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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Chloe Rhodes|title=Black Cats and Evil Eyes: A Book of Old <!--Fashioned Superstitions|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=If you had asked me I would have said that I was not in the least superstitious. Remove I don't have a horseshoe hung outside the house, don't have any concerns about the date 'Friday the 13th' and accept that a broken mirror is an unfortunate accident rather than a blight on my life for the next seven years. After all, it's simply a matter of applying logic to the situation. There are sensible reasons for not walking under ladders or opening an umbrella is the house. Not passing someone on the stairs is just being safety conscious, isn't it? Then my husband sneezed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178877</amazonuk-->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roger OsborneClaire Dederer|title=Of the Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People, By the People: A New History of Democracy?|rating=4.53
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|summary=Most authors writing on Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the audience'' in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the subject old aphorism of democracy tend to concentrate on political theory. Osborne approaches separating the subject art from the historical angle instead, looking at different democracies from that of Greece artist in the sixth century BC, to the present daycontext of contemporary ''cancel culture''. 'HumanityDederer's finest achievement'work is original and expressive. The reader gets the impression that the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the page. In particular, as Osborne calls it in the first sentence of prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his prologueart, comes from the Greek words ''demos'' (people) and yet despises for his actions. This model of ''kratosmonstrous men'' (rule). It had its origins in as she calls them, is consistent for the system devised in ancient Athensfirst few chapters, interrogating the earliest in the world which did not first operate through complex relations likes of kinship Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and deferencePablo Picasso. Her critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, as had others up to then. Parallels would be seen in Rome she holds it so dearly, and a few centuries laterpersonal, rather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845950623</amazonuk>1399715070
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon HoggartVirginie Despentes|title=House of Fun: 20 glorious years in parliamentKing Kong Theory
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|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography |summary='House of Fun'King Kong Theory'' is a selection of some of the best of the parliamentary sketches hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which Simon Hoggart has written can be seen as a call to arms for the Guardianwomen in a phallocentric society broken at its core. In time they range from the 1993 Liberal Conference (as as you're probably thinking itOriginally written in French, it's worth quoting the 'Little changes... except, periodically, the name book is a collection of the party') essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through to the G4S (another case where there have been name changes...) debacle just prior complex prism of her varied life: from rape to the 2012 Olympicssex work and pornography. So far as Prime Ministers Though these discussions are concerned, we start with John Major and wend our way through to Cameronintertwined, with their placement within the Conservatives book-ending the Blair/Brown war. But the point about parliamentary sketches is that they are under no obligation to record the major events: they illuminate the unusualcan feel somewhat disjointed, the usually unrecorded and the thought-provoking incidents a reflection of life in the political worldtheir original form as independent essays.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0852653816</amazonuk>191309734X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Hume1009473085|title=There Is No Such Thing As A Free PressThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|summary=ISometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't''ll confess and that the phoneapplies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 -hacking scandal largely left me cold14 Wasted Years?''. It seemed to be If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about people who had courted the media interest complaining that they had caught the mediawhat ''really''s interest when they didnhappened on certain occasions, then this isn't intend to do sothe book for you. Then the hacking of murdered teenager Milly DowlerIf that's phone came to light and disinterest turned to disgust. The Leveson Enquiry became the best show in town if what you really wanted to hear about what celebrities had been doing and 're looking for, I moved to wondering what the outcome would don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be and whether it would prove to be a talking shop and waste of moneybettered for those tumultuous years. It might have remained that way if the Jimmy Savile scandal hadn't dominated the news for s a couple of weeks compelling read and I really began should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to wonder if we here at Bookbag Towers were the politics. ''onlyThe Conservative Effect'' people hadn't known what was going onis an entirely different beast. Why hadnIt't s the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this made headlines when other less as the most important news had? I needed to know more about . This book follows the press. I particularly needed to know if increased regulation well- which seems almost inevitable - could produce more Jimmy Savilesestablished format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845403509</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandy GallAlastair Humphreys|title=War Against the Taliban: Why it All Went Wrong in AfghanistanLocal|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=It's always struck me that there are several countries where western might is going to be largely ineffective when Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it comes to an invasion or any other form of warfare. Vietnam proved For this book he walked and cycled very close to be one such place for the Americans back in the seventies home and when the latest incursion into Afghanistan was announced my immediate reaction was that there would be no positive outcome, not least because that was what history dictatedthen wrote about it. This was broadly correct but overly simplistic and this was one of As he says in his introduction, the reasons why Sandy Gallbook is an attempt ''s book appealed to me so muchshare what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. He's been involved with Afghanistan since ''beforeNature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the Soviet invasion joys of 1979. This isn't a war correspondent dropping in and out of a country, but a man with a deep love for the people and a concern book for their welfare. He has me was that the contactsbiggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', his knowledge that every upside is encyclopaedic likely to have a downside for somebody and he's an expert communicatorthat there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408809052</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley HarrisonEdel Rodriguez|title=Sylvia PankhurstWorm: The Rebellious SuffragetteA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyGraphic Novels|summary=To some extentWe're in childhood, the history of the suffragettes was also the history of the Pankhurst familyand we're in Cuba. Sylvia, born in 1882The revolution has happened, was the second daughter of Dr Richard and Emmeline PankhurstCastro, and one first thought of three sisters. The family had always been heavily politicised, Richard being as a founder member saviour of the Fabian Society alongside George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wellscountry, has proven himself a Communist, and the children had quite an austere upbringingnot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. When their father’s health took a sudden turn for the worse in 1898Well, Emmeline and eldest daughter Christabel those hours-long speeches of his were abroad on business and Sylvia was left kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in charge the happiest of her younger siblings places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as well as having he would probably be shipped off to nurse himsome minor pro-Communism skirmish, taking such as Angola) and the full force of the shock when he died in her armsfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. With his passing The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the family were left strangely detached from each other. His widow became heavily involved heat, but in public work and political agitationthis sultry island country, an increasingly remote mother from it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the young children who needed her.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780950187</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David KaiserSarah Wilson|title=How the Hippies Saved PhysicsThis One Wild and Precious Life: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revivalpath back to connection in a fractured world
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|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=In his introduction Professor Kaiser states that there are three ways My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the west coast hippies have benefited the development of Physics; they opened up deeper speculation into way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the fundamental philosophy behind quantum theory, they latched on source) she pushes us to a crucial theorem of Bell, think about what Einstein termed whether we really ''spookyare'' interactions between particles at a distanceliving the life we want – the best life that we could be living. This might otherwise have been totally neglected. Thirdly they propounded a key idea which has become known as the Her answer is an unequivocal ''no-cloning theorem, we are not''. Kaiser tells a lucid account as might Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be expected from the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and department chief in the Massachusetts Institute of Technologydoing more…And she's program. Incidentally he also provides an engaging insight into effing furious about the American industrial-military complex and associated institutions like the Californian University at Berkleyfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>039334231X</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clive Stafford-Smith1785633457|title=InjusticeCharging Around: Life and Death in Exploring the Courtrooms Edges of AmericaEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=On 16 October 1986, Derrick and Duane Moo Young were shot and killed, in MiamiClive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. British businessman Kris Maharaj was arrested, and As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in 1987 he an electric car was convicted of their murders and sentenced to deathnot totally outrageous. His defence lawyer, Eric HendonIn fact, took the unusual line of offering no defence at all - when it came time to present should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his casewife, he simply rested. Kris protested his innocence throughoutJoan, and continues to do so to this day. Despite weighty evidence in support of this, he still languishes in prison 26 years later.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556252</amazonuk>shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Weiss1529153050|title=The CageBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson
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|genre=HistoryHumour|summary=The history of Ceylon, Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and latterly Sri Lanka has at its centre more like an undeniable contradiction. A nation which espoused and proclaimed peaceful Buddhism adrenaline sport, I was caught in one nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the bloodiest conflicts in year: the recent past, a conflict peppered with suicide bombings, mass killings, rapes, torture and imprisonment, and more than a hint of genocidecartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Gordon Weiss was intimately involved as a journalist and as the United Nations Spokesman Who can imagine what there will be to come in Sri Lanka for two years of the almost 40 years conflict, and has produced a detailed account of the background and eventual denouement of this conflict.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954847X</amazonuk>2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siri HustvedtB0B7289HKQ|title=LivingConversations Across America: A Father and Son, ThinkingAlzheimer's, Lookingand 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=LifestyleTravel|summary='LivingKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, Thinking, Looking' is by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a collection of essays by Siri Hustvedt whichgood time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, she claimsVirginia to Astoria, are linked by an abiding curiosity about what Oregon - all 4250 miles of it means - in 2015. They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be humanfor most people who considered taking it on. In these essays she examines who we are Merv Loya was 75 years old and how we got that wayhe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''
I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex BrummerJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Britain for SaleThe Book of Hope |rating=4.5|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety |summary=Buy British, we're constantly told, and many people do - The done thing is to read a book all the Frenchway through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the Germansexperience of reading this amazing book, Qataris, ChineseI want to capture it as it hits me.And it is hitting me.This beautiful book has me in tears. If you want to buy British you'd |isbn=024147857X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Can art ever be hard pressed to use apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a British electricity company, the vacuum. It is made by people shifting North Sea oil . Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to you might be foreignmodifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, the trains near you may all art must be foreign-operatedpolitical, and so much of what's even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the shops you buy from would Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of coursed be sourced from abroad, and shipped through foreignso-owned portscalled artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Whether or not the country is going Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to hell in create a handcart, it's moving in piecemeal stages to exterior business interests, more globalist and the British citizen gets the worst of the dealprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940757</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere1398508632|title=This is Not the End of the Book;The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5|genre=EntertainmentLifestyle|summary=In many ways, It had been on the cards for a while but it was the cover week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of my edition of this book is perfectly appropriateeating only wild food. HugeThe end of November, bold serif scriptparticularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, with nothing but in a world where the typeface; normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a declamatory instance of pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the art in the most common area around her was a known habitat with a variety of fontsterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and that perfect semidehydrator. She had a car -colon at the end of the book's name - proving that that itself is not the be-all and end-allfuel. Buy this bookMost importantly, as you can, in electronic form, and you might see she had shelter: this cover for ten seconds at most, but it is so much part and parcel of whatwas not a plan to ''live''s withinwild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552450</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Bremmer1529149800|title=Every Nation for ItselfThings You Can Do: Winners How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Losers in a G-Zero WorldSara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=We're all used to terms like 'G7' which then became begin with a telling story. All the 'G8' - birds and animals fled when the group forest fire took hold and most of countries which met periodically them stood and watched, unable to thrash out global problems - frequently with America being expected to take the lead where military muscle or finance was concernedthink of anything they could do. We even nod knowingly at The tiny hummingbird flew to the mention river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the G20 - formed with the fire. The animals laughed: what good intention was that a larger group would be able to tackle such issues as climate changedoing. We know where good intentions generally lead but there wasn't even sufficient agreement amongst 'I'm doing the nations to all head off in best I can'', said the same directionhummingbird. So when a point was reached where America was no longer financially able or politically willing to play global policeman And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what was left?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921041</amazonuk>we can, however small that might be.
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
|author=Frederick Reynolds
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stieg LarssonMatthieu Aikins|title=The Expo Files: Articles by Naked Don't Fear the Crusading JournalistWater
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|summary=[[:Category:Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|Stieg Larsson]] would not have known Anders Breivik, but if theyIt'd coincided you can be damned sure he knew all there was s easy to know about him. Larsson and his journalist colleagues were working to condemn forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the farWater isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-right activities throughout Europepaced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, and open the truth about the right-wing Swedish parties but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his audience, friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and here is constant proof he knew an awful lot about his awful subjectat times painful journey. In just the first two, powerful, short essays here he brings terrorism in the UK, Italy There are tense moments and Oklahoma to his home audience, and discusses Swedish extremism in its light; showing the liberal laws in Sweden that allowed the extremists to be seen as too much gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the straight and narrow, too mainstream, and even able to enter parliamentwhole way through. The idea of 'But it couldn't happen here' gets blown out the water, s written with a haunting and as we've seen almost lyrical quality that is relevant allows the reader to us everywhereperfectly envisage the environments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051342</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Manhire (editor)1785633074|title=The Arab Spring: Rebellion, revolution, and a new world orderStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=34.5|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=A Tunisian manMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on 17th December 2010, in what appeared at headed by the Prime minister - the time to be a desperate gesture showing a complete lack ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of hope after his humiliation by a municipal officialyou who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. What followed was one We are in the privileged position of having access to the most remarkable events memoirs of recent yearsRafe Hubris, as a wave the man who was behind the skilful control of revolutions occured in what became known as the Arab SpringCovid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. As you'd expect from a top nwespaper, You might not know the Guardian had reporters, bloggers and columnists covering it all, and Toby Manhire provides a compilation of name now but he will certainly be the paper's output hereman to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652542</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Everett1846276772|title=LanguageThe End of Bias: The Cultural ToolHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
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|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Daniel Everett previously worked as a missionary Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in far flung corners of that they may no longer even recognise the world– extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a fact that isn’t surprising given the number part of references to faith that crop up over everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the pagesdisabled. This new book Jobs, howeverpromotions, is about two much more appealing (to me) subjects: language and travelhigher salaries are the preserve of the white man. If [[:Category:Bill Bryson|Bill Bryson]] is Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a travel writer with part of an interest in linguisticsorganisation it's rare that their views are heard, then Daniel Everett is a linguist with an interest in travelthat their concerns are acknowledged. It’s not quite It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the ‘read it by a pool’ sort receiving end of book that Bryson might release the bias but is somewhere between a formalised every day read and a text book with a big dollop of informality stirred in. The travel stories – jaunts to Brazil, Mexico and beyond – it's not just the individuals who are great, and while you might think they’re taking things a bit off track (albeit in a rather pleasant way) sooner or later the linguistic point will become clearnegatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682673</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kira Cochrane (editor)1529148251|title=Women of the RevolutionMisfits: Forty Years of FeminismA Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=45
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|summary=Some revolutions happen faster than others''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and the revolution in society's thinking about women is certainly one of the more gradual ones. Kira Cochranepoverty, Womenyet still compartmentalise? It's Editor at as though I were telling the ''Guardian'' from 2006 – 2010, has collected together the best articles and essays truth whilst simultaneously running away from that paper's women's section since 1971it. The result, ''Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism'', is a lively account of the more recent women's liberation movement in the UK and of the issues facing women in a modern, late twentieth/early twenty-first century society.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652275</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Stone (editor)0008350388|title=Lotteries in Public LifeWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Peter Stone's reader 'To be a dark-skinned Black woman is an examination not so much of examples of lotteries in public lifeto be seen as less desirable, less hireable, but of the theoretical less intelligent and conceptual issues which the use of ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba 'sortation' in decision taking raises0. There are essays here about the use 7% of the lottery English Literature GCSE students in politics, in allocating scarce resources (such as school places or human organs) and even on the problems England study a book by a writer of defining the lottery and the methods for assuring fairness. Because lotteries are used in many societies to resolve issues and perhaps because of recent discussion of the use of the lottery to allocate school places, this is colour while only 7% study a book by a hot issue which raises fundamental questions about democracy and choicewoman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402081</amazonuk>}}'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and othersRichard Brook|title=The Library BookUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life
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|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I had better begin by saying am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had a vested interest in liking come across this book since I am 'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a chartered librarian myself and so am wholeheartedly in support of saving our nationfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's public librariesu.s.p. But you don't need to be is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a librarian predisposition towards expecting to enjoy this like the book. It , even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is rich with anecdotes from some wonderful writers and makes a pleasant book I needed to read whether you're keen to save libraries or not, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1787332098
|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
|author=Henry Mance
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.''
I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Oakwater1523092734|title=Bubble Wrapped ChildrenA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=35
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|summary=''Bubble Wrapped Children'' takes She brings a look at the state of adoption hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in the UK, her life. Again and again and how aspects of it are being threatened by the use of social networksagain. The author, with over 20 years' experience in the adoption world' (Alma Derricks, paints a broad picture of the issues facing adopters and adoptees. Peppering the text are some examples of unwanted Facebook contact from birth parentsformer CMO, which have had massive knock-on effects for the adopted children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920970</amazonuk>}}Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James PalmerPolly Barton|title=The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New ChinaFifty Sounds
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Gene Sharp is an American politologist and Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a veritable (while and venerable) guru of nonif the world hadn't gone into melt-violent struggledown I would have visited by now. The story behind I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''From Dictatorship to Democracywhy Japan?'' is a fascinating one. The book, or a booklet really as it consists She explains her feelings in respect of 160 small pagesthe question in the first essay, was apparently created in response to a request from Burmese dissenters in which is on the early 1990sound ''giro' ''s. Sharp responded to this request by producing a generic text– which she describes as being, among other things, a manual for the subversive that lies out the theory and practical advice for those engaged in a struggle sound of ''every party where you have to bring down a dictatorshipintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688396</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholas ShaxsonStephen Fabes|title=Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the WorldSigns of Life|rating=45|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Most people think about the subject I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of tax havens far away places. I was birth- if they need to think about them at all - as something righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which is unlikely ever was the guts to concern them simply go out and that theydo it. I also didn're for t inherit the super-rich kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and celebritiesbasic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. What might surprise them is that more than half In order words I'm not the sort of world trade as well as most international lending is routed through them person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and that many common items in your everyday shopping will not come to you via a tax havenhome for six years. And we really should be thinking about them because tax havens are ensuring Fabes did precisely that wealth in unprecedented amounts is being transferred from the poor to the rich - greatly exceeding the aid which flows in the opposite direction.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099541726</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1504321383
|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
}}