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In The Admiral's Bookshelf, Adm. James Stavridis shares the books that facilitated his success. The Admiral's Bookshelf links twenty-five essential life lessons and leadership principles to the books that best illustrate them. Each chapter covers a single work of literature and showcases Stavridis' deft analysis of its significance and impact. The result is a rewarding and compelling volume that shows how anyone can use expansive reading to develop essential skills and values for successful leadership.
Stavridis' eclectic collection covers both fiction and nonfiction, ranging from explicitly instructive works to philosophy, history, biography, and memoir. The wisdom he gleans from these books and their parallels to his own life is often surprising and deeply resonant.
The life of Admiral Stavridis, as he reveals it to audiences book by book, chapter by chapter, and lesson by lesson, makes a compelling case for the importance of reading to acquire practical life skills and to enrich one's character. Stavridis offers sound advice on what and how to read, how to build an extensive personal library, and how to become wiser, savvier, and more resilient in positions of responsibility. Anyone seeking to become a better leader—or a better reader—will find The Admiral's Bookshelf an invaluable guide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sail the world with Admiral Stavridis!
- De Mike en 05-21-23
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The Leader's Bookshelf
- De: R. Manning Ancell, ADM. James Stavridis USN - Ret.
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 172
For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over 200 active and retired four-star military officers about their reading habits and favorite books, asking each for a list of titles that strongly influenced their leadership skills and provided them with special insights that helped propel them to success in spite of the many demanding challenges they faced. The Leader's Bookshelf synthesizes their responses to identify the top 50 books that can help virtually anyone become a better leader.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mostly about warfighting
- De Joe Dokes en 04-06-19
De: R. Manning Ancell, y otros
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The Restless Wave
- A Novel of the United States Navy (Scott Bradley James, Book 1)
- De: Admiral James Stavridis USN
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 139
Scott Bradley James arrives in Annapolis, Maryland, as a plebe in the class of 1941 without a terribly good idea why he wants to be a naval officer, other than that his father was a sailor, and he wants to see the world, whatever that means. Scott and his roommate become fast friends, and, after surviving scrapes of their own making, the two fetch up at Pearl Harbor. War is brewing, and their class has graduated early. They have been sent to battle stations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fine story, well told by this talented officer!
- De N. Carey en 01-25-25
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To Risk It All
- Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision
- De: Admiral James Stavridis USN
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 195
At the heart of Admiral James Stavridis’s training as a naval officer was the preparation to lead sailors in combat, to face the decisive moment in battle whenever it might arise. In To Risk it All, he offers up nine of the most useful and enthralling stories from the US Navy’s nearly 250-year history, and draws from them a set of insights that we can all put to use when confronted with fateful choices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great book
- De John A. en 06-06-22
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2054
- A Novel
- De: Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis USN
- Narrado por: Junior Nyong'o, Brian Nishii, Eunice Wong, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 226
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 212
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 212
From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America’s violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country, and the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hope
- De ML Howard en 04-14-24
De: Elliot Ackerman, y otros
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Sea Power
- The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
- De: Admiral James Stavridis USN - Ret.
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 443
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 386
From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power. To an extent that is often underappreciated, it still does. No one understands this better than Admiral Jim Stavridis. In Sea Power, Admiral Stavridis takes us with him on a tour of the world's oceans from the admiral's chair, showing us how the geography of the oceans has shaped the destinies of nations and how naval power has in a real sense made the world we live in today and will shape the world we live in tomorrow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly Recommend. Brilliant, engaging & thoughtful
- De Francis Claro en 06-22-17
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Sailing True North
- Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character
- De: Admiral James Stavridis USN
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman, Admiral James Stavridis USN
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 278
In Sailing True North, Admiral Stavridis offers lessons of leadership and character from the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. He also brings a lifetime of reflection to bear on the subjects of his study—naval history, the vocation of the admiral, and global geopolitics. Above all, this is a book that will help you navigate your own life's voyage: the voyage of leadership of course, but more important, the voyage of character. Sailing True North helps us find the right course to chart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Did not enjoy
- De AgJeff en 01-20-20
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Unit X
- How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
- De: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites—all these and more are becoming part of America’s DIU-fast-tracked arsenal. Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Starts strong then goes political, common for left technocrats
- De Michael S. Rice en 05-24-25
De: Raj M. Shah, y otros
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The Light That Failed
- Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy
- De: Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West. In this brilliant work of political history, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of Communism turned out to be only the beginning of the age of the autocrat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great text
- De Safronov en 05-03-21
De: Ivan Krastev, y otros
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Act One
- An Autobiography
- De: Moss Hart
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 17 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 135
Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the greatest American memoirs - a glorious memorial to a bygone age filled with all the wonder, drama, and heartbreak that surrounded Broadway in the early 20th century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good but not great
- De c en 07-08-17
De: Moss Hart
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The Devil's Newsroom
- Muting Satan's Fake News & Tuning in to God's Truth
- De: Dr. Jeff Schreve
- Narrado por: Dr. Jeff Schreve
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
“God isn’t really good.” "God doesn’t want the best for you.” “God could never forgive that sin." “God could never truly love you." These lies are as old as time, and yet how readily we still believe them to this day. Believing the lies of Satan leads to a life of defeat and despair. But it doesn’t have to be this way! In The Devil’s Newsroom, Pastor Jeff Schreve tackles Satan’s fake news head on.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful message
- De NellieB en 06-08-25
De: Dr. Jeff Schreve
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2034
- A Novel of the Next World War
- De: Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis USN
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller, P.J. Ochlan, Vikas Adam, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,133
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,787
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,772
From two former military officers and award-winning authors comes a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh....
- De Ronald A McBroom-Teasley en 03-10-21
De: Elliot Ackerman, y otros
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Surfer Stories
- 12 Untold Stories by 12 Writers About 12 of the World's Greatest Surfers
- De: Claudia Lebenthal -edited by
- Narrado por: Justis Bolding, Chris Henry Coffey, Robb Moreira, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
The sport of surfing has a mystique and allure that has transformed many of these icons into mythical figures. Surfer Stories brings them together in one definitive collection that will appeal to those who surf and those who don’t!
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The Raider
- The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II
- De: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 16 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
In The Raider, Cundill Prize-winning historian Stephen R. Platt gives us the first authoritative account of Carlson’s larger-than-life exploits: the real story, based on years of research including newly discovered diaries and correspondence in English and Chinese, with deep insight into the conflicted idealism about the Chinese Communists that would prove Carlson’s undoing in the McCarthy era. Tracing the rise and fall of an unlikely American war hero, The Raider is a story of exploration, of cultural (mis)understanding, and of one man’s awakening to the sheer breadth of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding book about a unknown hero
- De Scott Brownell en 05-20-25
De: Stephen R. Platt
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Champion Mindset
- Coach Yourself to Win at Life
- De: Patrick Mouratoglou
- Narrado por: Patrick Mouratoglou
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 8
Superstar coach Patrick Mouratoglou knows what it takes to win. An international icon in the world of tennis, he coached Serena Williams for a decade at the height of her career. More recently he’s worked with top-seeded players including Coco Gauff, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Simona Halep, and Holger Rune. Now, in Champion Mindset, Mouratoglou distills his lifetime of coaching excellence into ten commandments that are applicable to achieving success in all aspects of life, not just the court.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not much here...
- De Ewing Family en 05-27-25
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Conquering Crisis
- Ten Lessons to Learn Before You Need Them
- De: Admiral William H. McRaven
- Narrado por: Admiral William H. McRaven
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 154
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 151
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 151
Throughout his 40-year career, Admiral McRaven has experienced every manner of calamity imaginable. From managing failed hostage rescues to responding to student unrest, McRaven has learned how to successfully navigate crises—those moments that push the limits of your experience and challenge your confidence, when leadership skills alone may not be enough.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bravo Admiral
- De Empress Karen en 04-23-25
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On Character
- Choices That Define a Life
- De: General Stanley McChrystal
- Narrado por: General Stanley McChrystal
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
How to measure a life? After a career of service, retired four-star general Stanley McChrystal had much to contemplate. He pondered his successes and failures, his beliefs and aspirations, and asked himself, Who am I, really? And more importantly, who have I become? When I die, how will I be measured? In the end, McChrystal came to a conclusion as simple as it was profound: the reality of who we are cannot be recorded in dates or accomplishments. It is found in our character—the most accurate, and last full measure, of who we choose to be.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent , absolutely thought proving
- De D en 05-17-25
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The Accidental Admiral
- A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
- De: ADM. James Stavridis USN - Ret.
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
After he was selected to be NATO's 16th Supreme Allied Commander, the New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a "Renaissance admiral." A US Naval Academy graduate with a master's degree and doctorate from Tufts University, conversant in both French and Spanish, this author of numerous books and articles impressed the Navy's leaders and senior Pentagon civilians. The Accidental Admiral offers an intimate look at the challenges of directing NATO operations in Afghanistan, military intervention in Libya, and preparation for possible war in Syria.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insider View on Complexity in Nato
- De Theo Horesh en 05-16-22