The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's
This study by a philosopher of evolutionary theory enables the general reader to understand more about the history of evolution, the nature of neo-Darwinism and…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Thinking in Systems
Donella Meadows (1941-2001) was a well-known systems theorist who worked for three decades on the limits of growth agenda. This book was completed in the…… Read More »
Space and Counterspace
This is a book building on the work of Rudolf Steiner on counterspace, which formed part of his scientific approach incorporating a deeper level of…… Read More »
Branches: Nature's Patterns, A Tapestry in Three Parts
This is the third in a series of books (the last two have been reviewed in earlier issues) about patterns in nature. Branching and interconnection…… Read More »
Seeing through Illusions
Written by one of the foremost researchers into the nature of illusions, this book provides fascinating insights into how the brain perceives the world, conditioned…… Read More »
Flow
This is the second of three books on nature's patterns, and some of the remarks I made about the first volume also apply to this…… Read More »
Gaia and Climate Change
A remarkable theological response to the crisis of climate change, following on from her earlier books on Gaia and theology. Anne's thesis is that Gaia…… Read More »
Waking up in Time
Originally published in 1992 as A White Hole in Time and updated in 1998, this new edition contains a foreword by Ervin Laszlo and a…… Read More »
Galileo Goes to Jail
This book is the outcome of a project supported by the John Templeton Foundation and arising out of a meeting in 2007. It is a…… Read More »
Virus of the Mind
A book about the science of memes, a term invented by Richard Dawkins and further popularised by Susan Blackmore. Besides the meme, the book is…… Read More »