Society, Politics & Current Affairs
In a world of dizzying change and global challenges, Where are we Going and are we Nearly There Yet? offers a thought-provoking reflection on the human experience and our collective future.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the political situation in Kashmir and presents two case studies of transitional justice – between Timor-Leste and Indonesia and in South Africa – to provide inspiration for a potential roadmap to peace in Kashmir. Via interviews with political leaders, as well as with numerous Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control, this book seeks to present all sides involved …
Cities affect all of our lives. Fernand Braudel identified their three functions, providing security, shelter and markets. Ideologists like Ebenezer Howard (garden cities) and Le Corbusier (monumental redevelopment) suggested how cities should work. Jane Jacobs showed how they actually work. Civilizing Cities expands considerably from these foundations in three parts: past, present and future …
This book reveals a politics which starts and ends with people realising their potential.
From Britain’s shifting political centre of gravity The Britain Potential pieces together a politics that is neither left nor right, is not of division and polarisation but is about integration, balance, and unity. It offers an entirely fresh, genuinely humanistic vision grounded in actual developments both historical and contemporary. This is a politics viewed as something at work in daily life which is not being reported in the media and that no political party has yet spelt out …
In this visionary book, the author argues that in order to drive the development of technology and sustainability forward there is a need for considerable investment and collective action. The need to drive large-scale development and transformation is usually overlooked when consultants that study and predict the future and experts in narrow fields project trends into the future. The foundation of our future has been laid by the past decisions and activities, or lack thereof, by politicians and their voters. This book seeks to tell the story of a future that few people expect.
Is western civilisation based on a mistaken understanding of humanity? Fundamental to any society is its comprehension of human nature. It shapes attitudes and policies on a whole range of issues: interpersonal relations, child-rearing, discipline and punishment, economics and welfare. For millennia western societies were based on the idea that human nature is flawed. This was turned upside down 300 years ago during the Enlightenment by writers such as Rousseau, who argued that we are born good and later warped by parents and society …
Socialism and the mindset of the traditional left have outlived their purpose. A new political philosophy is needed in the cause of creating a fair and egalitarian society for the peoples of our planet. The author’s conclusions are drawn from two directions: an analysis of the consequences of the transformation of society over the past 60 years in industrialised economies; and personal experiences as an activist, both locally and nationally, after 14 years within the Labour party.
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