John Seymour

"An important new method for participatory democracy, which is urgently needed as we face the enormous inter-connected challenges of our times." Peter Hawkins, Emeritus Professor of Leadership, Henley Business School. Could this democratic invention turn out to be the most significant political innovation of our times?" Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." Saving Our World: Plan B launches The Citizens' Mandate for Change. It is a simple idea which does something new. It gives us a collective political voice with the potential to change our world. The Citizens' Mandate for Change is based on the three core questions of change: From what? To what? And how specifically? It asks us: What issues are you most concerned about? What kind of society would you prefer to be living in? What do you want our government to be doing about it? If we use it, The Citizens' Mandate can change our dysfunctional political and economic systems before it is too late. This book explains how The Citizens' Mandate works, and shows how, at sufficient scale, it gives our combined voices the power to make change happen. With unusual scope and depth, it lays bare the underlying systemic causes of our biggest problems and maps out our best ways to a better world for all. The companion website - citizensmandate - outlines this message of hope in a few short videos. There, you can cast your personal political Mandate for Change. All our 100 word answers are then combined to create our collective Mandate for Change. With enough support, our combined political voice can change our world." An interesting initiative, with a clear "theory of change" as to how to break through the current deadlock." Jonathon Porritt, Forum for the Future. John Seymour has 40 years' experience as a consultant in personal change, organisational change, and culture change, working with some of the major organisations in the UK. As a writer, his bestselling book went into 14 languages and sold over a million copies.

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. Our 2003 edition included 150 new full-color illustrations and a special section in which John Seymour, the father of the back to basics movement, explains the philosophy of self-sufficiency and its power to transform lives and create communities. More relevant than ever in our high-tech world, The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the ultimate practical guide for realists and dreamers alike.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT076851With a half-title. Attributed to John Seymour, comedian, in NUC. London: printed for F. Stamper, 1752. 4],60p.; 8

In the 1970s, John Seymour's book, The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international best-seller, inspiring a new generation to "down-shift" to a new way of life. The book has remained in print ever since. But years earlier, Seymour had written and published The Fat of the Land, telling of how he and his family settled in Suffolk and began a life entirely separate from the modern world. This was a seminal book, published the year before Silent Spring, and offers a personal, practical and optimistic vision of a less-mechanized and less polluting world, one that works in harmony with nature, rather than against it. He goes on to document their life and struggles on the land in chapters on cows, pigs, vegetables and wild food in charming prose. More than fifty years on, The Fat of the Land remains an important and inspiring book, one which retains its power to make us think carefully about our own lives. This new edition comes complete with Sally Seymour's original illustrations, a foreword by Anne Seymour and a new introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

In this greatly admired work by John Seymour, first published in 1966, the celebrated advocate of self-sufficiency and of man's living as close as possible to nature describes a journey of four months spent on a British waterways hire cruiser - the 'Water Willow' - in which he and his family travelled the water roads of England, from Nottingham to Llangollen and then back by a devious route across the Midlands to the Wash. With a keen eye, a vivid pen and just about the right number of prejudices about canals and their management, Seymour delves into engineering history, offers fascinating descriptions of the people and the boats he met en route (and the public houses he patronized), and offers a still dependable guide for those who dream of exploring England's relatively un-crowded and colourful canal system.

Life: You can't stop the waves but you can learn how to surf guides people from a state where they may feel 'uncertain' about themselves and their lives to a place where they can rest comfortably with the experience of self-awareness. So, why buy this book? Many people are 'lost';. Recession has hit, jobs have been lost, relationships are stretched, people are searching for personal meaning more than ever... With a thorough understanding how to support psychological changes in challenging times, this book has been written to help a reader to navigate them effectively. The changes include the ability to know one s own mind , increase self-esteem and handle emotional issues in a new way. As such, there are 'mind exercises'; throughout. They will really make a difference. Using a distilled essence of personal development models in user-friendly language, including communication skills NLP, the book takes the best available techniques and makes them very human. These are then applied to real life areas. Many areas that people want to deal with, including: Building independence of mind. Finding and enjoying intimacy. Career success. Planning a good financial future. Considering the spiritual side of life. Effectively handling others. You will learn how you create your own reality far more than you realised. With skills and tools you will find yourself more in control of your destiny than ever before.

Modern life demands a more complex way of thinking and being. 'Developmental Coaching' is a transformative programme designed to enable true shifts in consciousness in executives, professionals and coaches. It has already been delivered to hundreds of people across the globe with stunning affects. It really works to meet the demands of modern life. Created as an edu-coaching programme the reader (as with a real life coachee) is taken through fundamental psychological models, whilst applying them to their own personal circumstances. Through seven sessions they build a framework for operating in the modern world. There is an Integral Psychology throughout. Structured around the work of Wilber, Kegan and Vaillant this seven step process gently leads an individual to appreciating levels of consciousness, lines of developmental, adaptations and domains of existence. With the key being 'points of application' the reader is enabled to relate to the theory in a very grounded way. The result will be a dramatic improvement in competence as well as a potential leap in consciousness.

By 1955 Sally and John Seymour had both seen a number of countries but practically nothing of their own. As for some years they had lived in a 34-ton Dutch sailing yacht they decided to dispel their ignorance of England by travelling round as much of it as they had time for in this vessel. Sailing Through England is an account of that voyage. Setting out from Portsmouth the Seymours would navigate the rivers and canals of East Anglia, the Midlands and the North, penetrating as far inland as Leeds and Bradford, finally crossing the country by a canal climbing right over the Pennine chain to Liverpool and the Irish Sea. Their account is both a vivid panorama of England's contrasts and a fascinating exploration of a navigational challenge, and along the way a wealth of real-life characters are encountered and brilliantly described on the page, accompanied by Sally Seymour's delightful drawings.

Famous for his venturesome spirit and advocacy of a self-supporting existence, John Seymour was thus a natural and sympathetic editor for this remarkable book, first published in 1970, which offers the authentic voice of a Romany gypsy (a scrap metal merchant and horse trader) describing the life he has led and the longer lineage of his family. Silvester Gordon Boswell speaks of himself as one of the Boswells who have been on the road in England for generations, traveling the length of the land in a manner largely unhindered. The book documents the Boswell family tree and the nomadic Romany lifestyle, and forms an invaluable document of a culture. Boswell died in 1977 and his scrap metal yard was later turned into the Gordon Boswell Romany Museum by his son.

Denne klassiske havebog blev udgivet første gang i Danmark i 1980. Den nye udgave er stærkt revideret, udvidet og er trykt i farver. For Frank Erichsen, bonderøven fra DR, var Håndbog i selvforsyning hele grunden til, at han blev selvforsynende. Som 11-årig fandt han bogen på skolebiblioteket, og det blev hans bibel. I denne bog får man alt den nødvendige information om selvforsyning – levende fortalt og rigt illustreret. Skrevet af legenden indenfor selvforsyning, John Seymour, og anbefalet af Bonderøven.

Både nye og erfarne haveejer vil kunne finde svar på alle spørgsmål omkring den selvforsynende have. Bogen dækker alle områder inden for dyrkning af en 'spiselig' have og kommer omkring frugter, krydderurter og grønsager, dyrkning i drivhus og konservering af havens afgrøder. Der er illustreret oversigt over grønsager, frugter og urter samt instruktive tegninger, der viser fremgangsmåder i haven. Rigt illustreret.

Gesundes Obst und Gemüse aus dem eigenen Garten und dazu noch aktive Erholung an der frischen Luft. Immer mehr Menschen stellen fest, welch befriedigenden Ausgleich die Pflege und Ernte von Pflanzen bietet. An alle, die einen Garten bearbeiten und genießen wollen, wendet sich Seymours Dauerseller.