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Is The "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming a Myth?

Yes, says internationally renowned environmentalist author Lawrence Solomon who highlights the brave scientists--all leaders in their fields-- who dispute the conventional wisdom of climate change alarmists (despite the threat to their careers)

Al Gore and his media allies claim the only scientists who dispute the alarmist view on global warming are corrupt crackpots and "deniers", comparable to neo-Nazis who deny the Holocaust.

Solomon calmly and methodically debunks Gore's outrageous charges, showing in on 'headline' case after another that the scientists who dispute Gore's doomsday scenarios have far more credibility than those who support Gore's theories. These men who expose Gore's claims as absurd hold top positions at the most prestigious scientific institutes in the world. Their work is cited and acclaimed throughout the scientific community. No wonder Gore and his allies want to pretend they don't exist.

This is the one book that PROVES the science is NOT settled. The scientists profiled are too eminent and their research too devastating to allow simplistic views of global warming--like Al Gore's--to survive..
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The Duke Diet & Fitness Center offers one of the most prestigious weight-loss programs in America Duke’s comprehensive approach brings together the best available scientific evidence and is strengthened by more than thirty-five years of experience. The Duke program is also one of the most successful: Participants lose on average three pounds per week, and 80 percent of Duke participants surveyed one year after completing the program had maintained or improved their weight loss. Now, at last, program director Howard Eisenson, M.D., and behavioral health director Martin Binks, Ph.D., of the Duke Diet & Fitness Center, bring the Duke approach to everyone–with a plan that will help us all lose the weight, keep it off, and get healthy.

The Duke Diet takes a balanced and personalized approach to weight loss that covers nutrition, fitness, andbehavioral strategies, all to help us overcome obstacles and achieve lasting success. Drs. Eisenson and Binks distill their methods–previously available only to those paying nearly $10,000 for a monthlong stay–that have made the Duke Diet & Fitness Center famous. They show us that slimming down is not just about finding new ways to eat and exercise but also involves learning new ways to think about food, fitness, and a healthy lifestyle. The Duke Diet is about losing weight–but it’s also about gaining health. The core of this life-changing diet is a four-week step-by-step program that allows you to

• choose from two delicious eating plans based on two different carb levels
• eat foods you love from six food groups, with portions balanced to help you lose excess body fat in a safe and lasting way
• select from daily menus and dozens of recipes from the Duke kitchens, including tips for modifying your favorite dishes so you can savor the tastes you love, even while you stick to your eating plan.
• make peace with exercise, formulate the right fitness plan for yourself, and get started!
• find your barriers to lasting weight loss and learn strategies to help you consistently make better choices for a healthier and happier life

Including a simple follow-up plan for continued success and lasting weight loss, The Duke Diet also features personal advice from Drs. Eisenson and Binks, commentary on health problems associated with excess weight, patient success stories, and frequently asked questions to keep you informed and inspired as you become slimmer, fitter, and–most important–healthier!

At last, here’s a book that will give you the tools you need to lose the weight and keep it off. The Duke Diet: Dieting done right..
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This long-awaited companion and update to H. James Harrington's best-selling Business Process Improvement is a hands-on implementation guide. It focuses on upgrading information distribution paths to optimize the many processes with which they come in contact. Filled with lists, charts, and appendices, this workbook tells how to document a company's processes, analyze current effectiveness, design new processes, use system enablers, and much more..
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If you put two scientists who work in the same discipline in a room and ask them to observe the same phenomenon, chances are you'll wind up with two very different interpretations of what they've seen. While science sometimes seems to thrive on disagreement, the distinguished contributors to Heather Newbold's anthology come together on one major point: that the global biosphere is by no means assured of a happy future, especially if current trends of human population growth and resource exploitation continue.

"At this pivotal point in history," Newbold writes, "consequential decisions about our collective fate need to take account of the circumstances that enable life to exist--and the requisite conditions for its continued existence." In her pages, eminent biologists and conservationists such as Paul Ehrlich, James Lovelock, Ruth Patrick, Peter Raven, and Thomas Lovejoy consider some of those circumstances. Recalling his graduate studies in entomology, Ehrlich writes of seemingly innumerable, once-common butterfly populations that have all but disappeared in their former ranges, a disappearance that speaks volumes about the worldwide destruction of habitat in just a few decades. Similarly, Canadian scientist David Suzuki remembers his youth, when the bodies of short-lived mayflies hatched from Lake Erie "piled up four feet high on the beach"; now, because the lake has been so badly polluted with pesticides and detergents, those mayflies hatch there no more. And marine biologist Elliott Norse observes how his studies have changed in a time when "national governments spend $125 billion every year to catch $70 billion worth of rapidly declining fish," a strange economy that suggests that humans, as Norse says, are now eating what they used to use for bait--a situation that likely cannot continue much longer.

Sobering and thought-provoking, Newbold's book finds these students of life on earth in a dark mood, and for abundantly good reasons. --Gregory McNamee.
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The Waterbirth Book is the comprehensive guide to all aspects of waterbirth and the use of water throughout pregnancy and during infancy .
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Finally, lasting weight loss! The program includes: four weeks of delicious menu plans, individualized exercise programs and a maintenance plan for lasting weight loss. The Duke Diet is poised to become the diet book of the year..
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