Author:Deepak Chopra,Menas Kafatos
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this book, that combines cutting edge science with real world applications, Chopra and Kafatos redefine our nature of reality and what is possible.
Here they ask 9 questions:
What Came Before the Big Bang?
Why Does the Universe Fit Together So Perfectly?
Where Did Time Come From?
What Is the Universe Made Of?
Is There Design in the Universe?
Is the Quantum World Linked to Everyday Life?
Do We Live in a Conscious Universe?
How Did Life First Begin?
Does the brain create the mind?
You Are The Universe offers answers that open up new possibilities for all of us to lead more fruitful, peaceful and successful lives.
Worth reading because here’s a medical doctor working hard to marry up Eastern mysticism with Western pragmatism
—— Jeanette WintersonThe rock star of the new spirituality
—— GuardianI highly recommend this for those who are curiously alive
—— FRED ALAN WOLF, author of The Spiritual UniverseIt addresses all the most important questions we can ask ourselves and of science
—— Ervin Laszlo, author of What is Reality: The New Map of CosmosA riveting and absolutely fascinating adventure that will blow your mind wide open!
—— Dr. Rudolph E. TanziThis book will make you marvel at Tagore's beautiful human universe as masterfully uncovered by the authors
An inspiring and insightful work that points out the sterility and inadequacy of the materialist paradigm that unnecessarily pervades modern science
—— Ruth E. Kastner, Ph.D, author of Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum RiddlesDazzling, often in unexpected ways, Adam Weymouth is a wonderful travel writer, nature writer, adventure writer - along the way, he is also a nuanced examiner of some of the world's most fraught and urgent questions about the interconnectedness of people and the natural world.
—— Kamila Shamsie, author of 'Home Fire'This is the best kind of travel writing. Weymouth embarks on an ambitious journey - 2,000 miles down the Yukon in a canoe - voyaging, listening and learning. An outstanding book
—— Rob Penn , author of The Man Who Made Things Out of TreesAn enthralling account of a literary and scientific quest. Adam Weymouth vividly conveys the raw grandeur and deep silences of the Yukon landscape, and endows his subject, the river's King Salmon, with a melancholy nobility
—— Luke Jennings , author of Blood Knots and AtlanticAdam Weymouth's account of his canoe trip down the Yukon River is both stirring and heartbreaking. He ably describes a world that seems alternately untouched by human beings and teetering at the brink of ruin
—— David Owen , author of Where the Water GoesA moving, masterful portrait of a river, the people who live on its banks, and the salmon that connect their lives to the land. It is at once travelogue, natural history, and a meditation on the sort of wildness of which we are intrinsically a part. Adam Weymouth deftly illuminates the symbiosis between humans and the natural world - a relationship so ancient, complex, and mysterious that it just might save us
—— Kate Harris , author of Lands of Lost BordersShift over Pierre Berton and Farley Mowat. You, too, Robert Service. Set another place at the table for Adam Weymouth, who writes as powerfully and poetically about the Far North as any of the greats who went before him
—— Roy MacGregor , author of Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of CanadaAdam Weymouth writes of the Yukon River, the salmon and the people, with language that flows and ripples like the water he describes. There may be a smoothness to the words, but pay attention, there are deep undercurrents here. You can hear the water dripping from his paddle between each stroke as he travels that river. It mingles with the voices of the many people he visits along its shores
—— Harold Johnson , author of Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours)Beautiful, restrained, uncompromising. The narrative pulls you eagerly downstream roaring, chuckling and shimmering just like the mighty Yukon itself
—— Ben Rawlence , author of City of Thorns and Radio CongoAn infatuated love letter to the river
—— Chris Fitch , GeographicalI thoroughly enjoyed traveling the length of the Yukon River with Adam Weymouth, discovering the essential connection between the salmon and the people who rely upon them. What a joy it is to be immersed in such a remote and wondrous landscape, and what a pleasure to be in the hands of such a gifted narrator
—— Nate Blakeslee , author of The Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the WestThis book is an important contribution to our understanding of threatened ecosystems and what it means to be human on the edge of ecological catastrophe. I loved the sensitive but deeply powerful weave of pesca-poetry, knowledge and encounter that immersed me in the midst of the Yukon's forces and left me subtly transformed
—— Miriam Darlington , author of Owl SensePeterson has become a kind of secular prophet who, in an era of lobotomised conformism, thinks out of the box ... His message is overwhelmingly vital
—— Melanie Philips , The TimesIn a time of unrelenting connection, solitude becomes a radical act. It also becomes an essential one. Michael Harris makes a thoughtful and deeply felt case for why the art of spending quality time with oneself matters now more than ever – and the steps we can take to reclaim it.
—— Brian Christian, author of ALGORITHMS TO LIVE BYShe often finds herself dealing with the most macabre cases of murder. But the no-nonsense Scot is an upbeat character with a dry sense of humour, clearly identifiable in her memoir.
—— Hannah Stephenson , Daily RecordIdeal reading if you're a cheerful soul who likes to think about death. And think how it'll brighten your conversation on holiday.
—— The TimesBooks of the Year
—— The TimesBest of the Year: Memoir
This book captures the profundity of human life while displaying a sense of humour, and peels back the skin to reveal a world few of us ever discover
Dame Sue Black, the woman who inspired the hit television show Silent Witness and has done for forensic science what Strictly has done for ballroom dancing, is an unlikely but deeply worthy national treasure.... Black's memoir, like her story, is curiously vibrant and life-affirming.
—— Alex Massie , Scottish FieldYou can't help but warm to this retired professor of anatomy and forensic anthropology who chose "the many faces of death" as her medical speciality, yet is herself so vividly alive. Like [David] Nott, Black travelled the world at times, sifting maggots, bullets and human body parts in war zones. Despite it all, she remains convinced that our humanity transcends the very worst of which our species is capable.
—— Rachel Clarke author of forthcoming Dear LifeAll That Remains provides a fascinating look at death - its causes, our attitudes toward it, the forensic scientist's way of analyzing it. A unique and thoroughly engaging book.
—— Kathy Reichs, author of TWO NIGHTS and the Temperance Brennan seriesThis fascinating memoir, dealing with everything from bodies given to medical science to the trauma caused by sudden, violent ends, offers reassurance, and even hope, to the fearful and cynical.
—— Alexander Larman , The ObserverA gripping natural-history detective story. Was Rist a cunning con-artist who more or less got away with the perfect, albeit clumsy crime? Or was he hopelessly addicted to feathers, to his hobby, and to his status as a young fly-tying protégé without the economic means to realise his dreams and potential?
—— Caught by the RiverThis well written account of the known facts is well worth a read
—— birdwatch MagazineIt was hard to put the book down… Read it yourselves, enjoy it and learn from it!
—— British Birds