From the glory days of the railroad to today's gridlocked, six-lane highway, Getting There dramatizes America's shift from rail to road transportation, how it has robbed Americans of the choice of travel options enjoyed by Europeans, and why it threatens the nation's economic future. Stephen B. Goddard reveals how government joined automakers and roadbuilders to nearly destroy the rails, and why the 21st century will witness high-tech remedies and a railroad resurgence.

The processes and consequences of climate change are extremely heterogeneous, encompassing many different fields of study. Dr David Rind in his career at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and as a professor at Columbia University has had the opportunity to explore many of these subjects with colleagues from these diverse disciplines. It was therefore natural for the Lectures in Climate Change series to begin with his colleagues contributing lectures on their specific areas of expertise.This first volume, entitled Our Warming Planet: Topics in Climate Dynamics, encompasses topics such as natural and anthropogenic climate forcing, climate modeling, radiation, clouds, atmospheric dynamics/storms, hydrology, clouds, the cryosphere, paleoclimate, sea level rise, agriculture, atmospheric chemistry, and climate change education. Included with this publication are downloadable PowerPoint slides of each lecture for students and teachers around the world to be better able to understand various aspects of climate change.The lectures on climate change processes and consequences provide snapshots of the cutting-edge work being done to understand what may well be the greatest challenge of our time, in a form suitable for classroom presentation.

The Legacy of a Visionary Mystic In Neville Goddard’s Final Lectures, scholar of esotericism Mitch Horowitz introduces, annotates, and collects the fullest record yet of talks the mystic giant Neville Goddard delivered in the closing months of his life in 1972. Mitch also reveals previously unknown details of Neville’s death. Many of these valuable lectures have never before been transcribed or anthologized. Within them, you will discover Neville at the peak of his cosmic and personal vision. The teacher compellingly describes the purpose of your human journey from sleeplike ignorance to resplendent awareness, and he offers practical and compelling instructions on how to use the causative powers of your imagination—the source of all creation. Mitch’s introduction, “Into the Silence,” newly documents the circumstances of Neville’s death and surveys the depth and range of his closing ideas, left as a testament to seekers everywhere. Mitch also annotates these lectures, providing clarifying historical and literary references. The book is rounded out with Mitch’s updated timeline of the mystic’s life. Neville Goddard’s Final Lectures is a capstone and legacy capturing some of the teacher’s most supple thought. It is, finally, a tribute and testimony to a man who gave us a vastly greater understanding of humanity’s purpose and destiny.