New Sun, Sea, Sex and the Unspoilt Countryside (revised and updated edition) provides a revised and updated overview of the way in which the English language is used in tourism discourse across genres. Through the detailed linguistic analysis of selected excerpts from written tourist materials, both traditional (e.g., advertisements, brochures, guidebooks, etc.) and new (e.g., […] Read more →
Winner! – Network Book Prize 2020 – The 2020 Network Book Prize for the most significant book published by a Member during the year has been awarded to Colin Tudge for his book The Great Re-Think: A 21st Century Renaissance. Convivial Societies in a Flourishing Biosphere All too plausibly, it seems, popes and scientists are warning us […] Read more →
Is the paranormal normal? Many readers will be surprised when learning that reputable scientists, among them several Nobel laureates, have claimed that telepathy is a reality. Their curiosity will increase when reading that Cleopatra’s lost palace and Richard III’s burial place were recovered by means of clairvoyance. And some will think it to be science […] Read more →
“Holy Wedding is the opus of a trilogy that commenced with Remo Roth’s previous works Return of the World Soul I, an analysis of the pivotal relationship between the great minds of depth psychologist Carl Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli, and Return of the World Soul II, a model of psychophysical reality for a generative […] Read more →
Companion to the Project Alpha Papers is a memoir by Peter Phillips, the principal target of a hoax called Project Alpha, masterminded by the magician James (The Amazing) Randi in the early 1980s. Randi sent two young magicians to a parapsychology laboratory, of which Phillips was director, to simulate psychic effects by trickery. He suspected […] Read more →
Synchronicity is a concept, first explored by psychiatrist C.G. Jung, which holds that events are ‘meaningful coincidences’ if they occur with no causal relationships, yet seem to be meaningfully related. F. David Peat’s latest book Synchronicity: The Marriage of Matter and Psyche explores Carl Jung’s notion of the life-transforming nature of synchronicities. ‘Synchronicities,’ says Peat, […] Read more →
The editors, Dr. Adam J. Rock and Dr. Lance Storm, have put In Search of Psi together because they noted that the vast majority of similar books on the intriguing subject of parapsychology are actually too light-weight and lacked any real depth on the more serious aspects of the paranormal (a.k.a. psi). Rock and Storm […] Read more →
Volume 1 of Return of the World Soul explored the famous axiom of Maria Prophetissa ‘One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth’ which indicates that there must exist a complement to the conventional physical form of energy. This was denied by physics until Wolfgang Pauli […] Read more →
Questa nuova traduzione dell’I Ching si distacca da tutte le precedenti traduzioni italiane del classico cinese sotto due aspetti: è la prima traduzione italiana direttamente dall’originale cinese; è stata condotta secondo criteri filologici innovativi, atti a permettere al lettore un diretto contatto con la molteplicità di significati e di sfumature del testo cinese. La polivalenza […] Read more →
Traduzione italiana di Gloria Cappelli. David Crystal, incontestata autorità del settore, presenta un quadro vivido e fattuale delle ragioni che hanno reso l’inglese una lingua globale e ne discute la storia, l’attualità e i probabili sviluppi come lingua di comunicazione internazionale. Con il suo miliardo e 500 milioni di parlanti nel mondo, l’inglese è stato […] Read more →
People often enter our lives in mysterious ways. We have all met “by accident” a person who crossed our path and radically altered our trajectory or opened a new door for us. Sometimes these encounters can even change the course of society. Where would psychology be without the meeting of Jung and Freud? Philosophy without […] Read more →
Sun, Sea, Sex and the Unspoilt Countryside provides an introductory overview of the way in which the English language is used in tourism discourse across genres. Through the detailed linguistic analysis of selected excerpts from written tourist materials (advertisements, brochures, travel articles, guidebooks, websites, travelogues, etc.), the major written genres of tourism discourse are introduced […] Read more →
