Robert Ely: 5 books

How do we create creative people? This question leads to the form, function and structure of universities and how a new university paradigm may be required to fulfil the necessary conditions in a creative and globalised economy.

Under the graceful arms of the great grey cedar tree, he stood in a small clearing, hidden from prying eyes. Dawn splintered the cold night air with warm golden beams, that caught in the morning mist. It rose from the earth in seeming clouds and held on tight to the pine needles, forming droplets,...

If there is a common theme here, it might be a morbid one...I leave you, the reader, to decide for yourself. For, although age and loneliness and death pervade some of these stories, they are ultimately about love, of one sort or another. Whether it be a love of a life; the love of a friend; or the love of ones self...it is there; or it is conspicuous by its absence.

The plays, arguably, are all about life. Which is why they remain so appealing, so rich to the observer. Who cannot be deeply touched and entangled with the emotions of the old man in a contemporary society so much at odds with age, senility and death. Shakespeare confronts our denial of mortality....

Candidate for President is a novel about America in societal collapse and the threat of political dictatorship. With the exploding national debt, unparalleled political and financial corruption in the highest offices, and increasing acts of domestic terrorism, the specter emerges of a political leader...