This webpage provides some input on books that we consider to be the essential knowledge base for everyone to improve your chances for enhanced well being for you and yours (our Knowledge Base II page lists our websites knowledge base).
Initially, this book knowledge base will also serve as a generic pseudo-bibliography, albeit minus reference points. At this stage, this webpage is somewhat of a "work in progress", and basically at first we will just present a list -- by category -- of some of the more essential books that we consider unbiased and uniquely informative regarding their subject matter. Note that many of the books in this list will not be found at a bookstore, and rather would be found at university, research, and major government libraries. Use this link to the "WorldCat" online search to locate libraries near you that have specific books of interest.
*NOTE: if you have a Google account, such as Gmail, you can set up your own "collection" of online books, many of which are free to read in their entirety (unless they are newly released), while others just have pertinent sections for viewing. Index to book subjects (clickable links) Reality Bites (realistic truths that bite) Health and Wellness (crucial information) Climate and Weather (what even the well informed likely do not know) Weapons of Mass Deception (mainstream media is worse than most know) Protection from Scams, Fraud, and Identity Theft (it's worse than they tell you)
Reality Bites "The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy", author Marrs. Just about every page of this book results in a revelation that will make you wonder if what you are reading is true, but all of the revelations are well annotated as to the credible source of the information. It's an eye-opener, and should be required reading for every American, before it's too late... WARNING! Beware that the information noted in this book is not for the timid, as it might well raise your blood pressure, make it difficult for you to sleep at night, drive you to drink, or result in your ingesting mood-altering medication, among other adverse effects. But, it is also essential knowledge for anyone that has any concern about their future, their quietly evaporating freedoms and soon to be cleaned out savings accounts... Footnote, some reviews of this book tend to be biased, and are simply downplaying smokescreens from government and corporate shills... "HOW THE WEST WAS LOST", author Dambisa Moyo. The same warning for the above noted book also applies to this one... "It Could Happen Here", author Judson. Published over two years ago, this book should now be re-titled to "It is Going To Happen Here", and all too soon it will be "What is Happening Now in America". Again, the same warning for the above noted books also applies to this one... "Screwed: the undeclared war against the middle class--and what we can do", author Thom Hartmann. The title says it clearly, the 30 class war attack by politicians, the wealthy, and corporations on the middle class, the working class, and the poor, intiating historic record high disparate financial inequality that has always resulted in economic implosion and downfall of all countries and empires that mindlessly have allowed the greedy to steal the money from the sector of the population that drives the economic engine... Without the "economic engine" having money to spend, the result is what we have now, the beginning of the economic implosion. Do something, before it is too late. "Love My Country, Loathe My Government", author Korschek. This highly enlightening book provides fifty steps to correct the wayward course that the politicians have this country on. "The Future of Democratic Equality", author Schwartz. This book provides a basic introduction to the burgeoning disparity of the historically record high economic inequality in America which has always led to the implosion and downfall of all nations and empires that have fallen into the trap of taking all of the money from the middle and working classes to be hoarded by a minutely small elitist oligarchy. "Manifesto for a New World Order". "A visionary road map for humanity's first global democratic revolution. All over the planet, the rich get richer while the poor are overtaken by debt and disaster. The world is run by a handful of executives who make the most important of decisions concerning war, peace, debt, development, and the balance of trade." "Juggernaut Politics: Understanding predatory Globalization", author Gélinas. Like the four books immediately above, you may not want to know what is actually going on, but you must realize what is happening globally, and then do something about it. And if you mistakenly think you are unable to do anything, this and the four books above outline what every American should be doing to stop the ignorant insanity of what the leaders are doing (the "leaders" are the wealthy executives of the transnational corporations that are rapaciously pillaging the world economy and hoarding it's financial spoils, who are surely pharmaceutically lobotomized to ignore the impending dangers they bring upon the planet)... "Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression". This book explains the origins and future direction of the current economic crisis, and the relationships between the banking system's breakdown and the economy in general. The author describes how the Epic Recession is highly resistant to traditional fiscal and monetary policy solutions and requires major structural changes in the economy in order to check and contain it. The book analyzes in depth the origins and causes of the Epic Recession revealing its roots in corporate and government policies and fundamental structural changes in the U.S. capitalist economy since the early 1980s. Epic Recession explains how the current economic crisis is similar to, and simultaneously different from, both the Great Depression and post-1945 recessions in America. It categorizes Epic Recessions in two dominant forms: 'Type I' and 'Type II': The former similar to events of 1907-1914; the latter to events of 1929-1931. The author argues today's current crisis is evolving into a 'Type I', but has the potential for transforming into a 'Type II' and that 2011-2013 will be a critical period for determining which type will prevail. Epic Recession further provides a detailed critique of both George W. Bush and Obama administration recovery programs, in both their monetary and fiscal dimensions, and assesses why they have fared poorly thus far in resolving the crisis. The book concludes by presenting a full, thorough alternative program necessary for recovery. "The War at Home: the corporate offensive from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush: economic class war in America". This book unapologetically attempts to describe and analyze the major elements of the class war being waged today against American workers and their unions. Its ten chapters cover the current Jobs Crisis, offshoring, Free Trade and the collapse of manufacturing, declining wages and workers' incomes, the great American Tax Shift, attacks on Pensions and Social Security, the pending privatization of Medicare, the health care costs crisis, the transformations of the Republican and Democratic parties, the decline of union membership and bargaining power, the pending split in the AFL-CIO, and the origin and evolution of the corporate offensive from Reagan through George W. Bush. "The Coming Famine", author Cribb. About the approaching global food crisis. Like, there isn't one already? Sure, American grocery stores are well stocked right now, but just in sub-Saharan Africa, millions of children are said to be permanently blind simply because of a vitamin A deficiency, and it is said that nearly 15,000 children -- fifteen thousand -- die quietly each and every day from starvation or a malnutrition-related disease while some sources put this number as high as 28,000. Reliable sources state that from 15 to 18 million are said to die from starvation every year, so the 15,000 per day sounds minimally accurate. And America has an obesity problem, a big obesity problem, altho there is nothing funny about that when children are starving to death around the planet. And that is just Africa, and only right now, yet this book addresses how bad starvation will become -- even in America -- in the not too distant future... "Global warming gets all the publicity but the real threat to the human race is starvation on a massive scale". "Mandate for change: policies and leadership for 2009 and beyond", author Hartman. Provides some direction on what and how to do to engage the reform America machine... "Regime change begins at home: freeing America from corporate rule" by Charles Derber. Reviews are mixed, but seems to be attributable to bias, looks fine to us... "Point, Click, & Vote", authors Alvarez and Hall. This book provides details about online voting, information about which is suppressed by the corporate owned media shills. Online voting has recently been tried out in a couple of states and numerous municipalities successfully. This process is one of the tools that we employ in our proposal to remediate the ridiculous situation in America and around the planet... Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. "There are very few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books." The book states that neoconservatives are intimately linked to events that resulted in the loss of millions of lives. The neocon project is not about democracy, but is rather a repressive prescription for maximizing transnational corporate profits for a small elite class of super rich. Neocons see the ideal ratio of super wealthy to the working class as consisting of an upper class of big business oligarchists and their political puppets forming the top twenty percent wealthiest. The remaining 80% of the world’s population must subsist in misery, unable to afford adequate housing, privatized education, or healthcare. "This book presents a compelling account of the way big business and politics use global disasters for their own ends". Hoodwinked. You don't know what you don't know... "Perkins pulls back the curtain on the real cause of the current global financial meltdown. He shows how we’ve been hoodwinked by the CEOs who run the corporatocracy–those few corporations that control the vast amounts of capital, land, and resources around the globe–and the politicians they manipulate. These corporate fat cats, Perkins explains, have sold us all on what he calls predatory capitalism, a misguided form of geopolitics and capitalism that encourages a widespread exploitation of the many to benefit a small number of the already very wealthy. Their arrogance, gluttony, and mismanagement have brought us to this perilous edge. The solution is not a 'return to normal'." Confessions of an Economic Hitman. The hidden truth about how America conducts itself abroad... The Secret History of the American Empire. The truth about global collusion and corruption... Breaking the Sound Barrier - "You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodman's 'Democracy Now!' than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday morning talk shows." -- Bill Moyers intro to the book, "Breaking the Sound Barrier". Lost rights: the destruction of American liberty - Lost Rights provides an analysis of the bloated excess of government and the plight of contemporary Americans beaten into submission by a horrible parody of the Founding Fathers' dream. Congress and Other Cesspools. A detailed history of fraud and corruption involving members of Congress and other government and non-government entities, primarily as it involves financial frauds upon the American people. When Technology Fails - A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency by Matthew Stein. Climate/Weather Remember, that although we are already seeing some "minor" deleterious weather ramifications from global warming, and that although it may not seem terribly bad right now for most people, that sometime within the next decade is that projected "tipping point" boundary beyond which scientists are using words such incontrovertible, unequivocal, undeniable, and irreversible, to describe the consequences of doing nothing...
"Hell and High Water". If you don't read this, you will not truly understand just how dangerous the global warming problem has become and just how horrendously bad the consequences of doing nothing will be, even within the next twenty to forty years. Realize that the recent "climate change" and resultant catastrophic weather is already upon us with droughts, wildfires, super storms, and floods, but will soon get the attention of the world when super hurricanes start pummeling coastal cities. Read this in order to motivate yourself to demand action and tell everyone. If you haven't read this book you don't really know just how truly bad it is going to be if industry, corporations, and their bribed politicians keep kicking the oil can down the road and do nothing to stop the madness of humans destroying the only life-sustaining planet available to them... "Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth" This book is as equally compelling as the aforementioned "Hell and High Water", but the information in the two books redundantly overlap in only a few points. To be well informed on global warming and climate change, both books should be perused. As a footnote/disclaimer, I have perused many more books on the subject of global warming, which were not in "layperson's terms" and were replete with the "proof" of mathematical equations and complex scientific charts and graphs, but these two books condensed it all down into easily discernible summaries. "Hot House: Global Climate Change and the Human Condition" by Robert Strom. To date, we have perused hundreds of books on the subjects of climate change and global warming. Of those, one book stands out in not only insightful and comprehensive topics, but also provides an extensive array of informative charts, graphs, and pictures. Just the "visuals" in this book provide a simplistic means to gain a thorough perspective of the alarming reality of how close humans have pushed this planet to the edge of a doomsday machine of cascading feedback loops set off by global warming. If you are or know any "skeptics", this is the book to set people on the path of doing something about the ravenous velociraptor in the room that only a very few folks are capable of seeing.... "Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises". This book is a little more technical, but still mostly in layperson terms. To be succinct, the bottom line on this book is that it details the complex processes that makes it clearly obvious that the science behind determining past climatic conditions, temperatures, and weather is a very precise methodology. And, while on the subject, the entire book, in almost every paragraph clearly establishes important evidence that abrupt climate change has not only occurred in the past, but is much too likely to begin to reoccur at pretty much any point in time, with emphasis on the word abrupt, as in your lifetime unless you are older than dirt... Note that there is also a downloadable PDF with the entire contents of the book, click on this link if you have the courage to realize that humankind is teetering on the brink of a dismal abyss (the download button is on the left about halfway down). And, we have also added the little gadget just below to play around with (if you have a website, they provide the code to embed the widget). And, you might also want to check out some of their other offerings... "The Rough Guide to Climate Change", subtitled "The Symptoms, The Science, The Solutions", author Robert Henson. The recently released (2011) third edition of this book is clearly illustrated with graphs, charts, and pictures and clearly explains the arcane science of global warming, points out it's current adverse effects, outlines it's consequences, clarifies the obfuscatory tactics of corporate deniers, their political skeptics and misguided contrarians, and provides solutions. That is all good and well, but Henson tends to be overly cautious and avoids fully emphasizing the potential catastrophic effects of global warming, such as runaway cascading feedback loops and their irreversible tipping point thresholds, better known among scientists as the potential "doomsday device" that will release trillions of tons of greenhouse gases naturally stored in ice, the oceans, and the soils. The first 37 pages of the book are available online at the above link... "Global Warming", subtitled "Solutions for a Healthy Planet", author Chris Spence. This book should not be this far down the list, and likely might more approriately be nearer the top as one of the most important books on global warming. While the book is not all encompassing on the topic, it does emphasize the most crucial aspects which we are now faced with, and also provides some reasonable solutions as the subtitle suggests. "With speed and violence: why scientists fear tipping points in climate change", author Fred Pearce. The "tipping points" are actually "irreversible tipping points" which when exceeded, trigger the release of trillions of tons of greenhouse gases stored "naturally" in the (melting) planetary ice, the oceans, and the soils. The irreversible tipping points are a timeline marker on the "cascading circular feedback loops" of global warming, which simply delineate a point when it is simply too late to do anything to avoid the catastrophe of turning the global greenhouse into a shield that traps all solar heat and turns the planet into a nightmarish hothouse, before thickening to the point that all solar is blocked, turning the planet into an ice cube. But don't be concerned, because this doomsday scenario has already happened five times, and no more than 96% of all living creatures on the planet went extinct in the most severe of those events. Look at it as a chance to start over, and maybe if a few humans manage to live through the thousands of years of the forthcoming superheated hothouse and deep freeze ice age, maybe they will not be so stupid as to destroy the environment they live in... "Global warming: the complete briefing", author Houghton. "Global Warming: The Complete Briefing is the most comprehensive guide available to the subject. A world-renowned expert, Sir John Houghton explores the scientific basis of global warming and the likely impacts of climate change on human society, before addressing the action that could be taken by governments, by industry and by individuals to mitigate the effects. The first two editions received excellent reviews, and this completely updated new edition will prove to be the best briefing the student or interested general reader could wish for. "Stop Global Warming", subtitled "The Solution is You, An Activist's Guide", author Laurie David. This relatively small 70 page book concisely states that the problems of global warming are already beset upon us, why we must do something about it now, and how to go about informing others to get organized and push for American politicians to force American corporations to comply with amelioration of burgeoning global warming, as the entire rest of the world, without exception, wants America to do. An excellent resource section provides a wealth of information on how to sensibly go about it all... "Fight Global Warming NOW", subtitled "The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community", author Bill McKibben. Another perspective on how to inform and organize others in your community to further push politicians and corporations into doing something to slow down global warming. Good advice and great resource section... "If You Love This Planet", subtitled "A Plan to Heal the Earth", author Helen Caldicott. The title might well have been "If you love living on this planet" or "If you love your children". The book is another one that deserves ti be nearer the top of this list. It covers a diverse range of topics from a different perspective and should be high up on the list of crucial books on global warming to peruse... "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight", subtitled "The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late", author Thom Hartmann. First, the book was published in 2004, and it is almost already "too late", and definitely will be in a few more years if nothing is done... Secondly, this book was highly praised by a number of very distinguished people. Third, like the title, this book is very unique and deserves to be at the top of the list of books to read not only on global warming, but a diverse range of relevant topics are covered such as forthcoming water shortages, famines, and depletions of resources and inhabitable lands... "Hot", subtitled "Living through the next fifty years on Earth", author Hertzgaard. Realistic information on what to expect climatically in the future, and what you -- and especially your children and grandchildren -- need to know to prepare and cope... "Global Fever". Another excellent down to earth book that explains the problem well in layperson's terms using charts, graphs, and illustrations... "Climate change: a multidisciplinary approach". Deja Vuvu all over again: another excellent down to earth book that explains the problem well in layperson's terms using charts, graphs, and illustrations... After stating this for the third time in a row, we must interject that these books are not clones, and do provide differing and complementary information, all adding their own distinct sets of perspectives. "The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy. Not very patriotic, but then neither is ignoring the future plight of the planet and the fate of our children and grandchildren... "Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet". Essential knowledge on global warming, almost as thorough as "Hell and High Water", yet supplementary in some areas... "Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning". Whereas "Hell and High Water" outlines how bad global warming will be if nothing is done, this book emphasizes more of a "how to" approach to the problem. Needs to be understood for anyone pursuing the right directions to go on this... "EARTH: The Operators’ Manual". This is the book version of the PBS documentary of the same title primarily regarding global warming and climate change. Whereas the information provided is helpful, I would caution that the author tends to overdo presenting of opposing viewpoints, almost as though giving "skeptics" and "deniers" a forum. The most realistic book on the subject is the preceding "Hell and High Water"... "Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth". A typical response would be, what does it matter that far into the future, but this unusually interesting and highly enlightening book not only provides atypical insight to what is actually happening right now as well as what is going to occur in the near future. One caveat, the global warming "skeptics" (aka, shills, charlatans, industrialists) are correct in mentioning "global cooling", because the planet will eventually slip into an ice age, just after the planet runs out of energy and stops pumping gigatons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Yes, ice and glaciers will again cover most of the planet, in about two or three hundred thousand years, just after the sea levels have risen 250 feet... "Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans". Confession: I thought I had a pretty good idea of how bad the situation was with our oceans. I was very, very wrong. It is much worse than the "bright shiny object" smokescreen that the globalist-owned media spinners deceive us with. One little tidbit out of hundreds that this book reveals: in only the last fifty years, 90% -- NINETY PERCENT -- of the large fish and mammals in the oceans have "disappeared", due to overfishing. Fleets of huge commercial trawlers dragging mammoth wheeled nets -- big enough to trap several 747's -- across the bottom of the oceans, squashing reefs and aquatic life of all kinds, in the mindlessly rapacious process of catching what few fish are left in the oceans, have eradicated nine out of ten large fish and mammals that existed just fifty years ago; many of which were "bycatch" -- unintended catch -- but were killed in the process. Other equally alarming issues are addressed, such as ocean acidification, which make this a must-read and a must-inform topic. Get involved: Oceana: the organization. Note that the webpage at this link has a link to a Huffpost slideshow of pics and diagrams from the book, but beware, some of them are not pleasant... "Earth Odyssey: Around the world in search of our environmental future", author Hertzgaard. "Earth Odyssey is a vivid, passionate narrative about one man's journey around the world in search of the answer to the most important question of our time: Is the future of the human species at risk?" "Dry Spring; The Coming Water Crisis of North America". As it warms, our world is running out of fresh water--fast. Lakes, aquifers and rivers are disappearing, but we consume more water than ever. What will this mean for North Americans? "Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth". In this chilling survey of the American landscape, investigative journalist Jeffrey St. Clair guides readers through the environmental wreckage of North America, from the plutonium-contaminated fields of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to Indian Point Energy Center, the world's most dangerous nuclear plant. "Been brown so long it looked like green to me". A shocking view of how deeply money and power determine the worsening state of our increasngly destroyed environment. Health/Wellness "The Hundred Year Lie", author Fitzgerald. "This provocative and frightening look at the synthetic chemicals used by the processed foods, pharmaceutical and chemical industries delivers an excellent, up-to-date summary of "what is really in our food, water, vitamins, prescription drugs, childhood vaccines, cosmetics, and in our homes." "The Autoimmune Epidemic", authors Nakazawa and Kerr. "The Autoimmune Epidemic is an astounding book....It is the kind of book that will rivet you and scare you. It will make you angry. It will amaze you with the courage". This book provides compellingly crucial knowledge for the benefit of you and yours... "The Detox Strategy", author Watson. While this excellent book presents thorough information on the title subject of detoxifying impurities from the human body, the title misses the fact that there is so much more crucially valuable health information in this book, essential knowledge in this era of "toxic soup" that we now live in where everyone's bodies, even newborn babies, are polluted with a time bomb of hundreds of toxins, synergistically breaking down your immune system, inducing painful debilitating diseases, leading toward a miserable struggle with premature aging and early death. And, here is a link to their website which outlines the steps from the book which should be sufficient to get anyone started on the road to better health and well being, but lacks a great deal of beneficial health information from the book. Lastly, here is a link to the entire ebook on Google Books. NOW, get those poisons out of your body before they take you down! "Dodging the Toxic Bullet: How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Health Hazards". "Dodging the Toxic Bullet presents workable strategies that show how we can live longer, healthier lives by breathing clean air, eating healthy food, drinking safe water, and using non-toxic products. Author David R. Boyd provides accessible background on a range of hazards including mercury in fish, carcinogens in cleaning products, lead in toys, and lethal E. coli in ground beef. His clear directions for reducing risk include growing lots of houseplants, choosing whole foods, avoiding consumer products with strong or long-lasting smells, and using green cleaning products. Easy-to-follow advice and informative sidebars and checklists make this a must-have guide, especially for parents of infants and children." "Cancer Is Not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism", author Moritz. This book "proves the point that cancer is the physical symptom reflecting our body's final attempt to eliminate specific life-destructive causes. He claims that removing such causes sets the precondition for complete healing of our body, mind and emotions. This book confronts you with a radically new understanding of cancer - one that out-dates the current cancer model". "Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer", author Brownlee. "Readers who have grieved over the death of a friend from a minor surgical procedure or agonized over the hospital care of their elderly parents will experience the shock of recognition in science journalist Brownlee's book. She has mined medical journals, reports from authoritative health care organizations, and troubling personal narratives by doctors and patients to present a stunning but reasoned picture of the out-of-control, inefficient, and often ineffective U.S. health care system. Compared with those who live in other First World countries, Americans see more specialists, receive more days of hospital care, and undergo far more diagnostic procedures. Paradoxically, the result of this surfeit is frequently a less favorable—if not fatal—medical outcome". "Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients", author Moynihan. "This accessible study about the collusion between medical science and the drug industry emphasizes how drug companies market their products by either redefining problems as diseases (like female sexual dysfunction) or redefining a condition to encompass a greater percentage of the population. Moynihan, a health journalist for the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet, and Cassels, a Canadian science writer, note, for instance, that eight of the nine specialists who wrote the 2004 federal guideline on high cholesterol, which substantially increased the number of people in that category, have multiple financial ties to drug manufacturers. Physicians now routinely prescribe cholesterol-lowering pills (statins) that may have perilous side effects, when many people could lower their risk of heart attack with less costly and dangerous steps, such as exercise and improved diet. Through aggressive merchandising, funding of medical conferences and expensive perks, drug companies win doctors over to diagnosing these "diseases" and prescribing drugs for them". "Poisoned profits: the toxic assault on our children". "The authors of this unsettling indictment of American industrial mendacity detail the impact of the “trillions of tons” of largely unregulated toxic pollutants that have been poured into the environment after WWII when synthetic chemical compounds entered mainstream life. The Shabecoffs argue that the world is becoming a perilous place for the young; fetuses, newborns and toddlers are vastly more vulnerable to environmental contaminants than adults, and hazards lie latent in teething rings (leaching plastic toxins), bath water (laced with chemical contaminants), lush lawns (dusted with herbicides) and the very air they breathe—all contributing directly to a “rising incidence of childhood illness,” including asthma, autism, cancer—once “a rarity” among children—and even a drop in average IQ. The authors build their compelling case against polluters like dogged prosecutors, condemning “perpetrators,” including General Electric and Dow Chemical, slamming “co-conspirators,” most prominently compliant conservative governments, and exposing “witnesses for the defense,” among them misleading scientists-for-hire. The authors' passionate exposé of corporate America's behavior is numbing in its impact; an appendix detailing steps parents can take to reduce risk eases the angst." "Sugar Nation", subtitled "The Hidden Truth Behind America's Deadliest Habit and the Simple Way to Beat It", author Jeff O'Connell. Editorial review by Publishers Weekly: "Men's Health writer O'Connell delivers a health wakeup call: our excessive consumption of carbohydrates is killing us and wrecking our health-care system. Diabetes has reached "global pandemic" proportions, especially among youth; and while this "invisible disease" has been studied intensively since the role of insulin in regulating the body's sugar was understood by the 1920s, the message that [type two diabetes] is entirely preventable due to a closely watched low-carb, high-protein diet has been obscured and downright denied. After witnessing the slow, agonizing death of his father from diabetes, O'Connell, too, got the "tap on the shoulder" when he was diagnosed with prediabetes and subsequently informed himself on how to radically alter his diet and lifestyle. What he learned was that most official organizations, like the American Diabetes Association (ADA), and doctors still prescribe a low-fat, high-carb diet and a host of drugs with perilous side effects. In his well-researched, reasoned work, O'Connell flips this myth and offers sage, usable advice in choosing foods, exercising, and challenging this stealthy killer." "Brain Bugs", subtitled "How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives", author Dean Buonomano. "With its trillions of connections, the human brain is more beautiful and complex than anything we could ever build, but it's far from perfect. Our memory is unreliable; we can't multiply large sums in our heads; advertising manipulates our judgment; we tend to distrust people who are different from us; supernatural beliefs and superstitions are hard to shake; we prefer instant gratification to long-term gain; and what we presume to be rational decisions are often anything but. Drawing on striking examples and fascinating studies, neuroscientist Dean Buonomano illuminates the causes and consequences of these "bugs" in terms of the brain's innermost workings and their evolutionary purposes. He then goes one step further, examining how our brains function-and malfunction-in the digital, predator-free, information-saturated, special effects-addled world that we have built for ourselves. Along the way, Brain Bugs gives us the tools to hone our cognitive strengths while recognizing our inherent weaknesses."... "YOU: The Owner's Manual, an Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger". 'Nuff said...
Weapons of Mass Media Deception
"News incorporated: corporate media ownership and its threat to democracy". This book is probably the best source of information to truly "get it" just how badly the seven corporate owned mainstream media conglomerates blatantly decieve Americans. If you don't have a lot of time to read books, this is the one that blows away the smokescreen and exposes how much disinformation the puppetized media bobbleheads dispense as though it were gospel...
"Propaganda and Democracy: The American Experience of Media and Mass Persuasion". "Propaganda and Democracy is the first comprehensive study on the relationship of propaganda to participatory democracy in the United States during the twentieth century."
"Media Control: The Spectacular Achievement of Propaganda". The media deceptions are likely much worse than you know...
"Making the News: A Guide for Nonprofits and Activists". Excellent guide with tons of information about how to get your cause in the news, or just disseminated to the right groups...
"Sanctified Snake Oil: The Effect of Junk Science on Public Policy"". That would be junk science of the "deniers"...
Protection from Scams, Fraud, and Identity Theft
"Scam-Proof Your Life: 377 Smart Ways to Protect You & Your Family". "Consumer reporter Kirchheimer, who writes the "Scam Alert" column for the AARP [American Association of Retired Persons] Bulletin, here aims to help consumers avoid swindles, ripoffs, and the costly mistakes of service providers".
"Identity theft and how to protect yourself". "This completely revised edition explores the various forms identity theft can take, from stealing credit cards and social security numbers and more, and offers guidelines to minimize the chances of becoming a victim of identity theft, and the recourse one has if they do fall victim to this serious crime.”
"Identity theft". Looks pretty thorough...
Fraud, author Bertrand. How to protect yourself from schemes, scams, and swindles.
Dont Be a Victim, author Chesbro. How to protect yourself from hoaxes, scams, and frauds.
The Wall Street Journal Complete Identity Theft Guidebook, author Cullen. How to protect yourself from the most pervasive crime in America.
Rip-Off, author Faron. A guide to crimes of Deception.
Identity Theft, author Silver Lake Publishers. How to protect your name, credit, and vital info, and what to do if someone hijacks any of these.
And, here is a link to our good ole FTC's (dot Govy wuvy) website presenting their take on ID theft (FWIW....).
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