Failure
This is the sequel to the author's book Ignorance, and builds on some of its insights. The main thrust of the book will be familiar…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Moons
This very short introduction will tell you all you need to know about moons. Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter through his telescope in January…… Read More »
Moonstruck
The author comes from a background of marine zoology and has taken an interest not only in circadian rhythms and chronobiology but now also in…… Read More »
BLACK EARTH - the Holocaust as History & Warning
As its title implies, this is a very dark book about a very dark subject; the Holocaust and its causes. Snyder's innovative theory is that…… Read More »
CONSOLATIONS
David Whyte is an internationally acclaimed poet who also speaks in a business context. I remember him at the 1997 State of the World Forum…… Read More »
AN INTELLIGENT PERSON'S GUIDE TO EDUCATION
Some readers may know that Tony Little has just retired as Head Master of Eton College – this very engaging book is his formal educational…… Read More »
Charles Williams: The Third Inkling
Grevel Lindop's new and excellent biography opens with Charles Williams, who, by poverty, was forced to abandon his formal education at seventeen, lecturing to spellbound,…… Read More »
ANGER IS AN ENERGY
Much as I love my thrice-annual copy of the Network magazine, I find the articles and book reviews, while fascinating, sometimes thematically rather similar, dealing…… Read More »
LEADING FROM THE EMERGING FUTURE
Authors: Katrin Kaufer, Otto Scharmer
Reviewer: Keith Beasley
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Any book that quotes Thich Nhat Hanh and Master Nan's reinterpretation of Confucius's Great Learning in a discourse on the evolution of Economics and Business…… Read More »
Spiritual Activism
Authors: Alastair McIntosh, Matt Carmichael
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
As I mention in my review of Terra Nova in this section, Dieter Duhm's experience of Marxism in the 1960s was that politics alone was…… Read More »