This book is a primer on how to transit the potentially superb but treacherous educational system that has evolved in twenty-first-century America. For those aspiring to become professionals and leaders, it provides detailed descriptions of some important career paths. It identifies the intellectual tools to develop superior reasoning power, to recognize misleading information, and to adjust to changing circumstances. It discusses what to study and why. It describes powerful concepts that ...

The authors course of business and personal travel has taken him to seven continents and well over a hundred countries in over fifty years, and to some venues many dozens of times. His love of geography and wildlife has led him to explore the Polar Regions, the African savanna, and the Amazon rain forest. His diverse interests in history, archaeology, technology, and the environment have given him an integrated perspective on the nature of our planet and how our present situation came to b...