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    Narrative Economics

    Narrative Economics

    Author: Robert J. Shiller
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Economics
    In this highly readable introduction to narrative economics, Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller sheds historical and contemporary light on the power of stories to shape…… Read More »
    Re-Imagining America

    Re-Imagining America

    Author: Christopher Schaefer
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Politics & Society
    Subtitled 'finding hope in difficult times', this penetrating book is both a radical diagnosis of US social ecology and a prescription for a New World.…… Read More »
    The Truth Inside

    The Truth Inside

    Author: Ali Norell
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Spirituality
    This book tells the harrowing story of the death of the author's youngest daughter at the age of four months from the viewpoint of both…… Read More »
    Approaching Death

    Approaching Death

    Author: Renee Zeylmans
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Death & Dying / End Of Life Care
    Subtitled 'a companion's guide to the end of life', this informative and compassionate book suggests that at a deep level, death is a birth into…… Read More »
    The Mind's Interaction with the Laws of Physics and Cosmology

    The Mind's Interaction with the Laws of Physics and Cosmology

    Author: Jeffrey S. Keen
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Consciousness
    This is a technical, rigorous and very wide-ranging book about the nature of subtle energies, approached generally from the angle of dowsing. It is written…… Read More »
    Our Secret Powers

    Our Secret Powers

    Author: Terje G. Simonsen
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Parapsychology
    Terje Simonsen is a Norwegian historian of ideas – here he has provided an accessible and readable guide to the whole paranormal landscape using an…… Read More »
    Greening the Paranormal

    Greening the Paranormal

    Author: Jack Hunter
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Paranormal / Ecology
    This book must be a first in exploring the ecology of extraordinary experience in terms of anomalistics. In his introduction, Paul Devereux introduces a number…… Read More »
    Seeing

    Seeing

    Author: George Gillespie
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Religion & Spirituality
    Subtitled 'beyond dreaming to religious experiences of light', this fascinating book is by a Baptist minister who has taught the history of religions in India…… Read More »
    The Selection Effect

    The Selection Effect

    Author: Herb Mertz
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Parapsychology / Consciousness Studies
    I met the author of this stimulating book about how the mind shapes reality over dinner at the science of consciousness conference in Interlaken. He…… Read More »
    New Brain, New World

    New Brain, New World

    Author: Erik Hoffman
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Consciousness & Neuroscience
    Subtitled 'how the evolution of a new human brain can transform consciousness and create a new world', this book is based on 40 years of…… Read More »
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