The Homeopathic
Revolution: Why Famous People and
Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy (Book)
by Dana Ullman (North Atlantic Books, $26)
What do Gandhi, David Beckham, Cher, and Emily Dickinson have in common? All have been enthusiastic fans of homeopathy, the medical tradition that treats “like with like.” Dana Ullman—author, homeopath, and physician to Queen Elizabeth II—offers a new definition of homeopathy as “nanopharmacology” and highlights its remarkable capacity as a therapeutic art and science of unique potential. After explaining some of the reasons why conventional medicine is inadequate and why homeopathy works, the author references important scientific studies in user-friendly language that verify the value of this widely used but still misunderstood tradition of health.
The Story of Stuff (Streaming video)
by Annie Leonard
(storyofstuff.com, free)
TVs, laptops, iPods, shoes, cellphones, blenders—ever wonder about where it all comes from or where it ends up? Activist Annie Leonard spent 10 years travelling the world tracking “stuff”—from when it’s first dreamed up to when we eventually discard it—and offers her insights into our consumer-driven culture, while exposing the real costs of our “use-it-and-lose-it” approach, in 20 precious minutes. The fast-paced, fact-filled film provides the missing links in our understanding of how consumerism works, and why it is causing such damage to our planet and to the people involved in producing our stuff.
UNSTOPPABLE GLOBAL WARMING: Every 1,500 Years (Book)
by S. Fred Singer and
Dennis T. Avery
(Rowman and
Littlefield, $24.95)
In this updated and expanded edition of the New York Times bestseller, authors Singer and Avery argue that global warming is the result of a natural cycle that occurs every—you guessed it—1,500 years. Drawing from data obtained from ice core and seabed sediments, Unstoppable posits there have been roughly 600 warming periods in the last million years. And—as the title would also suggest—there’s nothing we can do to stop them. While the majority of scientists working on climate change seem to agree that global warming is man-made, it pays to understand both sides of the argument before taking a stand.
