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|title=How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?: A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050
|author=Bjorn Lomborg (Editor)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=The authors are leading researchers in their fields, and their papers have been critiqued by peer-reviewers. Each of the chapters reports the results of a modelling exercise, examining progress or decline in one of ten key areas, including armed conflict, trade barriers, malnutrition, air pollution, ecosystem and biodiversity, health, water and sanitation. Key economic, growth and other variables from credible sources provided a common set of data and assumptions, used in each study.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1107679338</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Being childless, I've never had reason to read books out loud to youngsters. I've never faced the challenge of having to pace the story verbally, find the very easily understood stress of the sentence for the young mind, or more importantly find the voice for each and every main character. There are a host of people who would have read this book and its sequels to their children however, and they never had to find the voice to read it out at all – for my generation, the TV version of Paddington is still firmly fixed in our minds after many a decade. But I can also remember reading a copy of this opening collection of short stories at that age as well – and everything associated with Paddington Bear is only going to bring back the firmest of warm memories. This lovely new volume will only create a host more too.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007528620</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David G Coleman
|title=The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=The commonly-held view of history would have us believe that the Cuban Missile Crisis began in mid-October 1962 and concluded on 28 October, with the world heaving a collective sigh of relief and moving on to think of other things. The truth is, of course, rather different and the crisis rumbled on for weeks and months to come, occasionally almost bubbling to the boil again as Kennedy and Krushchev fenced with each other. Historian David G Coleman has used the secret White House recordings to take us into the Oval Office and listen to what really went on.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393346803</amazonuk>
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