August Quote of the Month: Ulysses S. Grant's biography is the most remarkable work of its kind

"Ulysses S. Grant's biography is the most remarkable work of its kind."

— Mark Twain

In honor of our Classic of the Month, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant, we are highlighting this famous quote from Mark Twain this August.

18th president of the United States and the Union general who led the North to victory in the Civil War. Though Grant opens with tales of his boyhood, his education at West Point, and his early military career in the Mexican-American war of the 1840s, it is Grant's intimate observations on the conduct of the Civil War, which make up the bulk of the work, that have made this required reading for history students, military strategists, and Civil War buffs alike.

This unabridged edition features all the material that was originally published in two volumes in 1885 and 1886, including maps, illustrations, and the text of Grant's July 1865 report to Washington on the state of the armies under his command.

About the AuthorUlysses S. Grant (1822-1885), 18th president of the United States and the Union general who led the North to victory in the Civil War. Though Grant opens with tales of his boyhood, his education at West Point, and his early military career in the Mexican-American war of the 1840s, it is Grant's intimate observations on the conduct of the Civil War, which make up the bulk of the work, that have made this required reading for history students, military strategists, and Civil War buffs alike.

August Organization of the Month: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

This August, we are very excited to present the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum as our organization of the month!

A special exhibit is now open at the museum, highlighting some of our favorite presidents and Cosimo authors: “From Illinois to the White House: Lincoln, Grant, Reagan, Obama." Celebrate these amazing men who called Illinois their home, while testing your knowledge of presidential trivia, or practice your political skills while giving White House addresses and speeches through a teleprompter.

Along with the museum, there is also The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, which boasts a large collection of documents that are essential to understanding the history of Illinois and its most famous citizen, Abraham Lincoln.

The library is open Monday through Friday, while the museum is open seven days a week. Plan your visit now by checking out their calendar, or listen to a great podcast if a road trip isn't feasible. History buffs can also read all about the 16th president of the United States by reading one of the many books by or about him that Cosimo has to offer.

The museum is located at 212 N. Sixth St., Springfield, IL 62701, stop by and say "hello!" from Cosimo!

Save the Date - Upcoming International Cryptozoology Conference - Labor Day Weekend

Mark Your Calendars! The Third Annual International Cryptozoology Conference will be taking place over Labor Day weekend this year, once again sponsored by the International Cryptozoology Museum.

Our very own author, Loren Coleman will be speaking at the event, along with many renowned names in the world of Cryptozology such as Paul LeBlond, Joseph Citro, Hayley Eldridge, Colin Schneider, and many others!

When: Labor Day Weekend, Sept 1-2, 2018.
Where: Brick South, Thompson's Point, 8 Thompson's Point Road, Portland, ME 04102

How: Tickets are available for the weekend or just one of the two days, please see Eventbrite for more info

About Loren ColemanLoren Coleman is one of the world's leading crypozoologists. In 1960 he started his fieldwork, and after years pursuing cryptozoological mysteries, he began writing. He is the author of numerous books on cryptozoology, including Bigfoot: The True Story of Apes in America and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters. Coleman is the founder and director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine (www.cryptozoologymuseum.com). Loren Coleman can be followed on Twitter at @CryptoLoren and on his blog, www.cryptozoonews.com

Upcoming Author Event with A.T. Mann!

The author of our August Book of the Month Astrology and the Art of Healing, has an upcoming event in the New York area! Cosimo Author A.T. Mann  is curating six summer night dialogues on Astrology, Prophecy and Divination at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan. Each session will focus on a different rich tradition, including Aztec, Mayan, and Indigenous Astrology with Maestro Manuel Rufino, Tuvan Shamanic Divination and Prophecy with ChokBar, Time, Tantra and the Kalachakra with Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, Intro to Vedic Astrology with Charlotte Benson, and a discussion on the The Future of the Feminine with Schuyler Brown.

To buy tickets or find out more about the event, please visit The Rubin.


About the AuthorA.T. Mann (B. Arch. Cornell) is an architect and worked in New York City and Rome, Italy. He designed a New York City housing project that won a Progressive Architecture magazine Design Award Citation in 1970. He lectured at the Manchester Metropolitan University Architecture School in England, the Danish Design School, and SEDA (Scottish Ecological Design Association). He has taught at the Netherlands Design Institute, the University of Cincinnati Architecture School, the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and the National Arts Club in New York. Mann is a member of the Author's Guild, the Forum for Architecture, Culture and Spirituality, and the National Council for Geocosmic Research, where he was a board member. He writes for the very popular tarot.com website.He worked with Mystic Fire Video on the film Kalachakra Tantra Teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is a co-founder of Universal Quest, and worked on Spirituality in the Modern World with Ken Wilber and Traleg Rinpoche, and is working on The Quest for Happiness, featuring The Dalai Lama. He is also developing documentary films on his books on the sacred.

August Book of the Month: Astrology and the Art of Healing

This month has been full of meteorites, space exploration, and touching the sun, leading many to look wonder about our great solar system. No need to jump to "infinity and beyond" just yet, learn more about the stars and its affects on all living beings with our Book of the Month: Astrology and the Art of Healing by A. T. Mann.

Conventional medicine treats symptoms with surgery and drugs rather than healing the root causes of illness. Complementary therapies attempt to address the whole self, which can raise awareness of and even counteract the imbalances that create disease. 

This book attempts to relate inner causes with our "four bodies" in order to affect healing. Astrology and the Art of Healing approaches healing and astrology in a new and revolutionary way. Physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual therapies relate to stages of your life process, from conception through birth, and from childhood to old age and death. Many horoscopes show how to understand the origins of health imbalances in your life. Correlations to appropriate therapies can support the expertise of your doctors. A free astro-chart is included.


About the Author
A.T. Mann (B. Arch. Cornell) is an architect and worked in New York City and Rome, Italy. He designed a New York City housing project that won a Progressive Architecture magazine Design Award Citation in 1970. He lectured at the Manchester Metropolitan University Architecture School in England, the Danish Design School, and SEDA (Scottish Ecological Design Association). He has taught at the Netherlands Design Institute, the University of Cincinnati Architecture School, the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and the National Arts Club in New York. Mann is a member of the Author's Guild, the Forum for Architecture, Culture and Spirituality, and the National Council for Geocosmic Research, where he was a board member. He writes for the very popular tarot.com website.He worked with Mystic Fire Video on the film Kalachakra Tantra Teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is a co-founder of Universal Quest, and worked on Spirituality in the Modern World with Ken Wilber and Traleg Rinpoche, and is working on The Quest for Happiness, featuring The Dalai Lama. He is also developing documentary films on his books on the sacred.

Fans of A. T. Mann take note: is curating six summer night dialogues on Astrology, Prophecy and Divination at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan in July & August. To buy tickets or find out more about the event, please visit The Rubin.

August Series of the Month: Abraham Lincoln: A History by John M. Hay

We are showcasing Abraham Lincoln: A History by John M. Hay as our Series of the Month this August in honor of the late President being in the news for his leadership skills, his use of the telegraph (instead of Twitter), and his lost loves.

Considered one of the best treatments of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln of its time, this 10-volume portrait of the man and his administration of the United States at the moment of its greatest upheaval is both intimate and scholarly.

Written by two private secretaries to the president and first published in 1890, this astonishingly in-depth work is still praised today for its clear, easy-to-read style and vitality. This new replica edition features all the original illustrations.


About the Authors 
American journalist and statesman John Milton Hay (1838-1905) was only 22 when he became a private secretary to Lincoln. A former member of the Providence literary circle when he attended Brown University in the late 1850s, he may have been the real author of Lincoln's famous "Letter to Mrs. Bixby." After Lincoln's death, Hay later served as editor of the New York Tribune and as U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom under President William McKinley.

American author John George Nicolay (1832-1901) was born in Germany and emigrated to the U.S. as a child. Before serving as Lincoln's private secretary, he worked as a newspaper editor and later as assistant to the secretary of state of Illinois.


The hardcover retail list price for the series is $449.90, but now: our price: $359.99 (you save $90 or a 20 percent discount)

The paperback retail list price: $279.90, but now: our price: $229.99 (you save $50 or a 18 percent discount)

August eBook of the Month: Astrology and Your Health by Jeanne Avery

With Mercury being in retrograde, a lunar eclipse, and full blood moon, we here at Cosimo are happy to present Astrology and Your Health by Jeanne Avery as our August eBook of the Month!

Hippocrates said, "A physician cannot safely administer medicine if he is unacquainted with astrology." In Astrology and Your Health, Jeanne Avery picks up where Hippocrates left off in this lively, practical, and state-of-the-art guide to the health secrets hidden in the horoscope. Avery covers the zodiac and its physical counterparts, how different zodiacal signs can manage their health, and how one's horoscope can hint at health issues before they surface.

About the Author
Jeanne Avery is a world-renowned astrologer and regression therapist who has lectured throughout the U.S., Europe, and South America. She is the author of six books on astrology and past-life regression, and she is a faculty member of the American Federation of Astrologers and a board member of the National Association for Transpersonal Psychology.


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August Classic of the Month: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

In honor of the inauguration of Grant as United States Secretary of War in August 1867, we are highlighting Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant as our Classic of the Month for August.

Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar," this is the now-legendary autobiography of Ulysses Simpson Grant.

18th president of the United States and the Union general who led the North to victory in the Civil War. Though Grant opens with tales of his boyhood, his education at West Point, and his early military career in the Mexican-American war of the 1840s, it is Grant's intimate observations on the conduct of the Civil War, which make up the bulk of the work, that have made this required reading for history students, military strategists, and Civil War buffs alike.

This unabridged edition features all the material that was originally published in two volumes in 1885 and 1886, including maps, illustrations, and the text of Grant's July 1865 report to Washington on the state of the armies under his command.

About the Author
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), 18th president of the United States and the Union general who led the North to victory in the Civil War. Though Grant opens with tales of his boyhood, his education at West Point, and his early military career in the Mexican-American war of the 1840s, it is Grant's intimate observations on the conduct of the Civil War, which make up the bulk of the work, that have made this required reading for history students, military strategists, and Civil War buffs alike.

Parkland Students Awarded the Danny Schechter Global Vision Award

It was recently announced that the students involved in the Parkland, Florida school shooting and following activism, will be receiving the Danny Schechter Global Vision Award. Fourteen students and three staff members were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a result of a shooter, and the students launched the ‘Never Again’ movement and March for Our Lives protests. In honor of these brave teenagers who will be receiving the award, we wanted to highlight further reading from our dear friend and author, the late Danny Schechter.


Danny Schechter was the author of 17 books, he released the following with Cosimo: Plunder, Investigating our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, When South Africa Called, We Answered - How the Media and International Solidarity Helped Topple Apartheid, and Blogothon: Reflections and Revelation from the News Dissector; and Occupy: Dissecting Occupy Wall Street. He also wrote introductions to the classic The History of the Standard Oil Company by muckraker Ida Tarbell and to the U,S. government's The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report.


About Danny Schechter 
Danny Schechter was a writer, television producer, and independent filmmaker who also spoke about media and financial issues. He was the editor of Mediachannel.org and blogged daily as the News Dissector at NewsDissector.net. Schechter was the author of sixteen books and produced and directed more than thirty documentaries and television specials. His blog was named the 2009 "Blog of the Year" by the Hunter College Media Department of the City University of New York.



About The Danny Schechter Global Vision Award for Journalism
The Global Center, a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to developing informative and socially responsible media and a new type of journalism in which the reporting of events and conditions is done in conjunction with those most affected by those events, is pleased to announce the creation of an annual award honoring the life and work of the late journalist, filmmaker and “News Dissector” Danny Schechter. The Danny Schechter Global Vision Award for Journalism will be given annually to a reporter who best emulates Schechter's practice of combining journalism with social activism and/or whose work is deserving of greater recognition and wider impact.

In addition to the award itself, which will be announced and promoted each year on or about Schechter's birthday of June 27th, each recipient will receive a check in the amount of $3000 to support future reporting. Recipients will be chosen by a panel including daughter Sarah Schechter and business partner Rory O'Connor.

July Organization of the Month: The International UFO Museum And Research Center

Cosimo is happy to present the International UFO Museum And Research Center as our Organization of the Month for July!

The museum is dedicated to the Roswell Incident and is a sure entertainment hotspot for both believers and non believers! The International UFO Museum's mission is to collect and preserve all materials and information that are related to the 1947 Roswell Incident and other unexplained phenomena related to UFO research. 

The museum is open seven days a week and helped sponsor the 2018 UFO Festival! Attractions include an alien autotopsy, meet and greets with ufologists, and an extensive collection of research and books curatoed in their library. Curious tourists can also visit the UFO themed restaurant across the street post-museum tour!  

The museum also hosts a gift shop with a fantastic selection of our books! One of our favorites includes:

Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO by Don Berliner Stanton T. Friedman

Aviation /science writer Don Berliner and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, the original civilian investigator of the so-called Roswell incident, have delved into the controversy to find the truth. They sifted through once-classified government documents, interviewed military and civilian witnesses, pieced together evidence, considered alternative theories, and concluded that a UFO crashed near Corona -- and the U.S. government knew it and covered it up.




The museum is located at 114 N Main Street in Roswell, New Mexico, stop by and say "hello!" from Cosimo!

July Quote of the Month: "We believe that no flying saucers have overflown the United States."

"We believe that no flying saucers have overflown the United States."— Donald Quarles USAF Secretary (1955)

Continuing our month of all things UFOs, we are highlighting this famous quote by the secretary of the US Air Force, Donald Quarles,  stated in a 1955 press release about supposed UFO sightings and the publication of a government report "Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14."


Among the reports debunking flying saucers, are The Roswell Reports.

Colonel Richard L. Weaver and First Lieutenant James McAndrew, at the request of Congressional Representative Steven Schiff (R-NM), sifted through old reports in order to explain the events that occurred in July 1947, which became known as the Roswell Incident. Included in the report known as Fact versus Fiction are references to Air Force experiments conducted at the time of the crash landing that could account for the debris discovered and investigated.

Case Closed includes further analysis and discussion of the events. The Foreword explains, "Our objective throughout this inquiry has been simple and consistent: to find all the facts and bring them to light. If documents were classified, declassify them; where they were dispersed, bring them into a single source for public review."

These reports, originally published in 1995 and 1997 respectively, include an all-new Introduction from UFO-expert Stanton Friedman. The U.S. Air Force is the aviation branch of the United States military. The headquarters of this branch authorized several research projects on the origin and existence of UFOs and published multiple reports of their findings from the 1950s through the 1980s. It is still the subject of speculation today whether the U.S. Air Force is responsible for a large-scale cover-up of UFO and extraterrestrial evidence.

July eBook of the Month: Looking for Orthon by Colin Bennett

Cosimo is celebrating World UFO Day with our July eBook of the Month, Looking for Orthon: The Story of George Adamski, the First Flying Saucer Contactee, and How He Changed the World by Colin Bennett.

On November 20, 1952, George Adamski first made contact with extraterrestrials—including a long-haired youth from Venus named Orthon, in the California desert—or so he claimed. He offered photographic proof. He wrote books about his encounters, including the sensational bestseller Flying Saucers Have Landed. He never stopped advocating the truth of his claims even as he came under extraordinary ridicule. And in the process, however inadvertently, Adamski invented the modern mass counterculture.

This new edition of Colin Bennett's modern classic posits, in the author's uniquely engaging style, Adamski as a kind of unwitting performance artist who "structured one of the most blatant acts of visionary cheek of the twentieth century," introducing the jittery postwar Western world to the image of the UFO, which confounded and tweaked authority while also fully embodying Cold War neuroses. Whether Adamski was telling the truth or not is almost irrelevant—though Bennett has his own ideas about Adamski's veracity. What remains compelling about Adamski's bizarre and compelling tale of alien visitations is the transformative power of stories, even if they're false, to warp our culture on a grand scale

About the AuthorEducated at Balliol College, Oxford, Colin Bennett is the author of the novels Infantryman and The Entertainment Bomb, and paranormal nonfiction including Politics of the Imagination, a biography of Charles Fort; and An American Demonology, about the head of the 1950s UFO-hunting agency Project Blue Book.


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July Series of the Month: Roswell Reports

Continuing our month of all things UFOs, alien aircrafts, and Corona, we are highlighting on The Roswell Reports as our Series of the Month for July!

Colonel Richard L. Weaver and First Lieutenant James McAndrew, at the request of Congressional Representative Steven Schiff (R-NM), sifted through old reports in order to explain the events that occurred in July 1947, which became known as the Roswell Incident. Included in the report are references to Air Force experiments conducted at the time of the crash landing that could account for the debris discovered and investigated.

Case Closed includes further analysis and discussion of the events. The Foreword explains, "Our objective throughout this inquiry has been simple and consistent: to find all the facts and bring them to light. If documents were classified, declassify them; where they were dispersed, bring them into a single source for public review."

These reports, originally published in 1995 and 1997 respectively, include an all-new Introduction from UFO-expert Stanton Friedman. The U.S. Air Force is the aviation branch of the United States military. The headquarters of this branch authorized several research projects on the origin and existence of UFOs and published multiple reports of their findings from the 1950s through the 1980s. It is still the subject of speculation today whether the U.S. Air Force is responsible for a large-scale cover-up of UFO and extraterrestrial evidence.

The Roswell Reports are both available in paperback at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

July Classic of the Month: The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

Cosimo is excited to present the July Classic of the Month, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: The Original 1956 Edition by Edward J. Ruppelt with an introduction by UFO expert and investigative writer Colin Bennett in memory of The Roswell Incident.

In 1947 that the phrase "flying saucer" gained national attention when a pilot named Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine unidentified objects flying in formation near Mount Rainier in Washington State.

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects was the first serious, unbiased account written about UFOs by anyone connected with the official government investigations of UFO phenomena. Ruppelt, who coined the term "unidentified flying objects" and headed Project Blue Book from 1951 to 1953, includes his personal investigations and findings in his extensive research on UFOs. He discusses both well-publicized UFO sightings and lesser-known accounts, as well as the inner workings of Air Force UFO research.

About the Author
Edward J. Ruppelt (1923-1960) served at the Air Technical Intelligence Center, where he took over Project Grudge, a formal investigation by the U.S. military with the goal of debunking extraterrestrial and UFO activity. Under Ruppelt's supervision, the project, later named Blue Book, experienced its most fruitful years, when investigations were properly conducted without judgment or disdain.

July Book of the Month: Crash at Corona

In July of 1947, something crashed near Corona, a tiny town not far from Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And that crash has been dissected and debated ever since.

Cosimo is highlighting Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO - The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident by Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman in honor of the upcoming anniversary of the the Roswell Incident.

Berliner and Friedman sifted through once-classified government documents, interviewed military and civilian witnesses, pieced together evidence, considered alternative theories, and concluded that a UFO crashed near Corona-and the U.S. government knew it and covered it up.

Praise for Crash at Corona
"One of the more credible books arguing the existence of UFOs...Most arresting of all is the testimony of those who handled the debris, who had no opportunity to compare notes, yet have described the materials ...in almost identical language." -- Publishers Weekly

About the Authors
Don Berliner has written more than 300 magazine articles and 25 books on aviation history and space and was also a staff writer for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). He is board chairman of the non-profit Fund for UFO Research, Inc., and is a delegate to the UFO Research Coalition.

Stanton T. Friedman is a nuclear physicist and is also the author of Top Secret/Majic. He has appeared on Larry King, Unsolved Mysteries, and Nightline and was involved with the documentaries UFOs Are Real and Flying Saucers Are Real. He has given more than 700 lectures on the subject of UFOs. Friedman also wrote introductions for two other titles published by Cosimo, The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert and The Roswell Report: Case Closed. To see Friedman in person, visit his events page for all upcoming conferences, lectures, and festivals near you!