Mark Vernon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Psychotherapist, writer, podcaster. A Secret History of Christianity (2019). Dante’s Divine Comedy (2021). Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps (2022).
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey
Mark VernonMark VernonDelighted that the audiobook of Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey has been released, just in time for Christmas! https://t.co/Sho3KC7EyC
Paperback, 2021
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David GraeberMark VernonThe Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow is a fascinating, disruptive read, debunking Pinker and Harari, but rests on its own state of nature myth and reads back into the past with modern eyes - which precisely ain't what we need now... https://youtu.be/tbbryQ03loo
Paperback, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Prophetic Books of William Blake: Milton
William BlakeMark VernonA thought on Jez Butterworth's brilliant Jerusalem, via William Blake. https://t.co/9yfYgRKH3j
Paperback, 2015
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Divine Comedy: Paradise: Large Print
DanteMark VernonTwo new online courses this autumn! A chance to be guided through Dante's Divine Comedy. A chance to ask, what is Spiritual Intelligence 👉🏽 https://t.co/i3jIgFLCJY
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Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
Oliver BulloughMark VernonButler to the World? "The extremely resourceful well-mannered person who solves your problems amorally, in exchange for fees." Oliver Bullough explains the title of his new book @idler drinks. Incidentally, that loveable butler Jeeves, is, when you look, a "one man crime wave". https://t.co/m8vpYWz7PG
Hardcover, 2022
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness, 12th, Revised Edition
Evelyn UnderhillMark VernonEvelyn Underhill, author of the seminal study on mysticism, saw how #Dante conveyed the “secret of the world, this primal verity” in the #DivineComedy: the kingdom of God within, “the consciousness of an individual relation between that one self and the Supernal Self.” #Dante700 https://t.co/ExdMiF3ypC
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Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
Carlo RovelliMark VernonReviews of Carlo Rovelli's new book, #Anaximander, are expressing some wariness of the physicist's thesis. But none I've read quite nail why Rovelli is wrong about his Ancient Greek hero. Until now... https://t.co/TaTBFniUir
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
Robin DunbarMark VernonPut together two new books on human evolution by Robin Dunbar and Simon Conway Morris and what do you get? A revision of cosmic perceptions and intimations of a future over the horizon of current constraints... https://t.co/1OFehlRdMR
Paperback, 2020
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Priority of Mind
Keith WardMark Vernon"A highly purposive, valuable, and meaningful activity [namely the activity called science] has to be engaged in to produce a theory that nature has no purposes, values, or meaning." Enjoying the wit, in both senses, of Keith Ward’s latest, The Priority of Mind. https://t.co/mOlKNOwWFm
Hardcover, 2021
$31.00$15.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text
DanteMark VernonScene spotting #Dante's Inferno in Raphael’s Saint Michael @nationalgallery. 'Twas commissioned by a Montefeltro whose ancestor Dante saw in a low circle of hell, having faked his piety and conspired with a warring pope. Guilty about war-mongering? Commission some religious art. https://t.co/UIsVvnw7t4
Paperback, 2021
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book