All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Chickenizing Farms and Food
If you want to understand how intensive animal agriculture harms animals, there’s a large literature to peruse. For the many ways in which intensive anim…
Free Will and Action Explanation
I. Introduction Scott Sehon’s Free Will and Action Explanation: A Non-…
Hot Milk
Sophia travels to Spain with her mother Rose to visit a specialist doctor at “The Gomez Clinic” who can treat her mother’s systematic and chronic maladie…
How to Set a Fire and Why
How to Set a Fire and Why is a short novel with a teenage protagonist. It feels like a “young adult” title except that it is darker than most su…
Illness or Deviance?
It is rare that addiction literature is able to present detailed personal narratives within an informative and critical perspective that leave the reader…
Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
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Mischling
Pearl and Stasha are twin girls in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Dr Josef Mengele preserves Jews who are twins or genetic abnormalities so he can exper…
Nothing about us, without us!
Christine Bryden is a well-known advocate of the rights of persons with dementia and one of the founders of Dementia Advocacy and Support Network Interna…
Prime Ministers of Canada
First the facts: October…
Social Control of Sex Offenders
In Social Control of Sex Offenders: A Cultural History, Richard Laws examines the last 100 years of procedures to contain sex offenders, focusin…
Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil
Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil is a modern thriller set in England and France. Bish is the main character; he is a middle aged father, a suspen…
The Boat Rocker
A Chinese man Feng Danlin has moved to New York and makes a living by writing news and editorial articles for an independent Chinese langua…
The English and their History
Robert Tombs massive volume is 1040 pages long; the unabridged audiobook is 43 hours. But it is possible to dip in and out of The English and Their H…
The Fate of Gender
Frank Browning’s The Fate of Gender is a polemical monograph. As such, it is not necessarily to the very select audience of queer theorists and…
The Social Psychology of Morality
If you put chimpanzees from different communities together you can expect mayhem – they are not keen on treating each other nicely. There is closely rela…
The Unseen World
Liz Moore’s sprawling novel The Unseen World covers several large themes: the politics of the 1950s, hidden identities, artificial intelligence,…
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere has been framed as a novel about the social effects of Hurricane Katrina. It is set in Virginia and Louisiana afte…
Big Dreams
Kelly Bulkeley is seriously interested in both dreaming and religion. He has published Dreaming in the Classroom: Practices, Methods, and Resources i…
Bite
It’s the future after nuclear war, and life is nasty, brutish and short, at least for a lot of people. Kid is a 16-year old androgynous girl who joins a…
Children’s Rights
Children’s Rights: From Philosophy to Public Policy by Mhairi Cowden is what the title suggests, a discussion in regards to children’s rights fr…
Done With The Crying
Done With the Crying: Help and Healing for Mothers of Estranged Adult Children by Sheri McGregor is written by a mother of an estranged adult ch…
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Emotions in the Moral Life
The book is intended to be an introduction to the analysis of relation between human virtues and emotions. R. C. Roberts already published another book o…
I Contain Multitudes
This timely book educates readers about the microbes that inhabit our guts, which play such an important role in our health. Science writer Ed Yong…
Life-Threatening Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs
Antipsychotic drugs, initially promoted primarily to treat people diagnosed with schizophrenia, have become widely prescribed in the past two decades. Th…
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On Being Human
Jerome Kagan (b. 1929) is an eminent psychologist, professor emeritus at Harvard University, and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute.…