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    Gurdjieff: a Master in Life

    Gurdjieff: a Master in Life

    Author: Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch
    Reviewer: James Moore
    Category: Philosophy Spirituality
    With this problematical chaplet of forty-nine personal souvenirs and homilies Tcheslaw Konstantinovitch Tchekhovitch is introduced to an English-speaking readership as a full-blown apologist of the…… Read More »
    Peace Begins in the Soul

    Peace Begins in the Soul

    Author: Bert Hellinger
    Reviewer: Bart van der Lugt
    Category: Medicine Health
    During the last years I have participated in quite a few workshops dealing with Bert Hellinger's impressive and amazing method of Family Constellations. Impressive because…… Read More »
    Shattered Lives: Children who live with courage and dignity

    Shattered Lives: Children who live with courage and dignity

    Author: Camila Batmanghelidjh
    Reviewer: Nicholas Colloff
    Category: Medicine Health
    Imagine holding your hand between the pavement and a person's forehead as that person steadily seeks to beat the concrete with her own body. Using…… Read More »
    Quantum Integral Medicine

    Quantum Integral Medicine

    Author: Michael Wayne
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    Subtitled 'towards a new science of healing and human potential', Michael Wayne explains the innate healing system within the human body and the new framework…… Read More »
    ULTIMATE REALITY

    ULTIMATE REALITY

    Author: Ken Moseley
    Reviewer: Max Payne
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    The author appears to be a largely self-taught polymath who has amassed considerable scientific knowledge and who has then sat back to contemplate the pattern…… Read More »
    GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE

    GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE

    Author: Herve le Guyader
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1772-1844 was of the 'founding-fathers-of-modern-biology-generation' which included Wolfgang Goethe whom he much admired, Jean Baptise Lamarck and his other French contemporary George Cuvier,…… Read More »
    Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?

    Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?

    Author: Michael Ruse
    Reviewer: Martin Lockley
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    So is evolution purposeful? One human purpose aims to 'explain evolution' and whether we are a normal or special part of it, either physically or…… Read More »
    This Incomplete One

    This Incomplete One

    Author: Michael D Bush
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Death Dying
    This is a very moving book that can be strongly recommended to any parent who has lost a child. It consists of addresses occasioned by…… Read More »
    Swifter than the Arrow

    Swifter than the Arrow

    Author: Michael Rice
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: General
    This is a fascinating and informative book about the golden hunting hounds of ancient Egypt by a specialist historian. It operates at two distinct levels…… Read More »
    The Mendacious Colours of Democracy

    The Mendacious Colours of Democracy

    Author: Alex Rubner
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: General
    Subtitled 'the anatomy of benevolent lying', this book rejects the position that no one should ever lie, arguing that, in a democratic system, politicians are…… Read More »
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