Ten Tales from Tibet – Cultivating Compassion
With stunning photos by Matthieu Ricard and an introduction by Satish Kumar, this is a real gem of a book with memorable parables illustrating the…… Read More »
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Illuminating Silence
This book based on Chinese Zen retreats in Wales organised by my late friend John Crook is an absolute gem in terms of valuable spiritual…… Read More »
A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom
The author is very well known for her work with holistic women's health, about which she has written extensively. Here she distils her encouraging wisdom…… Read More »
Buddha and Einstein Walk into a Bar
If you find this title obscure, then the subtitle is much more illuminating: 'how new discoveries about mind, body and energy can help increase your…… Read More »
The Telomere Miracle
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szoshow shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for their discovery that chromosomes are protected by telomeres…… Read More »
Pilgrimages to Emptiness
I met the author at a recent conference in Italy, where he presented a fascinating lecture on the I Ching. In the 1990s, he was…… Read More »
The Archetype of the Number and its Reflections in Contemporary Cosmology
This book is an interesting journey through what the author calls psychophysical rhythmic configurations, using the work of Jung and Pauli as a starting point…… Read More »
Music by Numbers – From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
This is a fascinating study of the reciprocal relationship between music and mathematics in the West. The last 150 years have seen the breakdown of…… Read More »
Causation in Science
The emphasis of this technical book is on causal constraints in science, i.e. general conceptual scaffolding and principles rather than causal relations between individual elements…… Read More »
Blossoms
A cutting-edge book about the genetics behind flowers in five parts, explaining what plants are and what they can do, how genes work, the timing…… Read More »