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    Science and Wisdom

    Science and Wisdom

    Author: Jurgen Moltmann
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science And Religion
    A substantial contribution to the science and religion field by a noted theologian. Moltmann stresses wisdom as the ethics of knowledge, remarking that the enormous…… Read More »
    The Millennium Problems

    The Millennium Problems

    Author: Keith Devlin
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mathematics / Popular Science
    Subtitled ' The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time', this book gives the background of the competition sponsored by the Clay Mathematical Institute…… Read More »
    What is Time?

    What is Time?

    Author: G J Whitrow
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Science
    This classic account was first published in 1972 and ranges across our whole understanding of time - philosophical, scientific and cultural. Beginning with the origins…… Read More »
    Magic Universe - The Oxford Guide to Modern Science

    Magic Universe - The Oxford Guide to Modern Science

    Author: Nigel Calder
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science
    This book thoroughly deserves the accolade of Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, who comments that Nigel Calder 'remains supreme in his range and depth,…… Read More »
    America as Empire

    America as Empire

    Author: Jim Garrison
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Politics / Current Affairs
    Subtitled 'Global Leader or Rogue State', this thoughtful book by the President of the State of the World Forum is a valuable contribution to the…… Read More »
    Warriors of the Wasteland

    Warriors of the Wasteland

    Author: John Grigsby
    Reviewer: Paul Devereux
    Category: Mythology & Archaeology
    This is one of those books that is so dense with rich detail one has to give either an exceptionally extensive review, or an inadequate,…… Read More »
    THE PARTY'S OVER

    THE PARTY'S OVER

    Author: Richard Heinberg
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Current Affairs
    Pre-adaptation is a useful concept from evolutionary biology, indicating a capacity to see a fundamental change looming and adapt smoothly before a catastrophe supervenes and…… Read More »
    BEHIND THE WAR ON TERROR

    BEHIND THE WAR ON TERROR

    Author: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Politics
    In 1948 the US State Department's policy planning unit, then headed by George Kennan, produced a top-secret report - now declassified - on the essential…… Read More »
    SACRED CONTRACTS

    SACRED CONTRACTS

    Author: Caroline Myss
    Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
    Category: Spirituality
    The key question in this book can be summed up as "Why am I here?" According to Caroline Myss the reason why we are here…… Read More »
    DREAM TELEPATHY

    DREAM TELEPATHY

    Authors: Alan Vaughan, Montague Ullman, Stanley Krippner
    Reviewer: Paul Devereux
    Category: Parapsychology
    This is a new edition of the version published by McFarland in 1989, and that was itself the second edition of the original published in…… Read More »
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