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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frankie Owens1009473085|title=The Little Book of PrisonConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45
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|summary=It’s probably pretty safe Sometimes it's simpler to assume explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the sort of prisons shown inside story about what ''really'' happened on TVcertain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and their portrayals of life inside, bear as much resemblance should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to real jails as politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the doctors seventh book in Grey’s Anatomy or House do to their NHS counterparts. That’s why Frankie a series which looks at the impact a government has written made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This bookfollows the well-established format: to provide a guide to what life inside is really like and how best to survive it with your sanityseries of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and body, intactthe situation in 2024.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904380832</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Stone (editor)Alastair Humphreys|title=Lotteries in Public LifeLocal
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=Peter Stone's reader is an examination not so much of examples of lotteries 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 public lifehis introduction, but of the theoretical and conceptual issues which the use of book is an attempt 'sortation' in decision taking raisesto share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. There are essays here about the Nature loss, pollution, land use of and access, agriculture, the lottery in politicsfood system, in allocating scarce resources (such as school places or human organs) and even on rewilding…'' One of the problems joys of defining the lottery and the methods book for assuring fairness. Because lotteries are used in many societies to resolve issues and perhaps because of recent discussion of me was that the use biggest thing he learned about all of the lottery to allocate school placesthese things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', this that every upside is likely to have a hot issue which raises fundamental questions about democracy downside for somebody and choicethat there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845402081</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donovan HohnEdel Rodriguez|title=Moby-DuckWorm: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at SeaA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=In January 1992 a container ship was on its way from China to the USA when it was caught We're in a storm childhood, and two containers broke loose from the deckwe're in Cuba. They held nearly thirty thousand bath toys - yellow ducksThe revolution has happened, green frogsand Castro, red beavers and blue turtles - which were freed when first thought of as a saviour of the containers broke up country, has proven himself a Communist, and have circumnavigated the globe not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for almost twenty yearsall. Donovan Hohn was a teacher and when one Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his students wrote time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an essay describing what had happened uncle refusing to be the toys it caught Hohn's imagination. The rest is good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro- Communism skirmish, such as they say - history Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and a very good booknot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908526009</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and othersSarah Wilson|title=The Library BookThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=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 had better begin by saying get to love that I had a vested interest in liking line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this book since .'' I am a chartered librarian myself 'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and so am wholeheartedly in support of saving our nationprecious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's public libraries. But you donwords as her title (though I can't need see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be a librarian to enjoy this bookliving. It Her answer is rich with anecdotes from some wonderful writers and makes a pleasant read whether an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're keen to save libraries or doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Oakwater1785633457|title=Bubble Wrapped ChildrenCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=35|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=''Bubble Wrapped Children'' takes Clive Wilkinson has a look at the state history of adoption in travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the UK, and how aspects idea of it are being threatened by exploring the use edges of social networksEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. The authorIn fact, with over 20 years' experience in the adoption world, paints it should be a broad picture of the issues facing adopters pleasant holiday for Clive and adoptees. Peppering the text are some examples of unwanted Facebook contact from birth parentshis wife, Joan, which have had massive knock-on effects for the adopted children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920970</amazonuk>shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Beauman1529153050|title=Shapely Ankle PreferrBritain'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Advertisements Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=54|genre=HistoryHumour|summary=You might think Seeking some light relief from the Lonely Hearts ad a trivial matter. You might think it should appear in lower case current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and not be capitalisedmore like an adrenaline sport, but youI was nudged towards ''d be in disagreement with Ms Beauman, who gives a big L and a big H to it every time she writes Britain's Best Political Cartoons of it in her survey of its history2022''. WhatSharp eyes will have noted that we's more, she gets to write about a lot more than just re not yet through the contents of year: the adverts cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to come in this brilliant book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009951334X</amazonuk>the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Yifu LinB0B7289HKQ|title=Demystifying Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Chinese EconomySoul of America|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=Business and FinanceTravel|summary=The success of Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the Chinese economy, way) wanted to spend some time with his father and as Lin makes us aware, the period between two jobs seemed like a success which contrasts strongly with what appeared major failure in good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the recent historical pastTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, is something which needs explanation. No one can ignore itVirginia to Astoria, and we are confronted with the effects Oregon - all 4250 miles of it from the ownership of Thames water to the faces of tourists - in London and Stratford on a daily basis2015. And in They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the roots of its success are the potential seeds recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of future change, a change challenge that now more than ever is crucial to the way the world economy worksit 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521181747</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gene SharpJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=From Dictatorship to DemocracyThe Book of Hope |rating=35|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Gene Sharp The done thing is an American politologist and to read a veritable (and venerable) guru of non-violent struggle. The story behind book all the ''From Dictatorship way through before you sit down to Democracy'' is a fascinating onereview it. The I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, or a booklet really I want to capture it as it consists of 160 small pages, was apparently created in response to a request from Burmese dissenters in the early 1990'shits me. And it is hitting me. Sharp responded to this request by producing a generic text, a manual for the subversive that lies out the theory and practical advice for those engaged This beautiful book has me in a struggle to bring down a dictatorshiptears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688396</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Shaxson1788360737|title=Treasure IslandsArtivism: Tax Havens and The Battle for Museums in the Men who Stole the WorldEra of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=42|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Most Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people think about . Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the subject Era of tax havens - if they need to think about them at all - as something which Postmodernism’ is unlikely ever to concern them and adamant that they're art is freer when it is art for the superart’s sake. The recent trend of so-rich and celebritiescalled artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). What might surprise them is that more than half of world trade as well as most international lending is routed through them Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and that many common items in your everyday shopping will come media elites hoping to you via create a tax havenmore globalist and progressive regime. And we really should be thinking about them because tax havens are ensuring that wealth in unprecedented amounts is being transferred from the poor to the rich - greatly exceeding the aid which flows in the opposite directionOr at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541726</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Foxcroft1398508632|title=Calories and Corsets: A history of dieting over two thousand yearsThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=We’re in that post-Christmas period when all It had been on the socialising and indulging is over and all you’re left with is cards for a pasty, bloated, over-fed while but underit was the week-nourished complexion, a wardrobe full long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of clothes just a little too tight and a new year’s resolution to Get Healthyeating only wild food. So it’s The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the perfect best time for to start, in a new diet book to hit world where the shelves. The title of this one might make you think it’s going to be full of useful tipsnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the cover does little to dispel this idea, groaning as it is area around her was a known habitat with the weight a variety of plump jelliesterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, lavish cupcakes freezer and even dehydrator. She had a decadent lobster or twocar - and fuel. Most importantly, but take she had shelter: this was not a moment plan to note the subtitle, if you will: '''a history of dieting over 2000 years'live''wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684250</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dennis O'Donnell1529149800|title=The Locked WardThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Dennis O’Donnell spent 7 years working in We begin with a Scottish hospital telling story. All the birds and this is animals fled when the account forest fire took hold and most of his time therethem stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. It takes a special type The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of person water and flying back to work in Mental Health servicesdrop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', and though O'Donnell ultimately leaves said the Locked Wardhummingbird. And that, really, he clearly is one the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of those peopleus doing what we can, made all the more remarkable by the fact however small that this wasn’t his life long vocation, having previously worked as a school teacher (some might say an equally challenging role)be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093606</amazonuk>
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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=David LammyMatthieu Aikins|title=Out of the Ashes: Britain After The Naked Don't Fear the RiotsWater
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|summary=Just about everyone in the country was shocked as pictures of the 2011 riots (which began in Tottenham and spread It's easy to other major cities in forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the UK) unfolded on our television screensWater isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. Everyone, that This is, except David Lammy, MP for the area. He might not have known when it would happen or what would trigger the riotby any means a criticism, but rather a year before, he said that it would happentestament 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. This wasn't a lucky guess: Lammy was born in Tottenham There are tense moments and brought up gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the Broadwater Farm Estate as one of five children raised by his single-parent mother and he knows whatwhole way through. But it's happening on written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the groundenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0852652674</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you 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. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Harding1846276772|title=Mafia StateThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5
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|summary=Luke Harding set himself a difficult task when he took up his post as the Guardian’s main Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in Moscow. He had already put his name that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a front page story which appeared in part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the Guardian in April 2007disabled. This was an account of an interview with the arch-oligarch and Kremlin critic Jobs, promotions, Boris Berezovsky. Harding was not at higher salaries are the interview but added background to preserve of the article from Moscowwhite man. However, to be in any way associated with Berezovsky was sufficient to incur Even when those who wouldn't pass the wrath medical become a part of the Russian Federal Security Servicean organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the FSB – individuals on the successor to receiving end of the KGB. The offending account was entitled, 'I am plotting a new Russian revolution - London exile Berezovsky says force necessary to bring down President Putinbias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265247X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed Vulliamy1529148251|title=AmexicaMisfits: War Along the BorderlineA Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel
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|summary=More than 38''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape,000 people have been killed in malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the last 3 years truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in what Ed Vulliamy argues is an unacknowledged war, on a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the long border (2,100 miles) between Mexico and television industry at the United StatesEdinburgh TV Festival. The war is between drug trafficking gangs over control of You might be ''reading'' the lucrative drugs trade from Mexico book but you need to ''listen'' to the USwords as though you're in the lecture theatre. In this compelling The disjointedness will fade away and disturbing work of reportage Vulliamy travels through the borderlands meeting some you'll be carried on a cloud of the people affectedexquisite writing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546566</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Hayashi Danns and Leveque Sandrine0008350388|title=Stripped: The Bare Reality of Lap DancingWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=35
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|summary=Before I can start, I should qualify that I have never been, nor tried to ''To be, a lapdancer. Nor have I ever gone dark-skinned Black woman is to a lapdancing clubbe seen as less desirable, nor ever tried to. I have no opinion on the matterless hireable, save that I can't imagine, in the world of free internet porn, paying some averagely attractive woman to wiggle her semiless intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-nudity in the general direction of my face, and thinking it erotically arousingskinned counterparts... '' So I come ''We Need to this academically-designed volume on the matter with no prejudice. If only that were the case with the creators.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570325</amazonuk>}}Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John L LockeRichard Brook|title=Duels and DuetsUnderstanding Human Nature: Why Men and Women Talk So DifferentlyA User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=LockeI 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's subtitle d have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home'Why Men and Women Talk So Differently'' might lead you in the way that it does now. I believe it came to think that this is me not just another self-help because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''Men are from Mars, Women are from Venusfull disclosure The Bookbag'' tomes u. It's not. Rather than focussing upon what we all know from experience – p. is that men and women do not communicate very well because of some fundamental difference in people chose their respective approach own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to verbal expression – like the New York City University Professor of Linguistics sets book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to explain WHY that might beread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0521887135</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Furedi1787332098|title=On Tolerance: The Life Style Wars: A Defence of Moral IndependenceHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=45
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|summary=Furedi is a Professor of Sociology at a UK university so he'll know his subject matter inside out. The short preface tells us that 'tolerance has been emptied of its moral When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and intellectual meaningso on.' This publication's aim is to argue the case for tolerance And we assign them places in society. How its meaning has changed over the centuries until today's rather fuzzy and watered-down meaning. Professor Furedi was spurred : cows go on plates, dogs on to writing this book because he firmly believes that tolerance has been lost somehowsofas, foxes in rubbish bins, to be almost invisible elephants in some areas zoos, and millions of public and private lifewild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441120106</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tina Rosenberg1523092734|title=Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the WorldA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Teenagers in South Carolina have become involved ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in the anti-smoking movement, passing out information encouraging their peers to educate themselves about the ways big tobacco companies try to get them hookedher life. There are youngsters in South Africa who’ve refused to have sex without a condom because of the danger of HIV Again and again and AIDSagain. Minority students in Texas have challenged data going back years by succeeding at calculus where traditionally students of their race have struggled. Why? Because other people have done the same thing'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, and they want to fit in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313004</amazonuk>}}Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirin EbadiPolly Barton|title=The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One DestinyFifty Sounds|rating=4.5
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|summary=Dr Ebadi is currently living in exileWhere do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, fearing with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for her safetya 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, should she return I don't know the answer to Iran the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the foreseeable future. Her Prologue question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes a violent and bloody reaction to what was a peaceful situation involving wivesas being, mothers and sisters. Boulders and large stones were thrown at elderlyamong other things, defenseless women without a momentthe sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''s hesitation. A taste of things to come?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0979845645</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel HamiltonStephen Fabes|title=American Caesars: Lives Signs of the US Presidents, from Franklin D Roosevelt to George W BushLife
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|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=The Premise is simple: take twelve men (I was brought up on maps and unfortunately they are all men, but that's not the author's fault) who have achieved high office first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and look at each of themcuriosity. FirstlyUnfortunately, take a look at I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the road guts to the high office, then how they performed once they reached their goal simply go out and finally a look at their private lifedo it. Suetonius did it first when he wrote ''The Twelve Caesars'I also didn' t inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and now Nigel Hamilton has taken basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the same journey with requisite 'bottle'American Caesars. In order words I'', m not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a remarkably in-depth look at twelve consecutive American presidents from the twentieth London hospital and early twenty-first centuries, starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and finishing with George W Bushnot come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099520419</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bob Marshall-Andrews1504321383|title=Off Message: The Complete Antidote to Political HumbugSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Bob Marshall-Andrews entered Parliament in 1997, rather too late to ''You can't be a career politician (he was already an established QC) happy and with a profound distrust of authorityfulfilled on your own. He had no aspirations towards office, which was perhaps as well for all concerned as he would become best known for being You are not complete until you find a dissident. I occasionally enquired as to which party held his allegiance and eventually concluded that he went with his conscience. The last three Labour administrations have spawned more political memoirs than any other – and I did wonder if this would be just one more to add to the pileman''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684412</amazonuk>}}
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