Biography/Memoir

Charles, The Alternative King

An Unauthorised Biography
Edzard Ernst

King Charles has entertained a long-standing love affair with alternative medicine. This book describes his passion as it developed during the last 40 years. The King's beliefs, opinions, and ambitions are critically assessed against the background of the scientific evidence. In most instances, the contrast could not be starker.

Dylan at 80

It used to go like that, and now it goes like this
Gary Browning

2021 marks Bob Dylan's 80th birthday and his 60th year in the music world. It invites us to look back on his career and the multitudes that it contains. The essays in this book explore the Nobel laureate's masks, collectively reflecting upon their meaning through time, change, movement, and age.

The Icelandic Adventures of Pike Ward

K.J. Findlay

The Icelandic Adventures of Pike Ward is the entertaining and intrepid diary of a Devon fish merchant who became an Icelandic knight. It is a frank and funny account of one year in his life, from mixing in Reykjavík society to bargaining for fish on the remote coasts of the north and east.

Arthur Balfour's Ghosts

An Edwardian Elite and the Riddle of the Cross-Correspondence Automatic Writings
Trevor Hamilton

This book tells the incredible story of the cross-correspondence automatic writings, described by one leading scholar of the field, Alan Gauld, 'as undoubtedly the most extensive, the most complex and the most puzzling of all ostensible attempts by deceased persons to manifest purpose...'

The Chamberlain Legacy

Charles Nettlefold

In this book, the author has sought to re-examine the reputations of the Chamberlains by concentrating as much on their personal lives and the motives that drove them as on the mighty political events that dominated their times. His conclusions may surprise the reader.

Morse Code Wrens of Station X

Bletchley's Outer Circle
Anne Glyn-Jones

Morse Code Wrens of Station X is a very personal memoir of a young woman's experiences of war time service, as well as providing fascinating insights into the daily realities of the battle for military intelligence superiority.

A Scientist in Wonderland

A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble
Edzard Ernst

This memoir provides a unique insight into the cutthroat politics of academic life and offers a sobering reflection on the damage already done by pseudoscience in the field of medicine.

Tell My Mother I'm Not Dead

A Case Study in Mediumship Research
Trevor Hamilton

This book divides into two parts. The first is a personal narrative of the impact of the death of the author's son Ralph on him and his family. The second is an attempt to evaluate that evidence objectively (based on an extensive survey of current and past scientific research in the UK and the USA).

The Sarkozy Phenomenon

Nick Hewlett

In this short book the author argues that the Sarkozy phenomenon is best explained by principal reference to the notion of Bonapartism, which of course has a long history in French politics.

The Happy Passion

A Personal View of Jacob Bronowski
Anthony James

Bronowski was a professional scientist, scientific administrator, poet, philosopher, dramatist and TV and radio personality. His final achievement, the groundbreaking television series The Ascent of Man influenced and inspired millions of ordinary people by bringing an awareness of human evolution and the adventure of science into their homes.

Immortal Longings

F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death
Trevor Hamilton

Immortal Longings is the first full-length biography of Frederic W.H. Myers, leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research and friend and associate of Browning, Gladstone, Ruskin, Tennyson, Swinburne, Henry James, Prince Leopold and other influential Victorians.

Columbanus

Poet, Preacher, Statesman, Saint
Carol Richards

Columbanus ("The Dove of the Church"), not to be confused with his near-contemporary Columba of Iona, was a towering figure in the religious and political life of Europe in the Dark Ages. In this lively biography of the saint, Carol Richards evokes the violent and unstable age that laid the foundations for the achievements of the Middle Ages.

Partial Memories

Sketches from an Improbable Life
Ernst Glasersfeld

Autobiographical sketches by the philosopher and semioticist Ernst von Glasersfeld.

Anxious To Do Good

Learning to be an Economist the Hard Way
Alan Peacock

After nearly three and a half -- rather too exciting -- years as a young war-time sailor, Alan Peacock expected to return to a life of quiet contemplation. Instead he became an activist economist frequently engaged in controversies about the conduct of economic policy. This is his story.

Nelson, Hitler and Diana

Studies in Trauma and Celebrity
Richard D. Ryder

Clinical psychologist Richard Ryder approaches three iconic celebrities -- Horatio Nelson, Adolph Hitler, and Diana Princess of Wales -- as though they were his patients and presents a short psycho-biography of each.

Political Art of Bob Dylan

David Boucher

Bob Dylan is one of the most significant figures in popular culture. In this book, the authors provide a multi-faceted analysis of his political art.

Liberalism, Education and Schooling

Essays by T.M. McLaughlin
David Carr

A tribute collection of essays edited by author's colleagues and friends.

Froude Today

John Coleman

A.L. Rowse called fellow-historian James Anthony Froude the 'last great Victorian awaiting revival'. The question of power is the problem that perplexes every age: in his historical works Froude examined how it applied to the Tudor period, and defended Carlyle against the charge that he held the doctrine that ‘Might is Right’.

Joseph Conrad Today

Kieron O'Hara

This book argues that the novelist Joseph Conrad's work speaks directly to us in a way that none of his contemporaries can. Conrad's scepticism, pessimism, emphasis on the importance and fragility of community, and the difficulties of escaping our history are important tools for understanding the political world in which we live.

Wrestling with God

The Story of My Life
Lloyd Geering

In Wrestling With God Geering writes movingly of the interior and family life that form the backdrop to his controversial public life.

Puritan Democracy of Thomas Hill Green

Alberto De Sanctis

The central concern of this book is to demonstrate how Puritanism was a theme which ran through all Green's biography and political philosophy.

Gregory Bateson

Essays for an Ecology of Ideas
Frederick Steier

Gregory Bateson's work continues to touch others in fields as diverse as communication, ecology, anthropology, philosophy, family therapy, education, and mental/spiritual health. The authors in this special issue of Cybernetics & Human Knowing celebrate the Bateson Centennial.

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