Alice Roberts & Andrew Copson
Book Shambles
Professor Alice Roberts returns to Book Shambles and she’s brought along her co-author and editor of the new book, The Little Book of Humanism, Andrew Copson. They talk about what exactly humanism is, how they came to put together this new book and just how many Bertrand Russell quotes is too many…
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
The Little Book of Humanism: Universal Lessons on Finding Purpose, Meaning and Joy by Alice Roberts and Andrew Copson
Middlemarch by George Elliot
The work of Stephen J Gould
The science writings of Richard Dawkins
What is Humanism? How Do You Live Without a God? And Other Big Questions for Kids by Annemarie Young and Michael Rosen
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls before Swine by Kurt Vonnegut
What is Life? by Paul Nurse
The Book of Humans by Adam Rutherford
The work of Bertrand Russell
The work of James Baldwin
The work of Carl Sagan
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