==Politics and society==
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Johnson
|title=A Diary of The Lady: My First Year as Editor
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Along with most of my contemporaries I've never read 'The Lady' except once when looking for an au pair job in my student days, and that, it turns out, is the problem. Before Rachel Johnson was appointed in June 2009 the average age of the readership was 75, the circulation was dropping and the magazine was haemorrhaging money. The Budworth family, proprietors of 'The Lady' since it was founded 125 years ago, chose son and heir Ben Budworth to turn the magazine's fortunes around before it folded. He asked Rachel Johnson to be editor.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490674</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrew Rawnsley
|summary=Few people have the ability to convey the minutiae of their profession in ways which engage the reader, answer your unspoken questions and talk in such a way that you're neither patronised nor overburdened with jargon. Gabriel Weston is one such – and ''Direct Red'' held me as though I was hypnotised for several hours. She's a surgeon and we're pulled into the intricacies of her world without the need to don mask and gown.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520699</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Hannah Edelstein
|title=Himglish and Femalese: Why Women Don't Get Why Men Don't Get Them
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Men aren't Martian and women don't hail from Venus. We're all Earthlings apparently; which seems like progress of a sort. Even so we still have trouble understanding each other because we speak different languages – Himglish and Femalese. Luckily Jean Hannah Edelstein is fluent in both and has written this light hearted volume to define the problem and translate.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848091729</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chloe Hooper
|title=The Tall Man: Life and Death on Palm Island
|rating=4
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Cameron Doomadgee – Mulrunji – was just thirty six years old when he was arrested on Palm Island. Quite why he was arrested was never clear. He wasn't drunk, although he had been drinking beer – and was walking along the road singing ''Who Let the Dogs Out?'' Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley felt that there was reason to arrest Mulrunji for creating as public nuisance and he was taken to the police station. What happened next was to be the subject of intense media speculation and legal proceedings over the coming years, but within forty five minutes Mulrunji was dead.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520761</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dana Fowley
|title=How Could She?
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=From the age of five Dana Fowley was subjected to unimaginable sexual abuse and before long her sister would be subjected to more of the same. She was raped by her mother's partner and taken to the homes of her grandparents where she was abused by them and others. At other times she was forced to go to the homes of other men where she was raped and abused. Did her mother not know what was going on? Did she turn a blind eye? It was neither of those.
Her mother was a willing participant in the abuse and organised much of it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952225X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amy V Fetzer and Shari Aaron
|title=Climb the Green Ladder: Make Your Company and Career More Sustainable
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=With the abject failure of the Denmark Climate Change Conference fresh in our minds, it is perhaps time to turn away from the politicians and look back toward what we can do.
The Conference may have finally got the likes of the USA, India and China to acknowledge that they have to join in if we are going to save the planet as a benevolent place for our species to live, but there is still too much posturing and not enough commitment.
Clearly our governments and 'leaders' are not going to do this for us; we have to do it for ourselves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047074801X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nicholas Stern
|title=A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save the World and Create Prosperity
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=The hardback edition of 'A Blueprint for a Safer Planet' was published early in 2009 as an update to the 2006 Stern Review on the economics of climate change. Now here is the paperback edition, published too early to critique Copenhagen, but nonetheless an interesting read. Stern is an expert witness who presents his evidence understandably for the layman; he is unemotional and very convincing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099524058</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou
|title=Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on the Green Bandwagon
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Did you know that Horlicks, that great sleep aid, is sold in India as a start-the-day energy boost? Not another concoction under the same brand, but the Exact Same Product.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047074622X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Frank Furedi
|title=Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating
|rating=3.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=It seems the more problems the school-aged generation pose to society, the more responsibility schools have to take, teaching not simply English and Maths, but Personal Thinking and Learning Skills, Happiness Classes, and Emotional Education. The duty to raise a child well is taken out of the apparently 'incompetent' hands of parents, and given over to the education system, where values can be regulated and controlled.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847064167</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bill Butterworth
|title=Reversing Global Warming For Profit
|rating=3.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=There aren't many climate change deniers left, are there? We all know it's there. We all know, too, that the world's population growth is on a collision course with the dwindling of its resources. The world's going to get hotter, its weather more extreme. Fossil fuels are going to run out. More and more people will compete for fewer and fewer of civilisation's luxuries. We're all worried.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312810</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephen Baker
|title=They've Got Your Number
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=If you are in the slightest bit paranoid, worry that ''Big Brother'' is always watching or like to believe that you are not a number, but a free man (or woman), then this may not be the book for you, as it will do nothing to dispel any of those worries. If, on the other hand, you think 'the mathematical modelling of humanity' sounds like one of the sexiest things ever, and are chomping at the bit to learn more about it, then you might well be interested in what Business Week journalist Baker has to say.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507021</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur
|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery
|rating=3
|genre=Humour
|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern world, the entire banking system, all those who failed to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on the expenses train, and back up the rich lists.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>
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