Between Debt and the Devil
Adair Turner was a scholar of Gonville and Caius College and President of the Union when I was at Cambridge 40 years ago. Now in…… Read More »
Book Reviews
The Infinite Desire for Growth
The author is Director of the Economics Department at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, so this book has been translated from French. As such,…… Read More »
Climate Justice and Geoengineering
This new volume makes interesting reading as a follow-up to my review of Experiment Earth in Issue 123 (p. 53-54). It also cites the 2006…… Read More »
Brave New Arctic
Subtitled 'the untold story of the melting north', I was curious to see if the work of Peter Wadhams on this topic reviewed last summer…… Read More »
How Behaviour Spreads
On the basis of original experimental research, this book about the science of complex contagions gives the lie to parallels between the diffusion of viruses…… Read More »
The Origins of Happiness
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
Based on extensive longitudinal data in four countries, this book about the science of well-being over the life course is a significant contribution not only…… Read More »
Our Minds, Our Selves
Subtitled 'a brief history of psychology', this book is both thematic and biographical in terms of people who have made significant breakthroughs in the field.…… Read More »
The Jaynes Legacy
This book is a more idiosyncratic approach to Jaynes by an author with degrees in physics, philosophy and medicine. The first three chapters provide a…… Read More »
The 'Other' Psychology of Julian Jaynes
Julian Jaynes (1920-1997) was famous for his controversial book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, first published in 1976. It…… Read More »
The Interbrain
The author is emeritus professor of psychiatry in the University of Sheffield and the author of two books on autism. Here he explains the significance…… Read More »