All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Calm Body Clear Mind
Prior to trying this DVD, I was not familiar with the instructor, Jillian Pransky. Pransky, an expert in restorative yoga, is the director of Resto…
Character as Moral Fiction
There is a growing interest in virtue ethics. For example, studies with Positive Psychology and Leadership often use the term virtuousness to refer to a…
Does Science Need a Global Language?
The author’s answer is yes, and English is his choice. Nevertheless, this informative and stimulating text, subtitled “English and the Future of Research…
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Faking Normal
Faking Normal is a teen story of trauma and romance. Alexi Littrell and Bodee Lennox are both troubled young people who are smart and sens…
Fooling Houdini
Alex Stone was interested in magic as a young child, performing tricks for his father and putting on shows at birthday parties. He writes, “For me, disco…
Happy Mutant Baby Pills
Jerry Stahl is best known as author of the memoir Permanent Midnight. Happy Mutant Baby Pills is his fourth novel; previous ones…
High Price
Brain researcher Carl Hart tells the story of his life and uses it to illustrate how drug addiction is not as represented in most drug education literatu…
Kant’s Anatomy of the Intelligent Mind
Since publication, Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason has generated its fair share of interpretative controversy, and there are a broad ran…
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Moral Realism
We think ourselves as moral beings: some of us are good persons, while others are bad. These evaluations depend on our actions; we clas…
Religion without God
Ronald Dworkin, the late and distinguished expositor and defender of jurisprudential liberalism, finished his life by doing something that I wish more ph…
Smashed
Kate and Charlie are married living in Los Angeles; they are played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul. They are a young attractive couple who hav…
Spectacular Now
Although The Spectacular Now is advertised as a teen romance in Athens, Georgia, which it is, its main theme is about relying on alcohol to get…
The Panopticon
Being a work of fiction, the goal of this novel is primarily to entertain, however, in doing so, it provides some insight into, and garners some empathy…
The Rational Animal
Readers who are familiar with the better-known claims of evolutionary psychology (EP) will recognize many of those core ideas in this practical, informat…
The Woman Upstairs
The Woman Upstairs, Messud’s novel of a middle aged women looking back on her life in anger is reminiscent of Anita Brookner’s work, but the bit…
Unfit
Unfit is an earnestly written novel from the point of view of a woman in her sixties looking back on her life which started badly but ended up w…
Yoga for Fitness
This DVD has three 20-minute yoga sessions. Lower Body Tone Upper Body Blast Core Definition Fitness…
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
In a bold attempt to fill a gap in the popular literature on critical thinking, Almossawi uncovers 19 errors of reasoning in a series of appealingly-pres…
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Body Sense
It has to be said that Body Sense is, if nothing else, an interesting read. Fogel has an easy, engaging style and he manages to convey his ideas…
Brainwashed
In the past few decades there has been a growing enthusiasm in the field of Neuroscience. This passionate optimism is fueled by a body of research…
Breaking Women
Jill A. McCorkel spent several years interacting with and interviewing female inmates, prison staff and state personnel at a major women’s prison in the…
Cheating Lessons
The blame game: for hundreds of years teachers have complained about students who cheat. Teachers ask: why can’t students take pride in their work?…
Co-Creating Change
Jon Frederickson, the author of this eminently useful new work for clinicians interested in learning about the theory and practice of intensive short ter…
Evolution, Games, and God
Evolution, Games, and God is an edited volume, based on “a research project at Harvard on ‘The Theology of Cooperation'” (p. xi). Its edit…
Getting Inside Your Head
Cognitive science is hot right now, and in recent years authors have endeavored to apply its name, if not its methods, to an ever-growing variety of area…