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, is on a speaking tour about UFO issues. His schedule:

• September 5, 8am-11pm, First Annual Exeter UFO Festival and Conference, Exeter, New Hampshire

Robbins will appear as a speaker and panelist at the lecture “The Power of Ridicule vs. an Uncomfortable Truth: Why We Need to Take UFOs Seriously.”

For more information, visit the festival Web site or contact Molly at the Exeter Area Chamber of Commerce: 603-772-2411 / events@exeterarea.org.

• September 11-13, Beyond Knowledge Conference, Liverpool, England

Robbins will appear at Dr. Wilhelm Reich’s talk “UFOs, Updates on the Rendlesham Forest Incident.”

• October 10-11, PA MUFON Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• October 17-18, Monster Mash Conference, Massachusetts

• November 6-8, 7th Annual Crash Retrieval Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada

Robbins will appear at the talks “Voronezh: A Re-evaluation of Russia’s Best Known CE3 Incident” and “Witness to History: The United Nations Effort to Establish a Permanent UN-UFO Agency; A Personal Reminiscence.”

• November 12-15, UFO Info Weekend, Cocoa Beach Holiday Inn, Cocoa Beach, Florida

Robbins will appear at the talk “ England’s Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident: Anatomy of a Best Case.”

ALSO: Read Robbins’ latest paper, “Politics, Religion, and Human Nature,” at Scribd or at Calameo.

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

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More than two years ago, the book The Big Investment Lie, what Your Financial Advisor Doesn’t Want You to Know by investment expert Michael Edesess was released by Berrett-Koehler, an independent publisher based in San Francisco. Before the first glimpses of the global financial crisis was on most people’s radar screens, this book showed how the investment industry was operating: using manipulative statistics to sell their investment products; not being able to beat market averages consistently; and more specifically by being built on fraud. Now more than two years later, and trillions of dollars lost by working Americans, retirees and investors worldwide, Edesess’ story, while late for many, is still worth reading. Not only to understand better what has happened with your savings and investments, but more importantly how you can deal with your money in the future and how to get a good return without relying on advisors.

We gladly recommend this book and also would like to draw your attention to the unique nature of its publisher, Berrett-Koehler, which has an ambitious mission: Creating a world that works for all. BK seeks to publish books that support this mission on an individual (i.e. personal development), organizational (i.e. progressive leadership and social responsible business approaches) and societal (i.e. social and economic justice and sustainability) level. Edesses’ The Big Investment Lie is one example, but there are many other fascinating books by influential authors, such as Jared Bernstein, Fritjof Capra, Duane Elgin, Jim Garrison, Hazel Henderson, Joseph Jaworski, David Korten, Ervin Laszlo, Jacob Needleman, John Perkins, John Renesh, Peter Senge, and others.

Cosimo not only has some of those authors in common with BK, but also sympathizes with BK’s mission. That’s why we would like to draw your attention to a summer sale offered by Berrett-Koehler: by going to the BK Web site and going to the”Summer Sale e-Coupon” that appears at the top of their home page you will receive a 20% discount on their books, and will start the fall season refreshed and knowledgeable.

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Cosimo is proud to announce the publication of Reading Baby Toes: What Your Baby’s Toes Know That You Don’t, by Imre and Margriet Somogyi, our August book of the month:

Every parent wonders, while looking down at their newborn child, what kind of person he or she will grow up to be. This book can help parents answer that question without waiting a dozen years or more for the child to grow up. Imre & Margriet Somogyi’s research as led them to believe that parents can learn to read their baby’s toes for clues to their personality and behavior. “We came to realize that the toes symbolize the many facts of our personalities. Not only is their shape important, butso are their various features and positions.” By learning how to read baby toes, not only will parents be able satisfy their curiosity about their newborn, but this knowledge will provide parents with a tool that will allow them to better understand their child’s earliest stages of life and development and help them optimize their child’s full potential, allowing him or her to develop into a healthy and well-balanced individual.

Imre Somogyi is a journalist and producer at Dutch Radio & Television. Margriet Somogyi worked as a medical assistant at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Both authors have been active polarity therapists and teachers.

And don’t miss:

The Cosimo Classic of the Month: The Travels of Marco Polo, by Marco Polo:

It was perhaps the first book to achieve best-seller status before the invention of the printing press — it was certainly the most controversial. Did Venetian trader and explorer Marco Polo (1254-1324) actually reach the court of Kublai Khan, serve the emperor as his emissary, and journey the distant lands of Cathay for 17 years, as he relates in his Travels of Marco Polo? The question still hasn’t quite been settled today… but whether Polo experienced firsthand the wonders of ancient China, retold tales he heard from Arab travelers along the Silk Road, or simply invented half his stories, this remains a delightful read for fans of history, adventure, and medieval literature. The new edition features illustrations from a 14th-century French version of Polo’s manuscript.

The Cosimo Kindle of the Month: The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy:

He is considered one of the greatest novelists in any language in all of human history, but Leo Tolstoy was also an influential social reformer and peace advocate. Subtitled “Christianity Not as a Mystical Teaching but as a New Concept of Life,” this powerful exploration of the preachings of Jesus from a pacifistic perspective. First published in 1893, it introduced such important 20th-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King to the concept of nonviolent resistance. This edition is vital reading for anyone wishing to understand the history of protest around the world or gain a deeper appreciation of pacifistic Christianity.

Download to your Kindle and read instantly!

Cosimo books are available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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Cosimo regrets to announce that Professor Cecil Helman, author of the Cosimo/Paraview title The Body of Frankenstein’s Monster: Essays in Myth and Medicine, died on June 15 in London after a short illness. (Read the Guardian’s obituary; and the Independent’s obit.)

Helman, a doctor and medical anthropologist, was the winner of numerous awards author of multiple books.

Cosimo publisher Alexander Dake said, on hearing the news of Helman’s passing:

I met him several times on his New York visits, and was impressed with his humanity and wisdom, as evident in his career from GP to medical anthropologist specialized in different forms of healing worldwide.

Cosimo offers its condolences to Helman’s family and friends.

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