The Night Sky – Soul and Cosmos
The first edition of this epic study dates back to 1982, well before I met the author in the late 1990s. It undertakes the daunting…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Measures of Genius
A fascinating book about scientists who gave their name to units of measure, while also introducing the reader to the whole history of measurement, including…… Read More »
The Believing Scientist
Stephen Barr writes as a theoretical physicist and Catholic about a wide range of issues in science and religion, drawing on his extensive work over…… Read More »
Genes, Determinism and God
In this magisterial elaboration of his St Andrews Gifford Lectures, Denis Alexander critically explores the implications of advances in developmental biology and genetics for the…… Read More »
The Quotable Darwin
Janet Browne is the Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, and author of an acclaimed two volume biography of Darwin. Hence she is…… Read More »
WHY ONLY US: LANGUAGE AND EVOLUTION
This is not a book for the faint-hearted and, unless there has been some serious brightening-up in recent years, readers able to understand its every…… Read More »
DEFIANT EARTH
The author of this important book is Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Australia and author of Requiem for a Species about…… Read More »
A WORLD BEYOND GLOBAL DISORDER
Authors: Edward Demenchonok, Fred Dallmayr
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Politics & International Relations
The title of this remarkable collection of essays gives the lie to the oft heard phrase 'New World Order' which is in fact a form…… Read More »
A FAREWELL TO ICE
Peter Wadhams was Professor of Ocean Physics from 1992 to 2015, and has devoted his entire career to the study of the Arctic, making more…… Read More »
NO IS NOT ENOUGH
Living in the Catalan Pyrenees, it is easy to forget about the outside world. The seasons come and go. Wildlife is very evident. Beauty and…… Read More »