A Brief History of Tongue
Philip McShane, 1998
As the title implies, this book is about the emergence of language, both in you and in civilization. Using Helen Keller as inspiration and illustration, the author points to how language emerges with a 'Big Bang' in each of us. Focus is on the root of that 'Big Bang' in human creativity and speech. The result is a new and radical view of language.
Economics for Everyone
Philip McShane, 1998
The title of this book carries a two-fold meaning. First, the book is written in homely fashion and so is an 'economics for everyone' who is seriously interested in an alternative to present world economic practice and thinking. Second, it offers a brilliant and uniquely hopeful long-term view that has at its heart the economic well-being of all people. In this hearty global perspective, this book truly is an economics for everyone.
Beyond Establishment Economics: No Thank-you, Mankiw
Bruce Anderson, Philip McShane, 2002
This book is a critique of Gregory Mankiw's acclaimed first year economics text, Principles of Macroeconomics, representative of the present culture of economic education. Beyond Establishment Economics takes the reader beyond present economic theories to a fresh understanding of the rhythms of production. The focus of interest is shifted away from establishment notions regarding finance and stock-trading, to highlight the centrality of local creativities and intelligent credit structures. An entertaining critique of current economic theories, this book helps the reader to appreciate the growing need for a re-vitalized democratic view.
Pastkeynes, Pastmodern Economics
Philip McShane, 2002
This book is an explosive, yet pragmatic, push past Keynesian theories and postmodernism. What is missing in present economic thinking is vision. This new enlightened economics will gradually replace present disorder and confusion with innovative global vision.
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Introducing Critical Thinking
John Benton, Alessandra Drage, Philip McShane, 2005 (reprint 2006)
Written as an introduction to philosophy for grade twelve students, Introducing Critical Thinking in fact reaches out to a wide audience with the introductory question, 'what is critical thinking?' The reader is invited to discover a personal answer to this question, one that should be an enlightenment regarding life-possibilities. This text is currently being used in Canadian and Australian high school classes and is suitable for college and university.
Music That Is Soundless
Philip McShane (2nd ed.), 2005
This is a new edition of McShane's beautiful book about God, originally published in the late 1960s. The title is taken from the poem Songs between the Soul and the Bridegroom by John of the Cross (1542-1591). The book invites you to turn your heart and mind toward your own heart of loneliness, which is your reach for God, for the Music Without Sound.
Thinking Woman
Alessandra Gillis Drage, 2006
Women tend to know instinctively that our thinking is an intimate inner reach in us, an inner dynamic of mind. Yet this deepest of self-assets is scarcely noticed much less analysed or reflected upon. Thinking Woman invites women to an appreciation of themselves as thinking beings. In a personal and inspirational way, this book offers women a journey and process toward the discovery of themselves and their minding. Readers interested in women's issues will appreciate reflections on the rise of feminism as a thinking enterprise and its significance in world history.
