When I took up a reading of her first book, “The Butchering Art; Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine,” for review, I found myself unable to break away from it and completed the entire work well after midnight following a single sitting. Such is the power of Dr. Fitzharris’ narrative abilities.
As an author of exceptional skill, with an education in mathematics and engineering attained in part during his time as a cadet at West Point, and possessing a particularly quick, inventive, and curious mind. Edgar Allan Poe was in many ways an ideal personage for the age.
Back in October of 2016 at the American Museum of Natural History, Jonathan Balcombe, author of “What a Fish Knows,” presented an overview of some of the material he included in his highly praised recent book about fish behavior and cognition.
As luck would have it, I arrived in the city last Friday evening a tad too early for a scheduled gathering at the headquarters of one of my old graduate schools. Not wanting to sit twiddling my thumbs in a lobby before the doors opened, I pointed the Prius down the street to the downtown […]