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History S Worst Decisions
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Author : Stephen Weir
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2005
History S Worst Decisions written by Stephen Weir and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
History is strewn with mistakes. Many made by well intentioned people who were bright, intelligent, capable, but just made the wrong decision.
History S Worst Decisions
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Author : Stephen Weir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-07
History S Worst Decisions written by Stephen Weir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07 with Decision making categories.
Mankind's past is strewn with mistakes, colossal blunders driven by virtue as often as vice. This is an entertaining look at some monumental mishaps, from Adam and Eve's decision to eat the apple and Nero's burning down of his own city to the destruction of the Himalayan rain forest and the billions of dollars wasted on the Y2K scare.
Encyclopedia Idiotica
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Author : Stephen Weir
language : en
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Encyclopedia Idiotica written by Stephen Weir and has been published by B.E.S. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Errors categories.
The 64 A.D. burning of Rome during the reign of Nero . . . Winston Churchill's ill-conceived and disastrous World War I plan to invade Turkey at Gallipoli . . . the Maginot Line, built in France in 1929-34 in a foolhardy effort to prevent the feared German invasion . . . the 1950s thalidomide pharmaceutical disaster that resulted in at least 20,000 babies born with deformities . . . the 1989-91 misappropriation of company funds by publishing executive Robert Maxwell, and the collapse of his financial empire . . . the Enron scandal of 2000 that brought down a yet larger business empire. Chronicled in these pages are stories of corporate chicanery, poor military decisions, engineering disasters, diplomatic blunders, and other appalling, large-scale mistakes that resulted in ruin and misery for countless innocent bystanders. Here are baleful tales motivated by false hope, anger, greed, pride, lust, and many other instances of erratic human behavior. A selection of approximately 50 disastrous decisions are presented, each grim account summarized in a report of roughly a half-dozen pages and enhanced with sidebars and thumbnail-sized cartoon-style illustrations. Each account opens with its cast of characters, then sets the story's background before reporting the grim details and concluding with the unhappy moral. Here is a page-turner of a book that recounts some of history's most dramatic-but also catastrophic-moments.
History S Worst Decisions
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Author : Ian Whitelaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
History S Worst Decisions written by Ian Whitelaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
The Worst Decisions Ever
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Author : Stephen Weir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Worst Decisions Ever written by Stephen Weir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
Scandals And Worst Decisions Boxed Set
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Author : Ed Wright
language : en
Publisher: Pier 9
Release Date : 1940-01-01
Scandals And Worst Decisions Boxed Set written by Ed Wright and has been published by Pier 9 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940-01-01 with Decision-making categories.
With combined sales of over 150,000 copies, these two international bestsellers are now presented together in this stunning limited edition boxed set. The compelling stories of the worst decisions ever made and the shocking tales of the greatest scandals in history, and the powerful people they brought down, are engaging reading about the deluded and misguided things that humans do and the history of the world we live in.
The Worst Decisions Ever
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Author : Stephen Weir
language : en
Publisher: Pier 9
Release Date : 2018-01-24
The Worst Decisions Ever written by Stephen Weir and has been published by Pier 9 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-24 with Decision making categories.
History's biggest mistakes and the people who made them. Get the lowdown on some of the most significant misjudgments of all time. Revisit history's biggest miscalculations and the people who made them. From Adam and Eve to Rasputin and General Custer, meet heroes and villains from throughout the ages. Illustrated with full-colour photographs and illustrations, The Worst Decisions...Ever! takes you through the disastrous events as they unfolded from ancient to modern times. History is a catalogue of errors, and The Worst Decisions...Ever! shines a light on some of the biggest. Starting with Adam and Eve's original lapse of culinary judgment, author Stephen Weir takes you on a tour from the Trojan War to the Enron scandal, meeting such famous culprits as Cleopatra, Winston Churchill and Robert Mugabe along the way.
Profiles In Folly
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Author : Alan Axelrod
language : en
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
Release Date : 2012-04-03
Profiles In Folly written by Alan Axelrod and has been published by Union Square + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-03 with Business & Economics categories.
The bestselling author of Profiles in Audacity returns with an “illuminating [and] entertaining” study of historically bad decisions (Publishers Weekly). In an engrossing anecdotal format, historian and bestselling author Alan Axelrod turns to the dark side of audacious decision-making—and explores history’s most tragic errors, the people who made them, and why they happened. While Axelrod looks at the hopelessly dumb and the overtly evil, the main focus is on smart people who had the best of intentions—but whose plans went disastrously wrong. The 35 compelling stories include the sailing of the “unsinkable” Titanic; Edward Bernays’s 1929 campaign to recruit women smokers; Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazis; Ken Lay’s deception with Enron; and even the choice to create a “New Coke” and fix what wasn’t broke. These are cautionary tales that any decision-maker can learn from—albeit with exquisite twists ranging from acerbic to horrific.
History S Worst Decisions
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Author : Stephen Weir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
History S Worst Decisions written by Stephen Weir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Black Mondays
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Author : Joel D. Joseph
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-08
Black Mondays written by Joel D. Joseph and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08 with Law categories.
When the first edition of Black Mondays was published in 1987, bad Supreme Court decisions were an anomaly. Now, unfortunately, the nation's highest court has taken advantage of a power vacuum in Washington to become the most powerful branch of government. And the High Court is legislating, despite the apparent "conservative" nature of the court. The worst decision in recent history was Bush v. Gore in which the Supreme Court enacted a judicial coup d'etat, installing George W. Bush as President of the United States, overruling Florida and Congress. Florida was not allowed to finish counting ballots even though the Supreme Court ruled that prior counting violated the Constitution of the United States. And the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution specifically provides that Congress shall count the votes of the presidential electors. If two competing slates of presidential electors from one state are presented to Congress, Congress, not the United States Supreme Court must decide which slate of electors are to be counted. In 2008, President George W. Bush signed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments into law that gave Chief Justice Roberts the power to appoint all members of the FISA Court without Senate confirmation. Concerning government spying, the Supreme Court has ruled that the ACLU does not have standing to challenging the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, thus allowing virtually unlimited surveillance by the government. In recent years, the Supreme Court has taken charge of gun control, video-game violence, campaign finance and class actions. It has taken power from States and cities and given them to corporations. "Corporations are people," the Court has announced, allowing unlimited corporate involvement in political campaigns. Corporations can now dictate that disputes with customers are settled by arbitration, not in court. The Supreme Court has ruled that these arbitrations cannot be class arbitrations overriding State law and individual rights.