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    Soul Comfort

    Soul Comfort

    Author: Alistair Conwell
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality & Grief
    This is a reflective book on grief through the related concepts of consciousness, love, death and transformation. Death implies grief for the survivors but this…… Read More »
    Only Love Remains

    Only Love Remains

    Author: Attilio Stajano
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Death Dying
    The powerful stories in this book convey lessons from the dying on the meaning of life and raise the important question of the relative roles…… Read More »
    Psychology and the Near-Death Experience

    Psychology and the Near-Death Experience

    Author: Roy Hill
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology / Near Death Experience / Spirituality
    As the title suggests, this book takes a psychological approach to the near death experience that takes its reality and consequences seriously. It draws on…… Read More »
    What is a Near-Death Experience?

    What is a Near-Death Experience?

    Author: Dr Penny Sartori
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Near Death Experiences / Consciousness Studies
    Penny Sartori is a nurse with well known for her research on NDEs and is the author of The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences. This book…… Read More »
    A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife

    A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife

    Authors: Victor Zammit, Wendy Zammit
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Parapsychology / Afterlife Studies
    When I was working on my own book Survival in the early 1980s, my chapter on evidence considered the topic both from a scientific and…… Read More »
    Philosophy of Nature

    Philosophy of Nature

    Author: Svein Anders Noer Lie
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy
    This philosophical treatise challenges the view that any form of manipulation of nature is equivalent to any other form rather than reflecting on how we…… Read More »
    Famine, Affluence and Morality

    Famine, Affluence and Morality

    Author: Peter Singer
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Ethics/Philosophy
    The title essay of this book first came out in 1972 at the time of a vast refugee crisis involving 9 million people East Bengal.…… Read More »
    China Confronts Climate Change

    China Confronts Climate Change

    Author: Peter H. Koehn
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Climate Change
    If one did not already realise, the foreword to this significant book highlights that China is currently responsible for one third of the the world's…… Read More »
    Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene

    Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene

    Author: Lesley Head
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Ecology / Environmental Studies
    This book is part of the new series on researching the Anthropocene, a term that is becoming increasingly familiar and which is explored in some…… Read More »
    Earth Matters

    Earth Matters

    Author: Richard D. Bardgett
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Ecology & Environment
    Subtitled 'how soil underlies civilisation', this highly readable and authoritative book bridges the science of soil into a general readership and as such should be…… Read More »
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