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Author: Celine Leon Publisher: Mercer University Press – 285 pages Book Review by: Deekay Daulat The Danish existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, unlike other philosophers, was not hesitant in discussing engagement, love, marriage, sexual and related matters from personal perspectives. He didn’t limit his viewpoints on these subjects to societal perspectives, Celine Leon states in her Conclusion on this possibly one-of-a-kind book. She quotes French historian Genevieve Fraisse as writing that Kierkegaard didn’t hesitate to discuss these matters “from the subjective position of the individual singularly engaged in a sexual relation.” That is what set Kierkegaard apart from other writers...

Author: Martin L. Dalton, Jr. MD, FACS. Foreword by R. Kirby Godsey Publisher: Mercer University Press Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The story behind the birth of the Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Georgia – the subject of this book – is one filled with conflicts between people who had the dream to make it a reality and those who wanted to tear down that dream. There was a need for family physicians and primary health care in and around the state. Although Macon Hospital had educational programs, no medical school existed, so there existed a real...

Editor and Contributor: Carol L. Moberg Publisher: Rockefeller University Press – 499 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The author Carol Moberg has to her credit ample knowledge and a good background in the history of science and scientific research, as she was one of the editors and contributors to an earlier book Launching the Antibiotic Era (1990, Rockefeller University Press) which contained personal accounts of scientists on the discovery and first use of antibiotics. This new book – Entering an Unseen World – is a substantial volume that tells a well-researched, detailed story on the birth and growth...

Editors: Wolfgang Prinz, Miriam Beisert, and Arvid Herwig Publisher: MIT Press Book Review by: Krishnan Ramamurthy What is action science? Put simply, it is the science of human physical action. But since action is dependent on attention, cognition, memory, perception, volition and other factors, a number of experts in these fields –28 of them- who know a lot about how these factors relate to action, have contributed their knowledge and insight to this book. The main value of this book then, I believe, is that it is a single source of data, knowledge and insight in this exciting new...

Editors: Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller Publisher: Pittsburgh Press – 229 pages Book Review by: Deekay Daulat Rivers have had much more impact on the course of human history than one typically imagines. Since water is essential to life, the presence of rivers has influenced humans on where to build their homes and places of work, and over the course of time, develop entire villages, towns and cities. Humans have come to live near rivers, and have grown in numbers because of rivers. Cities have risen because of rivers, and they have fallen when there has been drought or...