The Empathic Civilization is sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin looks at the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development – and is likely to determine our fate as a species.
Today we face unparalleled challenges in an energy-intensive and interconnected world that [...]

An illuminating book, now also a brilliant six part series on BBC TV,  A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years has everyone singing its praises.  Diarmaid MacCullough is one of the world’s best and most respected historians writing in English. He has tackled with verve the gargantuan task of telling [...]

Solar – Ian McEwan

Posted on February 9th, 2010 by Jarvis in Fiction

Award winning author Ian McEwan in his newest, and very stylish novel Solar, provides us with yet another engrossing tale about a team of  protagonists involved in the intrigues and emotional turmoil that surround the issues of climate change.
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his [...]

Nicolas Rothwell paints a poetic, profound picture in his splendid production Journeys to the Interior. He surveys both the natural and human cultures that inhabit that rarified extension of the great Australian continent from the Kimberley Ranges to Cape York.
Australia’s centre and north are a world apart from its big coastal cities. [...]

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