All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Plant Minds
Maher summarizes Plant Minds as follows: In this book, relying on current consensus ideas about minds, I present the best case for thinki…
Psyche on the Skin
Historical researcher Sarah Chaney is attached to the University College London Health Humanities Centre and The Queen Mary Centre for the History of Emo…
The Digital Mind
Just how smart are our smart phones? In the not too distant future, according to computer researcher Arlindo Oliveira, that question may launch an…
The Sense of Self
Throughout The Sense of Self, Richard Sears writes with the assurance of someone who is a true expert in their field. In this instance, the ‘fie…
The Shark
This grizzly detective mystery about a psychopath murderer on a power trip who likes gambling for the lives of underage prostitutes is bizarrely classifi…
The Story of Sex
Originally published in French in 2016, The Story of Sex: A Graphic History Through the Ages has now been published in translation in…
The Trouble with Illness
The Trouble with Illness does a great job at exploring the many varied emotional issues that come with illness in the family. Segal’s main messa…
Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics
Whilst autonomy has received a great deal of attention through the years, vulnerability has become a concept of increased interest in applied ethics and…
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Why Are We Attracted to Sad Music?
In Why Are We Attracted to Sad Music, Sandra Garrido explores why sad music is so popular and what it is about sad music that people are dr…
Why I Left, Why I Stayed
We certainly do not need to be reminded that history is filled with so called religious wars. In fact there are long lists available on social media (e.g…
A Falling Knife
A Falling Knife is set in New York City, and focuses on the gentrification of Brooklyn. It combines the real estate market, police corrupti…
A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain
Methodologically and thematically, the first edition of A Very Bad Wizard was a groundbreaking book. The second edition builds on the…
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ADHD Nation
Alan Schwartz is a journalist who gained a reputation for covering the problem of concussion in football, with high rates of brain injury and dementia am…
British Idealism and the Concept of the Self
With British Idealism and the Concept of the Self W.J. Mander and Stamatoula Panagakou bring together a collection of papers which pro…
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Campus Sexual Assault
Campus Sexual Assault: College Women Respond is a concise and coherent book on identity and identity management, following their reported s…
Chasing the Scream
Johann Hari is an award-winning British journalist who has written for major news outlets around the world. In Chasing the Scream: The First and…
Corporal Punishment, Religion, and United States Public Schools
With Corporal Punishment, Religion, and United States Public Schools, Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon offers us a welcome addition to broaden and fur…
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Debating Procreation
Debating Procreation is a refreshing read that puts procreation under the moral microscope. It presents David Benatar’s controversial anti-…
Kierkegaard’s Muse
Søren Kierkegaard (1813 — 1855) was one of the greatest thinkers, writers and philosophers of the nineteenth cen…
No One Can Pronounce My Name
Rakesh Satyal’s second novel is set in Cleveland, Ohio. It’s a domestic drama of problems in Indian immigrant families. What makes the book distinctive i…
Sycamore
[This review contains spoilers.] Bryn Chancellor’s debut novel explores wrongdoing, bad mistakes, tragedy, remorse and forgiveness. About 29 years previo…
The Brain
The book is set up to answer questions, rather than just anatomically define the brain. Big chapter headings such as What is a memory? …
The Girl on Mill Street
Annie Taylor has a psychotherapist father and an Indian stay-at-home mother. She has a sister a few years younger than her. They live in a small town by…
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga
In The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga, authors Marlynn Wei, a psychiatrist and certified yoga teacher, and James E. Groves, a psychia…
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The Meursault Investigation
“MeursauIt” is the name of the narrator and main character in Albert Camus’ novel, The Stranger. It would be very difficult to appreciate K…