All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Solitaire
Solitaire is a laugh-out-loud YA novel with a 16-year-old narrator, Tori Spring, an English teen with strong depressive tendencies. Her ace…
Taking Flight
Taking Flight is a coming-of-age story about a girl, Lauren, forced to stay in Georgia with the Marshall family because, in the wake of her…
The Antibiotic Era
This book narrates the parable of antibiotics, first perceived as revolutionising medical practice and then, in a staggering switch of medical discourse,…
The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics
The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics is an anthology of fourteen articles which cover central aspects of virtue ethics (VE): concepts,…
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The Cemetery Boys
This young adult novel raises questions about who is sane and who is disturbed. Stephen’s mother has been locked away in a mental hospital. He and…
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety: A Step-By-Step Program
He begins on a positive note, quoting that Alfred Adler explained that anxiety has a purpose: it is a safeguarding mechanism that causes us to frighten o…
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The Ghost Network
The Ghost Network is a fascinating blend of research and investigative reporting. The Situationists referred to throughout the piece are co…
The Ice Twins
The Ice Twins is a psychological horror story about a family suffering the loss of one of their identical twins. Sarah and Angus have…
The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption
Amidst the world’s oceans are massive swirling vortices of plastic debris, striking relics revealing the global scale of human consumption. The lar…
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The Spirit of Buddhist Meditation
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Buddhism and mindfulness meditation as well as some new-age philosophies that are often nothing mor…
The Well-Tuned Brain
Peter C. Whybrow is the Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, at UCLA. In a “Preface” to his book, entitled …
Virgin Nation
In Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence, author Sara Moslener provides her readers with a historically rich and detailed v…
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World, Affectivity, Trauma
Also reviewed: Robert D Stolorow, George E. Atwood, Donna M. Orange, …
Anxiety
This short book provides an overview of anxiety symptoms over recorded history, the social reactions to anxiety throug…
Aristotle and the Secrets of Life
Continuing where the previous two books left off, this story delves more deeply into Aristotle’s philosophy and provides a more intricate look at his sch…
Beyond Loss
Beyond Loss is an anthology of clinical and philosophical perspectives on caring for people living with dementia. This reviewer occupies a…
Critical Condition
Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assum…
Faith and Wisdom in Science
The relation between theology and science as two great cultural and historica lpowers has been a subject of study at least since seventeenth century wher…
Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life
In Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life, Derk Pereboom “present[s] a reworked and expanded version of the view . . . [he] developed in&nb…
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Investigating the Psychological World
Brain Haig’s brilliant book fills the important gap in contemporary psychological research practices and methodological literature in psychology. In the…
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It’s Not Me, It’s You
This British romantic comedy about Delia Moss is a simple and an easy read, with short chapters and an engaging style. Delia has been living with her boy…
Kissing in America
Eva Roth is 16, lives in NYC, and her father died in a plane crash several years previously. She and her mother hardly ever talk about her father, and he…
Moody Bitches
Julie Holland M.D. has written an extensive guide for women covering both their mental, physical and emotional health and well being in Moody Bi…
Moral Psychology: Volume IV
Moral Psychology is the fourth in a series of books concerning moral judgments. This volume focuses upon issues surrounding moral responsib…
Panic
Panic is a novel for young adults set in a small run-down town in the Hudson Valley of New York. It’s a dystopia, where the high school seniors hav…