Clock versus Compass – Art of Positive Balance
This topical book of practical wisdom is a distillation of the author's thinking about life as a coach and practitioner of positive psychology. The content…… Read More »
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Coherent Self, Coherent World
This wide-ranging book - subtitled a new synthesis of myth, metaphysics and Bohm's Implicate Order - is an important contribution to reorienting our culture towards…… Read More »
Four Quartets – TS Eliot and Spirituality
In June, we have a Cathar pilgrimage from Puivert to Foix, which we have themed around TS Eliot's Four Quartets as a spiritual journey through…… Read More »
How to Keep your Cool
This is a new edition of Seneca's classic essay on Anger at a time when the phrase 'anger management' had yet to be coined. There…… Read More »
On Freedom
Cass Sunstein is a behavioural economist at Harvard whose book on digital democracy I reviewed last year as well as his earlier work Nudge. Here…… Read More »
Introduction to Western Moral Philosophy
This is a lucid introduction to the subject based on lectures given to undergraduates and beginning with an introduction to the topic in terms of…… Read More »
The Lost Vision of Nature
Joseph Milne's work is essential reading in the history of ideas, and I would strongly recommend his Metaphysics and the Cosmic Order to readers unfamiliar…… Read More »
The Perennial Philosophy and the Recovery of a Theophanic View of Nature
This is a lucid account of the topic affirming the spiritual dimension of existence and explaining how the Reformation and scientific revolution removed a view…… Read More »
Science and the Good
Subtitled 'the tragic quest for the foundations of morality', this is an important book on a significant question: can science demonstrate what morality is and…… Read More »
Better with Age
Although the subtitle of this book indicates that it is about the psychology of successful ageing, it is as much about physiology and health more…… Read More »