Brain Bugs
An authoritative overview of how brain flaws shape our lives by a professor of neurobiology and psychology at UCLA. Much of the vocabulary is technological,…… Read More »
Category: Science
THE INTUITIVE WAY OF KNOWING – A Tribute to Brian Goodwin
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science
As many readers will already know, Brian Goodwin was a visionary biologist, mathematician and philosopher who was professor of biology at the Open University, a…… Read More »
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 »
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 »
Energizing Water
A number of readers will be familiar with the more esoteric work on water connected with Rudolf Steiner, focusing more on qualitative aspects, rhythmic patterns…… Read More »
THE SOLITARY SELF: DARWIN AND THE SELFISH GENE / WHAT DARWIN GOT WRONG
Authors: Gerry Fodor, Mary Midgley, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini
Reviewer: Edward James
Category: Science
Mary Midgley and Gerry Fodor are both renowned philosophers, but both are also deeply concerned with the constructs and procedures of Natural Science as they…… Read More »
The End of Discovery
Here Russell Stannard asks if we are approaching the boundaries of the knowable in fundamental science, not in the naïve sense of scientists at the…… Read More »
METAMORPHOSIS: Evolution in Action
Metamorphosis is a truly exceptional and beautiful book which imparts extraordinary insight into the mysterious but highly ordered processes of evolution. Andreas Suchantke comes very…… 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 »
Nature's Due: Healing Our Fragmented Culture
This remarkable book is Brian Goodwin's biological testament, summing up the work he has been doing throughout his career since the 1960s along with the…… Read More »