subtitle: Why Equality is Better for Everyone ( Read more... )

subtitle: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World ( Read more... )

The Glass Mountain, Jessica Rydill - sequel to Children of the Shaman and just as good

the Lincoln Rhyme thrillers by Jeffrey Deaver - variable; The Vanished Man, The Broken Window & The 12th Card were my faves

Rats: a Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants, Robert Sullivan - fascinating until he goes a bit nutty from spending too much ( Read more... )

subtitle: The Shamanic Teachings of the Plant World ( Read more... )

subtitle: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything

From the cover:

Suppose we took everything that all the various world cultures have to tell us about human potential-about psychological, spiritual, and social growth-and identified the basic patterns that connect these pieces of ( Read more... )

subtitle: An Amazonian Plant Spirit Odyssey

Robert Tindall recounts his experiences searching for meaning in the spirit world, starting in Fez in Morocco, leading to the Brazilian syncretist ayahuasca churches through the San Pedro ceremonies of the Peruvian Andes and finally to the curanderismo (healing system) of the Peruvian Amazon ( Read more... )

From the back cover:

Humanity is panicking. Seven days from now, our universe will cause changes to reality and kill millions. Dr Jake Crux is convinced a solution lies in reacquainting ourselves with old powers - his experiment demonstrates extrasensory perception is possible; but his superiors want to pervert the result and sacrifice him in the ( Read more... )

In the far future, when the only males are dangerous "men-remnants" hunted by Martian warriors, and women are not born but made, what counts as human is far different from what we would think today. On the planet Nightshade, a mysterious clan of humans has joined with aliens to become stranger still. The women of Earth and Mars mainly know of the ( Read more... )

I read Beowulf at school, and while I understood its importance to the English literary canon, it never really moved me. All that changed upon reading Caitlin Kiernan's version ( Read more... )

A mystery that only gradually reveals itself as such, this book interweaves two first person narratives, that of nine-year-old Louis Drax and that of his doctor, Pascal Dannachet. Louis has been brought to the clinic where Dannachet works because he is in a deep coma after miraculously surviving a fall into a ravine. His father has vanished but his ( Read more... )