years he made careful note of how often terms cropped up and then retraced their etymological origins in boxing history. The result is a lively, entertaining, and thought-provoking miscellany of boxing terms that are now part of our everyday English language. Some have strayed far from their original meanings, others are more frequently in use now than at any other time. Jones asks why that might be, and his answers are, well, a knockout.

Fighting Talk

2009-08-01 History

Author : Colin S. Gray
Release : 2009-08-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 076/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Fighting Talk written by Colin S. Gray. This book was released on 2009-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxims and essays that encapsulate timeless insights on strategy

Fighting Talk

2007-04-30 History

Author : Colin S. Gray
Release : 2007-04-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 243/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Fighting Talk written by Colin S. Gray. This book was released on 2007-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gray presents an inventive treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and peace, organized around forty maxims. This collection of mini-essays will forearm politicians, soldiers, and the attentive general public against many—probably most—fallacies that abound in contemporary debates about war, peace, and security. While one can never guarantee strategic success, which depends on policy, military prowess, and the quality of the dialogue between the two, a strategic education led by the judgments in these maxims increases the chances that one's errors will be small rather than catastrophic. The maxims are grouped according to five clusters. War and Peace tackles the larger issues of strategic history that drive the demand for the services of strategic thought and practice. Strategy presses further, into the realm of strategic behavior, and serves as a bridge between the political focus of part one and the military concerns that follow. In Military Power and Warfare turns to the pragmatic business of military performance: operations, tactics, and logistics. Part four, Security and Insecurity examines why strategy is important, including a discussion of the nature, dynamic character, and functioning of world politics. Finally, History and the Future is meant to help strategists better understand the processes of historical change.

Fighting Talk

2008-10-02 Sports & Recreation

Author : Colin Murray
Release : 2008-10-02
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 25X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Fighting Talk written by Colin Murray. This book was released on 2008-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sports Fact: the bedrock of any self-respecting fan, the trump card of the pub conversation. We cant quote Shakespeare or remember our loved ones birthdays - superfluous! - but we can list, in alphabetical order, the last three strikers for our teams to have a 20-goal season, together with the names of their wives, children, aunts, favourite TV shows, golf handicap...glory! And so it is that Fighting Talk, the Saturday morning bastion of world-class punditry, introduces five years of accrued knowledge, one liners, quips, and anecdote all gleaned from, or in the style of, the hugely popular show. Discover Sports Facts as pithy as what kind of chocolate bar Victoria Beckham was munching on as she gave birth to first son Brooklyn, or whether a World Cup victory have any effect on the victorious nations GDP, or even Also, be challenged by the divisive Defend the Indefensibles in which our crack team of writers support motions as scurrilous as the best thing about the Grand National is seeing a horse gets shot, or that its really true women really cant throw.

When to Talk and When to Fight

2021 Political participation

Author : Rebecca Subar
Release : 2021
Genre : Political participation
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Book Rating : 362/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book When to Talk and When to Fight written by Rebecca Subar. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When to Talk and When to Fight is a conversation between talkers and fighters. It introduces a new language to enable negotiators and activists to argue and collaborate across different schools of thought and action. Weaving beautiful storytelling and clear analysis, this book maps the habits of change-makers, explaining why some groups choose dialogue and negotiation while others practice confrontation and resistance. With lucid charts and graphs by Rosi Greenberg, When to Talk and When to Fight is a brilliant new way of talking about how we change the world.

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