Book Reviews

A Secret History of Pandemic and Plague Prediction

A speculative personal enquiry into correlations between astrological configurations and previous plagues and turning points in history, with a special emphasis on the triple conjunction…… Read More »

Harvest

Author: GL Davies

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Unclassified

This is the disturbing account of a Pembrokeshire woman's experience of alien abduction, mostly in the first person, and depicting an extremely unpleasant series of…… Read More »

Death, Where is Your Sting?

Author: Robert Reiss

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Death Dying

Written from a Christian perspective, I did not find this book helpful even though its coverage is interesting and extensive in terms of the literature.…… Read More »

The Self-Sufficiency Bible

Author: Simon Dawson

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Unclassified

This book lives up to its title – the author lives off-grid on a 20-acre self-sufficient smallholding and shares his extensive knowledge with the readers,…… Read More »

Smells

Authors: Robert Muchembled, Susan Pickford

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Unclassified

This is an extraordinarily interesting cultural history of odours in early modern times that gives a fascinating slant on involving social conditions and corresponding outlooks.…… Read More »

Fundamentals of Microbiome Science

Author: Angela E. Douglas

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Unclassified

This is an important specialist contribution to the emerging field of animal-bacteria symbiosis, reimagining the animal as a multi-organismal being in the context of complex…… Read More »

Leading from the Field

Author: Peter Merry

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: General

My own endorsement of this exquisitely simple and beautifully produced book stated that it read like a 'Tao of Leadership', consisting as it does of…… Read More »

Powered by Purpose

Author: Sarah Rozenthuler

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: General

This highly acclaimed book describes a revolution in advanced business outlook over the last decade within the context that companies with an authentic purpose outperform…… Read More »

An Enchanted Place

Author: Jonathan Stedall

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: General

In this enchanting and deeply humane book, filmmaker Jonathan Stedall recreates a human Winnie the Pooh tale based in AA Milne's village of Hartfield, threatened…… Read More »

Planet Ocean

Author: Michel Odent

Reviewer: David Lorimer

Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology

At the age of over 90, Michel is still publishing new books bringing his unique interdisciplinary perspective to our connections with water, drawing on anthropology,…… Read More »