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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Douglas Rogers|title=The Last Resort|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Author Douglas Rogers is a Zimbabwean who moved awayfrom the country many years ago, but has never been able to persuadehis parents – two white farmers, Lyn and Roz – to follow him out oftheir homeland, despite the resettlement policies of Robert Mugabe,the hyper <!-- Remove --inflation, and the corruption in the country. Instead, thepair just wanted to stay on the farm welcoming people to Drifters,their backpackers' lodge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906021910</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Archie Brown|title=The Rise and Fall of Communism|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary='A source of hope for a radiant future or…the greatest threat on the face of the earth'. Whichever of these descriptions you would apply to Communism you will find Archie Brown's detailed and largely objective study enlightening and engrossing. On one level, this is a chronological description of how a political force grew to dominate a third of the world's population then virtually disappeared within a period of less than a century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845950674</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave EggersClaire Dederer|title=ZeitounMonsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=43
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|summary=Flicking through Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the channels on audience'' in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the old aphorism of separating the art from the TV artist in the other night I stumbled across an interview with George Bushcontext of contemporary ''cancel culture''. Dederer's former Deputy Chief of Staffwork 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, Karl Rove. After witnessing an especially cringe making hip hop turn at the Washington Correspondents' Dinner (if you haven't seen it take prologue packs a look at [httppunch://wwwshe simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his actions.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo here]This model of ''monstrous men'' as she calls them, is consistent for the first few chapters, interrogating the likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. It really Her critical voice is jaw droppingly awful) attention turned to weightier mattersacutely present throughout, most notably Guantanamo Bay never slipping into anonymity and the war on terror maintaining her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, and the Bush administrations response to Hurricane Katrinaa personal, rather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241144841</amazonuk>1399715070
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin BellVirginie Despentes|title=A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our DemocracyKing Kong Theory
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|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography |summary=I've long thought it strange that of all the ills that have befallen the country over the last few years it was not really the bankers' follies or King Kong Theory'' is a hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which can be seen as a call to arms for women in a phallocentric society broken at its core. Originally written in French, the swine flu that never really got off the ground but the venality book is a collection of our MPs essays in which caught Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the public's attentioncomplex prism of her varied life: from rape to sex work and pornography. Compared to Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the amounts required to bail out a bank the sums involved were minutebook can feel somewhat disjointed, but moats, floating duck houses and flipping houses caught the imagination and our elected representatives became just a little wary reflection of admitting what they did for a livingtheir original form as independent essays.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848311281</amazonuk>191309734X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dominique Lapierre1009473085|title=A Rainbow in the Night The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5
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|summary=A Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book integrating otherwise piecemeal news stories picked up over 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 inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the past forty 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 into . It's a coherent explanation compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is always welcomean entirely different beast. This book explores South AfricaIt's history the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and development, co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the earliest Dutch arrivals state of the nation when the coalition took over in 1652 to 2010, the changes that occurred and the first racially integrated elections situation in 19942024.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818477</amazonuk>
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |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 'The Novel is Dead' is not really to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a novelist wants to read first on picking up year exploring a new small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book – but I persevered with Shieldsfor me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single ' manifesto and Iright or wrong'm glad I did. This , that every upside is likely to have a thought-provoking wake-up call downside for somebody and that any artist, writer or book-lover will enjoythere are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114499X</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chinua AchebeEdel Rodriguez|title=The Education of a British-Protected ChildWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGraphic Novels|summary=This book is We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a collection saviour of autobiographical essays by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, whose best known work is the novel Things Fall Apartcountry, published in 1958. Topics covered include Nigerianhas proven himself a Communist, Biafran and Igbo history and culturenot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, African literature and the legacy those hours-long speeches of colonialism in his country and the rest were kind of Africataking his time away. Some Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the essays are taken from guest lectures at universities around country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the world father being watched and conference paperswatched, and others are written not 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 booksultry island country, particularly many it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the more personal pieces about Achebe's family.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846142598</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Norah VincentSarah Wilson|title=Voluntary MadnessThis One Wild and Precious Life: My Year Lost and Found the path back to connection in the Loony Bina fractured world
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|genre=Lifestyle|summary=My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''Voluntary MadnessWhat 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 journalist Norah Vincent's account of her visits 'This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to three mental health facilities in America. The first Sarah Wilson is an urban, public hospital that houses mainly homeless, psychotic patients, many of whom are addicted to drugsequally lucky. In this hospital, the doctors are overworked and jaded and medication is always the answer. Soon, the author finds her book that takes Oliver's words as her latent depression title (which led her though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to do think about whether we really ''are'' living the book in life we want – the first place) best life that we could be living. Her answer is returningan unequivocal ''no, we are not''. The process of being institutionalised breaks her sense of self-worth down astonishingly fast. Indeed Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she suggests that it is 's effing furious about the lack of autonomy in institutional life, even for those patients who voluntarily commit themselves, fact that makes it so hard for them to rebuild independent lives when they finally leave the institutionwe are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099513439</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gabriel Weston1785633457|title=Direct RedCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson
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|genre=AutobiographyTravel|summary=Few people have Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the ability to convey idea of exploring the minutiae edges of their profession England in ways which engage the readeran electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, answer your unspoken questions and talk in such it should be a way that you're neither patronised nor overburdened with jargon. Gabriel Weston is one such – and ''Direct Red'' held me as though I was hypnotised pleasant holiday for several hours. She's a surgeon Clive and wehis wife, Joan, shouldn're pulled into the intricacies of her world without the need to don mask and gown.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520699</amazonuk>t it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Hannah Edelstein 1529153050|title=Himglish and Femalese: Why Women DonBritain't Get Why Men Don't Get Thems Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson
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|genre=LifestyleHumour|summary=Men arenSeeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards 't Martian and women don't hail from Venus. WeBritain're all Earthlings apparently; which seems like progress s Best Political Cartoons of a sort2022''. Even so we still Sharp eyes will have trouble understanding each other because noted that we speak different languages – Himglish and Femalese're not yet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Luckily Jean Hannah Edelstein is fluent Who can imagine what there will be to come in both and has written this light hearted volume to define the problem and translate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848091729</amazonuk>2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe HooperB0B7289HKQ|title=The Tall ManConversations Across America: Life A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and Death on Palm Island300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Cameron Doomadgee – Mulrunji – was just thirty six years old when he was arrested on Palm IslandKari (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. Quite why he The decision was arrested was never clearmade to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. He wasn't drunk, although he They had been drinking beer – and was walking along 73 days to do it - slightly less than the road singing ''Who Let the Dogs Out?'' Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley felt recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that there was reason to arrest Mulrunji it would be for creating as public nuisance and he was taken to the police stationmost people who considered taking it on. What happened next Merv Loya was to be the subject of intense media speculation 75 years old and legal proceedings over the coming years, but within forty five minutes Mulrunji he was deadsuffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520761</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|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=Amy V Fetzer Jane Goodall and Shari AaronDouglas Abrams |title=Climb the Green Ladder: Make Your Company and Career More SustainableThe Book of Hope |rating=45|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety |summary=With the abject failure of the Denmark Climate Change Conference fresh in our minds, it The done thing is perhaps time to turn away from read a book all the politicians and look back toward what we can doway through before you sit down to review it. The Conference may have finally got I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the likes experience of the USAreading this amazing book, India and China I want to acknowledge that they have to join in if we are going to save the planet capture it as a benevolent place for our species to live, but there it hits me. And it is still too much posturing and not enough commitmenthitting me. Clearly our governments and 'leaders' are not going to do this for us; we have to do it for ourselvesThis beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>047074801X</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Stern1788360737|title=A Blueprint Artivism: The Battle for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save Museums in the World and Create ProsperityEra of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=4.52|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The hardback edition of 'A Blueprint for Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a Safer Planet' was published early in 2009 as an update vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the 2006 Stern Review on the economics of climate changesocial environment in which he develops’’. Now here is the paperback editionTherefore, published too early to critique Copenhagenall art must be political, but nonetheless an interesting readeven implicitly. Stern is an expert witness who presents Alexander Adams in his evidence understandably new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the layman; he Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is unemotional art for art’s sake. The recent trend of 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 very convincingprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099524058</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou 1398508632|title=Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on the Green BandwagonThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Did you know that HorlicksIt 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, that great sleep aidparticularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, is sold in India as a start-world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: thearea 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 -day energy boost? Not another concoction under the same brandand fuel. Most importantly, but the Exact Same Productshe had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047074622X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Furedi1529149800|title=WastedThings You Can Do: Why Education Isn't EducatingHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=3.54|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=It seems We begin with a telling story. All the more problems the school-aged generation pose to society, birds and animals fled when the more responsibility schools have to take, teaching not simply English forest fire took hold and Maths, but Personal Thinking most of them stood and Learning Skillswatched, Happiness Classes, and Emotional Educationunable to think of anything they could do. The duty tiny hummingbird flew to raise a child well is taken out the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the apparently best I can'incompetent' hands of parents, and given over to said the education systemhummingbird. And that, really, where values is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can , however small that might be regulated and controlled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847064167</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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|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur Matthieu Aikins|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world. You wonNaked Don't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern world, Fear the entire banking system, all those who failed to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on the expenses train, and back up the rich lists.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Winnett and Gordon Rayner|title=No Expenses SparedWater
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|summary=It's always struck me as strange easy to forget at times that in a period of twelve months which saw Banks collapseThe Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, stock markets tumble and house prices slide the public have reserved most of their ire for because it reads very much like a relatively small group of people who were not exceptionally well-paid in the first placepaced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but many of whom took the opportunity rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to make the most of the generous expenses which they could claimaccompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are only six hundred tense moments and forty six Members gripping accounts of Parliament – twelve months ago they were generally respected but many are now pariahsborder crossings which had me on edge the whole way through.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593065778</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alain de Botton |title=A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=A writer-in-residence at an airport is not as daft an idea as But it might first seem. After all, TV programmes, and whole series, have entertained millions 's written with what goes on in front of, a haunting and behind almost lyrical quality that allows the scenes at such places. So this book, which is reader to perfectly envisage the fruit of such a residency, could be expected to produce few surprisesenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846683599</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Thompson (Editor)1785633074|title=Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S ThompsonStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry
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|genre=AutobiographyHumour|summary=It Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is almost 40 years since Dr Hunter S Thompsonrun by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's seminal work for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''Fear And Loathing In Las Vegasprime'' first graced movers are the shelvesspecial advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. His gonzo style, putting himself at We are in the centre privileged position of having access to the storymemoirs of Rafe Hubris, should tell readers as much about the person doing man who was behind the skilful control of the writing as Covid crisis which was completely contained by the event he is describingend of 2020. If that's You might not know the case then what is to name now but he will certainly be learned from a selection of interviews with the main man himself then? The answer is plentyto watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330510711</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Jack1846276772|title=The Country Formerly Known As Great BritainEnd of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
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|summary=I think IAnyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it've now managed to master the maxim about not judging books by their coverss simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. I still struggle with The able will come before the one about not judging them by their titles and I very nearly cam unstuck and missed 'The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain'disabled. Being just about Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of an age with the author I worried that it might be a treatise about the fact that 'things werenwhite man. Even when those who wouldn't like this when I was pass the medical become a ladpart of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. I was even more worried that I might agree with himIt's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087355</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist1529148251|title=Pocket World in Figures 2010Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel
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|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's just about a year since as though I reviewed [[Pocket World In Figures 2009 by The Economist|Pocket World in Figures 2009]] and at the time – September 2008 – we were watching in horror as telling the world financial crisis unfolded before our eyestruth whilst simultaneously running away from it. Looking back now the surprise is that for most people what happened came out of the blue. The clues were plain to see and all here in this handy little book. There was the worrying state of the Iceland economy and different levels of mortgage lending in various parts of the world. Best of all it was presented as verified figures, without any accompanying narrative and it's consequently free of political spin. Bliss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681367</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arundhati Roy 0008350388|title=Listening We Need to GrasshoppersTalk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|summary=Stories can provoke many different reactions in the reader: pleasure''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, painless hireable, delight, horrorless intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts.. The whole range of emotion is available to the fiction writer to ply and probe. '' Reactions ''We Need to non-fiction works can be equally wide-ranging and can sometimes take the reader Talk About Money'' by surprise.Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Tatar Richard Brook|title=Enchanted HuntersUnderstanding Human Nature: The Power of Stories in ChildhoodA User's Guide to Life|rating=34.5|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=Like most avid readers, I don't remember the time before there were am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books. We were brought up with , and sometimes bookschoose us. There are family tales of In my father as a child eating his breakfast with case, this is one hand, while trying to tie his shoelaces with of the other and still contriving to read at the same timelatter. They were a poor familyNot so very long ago, and books werenif I had come across this book I't just expensived have skimmed it, they were valuable. They were dearfound some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in every sense of the wordway 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. Likewise my mother remembers her early school-years when every day ended with is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a chapter from one of predisposition towards expecting to like the classicsbook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393066010</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Wadham 1787332098|title=The Secret Life of France|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=I'm rather at How to Love Animals in a loss to describe this book for you, and I'm still uncertain how to categorise it. It's part personal memoir and part analytical. Whether you regard this particular mix as brilliant or irritating is down, I suppose, to personal taste and intellectual curiosity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571236111</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHuman-Shaped World|author=Peter Hitchens |title=The Broken Compass: How British Politics lost its wayHenry Mance|rating=3.5
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|summary=I've long held that there is no difference between the major political parties such that could command you to vote for one or the other. The new Labour party now seems to stand somewhere to the right of what I though of as the old Conservative party and the Lib Dems appear to be a coalition of those who don't fit comfortably When we do think about animals, we break them down into either of the other main partiesspecies and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. My voting patterns have changed radically from supporting a party because And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of its views to voting against another because of its actions. I was hoping that wild animals stay out there, ''The Broken Compasssomewhere,'' might clarify my thoughtshopefully on the next David Attenborough series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847064051</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Davies1523092734|title=Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global MediaA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=45
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|summary=Do you remember ''She brings a Y2K bug? When the world's computer systems were to melt down hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in an Armageddon of vital services failure her life. Again and again and possible nuclear accidents?again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan GardnerPolly Barton|title=Risk: The Science and Politics of FearFifty Sounds
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|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Picture 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 terrorised hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by just two wordsnow. A civilisedI may get there later this year, healthy, wealthy world no lessbut 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 thrall to and under threat from two words. Not what those two words represent eventhe first essay, just which is on the actual small phrase. It sounds ridiculous, but when I say those two words – sound ''giro'bird flu'' – and you've stopped laughingwhich she describes as being, you may well remember how the panic startedamong other things, the non-existent worry was the biggest concern sound of the western media for some time, and then it went away again''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753515539</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine AshenburgStephen Fabes|title=Clean: An Unsanitised History Signs of WashingLife
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|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=Although maybe not the I was brought up on maps and first book you'd be drawn to – a history -person narratives of tales of personal hygiene perhaps doesnfar away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't seem that appealing – but if you inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had overlooked this excellent book, you would have missed which was the guts to simply go out on an enjoyable and informative book, full of fascinating facts and a jolly good readdo it. Attitudes towards and rituals of cleanliness have certainly changed over I also didn't inherit the last two thousand years and this book chronicles many kind of themsteady nerve, largely in Europe ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the USrequisite 'bottle'. Cultural differences with regard to cleanliness and body odour (and yes, Napoleon and Josephine do In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a mention here, although it transpires London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that they both took daily baths) are discussed at length, from the Greeks and Romans to the present day.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846681014</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Hatzfeld1504321383|title=The Strategy Of Antelopes: Rwanda After the Genocide|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''Life offers me smilesSingle, and I owe it my gratitude for not having abandoned me in the marshes.'' ''I've known the defilement of a bestial existence.'' ''Who's going to say that wordAgain, forgiveness? It's outside of human nature.'' So say some of the survivors of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when 800,000 Tutsis were murdered by their fellow Hutu citizens. Jean Hatzfeld talked to both Tutsis and Hutus then, publishing two award-winning books. In The Strategy of AntelopesAgain, he returns to Rwanda to talk to the same people and explore life after genocide. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686865</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAgain|author=Emmanuel Jal|title=War Child: A Boy Soldier's StoryLouisa Pateman
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|summary=Emmanuel Jal, internationally successful rap artist, spent his childhood as ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a solider in his native Sudanman''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. He has written his story It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in order her life advising her as to help those children who are still fighting, and those who have managed to get awaywhat they thought would be best for her. There are a number of books about It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the Sudan girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by western aid workers and journalists, the handsome prince who do, I am sure, write fluently and passionately about the horror of Darfurthen marries her so that they can live happily ever after. This is Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the first book expectation that I they will marry and have read which tells the story of war from the point of view of children. It was a small boy carrying an AK-47, belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a gun taller than he belief is himselfa choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700050</amazonuk>
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