All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Set the Boy Free
Johnny Marr reads his own autobiography in the unabridged audiobook of Set the Boy Free, which makes it feel more authentic. His reading is a li…
Sophie Spikey Has a Very Big Problem
This UK book for young children tells the story of Sophie who is very young and is living with her new parents. We don’t learn what happened to her old p…
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The Brooklyn Nobody Knows
In 400 pages, CUNY sociologist William Helmreich describes the neighborhoods of Brookl…
The Case Against Sugar
Taubes presents a case that sugar is dangerous, and is the main cause of obesity and diabetes. Conventional wisdom is that the causes are a combination o…
The Mind-Gut Connection
There is plenty of evidence for the premise of Emeran Mayer’s book, that the gut has close connections with our moods and even our cognitiv…
The Wrong Side of Goodbye
The Wrong Side of Goodbye is the 19th Harry Bosch thriller, and Harry is worried that he isn’t as sharp as he used to be. He is workin…
Trans
During the summer of 2015 two events in the US colluded in creating what Rogers Brubaker calls a ‘trans moment’. A moment in which people not only though…
What Have We Done
What Have We Done? Is about the psychology and morality of being a combat soldier in contemporary war. It has many stories and reflections on th…
Yoga
Author Radhika Khanna, a New York fashion designer who was born and raised in India, has a unique relationship with yoga. While working in the fash…
Beginners Meditation & Mindful Stretching
Beginner’s Mediation & Mindful Stretching is a new offering from Hong Kong-born, London-based yoga instructor Nadia Narain. The DVD pr…
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Correct English
I came to Correct English: Reality or Myth? thinking of myself as a modest prescriptivist. Thanks to Geoffrey Marnell I have come to understand…
Darwinism as Religion
Michael Ruse defines “Darwinian theory” as “evolution through natural selection” (pp. 87-88). This theory, presented to the world by Charles Darwin, has…
Explanatory Pluralism
The challenge of giving a satisfactory answer to the question ‘what is an explanation’ has been a major concern in the philosophy of science since the da…
Meditations for Beginners
This DVD is instructed by UK-based healer James Philip. In his brief introduction, he explains that he is always being asked for short meditations…
Mindreading Animals
Do animals know that other creatures have a mind? Do they know that other creatures see, hear, know, intend, or believe? And how can we know if they do?…
Psychiatry and the Business of Madness
Psychiatry and the Business of Madness is, Burstow says, “the culmination of decades of research” (16) in the field of ‘anti-psychiatry’. Indeed…
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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
Kay Jamison’s interest in mania is well known from her acclaimed memoir An Unquiet Mind; and she has previously explored the link with mania and…
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The Nix
Nathan Hill’s sprawling novel The Nix (the unabridged audiobook is 22 hours long) is a satire of modern ti…
The Oxford Handbook of Ethics at the End of Life
The Oxford Handbook of Ethics at the End of Life explores contemporary moral issues regarding death and dying. Contemporary medical unders…
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The Psychology of Good and Evil
Humanity’s age-old complicated relationship with good and evil takes a quantitative turn in Laurent Bègue’s psychological account of ethics, entit…
Thought in Action
Barbara Gail Montero’s Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind is a substantial contribution to our philosophical understanding of e…
Tony & Susan
Originally published in 1993, and republished several times since then, Tony and Susan (also known as Nocturnal Animals) has most recen…
Towards Non-Being
Firstly, let us deal with the present work as such. The original version published in 2005 provoked much discussion. In the first version 2 Parts–…
Two Can Play
Having read and disliked the first book in Kate Kess…
Under the Harrow
Nora works in London but spends her weekends with her sister Rachel in rural Oxfordshire. They have a close but sometimes tempestuous relationship. Rache…