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An easy to read 200 page comprehensive discussion of an experienced executive's experience in finding a way to live by spiritual principles in the workplace. Great reading for anyone in management, or in an ongoing relationship, where they seek development of their higher selves and a productive environment.

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1997 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, BUSINESS CATEGORY.......1998-05-05

Each year the North American Booksellers Exchange honors 12 of its publisher members by naming them BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR in their respective categories. The Spiritual Style of Management was this year's winner for business.

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These two volumes provide a broad overview of our current knowledge of nematology. The first volume addresses basic biology, while the second covers applied aspects of nematodes as parasites or disease vectors, and the control of pest nematodes. The books are co-published with Tsinghua
University Press, China. Contributors include the world's leading authorities from Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, New Zealand, UK and USA.

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The author checked the dates of more than 250 inscriptions from Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos with a high degree of accuracy and reproduced old calendrists' calculations in an established calendar for each year from A. D. 638 to 2000. The introduction provides an outline of the calendrical system and some explanation of its technical aspects. This work is of extreme usefulness to all scholars of Southeast Asia when verifying or discounting calendrical and astronomical records in royal and monastic inscriptions, as well as when resolving ambiguities and correcting misreadings.

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Excellent!.......2000-07-13

It makes a good read, essential if you're serious about astrology, what can I say other than this?

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Life Histories of North American Cuckoos, Goatsuckers, Hummingbirds and Their Allies
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Life Histories of North American Cuckoos, Goatsuckers, Hummingbirds and their Allies by Arthur Cleveland Bent. Arthur Cleveland Bent was one of America's outstanding ornithoogists and his twenty-volume series on the life histories of American birds, published under the auspices of the Smithsonian Instituttion, forms the most comprehensive, most complete, most-used source of information in existence...

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When I was four and my daddy left, I cried, but I understood.

He became part of the Gone.

The only life Oney Judge has ever known is servitude. As part of the staff of George and Martha Washington, she isn't referred to as a slave. She is a servant -- and a house servant at that, a position of influence and respect on the plantation of Mount Vernon. When she rises to the position of personal servant to Martha Washington, her status among the household staff -- black and white -- is second to none. She is Lady Washington's closest confidante and, for all intents and purposes, a member of the family -- or so she thinks.

Slowly, Oney's perception of her life with the Washingtons begins to crack as she realizes the truth: No matter how close she becomes with Lady Washington, no matter what secrets they share, she will never be a member of the family. And regardless of what they call it, it's still slavery and she's still a slave.

Oney must make a choice: Does she stay where she is, comfortable, with this family that has loved her and nourished her and owned her since the day she was born? Or does she take liberty -- her life -- into her own hands and, like her father, become one of the Gone?

Told with immense power and compassion, Taking Liberty is the extraordinary true story of one young woman's struggle to take what is rightfully hers.

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LET FREEDOM RING.......2007-03-16

"Let Freedom Ring," a popular qoute the Americans chanted around the time of George Washington, but to the Negro slaves this qoute would mean a lot more. George Washington didn't treat his slaves cruely but he still did own plenty on his plantation during the American Revolution. One of his house servants, sweet and charming, little Oney Judge was smart but could never understand why freedom meant so much to people. She thought she was lucky because house servants got better treatment than other Negros. House servents had to be mixed with both black and white though. Oney Judges father was a white man, but worked as a servant because of crimes comitted in England, her mother was black. Her father left when she was around four to be free. As Oney grew she understood more and more what freedom was and why it was so important. Oney was Ms. Washington favorite and later became her maid. She followed her everywhere. When General Washington was elected president Ms. Washington went to live in New York and so Oney follwed her to where she would later become free, or you can call it a runaway slave. Which leads back to the beginning of the story when Oney is old and an abolitionust newspaper wants a cover story on someone close to the George Washington. I reccomend this book for any one in grades 6th -10th , especially African American. This book was book was inspirational, gives you a deeper feeling of what was actually going on during those times, and teaches you to be apreciative.

Taking Liberty is a very inspirational story. This story inspires anyone, letting them know they can do anything. During slave times Blacks were on a very tight leash. During the American Revolution all they heard the Whites talking about being free, but they all thought "what about me." To have the guts to runaway from your owner or even ask for or about freedom you were pretty brave. For anyone to actually survive and live back then in those conditions you were strong. Thats why reading this is so inspirational beacuse you realize that alot of things are possoble.

This book also teaches you to apreciative of everything you're able to do and say. Slaves were'nt even allowed to take pride in thierselve because technically they didn't belong to themslves. It teaches you to apreciate small things like being allowed to walk to where you want or sleeping on your own bed, or even allowed to use the bathroom in certain places. As you get further and further in the book you start to feel all the things that they felt and you grow sorry for them. You realize that a lot of the stuff around you is a privaledge, not a right.

Taking Liberty makes you understand things about much more than the key terms in a social studies text book. You just don't learn the meaning of the word slaves, or the dates they were brought here as slaves. In this book you find alot of things. It makes you understnad how they felt, why they did some of the things they did, and the life they lived. It tells you where they slept, how much they ate, and the relashionships they had with the whites.

This book was so intriging during the whole entire strory. When you're reading this you don't want to put the book down. Taking Liberty is inspirationl, makes you appreciate things more, and helps you understand the things going on in those times. These are the best qaulities that make this book so good. I reccomend it to mostly African Americans or people in the age group of grades 6th - 10th .

Wonderful!.......2006-12-16

Taking Liberty, by Ann Rinaldi is historical fiction taking place during the Revolutionary War. This book is about an African American girl named Oney Judge who is a slave to George and Martha Washington. In real life she was an actual slave to George Washington. This book tells the life of Oney as a young child till the day she has runaway.
Oneys life is pretty good for a slave, and is like a daughter to Mrs. Washington. When Oney hears about the runaway slaves she never once think she would ever become a runaway slave until thing start to change, she has a wonderful life and is treated well. Should she give up this life for freedom? Oney must make a choice.
I liked this book because of the history in it. This book helps me think about the choices I make in life. Would I have made the same choice as Oney? I don't know. People who like history and biographys would probably enjoy this book as much as I did.

History.......2006-12-02

I loved this book but whished it would have told a little bit more about what happened to Oney after she was free. This is a great book for a person who loves reading books about historical events. I hope others who purchase this book will enjoy this book as much as I did.

Different angle of slavery........2006-07-04

"Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave" gave an interesting look into the life of a real-life slave of the Washington's. I had no idea Oney Judge existed, and I liked reading about a personal slave companion for a change. Plenty is known about field slaves, so learning about the life of a slave who had a fair amount of freedom and good living was appealing. The only time you know she is truly a slave is when she may be "given" to someone. Author Ann Rinaldi used that scene wisely. I recommend.

Where's My Freedom.......2006-04-25

A girl named Oney Judge is a slave girl who lives with her mama in the big house. Everyone really gets along in the house until Oney's mama buys a dress from a slave who stole it. She gets kicked out of the house and has to work as a field slave. Now mama despises her. Mr. Washington was elected president and most people in the house moved with them when they move. Mama tells Oney not to come back or she will kill her. A little bit before the end when they move to a different state, a lot of people are dying because of Yellow fever. She was to run away is to what her mama told her, but she still hasn't left. She doesn't want to leave because she like the way Mrs. Washington treats her like one of her own. Until she finds out that she was going to give her to her daughter as a wedding present. Oney didn't like that because her daughter was mean and treated her like a real slave. Oney also didn't want to go because if Mr. Washington died, all his slaves would be freed.
Overall I think this book was pretty good. The only part I really liked was that Oney was treated like one of the lady Washington's own. She got to go almost everywhere she went and got to sew things just for fun and got to go for walks if she had everything done. She always did what she was told. I didn't really like that Oney's mama treated her that way after she got caught with the dress. She didn't even claim her own daughter. She said she didn't have a daughter. I really didn't like that.
I would really recommend this book to girls or people who like to read about slaves. I think girls would read this more because it is about a girl. Some boys might read this book because it does talk a little bit about boys and has boys in it. I would recommend this book to people who like to read about the hardships slaves had to take.

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Keith Bradsher has been at the forefront of critical SUV coverage since his posting as Detroit bureau chief for the New York Times from January 1996, through August 2001. While in Detroit, Bradsher won the George Polk Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for being the first reporter to cover the many problems created by SUVs.

Winner of the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

Winner of The Washington Monthly's 2002 Annual Political Book Award

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

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Since High and Mighty was published in the Fall of 2002, regulators and consumers have become increasingly suspicious of sport utility vehicles and their poor safety records, heavy air pollution, and misleading marketing. Yet SUV sales continue to rise, leading average fuel consumption of new vehicles to a twenty- two year low and pushing traffic deaths to the highest level since 1990. As aging SUVs enter the used market, the problem is likely to grow much worse.

Bradsher makes a powerful case that these vehicles are much worse than cars-for their occupants, for other motorists, for pedestrians, and for the planet itself. In so doing, he pulls off a work of investigative journalism that shows how a flawed regulatory system, a desperate Detroit, and our national love for "bigger and better" have combined to create this highway arms race.

The paperback includes an epilogue covering new developments and an appendix explaining how to drive an SUV more safely.

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Fearmongering?.......2006-09-20

Here is a simple exercise: price your insurance for a SUV against a small car. The price difference will tell you in which type of vehicle you are most likely to suffer a loss based on real world data and not theories.

Let me ask you another question: the SUV craze has been going on since the early '90s. Don't you think it would die down by now if SUVs were such dangerous vehicles?

The author tries to make a point about how 4 wheel/all wheel drive is a fad. I disagree. Last year I was out in a snow storm before the roads were cleared. Several cars, including mine, ended in a ditch in an icy section. All the other owners were calling 911 when I could climb out because of 4 wheel drive. That incident alone is worth the price.

It is certainly true that SUVs are environmentally unfriendly. But, more dangerous than small cars? No! And I am not even getting into who would win when a tin can collides with a SUV!

Reads Like a Novel With Lots of Facts.......2005-12-19

This is an excellent book written by a Detroit bureau chief for the New York Times. He worked on and off on the book for almost five years and has produced a compelling and fact filled read of 440 pages plus notes. Excellent job.

I would not call the book "anti-SUV" per se, but rather it is a comprehensive review of the vehicle with some related comments on mini-vans. The facts speak for themselves. An SUV is a passenger vehicle that uses a truck base (motor, frame, suspension) with a special body made from a combination of truck parts and custom parts with luxurious interiors and lots of sound proofing. It costs the same to make as a truck but sells at the price of a luxury car - or higher - and has a marketing prestige value now associated with the vehicle.

The book covers the history of the SUV vehicle type, how the vehicle evolved from the early Ford SUV built by Henry Ford for camping trips at the beginning of the last century, panel delivery vans, the history of the WWII Jeep, the GM Suburban, the Jeep Cherokee, and the Ford Explorer, etc

The author covers the costs to make the vehicle, the taxes on the vehicle, the import barriers on imports, how the unions viewed the vehicle, how the gas consumption CAFÉ regulations were circumvented, how politicians have supported the vehicle, and how environmental groups have tacitly supported the vehicle, etc. The bottom line is that the basic construction is relatively cheap while the selling price is high. So the SUV's have become the cash cows of the auto industry leading to economic revival at GMC, Ford, and Chrysler with similar revivals of the local economies in Michigan, Detroit, and Ohio. Many auto executive careers have been tied to the SUV success and this is discussed in the book.

From a marketing viewpoint the turning point for the industry was the black 1986 Cherokee Limited with gold exterior trim. That car and the SUV's that followed were big seller in the cities and became a substitute for the luxury car. That vehicle was followed by products from GM and Ford, of ever increasing size and profit including the Lincoln Navigator, Cadillac Escalade, etc. These latter vehicles generate huge profits for the auto makers and have in fact displaced the luxury car and have become very popular in unlikely places such as New York city.

Cars and SUV's are marketed and sold by appealing to emotions not common sense. Despite the truck base technology that gives poor handling compared to a car, and the heavy weight and truck engines that give poor gas economy, the car companies have pushed the SUV in order to capitalize on the simple truck technology for the sake of fat profits. In a free society that makes good business sense. However the down side is that unlike Europe that has managed to keep oil consumption relatively constant over the past decade or so the US has increased its oil consumption by 50% due in part to these high gas consumption vehicles - fed by imports of oil from the unstable Middle East. In addition to the increased fuel consumption, the environment has been burdened with more pollution by less efficient (truck) vehicles that has compounded the insult to the environment. Finally, because of the truck construction such as the weight and the high center of gravity of these vehicles - although seeming to be safer, the SUV has a poorer safety records both for their occupants and for the cars they hit - as recorded by the insurance agencies - than for regular mid sized cars. So based on the record the SUV is more expensive, has poor truck like handling, wastes gas, and is even less safe than a mid sized car. One can draw their own conclusion.

The author does an excellent job summarizing the facts. He describes the auto executives running the companies, the technology, how the CAFÉ laws were circumvented, safety, etc. It is a compelling read.

Highly recommend 5 Stars.

Excellent; covers all the aspects of the situation.......2005-09-15

Bradsher's only arguable flaw in this book is that he was SO exhaustive in his research and documentation. Reading the history of the auto execs who designed and developed early models of SUVs can be a bit dry, but you can't say he didn't do his homework.

The book addresses every angle of the SUV "experience" in our society:
*The legislation loopholes that tacitcly support and subsidize them;
*The marketing campaigns that *imply* safety without promising anything specific (and actionable);
*The design teams that focused on a more "aggressive" image with wasteful, unnecesssary features to sell to fearful, self-indulgent consumers;
*The engineering and crash tests that prove how unsafe they really are;
*And the pollution stats that prove how wasteful and environmentally damaging SUVs have been.

Any one of the chapters on these topics makes for fascinating reading, but I was especially interested in Ch. 6: Reptile Dreams. In this section on marketing, Bradsher discusses how marketing and advertising execs cynically estimated the insecurity and self-doubt of their target audience and made plans to exploit it. He describes how the image of taller, more "powerful" vehicles was used to generate record sales of a vehicle that's provably less safe... all the while getting the suckers--err, *consumers*--to claim that they were buying an SUV for its SAFETY factors. Which is a lie; they buy it largely for status.

The SUV makers and marketers know this, and they exploit it: why else design a vehicle that explicitly says "Buy this so you can look like you don't care about fashion and status"? The so-called legitimate reasons for owning an SUV are diligently picked apart, one by one. No, they're not safer (minivans are). The four-wheel drive isn't useful (that's for offroad driving, which--despite the ads--90% of SUV owners never do). The cargo capacity isn't that great--in fact, many SUV interiors are awkwardly designed and arranged to have LESS carrying capacity than comparable trucks, minivans, and even station wagons.

The bottom line is simple: SUVs are not safer in collisions, rollovers, or impacts. The data proving this is widely available... but SUV owners don't want to hear it. They crave the illusion of power and control; they want to feel intimidating; they want to indulge their selfishness and callous indifference for the sake of pretending they're Powerful Adventurers; and no mere facts are going to get in their way. The owners gleefully fork over huge shovelsful of cash in exchange for pure image--all form and no substance.

And as we should all know in this cynical consumerist society, image beats reality every time.

a must read ! .......2005-03-31

Fantastic book that is well written & balanced. The author doesn't rant in any way , he simply presents the facts as they are.
Please read it & reassess what & why you drive.

Great Stuff.......2004-08-13

Being a Detroiter, I had to say I picked up this book expecting "outside of Detroit environmentalist" anti-SUV garbage. While being very liberal myself, I'm a Detroit liberal, pro-everything auto industry and then the party line. But the book is very good and enlightening. While it has not quenched my urge to drive SUVs nor my desire to see more sold, it has made me realize it is important that they need to be constructed in a safe manner. While imports rising, I'd like to see my city's brethren employed and Brasher realizes this as he doesn't take the outlandish position many do on the issues of banning them or ridding of them altogether. To do so is to unemploy Detroit. If they can be made more fuel efficient, and safer then everyone can win. Cars though are inherently dangerous. Unless we all drive in NASCAR cars we can expect to have injuries in a crash, Bradsher realizes it is important to limit these faults but accepts it is inevitable there are some problems. A very balanced approach to an often polarizing in viewpoints, issue. Great read.

Bradsher, Keith: High and Mighty: the dangerous rise of the SUV.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of Urban Research

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Bradsher, Keith: High and Mighty: the dangerous rise of the SUV.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of Urban Research
Diego Llovet
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Title: Bradsher, Keith: High and Mighty: the dangerous rise of the SUV.(Book Review)
Author: Diego Llovet
Publication: Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2004
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At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the British government, alarmed at the Duke and Duchess of WindsorÂ's association with the Nazis and the possibility that they would remove themselves to the United States to preach their pacifist (and slightly pro-German) credo, decided that a job had to be found for the ex-King Edward VIII. and his wife, the American, Wallis Simpson. He was appointed Governor of The Bahamas, one of the smallest and least important possessions of the British Empire, far away from the scene of battle.

Away from their sybaritic living in the south of France, the couple struggled unhappily with the very different lifestyle of minor colonial life. This story is of their successes and their failures during their last official service to The BritishÂ—and of the only Royal Governor to have served in British colonial history.

Owen PlattÂ's recounting of their escapades in wartime Bahamas is a fascinating insight into a little known aspect of British history.

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Oh, serve the re-hash.......2006-02-09

Anyone really interested in the Windsor's should skip this book. It is a total re-hashing of known events previously published. The events of his governorship were covered, but not in much detail. A great deal of the book was devoted to the history of the circumstances surrounding their births, courtship and abdication. The only new portion of the book was a small up-date on the island as it is now,to include new building projects, demolitions, and current usage of houses etc. No photos were included.

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This collection of original essays highlights the implications of China's economic transition since 1978 for Sino-American business and trade. Each chapter assesses the implications of China's economic and trade reforms from a different perspective, but the thread running through all of them is a conviction that the government of China and Chinese enterprises will have to strengthen their capacity to compete more effectively in the global economy if they are to be successful in expanding trade and business with the United States. Government and business leaders in both countries will face important challenges in adjusting to changing global trade alliances if they are to be more effective trading partners. Contributors review the changes in economic and trade policies in China, trace the political roots of economic reforms, assess the ability of Chinese companies to enter U.S. markets, explore the management improvements needed in Chinese enterprises, examine the differences between Chinese and North American manufacturing enterprises, and outline the changes in the world economy to which both American and Chinese business and political leaders will have to adjust. The book begins with an introduction to the major issues facing China in transforming its economy and trade relationships with the United States and in strengthening its competitive position in the global economy. Contributors explore the political rationale for the economic changes that have taken place in China and provide a framework for understanding how China's trade policies have evolved since 1978. They trace the evolution of China's trade policies, especially as they apply to trade with the United States, and explore the remaining barriers to and opportunities for trade expansion between the two countries and the strategies that Chinese enterprises will have to adopt in order to enter U.S. markets or form joint ventures with U.S. companies. Trends in three major industries--textiles, machine tools, and medical supplies--illustrate the opportunities and requirements for Chinese enterprises to be competitive. This book will be of interest to students of international business, economics, trade and investment, China's modern economic and political history, and comparative management, and to business executives, government officials, and other professionals involved in trade and investment with China.

Expanding Sino-American Business and Trade

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Expanding Sino-American Business and Trade
Dennis A. (Edt) Rondinelli
Manufacturer: Greenwood Pub Group 01/1//1994
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Great Book for Retarded People.......2007-10-11

Great book for reading on the special little bus whilst trying not to drool on ones self. Another gem from the Fundamentalist Capitalist Fanatics crowd at the Cato Institute. The era of the of the mindless "think tanks" shall be remembered with glee by the those of us waiting to sue the pants off them as soon as we get ourselves together. Great book for retards.

An important book about the "science" of global warming.......2007-07-08

This book deals with many of the common myths regarding global warming using facts instead of personal attacks in order to deal with the many issues and constituencies who have a stake in the global warming debate. Michaels shows that far from there being a "consensus" about global warming, there is a vast group of special interests who distort facts, ignore real scientific research, and create "facts" out of fiction.
Michaels gives many examples of supposedly scientific conclusions about global warming are really a closed loop of closed minds who exclude any evidence that questions the reasons behind global climate changes.

Are there holes in the Arctic sea ice in the summer.? Yes, but they have always shrunk and expanded over millions of years. Is the Antarctic getting warmer or colder? Yes and no, depending on which part of this vast area you are measuring. Are CO2 levels increasing? Yes, but they are no where close to historical levels reached many times in the past. Polar bears on the verge of extinction? Not when the truth is that there are more of them now than at any other time in history (and eating those cute little fur seals in record numbers, no less.)
The list of currently held myths are dealt with in a very objective fashion, backed up by real research, and showing the earth to be a very complicated system, which is not very well understood. Michaels does a great job of showing that many of the things we think we understand about climate change are really not what you read in the newspapers.

If you are looking for a book that deals with the many arguments used in the global climate change debate in a fair and objective way, this is the best of the lot. But of course Michaels is attacked because he does not rely on tax money for a living, unlike the hundreds of thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, media people and their ilk who flood the world with hysterical stories about the end of the world due to global warming when the evidence is quite to the contrary.

The irony of course is that many who see a great conspiracy in those who question the reasons behind climate change somehow blame "big oil" for asking questions about a supposedly finished debate. They obviously have failed to notice, as Michaels has, that most advertising by "big oil" today is to embrace the agenda of the Gores of the world so that they can make even more money trading "carbon credits" which do nothing to reduce air pollution, and not have to spend a dime for oil exploration.

The reality distortion machine.......2007-06-26

Global warming alarmists follow the rules set down by Leon Trotsky when he established the Soviet Union's Agitprop program. Lie, lie, lie. Spread false stories over and over again. Helped by sympathizers and left-wing media, the lies will soon become accepted as truth. Over and over again in the 20th Century, we saw the basic concepts of Soviet Agitprop employed.

Patrick Michaels demonstrates how these concepts are being once again deployed by the global warming alarmists. The global warming lobby is not monolithic. Some members are motivated by nothing more than simple greed: academics who must have grant money in order to keep their jobs. They often have no political purposes, just a need for public money to pay their salaries and fringe benefits. Some non-academics are simply cause hustlers: saving the planet is a potent headline for fund-raising solicitations. Others, the real movers and shakers, want to change the world, they want a single world governmenr to rule the lives of everyone. (It is neither accident nor coincidence that Earth Day is also Lenin's birthday.)

Here Michaels dissects the process of distortion engaged in by the various pressure groups and the media. For example, one interesting graph depicts the way UN IPPC projections of temperature change are consistently amplified in the media, regardless of what the IPPC report actually predicts. The pernicious influence of monopolistic government funding producing an echo chamber of politically correct peer-reviewed "studies" is especially interesting. In short, you don't get financed and certainly not published if you don't agree in advance that your findings will support the "consensus" position.

One by one, with ample supporting documentation, Michaels blows apart what amount to media myths about global warming.

This is a must-read book for anyone attempting to get at the truth of global warming.

Jerry

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media.......2007-06-08

This is a brilliant and witty review of the issues concerning global warming.

Independent Thinkers Beware!.......2007-06-04

Mr. Michaels is a member of no less that 20 institutes, think tanks, and other national groups that receive significant funding from Exxon--places like the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the George C. Marshall Institute, and the Heartland Institute. He also admits that he has accepted funding from various fossil fuel industry groups. One would have to suspend a lot of disbelief to think that such a well-funded person is not serving as a spokesperson for these industries, or, at least, is badly, badly compromised.

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