THE TRUTH ABOUT CANCER
The debate about cancer between conventional and complementary therapies is a highly politicised example of the underlying tension between naturopathic and allopathic or pharmaceutical approaches…… Read More »
Book Reviews
INTO THE MAGIC SHOP — A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
Part memoir, part confessional, part teaching of mindfulness, Into the Magic Shop is a paradoxical story of our times. A childhood shaped by an alcoholic…… Read More »
THE COLLAPSE OF MATERIALISM
The ideology of scientific materialism not only dominates science, but has far-reaching implications for society as well. Yet, since the 1930s, leading physicists have asserted…… Read More »
THE METAPHYSICS OF TECHNOLOGY
I met David Skribina at the 80th birthday celebrations for Henryk Skolimowski in Poland - they had been colleagues together in the philosophy department at…… Read More »
This annual publication is the Bible for biodynamic gardeners and farmers as it gives the best times for sowing and harvesting throughout the yearly cycle.…… Read More »
Tantra
This excellent book gives a detailed theoretical and practical account of the path from sex to spirit. Most of us are still brought up to…… Read More »
This is a new translation of a classic book that was red with profit by the likes of Montaigne, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John…… Read More »
Red: The History of a Color
The author of this beautifully illustrated and fascinating book is a historian at the Sorbonne, who has already written histories of blue and green, and…… Read More »
Subtitled 'essays in cultural pathology', this volume embodies serious social, aesthetic and political criticism in an age where judgements of value are suspect and relativised…… Read More »
Foresight
This fascinating interdisciplinary volume began as a series of Darwin College lectures on foresight, asking how attempts to foresee the future actually change it rather…… Read More »