Secularism
This is an excellent and sympathetic introduction to secularism as an approach to the 'ordering of communities, nations, and states', in other words its political…… Read More »
Category: General
Big Data
Big data is in the news, and this excellent very short introduction brings the reader up to speed and enables them to understand the various…… Read More »
Privacy
This invaluable book certainly lives up to its title of what everyone needs to know about privacy in a rapidly evolving digital environment where we…… Read More »
The Forgiveness Project
I read and reviewed Desmond Tutu's book on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa over 10 years ago, and he kindly provided a…… Read More »
How Universities can Help Create a Better World
I reviewed Nicholas Maxwell's Understanding Scientific Progress in the last issue, and in this earlier book he focuses his thesis more particularly on how universities…… Read More »
The Sum of Small Things
In 1899, the Norwegian economist Thorstein Veblen published his book Theory of the Leisure Class, where he coined the phrase conspicuous consumption. The author reflects…… Read More »
Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: General
Sir Edward Tylor (1832-1917) was the first professor of social anthropology at Oxford and is author of the famous Primitive Culture, which he published in…… Read More »
On the Ocean – the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to 1500 AD
I reviewed Sir Barry's last brilliant work, Between Steppe, Desert and Ocean just over a year ago and here he has produced another magisterial tour…… Read More »
WHY ONLY US: LANGUAGE AND EVOLUTION
This is not a book for the faint-hearted and, unless there has been some serious brightening-up in recent years, readers able to understand its every…… Read More »
My Heart is too Big for my Pacemaker
This short of book of poems is written by a long-term resident of the Sufi centre at Chisholm House in the Scottish Borders. The poems…… Read More »