Arena Books imprint: 107 books
Islam and The New Totalitarianism
fundamentalism's threat to World Civilisation
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
The Islamic threat is possibly the most disturbing political issue of our time, as it impacts on the fears of so many ordinary people. The propagation of puritanical Wahabism, through the oil wealth of the Gulf States, ensures that its ideology is spread worldwide as the most influential force in...
Deism and Social Ethics
the role of religion in the third millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2007
Religion in many parts of the world, in both politics and personal life, for good or ill, is now exerting a greater influence than at any time in living memory. There is now not merely a cultural-religious confrontation between a worldwide Islam and what it sees as an affluent agnostic West, but the...
Populism Against Progress
and the collapse of aspirational values
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2007
The increasing complexity of industrial society, together with the prospect of economic and environmental threats on a scale never before experienced, entails an ever-greater demand on the educational and citizenship-skills of the ordinary individual. An appropriately educated public is needed to...
The Democratic Imperative
the reality of power relationships in the nation state
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Democracy understood as people power, which is the only proper definition of the word, is put forward in this book as the panacea for resolving the most pressing issues of our time. Butr democracy as a practicable system hinges on many conditions wich are seldom appreciated by our world leaders, international...
The Future of Politics
with the demise of the left/right confrontational system
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The left/right confrontational system is coming to an end, since it is failing to further promote the interests of majorities worldwide. For 200 years it has acted as the linchpin of democracy, and politics is almost unthinkable without referring to the concepts of the Left or the Right.
This...
Prosperity in a Stable World
Volume 3 of Social Capitalism in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2008
The reform of the financial-industrial infrastructure cannot be undertaken without considering fully the political culture in which it exists. But such reforms can only best be initiated from within the capitalist system itself by those most technically competent to effect necessary change, and hence...
Loyalty and Disloyalty
the history of morality
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Imagine yourself transported to live with an early human hunter-gatherer group of 100 or so individuals, back about 250,000 years ago. Think of them as similar to one of the few forager societies still in existence today. As a basis for this exercise, it will do for now. Can you see any reason why...
by Mel O'Dea
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Driftwood Memories is a moving story about a doomed and tragic love affair that nonetheless ends on a note of hope for the future. It explores the theme of the outsider and is about a young man called, John, who is devastated at the loss of his girlfriend with whom he is deeply in love.
The...
by Jon Fordham
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
In the early hours of 8 August 1963, a crime took place which simultaneously captured the imagination of the general public, and shook the British Establishment to the core, in a way that no criminal event had ever done before.
The Great Train Robbery, as it subsequently became known, involved...
by Stig Dalager
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The Jewish-Danish lawyer, Jon Baeksgaard, and his Israeli born fiancee, Eve, who works in a real estate firm on the 86th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Centre are amongst the 9/11 victims caught in the conflagration. He tries to rescue her from the building, and the events following a...
The Fourth Generation
a personal story of humour and heartache 1885-1985
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
There are no exceptions and therefore there are no choices. This book is about the choices people make: the limitations we set for ourselves and the solutions we never stand by because we feel there aren’t any. Are the rules and boundaries we set for ourselves much stronger than the rules that other...
The Forbidden Knowledge
A lesson in creative writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
THE FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE, which has been edited out of the Torah, the Bible and the Koran, has been placed back into the context of human history to show that all religions are products of human invention and examples of creative writing.
This book also...
by Norman Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Taking a multi-purpose and inter-denominational approach, this is a book addressed to all Christians, who in this sceptical age, may be experiencing a religious crisis or doubts as to their commitment to Christ's teaching and Revelation.
In addition,...
My Conflict With A Soviet Spy
The Story of The Ron Evans Spy Case
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2001
Ron Evans was probably the most notorious Soviet spy of British nationality working out of Scandinavia in the post-War era. Here, for the first time, the full story of the Ron Evans spy case is told in all its drama and excitement as it occurred in the mid-1960s.
Whilst on the one hand...