The last bookshelf of 2021 shows the diversity of the University's community - from solar volcanoes and religious language, to medial research and Scottish ghost stories. 1. Author Kim Chamberlain Degree Linguistics Books Boxes of Spiritual Wisdom Channelled from Spirit, 'Boxes of Spiritual Wisdom' provides deep wisdom on 140 different life issues, including life purpose, self-worth, success, failure, feeling lost, healing, death, money, and many more. Written in a style that is easy-to-digest and understand, you will find much wisdom within each topic that will allow you to have a greater understanding of yourself, of others, of life, and of the greater picture. The wisdom provides many answers for life’s questions. Dip into the book. Read topics more than once. Read them over time. As you do, you will gain a deeper insight with each reading, and at different stages of your life. This is a book you can dip into forever and never stop gaining awareness and understanding. It may change your life. Boxes of Spiritual Wisdom 2. Author Mary Chamberlain Degree Politics Book The Forgotten How do you rebuild a life from the ashes of despair? London 1958. Twenty-six-year-old Betty Fisher is one of the first to join the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and attend its inaugural meeting, where she meets John Harris. Posted to Berlin towards the end of the war, John has been left traumatised by his experiences in Germany. And, as his initial admiration for Betty shifts into an overwhelming need to protect her, he is plagued by flashbacks and fantasies. John's increasing fragility brings to the surface Betty's own memories. And soon her past, too, begins to unravel… The Forgotten 3. Author Alistair Kerr (editor) Degree History and Law Book Tales for Twilight: Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories 'Tales for Twilight' offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early eighteenth century to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first. Scottish authors have proved to be exceptionally good at writing ghost stories. Perhaps it’s because of the tradition of oral storytelling that has stretched over centuries, including poems and ballads with supernatural themes. The golden age was during the Victorian and Edwardian period, but the ghost story has continued to evolve and remains popular to this day. Includes stories from Sir Walter Scott, George Mackay Brown, Muriel Spark, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy Boothby, Algernon Blackwood, Eileen Bigland, Ronald Duncan, James Robertson and Ian Rankin. Tales for Twilight 4. Author Leemon McHenry Degree PhD Philosophy Books The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Authors, Professor Jon Jureidini and Dr Leemon McHenry, made critical contributions to exposing the scientific misconduct in two infamous trials of antidepressants. Ghostwritten publications of these trials were highly influential in prescriptions of paroxetine (Paxil) and citalopram (Celexa) in paediatric and adolescent depression, yet both trials (Glaxo Smith Kline's paroxetine study 329 and Forest Laboratories' citalopram study CIT-MD-18) seriously misrepresented the efficacy and safety data. The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine provides a detailed account of these studies and argues that medicine desperately needs to re-evaluate its relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. Without a basis for independent evaluation of the results of randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trials, there can be no confidence in evidence-based medicine. The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine The Event Universe: What kinds of things are events? Battles, explosions, accidents, crashes, rock concerts would be typical examples of events and these would be reinforced in the way we speak about the world. Philosophers following Aristotle have claimed that events are dependent on substances such as physical objects and persons. But with the advances of modern physics, some philosophers and physicists have argued that events are the basic entities of reality and what we perceive as physical bodies are just very long events spread out in space-time. In other words, everything turns out to be events. This view, no doubt, radically revises our ordinary common sense view of reality, but as our event theorists argue, common sense is out of touch with advancing science. The Event Universe 5. Author Russell Newton Degree MA Religious Studies, MTh Ecclesiastical History, PhD Ecclesiastical History Book The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland From the early percolation of Protestant thought in the sixteenth century through to the controversies and upheaval of the civil wars in the seventeenth century, the clergy were at the heart of religious change in Scotland. By exploring their lived experiences, and drawing upon historical, theological, and literary approaches, the essays here paint a fresh and vibrant portrait of ministry during the kingdom's long Reformation. The contributors investigate how clergy, as well as their families and flocks, experienced and negotiated religious, social, and political change; through examination of both wider themes and individual case studies, the chapters emphasise the flexibility of local decision-making and how ministers and their families were enmeshed in parish dynamics, while also highlighting the importance of clerical networks beyond the parish. What emerges is a ministry that, despite the increasing professionalisation of the role, maintained a degree of local autonomy and agency. The volume thus re-focuses attention on the early modern European ministry, offering a multifaceted and historically attuned understanding of those who stood at the forefront of Protestant reform. The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland 6. Author Ed Patrick Degree Medicine Book Catch Your Breath Ed Patrick is an anaesthetist. Strong drugs for his patients, strong coffee for him. But it's not just sleep-giving for this anaesthetist, as he navigates emergencies, patients not breathing for themselves and living with a terrifying sense of responsibility. It's enough to leave anyone feeling numb. But don't worry, there's plenty of laughing gas to be had. Catch Your Breath 7. Author Natalie Starkey Degree PhD Geological Sciences Book Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System 'Fire and Ice' is an exploration of the Solar System's volcanoes, from the highest peaks of Mars to the intensely inhospitable surface of Venus and the red-hot summits of Io, to the coldest, seemingly dormant icy carapaces of Enceladus and Europa, an unusual look at how these cosmic features are made, and whether such active planetary systems might host life. Fire and Ice 8. Author Khay Tham Nehemiah Lim Degree PhD Theology Book Not Beyond Language The problem of speaking about God arises from the presumed notion that God is utterly transcendent and is "wholly other" from human existence. Moreover, a profound sense of mystery is held to surround God's being. Even so, Not Beyond Language maintains that it is still possible for human beings to express and describe God in words--that language can bring genuine disclosure and understanding of the divine. However, given that religious language is problematic because inadequate, those who engage in speaking about God must accept that the words they use cannot be pressed to yield precise definitions or complete explanations of the divine. The author proposes a nuanced approach to the use of religious language which revolves more around meaning and relevance of the discourse about divine reality, than objective claims about who or what God is. Not Beyond Language Submit your book If you are a member of the alumni community and have recently published a book, we would be delighted to include it in the Alumni Bookshelf. Email the editor, Brian Campbell, with the following information: your name degree details book details, including a link for further information Email Brian Campbell Please note Books are added to the bookshelf in order of submission. All of the further information links listed are the external websites of the book publisher, the author, or the bookseller. The University of Edinburgh is not responsible for the content and functionality of these sites. We reserve the right to not publish all submissions we receive. This article was published on 2024-10-28
