Title: Down to the Wire_ Confronting Climate Collapse Author: David W. Orr File Type: Mobi Subject:Science Politics Description:From Publishers WeeklyAuthor and environmental studies professor Orr (The Nature of Design) presents an alarming look at climate change, predicting a best-case scenario (a sharp reduction in our carbon footprint) that belies the hopes of the green movement at large: Climate change... is not so much a problem to be fixed, but rather a steadily worsening condition with which we must contend for a long time. Even this, however, depends on a political realignment sufficient to meet the severe challenges of the coming decades and centuries, including famine, drought and population displacement. Rather than a matter of reprioritizing, Orr contends that we must reshape our deepest held values; citing the case against abortion, he suggests that the same kind of arguments apply to the right to life of future generations... as our present use of coal, oil, and natural gas will kill into the far future. Finding hope in the connections that bind us to each other, to all life and to all life to come, Orr maintains a guarded optimism that never forgoes the possibility that we are irreversibly en route to extinction; for his expertise and crystal clear vision, Orr's disturbing message is hard to ignore. br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ReviewOrr acknowledges [the] dire circumstances, but does not wallow in despair or defeatism. His book is a clear-sighted view of what we need to change now...Orr's book will do much to help achieve the required cultural transformation, hopefully just in time.--_Nature_If you want to read the latest, and one of the most streamlined yet comprehensive accounts of our predicament, I'd recommend Down to the Wire by David Orr, an Oberlin College professor who has long been one of the country's leading environmental thinkers. He lays out the dangers, and he lays out the plans that would be needed to counteract those dangers; it's all there in simple and unavoidable prose. --Bill McKibben, New York Review of BooksIf climate change were not an issue, what you would have to say would be undiminished in its urgency....I thank you for not giving up, for staking out the ground of 'authentic hope,' and for reinvigorating that indispensable term, 'maybe.'--Wendell Berry, from a letter to the authorAlthough his research findings are well referenced, Orr's integration and interpretation take the book beyond the typical academic treatise...Refreshingly candid regarding heroes, villains, and difficult decisions, Orr writes with exceptional elegance and passion...Highly recommended.--_CHOICE_Powerful and prophetic.--Thomas BerryA dazzling intellectual sweep across the causes and solutions to our mounting 'long emergency.' Orr shows convincingly that leadership and good governance, not just technological solutions, will all have to be part of the mix if we are to save the planet in time.--Stephen H. Schneider, Stanford UniversityA sweeping synthesis of science, politics, history, and public policy--shaped by extraordinary wisdom, reason, and conviction--this very important book envisions a roadmap to a livable future.--Ray Anderson, Founder and Chair, Interface Inc., and author of Confessions of a Radical IndustrialistDavid couples realism with optimism to create an honest look at how we consider the environment, povery, and equality. If he believes that humans can rise to the occasion of our global climate crisis, so can you. Thanks, David!--Majore Carter, Economic Development Consultant, MacArthur Genius FellowLucid, richly documented, and powerful.--George M. Woodwell, Director Emeritus, The Woods Hole Research CenterIt is rare to find so many fresh insights between the convers of one book. We are all indebted to David Orr for his incisive thinking.--Lester R. Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute, and author of Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization_Down to the Wire_ takes the reader beyond the viewpoints which are standard fare in the climate literature: technological optimism and sustainability on the one hand, or techo-criticism, lament and despair on the other. Orr foresees a pathway to solving our dilemma, one marked by political leadership and respect for human dignity.--Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University Deeply informed by wide reading, practical experience, and many years of passionate teaching and activism, David Orr's cogent arguments provide leadership both to meet the climate disruption that our foresight has been insufficient to avoid, and to help avoid worse. Highly recommended!--Herman Daly, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland One of the great scholars in the climate change and clean energy debate, Orr's new book sets out a challenging and hopeful agenda for real change in how we reshape our nation, our energy policies, and ultimately our personal lives, for the long haul battle against climate destabilization. --Jeff Biggers, Huffington PostOrr adroitly weaves environmental science and policy together with perspectives from history, philosophy, political science, legal studies, and communications to contextualize climate change as a symptom of other problems that, if confronted, can be addressed. The result is a touchstone for anyone interested in engaging constructively in social change. --_ClimateEdu Newsletter_, National Wildlife Federation Orr's book is gracefully written, with a lucid and comprehensive vision it is important that everyone reads it, because it is about our future, which is likely to be very different from the present. --_North Coast Journal_

Title: Jumper_ Griffin's Story Author: Steven Gould File Type: Mobi Subject:Science-Fiction Description: Griffin has a secret. It’s a secret that he’s sworn to his parents to keep, and never tell. Griffin is a Jumper: a person who can teleport to any place he has ever been.  The first time was when he was five, and his parents crossed an ocean to protect the secret. The most important time was when he was nine. That was the day that the men came to his house and murdered his parents. Griffin knows that the men were looking for him, and he must never let them find him.   Griffin grows up with only two goals: to survive, and to kill the people who want him dead. And a Jumper bent on revenge is not going to let anything stand in his way.   *Jumper*, based on Steven Goulds earlier novel of the same name, will be a  major motion picture scheduled for release by 20th Century Fox starring Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Doug Limon.  *Jumper: Griffins Story* features the character played by Jamie Bell in the film.