Greens Books

This book is packed with current and useful information about GE foods, farming practices, life patents issues, and the impacts of GE food on our environment. It is an excellent manual for anyone wanting control of their food, or simply to better understand what all the contraversy about GE foods.. It is short & easy to read. There are many interesting quotes from scientists & industry spokes people. The best part of this book is a comprehensive RESOURCE section. Showing points of contact in the US, other international organizations, magazines, journals, email information services, and websites, for GE information. Anyone who wants to start doing something about this important issue needs to start here. The book is full of excellent references supporting the arguments. Also a worthwhile list of recommended readings. Buy it & share that resource information with everyone you know. Can not over emphasize the usefulness of this book.

Here in North America the public generally hears very little about debates surrounding around GE foods, this 1999 book from a UK author is a quick read, easy to understand overview of GE food issues. It is strictly food & agriculture covered here, human GE areas are not touched on. Besides discussing safety & nutrition concerns, chapters cover such topics as control of farming & environmental pollution, patenting genes with a brief history of what's already taken place over the last 15 years, and how the world trade organization is used to force countries to accept these products or to outlaw product labeling. There is a chapter on 2 journalists in Florida who got into a lot of trouble with Monsanto for attempting to run a television series on a hormone injected into cows to increase milk production.

Some of the information in this book is quite shocking. The sheer amount of money Monsanto has used to bribe and "settle out of court" tells me there's got to be something very wrong in what they're doing. I enjoyed the "follow the money" advice this book offers - if an "expert" is saying there's no harm at all any of this try to find out who's paying the salary or funding the grant. This quote from pg. 106 is unforgettable, "We paid $3 billion for these television stations. We will decide what the news is......"

Lots of information packed into a small book, also a guide to organizations and further information.

Mr. Anderson succeeds admirably in eliciting shock and outrage in the reader with his clear, succinct, and fluid prose on the visible and invisible dangers of agricultural biotechnology. Modern day manipulation of the food chain and the ecosystems that provide humanity with its food (and other valuable services) has the potential to irreversibly affect both human beings and the environment. While the scientific and industrial cognoscenti exchange increasingly friendly repartee genetically modified foods, and governments turn a blind eye to `scientific progress', Mr. Anderson is right when he says that the human is being unwillingly and unwittingly subjected to an experiment whose long-term effects are difficult to assess.

Written shortly before scientists began to seriously question the effects of even minute quantities of hormone disrupting and cancer-causing, mutagenic chemicals and the potential effects of errant DNA in the greater environment, and shortly after genetically modified crops had been shown to sterilize insects and willy-nilly cross-pollinate with plants of the same species located either nearby or a great distance away, this handy little book introduces a considerable amount of information on genetic engineering and its dubious successes to readers who are not well versed in the sciences. In seven highly fluid and readable chapters, the book addresses a plethora of ethical, economic and technological issues associated with genetic engineering and agricultural biotechnology. The first chapter lucidly explains many of the key concepts underpinning genetic engineering as it applies to agriculture, and introduces most of the very real specters to health and the environment that the technology not only has caused, but also can and ultimately may cause in the future. The author devotes one chapter each to the thorny issues of genetic engineering and its effects on the environment, the way that agricultural biotechnology portents to and actually is transforming farming globally for the worse, and the attempts of individuals, universities and corporations, with all the zeal characteristic of a gold rush mentality, to patent every snippet of DNA they can get their hands on. Readers may find the book's fifth chapter to be truly shocking, as it describes in vivid detail the apparent disinterest of governments in industrialized nations to safeguard the best interests of its citizens- especially in the area of public health, from the bitter fruit of agricultural biotechnology. Chapter six presents a detailed case study of one particular biological abomination- the superfluous use of increasing amounts of biotech hormones to increase milk production, even in the face of persistent gluts year after year. The seventh and final details efforts by many groups to resist the onslaught of the adoption of such biotechnologies, and offers insight into the ways the poor in Third World countries are used as dupes and guinea pigs for these less than optimal technologies. The author also includes a detailed list of resources that concerned readers can tap into in their efforts to learn more or to protect themselves from most, but not all, of the spurious products of agricultural biotechnology.

In reading this book, one gets the feeling that the author wants us to share in his concern about the lingering effects of these overly hyped technologies of dubious merit. While the author clearly did his best to choose many of genetic engineering's most egregious examples, readers of this text should bear in mind that these examples merely represent the tip of the iceberg. As a scientist and engineer, it is hard for me come up with a suitable justification for many of the fruits of ag biotech, given that farmers in the industrialized countries are plagued with the onerous problem of oversupply. Furthermore, with slight modifications to current agricultural practices, and a shifting of inputs and plant resources, every single person on the planet could easily be fed, so the excuse of biotechnology feeding the world's hungry does not quite wash either. Basically, I find the motives of big biotech companies to be less than altruistic: if the biotech corporation controls the seeds and the larger food supply, then they control the people dependent upon them.

In this day and age of financial skullduggery and scientific chicanery, astute citizens must actively behoove themselves to exercise caution and awareness at all times. As Huff told us in his classic little book, How to Lie with Statistics, if the honest person wants to prevent oneself from being burglarized, then it pays to learn the ways of the criminally minded. As such, this book's disclosure of the aggressive foisting of these dubious scientific advances on an unsuspecting public by an unscrupulous gaggle of corporate, academic and government interests clearly demonstrates a most disturbing and peculiar case of criminal intent of the highest degree.

"Genetic Engineering, Food, & Our Environment" is crisply written, keenly argued, tightly and extensively researched. It presents a wealth of facts and possibilities, both an extremely disturbing side in and around the genetic engineering industry, and some encouraging information on potentially sustainable alternatives.

An excellent study for anyone considering GE-related issues, it makes a key handbook for the campaigner. It is a resource one can variously refer to in connection with environmental and other concerns, third world development possibilities, and underpinning issues in the background of global politics.

Luke Anderson's book entirely deserves the wide readership and serious attention gained by Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." Carson's book detailed impacts and threats of industrial chemicals in use forty years ago; Anderson's is an effective sequel, an update on the state of play today. Depressing how some of the villains in the story are the same - or rather, grander and more dangerous. Inspiring how voices will yet courageously emerge like those of Carson and Anderson, with the wits and the research base to point to the toxins dribbling down the Emperor's new clothes (or carcass) and explain where they came from.

Altogether a thoroughly useful, troubling and galvanising kind of book. If you haven't got it, get it.

I found this book incredibly helpful in preparing for a recent job interview. It forced me to focus on what strengths I possess and wanted to highlight during the interview process. It also helped me understand the most important strengths/skills companies are looking for today - resilience and flexibility.

I am a recent college grad who came across this book at the public library. I had spent the past four months unemployed so I decided to read this book to resuscitate my career-hunt. This book was a tremendous help. Dr. Green writes in a practical manner which is enjoyable to read. His strategies and advice are clearly applicable to an entire interview, including what to do after. I really enjoyed 'Get Hired' because of its effectiveness. Most interview books focus on the questions, but rather than chase after questions this book focuses on the source, the interviewer. By understanding the interviewer, we can understand what questions they are likely to ask, what they are looking for, and then how to answer the question. This strategy is very flexible in adapting to an interviewer, rather than solidifying in answering specific questions. Also, 'Get Hired' has a pratical, in-depth process for readers to write out our job and life experiences. I found this process so easy and enjoyable that by the time I finished I had a lot of well, developed experiences, some of which I had almost forgotten. With this multitude of clear, developed experiences it enables readers to answer any question while highlighting a benefit to the employer. Another, strategy of 'Get Hired' I really like is how readers are shown how to guide the interview and questions. This book teaches how to take questions and to direct them where we want them, which is towards our proven experiences. Also, it shows how to answer a question which will then lead to another desirable question. This strategy was so effective when I interviewed that I knew which question would be asked next by how I guided it. In fact, by studying this book and practicing it I did great on my next interview where I had five interviewers, two of them were participating through a phone conference. With each question I followed the strategies from 'Get Hired' and answered with a proven experience, while guiding the next question. The entire interview was right where I wanted it to be and through my answers I was able to keep it there. After the interview, my potential supervisor came up to me, shook my hand, and said, "If it was up to me, I'd hire you right now". I got hired to my current position. I am the youngest employee ever hired at this organization and I beat out over forty applicants, many of whom had more years of experience and education. But through my relevant experiences which were enhanced through 'Get Hired' I was proven the best candidate.

Simply put, I got the job. I believe a significant part of it was from what I learned by reading Green's insightful book. Over 200 pages, it was packed with useful information like the four types of interviewers. It contains mnemonics and concrete exercises (in the form of fill in the blank worksheets and surveys) that help you get to know your own skills best so you can sell yourself well. Paul C. Green is a good writer and compounds his solid experience in HR and corporate psychology with delightful wit and meaningful anecdotes.

Moreover, my confidence soared since I was not so anxious about how I was being judged in interviews anymore. I knew I was giving a good representation of myself and I knew how to answer questions. I used to fumble when "gut feel" interviewers started off by skimming my resume, simply asking, "tell me about yourself." Now I knew exactly what to say and how to say it.

Green's book does not contain any canned lines that zing your interviewer, as there's no such easy gimmick like that. Rather, Green helps you hone your own personal approach to help interviewers see you for what you really are. You then rehearse your own specific behavioral-interview examples that demonstrate your merit. They'll know your skills and experience. In addition, Green helps you answer the "tough" questions and coaches you to manage the whole meeting, including body language and the interview small-talk. They'll feel confident hiring you.

The book was an easy read, too; I whizzed through this book in two days. If you get only one book, this is the one. I would also recommend getting books for writing resumes and cover letters specific to your industry. I had been trying to get the job as a high school math teacher for nearly two years, and now I've landed it. Get this book! Good luck and hang in there job seekers!

I got this book to streamline my emotions, find the motivation, assume a positive spirit in my search for a new job. Helped much.

EQ. Emotional Quotient. The author is definitely a Ph.D. in Psychology. He is good. He makes it all sound natural, reasonable, approachable, doable. Provides motivation in simple human terms. Discusses fear, hopes, competition, courage, determination, anxiety, self-steem.

IQ. Intellectual Quotient. The book expands the scope and effectiveness of your analytic capacity applied to the job-search process. The book gives you a simple working methodology to visualize and analyze what is fundamental to find a job.

Whatever you do, before you start selling you to employers, do sell yourself the idea of buying a job, of finding a good job that you will enjoy at a company that will truly help you grow.

After reading this book I felt like finding a million jobs. LOL.

Max D

LOL. Laughing out loud.

As a 12-year-old, I immersed myself in the fascinating and poignant world of Al. I really identified with her -- she is be-spectacled, precoscious, spent a lot of time alone, and came from a non-traditional family, but she was never "victimy." Rather, she seems to make the most of things, possessing a sort of a bittersweet pragmatism and independence that serves her well. I will never forget that Al read the Sunday New York Times cover-to-cover every weekend -- even the ads and the classifieds. I am 37-years-old and think of that almost each time I read the Times.

Two seventh-grade girls become friends when Al moves into the apartment building where the narrator (who is never named) lives. The narrator is initially skeptical of Al, who is slightly overweight and wears her hair in pigtails (to be a nonconformist, she says). But the two quickly bond, especially when the narrator introduces Al to her friend, building superintendent Mr. Richards.

Mr. Richards, a retired bartender, offers the girls shooters of Coke and shows them how he ice-skates on the kitchen floor with rags on his feet to get it so shiny. To Al, he's possibly the most nonconforming person she's ever met.

But, like anyone else, Mr. Richards has problems of his own...as the girls soon learn...

It is a really good book! Constance C. Green is a really good author. A Girl Called AL is one of my favorite books. I felt like I know AL. It is the best book ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I read and reread this book so many times as a "preteen"........the characters are wonderful and lovable, hilarious...I am sorry to see that the sequels to this are no longer in print...what a shame. This is an excellent, absorbing book for younger adolescents.

This book is one of the best books I have ever read. It makes you want to try you best at the sport. I enjoyed this book very much. I would recomend it to everyone!

This book was excellent. It showed the real Shannon Miller. It gave perspective into her life and what she has went through to get where she is. She is truly the most magnificent gymnast ever

I thought this book was excellent. We really didn't know much about Shannon's real life outside of gymnastics, we just knew about her "gymnastics" life, and this book gives a great perspective on her lif

Although Septima Green's book is written merely for children, as a 19 year-old gymnastics fan, I found it very enjoyable. This book was written before the Atlanta Games so it is a bit outdated. However, it was an excellent book on an excellent person. The book is very inspiring, showing in detail Shannon's years of hard work, dedication, and sacrifice. I enjoyed getting to know Shannon as a person then a gymnast. I also liked the reading about Shannon's family, her relationship with her coaches, and friends

This book has given us new direction to our sells effort and how we think about selling. We are in a competitive enrironment and Going for the Green has given me a fresh look at how we should approach our selling. The book was engaging and extremly insightful in how we need to approach our customers today.

As a salespereson reading Going For The Green, the book takes you along a path of discovery and self analysis. Creating compelling business solutions and differentiating yourself and your organization is critical in selling today. Unlike most books about selling, Doug Petersen takes you on a real-as-life journey to sell the message that top performing salespeople must think stategically. The golf allegory helps bring meaning to the concepts outlined in the book and executive summaries at the end of each chapter serve as great reinforcement. A must read for salespeople who think they've mastered the sales process!

A great book on ways to "change your game" in today's highly competitive environment. Loved the way that this book is written as an easy to read novel, following the story of Sharon, a former high performing sales executive, who suddenly finds that the methods she has been using for years to sell her company's products, no longer serve her. Sharon learns that she must learn to develop great relationships with her clients at all levels of the customer's organization. She must be relentless in researching the customer, regarding their goals, challenges, and existing products, in order to develop "win-win" business solutions that create a differential advantage vs. her competition.

It is obvious that Doug Peterson has considerable experience himself in helping others to create competitive advantage! Great Read!!

Here's a great textbook that reads like a novel, and brings the professional selling experience into today's business environment. Even experienced sales people will benefit immensely from this easy reading journey paralleling the sales process and the game of golf. Readers will learn to be great playing partners, both on the links and in their corporate life. I've been selling for many years, and this book taught me a few new wrinkles. You'll not only be more successful, but you'll get to smell the flowers along the way.

This is one of the best books I have read detailing the ins and outs of selling today!

the book is easy to read,understan, and to follow. the book contains every thing the salesman need in his career this book is the start point in sales. read it and folow it.

I am a 25-year sales veteran, and have spent this entire time reading any and all Sales motivational books and "tips" I can get my hands on. Without exception, I found Paul Green's book one I will reference often, and anxiously refer to others. He has his pulse on the Sales game and on the sales professional. It is obvious he has passion for the profession and for those who pound the streets daily in search of their next success...he understands the process.

Mr. Green's humor is ever-apparent throughout the book, which makes it an even more enjoyable read. I recently took Good Selling! with me to read on the plane, beginning my only vacation in the last five years (I was trying to slow down). I found myself laughing and muttering affirmations out loud, as I finished the book before we reached Orlando. I made action notes in the margins, promising to implement all the great ideas (and reminders) I found in almost every chapter.

This book is insightful, empathetic, funny, and a true sales tool. Thank you, Paul Green, I can't wait for your next effort.

If you are a Sales Professional providing Point of Sale solutions to the retail market, this may be the breakthrough you've been looking for. "Good Selling" does an outstanding job of interspersing fundamentals of Human Interaction (a la Dale Carnegie) with specific techniques for increasing Sales. Neophytes to Bankcard/Point of Sale Services will appreciate Paul Green's coverage of the fundamentals, while veterans enjoy a refresher course and gain the benefit of Paul's research into the latest trends within the Financial Services community, and how recent technology is impacting today's market. Anyone interested in self-improvement, increased motivation, or just more sales will enjoy the read!

The book is helpful, and does have some useful information. The author apparently is very fond of the word paradigm, as it seems to appear multiple times per page, especially in the early sections. The double spaced type used by the publisher is distracting.

If you are thinking about going back to school or have just started back - READ THIS BOOK! Dr. Green has managed to provide the information needed for anyone to navigate a graduate program, but is honest about what it takes, what you will need to do, and how rewarding it will be. Dr. Green's conversational style of writing is impressive. You feel as if you are having a casual talk with a friend but end up feeling motivated by a mentor. I have gone back to school once and now thinking of doing it again. This book will serve as a reference for my new endeavor and continued motivation.

I have a successful career in HR. Most of my applicants are misplaced due to corporate downsizing. In many cases, these individuals have several degrees. It has been my pleasure to recommend Dr. Green's book, "Graduate Savvy" to these individuals seeking, in some cases, new careers. My experience reading Graduate Savvy was a virtual visit with Dr. Green through his friendly, conversational style. What I know for sure is--education is not an option. So, take a deep breathe, kick off your shoes and explore the world of online higher education with Dr. Green. I promise everything inside you will rise up to reverberate, YES, I can do this.

Dr. Green's book is flawlessly readable and highly accessible. This is a necessary resource for anyone considering higher education. Graduate Savvy is a great book for getting the inside scoop on online learning.

This book speaks at many different levels. It could be called "adventures in synchronicity" or it could be a Jungian categorical excursion into the same type of regimentation-as-freedom found in, say, a monastery or a totalitarian paradise. The crystal, milky-white earth-beings found under the earth, as explained here by Read, find their final rest in the form of individual obliteration, as they lay down in neat rows, to become fused as mineralized pieces of a complex crystalline underground society, accompanied in the background by the racket of numerous initiates, tapping out certain patterns of sounds on various-sized hunks of crystal as a preliminary qualification to their own eventual obliteration.

Aha! Now we understand the ice cave scene in "Superman" a little better, as well as the scene in that Planet of the Apes movie where they manipulate crystal inserts in a control panel to cause something like nuclear reactions. There must be an analogous Star Trek episode as well.

The Plato's cave comment picks up on this. Just as Plato's Republic veers into totalitarianism, so does the Green Child. Unlike Plato, however, it is not clear that Read is trying to be prescriptive. It may be optional, as was the Heaven's Gate cult, where they all wore the same shoes, ordered the same food at the same restaurant, laid down on the same size beds, and took the same overdose, waiting for the same spaceship, to unify them with the great beyond up there somewhere. Read here describes an inversion, going down to the labyrinthe, rather than out into the abyss. Now he has become the brave explorer of the inner extreme. He thus gains a foothold in medieval thought, with Plato in the rear view mirror.

Hermann Hesse may have tried the same thing, with his "Journey to the East" but Hesse trapped himself in an obscure labyrinthine dead end. By the end of the book, you don't even care what he meant. Here, with the Green Child, you wonder....is this a vision of heaven? A fusion of the is and the ought? What you want equals what you get? For some people, I think it might be. In this book resides a vision they find beautiful and personally compelling.

It also operates as a cool story on its own. We'll see how "Lord of the Rings" does later this year. It would take unusual talent to make this book cognizable as a movie. For the record, this book makes a good companion to John Updike's essay "Augustine's Concubine," and if law completely falls apart, I may do a PhD dissertation on Augustine's rejection of regimentation as a starting point for freedom and responsibility. The opposite of crystal fusion.

This is one of the only, if not the only, pieces of fiction written by Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968), a British poet, critic and philosopher. He was a champion of modern art and a founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Sir Herbert Read's writings are used as textbooks in Art Appreciation classes and he is considered to be one of the foremost Art Critics of the twentieth century. His prose has the sensibility of a visual artist, the lines written almost as if painted with a brush. The beauty of the book is akin to a fine painting of an English Landscape. Since I was first introduced to this book, over 30 years ago, I have bought at least 30 copies to give as gifts to friends who I knew would enjoy really fine prose for the sake of the prose itself. The story is a wonderfull philosophical tale of adventure and the discovery of another race that live beneath the English countryside metamorphosing into crystalline beings. A definite MUST READ for fans of FINE prose.

I always assign my philosophy students The Green Child as an immediate follow-up to Plato's Republic. It is a beautiful novel in every respect, and a wonderful companion to Plato's Allegory of the Cave. I have been thanked by my students and friends for thirty years. Many have said that Read's The Green Child is the most beautiful piece of prose they have ever read.

I was drawn to read The Green Child because I had heard it was an intriguing fantasy piece. The book is unique - in structure and style - I've read nothing quite like it. The structure made the novel a bit difficult to follow at first, but once the tale begins, you cannot escape Read's crafty storytelling. And the third act is a mind-blower! I appreciated Read's ability to tell his fantasy story concisely. The story captures dream-like imagery, structure, and motifs masterfully.

I have read that the story is allegorical, but not being a political historian or philosopher, that angle was lost on me. Thank goodness Read was successful writing on multiple levels.

I have given 5 copies of this book out to friends and family who I know would enjoy the prose and the tale itself. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys unusual, unpredictable, and fantastical writing.

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This was an extraordinary first novel by the author. The Green Door grabs you right away and then it is very difficult to put down. The writing style is engaging and you find yourself "traveling" physically and mentally along with the protagonist on his journey. If you like reading new books by up and coming, but still undiscovered, authors, you will truly enjoy this book.

Prize-winning short film creator Lennon Nersesian presents The Green Door, an original novel about one man's failure to save his brother's life, followed by his quest to save his brother's soul in the afterlife, after his brother was wrongfully sentenced to an eternity of hell. Drawing a poignant metaphor between the road connecting heaven and hell, and the road to self-enlightenment and acceptance, The Green Door is a story of searching for one's greatest desire and finding it within, discovering wisdom through struggle, and the love that permeates family unity. Written in a stark tone that complements the metaphysical disparities of the worlds beyond the veil, The Green Door is Highly recommended.

I came upon this book kind of randomly and after I opened the first page, I was hooked. It's very well written and had me guessing the entire time.

My friends ask me what's it about and I tell them it's a mixture of childhood, heaven, and hell.

This book gave me so many flashbacks of my own childhood and some of the events that the main character encounter will literally send shivers up and down your spine.

I'm not gonna say anymore, but if you yearn to relive childhood again and appreciate the innocence of it, you have to get this book.

This is from Andrew. I am 8 1/2 years old, and in 2nd grade. This was the best book I ever read. It's about a boy named Fizz Eddie who saw a ghost last Halloween, and told his two friends (Mary Kate and Jane) and they started believing in him. At their school a new boy named Rusty and Mary Kate had to make a report on ghosts. On Halloween they were planning a haunted house - next to the graveyard, and the kids thought the house really was haunted even before they decorated it. Read the book to find out what happened!

Hi-zer-wi-zer! You can call me StoryMaker! I really liked the book "The Green Ghost of Appleville". I read it straight from chapter 1 to chapter 10 in one sitting, and that means it's good! It was a sort of a quick read, but it's exciting and surprising. At Baldwin Street, a street in Appleville, a junior-high student who everyone calls Fizz Eddie claims to have seen the legendary green ghost, who's said to live in a graveyard where there is an old farmhouse that they say he goes in to cook. Could Fizz Eddie be...correct? When Rusty moves into the so-called "haunted house", Mary Kate, an elementry school student, is alarmed. I like how Mary Kate's little brother, Joey, ends up overcoming his fear of ghosts with adults who speak gentle words. The truth about the green ghost, the wonderful characters...everything is great! At one point it got scary, but the truth under that part is great. Even if it dosen't sound interesting, at least check it out from the library...it's at least worth a try! I hope you like this review and this book. Signed, StoryMaker. "Gotta trust the kid's review!"

My daughter enjoyed this book very much and it is the first chapter she's read. It is very easily understood and the chapters are not too long. The story kept her reading and she can't wait for the next book in the series.

Fizz Eddie, Mary Kate's best friend's older brother claims he saw the Green Ghost of Appleville last Halloween. Mary Kate says she's not scared but really is. This may even turn out to be the best Halloween instead of the worst.