Teilhard's Mysticism
This book by physicist Kathleen Duffy is a real gem – subtitled 'seeing the inner face of evolution.' Seeing is the operative word, but including…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Narrating Karma and Rebirth
Subtitled Buddhist and Jain multi-life stories, this interesting book explores how such stories of karma and rebirth are used to illustrate these foundational doctrines and…… Read More »
The Stoic Sage
Subtitled 'the early Stoics on wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates', this is a scholarly investigation of these themes starting from the two extant definitions that wisdom…… Read More »
A History of Pythagoreanism
In his History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell famously described Pythagoras as a cross between Einstein and Mary Baker Eddy. He has had an immense…… Read More »
Spitting Blood
This thorough and highly readable study of the history of tuberculosis makes grim reading at times. The prologue tells the story of the struggles of…… Read More »
Genomics and the Reimagining of Personalised Medicine
Sir William Osler, the Canadian-born Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford a hundred years ago famously said that it was more important to know what…… Read More »
Stargazers Almanac 2015
I meant to mention this Almanac in December as we are now already in April. Each month has a north and south aspect illustrated as…… Read More »
The Myth of Race
This comprehensive book begins with an anecdote from Guy Harrison, who studied anthropology at university in the 1980s and learned for the first time that…… Read More »
Does Altruism Exist?
Interestingly, although this book also deals with the evolution of altruism, neither author references the other although both stress the centrality of action. The basic…… Read More »
The Altruistic Brain
The title of this ground-breaking book begs the question that brains, rather than persons, can be altruistic - is this just a category error? What…… Read More »