COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SURVIVE
Since the end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago (a mere blink of geological time), humans have come together in societies of…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
When I was teaching at Winchester College twenty years ago, one of my colleagues ran what he called 'The Society for the Protection of Spoken…… Read More »
In Defense of Globalization
Around the time when the Iron Curtain came down and the USSR, and even China, opened up and adopted the capitalist model in some way…… Read More »
THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM
The attack on the twin towers and the invasion of Iraq has provoked profound reflections about the nature of politics in our time. Both these…… Read More »
OUR FINAL CENTURY
In this book by the Astronomer Royal and recently appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Sir Martin Rees, FRS, the question mark appears in the…… Read More »
THE LONG SUMMER: HOW CLIMATE CHANGED CIVILISATION
Brian Fagan tells the story surrounding the development of human societies since the end of the last ice age, about 18,000 years ago. Information from…… Read More »
PLAN B - Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
This is the third in Lester Brown's current series of books urging the creation of an eco-economy where human economic activity is situated within a…… Read More »
SOULUTION
Subtitled 'The Holistic Manifesto', William's book is an ambitious attempt to set out holism as an integrated world-view that promises to be an adequate cultural…… Read More »
THE FIRES OF ALCHEMY: A TRANSPERSONAL VIEWPOINT
Authors: Barbara Somers, Hazel Marshall
Reviewer: Diana Williams
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
'Living Alchemy' was Barbara Somers' title for the series of talks on which this book is based, and that best describes what it is about.…… Read More »
The Oxford Companion to the Mind
The title of my review comes from the first sentence of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to the Mind, first published in 1987…… Read More »