Belief and Ageing
Spiritual pathways in later life
Peter G. Coleman (Editor) Paperback, 192 pages Policy Press Bristol 2011
ISBN 9781847424594 2011
Most of the books on my shelves about religion and ageing are written out of the United States of America. There are
Moral Medicine?
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On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics
Edited by M. Therese Lysaught and Joseph J. Cotva Jr. With Stephen E. Lammers and Allen Verhey
Publisher: Erdmans Michigan 3rd Edition 2012, 1,162 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6601-1 no price marked
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A radical rethink on health care – Church Times Review
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Remodelling Medicine Jeremy Swayne Saltire Books £39.98 (978-1-908127-00-6)
THERE are consultations in UK general practice every day. Many of us will be grateful for our doctor's skill and humanity in diagnosis and treatment. As patients, we present an extraordinary
What makes a great politician?
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Disraeli, or The Two Lives
Douglas Hurd and Edward Young
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2013 £20
Friends will know of my mild obsession with post second world ward political biographies and autobiographies. They are a strange and mildly unsatisfying genre with few jewels on the
Moving Theory into Practice?
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Transitions and the Lifecourse
Challenging the Constructions of 'Growing Old'
Amanda Grenier
256 pages, pbk £26.99, Policy Press Bristol- (Ageing and the Lifecourse Series) 2012, ISBN 978 1 84742 691 8.
Most of us in middle age have the experience of living with
Learning about Loss – Book review
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The Essential Guide to Life After Bereavement
Beyond Tomorrow
Judy Carole Kauffmann and Mary Jordan
Paperback: £12.99 Jessica Kingsley Publishers
2013, 176pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-335-8.
In pastoral ministry there are many encounters that remain in the memor
In Praise of …..
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The essay was originally published in 1933. The English translation was published in 1977.
Much shorter than the author's novels, this book is a small meditative work of 73 pages, of which 59 are the essay itself.
The essay consists of 16 sections that discuss tradi
Home, sweet Home!
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This is a very good book! We know our homes and make choices in relation to them but this book will change how you think about almost every aspect of your home!
“Our houses and homes,” Heathcote writes, “no matter what style they are realised in, no matter how modest o
History from a different angle!
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Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard
A walk from the shops in Windsor into the Castle and my home in The Cloisters always takes one past a statue of Queen Victoria. Perhaps it is the most foolish of historians that can ever take thei
Cosmo Lang
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Cosmo Gordon Lang: Archbishop in War and Crisis Robert Beaken (I B Tauris, £25),
This was a hasty buy helped by a book token that I had been trying to use for ages and (frankly) a rather interesting set of photographs! I was not disappointed.... It has gained a litt
Wise Self Reflection?
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Everybody matters– how do we live up to those words.?
That precept is not only the title of Mary Robinson’s autobiography, but also the core conviction that has guided virtually every step of her life on the world stage.
By any measure, Mary Robinson is a remarkable p
Remixing The Church
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Doug Gay, Remixing The Church: Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology, London (SCM Press) 2011, 133 pp., ISBN 9780334043966, £17.99
There can be little doubt that church attendance is in decline and over the past two decades in the UK significant resources have been invested in a
Writing your life honestly?
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The autobiography of Jack Straw - an MP for thirty-three years and at the heart of government throughout the longest-serving Labour administration in history
As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britain's Lord Chance
The Elizabethans
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I don't know what you take away on holiday to read – if anything at all? I enjoy a bit of politics (more of that later) and always at some history.I have had Wilsons the Elizabethans on the shelf for some time and it was one of those books that I had picked up but was not able
Christian theology in Practice
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Christian Theology in Practice
Discovering a Discipline
Bonnie J. Miller –McLemore
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2012
I have had a rather frustrating time of late due, in part, to a paucity of stimulating reading in the
Go with the Flow
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It was a pleasure to travel up to London last night to Downing Street for a Reception, hosted by Samantha Cameron, in support of Maggie’s and by way of launching Gemma Levine’s ‘Go with the Flow’.
It is, of course, always interesting to step inside and see something of a
William Rees-Mogg
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William Rees-Mogg is one of the pivotal figures of post-war Britain. In this memoir he recounts the story of a colourful life, and reflects on the key figures and events of his time.
As editor of The Times (his glory years), journalist, commentator, Chairman of the Art
UnMasking Age
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Unmasking Age: The significance of age for social research
Social Research
Bill Bytheway Policy Press 2011
When the history of social gerontology is written, the chapter devoted to the contribution of individual researchers to the field, will certainly feature Bill B
My favourite libraries – The Harper Library in the University of Chicago
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60 000 books
People
Space
wide tables
Comfortable chairs to sleep
serious reading space!
Holiday Books – A Walk on Part by Chris Mullin
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Yes Minister meets Alan Clark. This third and final volume of Chris Mullin's acclaimed diaries begins on the night John Smith died in May 1994, and continues until the moment of Mullin's assumption into government in July 1999.
Together with the bestselling "A View from the Foo