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In this fascinating and amusing book, doctor and scientist Anthony Costello describes how tapping the power of small groups guided human history, hidden in plain sight, from hunter-gatherer societies to the present day. He shows how groups improved survival in Asia and Africa, and can reform the culture of business, health, and climate change.
Part memoir, part love letter, part journey into metaphysics. I did not set out to live a metaphysical life. All I wanted was to lead a normal life. Because of all the unusual circumstances surrounding my childhood, I wanted normalcy more than anything. But sometime during my young life I began to have dreams and precognitions. These experiences changed my reality forever, gave me the courage to journey to my soul, and led me on a voyage through metaphysics in an attempt to understand my psychic life. This book records my journey, including life events, contemplations, psychic dreams and religious experiences. I lived part time with a Baptist family early in life, followed by years of Catholic school education from grade school through high school. Studying metaphysics in my twenties exposed me to Eastern philosophy. Ultimately, I was able to reconcile my psychic experiences and Eastern perspectives with my Catholic beliefs.
The UK has benefitted from having strong scientific advice available to Ministers and developing nations would see a huge benefit from being able to draw on strong home-grown institutions to inform policy decisions. A previous report by the Science and Technology Committee had criticised the Government for not paying enough attention to building the science base of developing nations. While concerns remain, MPs considered that the Department for International Development had made improvements in using a more robust evidence base and developing its own in-house expertise. An important feature raised in this report is that there had to be more attention paid to ensuring that scientists, especi...
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'James W. Wood is a talent to be reckoned with: both lyrical and humane, he has a technical ability with language that shines through every poem. Jane McKie, founding editor, Knucker Press James W Wood cares about the precision and possibilities of language and about honesty when dissecting the subtleties of human emotion, neither one to the exclusion of the other. His work is a pleasure to read and, when questioning or provocative, none the less pleasurable for that. -
True poetry has the intellectual and formal rigour to tell us stories of the way we live. In Tim O'Leary's Manganese Tears, there are wonderful elegies for the village community og the poet's childhood, and most powerfully the slow dying of his mother whose 'life has moved downstairs / with the vase of shrivelling daffodils' and the limited horizons where 'Each kiss is a kiss goodbye'. The grieving is genuine, but what makes it especially moving is the intellectual honesty, for the poet his mother's 'thankyous' meaning 'as much as / amens muttered during mass- / religiously bare'. Even for friends in the village, refusing o admit they were ever ill 'the steel is in their gazes, / and the gaze at the abyss'. Love is what holds personal and communal life together, as the chemical element Manganese holds together the health of both body and brain. But with tears. William Bedford
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