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Here is the book that Rolling Stone called "the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors\' brief but brilliant life as a group".

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Philby, the agent, double agent, traitor, enigma revealed all to Knightley just before his death. Few knew the real man behind the impenetrable facade that for years fooled British Intelligence, the CIA and the FBI. After he defected to Russia in 1963, he maintained a code of silence for 25 years - until a few weeks before his death. He invited journalist Phillip Knightley to his Moscow apartment and in six days of conversation he bared his soul as never before. he told of his childhood, the influence of his extraordinary father and the events that lead him inexorably to turn traitor. He tells the story before and after defection and gives his veiws on everything form loyalty and patriotism to pop music and Margaret Thatcher.

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Why do many phenonmena defy the explanations of conventional biology and physics? For instance, when laboratory rats in one place have learned how to navigate a new maze, why do rats elsewhere seem to learn it more easily? Rupert Sheldrake describes this process as <em>morphic resonance:</em> the past forms and behaviors of organisms, he argues, influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and space. Calling into question many of our fundamental concepts about life and consciousness, Sheldrake reinterprets the regularities of nature as being more like habits than immutable laws.<br /><br />The first edition of <em>A New Science of Life</em> created a furor when it appeared, provoking the outrage of the old-guard scientific community and the approbation of the new. The British journal <em>Nature</em> called it "the best candidate for burning there has been for many years." A lively debate ensued, as researchers devised experiments testing Sheldrake\'s hypothesis, including some involving millions of people through the medium of television. These developments are recorded in this revised and expanded edition.<br /><br />

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