BLACK EARTH - the Holocaust as History & Warning
As its title implies, this is a very dark book about a very dark subject; the Holocaust and its causes. Snyder's innovative theory is that…… Read More »
Category: General
CONSOLATIONS
David Whyte is an internationally acclaimed poet who also speaks in a business context. I remember him at the 1997 State of the World Forum…… Read More »
AN INTELLIGENT PERSON'S GUIDE TO EDUCATION
Some readers may know that Tony Little has just retired as Head Master of Eton College – this very engaging book is his formal educational…… Read More »
Charles Williams: The Third Inkling
Grevel Lindop's new and excellent biography opens with Charles Williams, who, by poverty, was forced to abandon his formal education at seventeen, lecturing to spellbound,…… Read More »
ANGER IS AN ENERGY
Much as I love my thrice-annual copy of the Network magazine, I find the articles and book reviews, while fascinating, sometimes thematically rather similar, dealing…… Read More »
Every Day Matters 2016 Pocket Diary
This is an attractively produced diary with a difference. Each month is devoted to a separate theme such as happiness, creativity, truth, beauty, gratitude and…… Read More »
Living, Thinking, Looking
Siri Hustvedt is best known as a novelist and here she discusses some of the ideas with which she also engages in her fiction. The…… Read More »
The Pleasure of Reading
This book was originally published in 1992, but this new edition contains five younger writers and a new preface by Victoria Gray, widow of Simon…… Read More »
The Wealth Chef
You may or may not have read a number of books about money and finances, but if you are interested in the subject, as I…… Read More »
The Life of Lines
Tin Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. In this strikingly original book he extends and redefines his field with a…… Read More »