The Hard Road Will Take You Home: What the Military Elite Teaches Us About Innovation, Endeavour and Next-Level Success

Anthony 'Staz' Stazicker served an impressive 13 years of distinguished and decorated military service, ten within the Special Forces, before founding the multi-million pound technical clothing company ThruDark. Throughout his career in the Special Forces - featuring gunfights, door-kicking operations, and against-the-odds escapes - he learned hard lessons that would later provide crucial intelligence equally applicable to business, innovation and enterprise.The Hard Road Will Take You Home provides a mission plan that distils the processes and tactics Staz gathered throughout his career and translates them into tools that can be used in any number of settings, and by individuals with a wide range of experience and backgrounds. It instils the psychological cues required to bring next level success to any mission. And it lays bare the levels of discipline required to maintain that next level success.Introducing four concepts that make up the life of an elite operator - battle prep; techniques, tactics and procedures; teamwork and the lessons we should all consider when learning how to innovate, persevere and succeed - this book comes stacked with insight, easily applicable techniques and psychological processes gathered from Staz's time serving with the most resilient fighting force in the world.

Memorie di un soldato bambino

Il 1993 è appena iniziato in Sierra Leone e a Mogbwemo, il piccolo villaggio in cui vive il dodicenne Ishmael, la guerra tra i ribelli e l'esercito regolare, che insanguina la zona del paese più ricca di miniere di diamante, sembra appartenere a una nazione lontana e sconosciuta. Di tanto in tanto nel villaggio giungono dei profughi che narrano di parenti uccisi e case bruciate. Ma per Ishmael, suo fratello Junior e gli amici Talloi e Mohamed, quei profughi esagerano sicuramente. L'immaginazione dei ragazzi è catturata da una cosa sola: la musica rap. Affascinati dalla "parlata veloce" di un gruppo americano visto in televisione, i ragazzi hanno fondato una band e se ne vanno in giro a esibirsi nei villaggi vicini. Un giorno, però, in cui sono in uno di questi villaggi, li raggiunge la terribile notizia: i ribelli hanno attaccato e distrutto Mogbwemo. Ishmael non vedrà più casa sua e i suoi genitori. Perderà Junior. Fuggirà nella foresta, dormirà di notte sugli alberi, sarà catturato dall'esercito governativo, imbottito di droga, educato all'orrore, all'omicidio, alla devastazione. Il suo migliore amico non sarà piú il tredicenne Talloi ma l'AK-47 e la sua musica non più l'hip-hop ma quella del suo fucile automatico. Una testimonianza indimenticabile dal cuore dell'Africa, dove milioni di bambini muoiono di malattie curabili in Occidente e centinaia di migliaia sono mutilati o cadono in guerra.

Monte di Mezzocorona

 

dislivello 700 m
Ale&Erika

Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life

Being critically ill means one or more of your vital organs have failed – this could be your lungs, your heart, your kidneys, gut or even your brain. Starting with the first recognised case in which a little girl was saved by intensive care in 1952 in Copenhagen, Matt writes brilliantly about the fascinating history, practices and technology in this newest of all the major medical specialties. Matt guides us around the ICU by guiding us around the body and the different organs, and in this way, we learn not only the stories of many of the patients he’s treated over the years, but also about the various functions different parts of the body.He draws on his time spent with real patients, on the brink of death, and explains how he and his colleagues fight against the odds to help them live. Happily many of his cases have happy endings, but Matt also writes movingly about those cases which will always remain with him – the cases where the mysteries of the body proved too hard to solve, or diagnoses came too late or made no difference to the outcome.

Al cason

 

km 4 - dislivello 400 m
Ale

Al cason

 

km 4 - dislivello 400 m
Ale

Running blind

Jack Reacher searches for an elusive killer responsible for the deaths of a number of women, who have nothing in common but the fact that they once worked for the military and had known Jack, and races against time to find a murderer who leaves no trace evidence at the scene of the crime.