Senior Prison Officer Anthony Stokes traces the history of England's Reading Gaol from the 16th century to the present day. Drawing upon extensive archival research, he describes the execution process
What made the West ‘western’? And has Western civilisation found modernity but lost itself? This provocative and stimulating polemic argues that the modern world has destroyed western culture and civi
Can any of us entirely banish from our hearts and minds grave misgivings about the condition of the culture we now inhabit? Expressions of those misgivings are mostly unheard in public forums, ignored