Bloomsbury Continuum imprint: 108 books
Atheists
The Origin of the Species
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
The clash between atheism and religion has become the defining battle of the 21st century. Books on and about atheism retain high profile and popularity, and atheist movements on both sides of the Atlantic capture headlines with high-profile campaigns and adverts. However, very little has been written...
by Mr Robin Aitken
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This book asks a big question: can we trust the BBC? As the most famous media brand in the world, the BBC is growing bigger and more powerful every year. Its reputation depends on honest and accurate journalism. But this book argues that the Corporation's own pervasive political culture imperils its...
How Fear Works
Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book called Culture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as perceptive and prophetic. Now Furedi returns to his original theme, as most of what he predicted has come true. In How Fear Works, Furedi seeks to explain two interrelated themes: why has fear acquired such a...
by Mr Tony Little
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Tony Little is The Head Master of Eton. One of the most progressive and imaginative people in British education today he has hitherto kept a low profile. This book, published to coincide with his retirement, sets out his educational fundamentals.
There is a crisis in the British education system....
Where We Are
The State of Britain Now
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Addressing one of the most politically turbulent periods in modern British history, philosopher Roger Scruton asks how, in these circumstances, we can come to define our identity, and what in the coming years will hold us together. To what are our duties owed and why? How do we respond to the pull...
Churchill
The Statesman as Artist
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Across almost 50 years, Winston Churchill produced more than 500 paintings. His subjects included his family homes at Blenheim and Chartwell, evocative coastal scenes on the French Riviera, and many sun-drenched depictions of Marrakesh in Morocco, as well as still life pictures and an extraordinarily...
Life in the Psalms
Contemporary Meaning in Ancient Texts: The Mowbray Lent Book 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The Psalms lie at the heart of Jewish and Christian worship. For thousands of years people in despair and praise have cried to God through the words of these ancient poems. Fragments of them are still widely known and loved, but such is the gulf between their ancient culture and our contemporary world...
Beryl Bainbridge
Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), An Awfully Big Adventure (1990), Every Man For Himself...
by Sir Roger Scruton
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive science and German idealism, as well as recalling the author's struggle to encourage his students to distinguish the qualities of good music....
I Drink Therefore I Am
A Philosopher's Guide to Wine
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. Whether or not good for the body, Scruton argues, wine, drunk in the right frame of mind, is definitely good for...
Sexual Desire
A Philosophical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
A dazzling treatise, as erudite and eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and considerably more sound in its conclusion - TLS
"He is an eloquent and practised writer" - The Independent (UK)
When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want?...
Understanding Music
Philosophy and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Roger Scruton first addressed this topic in his celebrated book The Aesthetics of Music (OUP) and in this new book he applies the theory to the practice and examines a number of composers and musical forms. His continued fascination with Wagner provides much interesting content but he also deals near-death...
Dethroning Mammon: Making Money Serve Grace
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In his first full-length book Justin Welby looks at the subject of money and materialism. Designed for study in the weeks of Lent leading up to Easter, Dethroning Mammon reflects on the impact of our own attitudes, and of the pressures that surround us, on how we handle the power of money, called...
Looking Through the Cross
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Everything looks different in this world through the lens of the Cross. This book deals with reconciliation, humility, identity, power, suffering, life and atonement. These are familar themes for a Lent book but in Dr Tomlin's hands they are given exciting new meaning which will touch the hearts and...