MIND
The last chapter of this book begins with these two sentences: "I have now completed the task I set myself in the first chapter. I…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
Authors: Jeffrey M. Lohr, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn
Reviewer: Richard House
Category: Psychology
This is a veritable curate's egg of a book – fascinating and enlightening in places, depressingly or infuriatingly (depending on your temperament) empiricist in others.…… Read More »
The Dignity of Difference – How to Avoid the Clash of Civilisations
Two events in 2003 create the context for my review of this excellent book by UK Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks: firstly an interfaith lecture…… Read More »
A Treasury of Mystic Terms – 6 Volumes
These volumes are an amazing editorial achievement on the part of John Davidson and his team. Trained as a scientist at Cambridge, John wrote a…… Read More »
FIFTY YEARS IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION: IAN BARBOUR AND HIS LEGACY
In 2003 Ian Barbour celebrated his eightieth birthday. In the 1950s he had begun to publish in the field that was to be the major…… Read More »
THE TWILIGHT OF ATHEISM – THE RISE AND FALL OF DISBELIEF IN THE MODERN WORLD
The Twilight of Atheism is readable, informative, well researched and culturally aware, meaning that McGrath knows well that ideas reach into society through the popular…… Read More »
THE WORST IS OVER
Benjamin Franklin's wise words are quoted at the beginning of this important book on verbal first aid: 'Remember not only to say the right thing…… Read More »
Body-Mind Psychotherapy
I was going to propose that Susan Aposhyan's Body-Mind Psychotherapy is a body psychotherapy classic, equivalent to Reich's Character Structure or Lowen's Language of the…… Read More »
ONCOGENES, ANEUPLOIDY AND AIDS
Harvey Bialy is a microbiologist, and a poet. He brings a love for words as well as a love for science to this amazing book.…… Read More »
THE ROAD TO REALITY
There is a perpetual problem with popularising modern physics: what do you do with the maths? Received wisdom is that you should miss it all…… Read More »