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    Book Reviews

    The Temenos Touch

    The Temenos Touch

    Author: Evelyn M. Brodie
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit / Complementary Healing
    Evelyn's life journey is remarkable by any standards. After studying economics at Glasgow and Stanford, she embarked on a successful 20-year career as an economist,…… Read More »
    SPIRITUAL PSYCHIATRIES

    SPIRITUAL PSYCHIATRIES

    Author: Natalie Tobert
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    With her background as a medical anthropologist, Natalie is able to take a wider view of the relationship between culture, beliefs and medicine with special…… Read More »
    FREE

    FREE

    Author: Alfred R. Mele
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy / Neuroscience
    The subtitle 'why science hasn't disproved free will' encapsulates the argument of this rigorous and interesting book. The question of free will has a long…… Read More »
    The Theorem of Love

    The Theorem of Love

    Authors: Antonella Vannini, Ulisse di Corpo
    Reviewer: Gerri McManus
    Category: Fiction
    Have you read this book? I am really interested to hear what people with much more expertise than me make of it. For me it…… Read More »
    Syntropy – The Spirit of Love

    Syntropy – The Spirit of Love

    Authors: Antonella Vannini, Ulisse di Corpo
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Spirituality
    In 1942, the Italian mathematician Luigi Fantappie coined the term syntropy as a law symmetric with entropy that produces 'a continuous increase in complexity through…… Read More »
    HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS

    HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS

    Author: David Kaiser
    Reviewer: Paul Kieniewicz
    Category: Science / History Of Physics
    "How the Hippies Saved Physics" took me back to my undergraduate quantum mechanics courses and my frustrations with my teachers. I wanted to understand quantum…… Read More »
    THE ART OF SCIENCE

    THE ART OF SCIENCE

    Author: Gareth Morgan
    Reviewer: Chris Allen
    Category: Popular Science
    "Tsundoku" is the Japanese word for buying books and never reading them. So why on earth would you want to do that? Well, a cynic…… Read More »
    Digital Inferno

    Digital Inferno

    Author: Paul Levy
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Technology & Society
    How can we survive and thrive in a digital world without succumbing to what the author calls digital drift, when you suddenly find you have…… Read More »
    Women in Waiting

    Women in Waiting

    Author: Julia Ogilvy
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Society
    Since the publication of this important book about prejudice at the heart of the Church, the General Synod of the Church of England has finally…… Read More »
    In Confidence

    In Confidence

    Author: Laurie Taylor
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Culture & Society
    Subtitled 'talking frankly about fame' this is a compilation of a series of interviews on Sky Arts that constitutes a reflection on the nature of…… Read More »
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