The Work We Were Born to Do
Janine Edge writes: This is an intensely practical book for eliciting the work you love and how to create the opportunity to do it. There…… Read More »
Category: General
London's Leonardo
Authors: Jim Bennett, Lisa Jardine, Michael Cooper, Michael Hunter
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: General
2003 sees the tercentenary of the death of Robert Hooke, one of the early leading lights of the Royal Society. The book consists of four…… Read More »
T H Green and the Development of Ethical Socialism
T.H. Green (along with F.H. Bradley) was among the best-known of the British idealists at the end of the last century. In this book Matt…… Read More »
The Last Prime Minister
Subtitled 'Being Honest about the UK Presidency', this book is an analysis of political and administrative developments over the last few decades which have led…… Read More »
Monarchy
Authors: Grevel Lindop, John Carey, John S Allitt, Joseph Milne, Kathleen Raine, L L Blake
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: General
This is a series of papers delivered to the Temenos Academy to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee. Themes include ideal kingship in Buddhism and early…… Read More »
Cannabis - A History
A follow-up to his well-received historical book on opium. Booth goes right back into the history of the plant as well as analysing more recent…… Read More »
On the Edge of a Lifetime
This beautifully crafted autobiographical novel overflows with life: hope, courage, disappointment, error, compassion, indifference, selfishness, comedy, philosophy, spirituality, religion, honesty, deceit, death, triumph. Sent to…… Read More »
Ancient Egypt, Life, Myth and Art
Dr John Fletcher is a consultant Egyptologist at Harrowgate Museum as well as a writer. In this book she focuses on how ancient Egyptian, culture…… Read More »
Chartres
Readers who have been in the presence of Chartres Cathedral will be in no doubt that they have stood in sacred space, as countless pilgrims…… Read More »
EDUCATION WITH CHARACTER
Subtitled 'the moral economy of schooling', James Arthur's book will surely become the standard interdisciplinary work on the emerging field of character education. A keynote…… Read More »