National Defense University President's Reading List

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The Crisis of Islam
By: Bernard Lewis
Paperback Edition

The Crisis of Islam ranges widely through thirteen centuries of history, but in particular it charts the key events of the twentieth century leading up to the violent confrontations of today: the creation of the state of Israel, the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, the Gulf War, and the September 11th attacks on the United States.
$11.75
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The Face of Battle
By: John Keegan
Paperback Edition
$12.75
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The Fifth Discipline
By: Peter M. Senge
Paperback Edition

An MIT Professor's path-breaking book on building "learning organizations" -- corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Archimedes put it, "with a lever long enough... single-handed I can move the world."
$21.25
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The Prize
By: Daniel Yergin
Paperback Edition
$18.75
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The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
By: Henry Mintzberg
Hardcover Edition

In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes that the term is an oxymoron -- that strategy cannot be planned because planning is about analysis and strategy is about synthesis. That is why, he asserts, the process has failed so often and so dramatically.
$29.75
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