Archive for March, 2012

By John Calderazzo. Published by The Lyons Press, Guilford, CT, 2004. The painting on the jacket cover, by Joseph Wright of Derby, c.1774-76, is titled An Eruption of Vesuvius, seen from Portici. Click to Buy this Book!   A teacher of creative writing at Colorado State University, John Calderazzo completed an extracurricular project of writing […]

Friday, March 30th, 2012 at 01:16 | Comments Off on Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives
Categories: Non-fiction, Reviews

by John Michael Greer New Society Publishers, First Edition,  October 1, 2009.  Click to Buy this book! To understand the need for such a book as The Ecotechnic Future an understanding of the concept of resource depletion is required, especially the concept of Peak Oil. This idea states that the amount of fossil fuels on the […]

Monday, March 19th, 2012 at 14:32 | Comments Off on The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World
Categories: Non-fiction, Reviews

By John Kroger. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2008. Click to Buy this book!   This absorbing 466-page book by former federal prosecutor John Kroger (Assistant United States Attorney, or AUSA) includes a Prologue, Four Parts with 19 chapters, an Epilogue, Sources, and Acknowledgements. The Parts are titled Rookie, Mafia Prosecutor, The […]

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 at 00:02 | Comments Off on Convictions: A Prosecutor’s Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves
Categories: Biography, Reviews
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