In its Winter issue, The Scientific and Medical Network—Network Review reviewed James Proctor’s Envisioning Nature, Science and Religion.
The reader comes away with an enhanced and more subtle understanding of the way in which philosophers and scientists understand nature, which will form the cultural backdrop to any new relationship with nature.
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In its November 2010 issue, Choice reviewed Making Health Care Whole by Christina M. Puchalski and Betty Ferrell.
Based on a two-year national process to develop consensus on best practices, this book is a clear statement of values integral to palliative and patient-centered health care as well as a guide for incorporating them into teaching and clinical settings.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers
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The cat is out of the bag! Publisher’s Weekly encourages readers to check out Generation WTF:
the book involves a great deal of reader participation, making this solid book a tangible experience as well as an informative and inspirational one.
Based on her own authoritative research, the latest research in the field, and the students feedback she’s received from the popular course that she now teaches at University of Pittsburgh, Christine B. Whelan has developed Generation WTF: The Guide to a Wise, Tenacious, and Fearless You. The book is a “crash-course” guide to the classic, cornerstone teachings of the self-help genre, remixed for a new generation.
For more information on Generation WTF by Christine Whelan, click here. Find out if this book is right for you or for someone you know!
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Theological Book Review reviews Harold Koenig’s Medicine, Religion, and Health:
. . . .one could not ask for a better introduction to this fascinating and inevitably perplexing area.
Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet is the first title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this, the series’maiden volume, Dr. Harold G. Koenig provides an overview of the relationship between health care and religion that manages to be comprehensive yet concise, factual yet inspirational, and technical yet easily accessible to nonspecialists and general readers.
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The Journal of Religion recently reviewed Robert C. Mesle’s Process-Relational Philosophy:
Robert Mesle has written a splendid introduction to process philosophy in the tradition of Alfred North Whitehead. What makes this work so good, in addition to clarity, is that it deals effectively with two of the greatest problems confronting people as they begin to study Whitehead’s philosophy: the technical terminology and the ideas that seem contradictory to commonsense beliefs about the world (particularly those in Western culture).
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In its May 2010 issue, CHOICE reviewed Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality by Pranab Das.
The book is a welcome addition to the literature on science and religion. Summing Up: Recommended.
Gathering thinkers from ten countries and from a variety of scientific and spiritual backgrounds, Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality leads readers on a fascinating tour of distinctly non-Western approaches to topics in these two fields. These voices add fresh and invigorating input to a dialogue that has thus far been predominantly guided by scholars from the United States or Western Europe.
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Astronomy Now calls Joseph Silk’s Horizons of Cosmology “incredibly rewarding, with some of the best ‘Eureka!’ moments I’ve yet experienced.”
Horizons of Cosmology: Exploring Worlds Seen and Unseen is the fourth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this volume, highly esteemed astrophysicist Joseph Silk explores the vast mysteries and speculations of the field of cosmology in a way that balances an accessible style for the general reader and enough technical detail for advanced students and professionals.
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The June 2010 issue of SciTech Book News reviews Paleontology: A Brief History of Life by Ian Tattersall. To read the review in its entirety, click here.
Paleontology is the fifth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this volume, Ian Tattersall, a highly esteemed figure in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology, leads a fascinating tour of the history of life and the evolution of human beings.
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In its June 2010 issue, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith reviewed Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion by Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S. Brown.
This text would be an excellent accompaniment either to an upper-division undergraduate course or to an entry-level graduate survey course. It contains a list of recommended readings and an index of names and subjects.
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In its May/June 2010 issue Health Progress writes:
For nurses and other health care providers, Verna Carson’s and Harold Koenig’s text will provide useful and timely information on the role of spirituality in health care. The book’s 13 contributing authors identify ways in which meeting patients’spiritual needs is both a form of caring and a way to provide meaning in practice. The editors used a variety of contributors within and outside of nursing, representing a broad range of religious and spiritual experiences. Many of us chose a health care profession in order to provide care and comfort to others, and this book helps the reader address a very important aspect: spiritual care.
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