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    Estimated delivery: Jul 2012
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    The God Problem is “Terrific” says Harvard's Dudley Herschbach, the1986 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. Pledge $5 and we will send you a pdf of six chapters of The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates, the chapters that lay out The God Problem’s five flaggergasting scientific heresies. Heresies that inspired Jean Paul Baquiast of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris to call The God Problem a work of “genius.”

    Estimated delivery: Jul 2012
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    Baquiast is not the only one to use the word "genius." Says Robert Steele, #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, "The God Problem is a work of genius. In one book, more history, science, and philosophy than I have encountered in a lifetime of learning. This book stomps mud-tracks across disciplines and slashes with a razor, rendering the death of a thousand cuts to the complacency of status quo thinking. What some call heresy others will certainly call genius. A paradigm/mind-set/game changer.” Pledge $15 and we will send you a pdf of six chapters of The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates, the chapters that lay out The God Problem’s five outrageous scientific heresies. And we will email you a copy of Bloom’s manuscript of a cliche-challenging speech he gave at Yale--"Screw Sustainability: The Age of the Tornado Tamers--Busting the Bubble of Spaceship Earth."

    Estimated delivery: Jul 2012
  • Pledge $80 or more

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    The God Problem is: “Deep, provocative, spectacularly well written…great...a wonderful book,” says Stanford University's Robert Sapolsky, a MacArthur Genius Award winner and pioneer in the relationship between hormones and social status. Pledge $80 and get everything above plus a signed published copy of The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (“Bloody hell…I’m gob-smacked.” Francis Pryor, President of the Council for British Archaeology). Yes, we will send you a pdf of the entire author’s original manuscript of The God Problem plus a personally signed, paper copy of The God Problem. And we will thank you mightily for advancing the cause of unconventional thinking.

    Estimated delivery: Jul 2012
  • Pledge $100 or more

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    “Is The God Problem a great book like Darwin’s The Origin Of Species, Lyell’s Principles Of Geology, or Newton’s Principia Mathematica?” asks Cosmoetica.com's Dan Schneider, the man Roger Ebert calls the “ideal critic.” Pledge $100 and find out. PLUS get an electronic copy of the author's manuscript of his classic, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History ("mesmerizing," Washington Post). Yes, pledge $100 and we will send you a pdf of the entire author’s original manuscript of The God Problem plus a personally signed, paper, published copy of The God Problem, plus a Word file of the original author’s manuscript of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History (""provocative...explosive...feisty...a string of rhetorical firecrackers that challenge our many forms of self righteousness." Boston Globe).

    Estimated delivery: Jul 2012
  • Pledge $140 or more

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    The God Problem is “mind-bending”, says Charles Siebert, contributing writer, New York Times Sunday Magazine. Invest $140 and get everything above PLUS the orginal author's wordprocessing file of another of Bloom's classics--GLOBAL BRAIN: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering"—The New Yorker). See why the Office of the Secretary of Defense hosted a seminar on Global Brain and brought in participants from the State Department, the Energy Deparment, DARPA, IBM, and MIT. Yes, invest $140, and we will send you a pdf of the entire author’s original manuscript of THE GOD PROBLEM ("utterly extraordinary," Matt Thorne, winner of the Encore Award, longlisted for the Booker Prize), plus a personally signed, paper, published copy of The God Problem, plus a Word file of the original author’s manuscript of THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History ("fascinating and frightening. Reading it was like reading Dean Koontz or Stephen King: I couldn't put it down." Rocky Mountain News) plus the Word file of the original author’s manuscript of Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (“A modern-day prophet, Bloom compels us to admit that evolution is a team sport. This is a picture of the universe in which human emotions find their basis in the survival of matter, and the atoms themselves are held together with love. I am awestruck.” Douglas Rushkoff—author of Media Virus, Coercion, and Ecstasy Club). It's a deal you can't beat. Unless, of course, you

    Estimated delivery: Aug 2012
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    “I have just come out from the giddy ride through things of the mind and mathematics that is The God Problem. Bloom takes us on a magic carpet ride of ideas about: well, about everything. And it turns out that everything we knew about everything is probably wrong. ...an intellectual cave of wonders. Don't start this book late at night, for it will banish sleep," writes Robin Fox, University Professor of Social Theory, Rutgers University, author of "The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind," and former director of research for the H. F. Guggenheim Foundation. Pledge $220 and get a beyond-complete electronic library of all of Howard Bloom’s books, including both of his highly praised but unpublished books. And brace yourself for controversy. This package includes a pdf of the entire author’s original manuscript of The God Problem (“Profound and extraordinary.” Yuri Ozhigov, Chair of Quantum Informatics, Moscow State University), plus a personally signed, paper, published copy of The God Problem, plus a Word file of the original author’s manuscript of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History ("Bloom's work marshals a quantity of evidence reminiscent of Darwin's 1859 Origin of Species." Wired), plus the Word file of the original author’s manuscript of Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century ("A soaring song of songs about the amorous origins of the world, and its almost medieval urge to copulate." Kevin Kelly), plus the Word file of the original author’s manuscript of The Genius of the Beast: a Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism ("Impressive and stimulating. A tremendously enjoyable book." James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic, Chairman of the Board of the New America Foundation), plus the author’s original electronic manuscript of his unpublished book How I Accidentally Started The Sixties (“a monumental, epic, glorious literary achievement.” Timothy Leary) and, topping it all off, the highly controversial The Mohammed Code: Why a Desert Prophet Wants You Dead. Writes PJ Media's David Swindle, “The Mohammed Code is keeping me up at night. It's a terrifying book-- like a horror novel. It's the best book I've read on Islam.” Adds Amir Siddiqui, trainer to the stars of Pakistan's national cricket team and founder of the Symmetry gym in Dubai, “A Bloom book dealing with the evil tyrant Mohammad is a BRILLIANT idea Bloom’s writings have changed my life in ways I never thought I could change. He’s brave in the face of potential fatwas. Testicular fortitude and brains seem to go together in his case. Rare; but then again he is very special in more ways than one.” Which leads us to the subject of what you can get if you

    Estimated delivery: Aug 2012
  • Pledge $700 or more

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    Meet Howard Bloom. Disinfo.com founder and Channel 4 TV host Richard Metzger says, "I have met God and he lives in Brooklyn. I could try to convince you that Bloom is next on a very short list that includes Darwin, Freud, Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, but Howard can probably do a much better job of convincing you himself." Adds James Brody, Ph.D., founder of Clinical Sociobiology and organizer of the "Healing The Moral Animal" seminars sponsored by The Cape Cod Institute and the Albert Einstein Medical College of Yeshiva University,"You have not lived until you have interacted with Howard Bloom." Pledge $700 and find out if Metzger and Brody are right. Meet Howard Bloom. In person, on the telephone, or on Skype--your choice. What's more, get a complete electronic library of all of Bloom’s books, including his two highly praised but unpublished books. That includes a pdf of the entire author’s original manuscript of The God Problem (“A ‘page-turner.’” Walter Collier Putnam, 30-year Associated Press veteran), plus a personally signed, paper, published copy of The God Problem, plus a Word file of the original author’s manuscript of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History ("Bloom...has such a sure grasp of his subject and such an engaging keenness to communicate, the book is almost exhilarating." Graham Howland, The Courier Mail, Perth, Australia), the Word file of the original author’s manuscript of Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century ("stunning," Peter Corning, Director, Institute for the Study of Complex Systems, President, International Society For the Systems Sciences), and the Word file of the original author’s manuscript of The Genius of the Beast: a Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism ("A visionary creation." Dr. A.P.J. Kalam, 11th President of India.). Plus the author’s original electronic manuscript of his unpublished book How I Accidentally Started The Sixties (“Every page, every paragraph, every sentence sparkles with captivating metaphors, delightful verbal concoctions, alchemical insights, philosophic whimsy, absurd illogicals, scientific comedy routines, relentless, non stop waves of hilarity.” Timothy Leary) and the highly controversial The Mohammed Code: Why a Desert Prophet Wants You Dead (“Bloom’s superb articulation on affairs Islamic is a tribute to his intellect. Not even Muslims themselves today are capable of putting their case so eloquently.” Munawar Anees, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Advisor to the former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Founding Editor of Periodica Islamica, Founding Editor of The International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies).

    Estimated delivery: Sep 2012