Clink Street: 164 books

It's the end of the decade and the international response to climate change has defaulted to a piecemeal carbon market, which a new UN body is trying to make work. But the carbon market has become a battleground between anti-capitalist activists, now aggressively militant, and market proponents. And...

Do you know what you're thinking? It's easy to assume you do. However, the truth can be far less comforting. The mind has visible functions and less visible functions. The mind's visible functions are its visible thinking. This helps us navigate through life; to recognise bus numbers, consider dishes...

Two Voices, One Story This is the true story of a girl called Amy and the English “mother” who adopted her from an institute in China when she was just a baby. It’s a story about love, family and identity; and the unbreakable bond between mother and daughter. When Amy came to be adopted in 1999,...

When humans first started to think about God, times were very tough, life was a bitter struggle and naturally people hoped and prayed for a super being to help them, comfort them. The dominant religions of today reflected that attitude, made God in the image of the most powerful man of those days,...

This book follows an amazing voyage from the start of everything, through the formation of the Solar System and onto the development of First Life on the initially barren Earth. A good way to start is to explain that you, the reader, are literally a star child. Absolutely every single component of...

Caring for someone you love who is suffering from a terminal illness can be one of the greatest honours in life. Helping a loved one to die with peace, grace and dignity is their human right and a privilege for their carer to enable. It can be a truly transformative experience. In Peaceful Breeze...

Did early Christianity evolve from Roman culture and customs? Was it based on truth? Were the social issues of the early Roman Empire a driving force to adapt old customs to a new philosophy? A young Hebrew man seeks answers beyond his religious traditions by spending fifteen years travelling and...

There is one universal question to which there seems to be no definitive answer: what happens to us when we die? Many people have their own individual theories; different faiths have different beliefs. The rest of us we can merely shrug and resign ourselves to the fact that we can never know the unknowable....

This is the story of a Snake who decided to bake a big cake.

Hsing-I is one of the true treasures of the internal martial arts. Based on ancient Taoist philosophy, it has both the capacity to be used as a devastating martial art alongside its ability to improve the health of a practitioner by promoting the circulation of chi throughout the body. Historically,...

In our fast-paced digital age, never has finding the one felt more like playing the lottery. If anyone knows about the cruelty and chaos of dating in the 21st century it’s Raj Dhaliwal; accountant by day, hopeless romantic by night. By his own admission, Raj is a tax wizard but a clumsy disaster...

This book attempts to describe how China in the past - as well as in our time - utilizes the applied practices of its vast ancient cultural heritage to gain ascendency in the global political and economic arenas, with its focus on the world’s major capitalist countries. It is inescapable that such...

Ours is an age of unprecedented digital focus. None are safe from the invasive criminals hard at work in twisting innovation for their own predatory nature—not even Daniel O'Neal, a rural bus driver with easy dreams of living his life for old-fashioned love and purpose.

I Wonder… explores imagination and its leadership of thought. Creative and unexpected, it is designed to inspire more widespread usage, placing imagination on an equal footing with knowledge, judgment and the feelings that can overwhelm both. J D Rhodes identifies the paradox that this highly admired...