Reviews & notes on recent books

We’ve published a range of book reviews, now grouped into different categories.

Click here for our latest ‘booknotes’ piece, about two publications which argue for more generous social attitudes to immigration and ‘the other’.

Click through the links below to read substantial reviews about:

The craft of mediation & good practice in conflict resolution: solving problems in America’s schools, and the life and work of Herbert C Kelman

Understanding – and responding to – ‘extremism’: from Theodor Adorno to the EDL

Ideas & theory: consideration of Cassam, Arendt, Laclau and Haidt

Places, identities, migrations: tackling racism in Scotland; immigration to Scotland; refugees in twentieth century literature