The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Beyond 5–SPECTACULAR–Integrative & Inspiring, August 17, 2010 David Perkins I bumped this book to the front of the line after reading the galley of Reflexive Practice: Professional Thinking for a Turbulent World which in turn bumped The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education that I had half-finished. The three together make for …
Older Version of Updated Book Now Being Offered on Amazon August 9, 2010 David Perkins I was on the verge of buying this book when I realized that the author has a number of new books out, including Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education, which I have bought and will …
Phenomenal “Primary” Source Relevant Today July 26, 2010 Nick Cullather This is the original, Stanford has also just produced a new version, Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala 1952-1954. I bought this used and not only loved the speed of delivery, but the notes from the previous owner. My next …
Among the food scares in recent years was a deadly E. coli outbreak tied to spinach. In most cases, it’s unknown how or why people get ill from what they eat. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / September 15, 2006) Phi Beta Iota: The second sentence is ignorant. It is well-known that between industrial farming …
For a Serving Elite, Genius–Out of Touch with Non-Elites February 20, 2010 Anne-Marie Slaughter Now that my own book INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability is at the printer am back into reading and really looking forward to catching up with the 25 books on my “to do” shelf. This one jumped to …
Ten Years Late, More Whimper than Roar February 7, 2010 David Walker I was watching David Walker as he served nine of his fifteen years at Comptroller General, with light-weight whimpers to Congress until he finally got Peter Peterson to bail him out of government and give him a chunk of cash for making movies …
A central critique in my book, Defense Facts of Life: the Plans/Reality Mismatch (Westview,1985), what the trend toward increasing technical complexity in the Pentagon’s weapons and organizational arrangements caused all sorts of self destructive pathologiess — which I described in considerable detail and in subsequent studies. I defined “complexity” as a quality of the “whole” …
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