Abensur, Nadine, The Cranks Bible: A Timeless Collection of Vegetarian Recipes, Cassell 2002 'Nadine Abensur was born in Morocco. She is one of the UK's top vegetarian chefs, with French-Jewish parents and draws on this heritage of culinary richness for creating recipes. She began her career by working in restaurants around the world, then set up her own vegetarian catering company. Nadine is the author of CRANKS LIGHT, THE NEW CRANKS RECIPE BOOK and CRANKS FAST FOOD.' 
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Alexander, Eben, Proof of heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife, Simon & Schuster 2012 'Eben Alexander, M.D., has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last twenty-five years, including fifteen years at the Brigham & Women’s and the Children’s Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Visit him at LifeBeyondDeath.net.' 
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Casti, John L, Five Golden Rules: Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics - and Why They Matter, John Wiley and Sons 1996 Preface: '[this book] is intended to tell the general reader about mathematics by showcasing five of the finest achievements of the mathematician's art in this [20th] century.' p ix. Treats the Minimax theorem (game theory), the Brouwer Fixed-Point theorem (topology), Morse's theorem (singularity theory), the Halting theorem (theory of computation) and the Simplex method (optimisation theory). 
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Cleary, Thomas, The Flower Ornament Scripture: a Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra, Shambala Publications 1993 Jacket: "'As to the Avatamsaka Sutra, it is really the consummation of Buddhist thought, Buddhist sentiment and Buddhist experience. To my mind no religious literature in the world can ever approach the grandeur of conception, the depth of feeling and the gigantic scale of composition as attained by this sutra.' D T Suzuki. Known in Chinese as Hua-yen and in Japanese as Kegon-kyo, the Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Scripture, is held in the highest regard and studied by Buddhists of all traditions. Through its structure and symbolism, as well as through its concisely stated principles, it conveys a vast range of Buddhist teachings. This one-volume edition constains Thomas Cleary's definitive translation of all thirty-nine books of the sutra, along with an introduction, a gloassary, and Cleary's translation of Li Tongxuan's seventh-century guide to the final book, the Gandavyuha, 'Entry into the Realm of Reality'" 
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Damasio, Antonio R, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Harcourt Brace 1999 Jacket: 'In a radical departure from current views on consciousness, Damasio contends that explaining how we make mental images or attend to those images will not suffice to elucidate the mystery. A satisfactory hypothesis for the making of consciousness must explain how the sense of self comes to mind. Damasio suggests that the sense of self does not depend on memory or on reasoning or even less on language. [it] depends, he argues, on the brain's ability to portray the living organism in the act of relating to an object. That ability, in turn, is a consequence of the brain's involvement in the process of regulating life. The sense of self began as yet another device aimed an ensuring survival.' 
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Davis, Martin, Computability and Unsolvability, Dover 1982 Preface: 'This book is an introduction to the theory of computability and non-computability ususally referred to as the theory of recursive functions. The subject is concerned with the existence of purely mechanical procedures for solving problems. . . . The existence of absolutely unsolvable problems and the Goedel incompleteness theorem are among the results in the theory of computability that have philosophical significance.' 
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Mantel, Hilary, Bring Up the Bodies, Henry Holt and Co 2012 'Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head?' 
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Misner, Charles W, and Kip S Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation, Freeman 1973 Jacket: 'Einstein's description of gravitation as curvature of spacetime led directly to that greatest of all predictions of his theory, that the universe itself is dynamic. Physics still has far to go to come to terms with this amazing fact and what it means for man and his relation to the universe. John Archibald Wheeler. . . . this is a book on Einstein's theory of gravity. . . . ' 
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Nicholls, Christine, Earthworks: Contemporary Indigenous Australian Ceramic Art, 2012  
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Veltman, Martinus, Diagrammatica: The Path to the Feynman Rules, Cambridge University Press 1994 Jacket: 'This book provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. The aim is to make clear what the physical foundations of present-day field theory are, to clarify the physical content of Feynman rules, and to outline their domain of applicability. ... The book includes valuable appendices that review some essential mathematics, including complex spaces, matrices, the CBH equation, traces and dimensional regularization. ...' 
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Conway, John, Simon Kochen, "The Free Will Theorem", Foundations of Physics, 36, 10, October 2006, page 1441-1473. 'Abstract On the basis of three physical axioms, we prove that if the choice of a particular type of spin 1 experiment is not a function of the information accessible to the experimenters, then its outcome is equally not a function of the information accessible to the particles. We show that this result is robust, and deduce that neither hidden variable theories nor mechanisms of the GRW type for wave function collapse can be made relativistic and causal. We also establish the consistency of our axioms and discuss the philosophical implications.'. back

Al-Mulk - Wikipedia, Al-Mulk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Sūrat al-Mulk (Arabic: سورة الملك‎, "Sovereignty, Kingdom") is the 67th chapter (surah) of the Quran, comprising 30 verses.[1] The sura emphasizes that no individual can impose his will on another; he may only guide and set an example (67:26).' back

Black Chicks Talking - Wikipedia, Black Chicks Talking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Black Chicks Talking is an arts project by Australian actress Leah Purcell featuring a 2001 documentary film, a 2002 book, a stage production and an art exhibition. The film is co-directed by Brendan Fletcher and features Indigenous Australian women including Purcell, actress Deborah Mailman and politician Kathryn Hay. Following the book and film, Purcell wrote a fictionalised dramatisation under the same title.' back

Brideshead Revisited (film) - Wikipedia, Brideshead Revisited (film) - Wikipedia,the free encyclopedia, ' Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously had been adapted in 1981 as the television serial Brideshead Revisited.' back

Caitlin Morrison, Companies leading of climate change also outperform on stock exchange, research shows, ' The best performing companies based on a range of climate change measures are also outperforming the stock market, according to research by CDP, formerly known as Carbon Disclosure Project. CDP ranked more than 6,800 companies, grading them from A to D-, with just 2 per cent making the A list. The data was released to coincide with the World Economic Forum summit, which is taking place in Davos, Switzerland this week. Organisations were judged on the actions they have taken across three categories: climate change, water security and forests.' back

Christine Emba, What a dead Samurai can teach us about the Covington controversy, ' . . . an attentive viewer can understand why, in Kurosawa’s ancient Japan, a judge would tend to believe the word of a ghostly samurai over that of a notorious brigand. It’s not because the spectral rendition is more likely to be correct but because residual markers of class and status tend to render the former more appealing than the latter. The same is true today, the result of our nation’s original sins. In nearly all circumstances, Americans — right-wing or not — are far more likely to believe the PR-polished statements of a clean-cut young white man than the protests of a person of color.' back

Elon Gilad, In the Bigynnyng: A Brief History of the English Bible, ' In the beginning, there was no English version of the Hebrew Bible. As Christianity was born and the Church evolved, for centuries on end, it used a Latin translation of the Bible done by St. Jerome in the 4th century. The Vulgate was the only version of the Bible the Church of Rome sanctioned, and so it was in the churches of medieval England as well. This began to change in the 14th century, a turbulent time in English history, which saw the Great Famine and intense social upheaval. And to top this off in Europe, the Church was in the middle of a schism.' back

John H. Conway and Simon Kochen, The Strong Free Will Theorem, 'The two theories that revolutionized physics in the twentieth century, relativity and quantum mechanics, are full of predictions that defy common sense. Recently, we used three such paradoxical ideas to prove “The Free Will Theorem” (strengthened here), which is the culmination of a series of theorems about quantum mechanics that began in the 1960s. It asserts, roughly, that if indeed we humans have free will, then elementary particles already have their own small share of this valuable commodity. More precisely, if the experimenter can freely choose the directions in which to orient his apparatus in a certain measurement, then the particle’s response (to be pedantic—the universe’s response near the particle) is not determined by the entire previous history of the universe.' back

Johnny Cash, Bitter tears (full), 1. As Long As the Grass Shall Grow 00:00
2. Apache Tears 06:10
3. Custer 08:48
4. The Talking Leaves 11:09
5. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes (Album Version) 15:03
6. Drums 19:12
7. White Girl 24:15
8. The Vanishing Race 27:19 back

Michael E. Ruane, When few enslaved people in the United States could write, one man wrote his memoir in Arabic, ' As a slave, he was called “Morro” or “Uncle Moreau.” A dignified man in his 60s, he was small in stature, unfit for hard work and had been enslaved for almost a quarter-century. He spoke limited English. But his real name was Omar ibn Said. He had been a Muslim scholar in West Africa, where he was abducted in 1807. And in 1831, when few enslaved people in the United States could read or write, he wrote what is thought to be the only surviving slave narrative of its kind, in Arabic.' back

No cloning theorem - Wikipedia, No cloning theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The no cloning theorem is a result of quantum mechanics which forbids the creation of identical copies of an arbitrary unknown quantum state. It was stated by Wootters, Zurek, and Dieks in 1982, and has profound implications in quantum computing and related fields.' back

Peter Martin, Inside the Vast Police State at the Heart of China's Belt and Road, 'Western politicians and economists long-predicted that once China opened its markets, its society would inevitably open up, too. As China digs in for a protracted trade war with the United States that’s as much about competing worldviews as steel and soybeans, he appears out to prove them wrong. If anything, China under Xi is becoming less free even as he preaches openness abroad.' back

Sabine Hossenfelder, The Uncertain Future of Particle Physics, 'In 2012, experiments at the L.H.C. confirmed the discovery of the Higgs boson — a prediction that dates back to the 1960s — and it remains the only discovery made at the L.H.C. Particle physicists are quick to emphasize that they have learned other things: For example, they now have better knowledge about the structure of the proton, and they’ve seen new (albeit unstable) composite particles. But let’s be honest: It’s disappointing.' back