HILDEGARD OF BINGEN – a Saint for our Times
It is ironic that Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was canonised as a saint in October last year by Pope Benedict XVI, who, as Cardinal Ratzinger,…… Read More »
Book Reviews
ON LOVE
Luc Ferry is a French philosopher who has also served as Minister for Youth, National Education and Research in the French government. His collaborator Claude…… Read More »
American Philosophy and Rudolph Steiner
George Bernard Shaw, an Irishman, supposedly said that the British and Americans are divided by a common language. In American Philosophy and Rudolph Steiner we…… Read More »
THE SECRET OF LIGHT
Last year, I reviewed a book about Walter Russell (1871-1963) called The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe by Glenn Clark. This is…… Read More »
SALT, SUGAR, FAT
One of the books I read when I was researching The Protein Crunch was entitled Let Them Eat Junk which was, like this book, and…… Read More »
THE INTUITIVE WAY OF KNOWING – A Tribute to Brian Goodwin
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
As many readers will already know, Brian Goodwin was a visionary biologist, mathematician and philosopher who was professor of biology at the Open University, a…… Read More »
THE BASIC CODE OF THE UNIVERSE
We are often encouraged to think of the world in terms of vibration, and this seminal book explains how this is true in terms of…… Read More »
THE SCIENCE MYTH
Subtitled 'God, society, the self and what we will never know', this lucid and highly intelligent book is a sophisticated take on the culture war…… Read More »
Fifty Minerals That Changed the Course of History
The well-known phrase Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, useful in categorising almost everything, especially in quis games, might suggest evolution in reverse. However, in terms of the…… Read More »
Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History
In Network 108 I reviewed Eric Chaline's pleasingly- illustrated book Fifty Animals that Changed the Course of History, and suggested the obvious, " surely one…… Read More »