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Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization

Lotta — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:28:20 +0000

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An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American–a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically change our lives. Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller is a powerful and provocative book that explores what the new global economy will look like and what it will mean for all of us.

In a compelling and accessible style, Jeff Rubin reveals that despite the recent recessionary dip, oil prices will skyrocket again once the economy recovers. The fact is, worldwide oil reserves are disappearing for good. Consequently, the amount of food and other goods we get from abroad will be curtailed; long-distance driving will become a luxury and international travel rare. Globalization as we know it will reverse. The near future will be a time that, in its physical limits, may resemble the distant past.

But Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller is a hopeful work about how we can benefit–personally, politically, and economically–from this new reality. American industries such as steel and agriculture, for instance, will be revitalized. As well, Rubin prescribes priorities for President Obama and other leaders, from imposing carbon tariffs that will increase competition and productivity, to investing in mass transit instead of car-clogged highways, to forging “green” alliances between labor and management that will be good for both business and the air we breathe.

Most passionately, Rubin recommends ways every citizen can secure this better life for himself, actions that will end our enslavement to chain-store taste and strengthen our communities and timeless human values.

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10 Paperback Mystery Grab Bag Wholesale Lot

Lotta — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:49:38 +0000

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Here is a great lot of 10 Miscellaneous Paperbacks (Romance), including Harlequin, Silhouette, or the Western Historical Novels Romance, authors such as Jude Deveroux, Danielle Steel, Linda Lael Miller, Fern Michaels, Christine Feehan, Judith McWilliams, Regency romance .. .. so it is difficult to list all. It is currently 10 Paperback Books, used, but mostly in good condition at the fair. You can not beat the price! We would like to email with some of his favorite authors, and we will try to add a few lots in the mystery!

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How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

Lotta — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:12:51 +0000

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All students and professors need to write, a lot of fighting to the end of their trial stalled, articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work, and may be difficult to wedge in the frenetic academic schedule. In a practical, happy and encouraging book, Paul J. Silvia explains productively writing that does not require special skills or special innate qualities, but the tactics and actions. Drawing examples from his own field of psychology, he shows readers how to overcome motivational barriers and become prolific without waiving evenings, weekends and holidays. After describing strategies for writing productively, the author gives specific advice from the trenches on how to write, submit, revise and resubmit articles, how to improve the quality of writing and how to write and publish academic work.

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Lots of Scraps: Its Time to Quilt

Lotta — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:25:31 +0000

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There is definitely something for everyone who wants to try their hand at scrap quilting in this book from House of White Birches. Skill level: Beginner to Advanced

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Lots of Feelings (Shelley Rotners Early Childhood Library)

Lotta — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:49:53 +0000

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Move a Little, Lose a Lot: New N.E.A.T. Science Reveals How to Be Thinner, Happier, and Smarter

Lotta — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:59:47 +0000

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Escape Your Desk sentence!

Dr. James Levine, one of the country’s top specialists in obesity, says America suffers from “sitting disease.” We spend nearly ten to fifteen hours of our day sitting–in cars, at our desks, and in front of the television. The age of electronics and the Internet has robbed us of the chance to burn up to 1,500 to 2,000 calories per day, leaving Americans less active (and much heavier) than we were thirty years ago. We are facing a human energy crisis.

What you need, according to this doctor’s orders, is to get moving, or nonexercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT). NEAT is as simple as standing, turning, and bending. Research proves that daily NEAT activity burns more calories than a half hour running on the treadmill. Just by the very act of standing and moving, you can boost your metabolism, lower your blood pressure, and increase your mental clarity. It’s about using your body as it was meant to be used. Move a Little, Lose a Lot gives you literal step-by-step instructions for small changes that equal radical results:

• Give at the office–burn 2,100 calories a week just by changing your daily work routine.
• Hey, Einstein–just like the scientist who thought up his most famous theory while riding his bike, you can increase production of new brain neurons in as little as three hours.
• Tired of being tired–reduce fatigue by 65 percent with low-intensity NEAT workouts.
• Don’t forget–an Italian study showed active men and women were 30 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease.

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Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us

Lotta — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:34:47 +0000

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How the homes we live in turned into the monsters that ate our economy and how the United States became a nation obsessed with real estate.
Our Lot tells how an entire nation got swept up in real estate mania, and it casts the business story—the collapse of the mortgage markets and its global impact on the economy—as the product of a decades-long project of social engineering by the U .S. government to make homeownership possible for those who had never been able to attain it before. Based on original reporting, Our Lot looks at the boom as experienced by ordinary Americans, and examines how our own economic anxieties and realities, combined with greed and delusion on Wall S treet and in Washington, inflated the real estate bubble. In accessible language, the book helps homeowners and would-be homeowners understand what really happened, how it has affected our homes and communities, and how we can move on to a future we’ll want to live in.

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The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)

Lotta — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:44:16 +0000

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“The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes” praised the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune agreed: “The work of a virtuoso with prose. . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”

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Liquidation

Lotta — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:24:40 +0000

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Imre Kert?sz’s savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces the continuing echoes the Holocaust and communism in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe.

Ten years after the fall of communism, a writer named B. commits suicide, devastating his circle and deeply puzzling his friend Kingsbitter. For among B.’s effects, Kingsbitter finds a play that eerily predicts events after his death. Why did B.–who was born at Auschwitz and miraculously survived–take his life? As Kingsbitter searches for the answer –and for the novel he is convinced lies hidden among his friend’s papers–Liquidation becomes an inquest into the deeply compromised inner life of a generation. The result is moving, revelatory and haunting.

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Salems Lot

Lotta — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:23:42 +0000

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Published a year after his stunning debut novel, Carrie, ‘Salem’s Lot firmly cemented Stephen King’s name in the literary lexicon of great American storytellers. His rich and finely crafted tale of a mundane New England town under siege by the forces of darkness is both a homage to Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula and an allegory of our post-Vietnam society. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart — and the insular evils of small-town America.

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