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    Nexus

    Nexus

    Author: Yuval Noah Harari
    Reviewer: Steve Minett
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Harari’s latest book, ‘Nexus’ is about the history of information networks, progressing from the invention of writing, moving on to printing, and then the advent…… Read More »
    The UFO Paradox

    The UFO Paradox

    Author: Keith Thompson
    Reviewer: Clement Jewitt
    Category: General
    As a currently widening out contentious issue, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), or better, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) have for the past eight decades either stirred…… Read More »
    Follow The $cience

    Follow The $cience

    Author: Sharyl Attkisson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    Sharyl Attkisson has been a genuinely independent investigative journalist for over 40 years with such outlets as CBS News, PBS, and CNN. It is fitting…… Read More »
    Combining

    Combining

    Author: Nora Bateson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This is a book of extraordinary subtlety and brilliance, combining prose, poetry in a different font, paintings by her associates, and collages with text boxes.…… Read More »
    Lest We Lose Love

    Lest We Lose Love

    Author: Scherto Gill
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    Subtitled ‘rediscovering the core of Western culture,’ this book is absolutely essential reading at this time when the predominant interests on the planet seem to…… Read More »
    Natural Happiness

    Natural Happiness

    Author: Alan Heeks
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Categories: Futures Studies Economics Ecology, Medicine Health, Psychology Consciousness Studies
    Use Organic Gardening Skills to Cultivate Yourself This is a highly engaging read, especially at this sowing time of year. Alan’s original experience was in…… Read More »
    Radical Regeneration

    Radical Regeneration

    Authors: Andrew Harvey, Carolyn Baker
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    An Evolutionary Bifurcation This volume brings together four books written in the Trump years between 2016 and 2020: Savage Grace, Return to Joy, Saving Animals…… Read More »
    Irreducible

    Irreducible

    Author: Federico Faggin
    Reviewer: Vasileios (Vasilis) Basios
    Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
    THE BIT, THE Q-BIT & THE MONAD This is an in-depth examination of the nature of consciousness and the fundamental structure of reality. In this…… Read More »
    Serendipity

    Serendipity

    Authors: Michael Gerard Kenyon, Telmo Piani
    Reviewer: Bernard Beitman
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Expanding the Frontiers of Knowledge Scientific curiosity disturbs networks of connections that we know little about. Accidents, mistakes, wrong turns, negligence, stubbornness, and by-products disrupt…… Read More »
    Into the Magic Shop

    Into the Magic Shop

    Author: James R. Doty
    Reviewer: Lee Strasburger
    Category: General
    What is 'Real Magic'?
    Into The Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart by James R Doty was…… Read More »
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