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Books reviewed by Friends.

"Grace's Song" by Tony Maturin and the Village Poets

If you saw Tony Maturin’s earlier book of photographs from Cambodia you will need no persuading to sample his new book, ‘Grace’s Song’. This time Tony has put together a collection of sepia photos from Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. He has been living there for the past two years as a VSA volunteer.

"A Certain Grace" by Tony Maturin, 2006

Readers of the Newsletter may recall Tony Maturin’s piece ‘Beethoven in Cambodia’, some reflections on preparing this book. Tony recently spent 2 years in Cambodia together with his wife Sandra who was working as Research Advisor to the Buddhist Institute. Both were supported by VSA New Zealand. A review by John Gleisner.

Doughnut Economics reviewed by David James

Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Random House, London, 2017

 

 

Tears, Love and Laughter by Sylvia Sanderson

Sylvia Sanderson and Bill Shaw came to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2011 intending to be Resident Friends for a year at the Christchurch Quaker Meeting House. They had resigned from their jobs, Sil had sold her house, then the news came through that the Meeting House and their accommodation had been red zoned and was due for demolition.

We Built the Road as We Travelled: The Story of the Mondragon Cooperative

The MONDRAGON Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. Book by Roy Morrison, New Society Publishers

Herman Daly, ecological economist

Herman Daly has done some of the best work on economic sustainability he has a number of good books and essays on the subject including Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development Development  Boston Beacon Press 1997. 

The Great Disruption: How the climate Crisis will Transform the Global Economy

Author Paul Gilding was director of Greenpeace Internation