Hydrogen stands out as the best alternative to traditional polluting fossil fuels for many reasons-it can be produced without pollution, is nontoxic and noncorrosive, and we can never run out of it. It is as safe as or safer than the fuels we currently use and can be made virtually anywhere. The Hydrogen Age explains this promising fuel, shows how it can be harnessed to serve virtually all of our energy needs, and reveals why hydrogen is destined to become the clean, safe, renewable fuel of choice for the future.
Winning Our Energy Independence shares energy solutions from S. David Freeman, a man who has spent his life at the forefront of energy policy. Freeman explains how the sun, wind, biomass, geothermal, and hydrogen resources we have right now can be the fuels that solve energy issues and create a sustainable future for our planet. These alternative energies will heat and cool our homes, run our cars, power our factories, and do all the things that our civilization requires—but only if we make it happen! We have the renewable resources we need—now we simply need the awareness, passion, and drive from the people to make sure our politicians and business leaders respond. Winning Our Energy Independence provides action plans for showing us how to influence change.
Whether the problems are caused by poverty or the issues that typically accompany it, most low-income children face obstacles and challenges unknown to their middle- and upper-income peers. Editors Ron Sider and Heidi Unruh have drawn together the expertise of academics, activists, pastors, and social service professionals to consider the lives and special concerns of children living in poverty—biblically, educationally, physically, sociologically, politically.
This comprehensive reader does more than just analyze the problems. It takes a giant step forward in exploring real solutions through public policy and faith-based organizations. Read the words of the children themselves in interviews, profiles, and poetry. And learn from those who are already making a difference in the lives of poor and low-income children.
THE ADOPTION MYSTIQUE exposes, documents and confronts the effects of negative social stigma on adoption institutions, practices, adopted persons, as well as adoptive and birthparents. It is a timely counterpoint to the misinformation and prejudices which created and maintain the myths of adoption. Secrecy and shame lie at the heart of U.S. child adoptions and have led our society to:
-Failed child welfare policies -Prejudices against adoptees, birth mothers, adoptive parents, and infertility -Discrimination and loss of rights for adoptees -Anti-adoptee media bias -Problems with telling a child he or she is adopted -Dysfunctional adoption myths
Scalded: The Making and Undoing of an Extremist by Samadhi Longo-Disse, PhD and Teddy Charles, is published through the non-profit Samadhi Research Institute by Booksurge. It powerfully unveils a stunning portrait of obsession and a new understanding of extremism. This factual account probes a middle class woman's survival and spiritual liberation from addiction, the raw intensity of communal life, covert surveillance and high-class prostitution. More than a life story, this book is fueled by inexhaustible energy, humor and psychological depth, unraveling an inspired journey to uncover the roots of extremism in religion, sexuality, addiction, depression and violence. A portion of the proceeds will go toward supporting the work of Samadhi Research.
