Barbara Ehrenreich – Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America And The World

It’s a great title for a work of fiction. Shame then that it isn’t but left me thinking perhaps it’s time to read a little fiction! At barely two hundred pages this is not a book that outstays its welcome in terms of length but it has pushed me into thinking that perhaps I’ve read [...]

Neil Johnson – Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide To Complexity Theory

You must be getting used to this by now. Author reads a review. Author purchases with some tenuous justification. Author despairs at own stupidity. Yup, it’s another one of those! So, complexity theory. It’s a science apparently. It also has the potential to be the next big science. I didn’t know sciences were in competition [...]

Edie Anne Glaser – Navigating Nystagmus With Your Doctor

If it weren’t a little tacky I would insert a smiley at the end of the next sentence. I suspect that the audience for this is going to be rather limited! This is therefore less a review and more a heads up to those to whom it may be relevant that this books exists. If [...]

A. C. Grayling – The Choice Of Hercules: Pleasure, Duty and The Good Life in the 21st. Century

Look, just don’t ask me how I got here alright? It’s the usual story (so to speak). I read a review. It captured my imagination. It tackles something big (a life of duty versus a life of pleasure supposedly) and, yes, I have no recall of where I read the review (Observer books section when [...]