How We Heal
A revised and expanded edition of the book reviewed by Roger Newman Turner in the last issue (pp. 49-50) and which is now subtitled 'understanding…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Sharing Food
This book is the sequel to the author's 'Food for Life: the spirituality and ethics of eating'. It claims to be a Christian guide to…… Read More »
Nous Sommes Tous des Guerisseurs
This is the story of the author's personal quest to understand healing. He encounters incidences of healing in various different continents and countries, including Latin…… Read More »
Mismatch
Authors: Mark Hanson, Peter Gluckman
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Health / Evolutionary Biology / Medicine
Subtitled 'why are our world no longer fits our bodies', this book addresses one of the most important issues of our time. As the authors…… Read More »
The Cambridge History of Medicine
This volume bears the unmistakably erudite stamp of its editor, who sadly died in 2002. It begins with a statement that some would find contentious,…… Read More »
Genesis Machines
This book about the new science of biocomputing explains what we can expect in the new generation of computers, where scientists are moving from silicon…… Read More »
How Many People are There in my Head and in Hers?
Attenders at our recent Roads to Reality conference will have heard Jonathan Edwards give a 10-minute outline of his thesis in this book. It is…… Read More »
Topologies of the Flesh
This book follows on from the author's previous two books, the latest of which was 'Dimensions of Apeiron'. What Rosen calls the lifeworld has given…… Read More »
Contemporary Poetry & Contemporary Science
This book is the outcome of a project by Robert Crawford, professor of Scottish literature at St. Andrews. It is a unique and rather successful…… Read More »
The Secrets of Metals
The author of this fascinating book observes that our lives were once more dominated by metals than they are now. Seeking to further the new…… Read More »