David Suzuki's Green Guide

By: Dr. David Suzuki and David R. Boyd
David Suzuki Foundation and Greystone Books, 2008

Everyone knows that human actions affect our natural environment. With this indispensable guide, readers will learn to consume fewer resources and become part of the solution as stewards of the planet. This book recommends actions for individuals to be more green in the homes where we live, the way we travel, the food we eat, and the things we buy. It also describes how all of us can ensure that governments support sustainable lifestyles. Suzuki and Boyd provide vital tips for readers to: create a healthy indoor environment, decrease energy and water use, choose eco-friendly transportation,
make simple diet changes to eat fresher, healthier food

David Suzuki's Green Guide
By: Dr. David Suzuki and David R. Boyd
David Suzuki Foundation and Greystone Books, 2008

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

A riveting family saga, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle explores the deep and ancient alliance between humans and dogs, and the power of fate through one boy’s epic journey into the wild.

Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar’s lifelong companion. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar’s uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelle’s once-peaceful home. When Edgar’s father dies suddenly, Claude insinuates himself into the life of the farm–and into Edgar’s mother’s affections.

Grief-stricken and bewildered, Edgar tries to prove Claude played a role in his father’s death, but his plan backfires, spectacularly. Edgar flees into the vast wilderness lying beyond the farm. He comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who follow him. But his need to face his father’s murderer, and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs, turn Edgar ever homeward.

Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes–the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a ghost made of falling rain–create a family saga that is at once a brilliantly inventive retelling of Hamlet, an exploration of the limits of language, and a compulsively readable modern classic.

David Wroblewski grew up in rural central Wisconsin, not far from the Chequamegon National Forest, where The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is set. He earned his master's degree from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Over the years he has lived in La Crosse, Minneapolis, and Austin, Texas. Currently, he makes his home in Colorado with the writer Kimberly McClintock, their dog Lola, and their cat Mitsou.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is his first novel.

Miracle Stem Cell Heart Repair

Christian Wilde is an author and researcher who has devoted seven years to exploring early detection and prevention of heart disease for the general public. Becoming aware of (non-cholesterol) related heart disease in his own profile in 1997, he sought to better understand why 50% of all heart attacks were actually happening to people with so-called normal cholesterol.

WHY PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES NEED TO READ THIS BOOK?

IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN COMMONLY ACCEPTED AS IRREFUTABLE MEDICAL FACT: Once a heart attack has scarred the tissue of the heart, that area of muscle is permanently and irrevocably damaged–and in time the patient’s condition may progress to congestive heart failure and possible sudden death –that is UNTIL NOW! If you or someone you know has had one or more heart attacks – may be approaching a need for a second or third bypass surgery – lives with angina pectoris or congestive heart failure–Take Heart! If you are one of the thousands of heart patients who have been told there are no more options, MIRACLE STEM CELL HEART REPAIR was written for you! The future is here!

The Tyranny of Oil

The World's Most Powerful Industry - and What We Must Do to Stop It

Pulls back the curtain on Big Oil - uncovering virtually unparalleled global power, influence over elected officials, lax regulatory oversight, the truth behind $150-a-barrel oil, $4.50-a-gallon gasoline, and the highest profit in corporate history. Exposing an industry that thrives on secrecy, Juhasz shows how Big Oil manages to hide its business dealings from policy makers, legislators, and most of all, consumers. She reveals exactly how Big Oil gets what it wants - through money, influence, and deception. Juhasz then provides a clear set of meaningful and achievable solutions, including the break-up of Big Oil.

The Tyranny of Oil prepares readers for election 2008 - allowing them to interpret the constant stream of competing proposals and perplexing news stories about the economy and oil. It arms with the facts while guiding readers through the industry's rapacious history - demonstrating how the worst abuses of the robber-baron era are being revisited today.

Drawing on considerable historical research, Juhasz explores the parallels between today's companies and Standard Oil, the most powerful corporation of the early 20th century, whose stranglehold on the economy and government was broken only by the vision and persistence of activists and like-minded politicians.

It has taken nearly 100 years, but Standard's pieces have nearly been put back together. Since the 1990's, more than 2600 mergers have taken place in the U.S. oil industry. Juhasz traces a radical transformation in antitrust law in the U.S., concluding that many, particularly the largest of these mergers, should never have been permitted.

Gas prices: ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP, Shell, and Valero control almost 60% of the U.S. refining market - roughly twice as much as the six largest companies controlled just 12 years ago - and more than 60% of U.S. gas stations. Thousands of independent oil refineries and gas stations have been bought up or pushed out, leaving a market dominated by a few oil giants.

Oil prices: Oil industry power also helps explain today's skyrocketing oil prices - not just the weak dollar, supply shortages, or rising demand - but rampant industry speculation. Juhasz demonstrates how as much as half of the price of a barrel of oil is largely determined by the actions of energy futures traders, including those working for and on behalf of Big Oil. Having succeeded in gutting government oversight and regulation, Big Oil has helped make oil futures one of the hottest, least monitored trading properties in the world. 

Politics: Juhasz reveals how Big Oil turns hundreds of billions of dollars in annual profit into unparalleled influence over local decisions, state governments, Congress, the White House, and the international arena. Through candid interviews and investigative research, Juhasz traces a tangled web of high-powered lobbyists, lawyers, and money.

Environment: She reveals Big Oil’s disingenuous claims that it's part of the solution to global warming - finding that in 2006 and 2007, no major oil company spent more than 4% of its expenditures on green energy, and most spent far less. Instead the industry is intent on pursuing the energy-intensive and pollution-heavy processes of wringing oil from shale and tar sands and offshore drilling - pushing the planet ever-closer to climate catastrophe.

War: Oil is not only about warming it is also about war. Juhasz uncovers Big Oil's role in the war in Iraq and a potential war against Iran. As Juhasz argues, you could study a map of Big Oil's overseas operations, the world's remaining oil reserves, and oil transport routes to predict the deployment of the U.S. military in the decades to come.

Solutions: The Tyranny of Oil enables readers to recognize the smokescreens Big Oil uses to obscure its role in the crippling of the economy, and to understand how Big Oil exercises its influence over the most pressing political questions of our day. Arguing that the elections offer a unique opportunity for bold change, Juhasz puts forward real solutions, including an immediate call to action for the break-up of Big Oil and a "Separation of Oil and State," challenging elected officials to renounce all oil company money.

Antonia Juhasz is a leading expert on international trade and finance policy and the author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time.  A fellow with Oil Change International and the Institute for Policy Studies, she has served as an aide to two U.S. members of Congress and holds as Masters degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University. An award-winning writer and frequent media commentator, her work has been featured in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Petroleum Review Magazine, and Alternet.org. She has appeared on Kudlow & Company, National Public Radio's Diane Rehm Show and Marketplace, Washington Journal, Hannity & Colmes, and Democracy Now! among many other shows. She lives in San Francisco, CA.

Healing with Love

Leonard Laskow is a physician, trained at Stanford as an OB-GYN, who has studied the healing power of love for the past 25 years. He coined the term Holoenergetic Healing, by which he means healing with the energy of the "whole."

The principles of holoenergetic healing are presented in Dr. Laskow's breakthrough book, Healing with Love (Wholeness Press, 1992/ 1998). Highly recommended by Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey, and Dolores Krieger, this book uses ancient and cutting-edge healing techniques, self awareness, energy work, and practical exercises to help one directly experience love as a healing force. In it Dr. Laskow describes his laboratory research, which documents the effectiveness of heart-focused holoenergetic techniques in significantly inhibiting the growth of tumor cells in tissue culture and bacterial growth in test tubes. The book, originally published in 1992 by Harper Collins, has sold over 30,000 copies in eight languages. In subsequent research, Dr. Laskow has shown that the molecular configuration and properties of water and the physical structure of DNA can be changed by conscious intention, imagery and love.