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    High School Graduation – K12 strategies that work

    High School Graduation – K12 strategies that work

    Authors: Avis Glaze, Rob Andrews, Ruth Mattingley
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Education
    Avis Glaze was an impressive keynote speaker at our recent conference on Character, Culture and Values held at Glasgow University. This book explains the hugely…… Read More »
    The State of the American Mind

    The State of the American Mind

    Authors: Adam Bellow, Mark Bauerlein
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Society & Culture
    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 »
    Aristotelian Character Education

    Aristotelian Character Education

    Author: Kristján Kristjánsson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy Of Education / Ethics
    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 »
    The Wonder of You

    The Wonder of You

    Author: Lynn Kathleen Russell
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Near Death Experience / Spirituality
    This illuminating study is based on records initiative to the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation (www.nderf.org) and synthesises the messages of what the NDE tells you…… Read More »
    In the Light of Death

    In the Light of Death

    Author: Ineke Koedam
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Near Death Experiences / Death & Dying
    Subtitled 'experiences on the threshold between life and death', this book has a foreword by Pim van Lommel and an afterword by Peter Fenwick, which…… Read More »
    The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death

    The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death

    Author: Steven Luper
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Philosophy
    This volume covers a wide range of themes about the metaphysics of life and death, the significance of life and death and the ethics of…… Read More »
    New Magna Carta

    New Magna Carta

    Author: Dr Nicholas Beecroft
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Politics & Society
    As readers will be aware, this year marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. Nicholas Beecroft, author of Analyse West: a Psychiatrist Takes Western…… Read More »
    Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Author: Tom Butler
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Sustainability
    Uneasy about the ethical standards he saw around him, Tom Butler left the world of venture capitalism just over 15 years ago to devote himself…… Read More »
    Science, Society and the Environment

    Science, Society and the Environment

    Authors: Daniel M. Kammen, Michael R. Dove
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment / Science & Society
    This interesting book is the outcome of a collaboration between anthropology and the physics of sustainable environmental systems - between natural sciences and social sciences.…… Read More »
    Astrological Psychology, Western Esotericism and the Transpersonal

    Astrological Psychology, Western Esotericism and the Transpersonal

    Author: Sue Lewis
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
    It was touching to see this fascinating book dedicated to the memory of my friend Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, who set up the MA in Western Esotericism…… Read More »
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