Enhancing Evolution
Posthumanous Dreams and the Moral Complexity of Biomedical Aspirations - May 26, 2009
A noted academic bioethicist and British media pundit with a named chair at the University of Manchester, John Harris has recently given birth to an odd literary child. His latest book, Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People, hails from an esteemed university press, but it is informal and tendentious, often jeering at opponents, both popular and academic. Despite his credentials (an Oxford PhD in philosophy, co-editorship of the British Journal of Medical Ethics, a lengthy curriculum vitae), Harris has created a popular polemic better fitted for the entertaining and energetic repartee of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart than academic discourse. . . .
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Book Reviews
Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858 June 11, 2009 - by Melvin C. Johnson
Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction June 02, 2009 - by Richard L. Bushman
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church June 02, 2009 - by N. T. Wright

Book Notices
Images of the New Jerusalem: Latter Day Saint Faction Interpretations of Independence, Missouri April 01, 2009 - by Craig S. Campbell
Before Zion: An Account of the Seventh Handcart Company March 26, 2009 - by Allen C. Christensen
Forty Ways to Look at Brigham Young: A New Approach to a Remarkable Man December 11, 2008 - by Chad M. Orton, William W. Slaughter

Art Reviews
Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint April 24, 2008

Film Reviews
Happy Valley April 22, 2009 - by Ron Williams
Mormon Cinema on the Web February 03, 2009 - by Randy Astle
The Errand of Angels December 04, 2008 - by Christian Vuissa

Music Reviews
Mack Wilberg: Requiem and Other Choral Works December 10, 2008 - by Mack Wilberg
Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music in World Religions March 26, 2008 - by Guy L. Beck

New Media Reviews
BibleGateway and The New Testament Gateway: Two Biblical Websites Reviewed March 03, 2009
Mormon Cinema on the Web February 03, 2009 - by Randy Astle
Online Genealogical Research Resources April 16, 2008

Theatre Reviews

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