Hopeful Pessimism
Mara van der Lugt lectures in philosophy at the University of St Andrews, and is the daughter of our beloved former Network Chair Dr Bart…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Controlling Contagion – Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid
This is an impressive study by a leading Oxford historian that brings a historical perspective to bear on contagions and epidemics – it is always…… Read More »
How to Eat – An Ancient Guide to Healthy Living
In some ways, this book contains elements of what we know called the Mediterranean diet, but with very different medical categorisations drawing on the humours.…… Read More »
Doctors by Nature – How Ants, Apes and Other Animals Heal Themselves
This pioneering study explains how animals use medicine in instinctive ways and how this can teach us about healing ourselves. The author's own field is…… Read More »
No Bad Parts
It is no overstatement to say that this book can be life-changing. Starting as a family therapist in the 80s, Richard Schwartz has developed a…… Read More »
Picturing Aura – A Visual Biography
This is an extended historical, anthropological, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualise the hidden radiant force encompassing the living body known as our…… Read More »
The Music of the Divine Spheres
The author is a senior systems engineer in advanced technology, and here he has produced an extraordinary study about the structure of space and consciousness…… Read More »
The Quantum and the Dream
This is a rollercoaster journey where the point of departure is 1900, the year in which Max Planck discovered the quantum, Freud published his ground-breaking…… Read More »
Alexander von Humboldt – A Concise Biography
This masterly biography is a vivid portrait of the life and times of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), who was a global celebrity scientist, international networker,…… Read More »
RADICAL WHOLENESS: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
Philip Shepherd is unusual; at the age of 18, he relinquished a place to read physics at the University of Toronto, took a cheap flight…… Read More »