HOMO DEUS. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROW
Historian Yuval Noah Harari (YNH), author of the successful book Sapiens, a Brief History of Mankind, reviewed above, ended that exposition by asking if we…… Read More »
Category: Science & Society
The Turning Point
This is a very different book from the one of the same title written by Fritjof Capra over 30 years ago. The thrust of the…… Read More »
Making Sense of Nature
This accessible and interdisciplinary textbook shows how wide and contested the term nature can be, indicating how epistemically dependent the general public is on a…… Read More »
The Art and Politics of Science
Harold Varmus is one of the most distinguished of living American scientists, having won the Nobel Prize in medicine and been director of the NIH.…… Read More »
Biotechnology
Subtitled 'Corporate Power versus the Public Interest', this is a hard-hitting analysis of the regulation of biotechnology worldwide. He argues that the whole process represents…… Read More »
ENOUGH
For those who are tired of having nightmares about the threat to civilisation posed by Fundamentalist terrorism, this book offers a new horror to worry…… Read More »
The Case for a GM Free Sustainable World
This is the full version of the executive summary published in the last issue. It is the most succinct case available against the widespread introduction…… Read More »
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DON'T WORRY [IT'S SAFE TO EAT]
Eighteen months ago I wrote a review of a number of books analysing the direction of university education. In it I observed that education was…… Read More »
Redesigning Humans
This is a challenging book that suggests that humans will 'seize control of our evolutionary future' (a very loaded phrase!) and that it will become…… Read More »
The Hidden Connections
It is 25 years since I first crowded into a room overlooking Trinity College Gate in Cambridge to hear a talk by Fritjof, who had…… Read More »