The State of the American Mind
Some readers may recall the famous book by Allan Bloom - The Closing of the American Mind, published in the late 1980s. This new volume…… Read More »
Category: Education
Aristotelian Character Education
Kristjan Kristjansson is Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues in the University of Birmingham. The Centre…… Read More »
Oxford Guide to Effective Argument & Critical Thinking
Oddly enough, this brilliantly informative book contains no information about the author, but one guesses that he must be a professional philosopher. I know of…… Read More »
Words in Time and Place
David Crystal is well known as the foremost scholar in language, and has produced yet another extraordinary book exploring the English language through the historical…… Read More »
It's Been Said Before
A very informative and entertaining book for anyone interested in the nature and development of language, making one reflect on the nature and context of…… Read More »
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Education
This is the eighth edition of the book first published in 1941 and which of course is now online. At £30, it is excellent value…… Read More »
Making Grateful Kids
Sir John Templeton identified gratitude as one of the key attitudes to life, and the research reported in this book has been supported by his…… Read More »
The Story of Emerson College
I imagine that quite a few readers will be familiar with Emerson College in Forest Row. The Network used to hold its Wider Horizons courses…… Read More »
Education and the Growth of Knowledge
Ben Kotzee is a researcher at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues in the Education Department of the University of Birmingham, with which my…… Read More »
Children of the Fifth World
I first came across the work of Phyllis Atwater in the 1980s, when she was part of the American NDE community and had written a…… Read More »