The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Inspirational and Practical as Well October 31, 2009 Richard Branson I picked this up half-price at Copenhagen airport, and I liked it so much I have ordered Screw It, Let’s Do It (Expanded Edition): 14 Lessons on Making It to the Top While Having Fun & Staying Green. I must note that normally I would …
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Important Essays, Left Me Blase October 13, 2009 Thomas Pogge and Keith Horton, Editors The three best things I can say about this volume: 1) A heroic work that carefully selected important essays on global ethics from the past 40 years (the book itself, Australian in origin, is published for the first time in 2008). …
Excellent for the General Reader, Nicely Slams the Hystericals October 8, 2009 Bjorn Lomborg I must acknowledge that I appreciated this book all the more for first having read Global Crises, Global Solutions as edited by Lomborg (37 contributors), but I do NOT recommend the latter book–read my summary review instead. This book I most …
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NOT for the General Reader, Get Cool It Instead October 8, 2009 Bjorn Lomborg (Editor) I was among those who considered Lomborg discredited when he produced The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, and I now retract two thirds of my rejection in light of The Resilient Earth: Science, Global Warming and …
Pushes the Re-Set Button on Both Gore and Lomborg October 3, 2009 Doug L. Hoffman and Allen Simmons The more I read, the less I know and the more frustrated I grow with the insanity of academic, government, corporate, and non-governmental stovepipes of knowledge in isolation. Right up front this book, read crossing the Atlantic …
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Righteous, Not as Deep As Some, Great Overview September 3, 2009 David Schwerin This book is a logical follow-on to the author’s earlier book, Conscious Capitalism: Principles for Prosperity, a book that is doing very very well in Chinese translations. Early on he points out that we need to achieve a global change in consciousness, …
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Riveting, Gifted Reporting, Deeply Depressing, Call to Arms, May 18, 2008
