SCIENCE
English, Neil, COSMIC PUBERTY: FROM ATOMS TO CONSCIOUSNESS, The Luttherworth Press, Cambridge, England, 1999--Dr. English provides glimpses of the awesome powers and mystery of the Universe and describes the current advances in k owledge that put us tantalizingly close to linking the properties of matter with an understanding of life. Soft cover 144 pages, includes index.
Feynman, Richard P., THE MEANING OF IT ALL: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist, Perseus Books, Reading, Massachusetts, 1998 Gathers three remarkable lectures given by at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1963 on mind reading and the laws of probability and statistics. Christian Science and the dubious effect of prayer on healing and human interpersonal relationships. 133 pages
Fumento, Michael, SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE: HOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN IS AFFECTING OUR LAWS, TAXES AND OUR DAILY LIFE, William Morrow and Company, NYC, 1993- The author shows that Alar, Agent Orange, food irradiation and magnetic fields are not the dangers that the media reported them to be. Soft Cover. 448 pages includes index.
Goertzel, Ben and Ted, LINUS PAULING: A LIFE IN SCIENCE AND POLITICS, Basic Books, Harper Collins, NYC, 1995--A biography of one of the greatest scientists of all time. Here, one will find the joys and pains of the process of sceintific discovery, with all its attendant risks and trials, and a portrait of a singular individual's deepening commitment to the welfare of humanity over the course of a life that was truly exciting and exemplary. Hard cover 300 pages includes index.
Gribbin, John, SCHRODINGER'S KITTENS AND THE SEARCH FOR REALITY, SOLVING THE QUANTUM MYSTERIES, Little, Brown and Company, 1995. A sequel to the classic bestseller In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, the author digs even deeper into the mysterious and confounding world of quantum mechanics. For the first time since quantum theory emerged in the middle of the 1920s, the author says with some confidence what quantum theory means. 261 pages.
Jastrow, Robert, THE ENCHANTED LOOM: MIND IN THE UNIVERSE, Simons and Schuster, New York, 1981. In his first two books, his internationally known scientist and author, and founder of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was concerned largely with the astronomical setting and the early history of life. In this third volume in a trilogy, he focuses on intelligence and the brain: how the brain evolved, the way it works, how it balances instinct and reason, and what it is evolving into. 183 pages.
Murphy, Michael, THE FUTURE OF THE BODY: EXPLORATIONS INTO THE FURTHER EVOLUTION OF HUMAN NATURE, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, 1992- Evidence is presented for the meta-normal perception, cognition, movement, vitality and spiritual development from more than 3,000 sources. The author surveys ancient and modern records in medical science, sports, anthropology, the arts, psychical research comparative religious studies and more. Hard cover 785 pages includes index
Pinet, Paul R., INVITATION TO OCEANOGRAPHY, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury, MA 1998- Illustrated with color photos, illustrations, graphs. Soft Cover 508 pages includes index.
Siler, Todd, BREAKING THE MIND BARRIER: A BRILLIANTLY ORIGINAL WAY TO THINK ABOUT ART, SCIENCE, THE MIND AND THE UNIVERSE, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, 1990- Drawing on a range of disciplines from art to Zen Buddhism and brain science to physics. The author explores how we decode the universe by decoding the brain and vice versa. Soft cover 416 pages including index.
Simonton, Dean Keith, ORIGINS OF GENIUS: DARWINIAN PERSPECTIVES ON CREATIVITY, Oxford University Press, 1999---The author draws on the latest research into creativity and explores such topics as the personality type of the genius, whether genius is genetic or produced by environment and education, the links between genius and mental illness (Darwin himself was emotionally and mentally unwell), the high incidence of childhood trauma, especially loss of a parent, amongst Nobel Prize winners, the importance of unconscious incubation in creative problem-solving, and much more. Hard cover 308 pages includes index.