My Final Flight (Overcoming P.T.S.D.) explains how I overcame thirty years of shell-shock, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). I wrote this story in 1989 - thirty years after my traumatic jet plane crash. In doing so I had to force myself, and desperately fight, to relive that experience - and then write it down in detail, which took over one month of sheer absolute agony. To separate myself I wrote it in third-person. This separation was of very considerable aid in my recovery from the clut...

Dave (A True Story) refers to a most interesting experience Elizabeth and I incurred recently. It is a story of human kindness and generosity without restriction or condition that we received from a total stranger. That stranger was a first nation Piikani gentleman who works at the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump' near Fort MacLeod, Southern Alberta, Canada. His name is Dave and lives on the Piikani reservation next to the UNESCO site. This site is part of their he...

How did an aristocrat in his 50's lose his heritage and ancestry? Why was he not informed of his great aunt's illness, death, lying-in-state and funeral? Why were his parents forced apart, their marriage disallowed and cancelled? Why was his mother kidnapped? How was Hitler involved? How did his great aunt's (The Duchess) fight to stop Hitler end? Why, at age six months, was he removed from Europe and his identity changed? How did he lose his birthrights? Why did his father abdicate the th...

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political change, corporate capitalism continues to rely o...

Climate change is the most important issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures increase, floods, fires and storms are becoming both more intense and frequent. People are suffering. And yet, emissions continue to rise. This book unpacks the activities of the key actors which have organised past and present climate responses – specifically, corporations, governments, and civil society organisations. Analysing three elements of climate change – mitigation, adaptation and suffering – t...

Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vienna during the 1930s and ’40s centres on a poignant love story and a friendship that ends in betrayal.In the years between the two world wars, Josef Tobak builds a quiet life around his friendships, his beloved wife, Anna, and his devotion to the old Jewish cemeteries of Vienna. Then comes the Anschluss in 1938, and Josef’s world is uprooted. His health disintegrates...

'The best I've read of Elton's many bestsellers' The TimesImagine a world where no one you have ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps they never will be.1st June 1914: this is Hugh Stanton's reality. Ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer, he is is quite literally the loneliest man on earth.Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and...

'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut EconomicsA Financial Times Book of the Year______________________________________Our planet is in trouble. But how can we reverse the current crisis and create a sustainable future? The answer is: DEGROWTH....

A rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war—from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds.During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry—only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.Now a successful obste...

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it. Green Development provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in both theory and practice.Green Development explores the origins and evolution of mainstream thinking about sustainable development and offers a critique of the ideas behind them. It draws a link between theory and practi...

A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail, in a sophisticated, riveting, cunningly plotted historical thriller set in interwar and prohibition-era Norway.'An expertly crafted unravelling of mixed loyalties, love, lust, lies and trust, set against the background of a world increasingly on the edge of all-out war' John Harvey'Dark, gritty and compulsive … feels l...

"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."—Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of AmericaSince it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. Reprinted many times since its publication, it remains the only work that looks in detail at the political issues posed by global warming. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and provides a state-of-the...