Arena Books: 108 books

The author's odyssey through West Africa leads him to question rational interpretations of reality, reminding us of Scipio Africanus who declared more than 2,000 years ago that, "out of Africa always something strange emerges. This is a Voodoo quest. Ghana, Togo, Burkino Faso and Benin...

This is a timely and important work in presenting pointers which could be significant in helping regenerate the sad state of British politics. This is not only a clearly written book, the arguments of which are supported by many reliable authorities, but more significantly, the author draws on his...

War has blighted the secjurity and happiness of humanity from time immemorial, but when two hundred years ago the colonies of North America broke away from British rule and established the United States, it was seen as a hopeful promise for the peoples of the world. A new democracy had been launched...

Erika Schroll, a small girl, growing up in the picturesque town of Saaz, discovers the way of the world and her own nature amidst the turmoil of a World War and its devastating consequences. Always being accompanied by her mother, Josefine, she feels safe in spite of the family's sudden deportation...

This in-depth study of local government in Mexico raises issues which go far beyond the territory it covers. It will be of absorbing interest to all students of local democracy and participatory methods, not only in Latin America, but in Western and Eastern Europe, the USA, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere,...

The British monarchy was in a fragile state in 1910. Since the death of Prince Albert in 1861, Queen Victoria had become a recluse, rarely seeing her Ministers. Then, Edward VII sought popularity by restoring glamour to the sovereign, but the people criticised his licentious ways. His heir, Albert...

In 1990 the digital age was born with the internet providing the pathway to so many new and better ways to do almost everything.  Digital entrepreneurs have damaged many analogue business models during the past 25 years. That first digital generation has just ended and it is clear that nothing...

Bertuna is the Saxon name of Great Barton, a village in West Suffolk. Bertuna’s Children relates the 200-year history of the village school, the lives of the people who have worked and studied there and the local and national events that have influenced its evolution.   The...

Civil Litigation is a lottery. It’s expensive, risky, stressful and time consuming - and there’s no guarantee of success at the end of it all. Litigation is bad enough in itself, but equally uncertain is whether you will get good advice from a Solicitor. Will they tell you the true costs?...

Horace, the Roman poet, once declared that his aim was to say something serious through the medium of comedy. The aim here is to do likewise; to say something serious about Nietzsche's continuing relevance through a fractious and both good and ill-humoured dialogue between an all too- human, and ageing...

The story of a young Australian adventurer, Edward Presgrave, who enlisted in an irregular unit in the Boer War and stayed on in the Northern part of the Cape Colony to fight alongside Jakob Morengo and the Nama peoples in their epic guerilla war against the Germans inGerman South West Africa, or...

This book addresses the profound change that modern technology has the capacity to make in democracy itself. While very little has changed in the machinery of the representative system since the late 1700s, that arrangement is starting to unravel. The technology by which the people receive their...

Exploring issues of corporate hegemony, Pap is truly a 21st century dystopia. It describes a world where a single corporation, PapCorp, has come to dominate all facets of daily life from security to water, agriculture to the news. Through their omnipotent PapDrive Corneal Implants, without which modern...

This illuminating broad-based political and cultural study presents the efinitive account of the campaign to abolish capital punishment in the period 1955-69. It comprises a work of contemporary history exploring the theme from a number of angles, both pro and contra, which have not been covered so...