Complete Family Health Guide - New Medicine
Subtitled 'how to integrate complementary and conventional medicine for the safest and most effective treatment', this book is a landmark reference in bringing together the…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Cicely Saunders
Dame Cicely Saunders OM died earlier this year and must be counted as one of the most significant medical innovators of the 20th century. Her…… Read More »
A Time to Heal
It is excellent to see this classic book back in print. It is the grippingly written story of Beata's espousal of the Gerson method to…… Read More »
Our Inner Ape
Subtitled 'the best and worst of human nature', this book by a leading primatologist looks at the components of human behaviour in our closest relatives,…… Read More »
Continental Philosophy of Science
This book fills a lacuna in British philosophy of science texts, where little if any attention is paid to currents of thought in Continental Europe…… Read More »
Leaving us to Wonder
Authors: Linda Wiener, Ramsey Eric Ramsey
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
This book is the outcome of a collaboration between a biologist and a philosopher posing the question of how to live well in a technoscientific…… Read More »
Biodiversity - An Introduction
Authors: John I Spicer, Kevin J Gaston
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Second edition of this concise introductory text on biodiversity. Although it is designed as an undergraduate text, the book can be profitably read by the…… Read More »
Understanding Water
Authors: Andreas Wilkens, Michael Jacobi, Wolfram Schwenk
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
This book reports on developments from the work of Theodor Schwenk, whose classic book 'Sensitive Chaos' appeared nearly 30 years ago and before many scientists…… Read More »
What's Out There
Authors: Loralee Nolletti, Mary K. Baumann, Michael Soluri, Will Hopkins
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Subtitled 'images form here to the edge of the universe', this is a spectacular illustrated astronomical dictionary in large format. It is arranged alphabetically with…… Read More »
A Brief History of Death
A short book of immense scope. The author weaves a vast tapestry of threads round the theme of death, beginning with comparative visions of the…… Read More »