No . 131 The Trusty Servant
Musicians of Great Britain , helping to support musicians whose lives have been affected by accident , illness , stress and anxiety . 35 pages ; ISBN 979-0900247001 .
Andrew Jones ( H , 82-86 ) has written The Buildings of Green Park ; A tour of certain buildings , monuments and other structures in Mayfair and St . James ’ s . During the first lockdown of
Andrew Jones
The Buildings of Green Park
A tour of certain buildings , monuments and other structures in Mayfair and St . James ’ s
2020 , the usually peripatetic Jones combined his outdoor exercise time with photographing and documenting the buildings and monuments in and around his native Green Park . The book explores the architecture and history of these buildings , from Lancaster House , venue of famous speeches and summits , to 100 Piccadilly , the stage of an ongoing Soviet-themed reality experience , and The Hard Rock Café , where Lord Elgin once displayed the Parthenon Marbles . In the Foreword Alain de Botton reflects upon the importance of living in the present and of appreciating one ’ s immediate surroundings . 168 pages ; ACC Art Books ; ISBN 978-1788841160 .
Alex Maycock ( B , 91-96 ) has written a book The Weird Way Round : Backpacking Through a Midlife Crisis . Maycock is described as a 40-year-old Sydneybased Englishman at a personal and professional crossroads in his life and in the book he embarks on four months of solo global travel , which he resolutely refuses to accept might be best described as an exercise in ‘ finding himself ’. Epic landscapes , humorous encounters with an eclectic
mix of Airbnb hosts , a late-in-life induction into dating apps and a keen eye for the curious and bizarre combine to turn the trip into a thought-provoking adventure . From unexplained crimes in Panama , sex tourism in Costa Rica and disastrous dating in Guatemala through to hirecar burial in the Californian desert and an encounter with a toothless lady in a bar in San Francisco , it ’ s a story about strange and unpredictable things that happen when you hit the road in search of the unknown . 208 pages ; Austin Macauley ; ISBN 978-1528974752 .
Professor Ulrich Blum ( B , 70 ) has written a book on economic warfare , Wirtschaftskrieg . It offers a rigorous economic definition of economic warfare , puts the concept into the framework of history , worldly philosophers and institutional architecture , the anthropological view of man , and the way and means these wars are fought by firms and states in real but also in cyber space . Numerous examples deepen the understanding . Currently only for the German-speaking readers of The Trusty Servant ; an English edition may be published in due course . 1068 pages ; Springer Gabler ; ISBN 978-3658283643 .
Martyn Bond ( G , 56-61 ) has written the first English biography of Count Richard Coudenhove- Kalergi . Hitler ’ s Cosmopolitan Bastard describes RCK , the second son of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and his Japanese geisha consort , the man whose Pan- European Movement in the 1920s rivalled the Nazis . Europe ’ s artistic and intellectual elite flocked to his Congresses – Freud and Einstein among them – enthralled also by his equally famous Jewish wife , Ida Roland , Vienna ’ s answer to Sarah Bernhardt . Hitler condemned the Count as ‘ a cosmopolitan bastard ’ and he was high on the Gestapo wanted list since he knew leading anti-Nazis across the continent . He served as the model for Viktor Laszlo in Casablanca , and the Americans spirited him away from Lisbon in 1940 , while MI5 blocked his visa application in London . Later he nudged Truman and Marshall to favour European unity , advised Churchill , and finished on De Gaulle ’ s payroll . 464 pages ; McGill-Queen ’ s University Press ; ISBN 978-0228005452 .
Patrick Casement ( D , 49-53 ) has published Credo ? Religion and Psychoanalysis . In this distillation of previous writings , Patrick has gathered a lifetime of reflection on the relationship between religion and psychoanalysis , including his own spiritual journey . Having thought that he had published his last book on psychoanalysis , he was encouraged by his grandson to publish this ‘ mini-book ’, and it is a gem . Patrick Casement is a fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and a member of the International Association of Psychoanalysis . He was formerly a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society , having been in full-time private practice for many years , now retired . 94 pages ; Aeon Books ; ISBN 978-1912807635 .
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