READ LIKE A CATFISH: OUR LATEST UPDATE
People who have read "NAMAZU FULLY LOADED: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA" keep asking how this 3,000 yer old catfish knows so much. Well, obviously being 3,000 years old gives one a unique and very deep historical perspective. While Namazu generally hangs out in the Pacific off the Sea of Japan he is a world traveler as his recent visit to our office demonstrated. Being able to take human form on rare occasions gives one an inter-species broad breath of perception. But how is he able to predict the future? Namazu says that the ability to predict the future was never in his union contract as a "demigod", a term he now describes as "unfortunate and inaccurate."He maintains that he uses the same type of analytic tools as human prognosticators but better quality, and of course he has that unique historical and global perspective. Namazu claims no future predictive accuracy much greater than the best computer enhanced, human team of forecasters. He does claim to use better data, some of it quite expensive as we learned in that little controversy over the "NAMAZU FULLY LOADED" controversy. We have asked Namazu to share with his fans a reading list that will help readers to master the Catfish perspective. He has promised to keep his suggested reading list within reasonable retail pricing and to stay away from suggesting some of the data bases that he occasionally accesses that costs thousands of dollars. So today we present the first installment of the NAMAZU READING LIST.
THE NAMAZU READING LIST IS NOT REVIEWED BY THE AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS EDITORIAL STAFF. THESE RECOMMENDED PUBLICATIONS ARE THE SOLE OPINION OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER
THE NAMAZU READING LIST IS NOT REVIEWED BY THE AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS EDITORIAL STAFF. THESE RECOMMENDED PUBLICATIONS ARE THE SOLE OPINION OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER
THE VOTES ARE IN AND THE CATFISH SPOKE HIS MIND, THE AAB AND NAMAZU AGREE ON THE BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Winner Is.....................
THE WAY OF THE SHIP: AMERICA'S MARITIME HISTORY REINVISIONED 1600 -200 by W. Jeffery Bolster and Alexander Keyssay (published 2007)
American Admiralty Books gives this history a rare "recommended" rating meaning that we think every marine professional should have this volume in his or her personal professional library. Click on the link below the book cover image to read more or to order.
http://www.amazon.com/Way-Ship-Americas-Reenvisoned-1600-2000/dp/0470136006/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353904516&sr=1-1&keywords=THE+WAY+OF+THE+SHIP
THE NAMAZU PICK FOR MARITIME COFFEE TABLE BOOK OF TH E YEAR |
| Illustrations, photos, drawings, plans histories and more on the schooner designs of William Burgess, Cox and Stevens, Samuel Crocker, the greats of American schooner design A reference work for yacht designers, and nautical historians ,and a work of art for the rest of us. If you have a serious sailor on your Christmas list just click on the book cover icon link below and put one of these babies in your Amazon shopping basket. http://www.amazon.com/Great-American-Schooner-Yachts-Rudolph/dp/0764340891/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353900463&sr=1-1&keywords=GREAT+AMERICAN+SCHOONER+YACHTS |
Check it out in our sailing and boat building sections
READINGS RELATED TO NAMAZU POSTINGS:
In this first installment Namazu reminds readers that oil isn't the first commodity to drive the global economy. In the ancient past other commodities have had serial central roles. The first step in understanding the role of oil in the global economy is understanding the rise and fall of predecessor central commodities. Namazu suggest that if you weren't actually alive and involved in ocean shipping for the last 3,000 years that the following books can help you to see the global economy from the catfish perspective: Click on the book cover icons to read more about, or to order the books.
SPICE THE HISTORY OF A TEMPTATION by Jack Turner
SALT: A WORLD HISTORY by Mark Kurlarshy
THE DEVILS MILK, A SOCIAL HISTORY OF RUBBER
CLAY, THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF HUMANKIND'S RELATIONSHIP WITH EARTH'S MOST PRIMAL ELEMENT by Suzanne Staubach
The one commodity that is presently driving the world economy and which Namazu sees as having a shift in its center of gravity towards the United States driving a strong economic recovery in the next several years is of course oil. To better understand the global oil based economy Namazu suggests the following.
AND THEN THERE IS OIL THE SUBJECT OF NAMAZU FULLY LOADED PARTS 1 &2: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND OIL TO UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT AND THE NEAR FUTURE
Start with this primer : OIL 101 by Morgan Downey
(The Book covers are not hyperlink Icons a single hyperlink is at the bottom of the book covers, This link takes you to "THE QUEST" and all of the other hyper links can be found by scrolling down from there)
Then get deeper into the skull duggery:
CLICK ON THE "QUEST "ICON FOR THIS BOOK AND FIND THE LINKS TO THE REST BY SCROLLING DOWN AT THE" QUEST" SITE.
COASTAL ZONE EROSION AND PROTECTION
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| Click on the hyperlink below to read a description or to order |
BAYOU FARWELL by Mike Tidwell the story of the rapidly eroding Louisiana coast , the disappearing environment and human culture. Available as a book or on Kindle click on the above icon and then click on the book cover icon in Amazon to read excerpts.
Coastal Building Codes and Design:
NEW NAMAZU READING LIST SUGGESTIONS WILL BE PUBLISHED WEEKLY, POSSIBLY MORE OFTEN.
TO DEVELOP THE INCREDIBLY COMPLEX AND INSIGHTFUL CATFISH PERSPECTIVE.....
YOU HAVE TO READ LIKE A CATFISH! GO DEEP!
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