The Life of the Ocean

N. J. Berrill

McGraw-Hill Inc.,US

From one of Canada's most distinguished writers and scientists comes this startlingly prescient examination of how humanity's evolutionary past shapes both human nature and the human future. Winner of the Governor General's Award for non-fiction in 1955 and hailed by The New York Times as demonstrating the imagination of an artist and the courage of an independent and original mind, Man's Emerging Mind is the compelling story of man's evolution, told with humour, insight, and poetry. In a book that remains as relevant as today's news headlines, Berrill examines the various crises confronting humanity-resource depletion, overpopulation, cultural nihilism, and ecological collapse-and suggests a way forward that safeguards both our essential humanity as well as the beauty and diversity of the natural world.

Man's Emerging Mind (Wynford Project)

Science & Math

Oxford University Press, Canada

Knowledge of the expanding universe has often confused and disturbed man. In the hope that more understanding will help to put man at his ease by showing him his place in nature as a whole, as part of a complex and dynamic relationship, this book handles the latest scientific theories with a philosophical approach. In discussing the nature of life itself, the origin of life and the origin of the solar system Dr. Berrill makes a plea for man to stand four-square to the universal world and to know his own worth. Man does not stand alone and his most urgent problem is to understand his continuities. When man discovers that he epitomizes the nature of the universe and is the essence of its continuity, he will cast out his fear of it and of his own nature. A light touch and a detached perspective make this ordinarily complex subject consistently readable.

You and the Universe

Science of Mind Publishing

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