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The Carbon Farming Solution
A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
With carbon farming, agriculture ceases to be part of the climate problem and becomes a critical part of the solution
Agriculture is rightly blamed as a major culprit of our climate crisis. But in this groundbreaking new book, Eric Toensmeier argues that agriculture—specifically, the subset...
On Creaturely Life
Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
In his Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that animals enjoy direct access to a realm of being—the open—concealed from humans by the workings of consciousness and self-consciousness. In his own reading of Rilke, Martin Heidegger reclaims the open as the proper domain of human existence...
Blood on Their Hands
How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
A few short years after HIV first entered the world blood supply in the late 1970s and early 1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States were infected with the virus. But this was far more than just an unforeseeable public health disaster. Negligent doctors, government regulators, and Big...
by Eric Scerri
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
In 1913, English physicist Henry Moseley established an elegant method for "counting" the elements based on atomic number, ranging them from hydrogen (#1) to uranium (#92). It soon became clear, however, that seven elements were mysteriously missing from the lineup--seven elements unknown...
The Big Bang Never Happened
A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
A mesmerizing challenge to orthodox cosmology with powerful implications not only for cosmology itself but also for our notions of time, God, and human nature -- with a new Preface addressing the latest developments in the field.
Far-ranging and provocative, The Big Bang Never Happened is more...
by Eric V Mold
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Discusses the type of vessel decided upon and why. Negotiations with yacht builders. Navigation techniques, How to make money to stay afloat. Trans Atlantic passage planning. People we met along the way. Security measures
Kabuki Democracy
The System vs. Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
In this “agenda-setting” polemic, journalist and historian Eric Alterman explains what is really happening with the Obama presidency. While Obama’s many compromises have disappointed liberals, Alterman argues that these concessions are largely due to a political system that is rigged against...
by Eric J. Cassell
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians...
The Face of Emotion
How Botox Affects Our Moods and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
William Shakespeare famously wrote that "a face is like a book," and common wisdom has it that our faces reveal our deep-seated emotions. But what if the reverse were also true? What if our facial expressions set our moods instead of revealing them? What if there were actual science to support...
by Eric Chevillard
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The narrator of Prehistoric Times might easily be taken for an inhabitant of Beckett’s world: a dreamer who in his savage and deductive folly tries to modify reality. The writing, with its burlesque variations, accelerations, and ruptures, takes us into a frightening and jubilant delirium, where...
by Eric Hines
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This is the first of a pair of publications on American policy; the other is concerned with National Policy, which consists of foreign and defense policy.
Domestic Policy both is necessary in its own right and must come before National Policy since a sound policy domestically is absolutely...
Decades of Doubt
The John McCabe Murder Saga
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
A handsome, high-profile and tenacious defense attorney. Three elusive suspects. An investigation that stretches across four decades. And two frenetic murder trials. “Decades of Doubt: the John McCabe Murder Saga” is a gripping true-life mystery that follows the case of a 15-year-old boy bound...
by Eric Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
When little Sarah Lee gets a homework assignment to write a report based on a personal interview, she never dreamed that interview would end up being with Santa Clause.
She thought she knew what Christmas was all about, but she learns some surprising things in her interview that will make a lifelong impact for her and her family.
The Santa Report brings home the true meaning of Christmas.
A Wife's Revenge
The True Story of Susan Wright and the Marriage That Ended in Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Susan Wright was a victim...who admitted to killing her husband Jeffrey in their Harris County home in 2003, by stabbing him to death in self-defense. She recounted a harrowing tale of domestic abuse--one that the raging mother of two finally brought to an end--her way.
But prosecutors had...