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		<title>Hazel Henderson wins Nautilus Book Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2008/09/23/hazel-henderson-wins-nautilus-book-awards/</link>
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		<title>‘John Adams’ sweeps Emmys; now get the real story</title>
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The HBO miniseries John Adams set records on Sunday night when it won 13 Emmys, the most ever by a miniseries. Stars Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney won for best actor and best actress, among other awards.
Get the unHollywoodized story of the American Founding Father and the new nation’s second president in the two-volume biography [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2008/09/23/%e2%80%98john-adams%e2%80%99-sweeps-emmys-now-get-the-real-story/</link>
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		<title>praise for Danny Schechter’s ‘Plunder’</title>
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Praise for Danny Schechter&#8217;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 &#038; CEO, National Coalition on Community investment (NCRC), the nation’s leading housing group fighting foreclosures:
Plunder, like Schechter&#8217;s [film] IN DEBT WE TRUST, speaks truth to power about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2008/09/23/praise-for-danny-schechter%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98plunder%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Danny Schechter challenges Wall Street on Wall Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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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		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2008/09/23/danny-schechter-challenges-wall-street-on-wall-street/</link>
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		<title>Danny Schechter on the $700B bailout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2008/09/22/danny-schechter-on-the-700b-bailout/</link>
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		<title>competition for Kindle?</title>
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Looks like Amazon’s seemingly definitive Kindle e-reader is getting some company. Rumor has it that
On Monday, Netherlands-based iRex Technologies is slated to unveil the iRex Reader 1000, the first in a wave of e-reader devices that promise bigger screens and improved interfaces and functionality. And unlike Kindle or Sony&#8217;s Reader, this second generation of e-readers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2008/09/20/competion-for-kindle/</link>
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		<title>welcome to Plundered America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The news this week got worse by the day&#8230; by the hour, even. First broker Lehman Brothers failed and Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America:

Then the Fed essentially nationalized megainsurer AIG to the tune of $85 billion in taxpayer dough, in exchange for a nearly 80-percent share of the company.
And then the U.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2008/09/20/welcome-to-plundered-america/</link>
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		<title>Hurricane Ike is not unprecedented</title>
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Galveston, Texas, is under mandatory evacuation today as massive Hurricane Ike barrels toward it. According to the Associated Press, “the National Weather Service warned residents of smaller structures on Galveston they could ‘face certain death’ if they ignored an order to evacuate.”
This has all happened before, on September 8, 1900, as detailed by newspaper journalist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2008/09/12/hurricane-ike-is-not-unprecedented/</link>
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		<title>Danny Schechter’s ‘Plunder’ now available in paperback</title>
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Cosimo is proud to announce the paperback publication of Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal by Danny Schechter.
Read the book’s introduction here. (Alert: PDF.)
With the takeover by the U.S. government of mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over this past weekend (which Schechter discussed on his blog, News Dissector, yesterday), the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2008/09/09/danny-schechter%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98plunder%e2%80%99-now-available-in-paperback/</link>
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		<title>Cosimo author Loren Coleman to appear at Scarefest and Mass Monster Mash</title>
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Cosimo author Loren Coleman will speak at Scarefest in Lexington, Kentucky, on Friday and Saturday, September 12th and 13th &#8212; tickets are available at the door &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2008/09/09/cosimo-author-loren-coleman-to-appear-at-scarefest-and-mass-monster-mash/</link>
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