Cosimo author Peter Robbins — coauthor of Left at East Gate: A First-hand Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident, Its Cover-up, and Investigation, about England’s notorious 1980 close-encounter event, recently participated in a two-hour interview with online radio show The Paracast on the Rendlesham Forest incident and its strange aftermath. The interview will be netcast at 6pm Eastern on Sunday, May 3, and will be available online as an MP3 at The Paracast within four hours after the netcast.

Robbins tells us, “Their questions were unflinching and very good.”

Left at East Gate is available at Amazon and other online booksellers.

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Rao Kolluru, author of the Cosimo Paraview book River of a Thousand Tales: Encounters with Spirit, Reflections from Science, discusses the major elements of his new book, Begin Anew: Re-setting Your Mind’s Odometer:

Kolluru’s new work centers on three ideas, three “pillars of Personal Renaissance”:

1. Declare independence from the past - reset your mind’s odometer
(enjoy Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of New Beginnings)

2. Discover who you are (Know thy Self), what you really want
(know your Calling, fulfill your Purpose in life, be your Self)

3. Orchestrate who you are with new brain-mind architecture
(experience personal renaissance, building a rich legacy)

More information is available at BeginAnew.info.

River of a Thousand Tales and Begin Anew: Re-setting Your Mind’s Odometer are available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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On the second anniversary of the Virgina Tech shootings, and as we approach the tenth anniversary of the Columbine shootings, not much seems to have changed, actually. Mass shootings by loner gunmen who feel disconnected from the larger society continue to occur… and the media coverage of them continues to inspire other disaffected men — rampage shooters are almost always men — to do the same.

The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow’s Headlines, by Cosimo author Loren Coleman, popped up in a recent Huffington Post article by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, and it’s well worth a read by anyone alarmed by the phenomenon.

VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE…

A disturbed student shoots up his classroom — and suddenly a wave of mass murder is sweeping through our nation’s schools. A young child is taken from her home — and for months afterward child abductions are frantically reported on an almost daily basis. A surfer is attacked by a shark — and the public spends an entire summer fearing an onslaught of the deadly underwater predators. Why do the terrible events we see in the media always seem to lead to more of the same?

Noted author and cultural behaviorist Loren Coleman explores how the media’s over-saturated coverage of murders, suicides, and deadly tragedies makes an impact on our society. This is The Copycat Effect — the phenomenon through which violent events spawn violence of the same type.

From recognizing the emerging patterns of the Copycat Effect, to how we can deal with and counteract its consequences as individuals and as a culture, Loren Coleman has uncovered a tragic flaw of the information age — a flaw which must be corrected before the next ripples of violence spread.

The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow’s Headlines is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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Picked at random (with a bit of cheating) from the extensive Cosimo backlist, a classic work for your reading enjoyment…

With piracy a major issue — again — in the 21st century, and defense spending under heated discussion at the moment, perhaps it’s time for a historical refresher on naval power. In The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 - 1783, author Alfred T. Mahan explains his theories about how the necessity and potential impact of large and effective navies changed how the world saw war.

American navy officer Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) proposed, in this 1890 work, that controlling the seas meant controlling international trade. And the country that controlled trade was the one that would win. Throughout history, readers will learn, the side that controlled the waters won the battle, even though that fact has often been overlooked. History buffs and anyone with an interest in military strategy will be interested to read how the world was shaped more than they had ever imagined through the use of seafaring vessels.

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 - 1783 is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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The article — headlined “More authors turn to Web and print-on-demand publishing” — reads like something that might have been written a few years ago, but when the mainstream corporate press finally catches on to something that’s been going on for ages, that’s a sort of stamp of approval.

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