The State of the World Atlas
This book is a remarkable achievement in combining graphics, charts, maps, statistics and analysis to give an overview of the world and its dynamics. The…… Read More »
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
The Little Book of Organic Farming
This handy illustrated pocket book gives the reader all the basic information about organic farming in an eminently digestible format that makes it suitable both…… Read More »
The Celtic Gift of Nature
A charming compilation from Alexander Carmichael's Carmina Gadelica, featuring nature poems and prayers from the Gaelic tradition. The Gaelic is on one side and the…… Read More »
ONE NO, MANY YESES
In 1857, Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and abolitionist, wrote: ' If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom and…… Read More »
MATTERS OF CONSEQUENCE
In his foreword to this remarkable book, Paul Ray - co-author of The Cultural Creatives - observes that our 500-year old 'modern civilisation' shows many…… Read More »
THE NEW PEARL HARBOR
Much has been made of 'failures of intelligence' in the recent UK and US reports on events surrounding the decision to invade Iraq and the…… Read More »
Dreaming War - Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
These essays are the sequel to 'Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace', and begin with a penetrating analysis of the issues arising from 9/11 and the…… Read More »
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
The title of this book comes from the historian Charles Beard to characterise the ultimately self-defeating paradox of the current economic and political systems that…… Read More »
World Agriculture: towards 2015/2030, An FAO Perspective
This is an exceptional volume and as comprehensive as one would expect from the FAO. It is an update of the study towards 2010 published…… Read More »
Wild Flowers - An Easy Guide by Habitat and Colour
A very handy pocket reference book to the flowers found in various habitats such as coastal, marsh, heaths, moors, meadows, waste land, paths, walls, woodlands…… Read More »