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 »
Book Reviews
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 »
Decoding Reality: the Universe as Quantum Information
This stimulating book is the result of a 15-year reflection on the nature and implications of information, arguing that the universe and everything in it…… Read More »
Forensic Science - a Very Short Introduction
An authoritative guide to this field at the interface between science and law. As we know, criminal cases can hinge on a crucial piece of…… Read More »
WHERE ON EARTH IS HEAVEN?
In this profound and reflective book, the author quotes Heisenberg to the effect that science represents an interplay between nature and ourselves – 'nature as…… Read More »
EARTH PILGRIM
Satish Kumar will be well known to many readers as the editor of Resurgence and author of a number of books. Some may also have…… Read More »
PROSPERITY WITHOUT GROWTH
Over the last 18 months during which the credit crunch has dominated our thinking, many people have expressed the view that business as usual is…… Read More »