All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness
An effort has been made in the book titled “8 keys to practicing mindfulness” by Manuela Mischke Reeds to resolve the most common problem that we, in thi…
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Agency, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility
Agency, Freedom and Moral Responsibility consists of sixteen independent essays — each written by different authors, and an introduction by the…
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Becoming Human
Becoming Human, based upon the author’s doctoral dissertation, is the fifteenth monograph in a series devoted to philosophical issues in biology…
Born to Balance – Balance Basics
This DVD is led by Jacob Felder, a registered yoga teacher (ERT-500) with Yoga Alliance. During his 6-minute Introduction, Felder explains that the…
Even Dogs in the Wild
The most appealing aspect of Rankin’s latest Inspector Rebus novel is its use of the song “Even Dogs in the Wild…
Experimenter
Experimenter tells the story of Stanley Milgram, the psychologist who did the famous shoc…
Fat Angie
Angie lives in Dryfalls, Ohio with what’s left of her family: a mother, a brother. Everyone at school calls her Fat Angie. Her brother and his frie…
Free Refills
Peter Grinspooon recounts the story of his prosecution for misusing his doctor privileges to get himself drugs, and his road to both recovery and gaining…
Get Stronger Bones: 3 Workouts For Osteoporosis
This DVD is intended to provide safe workouts for those who have osteoporosis. In addition to the three routines that it offers, the…
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Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
This book is an important and exciting contribution to the discussion of religion in general, Islam in particular, the future of civilization, and intell…
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Missing Presumed
Susie Steiner’s novel has been described as a police procedural, and it is that. Set in the UK, the main protagonist is Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw…
Sex by Numbers
For many, sex is more about quality than quantity, so David Spiegelhalter’s Sex by numbers may put off many potential readers. Yet,…
The Girls
This debut novel has made publishing news primarily because of the reports of the large amount the publisher signed for:…
The Healing Virtues
The ancient philosophical term eudaimonia is often casually interpreted as happiness, but its literal meaning is actually something closer to we…
The Maximum Security Book Club
Mikita Brottman is a college professor and psychoanalyst teaching in Baltimore. The Maximum Security Book Club tells of her project to read lite…
The Modern Savage
James McWilliam’s book, The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals, is a welcomed addition to the literature on the ethics of eat…
The Oxford Handbook of Hume
Interest in David Hume has increased greatly over the past fifty years. Throughout the 19th century, Hume’s philosophy was considered skeptical, ne…
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception
This handbook is a voluminous collection of articles on a wide range of topics related to perception, which is, in the editor’s (p .1) words, “the ultima…
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The Shape of Thought
When it comes to Shape of Thought it is relevant to identify two goals, each concerning to two different realms, one scientific and one on reade…
A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism
In 1789, Jeremy Bentham in The Principles of Morals and Legislation wrote&n…
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A Short History of Medicine
In A Short History of Medicine, Ackerknecht attempts to sketch the history of medical reasoning since the ancient Egyptian medical papyri u…
Action
Amy Rose Spiegel lives in Brooklyn, is in her mid-twenties, and has a lot of sex, and her advice book, Acti…
Aristotle’s Ethics and Moral Responsibility
This book relates Aristotle’s thought to contemporary debates about ethics. Echeñique considers the challenges of reading Aristotle’s work on ethi…
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Barbara the Slut and Other People
This collection of stories by first-time author Lauren Holmes features both male and female characters in their twenties or sometimes a bit younger. Sex…
Basic Desert, Reactive Attitudes and Free Will
I. Basic Desert, Reactive Attitudes and Free Will reprints Philosophical Explo…
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