All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Why Animals Matter
Animal suffering is no longer the exclusive focal point for debates concerning nonhuman animals. Animal welfare discussions more broadly include issues s…
A Metaphysics of Psychopathology
The recent suicide of comedic genius Robin Williams prompted another round of what have become the well-rehearsed pronouncements of the psychiatric estab…
All Joy and No Fun
I found this book fascinating, enjoyable and sometimes mildly frustrating. It was fun to read, and I learned a lot. This is not a book about…
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
There are any number of important but frequently neglected research programs in biomedical ethics. Notable amongst these are projects deeply ground…
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Autonomy
Andrew Sneddon’s Autonomy seeks to explore the nature of autonomy with a focus on the psychological capacities that most humans develo…
Bob Dylan and Philosophy
How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man ? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand ? Yes, how many ti…
Cracked
No reader can finish social anthropologist James Davies’ Cracked: The Unhappy Truth About Psychiatry, without a profound distrust of the medical…
Embryos under the Microscope
The aim of Jane Maienschein’s book is to show that “We can best understand what embryos are by putting them under the microscope and looking at the…
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents
This children’s book by “Lemony Snicket” has very little to do with the original “Series of Unfortunate Events,” either in content or quality. The…
Lies My Girlfriend Told Me
Lies My Girlfriend Told Me is a tale of teenage lesbian romance and betrayal. Alix is 16 and Swanee was her first girlfriend. Swanee…
Mirror, Mirror
In Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, Simon Blackburn takes up the difficult and complex topic of vanity. Blackburn draws upon a…
Our Bodies, Whose Property?
In the opening section of the book, “Acknowledgements”, the author Anne Phillips, states that the book content is mainly a result of a healthy discussion…
Psychopathy
In Psychopathy: An introduction to biological findings and their implications, Andrea L. Glenn and Adrian Raine rigorously and cleverly summariz…
Rape Is Rape
Rape is Rape: How Denial, Distortion, and Victim Blaming are Fueling a Hidden Acquaintance Rape Crisis by Jody Raphael is a powerful account of…
Redefining Girly
In Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween, Melissa Atkins Wardy provides pare…
The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death
In the final decade of the 19th century, the French painter Paul Gauguin fled from the entanglements of European life to the then-remote and undevel…
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The Children Act
The Children Act is a short book, more a long short story than a novel. My Kindle version estimates it should take 4.5 hours to read. …
The Girl in 6E
A.R. Torre is also known as author Alessandra Torre, author of Sex Love Repeat, The Diary of Brad De Luca: Blindfolded Innocence, M…
The Mind of the Horse
The Mind of the Horse is a comprehensive, scholarly, and detailed survey of the knowledge base regarding equine cognition. The author, Michael-A…
The Myth of the Spoiled Child
The Myth of the Spoiled Child is a book which challenges the conventional wisdom about children and parenting. The author, Alfie Kohn…
Beckett and Animals
In Beckett and Animals, editor Mary Bryden, Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation and Professor of French Literature at Readi…
Boy Stories
Boy Stories has a strong autobiographical element for Johan WIllner. In his preface he explains how his photographs here are related to hi…
Brave Hearts
Despite being set during WWII, with the characters suffering due to the war, this book is primarily a romance. It is historical fiction as well; it touch…
Define Normal
Originally released in 2003, Define “Normal” has recently been made available as an unabridged audiobook performed by Christine L…
Inheritance
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives – and Our Lives Change Our Genes is a popular science book about the relation between genes and…