Hazel Henderson, coauthor of the Cosimo book The Power of Yin, has won a 2007 Nautilus Silver Book Award for her book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy.

The Nautilus Book Awards were conceived to recognize and reward a group of world-changing books, and to celebrate how they contribute to positive social change, spiritual growth, conscious living, high-level wellness, and responsible leadership a prestigious book awards with silver and gold winners.

Cosimo congratulates Henderson on her award.

The Power of Yin is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.

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Praise for Danny Schechter’s book Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, new from Cosimo, is pouring from advocates, activists, economists, and political analysts.

John Taylor, President & CEO, National Coalition on Community investment (NCRC), the nation’s leading housing group fighting foreclosures:

Plunder, like Schechter’s [film] IN DEBT WE TRUST, speaks truth to power about the infectious greed and malfeasance of the financial services sector that hoodwinked our nation and pushed millions of American families into foreclosure and catastrophe.

Professor Robert Manning, author of Credit Card Nation and consumer credit expert:

(Schechter) deserves our appreciation for identifying yet another crucially important issue that has been blissfully ignored by the mainstream media and our national leaders – the consumer debt time bomb.

Max Fraad Wolff, economist:

Schechter has done in Plunder what countless media outlets have done and watchdogs agencies have failed to do. His work offers an exciting guide to how “it” broke, where “it” broke and why.

And this review is just in from Stephen Lendman at Global Research.ca:

Schechter’s book is timely, important, and frightening. He does a masterful job deconstructing a complicated subject. One covered up in the mainstream. Its dark side papered over suppressed.

Schechter explains it fully and clearly for lay readers to understand. It’s essential they do it because it touches everyone. No one knows how bad it may get, but the current crisis has legs. The worst of it may be ahead, and before it ends millions may feel it painfully. “Plunder” provides ammunition. A blueprint of what’s unfolding. Explaining that government help won’t be forthcoming, so we’re responsible for making the best of a very bad situation.

Read the introduction to Plunder here. (Alert: PDF.)

Plunder is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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Danny Schechter, author of the new Cosimo book Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, joined Jesse Jackson on Wall Street to highlight the subprime crisis:

See here for pictures from the event.

Read the introduction to Plunder here. (Alert: PDF.)

Plunder is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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Danny Schechter, author of the new Cosimo book Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, has checked in on the proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. And it ain’t pretty.

At NewsDissector, Schechter writes:

Is this what a State of Emergency feels like?

Make no mistake about: we have entered the era of a financial coup d’etat with the Treasury Department releasing a THREE PAGE document and then demanding $700 Billion dollars for a system “rescue” as a start and with unlimited and unchecked power. Welcome to another 9/11 with the Bush Administration in effect pre-empting the options of whoever becomes our next President with a measure likely to cost way over a $ trillion or more….

For months, we have been expecting an October Surprise, perhaps an attack on Iran. Instead what we are getting is a September surprise, and an attack on American taxpayers who are being told they/we will now bail out criminally irresponsible bankers, the folks that Franklin Delano Roosevelt once denounced as “BANKSTERS.”

The only thing missing are troops in the streets and, believe me, as I reported last week, that is coming. Troops are being shipped back from Iraq to be on standby for CIVIL UNREST. (The “authorities” don’t believe that the American people will take the strip mining of their lives without a fight. Surely more crime, and other dislocation is coming!)

More at Global Research.ca, where Schechter explains why “The Bush Administration’s Rescue Plan Will Not Work.”

Read the introduction to Plunder here. (Alert: PDF.)

Plunder is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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Cosimo author Loren Coleman will speak at Scarefest in Lexington, Kentucky, on Friday and Saturday, September 12th and 13th — tickets are available at the door — and at Mass Monster Mash in Boston on Saturday, October 18th; tickets are selling out fast and seating is limited.

The Book of Werewolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould, is the latest volume in Cosimo’s Loren Coleman Presents series of classic cryptozoology books. This 1865 work, published here in a beautiful replica edition complete with the original illustrations, was the first serious academic study of the shape-shifters of mythological lore. Says Coleman in his new introduction:

This work is the most frequently cited early study of lycanthropy and is regarded by most scholars as the foundation work in the field. The Book of Werewolves was so visionary that it foresaw that future discussions within werewolf studies would necessarily travel down many side paths. Indeed, midway through The Book of Werewolves, Baring-Gould treks into the shadowy world of crimes vaguely connected to werewolves, including serial murders, grave desecration, and cannibalism.

The Book of Werewolves is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

UPDATE: Coleman will also appear at the Museum of Science in Boston on Wednesday, October 29, at 7pm to deliver a talk entitled “Bigfoot, Sea Serpents, and Cryptozoology.” The program is free and seating begins at 5:45 for this limited but open-to-the public event. Coleman will be signing books afterwards.

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Barbara Marx Hubbard, one of the authors of Cosimo publication The Power of Yin, will speak in the Big Tent at the Democratic National Convention in Denver today, Thursday, August 28th, at 4PM Mountain Time. To watch the video live, go to The Big Tent and click “Watch Live Feed” on the left sidebar.

Marx Hubbard — whose name was placed in nomination for the vice presidency at the 1984 Democratic National Convention — will present the CITIZENS SOLUTIONS COUNCIL, proposing that the next president of the United States establish a National Solutions Council to identify, connect, and communicate what is working in America, which is similar to the concept of the “Peace Room” that she proposed in 1984.

To read the initiative and to sign the petition please go to Citizens Solutions Council. Find out more about Marx Hubbard’s Foundation for Conscious Evolution at her Web site, BarbaraMarxHubbard.com.

The Power of Yin is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman — author of Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America, from Cosimo partner Paraview, and presenter of Cosimo’s new series of classic cryptozoology books — has offered some comments on this week’s news about the hikers in Georgia who claim to have found the body of a Bigfoot-type creature.

From ABCnews.com:

Loren Coleman, a prolific writer on the Sasquatch, Yeti and other mysterious creatures, said he thinks this is going to be one of the biggest Bigfoot stories of the decade, even it turns out to be hoax.

When it comes to the alleged creature, he says he doesn’t use the word “believe.”

“I accept or deny evidence. Based upon the evidence we have [about Bigfoot], 80 percent is proof and 20 percent is myth,” he said.

With this one body found in Georgia, however, it’s “99 percent a hoax and 1 percent a probability of reality,” he said.

But he’s still excited about the alleged discovery.

“I’ll never turn down a chance to look at a body because it could be real, and we can’t choose the accident of history. & The most undesirable people might be the ones to discover it, but who am I to judge them.”

(Looks like Coleman’s already being proven right about a hoax.)

Buy Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America at Amazon, or explore the new series Loren Coleman Presents: The Book of Werewolves, The Great Sea Serpent, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, and The Romance of Natural History.

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Loren Coleman — author of the Cosimo-Paraview titles Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America, Mothman and Other Curious Encounters, and others — will speak on matters cryptozoological at New York’s American Museum of Natural History on December 1. From the AMNH’s site:

Loren Coleman: Adventures in Cryptozoology
December 1, 2007
Kaufmann Theater, first floor
Free with Museum admission
1:00 p.m.

Discover the world of “hidden” creatures with Loren Coleman, one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists and author of numerous articles and books on unexplained animals, including The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Mysterious America. He has traveled extensively interviewing witnesses of lake monsters, Bigfoot, Mothman, and other such unsubstantiated beings, and has served as consultant to NBC-TV’s Unsolved Mysteries and A&E’s Ancient Mysteries.

For regular news and discussion about strange monsters and weird happenings, check out Coleman’s popular cryptozoology site, Cryptomundo.

Bigfoot!, Mothman, and other books by Loren Coleman are available from Amazon and other online booksellers.

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Saturday, December 1, is World AIDS Day, and on Friday night, November 30, the New York City Event for World AIDS Day will take place at St. Bartholomew’s Church at Park Avenue at 50th Street, from 6:30 to 8:30pm. The event — cosponsored by The Hunger Project, a New York based nonprofit that Cosimo partnered with to publish the book The Power of Purpose Awards — will feature United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon; U.S. ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke; the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria; and dancers, musicians, and AIDS activists. The evening will be emceed by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien.

For more information, please visit aidsdaynyc.org.

The Power of Purpose Awards is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.

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Cosimo author Hazel Henderson — coauthor of The Power of Yin — will be speaking at the international Beyond GDP conference in Brussels on Novmeber 19 and 20. The goal of the conference, according to Henderson, is to “change the economic growth paradigm in 27 countries.” Henderson will chair the first session on November 20, at 9am Central European Time, on “Practices in Business and Finances,” discussing socially responsible and triple bottom line practices.

Watch a live webcast of the conference starting November 19 at 3pm CET at beyond-gdp.eu.

In other news, Henderson has been elected to the British Royal Society for the Arts, founded in 1754 and chaired now by H.R.M. Queen Elizabeth. Members past and present include Charles Dickens, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie, Nelson Mandela, and Tim Berners Lee.

The Power of Yin is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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