THE ENIGMA OF NUMBERS
This is a very informative, highly readable book which sometimes invites the reader to dismiss its contents as piffle, yet on the next page raises…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
CREATIVE EVOLUTION
Those who seek a reconciliation between science and spirituality will warm to this vision which explains the biological evolution of life on this planet as…… Read More »
THE QUEST FOR THE SOUL OF SCIENCE
We live in times when the foundations of Science are under enormous threat. Yet it was only in the early 1990s that Stephen Hawking declared…… Read More »
SCIENCE AND THE INDIAN TRADITION: when Einstein met Tagore
Dr David Gosling is Principal of Edwardes College in the University of Peshawar. His may not be the safest job in the world but, as…… Read More »
SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION: A SCIENTIFIC DEFENSE OF FAITH
Paul Maclean's classic triune brain model shows how, during evolution, the small 'primitive' reptilian brain stem was first surrounded by the intermediate-sized paleo-mammalian 'limbic system'…… Read More »
WHY US?
Earlier in this issue James Le Fanu introduces the argument of this book, that the Human Genome Project and the Decade of the Brain have…… Read More »
Unknown Quanitity - A real imagined history of Algebra
An elegantly written and book about the history of algebra came to the general reader, but which nevertheless contains a considerable number of equations without…… Read More »
Tracker's Journey
An inspiring story of our cosmic evolution in which the author's character 'Tracker' reflects on the process of development and understanding, discovering that there are…… Read More »
A RETURN TO SUBJECTIVITY
John Caddy is a marine biologist who has undertaken his own personal odyssey from science to spirit, which he describes in this book. His two…… Read More »
HOLOGRAPHIC VISIONS: A HISTORY OF A NEW SCIENCE
Sean Johnston is both a historian of science and an optical physicist. This has put him into an ideal position to compile what is by…… Read More »