Reviews for Operational Test and Evaluation: A Systems Engineering Process

The average rating for Operational Test and Evaluation: A Systems Engineering Process based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-02-18 00:00:00 Quentin Bentein If you are interested in studying Galen, this is a fine place to start. Thematic articles give an overview of his thought, the opening chapter provides his biography, and the final chapter gives a thorough reception history of his work through (primarily Western European) history. The appendices list primary source resources, including original language editions and translations. There is also a thorough bibliography. The only loss of a star is because it is a bit dated (although less than a decade old) simply because of the pace of scholarship on Galen. Still, a solid place from which to begin.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-02-25 00:00:00 Hoa Tran An excellent starting point for understanding Western occultism. Move forward from here - hitting other high points over the next five hundred years, including: 1) John Dee and Edward Kelly (late 1500s)- many books available on the history and fruits of their brief but intense collaboration. 2) Rosicrucian manifestos (early 1600s; authorship unknown, typically assigned to the name 'Christian Rosenkreutz') - available from many internet sources. 3) Count Cagliostro (aka Joseph Balsamo; 1700s) - mostly biographical works. 4) Adam Weishaupt & Illuminati sects (1700s)- mostly biographical and historical works. 5) Emanuel Swedenborg (1700s) 6) Paschal Beverly Randolph (1800s) - probably the most important, influential occultist to come out of the American spirituality movement of that century. Many of his works are in the public domain. 7) Eliphas Levi (1800s) - French occultist with large output, mostly a synthesizer. 8) MacGregor Mathers (late 1800s) - founder of Golden Dawn; specialist in Enochian magic and the Kabbalah 9) Helena Blavatsky (late 1800s) - founder of the Theosophical Society; wrote Isis Unveiled. 10) Aleister Crowley (late 1800s to mid 1900s) - member of Golden Dawn, founder of AA, member of OTO, inventor of "magick" movement - Enochian magic, ceremonial magic, tantra, sex magic, various forms of yoga (list goes on and on) 11) G.I. Gurdjieff (1900s) - the Fourth Way 12) Dion Fortune (1900s) - practical magic, Kabbalah 13) Emericus Durden (2000s) - skeptical nihilism