Forgotten Civilization
Subtitled 'the role of solar outbursts in our past and future', this study claims that the last ice age was brought to an abrupt close…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Artificers of Fraud
This provocatively titled book investigates the work of Robert Brown, FRS (1773-1858) and Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) on the science of life energy. Brown is the…… Read More »
The Faith of Biology
Originally published in 2000, this updated edition includes a new preface about these reflections on order, meaning and free will in modern medical science. Pollack…… Read More »
Evolution, Games and God
Authors: Martin A. Nowak, Sarah Coakley
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
I reviewed Martin Nowak's own book on cooperation in the last issue, and this current multi-author volume builds on this work and was supported by…… Read More »
Pneumatology of Matter
This is a major philosophical treatise elaborating a new metaphysic of subjective materialism that overcomes many of the issues raised by a mechanistic outlook. The…… Read More »
Evolutionaries
Carter Phipps is a writer who as editor of Enlighten-Next had many opportunities to interview leading evolutionary thinkers. Here he provides an antidote to Daniel…… Read More »
THE IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENS
In a book I reviewed a couple of years ago, Larry LeShan wisely observed that impossible things don't happen. If they happen, they are by…… Read More »
WHY GENES ARE NOT SELFISH AND PEOPLE ARE NICE: A CHALLENGE TO THE DANGEROUS IDEAS THAT DOMINATE OUR LIVES
At the heart of Colin Tudge's new book (title here abbreviated to Not Selfish), is the notion that a paradigm shift in scientific and economic…… Read More »
Taking Appearance Seriously
Readers will have seen that Henri Bortoft died at the end of last year. In this his last book following his earlier The Wholeness of…… Read More »
Lynn Margulis
This book represents an attempt by Dorion Sagan, the son of and collaborator with Lynn Margulis, to summarise Lynn's life and work. He has got…… Read More »