Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Intelligence (Most)

Categories: 00 Remixed Review Lists,Intelligence (Government/Secret),Worth A Look

Substantially updated 11 August 2011

A fraction–the most relevant, from Intelligence (Government/Secret)  (333).  Adds DHS and NGA.  Integrates all reviews on intelligence since original list created in 2008.  Adds new sections on JFK Assassination, Fabrication of the Cold War Threat, and Secrecy as Pathology.  Brings in anthropological intelligence books.  Does not include Information Operations, Information Society, or

Intelligence (Lack Of)                    

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Aug 24

Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Positive)

Categories: 00 Remixed Review Lists,Worth A Look

00 Remixed Review Lists is the persistent URL for all of them as they are updated.  This was done in preparation for the final part of INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability.  In contrast to the 98 Review categories where books are cross-listed and appear in multiple categories, in this set of “good news” reviews, each book appears only once.

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Africa

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Analysis

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Atlases

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Bio-Economics

Worth a Look: Book Reviews of Capitalism Reincarnated

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Jul 21

Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Negative)

Categories: 00 Remixed Review Lists,Worth A Look

The long list below is organized along the lines of the Revolutionary Prediction Matrix discussed in a short Marine Corps University paper and a longer graduate thesis, to wit: Political-Legal; Socio-Economic; Ideo-Cultural; Techno-Demographic; and Natural-Geographic. It is also available online as Chapter 20: “21st Century Counterintelligence: Evaluating the Health of the Nation” in the new book INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability (Earth Intelligence Network, 2010).

Political-Legal

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Corruption

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Jul 21

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Water

Categories: 00 Remixed Review Lists,12 Water,Water, Energy, Oil, Scarcity

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Six-Star and Beyond

Review: Governing Water–Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building (Global Environmental Accord–Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation)

Review: Blue Gold–The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water

Review: The Atlas of Water, Second Edition–Mapping the World’s Most Critical Resource

Five Star and Below

Review (DVD): Blue Gold–World Water Wars

Review: Environmental Security and Global Stability–Problems and Responses

Review: The Blue Covenant–The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

Review: The Blue Death–Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink

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Jul 19

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Universe

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Universe

Review: Disclosure–Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History

Review: Hidden Truth–Forbidden Knowledge

Review: Opening Minds–A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance (Paperback)

Review: The Living Universe

Review: Vital Signs–A Complete Guide to the Crop Circle Mystery and Why It is Not a Hoax (Paperback)

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Jan 17

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on World Brain and Mind

Categories: 00 Remixed Review Lists,Worth A Look

World Brain and Mind

Review: Global Brain–The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century

Review: Global Mind Change–The Promise of the 21st Century

Review: Net Gain–Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities

Review: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, And The New Biology Of Mind (Hardcover)

Review: The Virtual Community–Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier

Review: World Brain (Essay Index Reprint Series) (Hardcover)

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Jan 17

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Visualization

Categories: 00 Remixed Review Lists,Worth A Look

Visualization

Review: Art, Politics and Dissent–Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America

Review: Data Model Patterns–A Metadata Map

Review: Handbook of Data Visualization (Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics)

Review: Indexed

Review: Information Visualization–Beyond the Horizon

Review: slide:ology–The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

Review: The Digital Economy–Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence

Review: Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)

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Jan 17

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Technology & Web 2.0 to 4.0

Categories: 00 Remixed Review Lists,Worth A Look

Technology & Web 2.0 to 4.0

Review: Avatars–Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

Review: Building Trustworthy Semantic Webs

Review: Business Value of Computers

Review: Complex Adaptive Systems–An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity)

Review: Cyberwar 2.0–Myths, Mysteries & Reality

Review: Cyberwar–Security, Strategy, and Conflict in the Information Age

Review: Earth–The Sequel–The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Review: Enterprise Integration–The Essential Guide to Integration Solutions (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series)

Review: Everything Is Miscellaneous–The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Review: Free Software, Free Society–Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman (Hardcover)

Review: Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton Studies in Complexity)

Review: GIS for Decision Support and Public Policy Making

Review: Humanizing the Digital Age

Review: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

Review: Information Payoff–The Transformation of Work in the Electronic Age

Review: Mobilizing Generation 2.0–A Practical Guide to Using Web2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth

Review: Radical Evolution–The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human (Hardcover)

Review: Spychips–How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID (Hardcover)

Review: Technological Change and the Future of Warfare

Review: The Big Switch–Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

Review: The Digital Person–Technology And Privacy In The Information Age (Hardcover)

Review: The Future of War–Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the Twenty-first Century

Review: The Google Story–Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time

Review: The Singularity Is Near–When Humans Transcend Biology (Hardcover)

Review: The Transparent Society–Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (Paperback)

Review: The Unfinished Revolution–Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do For Us

Review: Tools for Thought–The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology

Review: Unleashing Web 2.0–From Concepts to Creativity

Review: Virtual Reality–The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds – and How It Promises to Transform Society

Review: Web 2.0–A Strategy Guide: Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations

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Jan 17

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Strategy

Categories: 00 Remixed Review Lists,Worth A Look

Strategy

2001 Threats, Strategy, and Force Structure: An Alternative Paradigm for National Security

Review: Blue Ocean Strategy–How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

Review: Environmental Security and Global Stability–Problems and Responses

Review: Fast Strategy–How strategic agility will help you stay ahead of the game

Review: Grand Strategies in War and Peace

Review: Modern Strategy

Review: National Security Dilemmas–Challenges and Opportunities

Review: Never Quit the Fight (Hardcover)

Review: Outsmart the MBA Clones–The Alternative Guide to Competitive Strategy, Marketing and Branding

Review: Power & Responsibility–Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threat

Review: Preventing World War III–A Realistic Grand Strategy

Review: Seeing the Invisible–National Security Intelligence in an Uncertain Age

Review: Strategy–Process, Content, Context–An International Perspective

Review: Strategy–The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition

Review: The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy

Review: The Paradox of American Power–Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone

Review: The Political Economy of Grand Strategy

Review: The Search for Security–A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Twenty-First Century

Review: To Lead the World–American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine

Review: Uncomfortable Wars Revisited (International and Security Affairs Series) (Hardcover)

Review: Understanding International Conflicts (6th Edition)

Review: World Out of Balance–International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy

Review: World Politics–The Menu for Choice

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Jan 17

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Stabilization & Reconstruction

Categories: 00 Remixed Review Lists,Worth A Look

Stabilization & Reconstruction

Review: A Half Penny on the Federal Dollar–The Future of Development Aid

Review: Chasing the Flame–Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World

Review: Crisis Preparedness Handbook–A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival

Review: Deliver Us from Evil–Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict

Review: Fixing Failed States–A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

Review: Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction (Paperback)

Review: Nordic Approaches to Peace Operations–a New Model In the Making

Review: Policing the New World Disorder–Peace Operations and Public Security

Review: Preventive Defense–A New Security Strategy for America

Review: Stability Operations and State-Building–Continuities and Contingencies: Colloquium Report

Review: The Battle for Hearts and Minds–Using Soft Power to Undermine Terrorist Networks (Washington Quarterly Readers) (Paperback)

Review: The Best Intentions–Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power

Review: The Bottom Billion–Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Review: The Foundation–A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World

Review: The Utility of Force–The Art of War in the Modern World

Review: Third World War

Review: Warfare in the Third World

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Jan 17
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