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    Faith in the Fool: Risk and Delight in the Christian Adventure

    Faith in the Fool: Risk and Delight in the Christian Adventure

    Author: Angela Ashwin
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality / Christianity
    I found this a refreshing and indeed disarming book as it is relatively rare to find a book on the fool written from a Christian…… Read More »
    Introducing American Religion

    Introducing American Religion

    Author: Charles H Lippy
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion
    An exemplary and highly readable textbook on this topic covering every conceivable aspect of American religion. It begins with native American understandings as well as…… Read More »
    The Function of the Orgasms

    The Function of the Orgasms

    Author: Michael Odent
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology & Human Sciences
    Following on from his work on what he calls the scientification of love, this book, with its subtitle 'the highways to transcendence' will radically revise…… Read More »
    Movement Medicine

    Movement Medicine

    Authors: Susannah Darling Khan, Ya' Acov Darling Khan
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
    Subtitled 'bring the life of the dance into the dance of your life', this book is the result of many years of research and teaching…… Read More »
    My Path

    My Path

    Author: Carolien van Leusden
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Health & Spirituality
    A personal and inspiring account of how the author survived secondary breast cancer by combining conventional and complementary treatments, changing her diet and following spiritual…… Read More »
    The Reconnection - Heal Others, Heal Yourself

    The Reconnection - Heal Others, Heal Yourself

    Author: Dr. Eric Pearl
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Healing & Complementary Medicine
    An autobiographical account of the therapeutic journey of a chiropractor into a healing practice. The book begins with an account of one such healing where…… Read More »
    The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's

    The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's

    Author: Fern Elsdon-Baker
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science/Evolutionary Biology
    This study by a philosopher of evolutionary theory enables the general reader to understand more about the history of evolution, the nature of neo-Darwinism and…… Read More »
    Thinking in Systems

    Thinking in Systems

    Author: Donella H. Meadows
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Systems Thinking / Science
    Donella Meadows (1941-2001) was a well-known systems theorist who worked for three decades on the limits of growth agenda. This book was completed in the…… Read More »
    Space and Counterspace

    Space and Counterspace

    Author: Nick C. Thomas
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Philosophy
    This is a book building on the work of Rudolf Steiner on counterspace, which formed part of his scientific approach incorporating a deeper level of…… Read More »
    Branches: Nature's Patterns, A Tapestry in Three Parts

    Branches: Nature's Patterns, A Tapestry in Three Parts

    Author: Philip Ball
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science / Natural History
    This is the third in a series of books (the last two have been reviewed in earlier issues) about patterns in nature. Branching and interconnection…… Read More »
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