AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS:
READ LIKE A CATFISH: THE NAMAZU SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR 2014
Editor's note: If you are new to our publication you may find this a bit unusual. Namazu is our 3,000 year old Japanese giant catfish, former demigod, currently employed as a coastal environmental and maritime operations analyst with American Admiralty Books. If you would like to find his previous first person writings we have an index by date in our INDEX and SITE GUIDE and we are building an archive at "EVERY THING NAMAZU". Namazu lives at the bottom of the Sea of Japan and tends to see things "in depth", his insights often stun. Namazu is drawing an ever increasing following and we were asked to publish his list of recommended readings. His recommendations tend to be related to his latest writings or repeated themes in his writings. Once we get his suggestions we then link the suggestions to book descriptions and vendors. If you would like to know more about Namazu, the "Catfish Perspective"and the "Read like a Catfish " program read the black letter section below. If you are a regular follower of Namazu, the black letter material has been presented before. You may want to skip to the red letter paragraph to pick up on the remarks that Namazu recently sent over the hydrophones about periodicals.
People who have read "NAMAZU FULLY LOADED: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA" keep asking how this 3,000 year 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" references. 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 2014 update of the NAMAZU READING LIST.
NEW THIS UPDATE:
A new look at leadership by Rear Admiral Robert O. Wray, Jr, USN (Ret.). The Admiral looks at the classic writings about leadership, especially leadership in a maritime or naval context. He extracts the principal characteristics of the successful maritime leader from each source compares and contrasts them. Then he illustrates these principles in action with engrossing real life sea stories solicited from real life Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine Officers and Chiefs. There is a lot in print about naval leadership, but nothing like this has ever been published before. Its like a combination leadership text, and case book with a dash of adventure, humor, and drama. Very readable, packed with lessons, and lots of fun. This catfish loved it.
Click on book cover link to learn more or to order
NEW LAST UPDATE:
A Hint of Things to Come? Namazu Sent in The Following Suggested Reading. Its not Maritime in Context But He Said It Relates to A Posting He wasWorking On that Will Follow On in the Near Future. He Indicated It WasTo Have Something to Do with the U.S. Merchant Marine and the Future of America. For this Non Maritime related Publication to Show Up, it Must Contain Some Novel Legal Elements....We Could Only Guess At The Time. But during The Last Year he published AMERICA's MERCHANT MARINE AND AMERICA'S POSITION IN THE WORLD.
Click on book cover link to learn more or to order
NEW FEATURE NAMAZU ON MUSIC (Sort of)
Editor's Note: Last year we discovered Namazu's prior career in rock music videos. Here we take a little license with our agreement that Namazu has complete creative control of his writings. He doesn't write much about his book choices, leaving it to the editorial staff to format this continuing series ("Read Like A Catfish") so we thought in case you missed it you'd like to see and hear a bit about Namazu as the album cover model, and the Rock Star who dedicated a song to the big guy, Oh Land. MS Oh Land's music is available through Amazon and we, the staff highly recommend it. Below is a link to a YouTube music video of the "Namazu Theme"with the lyrics as a streaming text. Particularly when you read the lyrics you know MS Oh Land was writing about our Namazu. We published an interview on this situation earlier, if you missed and want to know more click on THE NAMAZU INTERVIEW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfL_vGX6YbE
The link above will take you to a YouTube version of Namazu by Oh Land which provides the Lyrics as streaming text. Below, the album cover icons link you to MP3 , and CDs of music by Oh Land available from Amazon.
Album single album
HERE IS A LINK TO ONE OF HER MORE RECENT SINGLES :
MP3 and Cloud Players
Oh Land's music has been called "whimsical meets electronica, with a little bit of mystery mixed in". Others call it "unique and ethereal". One of the best ways to catch music these days whether you like Namazu's blonde bombshell and talented friend, or prefer Willie Nelson ( Our staff like both) is with an MP3 or Cloud Player. Some of the singles you can play on these things go for as low as 99 cents. The blue link above will take you to the Amazon counter where they sell these devices. The Blue link below will take you to all of the Amazon MP3 downloads available. Remember when you link to Amazon for your music via our links you help support Namazu, our free infotainment features like Listen to the Ocean, and free on line books like Space as an Ocean, The News Service and so much more. Using our links doesn't add a penny to the price of amazon products but unless you use them the blog doesn't make a penny. This is an experimental service in the public interest, an encyclopedic reference of all things maritime, it requires a full time staff and must eventually pay for itself. Please think about us when you are thinking of purchasing anything via Amazon, it matters where you link in.
American Admiralty Books Link to MP3 Downloads
The link below takes you to Amazon CDs and other non MP3 and Cloud Player choices.
American Admiralty Books Amazon Music Link
The link below takes you anything and everything else Amazon has to offer American Admiralty Books Amazon Shop By Department Link
Editor's note: Recently Namazu wrote about maritime periodicals in general and one in particular, naming his favorite periodical and article in recent months. We did not realize that he had so much interest in naval affairs. Here is Namazu on maritime periodicals. Nearly all of the various maritime periodicals are available via hot links to their free E-versions in our NEWS SERVICE section. Namazu seriously recommends reading the periodicals in our NEWS SERVICE SECTION but stated that he has a favorite maritime periodical that is far more than a subscription, it is for members, the U.S. Naval Institute. Namazu urges all of our maritime professional readers to join the Naval Institute and join him in reading the PROCEEDINGS "cover to cover" every month.
He also describes his favorite article from 2012.
Direct from Namazu:
" To the human mind lacking in the catfish perspective one might think that life at the bottom of the Sea of Japan is quiet, dark, and just about completely out of touch with the life of the surface and the coastal zones. But those of you who read some of my earlier material know that I was well aware of surface life early on, since the debris of war at sea, and the wreckage of ships caught in storms often led to trash descending from what I once considered the "sky" onto my living room floor. Periodic trips to the surface similar to whale "spy hopping" clued me in to humans and their shipping. On annual morphs into other forms I began adopting human characteristics and visited coastal communities and learned quite a bit more. Printing came much sooner to China and Japan than it did to the West, but it was thousands of years before anyone was putting out really reliable and timely periodicals on maritime subjects. Then one day in 1874 about a year after its founding I discovered the U.S. Naval Institute and ultimately the U.S.NAVAL INSTITUTE's PROCEEDINGS.
THE U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE'S PROCEEDINGS IS MY NUMBER ONE PICK IN MARITIME PERIODICAL READING. http://www.usni.org/
This publication accepts well written, properly researched and logically reasoned articles from naval, and maritime professionals from the U.S. sea services and other navies, coast guards, marine corps, and merchant marines around the world. There are a lot of maritime periodicals out there. You can link into most of the really informative ones that publish E versions in the American Admiralty Books NEWS SERVICE , but my number one choice, the maritime periodical that I never miss and always read cover to cover every month is the NAVAL INSTITUTE's PROCEEDINGS.
My number one favorite article in recent months was CLOUD COMBAT Thinking Machines in Future Wars by Lieutenant (Jg) Matthew R. Hipple.page 49 of the July 2012 issue. I've seen the march of human technology since the very beginning. Mr. Hipple's grasp of the the very visible future of the technological potential impact on naval warfare dovetails with my thoughts on the economic future of America expressed in the 'NAMAZU FULLY LOADED' series. I described how technology is going to reduce the labor force needed to create the World's wealth and how things will have to change when the bulk of mankind can only find intermittent employment at best. In CLOUD COMBAT Mr. Hipple first paints a detailed picture of future developments in the growth of autonomous technologies in war and then confronts the questions of how to both exploit the advantages of these technologies and yet not remove so much of the human element from the targeting loop that war degenerates into a simple mechanized slaughter. He doesn't propose to have all of the answers for where the human mind must be in the targeting and attack decisions loops of the future, but he introduces us to the issue and forces us to think seriously about it. Mr. Hipple's description of the related technological "progress" raises our sense of urgency about the issue. Finally, he comes down squarely on the side of making progress on these technologies and adapting them to war fighting. I have to credit him with my favorite quote in at least the last five months from the many fine PROCEEDINGS articles:
Click on the link below to contact the Naval Institute
http://www.usni.org/
THE NAMAZU READING LIST IS NOT REVIEWED BY THE AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS EDITORIAL STAFF OR BOARD. THESE RECOMMENDED PUBLICATIONS ARE THE SOLE OPINION OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER
NEW THIS UPDATE:
A new look at leadership by Rear Admiral Robert O. Wray, Jr, USN (Ret.). The Admiral looks at the classic writings about leadership, especially leadership in a maritime or naval context. He extracts the principal characteristics of the successful maritime leader from each source compares and contrasts them. Then he illustrates these principles in action with engrossing real life sea stories solicited from real life Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine Officers and Chiefs. There is a lot in print about naval leadership, but nothing like this has ever been published before. Its like a combination leadership text, and case book with a dash of adventure, humor, and drama. Very readable, packed with lessons, and lots of fun. This catfish loved it.Click on book cover link to learn more or to order
NEW LAST UPDATE:
A Hint of Things to Come? Namazu Sent in The Following Suggested Reading. Its not Maritime in Context But He Said It Relates to A Posting He wasWorking On that Will Follow On in the Near Future. He Indicated It WasTo Have Something to Do with the U.S. Merchant Marine and the Future of America. For this Non Maritime related Publication to Show Up, it Must Contain Some Novel Legal Elements....We Could Only Guess At The Time. But during The Last Year he published AMERICA's MERCHANT MARINE AND AMERICA'S POSITION IN THE WORLD.
Click on book cover link to learn more or to order
The Genesis of Justice : 10 Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the 10 Commandments and Modern Morality and Law [Paperback]
NEW FEATURE NAMAZU ON MUSIC (Sort of)
Editor's Note: Last year we discovered Namazu's prior career in rock music videos. Here we take a little license with our agreement that Namazu has complete creative control of his writings. He doesn't write much about his book choices, leaving it to the editorial staff to format this continuing series ("Read Like A Catfish") so we thought in case you missed it you'd like to see and hear a bit about Namazu as the album cover model, and the Rock Star who dedicated a song to the big guy, Oh Land. MS Oh Land's music is available through Amazon and we, the staff highly recommend it. Below is a link to a YouTube music video of the "Namazu Theme"with the lyrics as a streaming text. Particularly when you read the lyrics you know MS Oh Land was writing about our Namazu. We published an interview on this situation earlier, if you missed and want to know more click on THE NAMAZU INTERVIEW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfL_vGX6YbE
The link above will take you to a YouTube version of Namazu by Oh Land which provides the Lyrics as streaming text. Below, the album cover icons link you to MP3 , and CDs of music by Oh Land available from Amazon.
HERE IS A LINK TO ONE OF HER MORE RECENT SINGLES :
A more recent album click on the cover to order or learn more
MP3 and Cloud Players
Oh Land's music has been called "whimsical meets electronica, with a little bit of mystery mixed in". Others call it "unique and ethereal". One of the best ways to catch music these days whether you like Namazu's blonde bombshell and talented friend, or prefer Willie Nelson ( Our staff like both) is with an MP3 or Cloud Player. Some of the singles you can play on these things go for as low as 99 cents. The blue link above will take you to the Amazon counter where they sell these devices. The Blue link below will take you to all of the Amazon MP3 downloads available. Remember when you link to Amazon for your music via our links you help support Namazu, our free infotainment features like Listen to the Ocean, and free on line books like Space as an Ocean, The News Service and so much more. Using our links doesn't add a penny to the price of amazon products but unless you use them the blog doesn't make a penny. This is an experimental service in the public interest, an encyclopedic reference of all things maritime, it requires a full time staff and must eventually pay for itself. Please think about us when you are thinking of purchasing anything via Amazon, it matters where you link in.
American Admiralty Books Link to MP3 Downloads
The link below takes you to Amazon CDs and other non MP3 and Cloud Player choices.
American Admiralty Books Amazon Music Link
The link below takes you anything and everything else Amazon has to offer American Admiralty Books Amazon Shop By Department Link
PERIODICALS:
Editor's note: Recently Namazu wrote about maritime periodicals in general and one in particular, naming his favorite periodical and article in recent months. We did not realize that he had so much interest in naval affairs. Here is Namazu on maritime periodicals. Nearly all of the various maritime periodicals are available via hot links to their free E-versions in our NEWS SERVICE section. Namazu seriously recommends reading the periodicals in our NEWS SERVICE SECTION but stated that he has a favorite maritime periodical that is far more than a subscription, it is for members, the U.S. Naval Institute. Namazu urges all of our maritime professional readers to join the Naval Institute and join him in reading the PROCEEDINGS "cover to cover" every month.
He also describes his favorite article from 2012.
Direct from Namazu:
" To the human mind lacking in the catfish perspective one might think that life at the bottom of the Sea of Japan is quiet, dark, and just about completely out of touch with the life of the surface and the coastal zones. But those of you who read some of my earlier material know that I was well aware of surface life early on, since the debris of war at sea, and the wreckage of ships caught in storms often led to trash descending from what I once considered the "sky" onto my living room floor. Periodic trips to the surface similar to whale "spy hopping" clued me in to humans and their shipping. On annual morphs into other forms I began adopting human characteristics and visited coastal communities and learned quite a bit more. Printing came much sooner to China and Japan than it did to the West, but it was thousands of years before anyone was putting out really reliable and timely periodicals on maritime subjects. Then one day in 1874 about a year after its founding I discovered the U.S. Naval Institute and ultimately the U.S.NAVAL INSTITUTE's PROCEEDINGS.
THE U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE'S PROCEEDINGS IS MY NUMBER ONE PICK IN MARITIME PERIODICAL READING. http://www.usni.org/
This publication accepts well written, properly researched and logically reasoned articles from naval, and maritime professionals from the U.S. sea services and other navies, coast guards, marine corps, and merchant marines around the world. There are a lot of maritime periodicals out there. You can link into most of the really informative ones that publish E versions in the American Admiralty Books NEWS SERVICE , but my number one choice, the maritime periodical that I never miss and always read cover to cover every month is the NAVAL INSTITUTE's PROCEEDINGS.
My number one favorite article in recent months was CLOUD COMBAT Thinking Machines in Future Wars by Lieutenant (Jg) Matthew R. Hipple.page 49 of the July 2012 issue. I've seen the march of human technology since the very beginning. Mr. Hipple's grasp of the the very visible future of the technological potential impact on naval warfare dovetails with my thoughts on the economic future of America expressed in the 'NAMAZU FULLY LOADED' series. I described how technology is going to reduce the labor force needed to create the World's wealth and how things will have to change when the bulk of mankind can only find intermittent employment at best. In CLOUD COMBAT Mr. Hipple first paints a detailed picture of future developments in the growth of autonomous technologies in war and then confronts the questions of how to both exploit the advantages of these technologies and yet not remove so much of the human element from the targeting loop that war degenerates into a simple mechanized slaughter. He doesn't propose to have all of the answers for where the human mind must be in the targeting and attack decisions loops of the future, but he introduces us to the issue and forces us to think seriously about it. Mr. Hipple's description of the related technological "progress" raises our sense of urgency about the issue. Finally, he comes down squarely on the side of making progress on these technologies and adapting them to war fighting. I have to credit him with my favorite quote in at least the last five months from the many fine PROCEEDINGS articles:
"Change is inevitable, and the warfighter who refuses to stop living by the sword will die by the gun."
" I join our Chief Editor Johnas Presbyter in urging every maritime professional, but especially every Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, USPHS, and Merchant Marine professional out there, commissioned, warranted, enlisted, licensed or unlicensed to join the U.S. Naval Institute and read religiously the PROCEEDINGS. Consider giving an annual membership to your new grad NROTC student, Midshipman, Cadet, newly commissioned ensign, or newly licensed Third Mate. A catfish spends a lot of time quietly on the bottom, then once in a great while makes quite a show on the surface. That is the entire legend of "Namazu the Earth Shaker". If you want to develop the 'Catfish Perspective", if you want to think like a catfish, you have to read like a catfish and catfish worth their salt are devoted readers and subscribers to the Naval Institute Proceedings": http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings
" There are many other important maritime periodicals out there. Most have links in our NEWS SECTION, and I will address them over time. But during the Holiday rush I wanted you to know my favorite and to suggest to all of my many fans to consider the gift of a USNI membership this season to any maritime professional in your family of circle of friends"
Click on the link below to contact the Naval Institute
http://www.usni.org/
THE NAMAZU READING LIST IS NOT REVIEWED BY THE AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS EDITORIAL STAFF OR BOARD. 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.....................
AGAIN, Two years running, the must read maritime book of the decade:THE WAY OF THE SHIP: AMERICA'S MARITIME HISTORY REENVISIONED 1600 -2000
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.
The Way of the Ship
Check it out in our MERCHANT MARINE INTEREST SECTION or read about it at Amazon via the link above
THE NAMAZU PICK FOR MARITIME COFFEE TABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR TWO YEARS RUNNING! NOTHING HAS SURPASSED ITGreat American Schooner Yachts |
Great American Schooner YachtsIllustrations, 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 |
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 Click on the book title
OIL 101Then get deeper into the skull duggery:
THE QUEST PRIVATE EMPIRE
ENERGY SECURITY
ENERGY SECURITY CHALLENGES GLOBAL OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
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:
This completes the 2013 Namazu Reading List. There are 22 books and one monthly periodical a reading pace of a little less than two books a month on average. One is a table top book that we all agree is far more than a table top book of great photography but an important contribution to nautical history and design, but being a large table top book you don't have to read it quickly. If you complete all of Namazu's suggested readings you'll be well poised to fully understand his 2012 and 2013 writings. But there will be a 2015 READ LIKE A CATFISH READING LIST. Don't be too concerned about being a year or so behind the giant catfish. The truth is we are all 3,000 years behind this nearly immortal sage.
TO DEVELOP THE INCREDIBLY COMPLEX AND INSIGHTFUL CATFISH PERSPECTIVE.....
YOU HAVE TO READ LIKE A CATFISH! GO DEEP! GO AMAZON VIA AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS!
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