New Releases by David Horowitz

ふりかえりのスキルを向上させるための実践的なアドバイス 本書は、「レトロスペクティブ（ふりかえり）」をアジャイルソフトウェア開発に適用するチームにさらなるアドバイス、テクニック、実例を紹介し、チームが同じ場所、オンライン、ハイブリッドのどこに居てもレトロスペクティブによって迅速に学習し、学習を継続するための方法を述べるものです。本書は、チームリーダー、スクラムマスター、コーチがチームを巻き込み、学び、改善し、より大きな成果を出すのに役立ちます。 第1版では、レトロスペクティブをアジャイル開発に適用する方法を示しました。第2版では、著者らの20年以上にわたる経験を反映し、より実践的なアドバイス、オンラインやハイブリッドなチームにおける課題に回答します。レトロスペクティブをどのように設計するか、ファシリテーションについて、世界中のチームから得られた疑問や懸念を元に、より充実したガイダンスを提供します。より効果的な対話のために、客観的データと主観的データの両方を使用する方法を探ります。 Agile Retrospectives, Second Edition: A Practical Guide for Catalyzing Team Learning and Improvement by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, David Horowitzの邦訳です。 このような方におすすめ ◎大きな顧客価値をより素早く、より確実に提供する優れたチームの構築を目指すソフトウェア開発者 ◯ビギナーからプロフェッショナルまで、広くソフトウェア開発に関わるエンジニア 主要目次 第I部 基本的要素 第1章 チームの検査と適応を支援する 第2章 チームに合わせたふりかえり 第3章 ふりかえりをリードする 第4章 集団ダイナミクスを管理する 第II部 アクティビティの選択 第5章 場を設定するアクティビティ 第6章 データを収集するアクティビティ 第7章 アイデアを出すアクティビティ 第8章 何をすべきかを決定するアクティビティ 第9章 ふりかえりを終了するアクティビティ 第10章 よくあるシナリオのふりかえり 第III部 考慮すべきこと 第11章 リモートチームのふりかえり 第12章 変化の促進と持続 第13章 チームでは解決できない問題を報告する 第14章 反対意見に打ち勝つ 第15章 学習の旅は続く 付録A 事前準備の質問 付録B アクティビティのリファレンスシート 参考文献

For someone whose career spanned nearly four decades, Barry Horowitz might have the lowest winning percentage in professional wrestling history. But there''s a reason why his name reached household levels among fans of the sport. Wrestlers who put on a deliberate losing performance (known as "jobbers") provide the starting points for the game''s top names, and Horowitz was always there to help every new generation of talent rise to the next level. He took all the moves. He made them all look good. He absorbed every pin and submission. And then he came back to do it for someone else. From the local federations in Florida to years in the World Wrestling Federation, Horowitz helped launch the careers of wrestlers from Ric Flair to the Ultimate Warrior to Kane to Bill Goldberg, and everyone in between. This book presents the life and career of Barry Horowitz. From his life outside the ring to his storied career in professional wrestling''s most unsung role, this biography hopes to shed light on why Horowitz was so committed to an industry who sometimes failed to return the favor. From Horowitz comes a tale of defining one''s own success and doing the best for the toughest of businesses--and about becoming a cornerstone in a part of pro wrestling that''s commonly underrated, but an integral part of the trade!

In an uncertain and complex world, learning is more important than ever before. In fact, it can be a competitive advantage. Teams and organizations that learn rapidly deliver greater IPSer value faster and more reliably. Furthermore, those teams are more engaged, more productive, and more satisfied. The most effective way to enable teams to learn is by holding regular retrospectives. Unfortunately, many teams only get shallow results from their retrospectives. This book is filled with practical advice, techniques, and real-life examples that will take retrospectives to the next level--whether your team is co-located, hybrid, or remote. This book will help team leads, scrum masters, and coaches engage their teams to learn, improve, and deliver greater results. For nearly two decades, scrum masters, team leads, and coaches have relied on the first edition of Agile Retrospectivesas an essential resource to facilitate better retrospectives. This edition builds on recent research, reflects the authors'' experiences over two decades, and shares wisdom gleaned from the global retrospective community. Find practical advice to level up retrospective skills. Address the challenges of remote and hybrid retrospectives head on. Take advantage of expanded guidance on designing and facilitating retrospectives--based on the questions and concerns of practitioners worldwide. Gain insight into choosing a broad or narrow focus for retrospectives. Explore how to use both objective and subjective data to enable more effective conversations. Learn how to make decisions that stick. Understand the importance of psychological safety and how to foster it in retrospectives. Elevate issues and engage managers in systemic change. Learn from many real-life stories that demonstrate how our advice has impacted retrospectives at organizations around the globe. Finally, find a set of recommended flows that reveal the authors'' thought process in designing retrospectives for scenarios teams faced in real life.

This is a great collaboration of an excellent translated book into Vietnamese from Dedicated Vietnamese Writers who left the birth country and live abroad in pursuit of Liberty and Justice. The Original Book " Final battle" was written by Author David Horowitz and published by Humanix Books in early 2023. David Horowitz warned a grave crisis, threat of Democracy and how the United States is facing today. We encourgage the non Vietnamese American read the original book which serve as a handbook for the salvation of The United States of America stated by Dennis Prager. Clove Leaves Publishing a small and independent publisher has been working with Humanix upon request of Vietnamese American Conservative Alliance, Vietnamese-American Republican and Mr Hoa Truong living in Australia, an Boat People escaping out of Vietnamese in the 80''s and a great anti-communism Critic Writer translate and publish the book in Vietnamese Version. We are asking Vietnamese living around the Globe to read the Vietnamese Edition book "Tran Chien Cuoi Cung" before it is too late. Would you like a one -party socialist state in America? We, Vietnamese knew the fall of Saigon and how we have been living under Communist country. Read this book "Tran Chien Cuoi Cung" 2024 co the la cuoc bau cu cuoi cung and if the actual collapse occurs in America, you can see how it fells.

In The Fords: An American Epic, Peter Collier and David Horowitz tell the riveting story of three generations of Fords, a dramatic story of conflict between fathers and sons played out against the backdrop of America’s greatest industrial empire. The story begins with the first Henry Ford, the mechanical wizard, tinkerer and “mad genius” who drove the automobile into the heart of American life and conquered the world with it. An American Original, by the end of his life he had become an embittered crank who so possessively loved the company he built that when his son, Edsel, tried to change it to suit the changing times, Henry destroyed him. It was left to Edsel’s son Henry II to avenge him and save the Ford Motor Company in the postwar world. From the details of the first Henry’s illicit affair and illegitimate son, to the life and loves of “Hank the Deuce” and his celebrated feud with Lee Iacocca, this is an engrossing account of a vital chapter in American history. The authors have added new material to this classic work, showing how Henry II’s line lost out to the line of his brother William Clay Ford in the quest to control this most American of companies in the twenty-first century. In addition to The Fords, Peter Collier and David Horowitz are the authors of dynastic biographies of the Kennedys, Roosevelts, Rockefellers, and Fondas.

Mortality and Faith is the second half of an autobiography of David Horowitz whose first installment, Radical Son, was published more than twenty years ago. It completes the account of his life from where the first book left off to his seventy-eighth year. In contrast to Radical Son whose focus was his political odyssey, Mortality and Faith was conceived as a meditation on age, and on our common progress towards an end which is both final and opaque. These primal facts affect all we see and do, and force us to answer the questions as to why we are here and where we are going with conjectures that can only be taken on faith. Consequently, an equally important theme of this work is its exploration of the beliefs we embrace to answer these questions, and how the answers impact our lives.

The Black Book of the American Left collects all of Horowitz''s conservative writings over the last thirty years—at once a sharp incision to the heart of the left''s agenda; an exploration of routes conservatives might take in response to its permanent assault on America''s values and power; and a unique trip log showing the evolving intellectual journey of one of our bravest and most original thinkers. Volume 8 focuses on the successful campaign by the left to subvert the curricula of collegiate institutions and transform entire academic departments and schools into doctrinal training centers for their social and political causes.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America — and the world. One of the nation’s foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author, and a mentor to many of Donald Trump’s key advisers, David Horowitz presents a White House battle plan to halt the Democrats’ march to extinguish the values America holds dear. Big Agenda details President Trump’s likely moves, including his: • First wave of executive orders — restoring Guantanamo, Keystone XL, nixing amnesty • Surprising judicial appointments — Supreme Court and the federal judiciary • Radical changes to federal rules & regulations — Obamacare, EPA overreach, and a New Deal for black America With the White House and Senate in GOP hands, and a Supreme Court soon to follow, President Trump will have a greater opportunity than even Ronald Reagan had to reshape the American political landscape while securing the nation’s vital security interests abroad. “No president since FDR and his famed ‘100 Days’ has the chance Donald Trump has,” Horowitz argues. But he writes that the GOP and Trump must recognize they are not fighting policy ideas, but an ideology — a progressive one with a radical agenda to stop Trump in an effort to reduce America’s power and greatness. Big Agenda is a rallying cry and indispensable guide for how to claim ultimate victory for the conservative cause. Horowitz writes, “One battle is over, but there are many more to come. This book is a guide to fighting the opponents of the conservative restoration. It identifies who the adversaries are — their methods and their motivations. It describes their agenda — not merely the particular issues with which they advance their goal, but the destructive goal itself. And it lays out a strategy that can defeat them.”

The basic facts of David Horowitz’s political odyssey are well known. A “red diaper baby” who grew up in what he has called the ghetto of communism, he became a leading Marxist “theorist” in the early 1960s and one of the godfathers of the New Left. But following America’s defeat in Vietnam, Horowitz began to reevaluate the damage those commitments had done to the country and embrace conservatism. The Black Book of the American Left is the result of that concerted intellectual effort. When completed, it will collect all of Horowitz’s conservative writings over the last thirty years—at once a sharp incision to the heart of the left’s agenda; an exploration of routes conservatives might take in response to its permanent assault on America’s values and power; and a unique trip log showing the evolving intellectual journey of one of our bravest and most original thinkers. The present volume, “The Left in Power: From Clinton to Obama,” traces the coup that transformed the Democratic Party from a party of the American center to a party of the hardcore left. Horowitz shows how this process began when the Democrats began to adopt the New Left’s anti-individualist, anti-capitalist, and anti-American dogma in the mid-1970s; attained critical mass when Hillary Clinton brought a cohort of leftists to power during her husband’s presidency; and was completed with the election of Barack Obama, a politician born, bred and trained in the progressive movement. As a result of this long march, the Democrats now support “causes” that presidents such as Harry Truman and JFK would have abhorred. At home: illegal immigration, race preferences and redistributionism. Abroad: retreat in the war on terror, appeasement of the Hamas terrorists, and nuclearization of America’s chief enemy, the Islamic Republic of Iran. Intellectually provocative and forcefully argued, this volume of The Black Book of the American Left, like its predecessors, shows why David Horowitz is the worst enemy of the Left and a national treasure for conservatives.

Progressive Racism is about the transformation of the civil rights movement from a cause opposing racism—the denigration of individuals on the basis of their skin color - into a movement endorsing race preferences and privileges for select groups based on their skin color. It describes the tragic changes of this cause under the leadership of racial extortionists like Al Sharpton, who took a movement in support of American pluralism and turned it into a movement governed by a lynch mob mentality in which white Americans are regarded as guilty before the fact and African Americans are regarded as innocent even when the facts prove them guilty, even when their crimes are committed against other African Americans. The author of Progressive Racism, David Horowitz, is a witness to these events and betrayals. Horowitz was a participant in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and in 2001 led a national campaign against a proposal for “slavery reparations” that would have required Hispanic, Asian and other Americans who had no role in slavery to pay reparations to African Americans who were never slaves. Progressive Racism examines how the term “racism” has been drained of its original meaning and is now used as a weapon to bludgeon opponents into silence. It describes how the so-called civil rights movement has become an oppressor of African Americans by supporting a failed school system that blights the lives of millions of African American children and a welfare system that has destroyed the black family and created a “underclass” dependent on government charity. It is an indictment of the hypocrisy that today governs discourse on race issues, so that a lynch mob in Ferguson, Missouri seeking to hang a police officer because he was white can be described as a civil rights protest and be supported by the first African American president of the United States.

David Horowitz spent the first part of his life in the world of the Communist-progressive left, a politics he inherited from his mother and father, and later in the New Left as one of its founders. When the wreckage he and his comrades had created became clear to him in the mid-1970s, he left. Three decades of second thoughts then made him this movement’s principal intellectual antagonist. “For better or worse,” as Horowitz writes in the preface, “I have been condemned to spend the rest of my days attempting to understand how the left pursues the agendas from which I have separated myself, and why.” When Horowitz began his odyssey, the left had already escaped the political ghetto to which his parents’ generation and his own had been confined. Today, it has become the dominant force in America’s academic and media cultures, electing a president and achieving a position from which it can shape America’s future. How it achieved its present success and what that success portends are the overarching subjects of Horowitz’s conservative writings. Through the unflinching focus of one singularly engaged witness, the identity of a destructive movement that constantly morphs itself in order to conceal its identity and mission becomes disturbingly clear. Horowitz reflects on the years he spent at war with his own country, collaborating with and confronting radical figures like Huey Newton, Tom Hayden and Billy Ayers, as he made his transition from what the writer Paul Berman described as the American left’s “most important theorist” to its most determined enemy.

Get ready for Volume 6 in The Black Book of the American Left series, featuring the collected writings of David Horowitz.

Continuing his acclaimed series of meditations on life and death, David Horowitz turns to the consolation that his marriage and family have brought him amid the trials of age and illness. You''re Going to Be Dead One Day is a political warrior''s reflection on the mysterious rejuvenating power of love, the bittersweet way in which our children reward us while also leaving us behind, and how kindnesses to others bring blessings home.

Intellectually provocative and forcefully argued, Volume 3 of The Black Book of the American Left shows why David Horowitz is the worst enemy of the Left and a national treasure for conservatives. In The Great Betrayal, Horowitz focuses on events from 9/11 to the Iraq War. The essays chronicle how efforts to remove the Saddam regime, initially supported by both major political parties, were cynically abandoned by the Democratic Party whose leaders then conducted a five year campaign against the war while American troops were still on the battlefield. These politicians were, Horowitz shows, acting in concert with "progressives" who, without overtly supporting the Saddam regime as their political ancestors had the Kremlin, were nonetheless resuming the left’s historic role as frontier guards for the enemies of the United States.

Battle-scarred political warrior David Horowitz says it’s time for conservatives to take the gloves off—and take our country back. America is at a crucial turning point in her history, and Republicans have been losing ground to Democrats for too long. In his new book Take No Prisoners, Horowitz sounds a clarion call for conservatives to use liberals’ political playbook against them in the fight for America''s future. No longer can the GOP afford to let Democrats brazenly claim the moral high ground while the Democratic agenda bankrupts hardworking Americans. No longer can the Right respond to the Left''s emotional attacks with appeals to reason. Year after year, liberals have won voters'' hearts and minds by selling a fantasy of moral righteousness. Republicans need to learn from Democrats'' successes in order to turn the tide, David Horowitz argues, and they need to do it now. From his days as a founder of the radical New Left movement in the 1960s to his storied career as a leading conservative activist, Horowitz has a lifetime of experience in battleground politics. Now he lays out a winning political strategy for the Right that can save the country from sliding into economic and social ruin. If conservatives want a better future for America, they need to be able to beat liberals at their own game—and David Horowitz is teaching them how.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Examines the influence of rich and powerful left-wing organizations and politicians, drawing connections between the Obama administration and progressive groups to explore what the authors believe to be socialist agendas behind hot-button issues.

Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions.

En 1947, à la demande des Juifs vivant en Palestine, et qui voulaient que le foyer national juif originellement promis voie enfin le jour, les Nations Unies ont voté la partition du Mandat résiduel. À ce moment, un mouvement pour créer un État Palestinien n''existait toujours pas. Nul ne parlait de nation palestinienne . Nul n''a parlé de peuple palestinien avant que la notion soit inventée, dans la deuxième moitié des années 1960 et la population arabe palestinienne a été très largement constituée d''immigrants arabes venus des pays voisins et aimantés par le dynamisme créé par les immigrants juifs. L''invention du peuple palestinien eut, et a toujours, un dessein très clair la volonté politico-existentielle de détruire l''État d''Israël. Personne n''a à chercher à savoir si un groupe a le droit d''exister et est valable, bien sûr, pour chaque nation, à la seule condition qu''elle ne maintienne pas une identité exclusivement en opposition à un autre peuple dans une volonté génocidaire. Le droit de vivre n''a pas à montrer ses papiers. C''est l''amour de la mort qui doit désormais fournir ses preuves.

New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz is famous for his conversion from 1960s radicalism. In A Point in Time, his lyrical yet startling new book, he offers meditations on an even deeper conversion, one which touches on the very essence of every human life. Part memoir and part philosophical reflection, A Point in Time focuses on man’s inevitable search for meaning—and how for those without religious belief, that search often leads to a faith in historical progress, one that is bound to disappoint. Horowitz agrees with Marcus Aurelius, whose stoic philosophy provides a focal point for the book, “He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything that has taken place from all eternity and everything that will be for time without end.…”

It’s no secret that our universities have become hotbeds of radical leftist thought. While professors and administrators pay lip-service to concepts like open-mindedness and robust debate, they try to squash any opinion that doesn’t match their radical left world view. World-renowned campus activist David Horowitz wants to bring diversity back to the college campus. Horowitz describes his decades-long campaign against intellectual bigotry, grade discrimination, and the denial of basic rights to any and all whose opinions diverge from the extreme liberal orthodoxy.

After losing a loved one, "pay attention to the ways in which your relationship continues." So advised Sarah Horowitz in an interview she gave the day before her unexpected death. In A Cracking of the Heart, David Horowitz explores the legacy of his extraordinary daughter''s short life, and narrates his quest for a deeper understanding of the child he lost. A remarkable woman and gifted writer, Sarah was afflicted with a birth condition that, while complicating and ultimately shortening her life, never affected her dreams. From an early age, she displayed inspiring courage in facing her own difficulties and boundless compassion. Alternately searing and uplifting, this book reconciles what could have been with what is, taking the reader through a father''s love, frustration, admiration, and grief, to what lies beyond.

“David Horowitz has single-handedly exposed the intellectual corruption that exists within the classrooms of American colleges. Like all forms of corruption, indoctrination flourishes when kept in the dark. Here, Horowitz turns on the bright lights to expose what has become profoundly wrong with our colleges and universities. We are all in his debt.” –Ward Connerly, former regent, University of California David Horowitz and coauthor Jacob Laksin take us inside twelve major universities where radical agendas have been institutionalized and scholarly standards abandoned. The schools they examine are not the easily avoided bottom of the barrel. Rather, they are an all-too-representative sampling of American higher education today. Horowitz and Laksin have conducted the first comprehensive, in-depth, multiyear investigation of what is being taught in colleges and universities across the country–public to private, from large state schools to elite Ivy League institutions. They have systematically scrutinized course catalogs, reading lists, professors’ biographies, scholarly records, and the first-person testimonies of students, administrators, and faculty. Citing more than 150 specific courses, they reveal how academic standards have been violated and demonstrate beyond dispute that systematic indoctrination in radical politics is now an integral part of the liberal arts curriculum of America’s colleges. The extreme ideological cant that today’s students are being fed includes: • Promoting Marxist approaches as keys to understanding human societies–with no mention of the bloody legacy of these doctrines and total collapse in the real world of the societies they created • Instilling the idea that racism, brutally enforced by a “white male patriarchy” to oppress people of color and other marginalized groups, has been the organizing principle of American society throughout its history and into the present • Requiring students to believe that gender is not a biological characteristic but a socially created aspect of human behavior designed by men to oppress women • Persuading students that America and Israel are “imperialistic” and “racist” states and that the latter has no more right to exist than the South African regime in the days of apartheid In page after shocking page, Horowitz and Laksin demonstrate that America’s colleges and universities are platforms for a virulent orthodoxy that threatens academic ideals and academic freedom. In place of scholarship and the dispassionate pursuit of truth that have long been the hallmarks of higher learning, the new militancy embraces activist zealotry and ideological fervor. In disturbingly large segments of today’s universities, students are no longer taught how to think but are told what to think.

Barack Obama''s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model provides an understanding of the roots of the current administration''s effort to subject America to a wholesale transformation by looking at the work of one of the President''s heroes -- radical Chicago "community organizer" Saul Alinsky. The guru of Sixties radicals, Alinsky urged his followers to be flexible and opportunistic and say anything to get power, which they can then use to destroy the existing society and its economic system. Alinsky died in 1972, but left behind an organization in Chicago dedicated to his malicious ideas. This team hired Barack Obama in 1986 when he was 23 and taught him how to organize for radical transformation. In this insightful new booklet, Horowitz discusses Alinsky''s work in the 60s and his advice to radicals to seize any weapon to advance their cause. This became the philosophy of Alinskyite organizations such as ACORN and to Alinsky disciples Van Jones, a self described "communist" who served as President Obama''s "Green Czar" until he was forced to resign when his extremist ideas became public. - Publisher.

In this well researched and carefully argued book, Horowitz traces the origins of the reparations movement and its implications for American education and culture.

"Ideological hatred of whites has become a growth industry, boosted by "civil rights" activists and liberal academics. These once-youthful radicals, now entrenched in positions of power and influence, peddle a warmed-over version of the Marxist creed that supported the communist empire and excuses intolerance to the point of murder. Betraying the legacy of Martin Luther King, this unholy alliance of black civil rights leaders and white radicals threatens to undermine America''s moral, political, and economic institutions. ... Undeterred, so it seems, by America''s Anglo-Saxon roots, people of every race and creed still flock by the millions to these shores, claiming a share of our unparalleled rights and opportunities. Yet, with staggering hypocrisy, a clique of racial warlords and academic malcontents indict our every institution for racial oppression."--Publisher description.

The bestselling author of "Radical Son" offers a searing critique of cultural trends--including multiculturalism, radical feminism, and economic socialism--and calls for the restoration of American ideals.