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|author=Lun ZhangAlastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Travel |summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, Adrien Gombeaudagriculture, Ameziane the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and Edward Gauvin (translator)that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Tiananmen 1989Worm: Our Shattered HopesA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5

|summary=I never really followed We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the events happiest of Tiananmen Square places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with much attention when the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it was playing remains the kind of heat forcing you out – someone of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=3.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the second half of their teens has other priorities, one in which she asks ''What is it you knowplan 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 certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests m lucky enough to be living my one wild and hunger strikes from precious life the students before 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 massacre and source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the birth of life we want – the Tank Man imagebest life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I didn) could be doing more…And she't know how s effing furious about the fact that we are not.|isbn=1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the area had long been Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a venue preference for political protestslow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and I didnhis wife, Joan, shouldn't know it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153050|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more than a spit about and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the year: the people involved on either sidecartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. This book is practically flawless Who can imagine what there will be to come in giving a general browserthe 2023 edition?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B7289HKQ|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's context for , and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the whole season Soul of protests back in 1989.America|author=Kari Loya|rating=4|genre=Travel|isbnsummary=1684056993Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - 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 for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.

|authorisbn=Sharon Blackie1739593901|title=If Women Rose Rooted22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre= BiographyScience Fiction|summary= I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Perhaps an even greater measure Instead of impact is setting out flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to buy my own copy before Itrack grandma.''ve finished reading the one  I've borrowedgot a couple of confessions to make. I want 'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to avoid clichés like read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There'powerfuls got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there' s science fiction: far too often it'inspiring' 'lifes the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-changingbuilding. It' – although it is definitely s human beings who fascinate me: the first two technology and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a reason and I'm not sure book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I can succinctly put loved it any better.|isbn=1912836017

|author= Linda ScottJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title= The Double X EconomyBook of Hope

|summary=''Women are economically disadvantaged Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in every country in the world''a vacuum. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but it's far from hyperbole as is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the following pages explainsocial environment in which he develops’’. This book shines a light on what is happening in different placesTherefore, all art must be political, and the impact on the local and world economyeven implicitly. What can be learnt from the great strides Alexander Adams in gender-equalising legislation his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the west? What can be done about the selling Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of young women into marriage, so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|isbn=0571353606Alexander Adams believes.

|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Danny DorlingMo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529149800|title=SlowdownThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary= We are living in begin with a time of rapid change, and we're worried about ittelling story. Dorling tells us that All the birds and animals fled when the latter is normalforest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, natural and probably good for usunable to think of anything they could do. We are designed The tiny hummingbird flew to worry the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and with flying back to drop them into the current state of fire. The animals laughed: what we're good was that doing in the world we have much to be worried about. However, over ''I'm doing the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you best I can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are', or in some cases that we're worrying about said the wrong thingshummingbird. Mostly. Because mostlyAnd that, really, things are not changing as rapidly as is the only way that we think they are. In fact, will solve the rate problem of climate change in many things is slowing down and the direction – by each of change will in some cases go into reverseus doing what we can, however small that might be.|isbn=0300243405

|isbn=02414467321638485216|title=Our House is on FireBlack, White, and Gray All Over: Scenes of a Family A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and a Planet in CrisisLaw Enforcement|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante ThunbergFrederick Reynolds

|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normalNaked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. Malena Ernman was an opera singer There are tense moments and Svante Thunberg took gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on most of edge the parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happeningwhole way through. In such circumstances, But it's natural to seek written with a solution close to home, but eventually, it became clear haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the family that they were ''burned-out environments and people on a burned-out planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radicaldescribed.|isbn= B09N9157T6

|isbn=06486848061785633074|title=Clara Colby: The International SuffragistStaggering Hubris|author=John HollidayJosh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyHumour|summary=The path Members of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated Parliament like us to believe that the USA. At country is run by politicians, headed by the time she was just threePrime minister -years-old but because the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, you who doted on her are Eton and saw Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the household and her childhood was gloriousgovernment. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers We are in the mid-west privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the United States and life man who was hard, as Clara behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join completely contained by the familyend of 2020. Clara would only You might not know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakeningname now but he will certainly be the man to watch.

|isbn=183895015X1846276772|title=A Bit The End of a StretchBias: The Diaries of a PrisonerHow We Change Our Minds|author=Chris AtkinsJessica Nordell|rating=4.5

|summary=Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel GroupAnyone who is not an able, but after getting involved white man understands bias in an illegal tax scheme that they may no longer even recognise the extent to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for which they suffer from it: it's simply a five-year staypart of everyday life. White men will always come first. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworthable will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, which is probably higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the oldestmedical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, largest that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and most dysfunctional prison in Europedegrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.

|authorisbn=Michael Harris1529148251|title=SolitudeMisfits: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldA Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel

|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary= This is not the book ''How am I was expecting it able to be. For some reason so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I expected were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it .'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be another in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help manual on how book. You're going to find calm, how read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to step outside professionals within the mainstream, but it is not that television industry at allthe Edinburgh TV Festival. Instead of telling us how it is more about You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''whylisten''to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. Harries examines how weThe disjointedness will fade away and you're eroding solitude, which used to ll be carried on a natural part cloud of our human life, and why that mattersexquisite writing. Of course, he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|isbn=1847947662

|isbn=17837843500008350388|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted HistoryWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Esther RutterOtegha Uwagba

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going 'To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroadseen as less desirable, less hireable, discovering less intelligent and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscapeultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - ' ' a free-range child on the farm'We Need to Talk About Money' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.}}by Otegha Uwagba

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Peter Wohlleben -->|-| style=''width: 100.7%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' '|[[image:1846045576.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846045576/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]'The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

{{Frontpage| styleauthor=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= I 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 come across this book I'vertical-align: top; text-align: left;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 favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way''] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|isbn=1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=[[Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)]]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.''

[[imageI 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:4starno 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.jpg I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1523092734|linktitle=Category:{{{A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife=5|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:genre=Politics and Society|Politics summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and Society]]again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

''An instruction manual for the forest'' To claim space is how Wohlleben's publisher described to live the idea for this book, life of choosing unapologetically and that's basically what it bravely. It is – although right at to live the end the author says that it is not intended to be a reference book, but an appetiserlife you've always wanted. [[Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]''

<!Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now -to be clear - Nayeri this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.}}{{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=Fifty Sounds|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary= 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 while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-->down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|isbn=1913097501}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen Fabes|title=Signs of Life|rating=5|-genre=Travel| stylesummary="width: 10%; verticalI was brought up on maps and first-align: top; textperson narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-align: center;"righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|isbn=1788161211}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman[[image:1786893452|rating=4.jpg5|linkgenre=http://www.amazonAutobiography|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own.co You are not complete until you find a man''.uk/dp/1786893452/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]

| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] Here in the West, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the world and the situations that refugees find themselves in. It's rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to do that, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the middle of a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-old.[[The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri|Full Review]] <!-- de Bois -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785903357.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785903357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]]  I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless. Sigh. Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that. At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois |Full Review]]  <!-- Leah Hazard -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786331608.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786331608/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story by Leah Hazard]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Over the past few years, we've had a rash (sorry - no pun intended) of books by medical practitioners. Doctors have been at the forefront, but ''Hard Pushed'' is the first book I've seen by a midwife. It's an unusual profession in that it's one of the few callings within the medical system where most of the patients are healthy and the only one where one person comes into the system and (for the most part) more than one goes out. It's an amazing thing to be able to do - to escort new life into the world - and an enormous responsibility. Leah Hazard came to it after a career in television and ''Hard Pushed'' is the story of her career as a midwife - and the title tells more than one story. [[Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story by Leah Hazard|Full Review]] <!-- Reeves -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788312201.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788312201/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] ''Women in Westminster have changed the culture of politics and the perception of what women can do'' ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' chronicles the battles the 491 women who have been elected over the course of the past century have fought and highlights their victories. It is remarkable that the history of female Members of Parliament began in 1918, the same year in which women were first given the right to vote but a decade before all women were given suffrage on equal terms with men. Although Constance de Markievicz was the first female elected to Parliament, it was only in 1919 that Nancy Astor became the first women to take her seat in the House of Commons and pave the way for women of the future. It was not long after in 1924 that the first female MP, Margaret Bondfield, was appointed into a cabinet position and since then women MPs have endeavoured to fight gender inequality and campaign for female rights. Within 100 years there has been a gradual revolution of change in politics and to date, Britain has been led by two female Prime Ministers. However, such great landmarks have overshadowed the other female MPs whose early achievements, which have paved the way for subsequent women politicians, are consistently overlooked. In ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' Rachel Reeves brings the forgotten stories into the spotlight to document the history of British female political history from 1919 to 2019. [[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves|Full Review]] <!-- Ece Temelkuran -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008294011.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008294011/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:History|History]] A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. [[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran|Full Review]] <!-- Yuval Noah Harari -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787330672.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787330672/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Yuval Noah Harari gave us ''Sapiens'', which told the history of mankind and then ''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankind's future. Now we have ''21 Lessons for the 21st Century'' which looks at the challenges we currently face and it's enlightening, thought-provoking and occasionally just a little bit frightening. It's unlikely that mankind will face what - eighty years ago - would have been thought of as a traditional war, with armies, navies and air forces fighting it out hand Move to hand. It's much more likely that the threats we'll face will be relatively new. Harari looks at them in some depth. [[21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari|Full Review]] <!-- Bremner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Bremner_Us.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0525533184/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Popular Science Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] It wasn't supposed to be like this, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the world, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. People keep saying that robots are coming to take all our jobs. Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the world. And inequality is as much of a problem as it ever was – if not more so. [[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer|Full Review]] <!-- Wolff -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wolff Trump.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408711400?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408711400]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] As I began listening to ''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle of the President of the United States taking to Twitter to establish that he was ''a stable genius'', as opposed, we must conclude to being an unstable... Well, let's not go there. It's a little too frightening: this is the most powerful man in the world. So what made me listen to this book? Well, Donald Trump didn't want me to read it: US presidents don't often go down that road and rarely to a good destination (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon here) and that made me really want to know what was between the covers. But how did the book stack up? [[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff|Full Review]]<br> <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}