A Brief History of Life: From the Origin of Life to the End of the Universe (The Science of Life and Consciousness, #1)

by Richard Underwood

Overview

Life is something we all understand. We feel it physically and emotionally. We have examined our own life internally and externally. We have examined other people's lives externally. Many of us have experienced the joy a new life brings, and the heartache the death of a loved one brings.
All adults have lived longer than it takes to complete a PhD, so when it comes to the subject of life, we should all be experts. Unfortunately, despite the accumulated years of study, 'life' is a subject which has few experts, and what experts there are disagree about almost every facet of the subject.
My own years of study have led me to believe we have been too close to the subject. We are so familiar with seeing life all around us that we have lost the ability to view it objectively. Life is too complex for us to put it into boxes labelled biology, chemistry, physics, etc. because it incorporates all those disciplines and more.
This popular science book is an attempt to broaden our horizon by looking at life from two different perspectives. Inwardly, it examines the smallest particles from which all living things are made. Outwardly, it considers our place in the vastness of our universe.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940167456679
Publisher:	Taid Publishing
Publication date:	05/25/2023
Series:	The Science of Life and Consciousness
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	738 KB

About the Author

Richard Underwood has a wide range of experience and interests.

He joined the medical branch of the Royal Air Force straight from school, and served in hospital and medical centres at home and abroad. After leaving the air force he worked firstly as a mental health nurse and then a police officer in Greater Manchester.

He subsequently became a minister of religion for twenty-years, being ordained and commissioned as a Salvation Army Officer and later becoming an Industrial Chaplain to the Fishing Industry as a Superintendent with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. During this period he also obtained a BSc(Hons) in Social Science and a diploma in counselling.

On leaving the ministry he became a civil servant at a Government Office in Leeds where he specialised in Technology and Innovation, and became the Company Secretary of a Regional Technology Network before becoming a staff counsellor for the West Yorkshire Ambulance Service, and Chief Executive of a national counselling charity.

He spent two periods as a welfare rights officer, one with Bolton Social Services and one with Salford Social Services, both in Greater Manchester, providing training and advice, and representing clients at Social Security appeal tribunals.

In his late fifties he moved to Suffolk where he became a sheltered housing manager until his retirement.

After retirement he returned to nursing, working on general wards and acute mental health wards at Bury and Ipswich hospitals in Suffolk for several years until his seventieth birthday when he moved back to Droylsden, Manchester where he lives with his wife and from where he is engaged in writing and research.