Patriots’ Games offers a microhistory of Fan Xudong’s Yongli Chemical Industries from its founding in 1917 to nationalization in 1953, revealing hitherto hidden processes and dilemmas confronting private capital in modern China.

Definitive account of the New England Patriots. Analyzes "success factors" responsible for three Super Bowl victories in four seasons. Vol. 2 covers training, planning, collaborating, and motivating. Entertains and informs with humorous, insightful quotations from players, coaches, executives and owners. Essential for fans of Bill Belichick's Patriots and anyone building a great organization. Author earned his economics Ph.D. at Stanford, where he analyzed "high-performance work organizations" like the Patriots.

In 1838, American extremist groups invaded Canada at several places, thinking Canadians would rise up to "throw off the British yoke". It never occurred to them they were invading Loyalist country, where strong memories remained of the conflicts of the American Revolution and the flight north to remain under the British crown. In one of the most ambitious incursions, members of the Patriot Hunters sailed down the St Lawrence River in a hijacked steamship and landed near Prescott, Ontario, where they occupied a stone windmill. It took five days of bloody fighting by soldiers and militia to capture the invaders.

"The Pro Football Register" includes all the biographical information fans will ever want to know about everyone who played in the 1996 season, top prospects, and every head coach.

Collects thirty-two biographies of political, military, and revolutionary figures from Latin American history, including nine contemporary presidents, such as Hugo Chávez and Vicente Fox, and rebels such as Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Daniel Ortega.