Teenagers Translated: How to Raise Happy Teens by Nancy and Naella Grew (Vermillion, €15.00 / £11.99)
Category: Reviews
Clearing the surplus
Surplus People: from Wicklow to Canada by Jim Rees (Collins Press, €12.99 / £11.99)
Prayers from the Carmelite heritage
Meeting God: Carmelite Reflections and Prayers ed. by the Irish Carmelites (Columba Press, €16.99 hb / £12.50 hb)
Dublin Bay’s gift from the sea
Christopher Moriarty The North Bull Island is one of the most remarkable and most treasured of all the landforms in Dublin Bay. That is quite an achievement because the bay contains in a small space a truly amazing abundance and variety of natural and man-made habitats which serve both wild plants and animals and not…
Recapturing music’s raw and naked purity
A story of passion for music and life
Pudsey, hero on four feet to the rescue
Robert Mitchum once remarked that it was only when he was informed Rin Tin Tin was getting more fan mail than he was that he realised how insane the movie business really was. For those of you too young to remember Rin Tin Tin, he was Hollywood's most famous dog 'star' in the Fifties. Pudsey…
The mysteries of the Mass for familes and young people
It will be a familiar Sunday scene to many: the parents at Mass praying and participating, their children restless, bored and uninvolved in the service they attend. The congregation will be mostly older parishioners and couples with children. There will be few teenagers and almost no young adults. This indifference, this lack of interest will…
The wonders of creation around us
Mary Litton Here is a book which anyone interested in flowers and plants will enjoy and learn from. But it is a large scholarly work, and though written in an attractive and lively style, it still runs to nearly 800 pages and its price is commensurately high. Peter Wyse Jackson was formerly the director of…
A Guide for a Just Society and for a Just World Order
One of the great benefits of modern printing technology is that it allows ordinary citizens to put out their own books in a way that was not really possible before. They may even manage to get some readers. Author Dermot Layden is ensuring this in his own case by sending a copy to everyone in…
Focus: the Art of Clear Thinking
This book is aimed at the business community, but other readers may feel they might profit from it. The author suggests there are three simple rules governing thinking: eliminate information overload, transform negative thinking into postive action, and think clearly in the moment. Yet these rules, clear as they are, run counter those which apply…