Monday, September 29, 2008

Review - The Moral Demands of Memory

Review - The Moral Demands of Memory
by Jeffrey Blustein
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Sarah Scott
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Review - The Emotional Construction of Morals

Review - The Emotional Construction of Morals
by Jesse Prinz
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by David Teira
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Review - Assessment of Childhood Disorders

Review - Assessment of Childhood Disorders
Fourth Edition
by Eric J. Mash & Russell A. Barkley (Editors)
Guilford Press, 2008
Review by Benjamin J. Lovett, Ph.D.
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Review - Comprehending Columbine

Review - Comprehending Columbine
by Ralph W. Larkin
Temple University Press, 2007
Review by Margaret Riley, M.S., R.N.
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Review - How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe?

Review - How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe?
by John R. Anderson
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Lars Marstaller
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Review - Multiplicity

Review - Multiplicity
The New Science of Personality, Identity, and the Self
by Rita Carter
Little, Brown, 2008
Review by Kamuran Godelek, Ph.D.
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Review - Heuristics and the Law

Review - Heuristics and the Law
by Gerd Gigerenzer and Christopher Engel (Editors)
MIT Press, 2006
Review by Albert D. Spalding, JD
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Review - Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy

Review - Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy
The Action-Theoretic Basis of Practical Philosophy
by Christoph Lumer and Sandro Nannini (Editors)
Ashgate, 2007
Review by Valérie Aucouturier
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Review - Socrates: A Life Examined

Review - Socrates
A Life Examined
by Luis E. Navia
Prometheus, 2007
Review by Ruben Berrios
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Review - Locke

Review - Locke
by Edward Feser
Oneworld, 2007
Review by Christopher Yorke
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Review - Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation

Review - Comfortably Numb
How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
by Charles Barber
Pantheon, 2008
Review by Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
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Review - Shunned: Discrimination against People with Mental Illness

Review - Shunned
Discrimination against People with Mental Illness
by Graham Thornicroft
Oxford University Press, 2006
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D.
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Review - Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking

Review - Open Your Eyes
Deaf Studies Talking
by H-Dirksen L. Bauman
University of Minnesota Press, 2008
Review by Jackie Leach Scully, Ph.D.
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Review - Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help

Review - Saving the Modern Soul
Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help
by Eva Illouz
University of California Press, 2008
Review by Brian J. McVeigh
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Review - Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry

Review - Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
by Peter Stastny & Peter Lehmann (Editors)
Peter Lehmann, 2007
Review by Maria Christoforatos
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Review - Camus: Notebooks 1951-1959

Review - Notebooks 1951-1959
by Albert Camus
Ivan R. Dee, 2008
Review by Bob Lane, MA
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Review - The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

Review - The Cure Within
A History of Mind-Body Medicine
by Anne Harrington
W. W. Norton, 2008
Review by Diana Soeiro
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Review - Vital Nourishment

Review - Vital Nourishment
Departing from Happiness
by Francois Jullien
Zone Books, 2007
Review by Marko Zlomislic, Ph.D.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Review - Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture

Review - Bipolar Expeditions
Mania and Depression in American Culture
by Emily Martin
Princeton University Press, 2007
Review by S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH
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Review - Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century

Review - Neuroethics
Challenges for the 21st Century
by Neil Levy
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D.
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Review - The Medicalization of Everyday Life

Review - The Medicalization of Everyday Life
Selected Essays
by Thomas Szasz
Syracuse University Press, 2007
Review by Jeffrey Poland, Ph.D.
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Review - The Lives They Left Behind

Review - The Lives They Left Behind
Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
by Darby Penney & Peter Stastny
Bellevue Literary Press, 2008
Review by Kari Karsjens, JD
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Review - Coming of Age in Second Life

Review - Coming of Age in Second Life
An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
by Tom Boellstorff
Princeton University Press, 2008
Review by Rob Harle
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Review - To Have and To Hurt:

Review - To Have and To Hurt:
Recognizing and Changing, or Escaping, Patterns of Abuse in Intimate Relationships
by Angela Browne-Miller
Praeger, 2007
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., SAC (Dip.)
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Review - ADHD & Me

Review - ADHD & Me
What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table
by Blake E.S. Taylor
New Harbinger, 2008
Review by Maeve O'Donovan, Ph.D.
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Review - Sexual Reckonings

Review - Sexual Reckonings
Southern Girls in a Troubling Age
by Susan K. Cahn
Harvard University Press, 2007
Review by Lloyd Wells, MD, Ph.D.
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Review - Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration

Review - Forgiveness
A Philosophical Exploration
by Charles L. Griswold
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Raffaele Rodogno, Ph.D.
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Review - Gender

Review - Gender
Key Concepts in Philosophy
by Tina Chanter
Continuum, 2007
Review by Marko Zlomisli
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Monday, September 1, 2008

Review - Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science

Review - Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science
Essential Readings in Neuroethics
by Walter Glannon (Editor)
Dana Press, 2007
Review by Will Buckingham
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Review - Healing: A Life with Chronic Illness

Review - Healing
A Life with Chronic Illness
by Marguerite Bouvard
University Press of New England, 2007
Review by David Wall, Ph.D.
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Review - Darwin Loves You

Review - Darwin Loves You
Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World
by George Levine
Princeton University Press, 2006
Review by Andrew V. Jeffery
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Review - On Deep History and the Brain

Review - On Deep History and the Brain
by Daniel Lord Smail
University of California Press, 2008
Review by Tony O'Brien RN, MPhil
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Review - The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology

Review - The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
by David L. Hull and Michael Ruse (Editors)
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
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Review - Bad Faith: The Danger of Religious Extremism

Review - Bad Faith
The Danger of Religious Extremism
by Neil J. Kressel
Prometheus, 2007
Review by Simon Riches, Ph.D.
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Review - Philosophers without Gods

Review - Philosophers without Gods
Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life
by Louise M. Antony (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Brad Frazier
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Review - Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms

Review - Top Secret
The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms
by Robert M. Price
Prometheus Books, 2008
Review by Robert Cheeks
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Review - The Trauma of Psychological Torture

Review - The Trauma of Psychological Torture
by Almerindo E. Ojeda (Editor)
Praeger, 2008
Review by J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Ph.D.
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Review - Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Eating Well

Review - Dr. Andrew Weil's Guide to Eating Well
DVD
by Andrew Weil
Acacia, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
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Review - Facing Death: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Review - Facing Death: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
DVD
by Stefan Haupt
First Run Features, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
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