Monday, December 14, 2020

Nothing to Lose but the Chains on our Minds

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How can we engage in collective action when we are living a more and more individualized existence? Jeremy Gilbert’s delightful little book ...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Commanding Hope

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Canadian Thomas Homer-Dixon is not your typical doom-merchant – although his was one of the first books I read suggesting that the increasin...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Why we need shorter non-fiction books – with chapter summaries

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As I reel under the number of books pouring from publishers, I have come to place more and more importance on three requirements which I loo...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Masterclasses in reviewing non-fiction books

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This is the first of a couple of posts looking at the lessons we can learn from two great practitioners of the reviewing non-fiction books –...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Peak Oil?

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A few weeks back I asked Whatever happened to Peak Oil? - and got a welcome comment from my ever-vigilant fellow blogger Boffy and from ano...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

a taster for "Dispatches to the Next Generation"

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 As I was born DURING the second-world war, I strictly don’t qualify as a “baby-boomer” since those were born in the more optimistic period ...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Snippets – Telling stories

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1. Think Tanks do not, these days, generally get a good press. They have been increasingly seen as cheerleaders for the exploitative causes...