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UF0 Sightings - A list of 150 book titles

2010-07-16T16:30:00.000-07:00

Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any apparent aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately identified by the observer. The United States Air Force, which coined the term in 1952, initially defined UFOs as those objects that remain unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators, though today the term UFO is colloquially used to refer to any unidentifiable sighting regardless of whether it has been investigated. UFO reports increased precipitously after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting, reported by private pilot Kenneth Arnold in June 24 1947, that gave rise to the popular terms "flying saucer" and "flying disc."

The term UFO is popularly taken as a synonym for alien spacecraft and generally most discussions of UFOs revolve around this presumption. UFO enthusiasts and devotees have created organizations, religious cults have adopted extraterrestrial themes, and in general the UFO concept has evolved into a prominent mythos in modern culture. Some investigators now prefer to use the broader term unidentified aerial phenomenon (or UAP), to avoid the confusion and speculative associations that have become attached to UFO. Another widely known acronym for UFO in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian is OVNI (Objeto Volador No Identificado, Objeto Voador Não Identificado, Objet volant non identifié or Oggetto Volante Non Identificato).

Studies have established that the majority of UFOs are observations of some real but conventional object—most commonly aircraft, balloons, or astronomical objects such as meteors or bright planets—that have been misidentified by the observer as anomalies, while a small percentage of reported UFOs are hoaxes. Only between 5% to 20% of anomalous sightings can be classified as unidentified in the strictest sensE.

The possibility that all UFO sightings are misidentifications of known natural phenomena[inspired some debate in the scientific community about whether scientific investigation was warranted given the paucity of available empirical data. Very little peer-reviewed literature has been published in which scientists have proposed, studied or supported non-prosaic explanations for UFOs.Nevertheless, UFOs as a cultural phenomenon continues to be the subject of serious academic research and amateur investigators continue to advocate that UFOs represent real and unexplained events, whether or not they are associated with alien encounters.

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List of 150 Books About UFO's

Crash: When UFOs Fall From the Sky: A History of Famous Incidents, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups

UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record

Interdimensional Universe: The New Science of UFOs, Paranormal Phenomena and Other dimensional Beings

Flying Saucers and Science: A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government Cover-Ups

Extreme UFO Encounters Based On Newly Declassified X-Files (Extreme UFO Encounters Based On Newly Declassified X-Files )

UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973

The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991 (UFOs and the National Security State, Vol. 2)

Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, UFOs, and Classified Aerospace Technology

The Thinking Person's UFO Book

Witnessed; The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions

The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia: The Most Compreshensive Single-Volume UFO Reference in Print

UFO Sightings of 2006-2009

Need to Know: UFOs, the Military, and Intelligence

Top Secret/Majic: Operation Majestic-12 and the United States Government's UFO Cover-up

UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence

Project UFO (Choose Your Own Adventure #27)

Strange Encounters: UFO's, Aliens, & Monsters Among Us (Fate Presents)

Dark Object: The World's Only Government-Documented UFO Crash

Man-Made UFOs 1944-1994: 50 Years of Suppression

Unsolved UFO Mysteries: The World's Most Compelling Cases of Alien Encounter

UFO Secrecy and the Fall of J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Other Roswell: Ufo Crash On The Texas-Mexico Border

Alien Contact: Top-Secret Ufo Files Revealed

Lights in the Sky & Little Green Men: A Rational Christian Look at Ufos and Extraterrestrials

The Golden Age of Flying Saucers: Classic UFO Sightings, Saucer Crashes and Extraterrestrial Contact Encounters

UFOs & Abductions: Challenging the Borders of Knowledge

Bible and Flying Saucers (2e, Tr)

UFO Crash in Brazil

Invasion Washington: UFOs Over the Capitol

The Ufo Enigma: The Definitive Explanation of the Ufo Phenomenon

The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence

The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings

Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: A Reporter's Notebook on Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T.

The UFO Evidence - Volume 2 : A Thirty Year Report

ChupaCabra and the Roswell UFO

The Canadian UFO Report: The Best Cases Revealed

Signs On The Earth: Deciphering The Message Of Virgin Mary Apparitions, UFO Encounters, and Crop Circles

UFO Diary

HEAVENLY LIGHTS: The Apparitions of Fatima and the UFO Phenomenon

The Greatest Deception: The Bible UFO Connection

In League with a UFO

UFO: End-Time Delusion

The Ufo Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial

Mysteries of UFOs (Unsolved!)

The UFO-Jesus Connection

Silent Invasion : The Shocking Discoveries of a UFO Researcher

Visitors From Time: The Secret of the UFOs

UFOs: What Scientists Say May Shock You! (24/7: Science Behind the Scenes)

UFO/FBI Connection: The Secret History of the Government's Cover-Up

Swamp Gas Times: My Two Decades on the UFO Beat

The Ufo Handbook: A Guide to Investigating, Evaluating, and Reporting Ufo Sightings

Ultimate Guide to the Roswell UFO Crash: A Tour of Roswell's UFO Landmarks

The UFO Phenomenon (Mysteries of the Unknown)

The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation

The UFO Evidence

Chosen: Recollections Of UFO Abductions Through Hypnotherapy

The Extraterrestrial Answer Book: UFOs, Alien Abductions, and the Coming ET Presence

Ufos Over Africa

Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters With Ufos

X-COM: UFO Defense - A Novel

Ufo & Alien Collectibles Price Guide: Price Guide

The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, Ufo Encounters, and Mind at Large

UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat

A World of UFOs

Experiences with Aliens and UFOs Part One

UFO's

THE UFO EXPERIENCE - A SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY - BALLANTINE #24694

Ufo's in the New Age: Extraterrestrial Messages and the Truth of Scripture Sight Unseen: Science

Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility and Transgenic Beings

, UFO Invisibility and Transgenic Beings

UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Believe

UfO-Dynamics: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the Ufo Syndrome Book 1

UFO Crash at Roswell

Aliens in America: A UFO Hunter's Guide to Extraterrestrial Hotpspots Across the U.S.

JUST RELEASED --2010: The Reality and Cover-Up of UFOs NEW SPECIAL REPORT (Just Released. SPECIAL REPORT)

The Myth and Mystery of UFOs

UFO... Contact from the Pleiades, Volume 1

Ufo Abductions: A Dangerous Game

Alien Encounters: The Secret Behind The Ufo Phenomenon

UFO Contact at Pascagoula

The Complete Book of Ufo's: An Investigation into Alien Contacts & Encounters

Ufo's: The Greatest Stories

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction

Proof of Extreme UFOs Encounters Based on Physical Evidence & Eyewitnesses (Physcial proof of Extreme UFOs Revealed )

The Ufo Encyclopedia

DISCLOSURE! Breaking Through The Barrier Of UFO Secrecy!

UFO How-To Vol VII - Esoteric Power Systems

The Science of UFOs: What If They're Real?

Out of the Shadows: UFOs, the Establishment and Official Cover Up

Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs By Blume

Ufo Danger Zone: Terror & Death in Brazil

The UFO Hunter's Handbook (Field Guides to the Paranormal)

The Flying Saucers Are Real : UFO Cover-Up, Paranoia and Government Misinformation

Walking Between Worlds: Belonging To None

MORE Real Stories About Vampires, Monsters & UFOS Based On Historical Newspapers

Alien Worlds: Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact

Clear Intent: The Government Coverup of the Ufo Experience

Ufo Abductions in Gulf Breeze

UFOs, Crop Circles and the Mayan Calendar

Ufos Explained

Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future

The Black World of UFOs: Exempt from Disclosure

UFOs: The Great Debate: An Objective Look at Extraterrestrials, Government Cover-Ups, and the Prospect of First Contact

Enter the Valley: UFOs, Religious Miracles, Cattle Mutilations, and Other Unexplained Phenomena in the San Luis Valley

Our Interplanetary Future: A UFO Primer for Skeptics

The Hollow Earth: The greatest geographical discovery in history made by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in the mysterious land beyond the Poles--the true origin of the flying saucers

The Andreasson Affair: The Documented Investigation of a Woman's Abduction Aboard a Ufo

All Lights on in the Master's House

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)

The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know

UFO Frontier UFO Frontier

Ufo Kids

Ufo's: A Scientific Debate (The Norton library, N739)

Beyond Roswell: The Alien Autopsy Film, Area 51, & the U.S. Government Coverup of Ufos

The Roswell Protocols

Cut & Assemble UFOs that Fly: 8 Full-Color Models (Models & Toys)

Projekt Ufo: The Case For Man-Made Flying Saucers

UFOs

Secret Life: Firsthand, Documented Accounts of UFO Abductions

Experiences with Aliens and UFOs Part Two

UFOs: Mystery & Conspiracy

The Ufo Controversy in America

Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a Ufo

UFO's In Space: Anatomy of A Phenomenon

The Utah UFO Display: A Scientist's Report

UFOs in 1492

The Human Quantum Leap: Confessions Of A Former Intelligence Operative

UFO How-To Vol. II

Aliens & UFOs

Secret of the Ages; UFO's From Inside the Earth

ART, LIFE and UFOs

Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth

Ufo's True Mysteries or Hoaxes (Isaac Asimov's New Library of the Universe)

Flying Saucers and Science (EasyRead Large Edition): A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government Cover-Ups

UFO How-To - The Basics

Ufos: The Public Deceived

The Complete Book of Gerry Anderson's UFO

UFO Headquarters: Investigations On Current Extraterrestrial Activity In Area 51

UFO Case Files of Russia

UFO Missionaries Extraordinary

Secrets of UFO Technology

The Mammoth Book of UFOs (Mammoth Books)

UFO Crash at Roswell

Alien Energy: UFOs, Ritual Landscapes and the Human Mind

Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture

The Flying Saucers Are Real

UFOs and IFOs, A Factual Report on Flying Saucers

A common sense approach to UFOs

Ufos and the Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints

Barbara: The Story of a UFO Investigator

Encyclopedia of Ufo's

Mysterious Visitors: The Ufo Story

Beyond UFO Secrecy

The Watchers II: Exploring Ufos and the Near-Death Experience

Ufo Sightings: The Evidence

Subterranean Worlds: 100,000 Years of Dragons, Dwarfs, the Dead, Lost Races and Ufos from Inside the Earth

Case MJ-12: The True Story Behind the Government's UFO Conspiracies

UFO: God's Celestial Airforce

Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds

The Golden Age of Flying Saucers: Classic UFO Sightings, Saucer Crashes and Extraterrestrial Contact Encounters

Fifty Books for Greening Business- Sustainable Business Practice

2010-07-15T19:50:00.000-07:00

Sustainable business, or green business, is enterprise that has no negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy—a business that strives to meet the triple bottom line. Often, sustainable businesses have progressive environmental and human rights policies. In general, business is described as green if it matches the following four criteria:

   1. It incorporates principles of sustainability into each of its business decisions.
   2. It supplies environmentally friendly products or services that replaces demand for nongreen products and/or services.
   3. It is greener than traditional competition.
   4. It has made an enduring commitment to environmental principles in its business operations.

A sustainable business is any organization that participates in environmentally-friendly or green activities to ensure that all processes, products, and manufacturing activities adequately address current environmental concerns while maintaining a profit. In other words, it is a business that “meets the needs of the present world without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.” It is the process of assessing how to design products that will take advantage of the current environmental situation and how well a company’s products perform with renewable resources.

The Brundtland Report emphasized that sustainability is a three-legged stool of people, planet, and profit. Sustainable businesses with the supply chain try to balance all three through the triple-bottom-line concept—using sustainable development and sustainable distribution to impact the environment, business growth, and the society.

Everyone affects the sustainability of the marketplace and the planet in some way. Sustainable development within a business can create value for customers, investors, and the environment. A sustainable business must meet customer needs while, at the same time, treating the environment well.

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Harvard Business Review on Green Business Strategy (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make A Difference

The Truth About Green Business

Build a Green Small Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur

Start Your Own Green Business (Start Your Own...)

The Green Business Guide: A One Stop Resource for Businesses of All Shapes and Sizes to Implement Eco-friendly Policies, Programs, and Practices

Smart Green: How to Implement Sustainable Business Practices in Any Industry - and Make Money

The Sustainable MBA: The Manager's Guide to Green Business

Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business

Starting Green: An Ecopreneur's Toolkit for Starting a Green Business from Business Plan to Profits

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

Billion Dollar Green: Profit from the Eco Revolution

Better Green Business: Handbook for Environmentally Responsible and Profitable Business Practices

Green Investing: A Guide to Making Money through Environment-Friendly Stocks

Green, Inc.: An Environmental Insider Reveals How a Good Cause Has Gone Bad

Greenopia, New York City: The Definitive Guide to More Than 1,300 Eco-Friendly Businesses and Resources (Greenopia series)

Harvard Business Review on Profiting from Green Business (A Harvard Business Review Paperback)

The Green Workplace: Sustainable Strategies that Benefit Employees, the Environment, and the Bottom Line

Green Tech: How to Plan and Implement Sustainable IT Solutions

The Green and Virtual Data Center

Green Business: A Five-part Model for Creating an Environmentally Responsible Company

Greening Your Business: The Hands-On Guide to Creating a Successful and Sustainable Business

Green IT For Dummies

101 Ways to Turn Your Business Green: The Business Guide to Eco-Friendly Profits

Green Supply Chains: An Action Manifesto

The Green Marketing Manifesto

Good to Green: Managing Business Risks and Opportunities in the Age of Environmental Awareness

Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet

Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution

True Green at Work: 100 Ways You Can Make the Environment Your Business (True Green (National Geographic))

Green Your Work: Boost Your Bottom Line While Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

Green Business Practices For Dummies

Nonprofit Guide to Going Green

Greening Your Office: From Cupboard to Corporation, An A-Z Guide (The Chelsea Green Guides)

The Green Building Bottom Line (GreenSource Books; Green Source): The Real Cost of Sustainable Building (Mcgraw-Hill's Greensource)

Greening Your Small Business: How to Improve Your Bottom Line, Grow Your Brand, Satisfy Your Customers - andSave the Planet

Green Careers For Dummies

Global Warming Is Good for Business: How Savvy Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations, and Others are Making Money While Saving the Planet

Sustainability Strategies: When Does it Pay to be Green? (INSEAD Business Press)

Green Movement in Business

Green Logistics: Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Logistics

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Careers

Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation

Greening Your Company: Leading CEOs on Addressing Environmental Challenges, Setting Sustainable Standards, and Measuring ROI for Going Green (Inside the Minds)

Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots

Whole Green Catalog: 1000 Best Things for You and the Earth

Foundation of Green IT: Consolidation, Virtualization, Efficiency, and ROI in the Data Center

People, Planet, Profit: How to Embrace Sustainability for Innovation and Business Growth

The Gort Cloud: The Invisible Force Powering Today's Most Visible Green Brands

Green Jobs: A Guide to Eco-Friendly Employment

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business

Green Supply Chains: An Action Manifesto

Climate Change/ Global Warming Debate. 100 Book List.

2010-07-15T19:03:00.000-07:00

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. According to the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 20th century Most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century was caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, which results from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation. Global dimming, a result of increasing concentrations of atmospheric aerosols that block sunlight from reaching the surface, has partially countered the effects of greenhouse gas induced warming.

Climate model projections summarized in the latest IPCC report indicate that the global surface temperature is likely to rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the 21st century. The uncertainty in this estimate arises from the use of models with differing sensitivity to greenhouse gas concentrations and the use of differing estimates of future greenhouse gas emissions. An increase in global temperature will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, probably including expansion of subtropical deserts.[4] Warming is expected to be strongest in the Arctic and would be associated with continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely effects include changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, species extinctions, and changes in agricultural yields. Warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe, though the nature of these regional variations is uncertain

The scientific consensus is that anthropogenic global warming is occurring. Nevertheless, political and public debate continues. The Kyoto Protocol is aimed at stabilizing greenhouse gas concentration to prevent a "dangerous anthropogenic interference".As of November 2009, 187 states have signed and ratified the protocol.

100 Books About the Global Warming Debate

Encyclopedia of Global Warming Set

Climate Change: Picturing the Science

The Rough Guide to Climate Change, 2nd Edition

Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World

Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

What We Know About Climate Change (Boston Review Books)

The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate

What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change

A Global Warning? (History Channel)

The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World (Think Now)

The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate (Science Essentials)

Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated

Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis

Air Quality and Climate Change

Water Conservation - Big Book (Climate Change)

Walter Bland Presents Climate Change

Climate Change (DK Eyewitness Books)

Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know

CLIMATE CHANGE GR 5-8

Understanding Climate Change and Global Warming

Politics of Climate Change

The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Energy Crossroads: A burning need to change course

A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids: Understanding Climate Change and What You Can Do About It

Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy? (Memo to the CEO)

Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

Global Warming: A Scientific and Biblical Expose' of Climate ChangeGlobal Warming: The Complete Briefing

Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming

Global Warming False Alarm: The Bad Science Behind the United Nations' Assertion that Man-made CO2 Causes Global Warming

The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media

Global Warming and Climate Change Demystified

Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Global Warming For Dummies

Down-to-Earth Guide To Global Warming

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)

Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming (Brookings Focus Book)

Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs

Chill: A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory, Does Climate Change Mean the World Is Cooling, and If So What Should We Do About It?

Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warming

The Climate Caper: Facts and Fallacies of Global Warming

Climate Fever: Stopping Global Warming (Green Generation)

Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science

Global Warming and the Dinosaurs: Fossil Discoveries at the Poles

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing

Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam

Global Warming and Biological Diversity

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do

Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century?

Global Warming...Really?

The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth About Global Warming

UNDERSTANDING THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX: EXPANDED AND UPDATED

A Clean Sky: The Global Warming Story

Global Warming Is Good for Business: How Savvy Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations, and Others are Making Money While Saving the Planet

Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country

A Kids' Guide to Climate Change & Global Warming: How to Take Action!

Global Warming For Beginners

50 Simple Steps to Save the Earth from Global Warming

101 Funny Things About Global Warming

Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Global Warming, 2nd Edition

Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death

Time: Global Warming: The Causes, the Perils, the Politics - and What It Means for You

Censoring Science: Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming

Carbonomics: How to Fix the Climate and Charge It to OPEC

The Polar Bears' Home: A Story About Global Warming (Little Green Books)

Global Warming, Natural Hazards, and Emergency Management

A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming

Thirsty Planet

A Cool Kid's Field Guide to Global Warming (Cool Kid's Field Guides)

Global Warming and Global Politics (Environmental Politics)

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming

Hope for a Heated Planet: How Americans Are Fighting Global Warming and Building a Better Future

Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement

State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World (State of the World)

A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions

The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate

Global Warming and the World Trading System

The Crooked Mile: Through peak oil, biofuels, hybrid cars, and global climate change to reach a brighter future

Greensword: A Tale of Extreme Global Warming (Five Star Science Fiction and Fantasy Series)

Wild Weather: The Truth Behind Global Warming

Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and the Future

Global Warming and Other Bollocks: The Truth About All Those Science Scare Stories

Global Warming and Climate Change (2 Vols.): Ten Years after Kyoto and Still Counting

Climate Management: Solving the Problem (Global Warming)

What are Global Warming and Climate Change?: Answers for Young Readers (Worlds of Wonder)

The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change

Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology

Tales As Tall As A Sunflower

Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming

The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Council on Foreign Relations Book)

Investigating Climate Change: Scientists' Search for Answers in a Warming World (Discovery!)

A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

You Can Prevent Global Warming (and Save Money!): 51 Easy Ways

Living Well in the Age of Global Warming : 10 Strategies for Boomers, Bobos, and Cultural Creatives

Global Warming: The Science of Climate Change (Hodder Arnold Publication)

Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed

Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy

Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development

Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming

Global Warming and the Creator's Plan

Fossil Fuels and Pollution: The Future of Air Quality (Global Warming)

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Lessons, Resources, and Guidelines for Teaching About Global Warming

Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know

The Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science and Technology [2 volumes]

Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change (3 Volume Set)

The Rise and Decline of Public Interest in Global Warming: Toward a Pragmatic Conception of Environmental Problems

Global Warming (What If We Do Nothing?)

Global Warming: The Threat of Earth's Changing Climate

International Business and Global Climate Change

Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital

Global Warming (Cutting Edge Science)

Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy

Environmental Economics and Management. List of 75 Text book (give or take a species)

2010-07-14T02:07:00.000-07:00

Environmental economics is a subfield of economics concerned with environmental issues.

Quoting from the National Bureau of Economic Research Environmental Economics program:

Environmental Economics undertakes theoretical or empirical studies of the economic effects of national or local environmental policies around the world Particular issues include the costs and benefits of alternative environmental policies to deal with air pollution, water quality, toxic substances, solid waste, and global warming.

75 Books About Environmental Economics and Management

Next Life - Life After Death? 50 Books that Ponder the Issue

2010-07-14T01:24:00.000-07:00

A survey of 2,060 people carried out in the UK showed 53 per cent believe in life after death, 55 per cent believe in heaven and 70 per cent believe in the human soul.

The study carried out between October and November in 2009 for the public theology think tank Theos also showed nearly four in 10, or 39 per cent, believe in ghosts and more than a quarter (27 per cent) believe in reincarnation.

A further 22 per cent believe in astrology or horoscopes and 15 per cent believe in fortune telling or Tarot, the research revealed.

Half of people in London, the highest proportion in the UK, believe in ghosts, the survey showed.

Is there? Isn't there? What do you think?

50 Books About Life After Death

Astral Plane and its inhabitants; Charles W Leadbeater; Hardcover

Life After Death: The Evidence

Life After Death: The Burden of Proof

On Life after Death, revised

There Is Life After Death: Compelling Reports from Those Who Have Glimpsed the Afterlife

The Science of Life After Death: New Research Shows Human Consciousness Lives On

Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon--Survival of Bodily Death

Life After Death: Some of the Best Evidence

Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion

The Light Beyond

Experiencing Life after Death - Soul Journeys

Hello from Heaven: A New Field of Research-After-Death Communication Confirms That Life and Love Are Eternal

Life After Death: Living Proof

Hello...Anyone Home?: A Guide on How our Deceased Loved Ones Try to Contact Us through the Use of Signs (Volume 1)

Life After Death

Death and the Life After

The Day I Died: An Unforgettable Story of Life After Death

Life After Death: The Evidence

The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death

Is There Life After Death?: Why Science is Taking the Idea of an Afterlife Seriously

Talking to Heaven: A Medium's Message of Life After Death

Messages: Evidence for Life after Death

Beyond human personality: Being a detailed description of the future life purporting to be communicated by the late F.W.H. Myers, containing an account of human personality into cosmic personality; Geraldine Dorothy Cummins

The road to immortality: Being a description of the after-life purporting to be communicated by the late F.W.H. Myers; Geraldine Dorothy Cummins

Divine Revelation of The Spirit Realm; Mary K. Baxter, T. L. Lowery; Paperback; 2001; $10.39

The future life: As described and portrayed by spirits; Elizabeth Sweet

Heaven and Hell; Emanuel Swedenborg; Paperback; 2001; $10.20

Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives; Newton, Michael Duff ; Paperback; 1994; $12.30

Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives; Newton, Michael Duff ; Paperback; 2000; $14.95

Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side; Katherine Hart, Elsa Barker; Paperback; 2004; $10.17

The life beyond the veil; G. Vale Owen

The life beyond the veil;: Spirit messages received and set down; G. Vale Owen

The ministry of heaven: Spirit messages received and set down; G. Vale Owen

The battalions of heaven: Spirit messages received and set down; G. Vale Owen

Life in the World Unseen; Anthony Borgia; Paperback; $16.00

More About Life in the World Unseen(vol. 2); Anthony Borgia; Paperback; $14.00

Here and Hereafter(vol. 3); Anthony Borgia; Paperback; $14.00

My travels in the spirit world; Caroline D Larsen; Hardcover

On the Edge of the Etheric; Arthur Findlay

Soul Journeys: My Guided Tours Through the Afterlife by Rosalind A. McKnight; Paperback; 2005; $10.17

Spirit world and spirit life: Automatic writing; Charlotte E Dresser

Life here and hereafter: A sequel or second volume of "Spirit world and spirit life"; Charlotte Elizabeth Dresser

Thirty Years Among the Dead; Carl A. Wickland

Vanishing night;: A series of letters given through telepathic correspondence to Juliet S. Goodenow; Juliet S Goodenow; Hardcover

Voyages into the Unknown (Exploring the Afterlife Series , Vol 1); Bruce Moen; Paperback; 1997; $10.36

Voyage Beyond Doubt (Exploring the Afterlife Series , Vol 2); Bruce Moen; Paperback; 1998; $11.16

Voyages into the Afterlife: Charting Unknown Territory (Exploring the Afterlife Series , Vol 3); Bruce Moen; Paperback; 1999; $10.46

Voyage to Curiosity's Father (Exploring the Afterlife Series , Vol 4); Bruce Moen; Paperback; 2001; $10.46

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Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) - Forty Books About Returning From Being Dead

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A near-death experience (NDE), refers to a broad range of personal experiences associated with impending death, encompassing multiple possible sensations including detachment from the body; feelings of levitation; extreme fear; total serenity, security, or warmth; the experience of absolute dissolution; and the presence of a light, which some people interpret as a deity.

These phenomena are usually reported after an individual has been pronounced clinically dead or otherwise very close to death, hence the term near-death experience. Many NDE reports, however, originate from events that are not life-threatening. With recent developments in cardiac resuscitation techniques, the number of reported NDEs has increased. Many in the scientific community regard such experiences as hallucinatory, while paranormal specialists and some mainstream scientists claim them to be evidence of an afterlife.

Popular interest in near-death experiences was initially sparked by Raymond Moody's 1975 book Life After Life and the founding of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) in 1981.According to a Gallup poll, approximately eight million Americans claim to have had a near-death experience.Some commentators, such as Simpson claim that the number of near-death experiencers may be underestimated, mainly because some such individuals are presumably afraid or otherwise reluctant to talk about their experiences.

NDEs are among the phenomena studied in the fields of parapsychology, psychology, psychiatry, and hospital medicine.

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Forty Books About Near Death Experiences

One Woman's Journey to the Other Side of Life; Kathie Jordan; Paperback; 2003; $12.71

Ecofeminism. -Deep Ecology - Social Ecology - Fifty Books for Deeper Greening and Meaning

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Ecofeminism is a social and political movement which points to the existence of considerable common ground between environmentalism and feminism, with some currents linking deep ecology and Ecofeminists argue that a strong parallel exists between the oppression and subordination of women in families and society and the degradation of nature through the construction of differences into conceptual binaries and ideological hierarchies that allow a systematic, however logically unsound, justification of domination ("power-over power") by subjects classed into higher-ranking categories over objects classed into lower-ranking categories (e.g. man over woman, culture over nature, white over black).

They also explore the intersectionality between sexism, the domination of nature, racism, speciesism, and other characteristics of social inequality. In some of their current work, ecofeminists argue that the capitalist and patriarchal systems that predominate throughout the world reveal a triple domination of the Global South (people who live in the Third World), women, and nature. This domination and exploitation of women, of poorly resourced peoples and of nature sits at the core of the ecofeminist analysis.

100 Books About Alternative or Complementary Medicine

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In Western culture, alternative medicine is any healing practice "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine", or "that which has not been shown consistently to be effective." It is often opposed to evidence based medicine and encompasses therapies with an historical or cultural, rather than a scientific, basis. The American National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) cites examples including naturopathy, chiropractic medicine, herbalism, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, meditation, yoga, biofeedback, hypnosis, homeopathy, acupuncture, and nutritional-based therapies, in addition to a range of other practices.

It is frequently grouped with complementary medicine, which generally refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM. Some researchers in alternative medicine oppose this grouping, preferring to emphasize differences of approach, but nevertheless use the term CAM, which has become standard.

Alternative medicine practices are as diverse in their foundations as in their methodologies. Practices may incorporate or base themselves on traditional medicine, folk knowledge, spiritual beliefs, or newly conceived approaches to healing. Jurisdictions where alternative medical practices are sufficiently widespread may license and regulate them. The claims made by alternative medicine practitioners are generally not accepted by the medical community because evidence-based assessment of safety and efficacy is either not available or has not been performed for these practices.

If scientific investigation establishes the safety and effectiveness of an alternative medical practice, it then becomes mainstream medicine and is no longer "alternative", and may therefore become widely adopted by conventional practitioners.Because alternative techniques tend to lack evidence, or may even have repeatedhly failed to work in tests, some have advocated defining it as non-evidence based medicine, or not medicine at all. Some researchers state that the evidence-based approach to defining CAM is problematic because some CAM is tested, and research suggests that many mainstream medical techniques lack solid evidence.

A 1998 systematic review of studies assessing its prevalence in 13 countries concluded that about 31% of cancer patients use some form of complementary and alternative medicine. Alternative medicine varies from country to country. Edzard Ernst says that in Austria and Germany CAM is mainly in the hands of physicians,while some estimates suggest that at least half of American alternative practitioners are physicians.In Germany, herbs are tightly regulated, with half prescribed by doctors and covered by health insurance based on their Commission legislation.

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One Hundred Books About Alternative or Complementary Medicine

Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide (2nd Edition)

Mayo Clinic Book of Alternative Medicine: The New Approach to Using the Best of Natural Therapies and Conventional Medicine (Mayo Clinic, Book of Alternative Medicine)

Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer (Alternative Medicine Definitive Guides)

Alternative Medicine: The Christian Handbook, Updated and Expanded

Prescription for Drug Alternatives: All-Natural Options for Better Health without the Side Effects

The ACP Evidence-Based Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Legal Issues in Alternative Medicine: A Guide For Clinicians, Hospitals, and Patients

Professional's Handbook of Complementary & Alternative Medicines (PROFESSIONALS HANDBOOK OF COMPLEMENTARY & ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE)

Mosby's Complementary & Alternative Medicine: A Research-Based Approach (Mosby's Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

The Handbook to Alternatives to Chemical Medicine