The Sierra Club Guide to Safe Drinking Water by Scott Alan Lewis 
For an incisive overview of water quality concerns, it would be tough to beat this slim volume. Lewis not only enumerates the problems common to U.S. drinking water but also considers remedies ranging from home treatment to global strategies to preserve the total water supply in a healthy condition.  Although its various appendixes and tables are impressive, the most attractive feature of the book is chapter 4, "The City List," a summary of all Safe Drinking Water Act violations reported by the 202 largest U.S. public water systems during 1992-94; water drinkers throughout the land (including U.S. territories) will want to see how their water rates. 
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Something inside you is blocking your way to a healthier, happier life. 

Throughout our lives each of us is exposed to a continuous onslaught of harmful chemicals.  Street drugs, medicines, preservatives, chemical weapons (such as Agent Orange), insecticides, insulation, etc.  We do, indeed, as the author points out, live in a chemical society.  What happens to these toxins after we ingest them? 

While the body eliminates some of them through normal waste processes, some of these poisons remain behind, lodged in our adipose (fat) tissue.  The results range from annoying symptoms that may just seem like "part of life,"  until you get rid of them, to severe health impairment. 

There has not been a way to substantially reduce the accumulations . . . until now.  In Clear Body Clear Mind, L. Ron Hubbard defines the only proven method of significantly reducing levels of toxins in the body.  Countless people from all walks of life have done the program, reporting results from wonderful to miraculous. 

Read the book for a clear explanation of the facts.  Then do the program for a surprising, happy change in your life.  It takes a little effort, but you'll be rewarded a thousandfold.  -- The Editor, Are We There Yet?

As unethical behavioral scientists team up with school testing companies, computer specialists, and information brokers to produce polls and predict workforce needs, a political weapon is being created that holds a youngster’s future employment prospects hostage to a set of quasi-political, psychological criteria . . . while the nation's cognitive and cultural knowledge base is systematically eradicated. Eakman argues that psychology has assumed a messianic political mission. An unwary public and its distracted elected representatives have bought in to the education reform movement’s bogus agenda, which is being sold under the dual umbrellas of "mental health" and "testing standards." 

The book traces the contributions of two distinct factions within the behavioral science community -- one that emerged from the old Hitlerian Right and one on the Marxist Left -- and shows how their two disparate agendas eventually merged for the purpose of introducing psychological screening instruments and experimental therapies into the schools. The author demonstrates how this screening process takes on new meaning as students and their families are unknowingly assessed for supposed "markers" of psychological disorders, the most recent example being to label Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD) as a "marker" for schizophrenia. 

The results of the various tests, analyses, and therapies designed to locate ADD students are placed into sophisticated, cross-referenceable electronic transfer systems, such as the SPEEDE/ExPRESS. The book describes how information thus collected can be overlaid with other public and private records, and downloaded at any time by "research groups" and underground information brokers for a small fee. A mathematical, computer model enables experts to predict probable future behavior and reactions. Psychological assessments masquerading as academic tests and curriculum, maintains the author, have frightening implications for both individual privacy and learning. Part IV provides a step-by-step guide on countering psychological manipulation by professional agitators-cum-“facilitators” in small- and large-group settings, and Part V recommends corrective measures that the author believes citizens and government should undertake.  -- The author, Beverly K. Eakman, October 24, 1998

The book contains three sections. "Understanding the Elements of Health" provides a thorough introduction to nutrition, diet, and wellness; offers guidelines for selecting and preparing food; and discusses hot topics such as aspartame (Is it safe?) and phytochemicals. "The Disorders" gives an A-Z reference to handling more than 300 health problems, including the latest research for treating AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, infertility, and for slowing the effects of aging. The final section, "Remedies and Therapies," explains how to implement the suggested treatments. Easy to understand and use, this book is an indispensable medical resource for both health professionals and laypeople.  -- Amazon.com