Illumination
An interesting and therapeutic book taking the reader on a healing journey involving indigenous South American shamanism and neurobiology. The process is one of initiation…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Vaccination - a Guide for Making Personal Choices
Second edition of this balanced guide for parents concerned with making the right choice about vaccinating their children, a subject which has been widely debated.…… Read More »
Information - a Very Short Introduction
Another brilliant addition to this series by the founder of the philosophy of information and drawing on the work of Claude Shannon. The concept applies…… Read More »
Overcoming Modernity
Subtitled 'synchronicity and image-thinking', this book constitutes a cultural critique of modern Western science using as a point of departure not only Japanese culture but…… Read More »
The Eerie Silence: Are we Alone in the Universe?
Author: Paul Davies
Reviewer: David Lorimer
SETI has been in the news, with the recent conference held at the Royal Society. This book is a far examination of the whole field,…… Read More »
Animate Earth - Science, Intuition and Gaia
Second edition of the book I reviewed 18 months ago when it first came out, and which has been very well received. The main differences…… Read More »
Making Sense of Evolution
Subtitled 'Darwin, God and the Drama of Life', this book by a well-known science and religion scholar steers a middle path between scientific materialism and…… Read More »
The Laws of Thermodynamics
An updated and reformatted edition of Four Laws that Drive the Universe, a lucid and succinct account of the laws specifying the nature of temperature,…… Read More »
Beyond the Hoax
Alan Sokal is famous, even notorious, for his spoof article parodying post-modernists and which was published in the cultural studies Journal Social Text in 1996.…… Read More »
Second Nature - the Inner Lives of Animals
A radical book calling for a revolution in the way we treat animals. Readers may remember that Descartes regarded animals as automata with little more…… Read More »