Michael Lockwood Libros

This beautifully illustrated natural history travel guide is part of a series aimed at general readers and ecotourists interested in wildlife. It serves as an introduction to the natural history of Europe, focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, which features diverse landscapes such as snow-capped mountains, ancient forests home to bears and capercaillies, unique wood-pasture ecosystems, and arid areas populated by great bustards and sandgrouse. The region also includes mighty rivers and coastal estuaries rich in waterbirds, alongside the Balearic archipelago, known for its unique flora and abundant seabird colonies. The guide provides practical insights into the ecology, geology, and wildlife of Spain and the Balearic Islands, detailing where to experience the region's natural beauty. It features around 300 carefully selected sites, ranging from National Parks to common land, all accessible to the public. The authors' choices are based on extensive travel and research, ensuring a comprehensive overview of habitats and wildlife. The book is filled with stunning photographs, illustrations of plants and animals, color maps, and a composite painting that captures typical habitats and their inhabitants, making it an essential resource for nature enthusiasts.

This work presents a radically new approach to the mind-body problem, drawing together consideratons from such fields as the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, neurophysiology, relativity and quantum mechanics. The very existence of consciousness, the author argues, poses a challenge to the traditional view of matter, as do the paradoxes of quantum theory. If mind as revealed in introspection, matter as manifested in observation and experiment, are to be seen as dual aspects of a unitary underlying reality, then a fundamental adjustment is called for in our understanding of mental and physical phenomena alike. The book demonstrates the need for a conception that is rooted both in the latest thinking about the foundations of quantum mechanics and in some previously neglected ideas of Bertrand Russell. Its implications are far-reaching and startlingly at odds with the conventional way of looking at the world and at the place of mind within it.