Inclusivity
Diarmuid O'Murchu is an Irish priest and social psychologist who takes a radical view of the gospel message, as indicated by his title. Although Jesus…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Thomas Merton Peacemaker
I read Merton's On Peace over 30 years ago, and remember reading one of the pieces entitled A Devout Meditation on Adolf Eichmann to a…… Read More »
Health Revelations from Heaven and Earth
This unusual book is a collaboration between a healer had a near death experience in 1999 and a holistic cardiologist. The introduction explains how the…… Read More »
The Decision Trap
This important book could not be less similar in its slant than the one immediately above. The framework within which the discussions of the book…… Read More »
Super Genes
This book follows the authors' collaboration on Super Brain, bringing together Chopra's expertise on mind-body medicine with Tanzi's knowledge of genetics – he is professor…… Read More »
Black Holes - a Very Short Introduction
This book describes not only the physics underlying the phenomenon of black holes, but also the history of thinking about these issues that led to…… Read More »
Junk DNA
Following her earlier book, The Epigenetics Revolution, Nessa Carey takes the reader on a tour through what she calls the dark matter of the genome,…… Read More »
Origins
Subtitled 'the scientific story of creation', this book is a real tour de force covering origins since the beginning of the universe, namely of space,…… Read More »
Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
Authors: Kostas Kampourakis, Ronald L Numbers
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Although the blurb uses the strong word 'debunking' this book is in fact more about setting the record straight by correcting misrepresentations and misconceptions about…… Read More »
Letters from the Malay Archipelago
Authors: Alfred Russel Wallace, John van Wyhe, Kees Rookmaker
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
The Network held a conference in 2008 to mark the 150th anniversary of the joint paper delivered to the Linnean Society by Wallace and Darwin.…… Read More »