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Philosophy and life—an inescapable connection

by bookadmin | Aug 9, 2012 | NewsFeed

Philosophy is often regarded as impractical, something separate from “real life”—whatever that might be! Actually, as author Edward Craig writes in the interesting book Philosophy – a very short introduction (Oxford, 2002): “In fact philosophy is extremely hard...

Catch Up With Dickens

by bookadmin | Aug 9, 2012 | Classics, Featured, News, Perform, UK

The great great great grand-daughter of Charles Dickens, author Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, is to give a talk about the man behind the classic novels at His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen this November. She will give a pre-show talk to ticket holders prior to the...

From Apartheid to Zaamheid – a book review

by bookadmin | Aug 8, 2012 | NewsFeed

In the midst of the furore of the Limpopo textbook crisis and the gloom of the world’s economic failures a book arrived serendipitously on my desk and helped to keep my spirits positive. From Apartheid to Zaamheid is a readable and practical book about making a...