Average customer rating:
- ONE WORD: GLOBALIZATION
- The Pentagon,s New Map - a recipe for continuing millitary catastrophies.
- Must read
- A Most Important and Dangerous Book
- This book projects the future - and its right on in Iraq
|
The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| Military
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Military Science
| History
| Subjects
| Books
U.S.
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
International Security
| Freedom & Security
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside Nonfiction Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0425202399 |
Amazon.com
This bold and important book strives to be a practical "strategy for a Second American Century." In this brilliantly argued work, Thomas Barnett calls globalization "this country's gift to history" and explains why its wide dissemination is critical to the security of not only America but the entire world. As a senior military analyst for the U.S. Naval War College, Barnett is intimately familiar with the culture of the Pentagon and the State Department (both of which he believes are due for significant overhauls). He explains how the Pentagon, still in shock at the rapid dissolution of the once evil empire, spent the 1990s grasping for a long-term strategy to replace containment. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Barnett argues, revealed the gap between an outdated Cold War-era military and a radically different one needed to deal with emerging threats. He believes that America is the prime mover in developing a "future worth creating" not because of its unrivaled capacity to wage war, but due to its ability to ensure security around the world. Further, he believes that the U.S. has a moral responsibility to create a better world and the way he proposes to do that is by bringing all nations into the fold of globalization, or what he calls connectedness. Eradicating disconnectedness, therefore, is "the defining security task of our age." His stunning predictions of a U.S. annexation of much of Latin America and Canada within 50 years as well as an end to war in the foreseeable future guarantee that the book will be controversial. And that's good. The Pentagon's New Map deserves to be widely discussed. Ultimately, however, the most impressive aspects of the book is not its revolutionary ideas but its overwhelming optimism. Barnett wants the U.S. to pursue the dream of global peace with the same zeal that was applied to preventing global nuclear war with the former Soviet Union. High-level civilian policy makers and top military leaders are already familiar with his vision of the future—this book is a briefing for the rest of us and it cannot be ignored. --Shawn Carkonen
Book Description
Building upon the works of Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, and Francis Fukuyama, The Pentagon's New Map describes recent U.S. military history and strategy, discusses where America's forces will likely be heading in the near future, outlines the crucial role the nation needs to play in establishing international stability, and provides much needed hope at one of the most difficult times in American history.
Customer Reviews:
ONE WORD: GLOBALIZATION.......2007-09-15
I give this book 5 stars for educating me about how the Pentagon thinks, organizes and deals with Internation issues such as military conflicts.
The "New MAP" refers to the POST COLD WAR ERA. Measuring up possible future world powers vs. multiple smaller conflicts, and how "GLOBALIZATION" is steering countries like China towards becoming more Democractic over time.
Mr. Barnett describes his role at the Pentagon, and politics that steer decisions in war time or peace time (Defense Budget inter fighting).
I'm still reading this book, and I know the data is a bit outdated, but for someone newer to this subject, it's still informative and facinating to read, if this subject interests you.
The Pentagon,s New Map - a recipe for continuing millitary catastrophies........2007-06-27
This book is pure salesmanship for a person and a point of view. It is not fun to read, but it is probably important that it be read because it provides insight into the incredibly mundane world of selling military solutions to congress and the administration. What are touted as great ideas turn out to be simplistic interpretations of the world situation based upon a lack of understanding of culutral diversity and concern for human rights. Because it is important for the public to understand how the U.S. gets into stupid, counterproductive militeary adventrures it is imporant that this book be widely read, however it is tedious and tiresome to be continually barraged with the authors misguided and unsophisticated views.
Must read.......2007-05-18
This book is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the world at large. Barnett puts issues of security and economics within the context of globalization. A true guide to our 21st century universe.
A Most Important and Dangerous Book.......2007-04-03
Thomas P. M. Barnett's "The Pentagon's New Map" is one of the most important Post-Cold War books on defense, and possibly THE most important book on American national security written in decades. "The Pentagon's New Map" is also one of the most, if not THE most dangerous books on American national security written in the same timeframe.
Dr Barnett's `Functional Core and Gap' model of the world is a compelling construct for America's policymakers to use in future national security planning endeavors -- executed as part of a comprehensive American (and Core) grand strategy to shrink the Gap that is the source of so much of the recent and current world strife.
The Core-Gap construct and analysis alone earns this book a place on the shelf of any serious military library. It goes far in clearly identifying much of the world's systemic problems and provides a powerful argument for use in framing the development of possible strategies and tactics to form a long-term strategy and designing long-term solutions. In short, the Core-Gap construct is a superb starting point for analyzing future security needs and developing a national `grand strategy'.
The author correctly signals his world model's greatest strength as being the `repeatability' of the Core-Gap construct. That is, understanding of the construct is compelling and tends to convince any rational audience of the truth of it -- regardless of political party or position in the American ideological spectrum. What makes this construct even more compelling is the truth of it comes through in spite of the book's surrounding conceptual (no convincing rationale for keeping current defense spending at historically low levels for example, and oversimplification of what it takes to make and maintain a `Leviathan' for another), and perceptual (the author's perspective benefits AND suffers from having been `inside the Navy', but not `of it') missteps. All these errors in the early chapters are irritations, but do not detract at all from the beauty of the Core-Gap model and understanding as to how and where the world is (or is not) working.
However, problems with the author's arguments in the first half of the book that are introduced as part of convincing the reader of the `truth' of the Core-Gap model unfortunately multiply and cascade later in the text-- and become foundations for much of what is wrong with the second half of the book.
`Repeatability' begins to fade in Chapter 5 and takes a beating from Chapter 6 onward, when Dr Barnett begins expanding on ideas and providing the details of his vision. When the author lays out the `hows' and `whats' whereby the Core shrinks the Gap via his prescriptions for structural changes to the United States and the world, it is then that the gamut of probable, possible, and fanciful inexplicably get rolled up into the `inevitable'. Dr. Barnett goes to great lengths to present the Core-Gap model within a logical framework as ideology-free as possible (which I believe hinders him somewhat in identifying causal factors from time to time), but Dr. Barnett's ideological bent hemmorages over the second half of the material - and this prevents the arguments for his way forward from ever being as `repeatable' as the argument for the Core-Gap construct.
Given the senior political and military leadership audience that Dr. Barnett has gained for his Core-Gap construct in the wake of 9/11/2001, his vision of the future may gain far more interest, acolytes, and apostles than it otherwise would or should have. If military and civilian long-range thinkers 1) ignore the problems with the `how' the U.S. should achieve the ambitious end-state the authors offers as our future, or even the problematic end objectives themselves, and 2) embrace instead the Core-Gap construct with its baggage intact, then the unfortunate `perturbations' of this book could be ruinous to the long term security and well-being of the nation, as well as the Core and the Gap - hence my `Most Dangerous' assignation (and decision to review this book as my first for Amazon).
Read this book and embrace the Core-Gap model by all means. But to safely traverse the whole book, keep a wary eye open for optimism, cynicism, oversimplification, unnecessary complexity, and more.....in all the wrong places.
This book projects the future - and its right on in Iraq.......2007-02-15
I bought and read this book because I watched the author giving a powerpoint presentation on PBS. I don't know if you've ever sat through one of these, but I actually wanted to buy a tape of the show just so I could see it again. HIGHTLY recommended, and his projections for the future of the military are already happening exactly how he describes.
Book Description
This book has the color photos, diagrams, and the analysis to show that the World Trade Center towers and Building 7 were demolished with explosives that were placed in the buildings in preparation for the 9-11 attack.
This book is being used by people around the world to support the accusation that the US Government was the primary conspirator in the 9-11 attack.
For two examples, David Ray Griffin references it in his book "The New Pearl Harbor", and Andreas von Bulow, a retired German government official, is referencing it in his book published in Germany.
If you believe Osama bin Laden attacked us without our government's assistance, why not find the flaws in this book, put these accusations to rest, and help restore America's credibility?
If you already believe the attack was conducted by the U.S. government, this book will help you educate your fellow citizens on the unbelievable corruption in our world.
Customer Reviews:
Very eye opening! These questions need to be answered........2007-06-01
If you believe the line about how the towers fell due to heat, fire, impact...you need to read this book. Warning: When you present people you know with the hardcore evidence that this book presents, you will know first hand what "willfully ignorant" means. People don't want to know the truth! As the title of the book says, it's "painfull" to accept the truth sometimes.
The Author Hits It Out of the Park--Video is Spectacular.......2007-03-03
This is one of the best 9-11 books (with its own video) and I am persuaded by this author and others that 9-11 has not been properly investigated, and that there has been a major cover-up. The video is very powerful, very detailed, very thoughtfully narrated, and carries this book and this author to the very top of the list of reasoned and thus authoritative contributions.
Unlike the other 9/11 books I have reviewed, this book, which is letterhead size, is a brilliantly compelling collection of color photographs, color diagrams, thoughtful calculations, and plain text in two columns. The book and the DVD represent, in my opinion, the single best personal effort, and the single most credible case, to the effect that 9-11 was a huge scam on the American public.
The book, and the DVD, are *exhaustive*. There is no better word.
I especially like the author's discussion of the Oklahoma City bombing as a preview of a diversion (the truck bomb versus two airplanes) combined with controlled demolitions. Unexploded bombs are reported to have been found at the Federal Building, with news clippings. The author also covers the destruction of a wedding hall in Israel, and the downing of an Egyptian airplane, as rehearsals for 9-11.
I personally believe that the WTC were brought down by controlled demolitions planted by order of Larry Silverstein, but I am not certain if his action was done in partnership with Rudy Guliani and Dick Cheney, or on his own. The author does not mention the aspestos problem facing Larry Silverstein, for that I recommend viewing the DVD "Loose Change" as well as "9/11 The Press for Truth."
I also believe that the evidence strongly suggests that the Pentagon was hit by a missile fired by the US, and that there has been a massive cover-up.
I am relatively certain that 9-11 was allowed to happen, and that the majority of those who died--over 80%--died by order of Larry Silverstein, with or without the explicit protective consent of Dick Cheney.
I am quite certain that the 9-11 Commission was a deliberate cover-up, and that Controlled Demolition, all of the WTC security people, the insurance executives, and key Pentagon officials have not been properly investigated.
One day these monsters will be held to account. I have to say, on the basis of all that I have read, viewed, and thought, that it is not Bin Laden that has brought down the Republic, but rather Dick Cheney. Our most fearsome enemies are domestic, not foreign.
Bottom line: the political leadership of America can not be trusted and are almost certainly guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors (see my lists on holding Cheney accountable, and on impeachment guides for citizens).
For those skeptics that continue to believe their government, see the points made in my reivew of the below superb revisionist history:
Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Conspiracy to Mislead History
compelling arguments.......2006-11-19
I am not a conspiracy theory person, in fact I've always laughed at them.
But reading this book certainly has made me question a lot of things!!!
Read it with an open mind. And then decide if the arguments hold water or not.
Steel frame buildings don't collapse due to fire alone.......2006-11-14
OK, wake up America! How did the towers free fall to the ground? What mass of energy was so strong as to pulverize the reinforced concrete to dust? Why very quickly destroy evidence by immediately shipping off all steel to China for re-cycling? Building 7 looked exactly like an everyday controlled demolition. You have to be a blind man not to see that. Why was it so, so very hot at the base of the collapsed towers for so long after? Have you never seen a magic trick before?
Overly Opinionated.......2006-10-19
I'll admit that the official story of the events on September 11 are suspect. But that's all I will conclude. The way the story unfolds in the media and the explanations for it all appear to be hiding some evidence. Why? I don't know, and frankly, after reading the author's very slanted view of events, am even less interested to find out. I was interested in reading the facts and evidence that exist, but his whole book was one big conspiracy theory strung together by edited quotes and simplified facts. And his summary about not fighting the Axis of Good was just over the top. Maybe the truth would only hurt us more than we know. Call me naive and ignorant, but I would rather live my life with a "half full" mentality. I enjoy my life and the choices I am able to make in America and since I have not the power to change the unfortunate events of Sept 11, I'll continue to live my humble life and not waste any more time worrying, fearing, and doubting the catastrophic events of that day. What will that accomplish? What I will continue to do is pay respect and remember the 2,000+ lives that were lost - people I didn't know - but sons, daughters, wives, husbands, friends, moms, etc.
Book Description
Eminently readable, Assignment: Pentagon is the essential guide for the newly assigned military person, fresh civilian, and interested outsider to the Pentagon's informal set of arrangements, networks, and functions that operate in the service and joint service world. From the type of wristwatch one needs to how to succeed in the Joint Staff, the book delivers a wealth of practical advice and helpful hints about surviving the pressures and problems of working in "the Building."
Customer Reviews:
A Great Guide to 'What's Normal' in the Pentagon.......2007-09-04
A great book, highly recommended for anyone working in the Pentagon! I'm in my first Pentagon tour, and found this book immensely useful. My initial impression of Pentagon life was professional bewilderment: totally new vocabulary, totally new set of concerns, different rules for doing business. Much more so than with most of my 'new' jobs along the way, this one totally threw me off with with respect to the norms and expectations.
There are many courses for navigating these strange waters (most of which I've attended), but there's so much to learn that these courses are primarily focused on the "What Is It, and How Does It Work?" level. The "What's normal?" level is usually left off the end (due to time constraints), for the student to work out on his/her own. I've been blessed with very patient bosses, and have been allowed to work out 'normal' for myself, but I frequently had so many questions that I'd hesistate asking them all at once. And then came Assignment Pentagon - a life saver.
I stumbled across Assignment Pentagon about three months into the job - 2-1/2 months too late! Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down - it spoke to my nagging questions and left me a MUCH better informed Action/Requirements Officer. The turn-around in professional understanding was so profound for me that I've been recommending it to anyone else that checks in here, and think it's absolutely critical to understand the place you work in the depth that Assignment Pentagon delivers it.
Many thanks to the authors for putting this much-needed work together, and for keeping it updated. I only hope that they're still updating it when I've got my next set of orders to the Pentagon.
Some Interesting Insights.......2007-04-21
This book was first published in the 1980s, and has been apparently revised as recently as March 2007. The edition I read comes from 2002. The book is interesting. It fulfills its billing as a straight guide to what is important inside the big five-sided building along the Potomac River.
Maj Gen Smith's most interesting piece of insight comes about half way through in his discussion of the media and the Pentagon leadership. In discussing the role of the daily "Early Bird" news roundup, Gen Smith asserts that senior Pentagon leaders read the volume diligently, seeing the press not as an antagonist, but rather as a source of new and interesting takes on what they may or may not already know.
Unfortunately, Gen Smith has a bad habit of occasionally interjecting his personal opinion into his otherwise objective analysis. Also, even though the book says it was revised for 2002, it appears that many sections of the book have not been updated since its original publication 15 years earlier.
All in all, this is a solid, brief overview, of some of what goes through Pentagon employees heads on a daily basis. It is worth the read for that reason if for no other.
up to date guide to thriving within a large organization.......2002-02-26
I am the author of this book. When the new administration took office, it was time to update this book about how the Pentagon works, how to work with the Pentagon and how to work within the Pentagon. There is an enormous amount of misinformation about the Pentagon and what I have tried to do is stick to the realities and to destroy some of the myths. I have received many comments about this book. The most surprising ones have come from people who work in corporations who have told me that this book has given them lots of ideas about how improve their performance in their present jobs.
up to date guide to thriving within a large organization.......2002-02-26
I am the author of this book. When the new administration took office, it was time to update this book about how the Pentagon works, how to work with the Pentagon and how to work within the Pentagon. There is an enormous amount of misinformation about the Pentagon and what I have tried to do is stick to the realities and to destroy some of the myths. I have received many comments about this book. The most surprising ones have come from people who work in corporations who have told me that this book has given them lots of ideas about how improve their performance in their present jobs.
Average customer rating:
- Spy catcher meets techno-thriller
- A good effort from Coonts
- Vague and confusing
- Extremely enjoyable read
- The Intruder goes to the Beltway
|
Minotaur
Stephen Coonts
Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Contemporary
| General
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| United States
| World Literature
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside Fiction Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0385261470
Release Date: 1989-09-18 |
Customer Reviews:
Spy catcher meets techno-thriller.......2004-05-20
This is the sixth Stephen Coonts book I've read, and the first one that I liked so much that I'm giving it five stars.
"The Minotaur" combines two main stories that are cleverly interwoven with each other.
Story 1: There's a traitor, code named Minotaur, somewhere high up in the Pentagon who is channeling America's top military secrets to Moscow. Amazingly, the Russians don't know the identity of this mole, so not just the FBI but also the KGB are feverishly doing everything they can to find out who this traitor is.
Story 2: The U.S. Navy is in the midst of a procurement project to obtain a new attack aircraft to replace the aging A-6 Intruder. The new airplane will be based on stealth technology, including a top-secret device to actively suppress radar reflections.
I found the procurement story to be especially interesting. There's a lot of presumably authentic inside information on how the U.S. military handles the procurement of a major weapons system. The political skullduggery involved was fascinating, with a high-ranking U.S. Senator manipulating the process in an attempt to get the contract awarded to a company in his state. This Senator was more interested in his own re-election than in whether the Navy got an optimal, or even usable, aircraft!
Mixed up with the two main stories are a fair number of sub-plots, most of them concerning the lives and personalities of various people in the book. These sub-plots display Stephen Coonts' talent for creating characters who are real people, not the cardboard clichés that populate most techno-thrillers.
Overall, the most enjoyable aspect of this book is the way it draws you into the story and makes you want to learn what's happening behind the scenes and why. Who is the Minotaur? Why is he (or she) passing secrets to the Russians? Will he/she be stopped?
Unless you have a very good memory, I would recommend that you create and maintain a list of the main characters in the book. Otherwise, things can become rather confusing, and your chances of guessing who the Minotaur is will be minimal.
There are some very exciting descriptions of the test flights involved in the procurement project, first with a modified A-6 Intruder and then with two different prototypes of the new stealth attack airplane. These narratives, and some general descriptions of the joys of flying, are an added attraction in "The Minotaur." Stephen Coonts' background as a pilot and flying enthusiast is obvious here.
If you like techno-thrillers populated with real people, and if you are interested in flying and especially in military aircraft, then I'm sure you'll like "The Minotaur."
Rennie Petersen
A good effort from Coonts.......2002-10-25
All things considered, The Minotaur was an enjoyable book. Jake Grafton, just back from his harrowing, near-death experience in the Middle East, is struggling with his position in the Navy and with life in general. He accepts a staff position at the Pentagon. Fearing a bland, paper-pushing position, he finds himself as the head of a team charged with investigating and recommending a next-generation Navy fighter. At the same time, the US is at the height of the cold war with the Soviet Union and espionage efforts are in full swing. Coonts brings together a number of range of characters, while blending a number of sub-stories within the main story. The book moves quickly, with frequent plot twists and uncertainty until the end about the position and motivation of a number of the book's characters. If you are a fan of Coonts, it is worth going back for the Minotaur.
Vague and confusing.......2002-05-24
The book is really good, exept for the fact that it is a bit to complicated. Also, the way Coonts explains things is very vague, and confusing in the way he explains who each character is.
Extremely enjoyable read.......2002-04-28
I very much enjoyed this high-tech (which is not quite up to Clancey), detective, spy thriller. Coonts does a great job of personalizing his characters (and here, I think, better than Clancey). This was the first book I've read by Coonts, and it was great even out of order for the series. I'm very happy to see that readers think there are better books by Coonts out there. They must be very good indeed.
The Intruder goes to the Beltway.......2001-03-21
We thought Captain Jake Grafton died at the end of "Final Flight" when he deliberately flew his F-14 into a cargo plane carrying stolen nukes. We were wrong - as the first few pages of "Minotaur" make clear. The Minotaur is the codename for a Russian spy blamed for leaking sensitive military secrets to the Russians. Many think the spy a myth, but Jake Grafton - now permanently grounded and assigned a desk in the Pentagon - has to consider the mole real enough. Given control over the Navy's new stealth bomber program, Grafton confronts mysterious accidents and the mysterious death of his predecessor. He must also confront the program's more mundane obstacles - like the fact that it's impossible to design a truly effective stealth plane, and that the most promising design will be edged by the more politically attractive one. While most writers would wax eloquently on the virtues of their techno toys, Coonts looks at the advanced technology aircraft in his book dispassionately. Stealth aircraft, Coonts warns us, are underarmed, not very maneuverable, and very short-ranged. The USAF's stealth fighter, for its whiz-bangs, is essentially a Navy A-7 that (for the moment) can evade any radar in the world and drop a total of two bombs, both being the sort of high-tech toys that never work. (This book came out before Desert Storm). Combining the rigors of the program with an espionage story is pretty daring, and Coonts tries some nifty tricks. Unfortunately, though a promising idea, to many charachters really are dual charachters with assumed identities - neither of which are defined before being revealed to be other ill-drawn charachters. There are too many secret agendas and cross-plots, though Coont's writing encourages re-reading. The charachters that aren't mysterious - "Toad" Tarkington, Rita Morovia and Grafton himself remain pretty crisp, though we haven't any of the great charachters from the first "Intruder". Still a worthy read and among Coonts' best.
Book Description
In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers-a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam-to the New York Times and Washington Post. The document set in motion a chain of events that ended not only the Nixon presidency but the Vietnam War. In this remarkable memoir, Ellsberg describes in dramatic detail the two years he spent in Vietnam as a U.S. State Department observer, and how he came to risk his career and freedom to expose the deceptions and delusions that shaped three decades of American foreign policy. The story of one man's exploration of conscience, Secrets is also a portrait of America at a perilous crossroad.
Customer Reviews:
History behind the Pentagon Papers.......2007-09-03
This provides Ellsberg's history behind his release of the Pentagon Papers. Included is (obviously) his motivation and reasoning behind why he thought they had to be released to the press. In addition, there is a discussion of his the papers themselves but, ironically, the weakness of the book was not enough discussion/analysis of the papers and the conclusions reached therein.
Rare History.......2007-07-23
Ellsberg is a driven man--driven toward solving puzzles and righting that which is wrong. The intensity of his intellect and the breadth of his insider experience would have made Daniel Ellsberg an amazing historian of the Vietnam War even if he hadn't become an anti-war activist. The fact that he had--in the end--studied both sides, and that eventually he had access not only to the Pentagon Papers but also the Nixon Whitehouse tapes allowed him to explain the war and its perpetrators with a rare combination of vividness and authority.
Judging from what is written in today's newspapers, the patterns Ellsberg describes in Secrets are repeating themselves in the Iraq War. _Secrets_ deserves to be widely read, as a lesson in courage, as history, and as a warning to those of us who might be tempted to sit back and trust unquestioningly those who would lead us into war then resist bringing us back out.
book.......2007-01-19
Just got it today, but know that my son will enjoy reading it. He loves history and asked for this book specifically.
how and why our government lies to us.......2007-01-18
A year into the Iraqi war, an increasing number of people are comparing the debacle to the quagmire that was Vietnam. In one interview about the American torture of Iraqi prisoners, even Secretary of State Colin Powell made an unsolicited comparison with the Mai Lai massacre. Most people now acknowledge that the Bush administration has been less than candid about not only the war in Iraq but also its policies and decisions before and after the 9/11 attacks. Enter Daniel Ellsberg.
In this memoir Ellsberg documents how five successive presidential administrations (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon) systematically lied to the American people and to congress about the Vietnam war. His story is especially compelling because (similar to John Kerry in at least this regard), he served patriotically in Vietnam, only to have that experience convince him how terribly wrong his own government was about the war. As a Marine company commander in Vietnam, Ellsberg was an enthusiastic supporter of the war. But two years of wading through swampy jungles, and extended study of classified documents, convinced him that government rhetoric and empirical realities were two very different things. Ellsberg came home and became an outspoken critic of the war, and in an aggressive effort to stop the war he leaked the so-called Pentagon Papers to congress and then to the media, 7,000 pages in 47 volumes of top secret documents.
The lesson? Citizens would be naïve to believe all that its government says or to support all that it does. Christians, especially, believe that Caesar is not God. This was a radical notion in the early centuries of the faith, for in the Roman Empire Caesar was god, and believers paid dearly for it with two centuries of martyrdom. In fact, as Bernard Lewis has observed, it is to Christianity that we owe the novel idea of a distinctly secular state, as opposed to theocracies such as ancient Israel or modern Iran (or emerging Iraq?). If the state is secular and not sacred, if Caesar is not God, if our recent governments have shown their near pathological propensity to lie about matters large and small, and if most all governments must as a practical necessity use brutal and coercive powers to protect national interests and deliberate neglect of the weak where there is no national interest (Rwandan genocide), then it might deserve our allegiance, yes, but also our loyal opposition.
An insider's account of the abuse of power of consecutive presidents and their administrations.......2006-08-13
After finishing this book, I think the one thing that I'm left awestruck by is how little we as a country have learned in the intervening years. Daniel Ellsberg's detailed, yet gripping account of how he went from an anti-communist cold-warrior to an anti-Vietman war protestor and activist is, at times draining, at others infuriating, and yet always thoroughly engrossing.
He starts the book detailing how, as a political analyst he was eventually allowed access to some of the most highly classified documentation the goverment has, including the 7000 page collection known as the Pentagon Papers. A highly detailed look at the behind the scenes machinations that led the U.S. to go from an advisory role to the French in Vietnam, to actively participating in and continued escalation of the conflict. Those documents allowed him to see exactly how far from the truth official statements from the various administrations to the public and Congress were, even to the point of outright lying about getting out of Vietnam when they were in fact escalating involvement in the war.
Mr. Ellsberg goes on to inform the reader how his access to this information led him to eventually denounce the war as criminal, how he attempted to help stop it through "proper channels", which led to nowhere, and eventually how he decided to leak the Pentagon Papers to the press, knowing full well the toll that it would likely take on his friends and family. Although, this singular act of courage wasn't enough to stop the war in and of itself, it was a stepping stone to its end.
What struck me most as I was reading, was the incredible similarity to events going on now, right down to almost vertabum administration statements made to the public. At that time, administration officials would question the patriotism of those who didn't support the war. They called papers that printed leaked classified information, and the leakers themselves, criminal and claimed that to do so was harmful to national security. There are numerous other examples, but I encourage you to read the book for yourself. If for no other reason than to learn how easily it is for our elected officials to lie to us, and get away with it.
I wish that after reading this book I could say that we've moved past all of this, that our country has learned and it could never happen again. However, I think the similarities between this dark time in our history and the Iraq war has gone a long way to proving that isn't the case.
Read this book. Even ignoring my view of the parallels to the Iraq war, this is a highly gripping and educational look at the history and policies that led to our involvement in the Vietnam war. It's a viewpoint that you will never see in any dry classroom textbook and I think that everyone needs to learn just how humanly fallible our elected officials can be.
Book Description
How did a fluke experiment in 1998, involving a used dental X-ray machine and a dubious sample of radioactive material, become the Pentagon’s pet weapons project? It had been rejected by one of the Pentagon’s most important advisory groups, but the Pentagon found an eccentric scientist who believed that a super “isomer” bomb could be built, and deliver the punch of a two-kiloton nuke packaged in a hand grenade. Ideologues at the Pentagon claimed that the Russians were in the process of building one of their own, and that the weapon was essential to the Pentagon’s arsenal.
Imaginary Weapons tells the story of the battle that ensued, pitting the nation’s leading nuclear physicists against the Pentagon’s top brass, and the military against nuclear arms control advocates, as funds and experiments for the “isomer weapon” miraculously reappeared even after the project had been shelved numerous times, even by Congress.
This book also illuminates the dangerous trend that the Bush administration continues to follow of putting politics before science. The bomb is imaginary, and the only explosion produced by the “isomer weapon” will leave a hole in the nation’s budget and a fallout of the nation’s best and brightest scientists.
Customer Reviews:
Hilarious, an atypical but not unique project account.......2007-06-16
This book is in some ways unfair in its ridicule of the Defense Department's establishment, DARPA in particular. Unfortunately, the history of the quest for a hafnium isomer weapon is far from the only example of an ill-judged DoD project that proved hard to kill. In my own experience of dealing with various parts of DoD and the rest of the defense community for 40+ years, projects that are demonstrably unsound, either for scientific and technical reasons or because they would not meet the operational needs of our military, are proposed with some regularity. Most such are quickly killed; some are not. In the case of "hafnium isomer triggering", I believe the serious physicists who understood how flaky the idea and the evidence was failed to use the most effective ways of getting DoD to drop its support. To kill a project that's not worthwhile, one must be "inside the loop", having "paid one's dues" over a period of many years, so that one is trusted by reasonably senior members of the defense community. And then, if the people one needs to persuade are not themselves technically knowledgeable, one must explain the reasons the project is unwise by exposition couched in terms that fit the professional backgrounds and focus of the people one is addressing; not in technical or scientific discourse, unless one's audience is skilled in that domain, but rather in terms of military operational unlikelihood or unsuitability. I recall a case in which the deciding factor was the emphatic assertion by a 4-star who had previously had the command for which a proposed very expensive system feature was intended that he had not needed and could not and would not have used it if it were available. The only role that outside advisers played in killing that one was finding that individual and getting him to examine the proposal; once he had done that, he was indignant enough to carry the message to the top of the Pentagon hierarchy.
However, despite the fact that the hafnium isomer research is atypical in the kength of time during which a dubious idea is funded, there are various other projects that have a similar history. Indeed, perhaps the most unfair aspect of the book lies in its failure to emphasize that the amount of money involved was too small to get the top brass stirred up one way or the other. DARPA, in particular, has done some outstanding things and some very flaky things, and it's difficult to get anyone senior in DoD to come down hard on DARPA. But this book is well worth reading, because it is one of the few published case histories of how hard it is to get some DoD quest stopped if there are even a few "true believers" inside DoD supporting it. More spectacular examples exist, but for those it would probably be impractical to put the whole story together and get it published. So I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone who is asked to provide outside advice on any visionary defense proposal; despite the book's defects, it offers valuable insight. While reading it, though, keep in mind the various changes in technology or in operational doctrine that have been rejected by the conventional wisdom of the "establishment" over the years, that have subsequently proved to be sound and necessary. Taking this into consideration can provide some perspective and a degree of humility to one's scientific or technical advice. If something is unsound, by all means say so, but think about whether a real need exists, and if it does, whether there is a way of meeting the need more likely to succeed.
Axe to Grind.......2007-05-11
The author has some serious issues she needs to deal with. You don't actually learn anything by reading a book like this. Its about trying to get the reader to elicit an emotional response. Not recommended for American military enthusiasts.
just ok.......2007-01-10
the subject matter was interesting
but i found the writer's attempts to create imagery and storytelling to be a little contrived and kind of a distraction.
also, when i first cracked the book open i was expecting a wide variety of diabolical weapons research, instead i got one weapon (albeit diabolical).
Fascinating story but bad explanation of the physics .......2006-11-14
This book details the history of a project aimed at liberating the energy held in an excited energy level, an isomer, of the hafnium-178 nucleus. If you had a mass of these nuclei and could succeed in liberating the energy from them simultaneously, for example by starting a chain reaction, you would have a bomb whose power is comparable to that of an atomic bomb. Some of the obstacles in the way of making a hafnium bomb include lack of a good method for producing quantities of the hafnium-178 isomer, the difficulty of handling the material which is radioactive, and a dispute over whether the triggering of a chain reaction can be done at all. I did find the story fascinating.
Unfortunately, the explanations provided for the nuclear physics were often misleading or wrong. What can you make of the statement " ... anti-hydrogen--hydrogen with a positive charge." In fact, anti-hydrogen is the anti-matter equivalent of hydrogen. While hydrogen has a positively-charged proton and a negatively-charged electron, anti-hydrogen is composed of a negatively-charged antiproton and a positively-charged positron. There are more than a few instances in the book of the use of analogies or explanations that are not quite right. If you are a nuclear physicist, then you can tell what the author is trying to say. If you are not a physicist, then you are misinformed. The book would have been much better if the author had gotten one of the many nuclear physicists that she interviewed to proofread the book before publication.
For an excellent book in this area, I recommend "Plutonium" by Jeremy Bernstein.
Just awful!!.......2006-11-10
I was hoping this would be a run down of declassified weapons projects that didn't make the cut or lost funding or just didn't work. NOPE! Just a single silly idea that this author documented to death (literally) and then wrote into a book (sort of).
My biggest question at the end? Who the heck would think anyone would care!! Save your money. Just terrible!!
Average customer rating:
- Good Reference
- The Old Guard still wants our men to ride in deathtraps!
- Meremising
- Right is Might!
|
The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard
James G. Burton
Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| United States
| Americas
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Americas
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| United States
| Military
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Weapons & Warfare
| Military
| History
| Subjects
| Books
| Biological & Chemical
| Control
| Conventional
| Nuclear
Life & Institutions
| Military
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Military Science
| History
| Subjects
| Books
International Security
| Freedom & Security
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Federal Government
| Levels of Government
| Political Science
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Similar Items:
-
The Pentagon Wars
ASIN: 1557500819 |
Customer Reviews:
Good Reference.......2004-06-21
A very interesting book that not only details certain aspects of the defense procurement culture, but also goes into the politics of some of the different services. While the focus is primarily on the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, there are other great bits of information (such as the creation of the F-16) and amusing stories (any involving the "Blitzfighter" aircraft).
The DOD politics that the author experiences are fascinating, and remain relevant today. One example is the discussion of the A-10, its amazing record in the 1991 Gulf War, and how the Air Force really hates it and the close air support role it plays (today the Air Force is moving towards replacing the A-10 with higher flying, faster planes for the close air support missions).
Overall this book is an important read for anyone interested not only in defense procurement, but DOD politics and modern warfare as well. A good book to have as a reference.
The Old Guard still wants our men to ride in deathtraps!.......2002-10-28
The "Old Guard" of out-of-touch and can't-handle-the-truth milicrats still run the Pentagon--even after the 9/11 attacks clearly showed a "house-cleaning" is in order to meet the challenges of 21st Century asymmetric warfare by cunning enemies. Colonel Burton's book outlines how 1980s reformers sought to get reliable, safe and affordable weapons into U.S. military service and how these common sense efforts are opposed by the egotists with other agendas. The point is that the U.S. military culture BREEDS self-seeking, egotistical, vain milicrats not common sense warriors with values of honor and troop welfare and mission accomplishment.
The sad thing is that the 1980s military reformers are now gone and not on duty to stop the current round of Pentagon losers like the lav3stryker, V-22, AAAV and F-22 all stricken with the disease of Tofflerian gadgets while ignoring sound physical robustness, reliability and combat effectiveness at their own level. The current generals runnng DoD have simply transplanted their bureaucratic pass-the-buck mentality to the foot Soldier and pilot by hoping a computer "mouse-click" will deliver some magic firepower to solve the battlefield problem instead of empowering lower ranks to fight and win at their own level.
What makes this book so haunting is that its a true story that is repeating itself before our very eyes with the Army's thin-skinned, air-filled rubber-tired LAV-3 Stryker armored car boondoggle that will get our men killed in combat. The book shows the exact same PR tactics and lying "spin" the Army and DoD use to put people second and their programs/promotions first. The depiction of how the Army will cheat on tests to masquerade that "all is well" with a program is common as seen by the recent efforts to deceive the public by flying overweight lav3strykers a short distance by C-130 aircraft with less fuel inside to compensate--exactly how in the Bradley's fuel tanks were filled just with the minimum fuel to drive in front of the audience grandstands and to the aim point for the test anti-tank weapon to hit it.
The tragedy is that after 2 decades, the Army today is rushing the lav3stryker deathtrap into production without ANY live-fire testing against fully fueled and ammo loaded vehicles fired at by RPGs or 14.5mm heavy machine guns thanks to a loophole in DoD procurement. Too bad Colonel Burton wasn't on duty now in the Pentagon. When they make the movie sequel to this book, "Pentagon Wars II: the lav3stryker" it looks like the ending will not be a happy one with a better vehicle (upgraded M113A3 Gavins) going into service. The horror of hundreds of dead American Soldiers Colonel Burton wanted to prevent will be our "wake-up call".
If we ignored the film and Col Burton's book its based on, what makes us think the Pentagon Old Guard will change after needless deaths?
Meremising.......1999-04-23
This beast that we creat, "the Military-Industrial Complex," influence in shown in every instiution in this country. This tells the story from inside the Pentagon, and shows how insane it has got. CUT MILITARY SPENDING BY HALF. NO MORE 300 billion a YEAR! Oh Lord, help me. I am clear, for the future now lies in our hands.
Right is Might!.......1998-03-30
I read this book after seeing the HBO black comedy film The Pentagon Wars. It is all true!! I was part of the U. S. Army Chemical Research Development Engineering Center at Edgewood Arsonal back in the late 1980's. I assisted with the testing of the xm-22, xm-21, cadnet, nbc recon. vehicle (a m-113 that got its butt kicked by the then west german fuchs vehicle) and other systems. There were times that you just had to shake your head at the way the officers and civilians conducted some of the tests. The Col is right on the money.
Book Description
In this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs.
Customer Reviews:
vital books.......2004-04-21
Lewis Mumford was one of the 20th century's most important philosophers, and the two-volume set Myth of the Machine (Volume 1 is Technics and Human Development; and Volume 2 is The Pentagon of Power) are probably his most important books: the summation of his life's work. In writing as elegant as it is clear, Mumford makes plain the death urge that has always underlain civilization, which Mumford calls "the machine," and later "the megamachine." This is a social structure organized not around any organic human needs, but around the "needs" of the machines that have come to characterize and control our lives. These are crucial, incisive, devastating books. I cannot praise them highly enough.
A Prophetic piece of work?.......2002-07-26
A truely brilliant piece of work. A must read, almost as prophetic as Huxley's "Brave new world".
Rage Against the Mega-Machine.......2001-03-10
Nobody writes like this anymore. I hadn't expected the eminent urban historian to write such a brilliant paranoiac tract against the System and Established Order. Although often redundant, Mumford makes a heroic attempt at explaining the current problems of our times, with roots in the Middle Ages, and perhaps even the Age of the Pyramids. He echoes contempories like Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm and Marshall McLuhan, but instead of taking a Marxist, psychological or media perspective, he takes the more general view of an urbanist. The arguments are quite paralell, although considerably more holistic at times. One recognizes critiques that were earlier or later articulated by not only Marxists, but also feminists, environmentalists, and anti-Imperialists. There are also anticipations of the New Age Movement! (See Fitjof Capra's "the Turning Point.")In short, this massive volume impressively combines much historical and cultural material in its critique of Modern Western Civilization. Although the tone of the book is quite bleak -- we would all appear to be trapped in this Megamachine, the High Technology of the Power Elites -- one also senses a hope towards last chapters that an alternative is possible. He seems to suggest a New Age style withdrawal, rather than any kind of organized resistance. Draw your own conclusions.
A damn good read.......1999-07-08
I can't really be bothered to say much. Basically, if this sort of subject is the kind of thing that appeals to you then I suppose you should read it. If you really want to.
Book Description
"Jeffrey St. Clair is the Seymour Hersh of environmental journalism."-Josh Frank
From the F-22 fighter jet and B-2 bomber to the Stryker tank and Star Wars, Grand Theft Pentagon chronicles how the Pentagon shells out billions to politically wired arms contractors for weapons that don't work for use against an enemy that no longer exists. St. Clair shows how many of the biggest arms contracts were literally inside jobs, negotiated by Pentagon generals who later went to work for the very same corporations that were awarded the contracts.
The co-founder of Counterpunch and author of Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature,
Jeffrey St. Clair lives in Portland, Oregon.
Customer Reviews:
Grand Theft Pentagon .......2007-10-17
This is a book all Americans should read but will not. America has stopped reading and all they do is watch managed television and get lies every day that deludes them into zombies. This book for me was another revelation that our government has seduced us again by squandering billions apon billions of dollars they do not have to wage wars worldwide. These facts will never be presented on televison so it will reach few readers and America will continue to plunder the world to feed the fat cats that rule us!
Every American Should Read This Book!.......2007-09-13
If it bothers you that half of every discretionary tax dollar goes to the military in some form or another (DOE, NSA, off-budget "black programs", etc. etc.) or that we spend more on defense and security than the rest of the world combined, then read this book! It's a phrase that is often overused, but this is definitely "a book every American should read." As a southerner originally from a very hawkish, pro-military state who thought that high military spending was necessary for jobs and community growth as well as security, this made my blood boil. We are essentially accomplishing none of those things--as evidenced by the fact that the world's most expensive military can't defeat small third-world countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan devastated by 20+ years of war and/or sanctions. Ever wonder why? The authors make clear that the level of the combined pentagon/congressional/corporate corruption not only puts the mafia to shame, but is threatening our democracy and our national security in very profound and frightening ways. Read this and prepare to be outraged. Perhaps this will spur action ensuring that enlisted servicemen and women will no longer need welfare to make ends meet while billions are funneled to defense contractors? My only complaint is the horrendous job of proofreading and copy-editing this book received (none?). Otherwise, this deserves to be on the bestseller list.
Grand Theft Pentagon.......2007-03-10
Full to the brim with tasty tidbits of pentagon waste and corruption. A great read.
It must have gone to press in a hurry as it has many typo's.
Each chapter appears to be simply a transposed magazine article.
delightful.......2007-03-09
snappy prose, compelling evidence, one of the great muckrakers.
the people who imply that the book is written by a knee jerk pacifist have not been paying attention. The article on the Warthog, and others demonstrated not only the man's opposition to waste and corruption, but the fact that the man genuinely cares about having a functioning military for DEFENSE purposes.
The points he raise cannot be simply dismissed out of hand, why keep spending so much money on cold war era weapons when our old enemy no longer exists/
How helpful - Socialist advice on Defense Contracting.......2006-04-11
It is interesting to note that the most ardent support of this book is by people who:
A. Don't really want the US to have any defenses, or,
B. Support a political system that has been proven useless in creating a defense infrastructure, or,
C. Both
The two best examples of the socialist system's results are the UK and France. Things were bad in the UK before Thatcher sold off nationally owned defense firms (now the UK competes in the US market very well, before their systems were mostly junk). Some French firms can't sell their systems to anyone unless they ignore international arms laws, provide financing, and/or twist arms (pun intended). The point is that our system produces, on average better products, at less cost to the taxpayer. For example, MRE's are purchased all over the world as a consumer product and by NGO's - proof that our system generates products that can compete for customers.
The fact is that the defense market is huge, and there are a few bad people in who try to take criminal advantage of it. As a result, we prosecute and convict people from time to time, and in the past few years, that has included people who were senior folks in the Clinton administration, and more recently a Republican congressman. The FBI and others have standing task forces to ferret out the felons.
Go back and read real muckraker works like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906). Don't settle for a cheap imitation like this one.
Amazon.com
Anna Zilboorg is the kind of artist and craftswoman who comes along only rarely. Her previous book, Fancy Feet, integrated a unique color creativity with traditional fiber folk traditions of Turkey. In 45 Fine and Fanciful Hats to Knit, she presents nine basic hat shapes, from a fairly standard (but colorfully interpreted) beret to amazing geometric structures such as an onion dome and a six-pointed star (knitted in two layers). Enjoy breaking the constraints of knitting "normal" hats and set yourself free. For those who really want to follow directions, Zilboorg's charts are unusually clear and her directions are brief and uncomplicated.
Customer Reviews:
Is it really a pattern book if it doesn't mention gauge?.......2006-11-08
These are indeed fine and fanciful hats, but I sure couldn't manage to knit one from the given "patterns" that came out anything like the pictures in the book. Perhaps most annoying to me was the complete lack of gauge indications, which the author dismisses in one paragraph in the "General Information" with a blithe "Fortunately, exact fit is not necessary in a knitted hat." Ha! What few mentions she does give of gauge in the general instructions are inconsistent - in one paragraph, she says that most of the hats are made with worsted weight wool, yet a couple of paragraphs later, she says that for a particularly large head, a hat can be made of worsted weight instead of DK. And it's not as though "worsted weight" gives you enough indication anyway, as anyone who has tried to compare gauge on mass-market acrylic vs. Wool-Ease vs. expensive alpaca knows.
As far as how much yarn to buy for each hat - well, Zilboorg tells us we'll need 2 yards of each color per 2-color round. So, I guess, we are supposed to count the exact number of rounds in the pattern ourselves, noting which colors are in which rounds, then multiply that by 2 yards per color, and then divide that into the number of yards for the brand of yarn we select. Zilboorg doesn't even tell us what brand, weight, or style she uses for her models, nor how many skeins she used for a given model. Would it have been such a bother for her to have put a paragraph with each one that said something like "For the model, I used Brand X Shetland, one skein each of the following seven colors..." ? That little bit of information alone would help most of us a great deal.
In short: buy it for the pretty pictures, if you like, and if you collect fair isle charts, you may want to buy it for those, but don't expect any actual patterns with which to knit hats. A good book of patterns is like a conversation; this one is a monologue by an attractive but totally flaky stranger on a street corner.
Should be 5 stars but. . ........2006-08-26
As other reviewers have noted, there are uncorrected errors. Still, since all of the designs are charted, most of the errors are easy to spot.
This is my all-time favorite knitting book - when I first got it, I sat down and knitted 16 hats. I usually hate knitting with color, but this book made it fun.
Infuriating...great hats, world's worst instructions..........2006-07-24
I'm a 40 year knitter and I think I possess the basic skills to navigate any knitting book. However, this one is a real chore. What is so painful is that there are some fabulous hats here. Creative, hard to find hats. What got in my way? Well, they are all in worsted weight, which the author might have made a note of more prominently. She dismisses using fingering weight as "too many stitches" but really, it is a hat. If you are ever going to use a lot of stitches, a hat is the time.
The charts and written patterns are so spare as to be do-it-yourself. Perhaps some experienced knitters take pride in doing without clear directions. I'm not one.
Very disappointing. Still, the book has hats I've never seen anywhere else. If only I can figure out how to make them!
Beautiful hats, terrible charts.......2004-12-23
The hat ideas are wonderful. Too bad there are so many errors in the charts. I contacted Lark books for a copy of their errata (a correction sheet for the errors in this book). What I received was a very poor photocopy of the corrected charts. The corrected charts were so small, and the photocopy was so many generations from the original, that I could absolutely not read it. I counted twenty charts from the book that have corrections! I am an experienced knitter, but I have a hard time getting into a new knitting project, knowing that the charts are wrong. I contacted Lark books repeatedly to get a cleaner, more legible copy of the errata. So far, I have received nothing. I'm very disappointed. Further, the gauge she suggests is too small. More specific instructions with regards to yarns and needle sizes would have been very helpful.
You'd better like fair isle knitting..........2004-06-14
I bought this book for its variety of hat shapes and was hoping to knit them in solid blocks of colour rather than in stranded fair isle. Zilboorg states that if you are going to knit these designs with one colour per row (rather than the two colours that are charted), you need to increase the number of rounds, however, she does not give the reader specific instructions or charts - not even a calculation - for how to do this.
Books:
- The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- The Rose That Grew From Concrete
- The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
- Tonight On The Titanic (Magic Tree House 17, paper)
- Turbulent Years: The 60s (Our American Century)
- Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Official Companion Book to the Exhibition sponsored by National Geographic
- Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968
- Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi (Civil War America)
- Washington, D.C. (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- History: Fiction or Science
- Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime
- America's Corner Store: Walgreen's Prescription for Success
- At the Vanishing Point, A Critic looks at Dance
- Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Update
- Chicken Soup For The Horse Lover's Soul: Inspirational Stories About Horses and the People Who Love
- Cory Profile of a President
- Grundlagen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre für Ingenieure
- Bargaining and Market Behavior: Essays in Experimental Economics
- Barranca: An Eddie Caminetti Novel
