Author: Deepak Chopra
By Amber-Allen Publishing

Experience the joy of life, 2008-04-12
It's a co-incide-ence that 'seven' years into my career as a success coach I came across this, the wisest book that I have ever read.

Normally when a book says you will want to read it again and again you take that comment with a pinch of salt.

I read the original book three times, then the handbook and now I continually play the wonderful CD and DVD. With every experience a new learning flows through me.

Those studying the likes of the secret law of attraction, the four agreements and the power of now, should read this book to find an even more moving, powerful and yet practical way to live a life of joy, love and inner peace.

At the end of my seven step (another synchronistic co-incide-ence) success transformation programme I leave all my new clients in the capable hands and wise mind of Deepak and his life changing seven laws.

Tim

Author: Bill Indge, Margaret Baker, Martin Rowland
By Hodder & Stoughton

clear and concise provides a good basis for A-level biology., 2002-01-25
it has all the basics needed and explains ideas in an excellent fasion. It provides a clear understanding of biology.

Author: Matt Ridley
By HarperPerennial

fantastic, 2006-05-02
This book is amazing. A fantastic read about the concept and argument surrounding nature and nurture, genetics vs environment. On a par with his other book.

Author: William H. Elliott, Daphne C. Elliott
By OUP Oxford

An easy to understand Biochemistry text book, 2005-12-31
This is a great text book for biochemistry if you need find and understand the facts fast. It has great diagrams and illustrations that make it easy to visualise the concepts and it is written in a way that makes it easy to understand complex mechanisms.

Author: Sandra Anne Taylor
By Hay House

A Quantum Achievement, 2008-07-19
Quantum Success has to be THE most insightful treatise on the subject of personal wealth creation that I have ever read. Why? Because the author, Sandra Anne Taylor, genuinely narrates a philosophy that is wholey grounded in metaphysics and plain common sense. If you have ever studied the Cosmic Ordering approach to getting what you want and found that it simply does not work then I emplore you to buy this book for within its pages are contained one essential revelation after another. It took me over six months to read it for time and again I would have to pause over a sentance, or even a simple statement, and allow it to become absorbed into my sub-conscious before moving on. It is a joyous and thoroughly illuminating read. It changed my life - which after reading several hundred publications on the same subject, I had given up hope of ever finding a book that would do so. Wonderful!

Author: Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks
By Hay House

Author: Susan Jeffers
By Hay House Inc

Author: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
By Cambridge University Press

An accessible version of a classic, 2007-03-23
Peter Medawar called Growth and Form a classic of biological literature. This new edition makes it an accessible classic. Originally it was two volumes and over 1000 pages this edited volume and it was a challenging read. This new edition has kept Thompsons fantastic illustrations and removed some of the failings of the original text updating what is sure to become a classic of "systems biology"

Author: Bill Indge, Margaret Baker, Martin Rowland
By Hodder & Stoughton

The Bible of Biology, 2004-08-20
This book is an absolute must for anyone studying Human Biology on the AQA Syllabus. I did not realise I was capable of achieving so much until I bought this book and I strongly recommend it to anyone - each chapter explains the topics so clearly allowing you to achieve maximum marks as it has practice questions, diagrams and all you need to aid you in your learning. This book truly is the bible of biology and is so easy-to-understand - whether you are a strong or weak candidate in the subject, you really can excel with this book and become the very best - believe it or not, biology is actually understandable with this book and we can finally makes sense of respiration, digestion, synapses and all the rest of it! If there is one book you need to get, without a doubt it has to be this one.

Author: Susan Blackmore
By OUP Oxford

Perfect introduction to a complex and profound subject, 2008-07-06
The relationship between mind and body, and the tremendous difficulty of explaining that relationship, has been a central theme in modern philosophy since Descartes' famous 'cogito ergo sum'. In the subsequent centuries the entire heavy artillary of analytical philosophy has been brought to bear, categorical mistakes have been claimed, behavourist theories championed, yet the awkard I stubbornly remains, peering out at the world. A bundle of neurons and synapses themselves composed of randomly spinning atoms and electrons, somehow able to ask questions 'why am I? who am I? What am I?'.

Recently however, the problem of mind has taken on a new academic guise - the study of consciousness. The ancient riddle has been reframed into a seemingly narrower and more fundamental question - the problem of how physical matter be self-aware, how can the brain think and feel? The central question may have become more focused, yet suddenly it is not just the philosophers who are discussing it. The study of consciousness is now truly a multi-disciplinary subject, drawing in experts in psychology and neuro-science amonst others. Suddenly a subject so old and profound appears to be one of the most exciting fields in academia. One that might even be on the verge of providing answers that would transform our very sense of self and identity.

Susan Blackmore does a remarkably good job here of introducing such a complex and wideranging subject. You really do get a sense of what the question is and just why it is so challenging. Not only that but you should get a feel of why the subject is particularly exciting at the moment and for those versed in the 'traditional' formulations of the philosophy of mind, this book stands as testamant to the fact that the study of consciousness is really a subject in its own right now.

Having said all that, this book (and others by Susan Blackmore) really should come with a government health warning. I've read David Hume's reflections on the illusory nature of the self, as well as some of those of Eastern Philosophy. Like Hume, I feel largely able to set aside such considerations as soon as I attend to other matters. Reading Blackmore, I really do feel a little shaken. I can give up the idea of a concrete self lurking behind my eyes controlling my fingers as I type this review, but when plausible argument after plausible argument chips away at the belief in consciousness itself, or at least our faith that there is a stream of consciousness, then the effect is rather more disturbing and profound.

Blackmore introduces all the main theories relating to consciousness here, in a very readable and succinct manner. You are fully made aware of her own viewpoint, but that is not a bad thing, as they are clearly put in contrast with the others and in a way that helps you come to your own conclusion, though as I just said, it may leave you a little unsettled.

Though the stream of consciousness mayby some kind of 'grand illusion' as Blackmore and of course Daniel Dennet quite persuasively argue for, its not clear that the problem of explaining consciousness is in anyway diminished. No matter how many insignificant little pieces you try to break conscious awareness into, the fundamental problem still remains : how does physical matter achieve any consciousness at all?

A must read introduction for those interested in the study of consciousness and the philosophy of mind. I'd also fully recomend her longer introduction (as a follow up) which has student exercises and chapter summaries etc. Just take care!