The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
US Sailing 5 Stars Perhaps the best teaching/coaching “best practices” overview I have ever read This volume complements – with some overlap but certainly worth reading on its own merits – the US Naval Offshore Sail Training Squadron Experiential Leadership Guide, which cites this books as recommended additional reading. Worthy of immediate and continuous note …
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Patrick Meier 5.0 out of 5 stars World-Changing Book Documenting Intersection of Humans, Technology, and Policy-Ethics, February 2, 2015 This is a hugely important work, one that responds to the critical needs outlined by Micah Sifry in The Big Disconnect: Why The Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet) and others such as myself writing these past …
David Tucker 2 Stars Half-Baked Intelligence The author of this book, David Tucker, appears to be one of those folks whose careers have often put them on the fringes of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), but who have only superficially been involved in any aspect of intelligence production. Tucker compounds this deficiency by an unwillingness …
David Tucker 3.0 out of 5 stars A poor thesis, rotten sources, with no quality control in the literature review, January 27, 2015 This is a hugely disappointing book. It reads like a graduate thesis badly overseen (with zero in the way of serious literature search). While the author has some experience in the foreign …
Robert Brown Butler 5.0 out of 5 stars Six-Star Gold Nugget — a Life-Saving, Property-Saving Keeper, January 27, 2015 Way beyond my expectations, this book is a six-star instant classic that is not only essential for anyone that wants to be thoughtful about being prepared and investing a penny now to save thousands later, but …
Jack Coote Revised by Paul Gelder 5 Stars Wake Up Call for Anyone Responsible for a Small Vessel and Its Souls This is a hugely important book that should be in any personal or organizational (e.g. sail training program) library. It is organized into the following parts: weather (and waves), faulty navigation (poor thinking), failure …
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Erica Levine Powers and Beth E. Kinne (editors) 4 stars. Useful contribution badly marketed and badly priced The authors, being from New York, know what the NYT and Mother Jones both missed in their stories on Governor Cuomo banning fracking in New York: that it was a legal couple Helen and David Slottje that went …
