Making Sense of Evolution
Subtitled 'Darwin, God and the Drama of Life', this book by a well-known science and religion scholar steers a middle path between scientific materialism and…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
The Laws of Thermodynamics
An updated and reformatted edition of Four Laws that Drive the Universe, a lucid and succinct account of the laws specifying the nature of temperature,…… Read More »
Beyond the Hoax
Alan Sokal is famous, even notorious, for his spoof article parodying post-modernists and which was published in the cultural studies Journal Social Text in 1996.…… Read More »
Second Nature - the Inner Lives of Animals
A radical book calling for a revolution in the way we treat animals. Readers may remember that Descartes regarded animals as automata with little more…… Read More »
Decoding Reality: the Universe as Quantum Information
This stimulating book is the result of a 15-year reflection on the nature and implications of information, arguing that the universe and everything in it…… Read More »
Forensic Science - a Very Short Introduction
An authoritative guide to this field at the interface between science and law. As we know, criminal cases can hinge on a crucial piece of…… Read More »
R.E.A.L.I.T.Y.
The biggest questions, pursued to their end, all start to shimmer into one. Why is there something, rather than nothing? Why is the universe the…… Read More »
HOW HUMANITY CAME INTO BEING
In the standard model as given by modern science, the evolution of consciousness has depended on the increase in the size of the brain. Changes…… Read More »
DEFINING DARWIN
How would the shy and retiring Charles Darwin have reacted to the hoopla surrounding his 200th birthday party (also the 150th anniversary of the publication…… Read More »
The Heretic in Darwin's Court
A comparison between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founders of the natural selection theory of evolution, is a fascinating study in contrasts. Although both…… Read More »