Book reviews
Jonathon Hanks reviews challenging new books on business, sustainable development and related matters, for MindShift magazine. - Winter 2008 – The Bridge at the Edge of the World (James Gustave Speth) ; The Power of Unreasonable People (John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan) ; Making Sustainability Work (Marc Epstein) ; About Time (Edited by Tim Aldrich, Forum for the Future) ; Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change (Michael MacCracken, Frances Moore and John Topping, Jr.) ; How to Live a Low-Carbon Life (Chris Goodall) ; The New Energy Book for Urban Development in South Africa (Sarah Ward – updated edition)
- Autumn 2008 – A New Green History of the World (Clive Ponting) ; the Shock Doctrine (Naomi Klein); The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (Naomi Wolf); The Sixth Extinction (Terry Glavin); The Road (Cormac McCarthy); The Joyless Economy (Tibor Scitovsky); The Everyday Activist (Michael Norton)
- November 2007 – The Business Guide to Sustainability (Hitchcock and Willard); The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason (Sam Harris); 50 Facts that Should Change the World (Jessica Williams) (PDF, 200Kb)
- July 2007 – Capitalism at the Crossroads (Stuart Hart); Make Poverty Business (Wilson and Wilson) (PDF, 180Kb)
- May 2007 – Heat (George Monbiot); The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (Micklethwait and Wooldridge); The Meaning of the 21st Century (James Martin); The High Purpose Company (Christine Arena) (PDF, 180Kb)
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