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Embryogenesis

Species, Gender, and Identity

Written by Richard Grossinger, Illustrated by Phoebe Gloeckner and Jillian O'Malley
Embryogenesis

  • Price: $75.00

  • ISBN: 978-1-55643-359-7 (1-55643-359-X)
  • Hardcover, 8 x 10, 950 pages
    Science - Evolution
    North Atlantic Books

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Description:

Embryogenesis completes an ethnographer's 22-year study of the origins and boundaries of the universe. Echoing Sheldon Nuland's How We Die, Sogyal Rinpoche's Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and many other sources, this book makes the vital link between science and religion as it discusses the evolution of the species. Touching on everything from Darwin to Derrida, and with headings running the gamut from "Chaos and Zen" to "The Universal Cellular Mold," this tome is for the reader with a large appetite for bold, eccentric investigations and with the leisure to digest such eclectic fare.

Author Biography:

A graduate of Amherst College, Richard Grossinger received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, writing an ethnography of fishing in Maine. He is the author of many books, a portion of which is listed below:

Planet Medicine
Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings
The Night Sky
Homeopathy: The Great Riddle
New Moon
Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossinger's

He and his wife Lindy Hough are the founding publishers of North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California.

Reviews/Endorsements:

"In this work Richard Grossinger has singlehandedly deconstructed and spiritualized embryogenesis."
—David Ulansey, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and Religion, California Institute of Integral Studies

"For all his genius in putting together a context, for bringing into one field science and imagination, it is [Grossinger's] own work that remains most amazing...Pound, at most, in The Cantos had proposed a poem that contained history. Olson went further: the poetic was the primary knowledge from which the truth of history must spring; only the mythopoetic could reach the heart of the matter. In Grossinger the old arguments of these poets, men in transition, battering often at the walls of old institutions of mind that they might have let go, the old polemics are gone, or rather swept up in a new order."
—Robert Duncan, Author of Roots and Branches and The Opening of the Field

"Richard Grossinger has achieved a poetic scholarship that dazzles with its sensual nuance of unfolding life. Grossinger's vivid writing creates an awe-inspiring odyssey that goes beyond the act of reading. Embryogenesis should be introduced to young readers as an essential part of their educational programs."
—Emilie Conrad, Founder of Continuum