The movement towards a wiser, more enlightened, society comes in instalments complete with agonising setbacks. History is that eternal tension between action & reaction. For all our progress & enlightenment there will always be that other tribe, just over the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Books Authors E thru H
ISBN 978-0-349-12352-3. “How To Change The World – Tales of Marx and Marxism” by Eric Hobsbawm was published by Abacus (originally Little, Brown) in 2014. This is the twelfth reprint from an original dated 2011. Hobsbawm died a year later in … Continue reading
“After Oil: SF Visions of a Post-Petroleum World” is a collection of science fiction short stories book-ended by John Michael Greer and published by Founders House Publishing in 2012. This is a bit of a first for us as this … Continue reading
ISBN 978-1-85856-553-8. “Educating for Hope in Troubled Times – Climate change and the transition to a post-carbon future” was written by David Hicks and published by the Institute for Education Press in 2014. This represents the first time we have … Continue reading
ISBN 978-0-19-993387-7. “Overheated – The Human Cost of Climate Change” by Andrew Guzman was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. “Overheated” is probably the most up-to-date book on the impacts of climate change we have examined to-date. With each … Continue reading
ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-130-5. “The Village Against the World” by Dan Hancox was published by Verso in 2013. I saw this in a bookshop shortly after publication and it intrigued me. Something about it immediately said “Transition” & “Totnes”, although it is … Continue reading