All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
The Shock of the Fall
This unusual novel is told from the point of view of Matthew, a 19-year-old man who still goes to school. He has a lot of time understanding other people…
The Stethoscope Cure
As a nurse with an interest (but not a great deal of experience) in mental health, the description of The Stethoscope Cure was irresistible. I wasn…
Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Differences between women and men are a source of great fascination to most of us. And, indeed, sex differences are central to our lives. While we may of…
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Why We Dance
Dance, the most ephemeral of art forms, is ripe for a philosophical exploration. Kimerer LaMothe’s Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming…
Being Amoral
As individuals who allegedly lack capacities crucial to morality, psychopaths seem to offer significant potential insight into the relation between moral…
Caught
The United States is a world leader in many areas. Particularly as a carceral state. US “exceptionalism” is certainly true in the numbers of persons inca…
Drugged
In Drugged: The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs, Richard J. Miller takes us on a historical journey, where he explains how ps…
Girls Like Us
It took me a couple chapters to get the hang of reading Gail Giles’s Girls Like Us, but it was well worth getting used to the “speech patte…
Handbook of Mindfulness
A perceptive reader will notice the names of Deci and Ryan, and ponder the connection between self-determination theory, espoused by both, one of whom is…
I, Little Asylum
Such a title, three lovely, lilting words, lingers like a child’s soon forgotten lullaby. A comma so delicately placed offers a polite pardon for the “I”…
Illness and Image
This interesting and enlightening book frames medical humanities in a way that proves to be very helpful to readers. In particular, author Sander Gilman…
Invincible
[This review has spoilers.] Amy Reed is author of the young adult novels Damaged, Beautiful, Clean, …
Irrationality
Polity Press advertises their Key Concepts series as “a series of concise and accessible textbooks exploring core concepts in the soci…
Life After Faith
Philip Kitcher’s Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism is composed of five lectures Kitcher gave as part of Th…
Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films
If Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films written by Sharon Packer is spotted on a bookshelf or webpage of a bookstore, the following q…
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Our Faithfulness to the Past
Christine M. Koggel and Rockney Jacobsen’s recent editorial work brings together a valuable selection of Sue Campbell’s essays on the ethics, politics, a…
Outsmarting Overeating
Karen Koenig, author of Outsmarting Overeating, focuses her work on the life skills needed to overcome using food as an emotional crutch.&n…
Raising Generation Rx
I was struck by the title of this book by Linda Blum, and especially by the term “Generation Rx”, related to the huge number of children and adolescents…
Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist
The focus of Margalis Fjelstad´s self-help book, Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get On with Life…
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Tales from Both Sides of the Brain
Gazzaniga is known to anyone even remotely connected to cognitive neuroscience, which is why you probably are reading this review. Most would know him fo…
The Domestication of Language
It seems the theory of evolution is all the rage these days among philosophers. I am not referring to those many philosophers who feel compelled to…
The Sex Myth
The Sex Myth is a very welcome addition to the many books about the changing culture of sex. Rachel Hills scrutinizes current beliefs…
When We Were Animals
Listening to this audiobook, it seemed at first that it might be a young-adult title because it is about a teenager in a town where all the teens go thro…
Anything Could Happen
Anything Could Happen follows Tretch on his winter break when he realizes that he can no longer keep his sexuality a secret from his friend…
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Current Controversies in Experimental Philosophy
The series “Current Controversies in Philosophy”, harbored by Routledge, is no doubt well known by students and scholars working in the field of philosop…
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