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    The Globalisation of Addiction

    The Globalisation of Addiction

    Author: Bruce Alexander
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    This immensely important and original book will completely reframe your understanding of the wider social, historical, economic and cultural context of addiction. We normally treat…… Read More »
    SPONTANEOUS EVOLUTION

    SPONTANEOUS EVOLUTION

    Authors: Bruce H. Lipton PhD, Steve Bhaerman
    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Bruce Lipton is a cellular biologist and author of the book 'The Biology of Belief' which has become a popular book among many concerned with…… Read More »
    METAMORPHOSIS: Evolution in Action

    METAMORPHOSIS: Evolution in Action

    Author: Andreas Suchantke
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Metamorphosis is a truly exceptional and beautiful book which imparts extraordinary insight into the mysterious but highly ordered processes of evolution. Andreas Suchantke comes very…… Read More »
    Solar

    Solar

    Author: Ian McEwan
    Reviewer: Mike King
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    I read Solar on the Eurostar on the way to a conference in Luxembourg on integral studies. Two of the opening keynote speakers made reference…… Read More »
    The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field

    The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field

    Author: Ervin Laszlo
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    It does not seem that long ago that Laszlo's 75th book –Science and the Akashic Field was reviewed in the Network (90: 2005). In the…… Read More »
    A New Science of Life

    A New Science of Life

    Author: Rupert Sheldrake
    Reviewer: John Kapp
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Both authors write that life is a non-material influence. They eschew political correctness, putting the search for truth above personal acclaim, and paid the price…… Read More »
    The Third Culture

    The Third Culture

    Author: John Michael Barnes
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    John Barnes, author and moving force behind Adonis Press, writes: 'There is no greater satisfaction for the forces of the human soul than to participate…… Read More »
    Living with Dying

    Living with Dying

    Author: Grace Sheppard
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Death Dying
    Grace Sheppard is the widow of David Sheppard, bishop, peer and England cricketer. She herself had cancer early in their marriage, but the focus of…… Read More »
    Lessons for the Living

    Lessons for the Living

    Author: Stan Goldberg
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Death Dying
    Knowing we will die, how should we live? This question is at the heart of this remarkable narrative by an emeritus professor who was himself…… Read More »
    The Law, The Lawyers & The Lawless

    The Law, The Lawyers & The Lawless

    Author: Dele Ogun
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: General
    An autobiographical account of the author's journey from West Africa to the English Bar, a journey taken 35 years earlier by Cy Grant, who at…… Read More »
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