Arena Books: 108 books
Emergence of The New Majority
Volume I of Social Capitalism in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
In democracies throughout the industrialised world, political systems are everywhere beginning to unravel, and thinking people - even amongst our leaders - are uncertain of the reason why. Whilst most governments drive towards greater equity and justice, the reality is towards an opposite direction,...
The People's Capitalism
Volume 2 of Social Capitalism in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2008
In the world of the 90% heterogeneous middle-middle majority, which we find throughout the advanced industrialised economies in both East and West, all are equally affected by the major socio-economic issues of our time. This has resulted inevitably in eroding left/right (or class-based) politics...
The Death of Socialism
the irrelevance of the traditional left and the call for a progressive politics of universal humanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Socialism and the mindset of the traditional left have outlived their purpose. A new political philosophy is neweded in the cause of creating a fair and egalitarian society for the peoples of our planet. This is a startling yet profound book which strikes at the foundations of established politics...
Build Your Dream Team
Humanist Management in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Suiccessive waves of innovation in management theory have claimed to revolutionise the subject of team building. However, we should look at all these waves together. This is what achieves the tide of change. For many years modern management has been known as 'Humanist Management.'...
Deadly Encounters
how infectious disease helped shape Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
This book is written from an interdisciplinary perspective combining elements of Medical Demography, Public Health, History and Geography. There is much we have to learn from past epidemic encounters and how society responded to such crises.
Recent outbreaks of Swine Flu, Avian Flu and now...
Build Over There
understanding the Government's role in shaping our cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In an age of virtual communication, globalisation and technological advance, does the issue of where we build, or not build, really matter?
Described as a code that is to the city what an operating system is to the computer, the evolution of the planning system is a story...
A Short History of Human Error
from 3,000 BC to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
This is a candid, sometimes controversial study of the psychological or other flaws of political, religious and economic leaders from ancient times to the present day: from Rameses II to Colonel Gaddafi, from Genghis Khan to Stalin and Hitler, from Buddha or Saint Paul to Martin Luther...
The Gods of Our Time
Reflections on the loss of a loved one
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
All of us involved in these turbulent times need to reassess what reference to God should mean and what it should exclude. Or has “God” become a meaningless term, like a hat that is shapeless because it has been worn by too many heads? Should it be discarded? Does God have a future? ...
Death in Riyadh
dark secrets in hidden Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2000
This is not only a travel book but a thought-provoking documentary on inter-cultural relationships between the different races and nationalities comprising the huge expatriate population and native Arab residents of the oil-rich peninsula.
The prolific travel writer, Peter Biddlecombe, writes:-...
The Land of Greenstone Water
a rural tale of New Zealand in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
A vivid story of rural life in England and New Zealand inthe 1930s: 17-year old Harriet is a maid at LArwood, which belongs to Richard Odson. His dilemma is that he has only one relative, a hated nephew, Napier. Odson is amused by Harriet, for her lack of respect for his lofty status and decides to...
by Richard Pooler
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Conceptual art in the Western world is in crisis. That is the view of many people who are disillusioned with what they regard as its attention-seeking antics, where artists themselves have proudly proclaimed 'the death of art'. Why has art been on this road to destruction, and how did it get there?...
God's Brains
the surging tide of humanity
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
While the stories that make up God’s Brains suggest that the skies of the future will certainly not be pure blue, through their ironic edge and secular bite, they suggest that there are always new energies to be found from the setbacks and the sinking ‘Titanics’ of our lives – that courage...
Two Days in July
a docu-drama of Claus von Stauffenberg's attempt to kill Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
This docu-drama presents the story of Claus von Stauffenberg’s assassination and coup attempt against Hitler on 20 July 1944 with perhaps greater clarity and psychological insight than any straight factual account could succeed in conveying.
Leading reviews from...
by Amy Kernahan
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2011
This sea story from the bottom of the earth takes the reader on a philosophical voyage through many realms, religious and secular, mathematical and poetic, natural and mechanical. Something akin to a Scottish Bill Bryson, Amy Kernahan, who was born and grew up on the Isle of Lewis, the largest of...