From acclaimed writer and physicist Mark Bowen, Censoring Science tells the true story of the Bush administration's censorship of the world's preeminent climatologist, and the science behind global warming that they do not want you to know.

The facts don't lie:
• 2005 was the warmest year since the invention of the thermometer.
• 2006 is on track to become the hottest year ever recorded in the United States.
• The six hottest years on record have occurred in the last eight years, and the twenty-two hottest years on record have occurred in the last twenty-six years.

Preeminent climatologist and leading NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen has been studying climate for over three decades. It was his testimony to a Senate committee in 1988 that first brought the threat of global warming to the world's attention. In January 2006, news broke that the Bush administration had been attempting to censor Dr. Hansen-obscuring his message and suppressing the vast body of his scientific work, which unequivocally demonstrates the reality and immense danger of global warming.

Now, for the first time and with unfiltered access, writer and physicist Mark Bowen finally tells the exclusive story of Hansen's decades-long battle to bring the truth about global warming to light. Censoring Science illuminates the real science behind global warming and maintains that we can still prevent environmental disaster, while both strengthening our economy and our national security. In the tradition of Ron Suskind's blockbuster bestseller, The Price of Loyalty, Censoring Science exposes the truth behind the administration's spin doctors, and shares theinside story of one of the most important and influential scientists of our time.

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An eye-opening account of government efforts to silence the nation's leading climate scientist. Hansen, long-time director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, made headlines in early 2006 when he refused to buckle under government pressure to soft-pedal warnings on the dangerous reality of global warming. In this understated but important book, author and physicist Bowen (Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains, 2005) demonstrates how science news makes its way into the media from deep within the labyrinthine space agency. Since the agency's founding in 1958, reporters have had direct access to NASA scientists. That changed in recent years, writes Bowen, when high-level NASA political appointees began trying to control scientists' conversations with the media, especially about climate science and global warming. Drawing on interviews, e-mails and documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Bowen tells a chilling story of deliberate efforts by senior NASA managers, acting in concert with the Bush White House, to play up uncertainties and minimize dangers regarding global warming. Never made in writing, directives were generally issued orally, and in closed-door meetings, to NASA public-affairs officers, who were asked to act against their own principles and obtain approval from appointees before scientists could speak to the media. Hansen spoke out on 60 Minutes, noting government efforts to restrict his statements on 2005 as the warmest year on record. Bowen details the manipulations; shows how conservative NASA press officer GeorgeDeutsch was scapegoated as a rogue trying to control Hansen (while higher-ups declared an open-door media policy); and reveals how the White House "orchestrated" censorship on climate science at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and elsewhere. Amid the attack on credible, unbiased science, writes Bowen, Hansen despairs that no real progress is being made on global warming. A must-read not just for environmentalists but for all politically conscientious readers.

Mark Bowen is the author of the highly acclaimed book, Thin Ice, which was praised as "one of the best books yet published on climate change" (New York Review of Books) and named the best science book of 2005 by NPR's Living on Earth. An avid climber with a Ph.D. in physics from MIT, Bowen has written articles for Climbing, Natural History, and Technology Review.

Using simple rituals—whose roots draw from shamanism, spirituality, religion, Native American studies, vibrational energy, and alternative medicine—becoming conscious of healing abilities is possible. This manual demonstrates not only how to gain the knowledge and wisdom afforded by various spirit beings, guides, and helpers, but also how to apply this knowledge in the natural world. Key diagnostic methods address specific ways to talk with plants and animals, understand what they say and how they say it, and how harmony, healing, and wholeness may be attained in both urban and rural settings. Visualization, prayer, and other techniques for accessing the vibration rates and consciousness of living things are also explored.
 

Jim PathFinder Ewing (Nvnehi Awatisgi) is the author of Clearing and Finding Sanctuary in Nature. He serves as the medicine man in his community, sponsors workshops for the California-based Foundation for Shamanic Studies, teaches Karuna Reiki classes, and lectures on shamanism, energy medicine, and Native American spirituality. He lives in Lena, Mississippi.

Proclaiming the importance of gratitude in an individual's life, this self-help book by motivational speaker Dr. John Demartini is a guide to a new life of happiness and thankfulness. The main tenet of this simple and honest technique is for people to be happy with and grateful for what they have, and there will be much more in return. A practical guide that includes exercises, affirmations, and a gratitude journal, this book gived those who struggle a new, happier, more gracious perspective on life.

Dr. John Demartini is the author of Count Your Blessings and a motivational speaker seen around the world, selling out shows in South Africa, the United States, Canada and Europe. He lives in Houston, Texas.

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Free Stuff and Good Deals for Folks over 50
by Linda Bowman, Paperback

Goods and services that are either absolutely free or close to it for people over 50 are featured in this completely revised edition. Showcasing incredible steals, this fact-filled guide is packed with information on where to quickly and easily find free entertainment, health-care information, and financial advice; inexpensive books and magazines; discounted prescription medicine and vaccines; and bargains for sports and fitness, dining and travel.

 

 

Linda Bowman has been a featured bargain-hunting expert on QVC, television talk shows, syndicated radio shows, and in such publications as Bottom Line and Money Worth. She is the author of the four books in the Free Stuff and Good Deals series. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

 

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The Morning of the Magicians
by Louis Pauwels, Paperback, New

A classic of radical literature, this revolutionary study has challenged conventional knowledge and assumptions for decades, offering unique perspectives on everything from alchemy, politics, history, and supernatural phenomena to magic, Nazi occultism, and mankind’s place in the universe. Drawing from the work of Charles Fort and Carl Jung, among others, the authors explore the importance of history and its varied perceptions and propose new ways of interpreting reality. Through these visionary ideals, they assert that mankind can ultimately achieve cosmic interconnectedness.

 

 

Louis Pauwels founded the magazine Planète. Jacques Bergier was an internationally distinguished nuclear physicist. They were the coauthors of The Eternal Man.

 

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Spirituality for Sceptics
by Tony Wilkinson, Paperback

Arguing that spirituality is not about religion but about living happily, this guidebook offers advice on the skills of the inner life—the mind and emotions—that are needed for a life of gladness. This examination discusses the requirements for happiness, explores their nature, and shows that mastering a set of five of them leads to bliss. The exercises in this resource are offered to spiritual seekers as a path towards happiness and emphasize that personal elation is not caused by external events, but by mastering the skills of the inner life.

 

 

Tony Wilkinson studied philosophy at Cambridge University. After several different careers including philosopher and financial planner, he discovered meditation and studied the religions of the East with a well-known Zen teacher.

 

 

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YES AND THANK YOU
by Cheri Huber, Other Format

Chosen for impact, clarity, and humor, these one-per-day quotations come from a wide variety of sources: Zen masters; Christian and Sufi mystics; Eastern and Western philosophers; poets ancient and modern; and living artists, writers, and comedians. Each entry also contains a question to prompt self-examination, making the calendar a year-long course in fending off destructive thoughts and finding inner certainty. 

Cheri Huber is the founder of the the Zen Center in Palo Alto, California, and the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Murphys, California, and is the author of  Suffering Is Optional; There Is Nothing Wrong With You; and When You're Falling, Dive. June Shiver is an artist and the owner of Keep It Simple Books. They both live in Murphys, California.

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Reflective Exercise in 8 Sessions

with John Alton

Reflective Exercise (RE:) is the breakthrough mind-body routine that takes you straight to the heart of a 4,000-year-old Chinese secret to self-healing, Qigong.  In just eight simple lessons, RE creator and Qigong master John Alton teaches you a simple routine based on the ancient exercise that unlocks the healing link between mind and body, giving you the power to control stress and fight disease.  Using split-screen views, animation and slow-motion, Alton breaks down RE and explains the movements so you learn quickly and at your own pace.  It's like having a private instructor in your own home!

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