The Latest Books, Audio Books, Music CD's and DVD

February 2009

Integral Consciousness and the Future of

Evolution

Steve McIntosh

HC AUD49.95

The newly emerging integral perspective represents the next crucial step in the development of our civilisation.

Steve McIntosh argues that the integral worldview's transformational potential provides a way for us to literally become the change we want to see in the world.

Through its new understanding of the evolution of consciousness and culture the enlarged way of seeing things known as integral consciousness offers realistic and pragmatic solutions to our growing global problems, both environmental and political. This book is divided into two sections.

The first half serves as an accessible and highly readable introduction to the power of integral consciousness, with the second half making a variety of original contributions to the integral perspective and breaking new ground in the application of integral philosophy to politics and spirituality.

Additionally Steve McIntosh provides a contextualisation and critique of the integral worldview's leading author, Ken Wilber, which helps make integral philosophy relevant to a larger audience.

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Integral City

Marilyn Hamilton

PB AUD49.95

Dr Marilyn Hamilton makes a statement in the preface of this book that sets the scene. She states: "At this stage of human existence, where is the new science of human cities?

Where are the successors to the great urban development pioneers?

Why do we seem to know more about the collective lives of ants, bees and termites that we do of the collective needs of our own species?

Are cities simply physical artifacts of human existence? Or aesthetic expressions of human consciousness? Or giant experiments of calamitous trials and errors that are dynamical changing only to be interpreted and analysed with limited insight?

How can cities tell us what we want to know most about human emergence, environmental sustainability and global well-being?"

She explores a new integral paradigm for cities that answers these and many more questions.

By tracing the evolution of the city's systematic, strategic, social and systemic intelligences and shows how planners, policy makers, citizens, civil society and environmentalists can sense, experience, relate to and live in the city with an integral consciousness.

Integral City will take you on an integrated journey through the cities inner, outer, building, storytelling intelligences and recalibrates intelligences for life-giving evolution on earth and futures in space.

Dr. Marilyn Hamilton is a 'meshworker' and founder of Integral City, creating conditions for the emergence of healthy ecologies in people systems.

Integral Life Practice

Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Adam Leonard and

Marco Morelli

PB AUD41.95

Over the last thirty-five years, Ken Wilber has developed an Integral 'theory of everything' that makes sense of how all the world's knowledge systems, East and West; ancient, modern and post modern, fit together and can elevate our awareness.

Drawing on science, psychology, human development, spirituality, religion and dozens of other fields, Integral Theory is a framework for understanding not only yourselves but also the world you live in.

This book contains a treasure trove of insights, methods and practices addressing your physical health, spiritual awareness, emotional balance, mental clarity, relational joy and energy levels.

The Necessary Revolution

Peter Senge et al

HC AUD39.95

Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy, and where "regenerative' commercial buildings, ones that create more energy than they use, are being designed.

A world in which environmentally sound products and processes would be more cost effective that wasteful ones. A world in which multi national companies are forming partnerships with environmental and social justice organizations to ensure better stewardship of the earth and better livelihoods in the developing world.

You don't have to imagine - that world is already emerging! Peter Senge and his co-authors reveal that companies around the world are boldly leading the change from 'business as usual' tactics to transforming strategies that are essential for creating a flourishing and sustainable world.

The book is filled with stories from individuals and companies tackling the social and environmental problems around the globe. Stories like the evolution of Sweden's 'Green Zone', Alcoa's water use reduction goals and many more.

You will find a wealth of strategies, with the tools and ways of thinking to help build the confidence and competence to respond effectively to the greatest challenge of our time.

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Imagine a Day

Sarah L. Thomson

HC AUD24.95

For each verse authored by Sarah L Thomson, Canadian artist Rob Gonslaves stretches the limits of visual exploration with his breathtaking paintings.

Both Sarah and Rob encourage readers to look beyond the limits of the everyday world and imagine a day when the ordinary becomes the extraordinary a day - when anything is possible.

Each double page spread starts with the words - Imagine a Day … followed by an example expressed in words and a painting.

Influenced by many of the surrealist movement painters, Rob Gonslaves has worked as an architect and as a painter of trompe l'oeil murals and theatre sets.

After his work received acclaim at the 1990 Toronto Outdoor art exhibition he has been painting full time.

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