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A Wanted Man, by Lee Child, Delacorte,
2012 - Reviewed by Larry Riggs
The seventeenth entry in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series kept me
interested throughout. I believe that this is largely because most
of the action is mental. Reacher, once a military police officer
and now a committed vagabond, is hitchhiking across the country to
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Doctor Who: Shada: The Lost Adventure by Douglas
Adams, by Gareth Roberts, Ace, 2012 - Reviewed
by James F. McGrath
The novel has all the comedy you would expect from a Doctor Who
episode written by Adams and starring Tom Baker. For those who may
not be familiar with it, the Doctor Who episode Shada was partially
filmed in 1979 when a strike brought production to a halt, so that
it was never completed and thus never aired.
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Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian
Science, 2nd edition, by Richard Sorabji, Institute
of Classical Studies, 2010 - Reviewed by Tiberiu Popa
Richard Sorabji is the editor of a vast and growing number of
translations of ancient commentaries on Aristotle and the editor of
several excellent collections of studies on the Aristotelian
tradition. Philoponus, a 6th century Christian thinker
who was originally trained as a Neoplatonist, is best remembered
today for his attack on Aristotle's 'physics'; . . .
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The Social Conquest of Earth, by
Edward O. Wilson, Norton, 2012 - Reviewed by Larry Riggs
This new book by the venerable evolutionary biologist and social
thinker is a reflection on the three fundamental questions that
have always fascinating thoughtful humans: Where did we come from?
What are we? and Where are we going?Wilson's answer to the first
two questions is that, like the ants, we are eusocial creatures
evolved through . . .
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