How Universities can Help Create a Better World
I reviewed Nicholas Maxwell's Understanding Scientific Progress in the last issue, and in this earlier book he focuses his thesis more particularly on how universities…… Read More »
Book Reviews
The Sum of Small Things
In 1899, the Norwegian economist Thorstein Veblen published his book Theory of the Leisure Class, where he coined the phrase conspicuous consumption. The author reflects…… Read More »
Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: General
Sir Edward Tylor (1832-1917) was the first professor of social anthropology at Oxford and is author of the famous Primitive Culture, which he published in…… Read More »
On the Ocean – the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to 1500 AD
I reviewed Sir Barry's last brilliant work, Between Steppe, Desert and Ocean just over a year ago and here he has produced another magisterial tour…… Read More »
The Maria Thun Biodynamic Calendar 2018
This is the annual biodynamic Bible. Besides the calendar itself with advice on the best time to plant and harvest, the book contains useful special…… Read More »
Global Catastrophes – A Very Short Introduction
An informative if dispiriting update on when and how the world might come to an end, whether natural or human induced. It is sobering to…… Read More »
Traditions and Trends in Global Environmental Politics
Authors: Hayley Stevenson, Olaf Correy
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
This volume reviews and updates a 1996 collection on the environment and international relations that was the first of its kind. On the one hand,…… Read More »
The Simpol Solution
I have reviewed John Bunzl's earlier work on his Simultaneous Policy solution to international challenges, and this is by far the most comprehensive statement of…… Read More »
River of Life, River of Death
Victor Mallet is an FT journalist who is based in New Delhi between 2012 and 2016, which gave him a chance to research and write…… Read More »
Foreshoring the Unconscious
Those of us who attended the continental meeting in Poland reported elsewhere in this issue will have had the interesting experience of collective foreshoring, led…… Read More »