Books by John Ashton and Complete Book Reviews
John Ashton, Author . Mainstream $19.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-84018-389-4
Until recently, the Pan Am flight 103 bombing ranked among the deadliest terrorist attacks against Americans. British journalists Ashton and Ferguson, who spent years covering the story, believe that the U.S. government deliberately ignored the...
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John Ashton, Author, Tom Whyte, Joint Author . Harper San Francisco $30 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-251735-7
Just in time for high gift-giving season comes this lushly illustrated exploration of "paradise" in world religions. Written by a biblical scholar (Ashton) and a comparative religionist (Whyte), the text is remarkably accessible to the...
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Ron Laura, Author, John Ashton, Author, Ron Laura, Joint Author Zed Books $31 (360p) ISBN 978-1-85649-697-1
With thoroughgoing neo-Luddism, Ashton and Laura catalogue the health risks of common products and practices in our technologically modified world. Decrying artifice in food, air, water, transportation and lighting, the authors consistently sound...
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John Ashton, Author, Ron Laura, Author Zed Books $75 (360p) ISBN 978-1-85649-696-4
With thoroughgoing neo-Luddism, Ashton and Laura catalogue the health risks of common products and practices in our technologically modified world. Decrying artifice in food, air, water, transportation and lighting, the authors consistently sound...
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John Ashton, Author, Suzy Ashton, Author, Suzy Ashton, Joint Author Thomas Dunne Books $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-312-30757-8
In a slim volume that attempts to straddle health-book and gift-book categories, the authors (both health researchers in Australia) champion chocolate as a health food, a ""functional sweet"" whose high concentration of minerals and antioxidents...
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John Ashton. Berlinn (IPG, dist.), $24 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-1-78027-015-9
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the convicted “Lockerbie bomber,” who died earlier this year of cancer, never stopped seeking to clear his name, and this book, written by one of the lead researchers on Megrahi’s appeal with the Megrahis’ collaboration,...
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