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NO LOGO, by Naomi Klein, Flamingo, Great Britain, 2000. Pb. 490 pages.St£8.99 ISBN 0-00-653040-0.

No Logo finally puts in perspective what the newest generation of fed-up consumers and anti-corporate activist have been trying to verbalize for the past ten years.To understand how branding drives the global market, you couldn't ask for a better guide than Naomi Klein.

Saint Moling Luachra: A Pilgrimage from Sliabh Luachra to Rinn Ros Broic above the Stream-Pools of the Barrow, by Maire B de Paor PBVM.
Columba, August 2001. pb267 pages. IR£14.99/£13.50 stg. ISBN 1 85607 338 6.

St Moling was a 7th century monk who established a monastery in St Mullins, south Carlow. This is a scholarly study of a transcript of a medieval manuscript called Leabhar Tighe Molling.. This Life of Moling was hagiography, not biography or a strict historical record, but Maire de Paor has drawn a wealth of knowledge from it, just the same.

Liberation and Development: A Latin American Perspective, by James Fogarty. Minerva Press, London. 1998.
Pb 134 pages. St£5.99. ISBN 1-86106-749-6.

This book highlights the urgent need for radical change of present policies and structures in Latin America. The poor must be allowed to become the protagonists of their own emancipation from injustice and exploitation. Dr James Fogarty is Irish and has been a Catholic missionary in the region for 25 years.

The Tragic History of Esoteric Christianity: The Church's War Against The Spirit of Sophia, by Sean Byrne.
Age-Old Books, Co Down. 2001. Pb 240 pages. ISBN 0-9540255-0-4.

Sean Byrne exposes not only the shocking historical record of the Church regarding the true spirit of Christianity, but also shows how this spirit of Christianity has actually survived, albeit in a somewhat miraculous fashion, in that form which is called esoteric Christianity

Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power, by Alastair McIntosh.
Aurum Press, London, 2001. Pb 322 pages. St£17.99(UK)/$29.95(US).ISBN 1-85410-802-6.

In Soil and Soul, Scottish activist and academic Alastair McIntosh shows how it is still possible for individuals to take on the might of corporate power and emerge victorious. Soil and soul builds a penetrating critique of globalisation and offers alternatives rooted in community, spirituality and ecology. The daring and imaginative responses to the destruction of the natural world he describes make this an uplifting, empowering and inspiratonal read.

The Hounds of the Morrigan, by Pat O'Shea.
Oxford University Press, 1985. Paperback 2000. 469 pages. St£4.99. ISBN 0-19-275068-2.

In this fiction story the Great Queen, the Morrigan, is coming from the west, bringing destruction to the world. Only Pidge and Brigit can stop her. At times their task seems impossible, and danger is always just around the corner. But they are guided on their journey by a collection of willing and humourous characters. If you loved Harry Potter try this book.

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