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The Deniers
by Lawrence Solomon
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Richard Vigilante has launched an eponymous publishing company
--Richard Vigilante Books--that takes advantage of all the new Amazonian efficiencies to produce great books in days rather than years.
His first book, replete with statistics and material as recent as February 2008, ends the global warming debate before Al Gore can even start his new $300M climate change panic campaign.
Entitled The Deniers and already a #3 Amazon best seller in Canada and leaping list-wise in the US, it tells the story of "The World Renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud"
Gore recently declared, as I recall his words, that scientists opposing his theory are the kind of people who party together with the flat earth society, with holocaust deniers, and with cultists who claim that the Apollo moon landing was concocted on a back lot in Burbank.
But it turns out that these denier folk comprise most of the world's leading climate scientists, physicists, and statisticians, including hundreds of participants in the IPCC reports that Gore cites as an impregnable consensus. Among the scores of deniers interviewed and analyzed in the book are Freeman Dyson, the world's most eminent living physicist, Hendrik Tennekes, director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute who asserts that the global warmers cannot tell the difference between "clouds and clocks," David Bromwich, president of the International Commission on Polar Meteorology who can find no global warming signal "from the mainland of Antarctica right now," and Reid Bryson, "father of scientific climatology," the world's most cited climatologist and a sainted environmentalist, who responds to a question about Gore's movie: "Don't make me throw up."
Covering the range of global warming claims, from the famed "hockey stick graph" to a predicted rise of mosquito borne diseases, the book is fascinating and even profound on the flaws of computer modeling, the irrelevance of consensus to science, the crippling effects of excessive specialization, and the mounting evidence of a coming cooling trend.
Its author is Canadian environmentalist Lawrence Solomon, who ends with a cogent explanation of how carbon taxes and offsets devastate the environment.
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The Silicon Eye: Microchip Swashbucklers and the Future
of High-Tech Innovation
by George Gilder
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A best-selling author goes behind the scenes
at a cutting-edge technology company poised to change the way computers
see.
Thanks to the digital technology revolution,
cameras are everywhere-PDAs,
phones, anywhere you can put an imaging chip
and a lens. Battling to usurp
this two-billion-dollar market is a Silicon
Valley company, Foveon, whose
technology not only produces a superior image
but also may become the eye in artificially
intelligent machines. Behind Foveon are two
legendary figures who made the personal computer
possible: Carver Mead of Caltech, one of
the founding fathers of information technology,
and Federico Faggin, inventor of the CPU-the
chip that runs every computer.
George Gilder has covered the wizards of
high tech for twenty-five years and has an
insider's knowledge of Silicon Valley and
the unpredictable mix of genius, drive, and
luck that can turn a startup into a Fortune
500 company. The Silicon
Eye is a rollicking
narrative of some of the smartest-and most
colorful-people on earth and their race to
transform an entire industry. 12 illustrations.
"A compelling narrative that reads like
a brilliant detective story with deep insights
into the concept of designing our technology." — Ray
Kurzweil, artificial-intelligence innovator
and author of The Age of Intelligent
Machines
Telecosm: The World After Bandwidth Abundance
By George Gilder
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Your Copy Today!
The supreme abundance of the telecosm is
the electromagnetic spectrum, embracing all
the universe of vibrating electrical and magnetic
fields, from power line pulses through light
beams to cosmic rays. The scarcity that unlocks
this abundance is the supreme scarcity in
physical science: the absolute minimum time
it takes to form an electromagnetic wave of
a particular length. Set by the permeability
of free space, this minimal span determines
the speed of light.
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 Microcosm
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Taking the reader inside the tiniest
computer chips as well as the greatest
minds of Silicon Valley, George Gilder
explores the unrecognized technological
and entrepreneurial revolution we
are now experiencing, one which is
creating unprecedented opportunities
for business and technology. Microcosm contains vivid
accounts of the latest inventions and
revealing portraits of the leading scientists,
engineers, and entrepreneurs at the
frontiers of knowledge.
Published by Simon & Schuster in
1989.
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 Wealth
and Poverty
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Wealth and Poverty is a phenomenon—
a bestseller that is also one of the
most important books of its kind for
decades. In his bold and brilliant work
George Gilder —already widely
known for the originality of his mind
and the verve of his prose ó
provides a fresh and illuminating study
of what is perhaps the most critical
problem of contemporary society: how
to increase wealth and curtail poverty.
First published by Basic Books in 1981.
Current edition by ICS Press.
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 Life
After Television
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Television has long been identified
as a dead hand on culture; but as George
Gilder so brilliantly reveals here,
this centralized, authoritarian institution
is also a dying technology whose grip
on our imaginative and economic life
threatens to impede America's competitiveness
in the next century. Gilder's optimistic
message is that the U.S. has only to
unleash its industrial resources to
command the "telefuture,"
in which new technology will overthrow
the stultifying influence of mass media,
renew the power of individuals, and
promote democracy throughout the world.
First published in 1990 by Whittle Books.
Currently published by W.W. Norton &
Co.
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 Recapturing
the Spirit of Enterprise
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Entrepreneurship, to George Gilder,
is more than an economic activity. It
is a way of life. The same spirit of
enterprise—the impulse to freedom
and self-governance—that animates
people to originate bold new products
and services, to devote the fruits of
their talents, energies, and acumen
to improving the material well-being
of their fellows, also guides their
engagement in the other workings of
society. Among the images that fill
this book, perhaps none is more inspiring
than the group portrait of the Cuban
immigrants in Miami, who in barely thirty
years have created one of America's
showplaces—an economically innovative,
civically vibrant community in their
new homeland. It is in the hope of stimulating
citizens across America to awaken their
own spirit of enterprise that we proudly
publish this book.
Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., President
Institute for Contemporary Studies
First published by Simon & Schuster
in 1984. Revised edition published in 1992 by
ICS Press as Recapturing The Spirit
of Enterprise.
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 Visible
Man
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A forthright, unvarnished portrait of
life and struggle for young African-American
men in the inner city. Decrying the
lack of vision in welfare reform, George
Gilder asserts that whatever the problems
of young African-American men today,
invisibity is no longer among them.
First published in 1978 by Basic Books.
Currently published by ICS Press.
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 The
Meaning of the Microcosm
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"In The Meaning
of the Microcosm,
George Gilder introduces us to some
of the inventors and their innovations
that are building America's future in
the Digital Age. Gilder brings to life
in an easy to understand way often complex
technologies. He explains what is driving
the fundamental change in the way we
live and the way we work."
—Steve Forbes
Published in 1997 by The Progress and
Freedom Foundation.
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Speaking
of George Gilder
Edited by Frank Gregorsky
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Now From Amazon.com!
Finally, a Gilder book for those of
us who want to get right to the point!
From tapes, transcripts, and corporate
conclaves, you get the SPOKEN wit and
wisdom of George Gilder—on money
and morals, technology and telecom.
It's all here, and it's easy to use.
A little over a third of Speaking
of George Gilder consists of speeches and
a previously unreleased 12,000-word
interview. The rest is quotes—mainly
short ones—organized "topically."
And this is NOT a rework of George's
books and magazine articles. Even George's
most loyal readers will not have seen
most of what's in this book.
That's because the contents of Speaking consist overwhelmingly of his SPOKEN
words—from magazine interviews,
radio and TV appearances, and remarks
to corporate and academic groups.
Speaking is comprehensive yet concise,
deep while still digestible. It is the
ONLY way you can sample ALL of George
Gilder's ideas and recommendations—simply
and easily.
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Men
and Marriage
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A chilling indictment on the state
of the American family, and the recent
drive to deny the fundamental differences
between the sexes, Men
and Marriage is "an outstandingly important
and well-argued book, strangely moving
in its combination of scholarly dilligence,
common sense, courage, and devotion
to the res publica of human civilization."
—National Review
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