Product Description: Arguing that many traditional forms of action—aid programs, government policies, social interventions—are often ineffective and even socially disruptive, this treatise proposes a movement toward "gentle" actions: those that take into account the fragile ecology of an organization, a city, or a group of people...read more

Product Description: 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""...read more

Product Description: 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: How to exercise more effective, creative and non-invasive action from the local to the international level...read more

Product Description: Topics include the role of belief in the lives of scientists, and the connections and proper boundaries between science and faith; roads to peace; an end to the institution of war; the need for sustainable societies; the nature of the creative act in literature and art; and the experiences of the artist and writer at work and complementarity between Western Science and Native America...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: One summer in the 1980s, theoretical physicist F. David Peat went to a Blackfoot Sun Dance ceremony. Having spent all of his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science, he was entranced by the Native American worldview and, through dialogue circles between scientists and native elders, he began to explore it in greater depth...read more

Product Description: Early theorists believed that in science lay the promise of certainty. Built on a foundation of fact and constructed with objective and trustworthy tools, science produced knowledge. But science has also shown us that this knowledge will always be fundamentally incomplete and that a true understanding of the world is ultimately beyond our grasp...read more

David Bohm is one of the foremost scientific thinkers of today and one of the most distinguished scientists of his generation. His challenge to the conventional understanding of quantum theory has led scientists to reexamine what it is they are going and his ideas have been an inspiration across a wide range of disciplines. Quantum Implications is a collection of original contributions by many of the world' s leading scholars and is dedicated to David Bohm, his work and the issues raised by his ideas. The contributors range across physics, philosophy, biology, art, psychology, and include some of the most distinguished scientists of the day. There is an excellent introduction by the editors, putting Bohm's work in context and setting right some of the misconceptions that have persisted about the work of David Bohm

Explains the development and meaning of the 'everything theory'--a theory positing that all things in the universe consist of miniscule strings of ten dimensions--in a study accessible to the non-technical reader

Product Description: This is an account of the author's investigation, on behalf of the Canadian government, into the life and ideas of the eccentric genius Nikola Tesla. This is a completely revised and redesigned edition, with a new introduction by the former head of the Tesla Museum, a new chapter and a selection of photographs of Tesla and his work in search of the holy grail of electricity - the transmission of power without loss...read more

Product Description: One summer in the 1980s, theoretical physicist F. David Peat went to the Blackfoot Sun Dance ceremony in Alberta, Canada. Having spent all his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science, he was entranced by the Native American worldview and, through dialogue circles between scientists and Native Elders, he began to explore it in greater depth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "David Peat is exceptionally well qualified to write about creativity, because he combines being a physicist with a wide knowledge of the arts. The book is packed with illuminating insights."-Anthony Storr, author of The Dynamics of Creation, Churchhill's Black Dog, and Music of the MindWhat does the creation of matter in the universe have to do with humanity's creative spirit? What is the connection between, art, literature, and music, and mathematical formulae and scientific theories? Taking an overarching scientific view of the universe and our place in it, scientist-philosopher F...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In order to enlighten and empower the layperson, the authors of Fractals: Patterns of Chaos explore the implications of the chaos theory on life, spirituality, and the nature of the universe. Reprint.

In order to enlighten and empower the layperson, the authors of Fractals: Patterns of Chaos explore the implications of the chaos theory on life, spirituality, and the nature of the universe. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This monumental book surveys the development of postwar American photography, and isolates four major roles of the medium--artistic expression, journalistic documentation, commercial industry, and scientific tool. With extensive essays from a range of scholars, and work from Arbus, Frank, Lange, Friedlander, and many more, this book represents a major reference work of photo history...read more

Explains the latest theories in quantum physics and discusses how they are changing the ways in which scientists look at human behavior and the place of humankind in the cosmos

Product Description: Infinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm—brilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein, and enemy of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Although he battled bouts of crippling depression, Bohm proved to be one of the twentieth century’s most original thinkers, influencing the fields of physics, philosophy, psychology, language, and education...read more

Offers a clear, concise explanation of the latest theories in quantum physics, exploring how the science of physics is changing the ways in which scientists look at human behavior and the place of humankind in the cosmos. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Originally published in 1979. This reprints the revised and expanded edition of 1996. In this volume, physicists, biologists and chemists, who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought explore issues which have shaped modern physics and which hint at what may form the next scientific revolution...read more

Looks at similarities between Eastern philosophy and Western physics, the connection between cell communicatioin and the immune system, and linguistic properties of the genetic code