Tristam: 6 books

To survive humans must live by something, and they develop creeds to ensure their existence. Creeds unfold from reasonable intuitions on questions asking who am I, where did I come from, why am I here, and where am I going. People’s insights are universal in trusting an unseen creator to have all...

Joseph and Job were both afflicted with adversity, judged to be undeserving, disrupting their lives for reasons undiscerned by neither one. Were their sentences fair? Did they object to their condemnations to suffer? How did they bear their burdens? Were their vilifications justified? What did they...

A virtuous protagonist, entering life’s complexity, struggles to define himself, listening to friends and advisors, some promoting their own truths, others witnessing to eternal truths. His chosen characterization invites trials and tribulations, prevailing justice and injustice, scorn and ridicule...

Poetry - lifework - seminal inspirational moments in life over 50 years of living and love.

The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy examines how the requirements, stimuli, affects and environments of work condition our empathy. In some cases, work calls for no empathy – characters who don’t blink or flinch in the face of danger nor crack under pressure. In other cases,...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.