New Zealand Doctor Wins US Book Award

New Zealand Doctor Wins US Book Award

Auckland GP Dr Robin Kelly has won Science Book of the Year at the 2011 USA Best Books Awards, for his third book The Human Hologram.

His second book also won Science Book of the Year in 2008.

The winners of the awards, in its ninth year, were announced by USABookNews.com, an online magazine and review website for publishing houses.

Jeffrey Keen, president and CEO of USA Book News, said in a statement that this year's contest yielded an unprecedented number of entries. “The 2011 results represent a phenomenal mix of books from a wide array of publishers throughout the United States.”

Other winners included Anne Geddes for Beginnings (photography and e books non-fiction), Anthony Menginie and Kerrie Droban for Prodigal Father Pagan Son (autobiography/memoirs), Kitty Kelley for Oprah: A Biography (biography), and Jane Kirkpatrick for The Daughter's Walk (general fiction).

Dr Kelly says his book explores “fairly mind-stretching scientific theories. For example, are there other realities or dimensions beyond those we perceive with our five senses? Are we holographic beings in a holographic universe? And if all this is so, what does this mean for our health and our future in general? ”

The Human Hologram is written in an easy-to-read style for the general public, with many stories and case studies from Dr Kelly’s 30 years in general practice on Auckland’s North Shore.

www.robinkelly.co.nz

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