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    Exceptional Creativity in Science and Technology

    Exceptional Creativity in Science and Technology

    Author: Andrew Robinson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Technology / Creativity
    This volume derives from a conference held at the Institute for Advanced Study and supported by the John Templeton Foundation. It addresses creativity in individuals,…… Read More »
    September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor

    September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor

    Author: Massimo Mazzucco
    Reviewer: David Ray Griffin
    Category: Politics / Current Affairs
    There have been several good films and videos about 9/11. But the new film by award-winning film-maker Massimo Mazzucco is in a class by itself.…… Read More »
    SIMPLY GENIUS!

    SIMPLY GENIUS!

    Author: Ervin Laszlo
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Biography/Memoir
    Most readers will be familiar with Ervin as a systems philosopher, holistic thinker and founder of the Club of Budapest. In this book of autobiographical…… Read More »
    I Am Malala

    I Am Malala

    Authors: Christina Lamb, Malala Yousafzai
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Biography / Education / Human Rights
    The title of this remarkable account comes from the incident in which Malala was shot by the Taliban on a school bus in October 2012.…… Read More »
    Farmageddon

    Farmageddon

    Authors: Isabel Oakeshott, Philip Lymbery
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Food
    In 1967, dairy farmer Peter Roberts founded Compassion in World Farming, of which Philip Lymbery is currently chief executive. The more one knows about conditions…… Read More »
    THE WORLD WE MADE

    THE WORLD WE MADE

    Author: Jonathon Porritt
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Sustainability
    In the International Futures Forum, we occasionally use an imaginative technique to look back on how we have actually solved a pressing challenge. Our normal…… Read More »
    JUNG AND THE QUESTION OF SCIENCE

    JUNG AND THE QUESTION OF SCIENCE

    Author: Raya A Jones
    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Psychology / Psychoanalysis
    In this book, eight scholars contribute their thoughts on Carl Gustav Jung's work and whether or not it can be classified as science. The authors…… Read More »
    The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences

    The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences

    Author: Penny Sartori
    Reviewer: Eric Franklin
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
    This review of the new book 'The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences' by Dr Penny Sartori is based on two complete readings of it. The book…… Read More »
    THE DEPARTED AMONG THE LIVING

    THE DEPARTED AMONG THE LIVING

    Author: Erlendur Haraldsson
    Reviewer: Guy Lyon Playfair
    Category: Parapsychology / Psychical Research
    This author, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Iceland, is no armchair academic, but one of the leading collectors of spontaneous cases of…… Read More »
    THE NEW PARADIGM

    THE NEW PARADIGM

    Author: Sharon Ann Miller
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
    Readers of this Review are likely to be among those questioning the adequacy of the mechanistic and materialistic scientific paradigm that currently dominates our culture.…… Read More »
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