Science & Psychology – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

What’s Sex Got to Do with It?

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:11 +0000

How better than to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s book on human evolution than by challenging his theory with an updated version which instead places the female species at the centre of the theory. Sexual selection may have created us, but by refusing to take a good hard look at ourselves and our impact on the planet, we may be granting natural selection the power to eliminate us.

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Ultimate Reality

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:07 +0000

Tapping the table at which they were sitting, the author asked his companions whether they had any idea of the ceaseless activity going on below the apparently solid surface. To his sceptical audience he explained that it was mainly empty space, the hardness being an illusion created by the rapid motion of the subatomic particles. This led to a lively discussion about the nature of reality and…

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The Possibility of Progress

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:01 +0000

With conventional politics increasingly failing to address the concerns of ordinary people, The Possibility of Progress argues for an alternative to prevailing economic thinking which combines the dynamism of the free market with the ideals of socialism. It offers a solution to the problems of poverty and social injustice which promises fair shares for equal effort…

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A World in Two Minds

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:16:38 +0000

Chosen for Winter 2018 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction. Society is in a state of chaos, causing great suffering for people all over the world. Yet almost all life stresses are human-made. Our species is literally making itself sick. In A World in Two Minds, Kenny Jamieson considers the two complex adaptive systems behind the chaos – the individual mind and the global mind – and…

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The Gilgamesh Gene Revisited

SheaFowb429Aslf — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:41:06 +0000

How it is that humanity has brought itself, along with most other species, to the brink of extinction? In the Gilgamesh Gene Revisited, Russell-Jones provides a time-line analysis of man’s relationship with the natural world that stretches back deep into pre-history and illuminates the origins of many of our most cherished fables, myths and religious creeds, which provide our belief systems…

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