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    Book Reviews

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Author: Prof Basant K. Puri
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Health & Medicine
    This is an authoritative treatise on how to treat ME in a natural way. It argues convincingly that the condition is organic rather than psychological.…… Read More »
    Why Am I So Exhausted?

    Why Am I So Exhausted?

    Author: Martin Budd
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Health & Medicine
    Martin Budd has written what is surely the definitive book on chronic fatigue syndrome, having treated people as a naturopathic consultant for this condition over…… Read More »
    Living Bliss

    Living Bliss

    Author: C Norman Shealy MD PhD
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Health & Consciousness
    Many readers will already be familiar with the work of Norman Shealy and his working relationship with Caroline Myss. In this new book he focuses…… Read More »
    Healing Plants

    Healing Plants

    Author: Markus Sommer
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Herbal Medicine / Complementary Health
    Markus Sommer has written a classic book, beautifully illustrated, on herbal remedies from traditional to anthroposophical medicine. There are 38 chapters covering all manner of…… Read More »
    Thai Herbal Medicine

    Thai Herbal Medicine

    Authors: C. Pierce Salguero, Nephyr Jacobsen
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Herbal Medicine / Complementary Health
    This is a book more aimed at the practitioner or perhaps the herbalist who wishes to extend their understanding and practice. It is well written…… Read More »
    Plant Spirit Medicine

    Plant Spirit Medicine

    Author: Eliot Cowan
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit / Plant Medicine
    This book is a journey into the healing wisdom of plants exploring, as Larry Dossey remarks, the intrinsic unity and connectedness of all living things.…… Read More »
    An Amazing Murmur of the Heart

    An Amazing Murmur of the Heart

    Author: Cecil Helman
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine / Medical Humanities
    Many years ago I reviewed Jacob Needleman's book The Way of the Physician in which he makes the point that great doctors are first great…… Read More »
    Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    Author: Nick Bostrom
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Technology
    Here the author engages in what one might call prophetic analysis in order to assess the paths, dangers and strategies associated with the development of…… Read More »
    The 4th Revolution

    The 4th Revolution

    Author: Luciano Floridi
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Technology & Society
    Subtitled 'how the infosphere is reshaping reality', this hugely well-informed and well-written book postulates that we are living through a fourth revolution after those of…… Read More »
    Faith & Wisdom in Science

    Faith & Wisdom in Science

    Author: Tom McLeish
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science And Religion
    In this densely argued and erudite book, physicist Tom McLeish takes a new point of departure in the science-religion debate by pursuing the theme of…… Read More »
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