Alan M. Turing
This is the centenary edition of the life of Alan Turing written by his mother, with a new foreword and a revealing memoir by his…… Read More »
Book Reviews
EUROPE'S DEBT TO PERSIA FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES
This is one of the most remarkable and enlightening books I have ever read. Its scholarship is meticulous and comprehensive and although the book is…… Read More »
Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context
My copy of Emerson's essays belonged to my grandmother and is dated 1898. It seems that she bought it herself as it is not dedicated…… Read More »
Revolution
Russell Brand perhaps needs no introduction. His notoriety precedes him, as one who confesses, honestly I might add, to having within him an "extremist, destructive…… Read More »
BACKPACKING WITH THE SAINTS
Over the last 25 years, there has been a huge revival in pilgrimages along with a rising popularity of seeing life through the metaphor of…… Read More »
After Capitalism
In recent years inequalities of wealth distribution have created much concern, especially for those impoverished by the complex economic forces that lead to such inequities.…… Read More »
FREE THE CHILDREN
I first heard Craig Kielburger speak to 700 people at the State of the World Forum in San Francisco in 1997. It was an astonishing…… Read More »
THE UNSELFISH SPIRIT
Mick Collins' own remarkable spiritual journey underpins this erudite and practical book about the fundamental ecological challenge we have created with our thinking, values and…… Read More »
AN UNKNOWN WORLD
Going beyond the immediate concerns of environmentalism, Jacob Needleman asks what is the purpose of life on Earth, and what is the role of human…… Read More »
PIONEERING THE POSSIBLE
It would be a real triumph for the leap of consciousness advocated in this book if, at the fourth nomination, Scilla Elworthy were actually to…… Read More »