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  • Waste Land

    A World in Permanent Crisis

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    **An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography“Compelling and helpful . . . Kaplan’s analysis has enormous implications for U.S. strategy abroad. . . . His conclusion is the only right one.”—John ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Adriatic

    A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    **“[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe’s past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece.”—The Wall Street Journal“A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revisits places and peoples he first encountered decades ago.”—Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads**ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New YorkerIn this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ends of the Earth

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    Author of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism. Whether he is walking through a shantytown in the Ivory Coast or a death camp in Cambodia, talking ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Nothing that Is

    A Natural History of Zero

    by Robert Kaplan ...
    A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics our understanding of the universe would be vastly ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Strategy Maps

    Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes

    by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton ...
    More than a decade ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization, Kaplan and Norton showed how organizations achieved breakthrough performance with a management ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Execution Premium

    Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage

    by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton ...
    In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans.It doesn't have to be that way, maintain Robert ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Loom of Time

    Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    **A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century“Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan’s tragic sensibility have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and its recent history.”—National ReviewFINALIST FOR THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB’S ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Alignment

    Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies

    by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton ...
    Most organizations consist of multiple business and support units, each populated by highly trained, experienced executives. But often the efforts of individual units are not coordinated, resulting in conflicts, lost opportunities, and diminished performance.Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton argue that the responsibility for this critical alignment lies with corporate headquarters. In this book ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Balanced Scorecard

    Translating Strategy into Action

    by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton ...
    The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business processes, and learning and growth--offer a balance between short-term and long-term objectives, between outcomes desired and performance drivers of those outcomes, and between hard objective ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Tragic Mind, The

    Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 59 min

    A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedySome books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In The Tragic Mind, he employs the works of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arabists

    The Romance of an American Elite

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the “Arabists” were men and women who spent much of their lives living and working in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, intelligence agents, scholar-adventurers, and teachers. As such, the Arabists exerted considerable influence both as career diplomats and as bureaucrats within the State ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Balkan Ghosts

    A Journey Through History

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    A new edition of the classic travelogue exploring the Balkan Peninsula's political, social, religious, and economic past.From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook