Reviews of books and web-sites.
A not-so-brief history of the actor, author and playwright Nicholas Stuart Gray. It’s widely claimed that very little is known of his life: but it’s amazing what you can find out if you know how to look.
The Performance of a Lifetime: the many roles of Nicholas Stuart Gray Read More »
An interesting book which examines the history of palaeontology in Ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt: what fossils were uncovered and how the classical world reconstructed and interpreted them.
The First Fossil Hunters Read More »
Review of a book which combines beautiful travel- and animal-story writing with an examination of the evolution of mind and intelligence.
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness Read More »
Review of a unique historical novel about singers and seers, a doomed romance and the getting of spiritual wisdom set against a struggle for political and theological control of a village in Bronze Age Scotland.
Beautiful artwork and exciting action in a graphic novel series about dinosaur and pterosaur life.
A fascinating look at the behaviour and evolution of cephalopods, the process of ageing and the evolution of conciousness itself.
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Read More »
