Out of The Woods
Subtitled 'a guide to life for men beyond 50', this is an invaluable handbook for navigating the second half of life. With Max Mackay-James and…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Why Cleaning Has Meaning
This might at first sight seem an offbeat statement, but this is one of the most unusual books I have read for some time. The…… Read More »
The Story of Emerson College
I imagine that quite a few readers will be familiar with Emerson College in Forest Row. The Network used to hold its Wider Horizons courses…… Read More »
Education and the Growth of Knowledge
Ben Kotzee is a researcher at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues in the Education Department of the University of Birmingham, with which my…… Read More »
Occupy Consciousness
Peter McGugan is a film-maker and founder of ConsciousWorldSummit.com, and who was an inspiring contributor to the Wrekin Trust weekend last autumn. His basic argument…… Read More »
Another Way of Seeing
Subtitled 'essays on transforming law, politics and culture', these essays introduce a spiritual – political way of seeing that one finds in the online Tikkun…… Read More »
Boundaries in an Overconnected World
Information overload is now a commonly used phrase, which is partly due to electronic intrusions and distractions that interrupt our focus. This book is designed…… Read More »
The Energy Imperative
Hermann Scheer (1944-2010) was a social Democrat member of the German Bundestag, president of Eurosolar and general chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy.…… Read More »
Integrated Activism
This stimulating book might equally have been called systemic activism, taking into account the linkages between ecology, economic, politics and the ideology of progress, which…… Read More »
Changing Places
I received a copy of this book when lecturing in Sydney in January. The book examines the fundamental issues of the meaning of being Australian…… Read More »