Book Reviews

• Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch
• Cosmic Visions of the Future: The Science Fiction of Stephen Baxter
• Evolution by Stephen Baxter
• Evolutionaries: Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science's Greatest Idea by Carter Phipps
• Existence by David Brin
• The Future Worlds of Science Fiction: Simmons’ Hyperion Epic
• The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
• Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer
• Life Journey of a Futurist: Memories of the Future by Wendell Bell
• Matters of Consequence by Copthorne Macdonald
• Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel
• The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris and Flourish by Martin Seligman: A Comparative Review
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
• Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change by Timothy Wilson
• Reflections on Human Civilization: Alternative Realities in Robert Sawyer’s Neanderthal Parallax (with Jeanne Belisle Lombardo)
• The Rough Guide to the Future by Jon Turney
• Science Fiction and the Future: Accelerating Into the Future - A Review of Accelerando by Charles Stross
• The Shallows by Nicolas Carr
• Time Ships by Stephen Baxter, The Wind-Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, and Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge
• Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
• Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney