F. David Peat is one of the most interesting and innovative thinkers around today. His latest book, Pathways of Chance, is a rich, inquiring, and highly readable journey from the creative buzz of his native Liverpool in the sixties to a Native American talking circle. He meets some of the most fascinating minds of twentieth-century science and culture: David Bohm, Roger Penrose, Bertrand Russell, Sir Michael Tippett, Antony Gormley, and Anish Kapoor. He reflects on the elusive nature of quantum reality, the way language shapes our lives, the world of the Blackfoot, and his life in a medieval Italian village. Ultimately, Pathways of Chance is a meditation upon the power of those twin forces, purpose and accident, within all our lives.

Pathways of Chance

Biographies & Memoirs

Peat, F.David

Professionals & Academics

Pari Publishing (USA)

Rapid advances in modern medicine have revolutionized the way we think about death and the processes of dying. Once death was defined as the absence of respiration or heartbeat; today patients hooked up to a respirator and feeding tube can be kept alive for months or years. Ivan and Melrose carefully explain the various medical processes involved in death and dying. In doing so, they also confront the many ethical, moral, and legal dilemmas that face doctors today, as well as the decisions that must be made by relatives.

The Way We Die: Brain Death, Vegetative State, Euthanasia and Other End-Of-Life Dilemmas

Politics & Social Sciences

Ivan, Leslie

Sociology

These essays examine the role of belief in the lives of scientists; the connections between science and faith; the roads to peace; the need for just and sustainable societies; the nature of the creative act in both literature and art; and the experience of the artist and writer at work. Among the contributors are science writer Colin Tudge, George Coyne, SJ, Emeritus Director of the Vatican Observatory, and sculptor Antony Gormley.

The Pari Dialogues, Volume I: Essays in Science, Religion, Society and the Arts

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

This eminently readable book explores the symbolic and psychological aspects of numbers. The author shows that numbers are far more than the symbols we use for counting, for they are founded on a deep psychic structure that underlies many of our thoughts and behaviors. Numbers also give shape and meaning to our socially constructed world. Enigma reads like a mystery novel as it traces the first appearance of numbers in Paleolithic times through Eastern and European countries and Meso-America. And while the author does consider the mathematical properties of numbers, the book is aimed at the intelligent layperson with an interest in the more esoteric and psychological aspects of mathematical ideas. It will also have a strong appeal to those interested in popular science and in Jungian ideas. Each of the numbers, from zero to ten, is given its own chapter and there are also chapters on number symbolism in the Kabbalah, divination, music, religion, and mythology.

Enigma of Numbers

Storm, Lance

Philosophy

How do we build a better world for our children, our businesses, our society, and ourselves? F. David Peat's latest book provides a clear answer: exercise more effective, creative, and noninvasive action from the local to the international level. Gentle Action shows ways in which businesses can respond more effectively to a changing marketplace and how organizations can grow more flexible, responsive, and sensitive to the world around them. The book will be an invaluable resource for everyone from CEOs, policy makers, and community leaders, to teachers and parents. It shows how and why things go wrong when well-meaning but inappropriate actions are taken. It provides examples of gentle actions in operation and how the creative intervention of a single person can end up being more effective than an aid program organized by a multimillion-dollar organization. Each chapter presents a series of questions and challenges for readers leading to ways in which they can bring creative change to their community or organization.

Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World

Business & Money

Business Culture

People often enter our lives in mysterious ways. We have all met by accident a person who radically altered our trajectory or opened a new door for us. Sometimes these encounters can even change the course of society. Where would psychology be without the meeting of Jung and Freud? Where would philosophy be without the encounter of Sartre and Beauvoir? What predisposes us to such meetings? Who are these messengers that lead us to cross a new threshold? And why is it necessary to enter alone? Inspired by the Jungian concept of synchronicity and in the light of metaphors drawn from chaos theory, this book explores new avenues in understanding the intriguing question of synchronistic encounters.

Necessary Chances: Synchronicity in the Encounters That Transform Us

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Vezina, Jeff

Psychology & Counseling

Unveiling the Breath is a narrative nonfiction book that examines the dilemmas of gender harmonization in a globalizing world”a world that Donna Kennedy-Glans has observed firsthand through her business experience and humanitarian work. It incorporates East-West perspectives, faith and feminism, male and female points of view, ways to reconcile spirituality and patriarchy, and the issues involved in raising sons. Yet, as she explores the quandaries of gender in both East and West, Donna perceives more similarities than differences. The book unpeels the Gender Onion starting from the outer, more secular layers of our globalizing world, the workplace, and communities, to the inner core of our private world of faith, spirituality, and family.

Unveiling the Breath: One Woman's Journey Into Understanding Islam and Gender Equality

Kennedy-Glans, Donna

Social Sciences

What would it be like to live in a world of autism or Asperger's syndrome? To have a mind that follows rules literally and without understanding? From Object to Life opens the door into the remarkable world of a blindness that perceives other humans as closer to objects than to living souls. Yet Asperger's is a syndrome that was shared by the likes of Einstein, Lewis Carroll and Mozart. The great teachers Jesus, Buddha and Rumi all pointed to an essential blindness in humanity at large-the blindness of all those who 'lack eyes to see.' Humanity's essential path is the struggle to surmount this failure to transcend. Via the thoughts of great souls whose lives were dominated by this curious condition, author David Duncan leads us through a succession of remarkable creative, unfiltered and raw autistic worlds.

From Object to Life: An Extraordinary Journey Through Austistic Worlds

Duncan, David

Religion & Spirituality

How real is the external world? How valid are our memories? Could we ever go back in time? Are there parallel universes out there? What happens when we are touched by the famous Butterfly Effect? Are we really the people we think we are? Are we truly in control of our own minds? Our sense of reality has been sent reeling by the sciences of matter and of mind and this revolution can be seen in its most graphic form in movies, a place and time where we dream in the dark. A Flickering Reality explores the most exciting, creative, and mind-expanding movies of the last decades”movies that stretch our vision of reality to the limit.

A Flickering Reality: Cinema and the Nature of Reality

Photography & Video

Alice in Wonderland leaps into the twenty-first century of quantum paradoxes and chaotic attractors. In a series of engaging stories, several of the world's leading science writers speculate on what would happen if the young Alice were to enter the world of quarks, fractals, chaos theory, Heisenberg's uncertainty, the very center of the universe, and theories of everything. The book also contains a glossary, very accessible to the lay reader, of definitions and explanations of the curious quantum world.

Alice and the Quantum Cat

Science & Math

Physics

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