All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Medicine and Religion
In writing this book, Professor Ferngren has undertaken a Herculean task, one that would ordinarily require an everlasting afterlife (or a few extra inca…
On Depression
Bottom Line This is a fun and stimulating read for anyone interested in depression and other mood disorders. Overview On Depression …
Seeds of Hope
In Seeds of Hope, Goodall combines new age tree hugging with powerful political criticism of multinational corporations for their expl…
Shades of Blue
The cover of this book declares it to be a novel. A novel is a work of fiction, so perhaps that clears up the question of whether author Michael Rudolph…
The Art of Medicine
Art has long played a role in representing aspects of medicine. The Art of Medicine is a coffee-table book which presents highlights f…
The Birth of Intersubjectivity
Intersubjectivity is a process of “continuous and reciprocal interactions and exchanges typical of humain beings from their first days of life” (p.xv), i…
The Little Book of Heartbreak
This curious book has lots of short chapters about different historical cases of heartbreak, and how loss has been represented in music, art and literatu…
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Many philosophers will recognize David Edmonds as one of the voices of Philosophy Bites, a popular podcast that engages with a variety of d…
Your Body Is Awesome
This short picture book for children sets out some simple and important ideas. Our bodies tell us how we feel, when we are hungry, and when we need to go…
Brain on Fire
Susannah Cahalan was a young journalist in her twenties working at the NY Post when she started to show symptoms of paranoia. It started w…
Buddhist Boot Camp
Move over Alan Watt. Step aside Thich Nhat Hanh. There’s a new Buddha in town, and his name is Timber Hawkeye. He’s here to throw down some serious wisdo…
Case Studies in Sexual Deviance
Case Studies in Sexual Deviance: Toward Evidence Based Practice is edited by William T. O’Donohue and contains a number of chapters that discuss…
Exploiting Childhood
Exploiting Childhood: How Fast Food, Material Obsession and Porn Culture are Creating New Forms of Child Abuse, edited by Jim Wild, is a collect…
Failure
Not simply just another business guru book nor ‘how to succeed’ step-by-step start-up manual, Slaughter’s Failure is one of those rare volumes o…
Finding Meaning in the Experience of Dementia
Dementia is an irreversible brain disease in which the sufferer, usually an older person, experiences progressive decline in cognitive functioning includ…
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Hallucination
Hallucinations certainly are a curse — not only for the people plagued by them, but also for philosophers interested in perceptual knowledge. Hallucinat…
How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World
For the past four decades, Nicholas Maxwell has been arguing that a revolution is needed in the aims and methods of science and scholarship — a shift fr…
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If You Stay
It’s Not Me, I Swear!
This French-Canadian bittersweet dark comedy was released in 2008, but has just been made available with English subtitles. The year is 1968. …
Living with a Wild God
Ehrenreich’s book and title surpass the issue whether use of an upper-case ‘G’ disqualifies her claim as atheist. (More later.) Rather, what…
Mood
Mood is a book about mood. The author, Patrick M. Burke, is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Arizona. In an…
Moral Perception
Robert Audi believes that we can literally perceive justice, or injustice, just as we can see the beauty of a sunset or hear the anger in someone’s voice…
My Age of Anxiety
It took courage to write this book. I suppose all publicly shared writing endeavors take some amount of courage to initiate and complete, but when the wr…
Partiality
Simon Keller’s book poses an interesting philosophical problem, and then fails to solve it. The problem it poses is indeed interesting–how to make sense…
Pursuits of Wisdom
There have been a number of books published in recent years having to do with the “self-help” nature of many ancient philosophical texts. Most of t…