ISBN and Bar Code revisited. A ISBN assigned today is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007 and 10 digits long if assigned before 2007. This could help establish a year for us to start.
Ok, so I went through and manually solved for the missing variables (numbers) and I came up with the same four numbers others had figured before. It leads to the same book. A book published in 2008.
So, we have a 10 digit ISBN that probably should have been assigned the 13 digit ISBN (because after January 1, 2007) OR could the ISBN assignment been made earlier by the publisher (The company of the Author is the publisher BTW) when the author decided to write the book? I dont know.
So on to the book: the book contains over 2 dozen essays from training industry professionals offering their advice to you in regard to defensive and tactical training. Space for your own notes, diagrams or even a class photo (OHH!) is also included.
Side note here: I was Parachute Infantry for 10 years and none of these names look familiar to me.
Also of interest…On the ISBN Agency website it states: “In most cases, it is the ISBN that is the glue that binds all this information into a single, searchable record.” Further saying: “Sales data would be less granular; product databases would be less efficiently compiled and contain a lot less information. Quite simply, there would probably be chaos.”
So I wonder if that is the answer we are looking for? An ISBN (glue that binds, order instead of chaos) leading to a book about defensive and tactical training (used in chaos)? calm/chaos: order/disorder: yin/yang: white/black and finally, Light/darkness.
Thoughts?
