Archive for the 'Books' Category
Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to Survive
October 25th, 2010The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times by Carol Deppe Via: Chelsea Green: In an age of erratic weather and instability, it’s increasingly important to develop a greater self-reliance when it comes to food. And because of this, more than ever before, farmers are developing new gardening techniques that help achieve a […]
Neem: A Tree for Solving Global Problems
October 18th, 2010I was reading this book and finding a lot of information that I could use. I’m sure that all of you will find something of interest as well: Neem: A Tree for Solving Global Problems, National Research Council, 1992. Don’t miss Appendix B! Wow. Free version on Google, including PDF Printed version on Amazon
New Book Looks at Connection Between Mobile Devices and a Host of Health Problems
October 12th, 2010Is this partially why so many men are shooting blanks? And what is the compelling evidence to suggest that cellphones might be tied to sterility in men? In 2008, researchers found that men with the lowest sperm counts were significantly more likely to keep their phones on their bodies all the time. And it’s been […]
Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?
September 21st, 2010A Cryptogon reader ordered this book on Amazon and I thought I’d mention it for any of you who might be interested: Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever? by Clinton Ober, Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. and Martin Zucker I have no idea what to make of this, but after reading around on various sites, […]
Monbiot: “I Was Wrong About Veganism”
September 7th, 2010Meat: A Benign Extravagance by Simon Fairlie Via: Guardian: This will not be an easy column to write. I am about to put down 1,200 words in support of a book that starts by attacking me and often returns to this sport. But it has persuaded me that I was wrong. More to the point, […]
The Unhealthy Truth: One Mother’s Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America’s Food Supply
September 1st, 2010The Unhealthy Truth: One Mother’s Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America’s Food Supply—and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself by Robyn O’Brien
The Death of Paper Money
August 5th, 2010Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations by Jens O. Parsson: Amazon, HTML, PDF. Via: Telegraph: As they prepare for holiday reading in Tuscany, City bankers are buying up rare copies of an obscure book on the mechanics of Weimar inflation published in 1974. Ebay is offering a well-thumbed volume of […]
GCHQ by Richard Aldrich
June 16th, 2010GCHQ by Richard Aldrich on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. Via: Register: If information indeed is power, then GCHQ is undoubtedly the closest thing the British government has to the Death Star. As the historian Richard J Aldrich notes in the introduction to his excellent new history of the Cheltenham-based agency it represents by far our largest, […]
Why We Could All Use a Heavy Dose of Techno-Skepticism
May 15th, 2010Via: Technofascism Blog: A new prophet, Jason Silva, joins the ranks of Ray Kurzweil as evangelist for the emerging Singularity techno-religion. In his new film, “Turning Into Gods”, Mr. Silva promotes the central tenet of this new cult: that all of us will one day become all-powerful deities, that will play with genes and atoms […]
Barrick Gold Moves to Block Mining Book
May 13th, 2010Via: CBC: The threat of legal action from mining giant Barrick Gold has forced Vancouver-based Talonbooks to postpone publication of a book about the Canadian mining industry. Publisher Karl Siegler calls it a clear case of “libel chill” by one of Canada’s largest mining companies. The book, Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for […]
