My take on Treestand Strategies is it's the Cliff's Notes version of One Man's Whitetail,everybody should have a copy, and reread it every once in while to get back and reinforce the basics. It has a lot of useful information and explains the basics very well. If you read this book and practice the techniques you would be ahead of 80% of the hunters out there. You used to be able to buy a copy on the auction site for 99 cents plus shipping,I bought them five or six at a time and gave them away to friends and people just starting to hunt with a bow.
This is how I rate them on my whitetail education scale:
I put Tree stand Strategies on the sophomore/junior year in high school level.
Bowhuning Rutting Whitetails and One Man's Whitetail are on the college 101 and 102 level. These two will explain the nuts and bolts of how to selectively pattern and hunt big whitetail bucks.
Come November is Gene's Master thesis. In it he explains some of the finer points of big buck behavior and how to analyze and solve the questions they always create. It is more about teaching you how to evaluate whitetails and to think for yourself then anything.
Buckskin to Bones is Gene's doctorial dissertation. It has a lot of philosophy on hunting and why we hunt, while answering some of the question left over from the previous books. Everybody should read this book, it doesn't matter if you hunt or not.
Anyway, that is how I relate to Gene's books to education.
Barry's book, Once Upon a Tine, is an entertaining read that combines the adventure of the hunt with lots of little bits of information that often make the difference in the hunt. Oh ya, like always with anything Barry is involved with, you will find yourself laughing throughout the book. For me, this is the most enjoyable of all the books.