- GOD
ACCORDING
TO
GOD, A physicist proves we have been wrong about God all
along
- Author: Gerald Schroeder, Ph.D.
- Publisher: Harper One/Harper
Collins 2009; ISBN 978-0061710155
- MIT physicist Gerald Schroeder, author of
Genesis and the Big Bang, offers a
view of
God based on re-examining traditional Biblical material, that is
supportive of
science and a rational understanding of the observable world of nature.
(Reviewed in Meru eTORUS #45, May 2009)
- To order from amazon.com, click
on
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- THE
REFLEXIVE
UNIVERSE,
Evolution of Consciousness
- Author: Arthur M. Young.
- Publisher: Anodos Foundation.
Revised edition ©1999; ISBN 1-89216-011-0
- Everything you would ever want to know
about the torus (doughnut shape).
- Cosmology, philosophy and physics. Highly
recommended.
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icon at right.
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- SYNERGETICS,
Volumes
1
& 2
- Author: R. Buckminster Fuller.
- Publisher: Macmillan Vol. 1:
1975 - ISBN 0-02-541870-X; Vol. 2: 1979 - ISBN 0-02-541880-7
- Fuller's magnum opus. Cosmology and
geometry. Superb; difficult to read.
This book now available as a browsable online website. Entrance
page is at:
www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/synergetics.html
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- SEFER
YETZIRAH,
The
Book of Creation, In Theory and Practice
- Author: Aryeh Kaplan
- Publisher: Sam Weiser 1990 ISBN
0-87728-726-0
- Perhaps the only credible translation and
discussion available in English.
To order from amazon.com, click on
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- THE
CIPHER
OF
GENESIS, The Original Code of the Qabala as Applied to the
Scriptures
- Author: Carlo Suares
- Publisher: Shambala 1970 (Eng.)
ISBN 0-87773-141-1
- A unique and insightful presentation;
valuable even with errors in details.
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- THE
WISDOM
IN
THE HEBREW ALPHABET,
The Sacred Letters
as a Guide to Jewish Deed & Thought - Author: Michael
L.
Munk
- Publisher: Artscroll Mesorah
1983 ISBN 0-89906-194-X
Traditional and authoritative Jewish presentation. Important Appendix.
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- THE
BOOK
OF
LETTERS, A Mystical Alef-Bet
- Author: Lawrence Kushner
- Publisher: Harper & Row 1975
ISBN 0-06-064900-3
- Introductory primer on the Hebrew
alphabet. Beautifully hand written.
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- KABBALAH,
The
Way
of the Jewish Mystic
- Author: Perle Epstein
- Publisher: Shambhala 1988 ISBN
0-87773-438-0
- One of the best introductions to Kabbalah.
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- THE
PATH
OF
THE KABBALAH
- Author: David Sheinkin, M.D.
- Publisher: Paragon House 1986
ISBN 0-913757-69-1
- An excellent introduction to Kabbalah.
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- THE
MYSTICAL
EXPERIENCE
IN ABRAHAM ABULAFIA
- Author: Moshe Idel
- Publisher: SUNY Press 1988 ISBN
0-88706-553-8
- Detailed academic treatment of some works
of one of the greatest kabbalists.
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- THE
LIVING
TORAH
IN HEBREW:
The Five Books of
Moses and the Haftarot/Hebrew and English in One Volume - Author:
Aryeh Kaplan
- Publisher: Moznaim Pub Corp;
ISBN: 0940118726
- Hardcover (June 1981)
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- THE
ZOHAR:
Pritzker
Edition, Vol. 1
- Author/Translator: Daniel C.
Matt
- Publisher: Stanford University
Press; ISBN: 0804747474
- Hardcover (October 2003)
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- THE
BOOKS
OF
CONTEMPLATION: Medieval Jewish Mystical Sources
- Author: Mark Verman
- Publisher: State Univ of New
York Pr; ISBN: 0791407195
- Hardcover (February 1992) (Suny Series in
Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion)
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- THE
BAHIR
- Translator: Aryeh Kaplan
- Publisher: Samuel Weiser; ISBN:
0877286183
- Paperback - 272 pages (September 1980)
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- THE
HANDBOOK
OF
JEWISH THOUGHT, Vol. 2
- Author: Aryeh Kaplan.
- Publisher: Moznaim Publishing
Corporation. ISBN 0-940118-79-3
- Coll. Trade Cloth - 396p. (December 1993)
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- THE
DIGNITY
OF
DIFFERENCE: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations
- Author: Chief Rabbi Sir
Jonathan Sacks
- Publisher: Continuum; ISBN:
0826468500
- Paperback - 156 pages (July 2003)
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- ABRAHAM
ISAAC
KOOK
- LIGHTS OF PENITENCE, LIGHTS OF HOLINESS:
The Moral
Principles, Essays, Letters and Poems - Translator:
Ben
Zion
Bokser
- Publisher: Paulist Press; ISBN:
080912159X ;
- Paperback - 415 pages (July 1978)
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- THE
INNER
MEANING
OF THE HEBREW LETTERS
- Author: Robert M. Haralick
- Publisher: Jason Aronson; ISBN:
1568213565
- Hardcover - 360 pages (September 1995)
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- THE
BOOK
OF
HEBREW SCRIPT
- Author: Ada Yardeni
- Publisher: British Library;
Bilingual Edition ISBN 1584560878
Hardcover: 355 pages
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- THE
TREE
OF
LIGHT, A Study of the Menorah
- Author: L. Yarden
- Publisher: Cornell Univ. Press 1971 ISBN
0-8014-0596-3
- The history of the Menorah - The Tree of
Light and the Tree of Life.
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- ALPHABETIC
LABYRINTH:
The
Letters in History and Imagination
- Author: Johanna Drucker
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson;
ISBN: 0500280681
- Paperback - 320 pages 1 Pbk Ed edition
(March 1999)
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- THE
EMPEROR'S
NEW
MIND, Concerning Computers, Minds,
and the Laws of Physics
- Author: Roger Penrose
- Publisher: Vintage 2007
ISBN 0-67-977631-1
- Comprehensive presentation of mind,
physics and artificial intelligence.
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- THE
ROAD
TO
REALITY: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
- Author: Roger Penrose
- Publisher: Oxford University
Press, 2002 (2nd ed.) ISBN 0-19-286198-0
- Penrose's exploration of the connection
between mathematics and the physical world.
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- THE
ELEGANT
UNIVERSE:
Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and
the Quest for the Ultimate
Theory
- Author: Brian Greene
- Publisher: Vintage Books; ISBN:
0375708111
- Paperback - 448 pages (February 29,
2000)
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- WARPED
PASSAGES:
Unraveling
the Mysteries of the Universe's
Hidden Dimensions
- Author: Lisa Randall
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
2006; ISBN: 0060531096
- Paperback - 512 pages
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- PROGRAMMING
THE
UNIVERSE:
A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos
- Author: Seth Lloyd
- Publisher: Vintage 2007; ISBN:
1400033861
- Paperback - 256 pages
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- ENDOPHYSICS:
The
World
As an Interface
- Author: Otto Rossler
- Publisher: World Scientific Pub
Co; ISBN: 9810227523
- Library Binding - 200 pages (July 1998)
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- THE
END
OF
TIME: The Next Revolution in Physics
- Author: Julian B. Barbour
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Press
2001; ISBN: 0195145925
- Paperback - 384 pages
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- TIME'S
ARROW
&
ARCHIMEDES' POINT: New Directions for the Physics of Time
- Author: Huw Price
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
(Trade); ISBN: 0195117980
- Paperback - 320 pages (September 1997)
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- THE
FABRIC
OF
REALITY: The Science of Parallel Universes-And Its
Implications
- Author: David Deutsch
- Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper);
ISBN: 014027541X
- Paperback - 400 pages (August 1998)
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- HYPERSPACE:
A
Scientific
Odyssey
Through Parallel
Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension - Author:
Michio Kaku
- Publisher: Anchor Press 1995;
ISBN: 0385477058
- Paperback - 384 pages
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- THE
SELF-AWARE
UNIVERSE:
How Consciousness Creates the Material World
- Authors: Maggie Goswami, Richard
E. Reed, Amit Goswami (Contributor), Fred Alan Wolf
- Publisher: J P Tarcher; ISBN:
0874777984
- Paperback Reprint edition (March 1995)
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- SUPERSTRINGS:
And
the
Search for the Theory of Everything
- Author: F. David Peat
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill 1989;
ISBN: 0809242575
- Paperback - 256 pages
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- PHYSICS
AS
METAPHOR
- Author: Roger Jones, Ph. D.
- Publisher: Univ. of Minnesota
1982 ISBN 0-8166-1916-6
- An important perspective on physics and
philosophy; readable and satisfying.
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- THE
HAND:
How
Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
- Author: Frank R. Wilson
- Publisher: Vintage Books; ISBN:
0679740473
- Paperback - 416 pages (September 1999)
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- HAND
AND
MIND:
What Gestures Reveal About Thought
- Author: David McNeill
- Publisher: University of Chicago
Press; ISBN: 0226561348
- Paperback - 558 pages (December 1995)
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- FROM
HAND
TO
MOUTH: The Origins of Language
- Author: Michael C. Corballis
- Publisher: Princeton University
Press; ISBN 0691116733
- Paperback - 272 pages (September 2003)
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- GEOMETRY
AND
THE
IMAGINATION
- Authors: David Hilbert, S.
Cohn-Vossen
- Publisher: Chelsea Pub Co; ISBN:
0821819984
- Hardcover Reprint edition (October 1999)
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- THE
FOURTH
DIMENSION,
A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes
- Author: Rudy Rucker
- Publisher: Mariner Books 1985
ISBN 0-395-39388-4 (paperback)
- Readable illustrated introduction to
understanding higher dimensional geometry.
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- CHAOS,
Making
a
New Science
- Author: James Gleick
- Publisher: Penguin (2008) ISBN
0143113453 Paperback
- One of the best (readable) introductions
to Fractals and Chaos theory.
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- MATHEMATICS,
THE
SCIENCE
OF PATTERNS: The Search for Order in Life, Mind, and the
Universe
- Author: Keith Devlin
- Publisher: Scientific American
Library (1997) ISBN 0716760223
- Paperback: 216 pages
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- A
PASSION
FOR
MATHEMATICS: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the
Quest for Reality
- Author: Clifford A. Pickover
- Publisher: Wiley; ISBN:
0471690988
- Paperback: 408 pages (2005)
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- THE
GOLDEN
RATIO:
The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
- Author: Mario Livio
- Publisher: Broadway ISBN
0767908163
- Paperback - 294 pages (2003)
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- AN
IMAGINARY
TALE:
The Story of "i" [the square root of minus one]
- Author: Paul J. Nahin
- Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr;
ISBN: 0691127980
- Paperback: 288 pages (January 15, 2007)
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- TRIGONOMETRIC
DELIGHTS
- Author: Eli Maor
- Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr;
ISBN: 0691095418
- Paperback - 256 pages (2002)
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- e:
The
Story
of a Number
- Author: Eli Maor
- Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr;
ISBN: 0691058547
- Paperback - 232 pages (April 1998)
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- THE
MYSTERY
OF
THE ALEPH: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for
Infinity
- Author: Amir D. Aczel
- Publisher: Washington Square
Press; ISBN 0743422996
- Paperback - 272 pages (2001)
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- A
HISTORY
OF
PI
- Author: Petr Beckmann
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press;
ISBN: 0312381859
- Paperback - 200 pages 19 edition (August
1976)
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- GÖDEL,
ESCHER,
BACH:
An Eternal Golden Braid
- Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Publisher: Basic Books; ISBN:
0465026567
- Paperback - 777 pages 20th anniv edition
(January 1999)
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- DELTA:
A
Paradox
Logic (Series on Knots and Everything, Vol 16)
- Author: Nathaniel Hellerstein
- Publisher: World Scientific Pub
Co; ISBN: 9810232438
- Hardcover (March 1998)
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- DIAMOND:
A
Paradox
Logic (Series on Knots and Everything).
- Author: Nathaniel Hellerstein
- Publisher: World Scientific Pub.
Co.; ISBN: 9810228503
- Hard Cover (January 1997)
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- SENSITIVE
CHAOS,
The
Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air
- Author: Theodor Schwenk
- Publisher: Steiner Press 1990
(revised) ISBN 1855840553
Paperback: 288 pages
- One of the best presentations of dynamic
forms in nature available. Many illustrations.
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- MIRACLES
OF
MIND:
Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spiritual Healing
- Authors: Russell Targ, Jane Katra
- Publisher: New World Library;
ISBN: 1577310977
- Paperback - 352 pages 2 edition (June
1999)
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- CATASTROPHE:
An
Investigation
into the Origins of the Modern World
- Author: David Keys
- Publisher: The Ballantine
Publishing Group ISBN 0-345-40876-4
- Hardcover - 343 pages (1999)
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- ISAAC
NEWTON:
The
Last Sorcerer
- Author: Michael White
- Publisher: Perseus Press (Helix
Books); ISBN: 073820143X
- Paperback - 416 pages (April 1999)
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- SERPENT
IN
THE
SKY, The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt
- Author: John Anthony West
- Publisher: Quest Books (1993) ISBN
0835606910
Paperback: 266 pages
- Coherent, open, inclusive, but not kooky,
presentation of Egyptian teachings.
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- THE
CODE
BOOK:
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum
Cryptography
- Author: Simon Singh
- Publisher: Anchor Books; ISBN:
0385495323
- Paperback - 410 pages (August 29, 2000)
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- CRACKING
THE
BIBLE
CODE
- Author: Jeffrey Satinover
- Publisher: William Morrow &
Co; ISBN: 068815994X
- Paperback - 368 pages Reprint edition
(June 1998)
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