LATEST BOOK
Philanthropy – from Aristotle to Zuckerberg
Bloomsbury, London, New York, Sydney 2020
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“Timely and fascinating,” PETER HENNESSY Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London
“The definitive book on philanthropy – a deep and probing study of an increasingly powerful force in our world,” JOHN GRAY Emeritus Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics
“Good books lay out the lie of the land. Important books change it. This book does both… Paul Vallely insists that giving needs to restore its spiritual dimension whereby the giver respects the one who receives,” GILES FRASER priest and philosopher
“Magisterial … the best single volume on the ideas that have shaped philanthropy … stuffed with astonishing stories and illuminating interviews,” ROB REICH Professor of Political Science at Stanford University
“Comprehensive and panoramic” BETH BREEZE Director of the Centre for Philanthropy, University of Kent
“Deeply researched and wonderfully written … a powerful call for philanthropy to do a better job of melding empathy with effectiveness” DAVID CALLAHAN, Editor of Inside Philanthropy
The British Library online exhibition
2500 years of philanthropy
features digitisations of treasured items from the library collection which appear in Philanthropy – from Aristotle to Zuckerberg.
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OTHER BOOKS
Pope Francis – The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism
Bloomsbury, New York, Sydney, London 2015
Pope Francis – Untying the Knots, Bloomsbury, London, Sydney 2013
Kyoko furanshisuko no chosen : Yami kara hikari e, Shunjusha, Japan 2014
Papst Franziskus – Vom Reaktionär Zum Revolutionär, Thesis, Germany 2014
Papież Franciszek – Rozwiazywanie węzłów, Wydawnictwo, Poland 2013
Catholic Social Teaching and the Big Society, Bishops Conference of England and Wales 2011
‘New Labour and the New World Order’, in Remoralising Britain? Political, Ethical and Theological Perspectives on New Labour, Bloomsbury Academic 2009
Hello World: the official Live 8 Book plus
- Live 8 DVD sleeve notes
- Live 8 Official programme notes
- Live Aid DVD sleeve notes
Century, Random House, UK, Australia, New Zealand & South Africa 2005
Our Common Interest: report of the Prime Minister’s Commission for Africa, Penguin edition, London, New York, Toronto, Dublin, New Delhi, Auckland, Victoria 2005
Our Common Interest: report of the Prime Minister’s Commission for Africa (co-author) Commission for Africa, London 2005
Geldof in Africa (with Bob Geldof), Century, Random House, UK, Australia, New Zealand & South Africa 2005
‘The Fifth Crusade: George Bush and the Christianisation of the war in Iraq’, in Re-imagining Security, British Council 2004
A Place of Redemption: A Christian approach to Punishment and Prison, (editor) Burns & Oates, London & New York 2004
Entries in The Times World Religions, Times Books, London 2002
The New Politics: Catholic Social Teaching for the 21st century, (editor) SCM Press, London 1999
Daniel and the Mischief Boy, (for children) Fount, Harper Collins, London 1993
Promised Lands: Stories of Power and Poverty in the Third World, Fount, Harper Collins 1992
Bad Samaritans: First World Ethics and Third World Debt, Hodder & Stoughton, London, & Orbis Books, New York, 1990, 1991, 1993
Is That it? (with Bob Geldof) Bob Geldof’s autobiography, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, Australia, New Zealand and Canada 1986
With Geldof in Africa (with David Blundy) Times Books, London 1985
PRAISE FOR PAUL VALLELY’S PREVIOUS BOOKS
Pope Francis – Untying the Knots
and
Pope Francis – The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism
“A formidable achievement” – John Cornwell, Times Literary Supplement
“A sophisticated biography’ – Luke Coppen, The Independent
“Indispensable” – James Carroll, the New Yorker
“Masterly” – Julian Coman , The Observer
“Reads like a lost unexpectedly literate chapter of The Da Vinci Code” – Mark Lawson, The Guardian
“At last a book has put… Pope Francis in context” – Raymond Schroth SJ, in the US Jesuit magazine America
“A compelling account” – John Wilkins, the Church Times
“Great insight” – Tim Byron SJ, Thinking Faith
“Thoroughly convincing… read this book, forget the rest” – Michael Walsh, The Tablet