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Street Lamps
Street Lamps is an unusual type of autobiography because it describes the life of somebody with absolutely no public recognition. However, it offers a unique personal record of seventy turbulent years in the history of our time; and it is a fascinating and entertaining read. Peter Cruttwell presents this colourful and well-observed portrait of his passage from war-time childhood to his teenage schooling, travel in war-torn Europe as a boy of 15, service in Military Intelligence and a remarkably varied career in business all over the world. Laced with insight and frequently irreverent personal opinion, the book consists of 170 ‘light-pools’ which are individual cameos depicting episodes i...
Downsizing the U.S.A.
In this trenchant analysis of American society, Thomas Naylor and William Willimon take an unabashed stance against the belief that "bigger is better" and contend that there is a price to be paid for our uncritical affirmation of bigness.
History Out of Control
"In this book Peter Cruttwell puts the current status quo in perspective by assessing three famous universal theories of history - Spengler's The decline of the West, and those of Toynbee and Hegel - to see how they have stood up to the test of time. He concludes that they each have something of value to contribute to our response to ... the challenges that we now face, but argues for a simpler theory of history, based on three 'drives' (Subsistential, Metaphysical and Power) by which we human beings have striven to control our world." --book jacket.
The End of the Yellowbrick Road
This book examines what progress the world is making as it embarks on the necessary and inevitable shift from an exploitative capitalistic economic system, where money is the bottom line, to the new paradigm of a sustainable economics in which wealth (or welfare) is the defining factor.
The Athenaeum
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Wollstonecraft's Daughters
This work explores Mary Wollstonecraft's 19th-century legacy in relation to three themes integral to her work: the nature of motherhood, religion and the empowerment of women, and women's contribution to the sciences of man. The introduction provides a comparative framework for French and English women and situates each essay within current historical debates.
