Nexus
Harari’s latest book, ‘Nexus’ is about the history of information networks, progressing from the invention of writing, moving on to printing, and then the advent…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Combining
This is a book of extraordinary subtlety and brilliance, combining prose, poetry in a different font, paintings by her associates, and collages with text boxes.…… Read More »
Serendipity
Authors: Michael Gerard Kenyon, Telmo Piani
Reviewer: Bernard Beitman
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Expanding the Frontiers of Knowledge Scientific curiosity disturbs networks of connections that we know little about. Accidents, mistakes, wrong turns, negligence, stubbornness, and by-products disrupt…… Read More »
The Riddle of the Sphinx
The Evolution of Consciousness
Owen Barfield is one of the major philosophers of the 20th century, although not widely acknowledged as such. He was the lesser-known of the Oxford…… Read More » 
Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré, 'The Last Universalist'
‘A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even…… Read More » 
The Future of Humankind
A Case For Optimism
John is a scientist, novelist and philosopher of science who is the author of the highly acclaimed COSMOSAPIENS – Human Evolution from the Origin of…… Read More » 
Fascination of Science
The Spirit of Science
Herlinde Koelbl is a German photographic artist, author and documentary filmmaker. In this remarkable book, she interviews 60 pioneering researchers of our time, quite a…… Read More » 
The Blind Spot
Authors: Adam Frank, Evan Thompson, Marcelo Gleiser
Reviewer: Alex Gomez-Marin
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Experiencing Science
Western science was founded on the premise of divorcing objective and subjective aspects of nature—an approach to understanding the world that has proven very successful…… Read More » 
THE TRANSCENDENT BRAIN
Spirituality Overtaking Materialism
I read this little book twice and enjoyed the easy clarity of expression, as well as some familiar subject matter lightly presented. Lightman is evidently…… Read More » 
Forgiving Humanity
The Great Unravelling
Subtitled ‘the curse of exponential change – how the most innovative species became the most dangerous’, this is a deeply challenging book. Readers can refer…… Read More » 
