George Kimball – författare

When George Kimball (1840-1916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in 1861, he'd been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned to newspaper life. There he remained, working for the Boston Journal for the next four decades. A natural storyteller, Kimball wrote often about his military service, always with a newspaperman's eye for detail and respect for the facts, relating only what he'd witnessed firsthand and recalled with remarkable clarity. Collected in A Corporal's Story, Kimball's writings form a unique narrative of one man's experience in the Civil War, viewed through a perspective enhanced by time and reflection.With the Twelfth Massachusetts, Kimball saw action at many of the most critical and ferocious battles in the eastern theater of the war, such as Second Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg - engagements he vividly renders from the infantry soldier's point of view. Aware that his readers might not be familiar with what he and comrades had gone through, he also describes many aspects of army life, from the most mundane to the most dramatic. In his accounts of the desperate action and immediate horrors of war, Kimball clearly conveys to readers the cost of preserving the Union. Never vindictive toward Confederates, he embodies instead the late nineteenth-century's spirit of reconciliation.Editors Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff have added an introduction and explanatory notes, as well as maps and illustrations, to provide further context and clarity, making George Kimball's memoir one of the most complete and interesting accounts of what it was to fight in the Civil War - and what that experience looked like through the lens of time.

When George Kimball (1840–1916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in 1861, he’d been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned to newspaper life. There he remained, working for the Boston Journal for the next four decades. A natural storyteller, Kimball wrote often about his military service, always with a newspaperman’s eye for detail and respect for the facts, relating only what he’d witnessed firsthand and recalled with remarkable clarity. Collected in A Corporal’s Story, Kimball’s writings form a unique narrative of one man’s experience in the Civil War, viewed through a perspective enhanced by time and reflection. With the Twelfth Massachusetts, Kimball saw action at many of the most critical and ferocious battles in the eastern theater of the war, such as Second Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg—engagements he vividly renders from the infantry soldier’s point of view. Aware that his readers might not be familiar with what he and comrades had gone through, he also describes many aspects of army life, from the most mundane to the most dramatic. In his accounts of the desperate action and immediate horrors of war, Kimball clearly conveys to readers the cost of preserving the Union. Never vindictive toward Confederates, he embodies instead the late nineteenth-century’s spirit of reconciliation. Editors Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff have added an introduction and explanatory notes, as well as maps and illustrations, to provide further context and clarity, making George Kimball’s memoir one of the most complete and interesting accounts of what it was to fight in the Civil War—and what that experience looked like through the lens of time.

Outsourcing – entrusting major operations to others, at home or abroad – offers businesses an effective means to achieve efficiencies, improve productivity, and transform operations with advanced technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This book provides clear, pragmatic guidance on the legal, commercial, and practical issues in outsourcing agreements and relationships. The authors draw on extensive experience and deep industry knowledge to present strategies and tactics for drafting and negotiating different kinds of outsourcing contracts. The text includes sample provisions and detailed commentary that will help lawyers, business executives, managers, and consultants better understand and navigate the often-complex dynamics of outsourcing.Key Features:Explains the genesis and evolution of outsourcing, from data centres to business processes, as well as onshore and offshore performance.Covers a wide range of engagements and agreements.Analyzes structural frameworks for outsourcing transactions, including master service agreements and supporting documents that govern price, performance, and service levels.Evaluates risks associated with outsourcing, emphasizing an effective allocation of risks and responsibilities, including their financial and regulatory implications, to help assure successful outcomes.Discusses the impact of such transformative technologies as cloud computing, generative AI, deep machine learning, robotic process automation and digital transformationsExamines emerging EU and US regulation of artificial intelligence in relation to legal compliance in outsourcing engagements.Outsourcing Agreements is an essential guide for practising lawyers specializing in commercial law, as well as executives, managers, and consultants negotiating or overseeing outsourcing engagements.

Outsourcing - entrusting major operations to others, at home or abroad - offers businesses an effective means to achieve efficiencies, improve productivity, and transform operations with advanced technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This book provides clear, pragmatic guidance on the legal, commercial, and practical issues in outsourcing agreements and relationships. The authors draw on extensive experience and deep industry knowledge to present strategies and tactics for drafting and negotiating different kinds of outsourcing contracts. The text includes sample provisions and detailed commentary that will help lawyers, business executives, managers, and consultants better understand and navigate the often-complex dynamics of outsourcing.Key Features:Explains the genesis and evolution of outsourcing, from data centres to business processes, as well as onshore and offshore performance.Covers a wide range of engagements and agreements.Analyzes structural frameworks for outsourcing transactions, including master service agreements and supporting documents that govern price, performance, and service levels.Evaluates risks associated with outsourcing, emphasizing an effective allocation of risks and responsibilities, including their financial and regulatory implications, to help assure successful outcomes.Discusses the impact of such transformative technologies as cloud computing, generative AI, deep machine learning, robotic process automation and digital transformationsExamines emerging EU and US regulation of artificial intelligence in relation to legal compliance in outsourcing engagements.Outsourcing Agreements is an essential guide for practising lawyers specializing in commercial law, as well as executives, managers, and consultants negotiating or overseeing outsourcing engagements.

Outsourcing – entrusting major operations to others, at home or abroad – offers businesses an effective means to achieve efficiencies, improve productivity, and transform operations with advanced technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This book provides clear, pragmatic guidance on the legal, commercial, and practical issues in outsourcing agreements and relationships. The authors draw on extensive experience and deep industry knowledge to present strategies and tactics for drafting and negotiating different kinds of outsourcing contracts. The text includes sample provisions and detailed commentary that will help lawyers, business executives, managers, and consultants better understand and navigate the often-complex dynamics of outsourcing.Key Features:Explains the genesis and evolution of outsourcing, from data centres to business processes, as well as onshore and offshore performance.Covers a wide range of engagements and agreements.Analyzes structural frameworks for outsourcing transactions, including master service agreements and supporting documents that govern price, performance, and service levels.Evaluates risks associated with outsourcing, emphasizing an effective allocation of risks and responsibilities, including their financial and regulatory implications, to help assure successful outcomes.Discusses the impact of such transformative technologies as cloud computing, generative AI, deep machine learning, robotic process automation and digital transformationsExamines emerging EU and US regulation of artificial intelligence in relation to legal compliance in outsourcing engagements.Outsourcing Agreements is an essential guide for practising lawyers specializing in commercial law, as well as executives, managers, and consultants negotiating or overseeing outsourcing engagements.

Outsourcing - entrusting major operations to others, at home or abroad - offers businesses an effective means to achieve efficiencies, improve productivity, and transform operations with advanced technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This book provides clear, pragmatic guidance on the legal, commercial, and practical issues in outsourcing agreements and relationships. The authors draw on extensive experience and deep industry knowledge to present strategies and tactics for drafting and negotiating different kinds of outsourcing contracts. The text includes sample provisions and detailed commentary that will help lawyers, business executives, managers, and consultants better understand and navigate the often-complex dynamics of outsourcing.Key Features:Explains the genesis and evolution of outsourcing, from data centres to business processes, as well as onshore and offshore performance.Covers a wide range of engagements and agreements.Analyzes structural frameworks for outsourcing transactions, including master service agreements and supporting documents that govern price, performance, and service levels.Evaluates risks associated with outsourcing, emphasizing an effective allocation of risks and responsibilities, including their financial and regulatory implications, to help assure successful outcomes.Discusses the impact of such transformative technologies as cloud computing, generative AI, deep machine learning, robotic process automation and digital transformationsExamines emerging EU and US regulation of artificial intelligence in relation to legal compliance in outsourcing engagements.Outsourcing Agreements is an essential guide for practising lawyers specializing in commercial law, as well as executives, managers, and consultants negotiating or overseeing outsourcing engagements.

From the legendary Irish Times columnist and award-winning veteran American sports journalist George Kimball, author of the bestselling Four Kings, comes this compilation of boxing-related commentary, criticism, reportage and analysis, representing the best of his work over the last decade. This is a hard-hitting look at the current state of boxing, drawing on columns and articles from a wide variety of sources including the Irish Times, TheSweetScience.com and BoxingTalk.com. Kimball pulls no punches as he dissects the triumphs, defeats and mistakes of the major figures in boxing from yesterday and today including Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya and dozens more.Sadly, George Kimball passed away in July 2011. This hugely entertaining and informative collection is a fitting tribute to his long association with the sport of boxing and displays just why Kimball is so warmly regarded. This is boxing writing at its best from a master of the craft.

Named a best book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, At the Fights is a gritty and glittering anthology of the very best writing about boxing. Here are Jack London on the immortal Jack Johnson; Richard Wright on Joe Louis’s historic victory over Max Schmeling; A. J. Liebling’s brilliantly comic portrait of a manager who really identifies with his fighter; Jimmy Cannon on Archie Moore, the greatest fighter of the 1950s; James Baldwin and Gay Talese on Floyd Patterson’s epic fight with Sonny Liston; George Plimpton on Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X; Norman Mailer on the Rumble in the Jungle; Mark Kram on the Thrilla in Manila; Pete Hamill on legendary trainer and manager Cus D’Amato; Mark Kriegel on Oscar De La Hoya; and David Remnick and Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson. National Book Award–winning novelist Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) offers a foreword and, in a new preface, John Schulian pays tribute to his co-editor, George Kimball, who lost his battle with cancer in 2011.

Sports fans and boxing enthusiasts alike will love this compelling study of the resurgence of boxing in the early 1980s - and the four 'greats' who effected that change. Four Kings captures the contests, fighters and the period with a wonderful perception and vividly conjures up those by-gone smoky and raucous ringside nights in Vegas...'Thrilling, insightful and often humourous' - The Independent'A flawless and singular account of fights that remain potent and important decades after the final bell' - Irish Times'A fascinating read' - ***** Reader review'Very rarely is a non-fiction book so riveting it's almost impossible to put down but this is one of those books' - ***** Reader review'Beautifully written and absolutely fascinating' - ***** Reader review'Outstanding' - ***** Reader review*****************************************************************************By the late 1970s, boxing had lapsed into a moribund state and interest in it was on the wane. In 1980, however, the sport was resuscitated by a riveting series of bouts involving an improbably dissimilar quartet: Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvellous Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran.Like Ali and Frazier, Dempsey and Tunney, Robinson and LaMotta, the 'Four Kings of the Ring' brought out the best in each other, producing unprecedented multi-million-dollar gates along the way. Each of the nine bouts between the four men was memorable in its own way and at least two of them - Leonard-Hearns in 1981 and Hagler-Hearns in 1985 - are commonly included on any list of the greatest fights of all time. The controversial outcome of another - the 1987 Leonard-Hagler fight - remains the subject of heated debates amongst fans to this day.In Four Kings, award-winning journalist George Kimball documents the remarkable effect they had on the sport and argues that we will never see their likes again. Leonard, Hagler, Hearns and Duran didn't set out to save boxing from itself in the post-Ali era, but somehow they managed to do so.

From Jack London to Joyce Carol Oates, The Hurt Business is the ultimate boxing book covering a century of the greatest fighter and the writers who have followed 'the sweet science'.Beginning with Jack London's account of the 1910 championship bout between Jack Johnson and James Jeffries (for which the Call of the Wildman called for and coined the term "The Great White Hope"), and ending with Carlo Rotella's 2002 homage to Larry Holmes ("Champion at Twilight"), The Hurt Business is a near century's worth of rip-roaring reveal. Some of it comes ringside, like Norman Mailer et; some of it comes from the gym, like Pete Hamill's "Up the Stairs with Cus D'Amato"; and some of it comes from so far behind the scenes you feel as if you've been eavesdropping - Thomas Hauser's excerpt from The Black Lights.For fans of Norman Mailer's The Fight or George Kimball's Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing, The Hurt Business belongs on the shelves of any fan of boxing or sublime sports writing.

From Jack London to Joyce Carol Oates, The Hurt Business is the ultimate boxing book covering a century of the greatest fighter and the writers who have followed 'the sweet science'.Beginning with Jack London's account of the 1910 championship bout between Jack Johnson and James Jeffries (for which the Call of the Wildman called for and coined the term "The Great White Hope"), and ending with Carlo Rotella's 2002 homage to Larry Holmes ("Champion at Twilight"), The Hurt Business is a near century's worth of rip-roaring reveal. Some of it comes ringside, like Norman Mailer et; some of it comes from the gym, like Pete Hamill's "Up the Stairs with Cus D'Amato"; and some of it comes from so far behind the scenes you feel as if you've been eavesdropping - Thomas Hauser's excerpt from The Black Lights.For fans of Norman Mailer's The Fight or George Kimball's Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing, The Hurt Business belongs on the shelves of any fan of boxing or sublime sports writing.