Posted Sun, 01/11/2009 - 11:44am by fred
Welcome to my new site - I'm still in the progress of getting all 300 of my existing book reviews on this site and I'm reading many new books as well. Please check back often for new content and thanks for checking out What Fred Has Read Dot Com.
Cheers, Fred
Posted Thu, 05/17/2012 - 10:12am by fred
Publisher:
Harper SanFrancisco
Larry Witham tells the story of Scotland’s famous Gifford Lectures. As a journalist, he won the Religion Communicators Council’s Wilber Award three times, several prizes from the Religion Newswriters Association, and a Templeton Foundation award for his articles on science and religion. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Thu, 05/10/2012 - 6:07pm by fred
Publisher:
Broadway Books
Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama (the fourteenth Dalai Lama) is both the temporal and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent attempts to have Tibet returned to the Tibetan people. This book was a national bestseller. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Fri, 05/04/2012 - 11:50am by fred
Bruce Sheiman, a student of philosophy and theology for 30 years, records in this book the soul-searching of an atheist who wants to believe in God, an “aspiring theist,” sympathetic to religious aspirations. He discusses religion with an impartiality and insight not found among partisan religious or secular observers. Sheiman argues that we achieve our fullest humanity only in religion. Read more
Posted Mon, 04/30/2012 - 4:38pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2012
Marcelo Gleiser is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on questions of origins – of the universe, of matter, and of life – bringing together particle physics and cosmology, and more recently, astrobiology. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Sat, 04/21/2012 - 3:53pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2012
James P. Carse is professor emeritus of religion at New York University, where for thirty years he directed the religious studies program. His previous books include The Silence of God, Finite and Infinite Games, and Breakfast at the Victory, none of which I’ve read. The current book’s title is what drew me to it. Read more
Posted Wed, 04/11/2012 - 12:35pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2012
Clifford Pickover, a prolific writer with a Ph.D. from Yale’s Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, has over 70 U.S. patents and has published 45 books (as of 2011) and is an associate editor for several scientific journals. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:06pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2012
Publisher:
U. of Calif. Press
Adam Frank is professor of physics at the University of Rochester and a regular contributor to Discover and Astronomy magazines. He has also written for Scientific American and other publications. He was a Hubble Fellow and recipient of an American Astronomical Society Prize for his scientific writing. Read more
Posted Thu, 03/22/2012 - 6:17pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
March 2012
Ian Stewart is emeritus professor of mathematics and active researcher at Warwick University, England. His writings have appeared in the magazines New Scientist, Discover, and Scientific American. As of 2011 he has written 30 books, 8 with coauthors. For his books I’ve read, click on his name. Read more
Posted Thu, 03/15/2012 - 10:26am by fred
Date Fred Read:
March 2011
Publisher:
Templeton Press
John Templeton (1912-2008), founder of Templeton Mutual Funds, devoted his time since 1990 to research in spiritual progress through the John Templeton Foundation, which funds the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Kenneth Giniger is chairman emeritus of the National Bible Association. Read more
