Star Surgeon

5 best books like Star Surgeon (James White): Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship, Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc--The Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way Across Europe, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Author	Christina Thompson
ISBN	0062060872

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.

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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

Author	Robert Kurson
ISBN	1400063361

A thrilling new adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of the New York Times bestseller Shadow Divers

Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing...

Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc--The Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way Across Europe

Author	Patrick K. O'Donnell
ISBN	0306820293

It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers in the US Army’s 2nd Ranger Battalion, Company D - "Dog Company”— who made that difference, time and again.

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Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

Author	Jim Mattis
ISBN	0812996836

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.

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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Author	Robert Iger
ISBN	0399592091

A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time's most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.

Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005,...