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    Mental Penguins

    Mental Penguins

    Author: Ivelin Sardamov
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Education & Technology
    Subtitled 'the never-ending education crisis and the false promise of the information age', this important study explores the social and educational consequences of digital immersion…… Read More »
    The Global Energy Trap and a Way Out

    The Global Energy Trap and a Way Out

    Author: Frank Parkinson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Technology / Environment & Ecology
    This important book not only provides a clear account of the energy and climate crisis, but also an interesting and quite feasible solution to it.…… Read More »
    Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change

    Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change

    Authors: Denise Torres, Phoebe Godfrey
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Climate Change & Social Justice
    Subtitled 'intersections of race, class and gender', this is an edited volume of 49 international, interdisciplinary contributions on climate justice and inequity. The contributions are…… Read More »
    Ethics for a Full World

    Ethics for a Full World

    Author: Tormod V. Burkey
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Ecology & Environment
    This brilliant and concise book is essential reading in facing the global problematique and galvanising the necessary political action. The main title highlights a key…… Read More »
    Money Changes Everything

    Money Changes Everything

    Author: William N Goetzman
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Economics And History
    Subtitled 'how the development of finance over thousands of years enabled the growth of civilisation', this is a fascinating book of magisterial scope, which must…… Read More »
    Before Consciousness

    Before Consciousness

    Author: Zdravko Radman
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Consciousness Studies
    This is an authoritative volume on the role of the non-conscious in relation to consciousness as the prior basis from which mentality germinates and which…… Read More »
    Mindfulness and Education

    Mindfulness and Education

    Authors: Bill Lovegrove, Royce Wiles, Tamara Ditrich
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mindfulness & Education
    This volume is the outcome of a conference on mindfulness, education and transformation held in Australia in 2014, and as such mainly reflects work in…… Read More »
    The Psychic and the Spiritual

    The Psychic and the Spiritual

    Author: John White
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychic And Spiritual Development
    John White has a long career as an author and educator, and was director of education for the Institute of Noetic Sciences in the 1970s.…… Read More »
    Find and Follow your Inner Compass

    Find and Follow your Inner Compass

    Author: Barbara Berger
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology/Spirituality
    This practical book has a simple message, that we should tune into our Inner Compass and pay attention to our emotions as a link to…… Read More »
    Love and the Evolution of Consciousness

    Love and the Evolution of Consciousness

    Author: Karen L. Rivers
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    This profound book is inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner and the less well-known Valentin Tomberg, the anonymous author of the seminal Meditations on…… Read More »
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