Myth and Meaning
Reissued under the Great Minds series, this book constitutes the 1977 Massey Lectures and gives a useful overview of Lévi-Strauss's thought also based on a…… Read More »
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The Metaphysics of Ping Pong
This brilliant and highly entertaining book is ping pong's answer to Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance which I read in the 1970s…… Read More »
Meditation with Children
This small book by Laurence Freeman and associates introduces the teaching on meditation to children, whom they have found can be naturally present in the…… Read More »
A Seeker's Guide To A Life Worth Living
This is a series of accessible articles on spiritual topics in five sections: abundance, positive mindset, a matter of choice, roots and belief. The contents…… Read More »
Ripening Time
Some readers may remember Sherry Anderson as the co-author of The Cultural Creatives with Paul Ray. Here she writes reflectively on the process of ageing…… Read More »
The Sovereignty of Good
This new edition contains an introduction by Mary Midgley, who was an exact contemporary of Iris Murdoch at Oxford during the war. She likens the…… Read More »
I Believe
Widely endorsed by many leading authors, this is a book centred around different aspects of the importance of belief, and more specifically belief in oneself.…… Read More »
Living Jainism
A remarkably comprehensive explanation of the Jain philosophy of the interconnectedness of being and its significance for our approach to the environment drawing on the…… Read More »
There is a God
I met Anthony Flew at a number of conferences in the late 1980s and always enjoyed his rigorous approach to any issue under examination. I…… Read More »
The Oral Gospel Tradition
The quest for the historical Jesus goes back more than 150 years and has given rise to a great deal of debate about the differences…… Read More »