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    LETHAL BUT LEGAL

    LETHAL BUT LEGAL

    Author: Nicholas Freudenberg
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Public Health / Corporate Policy
    This seminal book about the impact of corporate policies on public health has been widely endorsed by leading figures in the field and aptly described…… Read More »
    GOD'S BIOLOGIST

    GOD'S BIOLOGIST

    Author: David Hay
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Biography / Science And Religion
    I met Sir Alister Hardy on a couple of occasions in the late 1970s and early 80s, once when I had come over from Cambridge…… Read More »
    THE SELF CREATING UNIVERSE: THE MAKING OF A WORLDVIEW

    THE SELF CREATING UNIVERSE: THE MAKING OF A WORLDVIEW

    Author: John J. Clarke
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Philosophy
    Life is full of little resonances and coincidences. One such for me was to find that The Self-Creating Universe, an excellent exposition by SMN member…… Read More »
    INCOMPLETE NATURE: HOW MIND EMERGED FROM MATTER

    INCOMPLETE NATURE: HOW MIND EMERGED FROM MATTER

    Author: Terrence W. Deacon
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Philosophy Of Science / Consciousness Studies
    'Tis said that nature abhors a vacuum. But implicit in this phrase is that nature loves a vacuum and rushes in to fill it at…… Read More »
    LEARNING FROM LEONARDO

    LEARNING FROM LEONARDO

    Author: Fritjof Capra
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science / Systems Thinking
    This beautifully written and presented book is the sequel to The Science of Leonardo, published in 2007. Fritjof has steeped himself in the notebooks of…… Read More »
    PROCESSES OF LIFE; ESSAYS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY

    PROCESSES OF LIFE; ESSAYS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY

    Author: John Dupré
    Reviewer: Edward James
    Category: Philosophy Of Biology
    This collection of papers summarises the experience of one of the leading philosophers of biology, John Dupré [1]. The sixteen originally separate papers aim to…… Read More »
    The Systems View of Life

    The Systems View of Life

    Authors: Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi
    Reviewer: Vasileios Basios
    Category: Systems Science
    The first thing that bring in mind, to most of us, the name of Fritjof Capra is his first seminal work, the book entitled "The…… Read More »
    Nurturing Healing Love

    Nurturing Healing Love

    Authors: Natasha Stoynoff, Scarlett Lewis
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    Subtitled 'a mother's journey of hope and forgiveness' and with a foreword by Wayne Dyer, this extraordinary book describes the events and aftermath of the…… Read More »
    Who on Earth are You?

    Who on Earth are You?

    Author: Nick Inman
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy / Identity
    This is more or less the question that Peter Russell used to have on his answering machine, commenting that many people spend their lives thinking…… Read More »
    Design Energetics

    Design Energetics

    Author: Michael Warden
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Architecture / Holistic Design
    The age of mechanism is in decline and is giving away to a new philosophy of Life and energy, as will be evident to many…… Read More »
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