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    Book Reviews

    Harvest

    Harvest

    Author: GL Davies
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Unclassified
    This is the disturbing account of a Pembrokeshire woman's experience of alien abduction, mostly in the first person, and depicting an extremely unpleasant series of…… Read More »
    Death, Where is Your Sting?

    Death, Where is Your Sting?

    Author: Robert Reiss
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Death Dying
    Written from a Christian perspective, I did not find this book helpful even though its coverage is interesting and extensive in terms of the literature.…… Read More »
    The Self-Sufficiency Bible

    The Self-Sufficiency Bible

    Author: Simon Dawson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Unclassified
    This book lives up to its title – the author lives off-grid on a 20-acre self-sufficient smallholding and shares his extensive knowledge with the readers,…… Read More »
    Smells

    Smells

    Authors: Robert Muchembled, Susan Pickford
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Unclassified
    This is an extraordinarily interesting cultural history of odours in early modern times that gives a fascinating slant on involving social conditions and corresponding outlooks.…… Read More »
    Fundamentals of Microbiome Science

    Fundamentals of Microbiome Science

    Author: Angela E. Douglas
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Unclassified
    This is an important specialist contribution to the emerging field of animal-bacteria symbiosis, reimagining the animal as a multi-organismal being in the context of complex…… Read More »
    Leading from the Field

    Leading from the Field

    Author: Peter Merry
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: General
    My own endorsement of this exquisitely simple and beautifully produced book stated that it read like a 'Tao of Leadership', consisting as it does of…… Read More »
    Powered by Purpose

    Powered by Purpose

    Author: Sarah Rozenthuler
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: General
    This highly acclaimed book describes a revolution in advanced business outlook over the last decade within the context that companies with an authentic purpose outperform…… Read More »
    An Enchanted Place

    An Enchanted Place

    Author: Jonathan Stedall
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: General
    In this enchanting and deeply humane book, filmmaker Jonathan Stedall recreates a human Winnie the Pooh tale based in AA Milne's village of Hartfield, threatened…… Read More »
    Planet Ocean

    Planet Ocean

    Author: Michel Odent
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    At the age of over 90, Michel is still publishing new books bringing his unique interdisciplinary perspective to our connections with water, drawing on anthropology,…… Read More »
    On Sentience

    On Sentience

    Authors: Peter Reason, Sarah Gillespie
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
    These exquisitely written reflections follow on from an earlier volume, On Presence, and are also illustrated with drawings by Sarah Gillespie. The point of departure…… Read More »
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