****WINNER OF THE HISTORY AND TRADITION CATEGORY, EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2020****LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021****'A real page-turner ... a warning about what happens when the rich and powerful dress up their avarice as "progress" - a lesson we could do with learning today.' Dixe Wills, BBC Countryfile magazineFROM A MULTI-AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN, AN ARRESTING NEW HISTORY OF THE BATTLE FOR THE FENS.Between the English...

This work, entitled The Tutor, chronicles my path helping adult non readers become more independent after learning reading, writing and life skills. As a volunteer, teaching non reading adults is the one thing that can only be paid forward and the benefits last a lifetime.

'Economics for People and the Planet' brings together recent essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality, and the economy.Part One, Rethinking Economics and the Environment, challenges some common assumptions, including the beliefs that economic growth is incompatible with environmental sustainability, capitalist firms single-mindedly pursue profits, and human beings are inherently bad for nature.Part Two, Environmental Injustice, opens with the author’s 2017 Le...

Synopsis: The work The Tutor: My Journey as an Adult Volunteer Literacy Tutor chronicles the author's path and what he has learned to help adult nonreaders become more independent after learning to read. Teaching is the one thing that can only be paid forward, and the benefits last a lifetime. This reflects the lens of his passion, calling for volunteering and teaching adult nonreaders to read, write, and improve their life skills. He has been tutoring new adult learners ...

This highly readable book explores the scope and detail of the newly revised Guidelines, which shape and define how clergy should act and behave. The book brings together a number of experts in the field, who draw on The Ordinal (as the basis of the Guidelines) in writing engagingly on key elements in the life of clergy today.Paula Gooder wrestles with the exhilaratingly tricky question, 'What would Jesus do?'John Pritchard responds with characteristic humo...

Low-income communities frequently suffer from a lack of access to, or lack of control over, the natural resources that surround them. In many cases, their local environment has been degraded by years of resource extraction and pollution by distant corporations or government agencies. In such settings, initiatives that build natural assets in the hands of the poor can play an important role in poverty-fighting efforts.Natural Assets explores a range of strategies for expand...

Economics for People and the Planet, a collection of essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality and the economy, argues that there is not an inexorable trade-off between advancing human well-being and having a clean and safe environment. The goal of economic policy should be to grow the good things that improve our well-being and environmental quality and reduce the bad things that harm humans and nature. To reorient the economy for these ends, we will need to achieve a more e...

According to the doctrine of original sin, all humans are born bad and only God’s grace can bring salvation. James Boyce shows how these ideas have shaped the Western view of human nature, and how the belief that we are all innately sinful retains a firm grip on Western consciousness and culture – even in the writings of avowed atheists such as Marx and Freud. Born Bad traces a fascinating journey from Adam and Eve all the way to Adam Smith and Richard Dawkins in this sweeping story of a c...

Economics for People and the Planet, a collection of essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality and the economy, argues that there is not an inexorable trade-off between advancing human well-being and having a clean and safe environment. The audiobook version of Economics for People and the Planet features new chapters on the Green New Deal and the environmental costs of inequality.Table of contents:Foreword by Manuel Pastor

Economics for People and the Planet, a collection of essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality and the economy, argues that there is not an inexorable trade-off between advancing human well-being and having a clean and safe environment. The goal of economic policy should be to grow the good things that improve our well-being and environmental quality and reduce the bad things that harm humans and nature. To reorient the economy for these ends, we will need to achieve a more e...