Aristotle, and Robin Smith (editor), Aristotle, Prior Analytics, Hackett Publishing Company 1989 The Prior Analytics gives us Aristotles model of logical argument, what we might now call formal logic. The central idea is the combinations of premisses into syllogisms to yield conclusions that can be trusted. 'A premiss is a sentence affirming or denying one thing of another. (24a16) A syllogism is discourse in which, certain things being stated, something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their being so.' (24b18)back

Ashby, W Ross, An Introduction to Cybernetics, Methuen 1964 'This book is intended to provide [an introduction to cybernetics]. It starts from common-place and well understood concepts, and proceeds step by step to show how these concepts can be made exact, and how they can be developed until they lead into such subjects as feedback, stability, regulation, ultrastability, information, coding, noise and other cybernetic topics.' 
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Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Case-Book of Shlock Holmes, NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company 1993 Introduction: 'This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories from The Strand Magazine. It contains the short story series Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, a siniter novella which appeared in 1914-15, His last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes and the last twelve stories of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. . . . Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He was educated at Stonyhurst and Edinburgh University where he qualified as a doctor. He practised at Southsea from 1882-1890, but from that date he devoted himself entirely to writing. Without doubt the Sherlock Holmes stories are his finest work, but Doyle himself always preferred his other writings, especially the Historical Romances such as Micah Clarke, Sir Nigel, and The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard which recount the preposterous adventures of a vainglorious officer of Napoleon's cavalry, and the Professor Challenger series, the first of which was The Lost World (1912). In later years Doyle's increasing obsession with spiritualism clouded his judgement. He was knighted in 1902 and died in 1930.'  
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Elliott, Mary, and (Foreword by Paul Ehrlich), Ground for Concern, Penguin Books 1977 Preface: 'This book is neither a political manifesto nor a textbook on nuclear power. It is a reasoned statement of the concern that Australians, and people throughout the world, feel about the prospects of a nuclear future. The authors have tried to grapple honestly with the problems of the atomic age, which is our age. They have tried to speak about complex matters in plain language.' 
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Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight : A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '. . . Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding' 
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Ross , W D (editor) , Aristotle's Prior and Posterior Analytics. a Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary , Oxford University Press 2000  
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Wolf, Alan, The Spiritual Universe: How Quantum Physics Proves the Existence of the Soul , Simon & Schuster 1996 Amazon Editorial Reviews From Booklist 'Now there's a subtitle with legs! The book to which it applies, however, is both better and worse than it promises. Better, because the book is more careful and exact, and worse--especially for the reader looking for the philosophical magic bullet--because the book is more careful and exact. Physicist Wolf, author of other popular books on his specialty (Taking the Quantum Leap [1989], The Body Quantum [1986], etc.), proves scientifically the existence of the soul, but only by defining soul so broadly that many will be disappointed. For it is not the personal soul that he is concerned with. Rather, Wolf's soul more nearly resembles the world soul of the gnostics. As usual, Wolf is methodical and clear at explicating physics and thereby provides physics-phobics a wide bridge to understanding some often arcane material. Patricia Monaghan  
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John Kiriakou, I went to prison for disclosing the CIA's torture. Gina Haspel helped cover it up., 'agency — and the nation — to repudiate torture. The message this sends to the CIA workforce is simple: Engage in war crimes, in crimes against humanity, and you’ll get promoted. Don’t worry about the law. Don’t worry about ethics. Don’t worry about morality or the fact that torture doesn’t even work. Go ahead and do it anyway. We’ll cover for you. And you can destroy the evidence, too.' back

Max L. E. Andrews, Albert Einstein and Scientific Theology, 'In recent centuries the world has become increasingly dominated by empirical evidence and theoretic science in developing worldviews. Advances in science have dictated Roman Catholic doctrine such as the acceptance of Darwinian evolution and Big Bang cosmology. Albert Einstein created an indelible impact on the relationship between science and religion. The question is whether or not his work was deleterious for church doctrine or whether it was compatible with, or even advanced, church dogma. It's my contention that Einstein revived the relationship between science and theology and did not create a bifurcation between the two. Despite his personal religious beliefs, his work has helped to reinforce the harmonious conjunction of science with religion, which cannot be ignored by succeeding scientists and theologians. back

Paul Daley, So many Australian place names honour murderous white men and their violent acts, 'Long, long before the arrival of the Macassan trepangers, the Dutch or the British, the landscape – north, south, east, west – resounded with stories that charted the sky and the topography, the beasts and fish and all of the humans. The land and waters had names that came from the stories. Some – Wollongong and Werribee, Nambucca and Naremburn, Barangaroo and Bomaderry – have remained. But elsewhere the nomenclature whites bestowed upon the landscape honours murderous white pioneers and their violent acts. So there are unresolved suggestions Mount Wheeler in Queensland, for example, was named after a “cruel and merciless” native police officer, Frederick Wheeler, who killed many Aboriginal people.' back

Shashi Tharoor, In Winston Churchill, Hollywood rewards a mass murderer, 'Words, in the end, are all that Churchill admirers can point to. His actions are another matter altogether. During World War II, Churchill declared himself in favor of “terror bombing.” He wrote that he wanted “absolutely devastating, exterminating attacks by very heavy bombers.” Horrors such as the firebombing of Dresden were the result.' back