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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=Politics 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, agriculture, 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 society=that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary Armstrong and Tim GrayEdel Rodriguez|title=The Authentic TawneyWorm: A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of R. H. Tawney Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The Authentic Tawney takes revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a fresh look at saviour of the political writing of R H Tawneycountry, has proven himself a left wing academic whose works were Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a big influence on the huge program level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of postwar reform engineered by the Labour Party, particularly the provision his were kind of universal secondary educationtaking his time away. The authors assert that Tawney Our narrator's ideas changed markedly through family weren't in the course happiest of his life and that they lack places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the consistency that other interpreters have erroneously attributed country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to them. They reject some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the notion that father being watched and watched, and not liked for his writings have an essential unitysuccessful photography business, which is philosophically interesting - don't we tend success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to assume that an intellectual's life's work will contain a central 'core' ease some of ideas? Discussion the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of an important pioneer in democratic socialism also seems relevant at a time when Labour has 'lost its way' and evolved into a watered down version heat forcing you out of the Conservatives.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845402243</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick HewlettSarah Wilson|title=The Sarkozy PhenomenonThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=The old saying My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''cometh the hour, cometh the manThis! Precisely this.' and whether or not it's the electorate I's ability m lucky enough to pick be living my one wild and precious life the man or whether he was only seen as the right man in retrospect way I want to. Sarah Wilson is a moot pointequally lucky. There are, In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though, some surprising people at I can't see that she acknowledges the head of European countries at source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the moment life we want – with Silvio Berlusconi and Nicholas Sarkozy at the head of my personal listbest life that we could be living. My [[Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story by Valerie Benaim and Yves Azeroual|last attempt]] to find out more about Sarkozy proved to be too light-weight for my tastesHer answer is an unequivocal ''no, but this time Iwe are not''ve gone to the opposite end of the scale with a book from Nick Hewlett, Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick and published by Imprint Academic. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I mention those points because there is no attempt to present this as populist writing: it) could be doing more…And she's scholarly from beginning to endeffing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845402391</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Emmerson1785633457|title=The Future History of the ArcticCharging Around: How climate, resources and geopolitics are reshaping Exploring the north, and why it matters to the worldEdges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=45|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=Charles Emmerson examines the past Clive Wilkinson has a history of Arctic exploration, economic exploitation and development and travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the policies of governments idea of countries which include Arctic territory (and others), with exploring the aim edges of understanding the present and predicting the future better. He explains the apparently contradictory title England in some detail in the Introductionan electric car was not totally outrageous. While history is about the pastIn fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn'ideas about the future have changed over time'. Also, the future of the Arctic will be shaped by its history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523531</amazonuk>t it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yangzom Brauen and Katy Darbyshire1529153050|title=Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of TibetBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson
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|genre=BiographyHumour|summary=Fleeing your home can never be easy but when you are six, your only shoes are roughly hand-sewn Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and stuffed with haymore like an adrenaline sport, and your route is over the worldI was nudged towards ''Britain's highest mountain range then it must be particularly challengingBest Political Cartoons of 2022''. This was the journey Sharp eyes will have noted that Yangzom Brauenwe's mother took with her parents when they fled Tibet after re not yet through the year: the Chinese invasion of 1959cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. They were leaving behind all that they knew and travelling Who can imagine what there will be to India come in the hope that they could find sanctuary in the country where the Dalai Lama was in exile. 'Across Many Mountains' is their story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655344X</amazonuk>2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dambisa MoyoB0B7289HKQ|title=How Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the West was Lost: Fifty Years TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of Economic Folly And the Stark Choices AheadAmerica|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Moyo's first bookKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, ''Dead Aid'' was by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a well regarded and oft discussed title when I worked in Developmentgood time to do it. In a country where it The decision was hard made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to find any book at Astoria, Oregon - all, somehow every ex4250 miles of it -pat household seemed in 2015. They had 73 days to have at least one copy do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of this, and I followed the sheep and had a readchallenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. It Merv Loya was a great, insightful book that we could all identify with, 75 years old and I he was eager to read her second, if somewhat unrelated worksuffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846142350</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=XinranJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories The Book of Loss and Love Hope
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|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Xinran first came The done thing is to my notice with her 2002 read a book "The Good Women of China" which retold tales of all the women she had come across way through her work in Chinese radiobefore you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, where for many years she had hosted because I don’t want to lose any of the local equivalent experience of a cross between Woman's Hour and a late night phone-in talk show. She has been busy bringing us other stories in the meantimereading this amazing book, but in this latest work she returns I want to those early days in radio and the stories she learnedcapture it as it hits me. Many of these stories she decided were too painful to tellAnd it is hitting me. They speak of children, specifically daughters, abandoned by their Chinese mothers one way or anotherThis beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535750</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Politkovskaya1788360737|title=Nothing but Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Truth: Selected Dispatches Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=4.52|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Anna Politkovskaya worked for Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, becoming particularly famous for her critical reports on the wars social environment in Chechnyawhich he develops’’. Therefore, on Putinall art must be political, on state corruption and on life even implicitly. Alexander Adams in Russia under his regimenew book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. She never avoided controversy and received a number The recent trend of death threats before she was murdered in October 2006so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). She had reason Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to know these were no idle threats – one of her articles here entitled 'Is Journalism Worth the Loss of create a Life?' reports the attempted murder of one of her colleaguesmore globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526689</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonny Steinberg1398508632|title=Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York CityThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45|genre=BiographyLifestyle|summary=South African Steinberg has won awards with previous non-fiction books and after reading It had been on the praise from various sources (New York Times, J M Coetzee) I came to the conclusion that I was in cards for a serious and thoughtwhile but it was the week-provoking readlong consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The preface tells us that end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the two Liberian men - Rufus 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 younger Jacob left Liberian soil in vastly different circumstances area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and for different reasonsdehydrator. But as they meet up years later She had a car - and thousands of miles away from their homelandfuel. Most importantly, their she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''Little Liberialive'' in New York City has a tall order: to contain and accommodate their big personalities and wild just to a certain extent, their big egoslive off its produce. Can it cope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085662</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Kidder1529149800|title=Mountains Beyond Mountains|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Dr Paul Farmer has dedicated his life Things You Can Do: How to helping the poorest and neediest in society. He works tirelessly to help people less fortunate than him. ''Dedicated his life'' and ''works tirelessly'' - phrases we've heard many times about many wonderful people, but when reading ''Mountains Beyond Mountains'', you'll realise there's not a shred of hyperbole about these claims. Farmer began working with tuberculosis and AIDS patients in Haiti, and then worked with them, and worked for them, and worked with them, Fight Climate Change and worked for them, and worked with them. In an area where treating the disease is just one part of the problem, where poverty is rife, he has transformed an area, saved countless lives, and made an incredible difference to many people. [http://www.pih.org/ Partners In Health], the healthcare organisation he set up with his colleagues, takes this work worldwide. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684315</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewReduce Waste|author=Adrian Johns|title=Death of a Pirate: British Radio Eduardo Garcia and the Making of the Information AgeSara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=HistoryHome and Family|summary=If you are inclined to take your cues from We begin with a telling story. All the weekly reviews, as birds and animals fled when the witty poet Gavin Ewart once expressed the matter, you will doubtless find currently articles as varied as; Russell Brand predicting the imminent decline forest fire took hold and most of the BBCthem stood and watched, various interpretations unable to think of liberalism and how these struggle for expression in Coalition Government policyanything they could do. There are concerns too about The tiny hummingbird flew to the legislation governing the internet river and began taking tiny amounts of water and references flying back to drop them into the Sixties battles between, on the one hand, fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the unbridled self-expression of the free market andbest I can'', on said the other, hummingbird. the virtues of self-restraint in such matters as the re-examination of the Lady Chatterley trial, now fifty years ago. An unusual and quite intriguing bookAnd that, Death of a Piratereally, about is the development of intellectual property and piracy in radio touches on all these contemporary concerns in a dramatic only way. It combines that we will solve the history problem of modern broadcasting with a crime story and consequent trial.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393068609</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Valerie Benaim and Yves Azeroual|title=Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=In November 2007 the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy was newly divorced from his second wife and, despite his position and busy life, feeling rather lonely. He accepted an invitation to a dinner party from a friend and met supermodel and recording artist, Carla Bruni. The attraction between them was instant climate change – she had already said that she wanted a man with nuclear power and he was smitten by the attentions each of a beautifulus doing what we can, famous and intelligent woman. Within months they were marriedhowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0907633145</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beate Teresa Hanika1638485216|title=Learning to ScreamBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds
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|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=Malvina ''Corruption is thirteen years oldnot department, the youngest of three children in a dysfunctional familygender or race specific. Her father is a very grumpy teacher, with little understanding of children, whilst her mother seems to suffer permanently from migraine. She It has a good friend, Lizzy, and they play together as much as they can, united in their dislike of the 'boys from the estate'. Her grandmother died last year, leaving her granddad on his own and it's Malvina's job everything to go and visit him and take him his mealsdo with character. The family think this is a great arrangement because they know how much Granddad loves Malvina and looks forward to her visitsPeriod. There's a problem though. Malvina doesn't like going, particularly on her own. Granddad kisses her on the mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390606</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew RawnsleyMatthieu Aikins|title=The End of Naked Don't Fear the Party: The Rise and Fall of New LabourWater
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|summary=After decades of watching politics more or less assiduously I was surprised by It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the New Labour administrationWater isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. Never before had so much been put – or so it seemed – in the public domainThis is not by any means a criticism, but never before had I had quite such rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a feeling of really not understanding what was going on, of being party Canadian citizen who decided to only half accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a storyvast and at times painful journey. The age There are tense moments and gripping accounts of spin told us little that we really wanted to know, but left unsaid all border crossings which had me on edge the important thingswhole way through. Early in 2010 I was disappointed that I'd missed Andrew Rawnsley's 'The End of the Party' but now I'm rather glad that I did as But it's been republished in paperback written with two additional chapters which include a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the extraordinary events surrounding reader to perfectly envisage the 2010 General Electionenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141046147</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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|genre=AutobiographyHumour|summary=Like John Profumo and othersMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, Mark Oaten will probably be remembered for headed by the wrong reasons. It was Prime minister - the episode which made him ''primus inter pares'' (that's for a while those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the countryreality is that the ''s No. 1 paparazzi target, and which as he recounts in his Prologue, when his prime'world was crashing down' and it hardly needs recounting in detailmovers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. Yet when all is said and doneWe are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, this is a very lively, readable, sometimes quite poignant memoir from one the man who was behind the skilful control of the men whose career at Westminster began and ended with Covid crisis which was completely contained by the Blair and Brown yearsend of 2020. Throughout there is an admirable absence of self-pityYou might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849540071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Pennac1846276772|title=School BluesThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
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|summary=Daniel Pennac's book discusses the issue of children Anyone who struggle at school, and offers some ideas on how teachers can and should help them. It is not a dry textbook on educational theory. He writes an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from personal experience, as a teacher and novelist who was once it: it'un cancre', translated here as s simply a dunce or a bad studentpart of everyday life. White men will always come first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694648</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin Lewis|title= The Kid: A True Story|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Kevin Lewis grew up on a poverty-stricken London council estate in able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the sort preserve of home that the neighbours complain aboutwhite man. His mother – inadequate by any measure – hated him more than most Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of her six children and he was beaten and starved by both of his parents. You might think an organisation it's rare that Social Services would have stepped in and removed himtheir views are heard, but any relief was to be short-livedthat their concerns are acknowledged. Eventually he was put into care It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but even then it's not just the support was inadequate and Kevin found himself caught up in a criminal underworld where he was known simply as 'The Kid'individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014104859X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mullin1529148251|title=Decline and FallMisfits: Diaries 2005 to 2010A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel
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|summary=At the end of [[A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin|A View from the Foothills]] we left Chris Mullin wondering why he was no longer Tony Blair's Africa minister at the Foreign Office. He was never 'How am I able to get a definitive answer to thisbe so transparent on paper about rape, but was later told that Blair handed out the junior ministerial appointments rather like sweetsmalpractice and poverty, with few worries about how people would feel if they were missed out or sacked. In Decline and Fall we see Chris come down from the foothills of politics and return to the backbenches. yet still compartmentalise? He might no longer be in a position of power, but heIt's still in the thick of it. Perhaps as though, some of I were telling the enjoyment is draining truth whilst simultaneously running away from the job as he sees himself with years more of doing nothing very importantit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683998</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Nicol0008350388|title=Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You We Need to Talk About Diet, Thrift and Going GreenMoney|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=2.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=In the current economy, lots of people are trying to make ends meet in their own ways. Not since the days of Brownie badges has the word ''thrift'' been bandied around so much, but now it's not so much about saving money To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as it is about surviving. Actuallyless desirable, maybe it always wasless hireable, but the Guiding Association thought a jolly piggy bank was a more appropriate badge emblem less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than a depressed family collapsed in front of their Sky TV with their supermarketmy light-own curry struggling to fill the void left by a regular take awayskinned counterparts... What we all need is a return '' ''We Need to the good old days, when life was simpler and people happier, the days when you didnTalk About Money''t need to clear half an hour in your diary to navigate the olive aisle of the supermarket, and when you ate what was fresh and local, not because it was cheap or you were in the mood, but because it was all they had.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521121</amazonuk>}}by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan GreenRichard Brook|title=Murder in the High HimalayaUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=The Himalayan mountains mean many things to different peopleI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. To In my case, this is one of the people latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of Tibetit interesting, trapped under the atheist occupiers from China, who ran the Dalai Lama out but it would not have 'hit home' in the 1950s in their consuming urge for lebensraum and mineral mining, they are way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a near-impenetrable barrier, protecting their country from historyfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's prior ravages, but keeping u.s.p. is that people who want outchose their own books rather than getting them randomly, very much in. To rich Westerners, they are so there is a sparkling challenge - a task of predisposition towards expecting to like the highest orderbook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a box to tick on the way to self-fulfilment - something book I needed to be climbedread, because they're thereright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1586487140</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Woodsford1787332098|title=Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Meet Mister Bigelow. He's elderly, living alone on Long Island, New York, with some health problems but more than enough family and friends How to get him by, and still a very active interest Love Animals in yachting, regattas and more. Meet, too, Frances Woodsford. She's reaching middle-age, living with her brother and mum in Bournemouth, and working for the local baths as organiser of events, office lackey and more. I suggest you do meet them, although neither ever met the other. Despite this they kept up a brisk and lively conversation about all aspects of life, from the late 1940s until his death at the beginning of the 60s. And as a result comes this book, of heavily edited highlights, which opens up a world of social history and entertaining diaryHuman-style comment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542293</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewShaped World|author=Rebecca Skloot|title=The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksHenry Mance|rating=45
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|summary=In John Hopkins Hospital''When we do think about animals, Baltimorewe break them down into species and groups: cows, in October 1951dogs, Henrietta Lacksfoxes, a mother of five children, died of cervical cancer at the age of 31elephants and so on. HoweverAnd we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, a sample of her cancer cells taken the same year lived dogs onsofas, grew and reproduced. Often referred to as HeLa cellsfoxes in rubbish bins, cells with their origins elephants in the original sample are still being used in medical zoos, and scientific research todaymillions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere, nearly sixty years '' hopefully on. Many of the scientific breakthroughs that have been made using HeLa cells are hugely profitable. But her children have spent their lives in low waged jobs and on welfare, unable to afford basic health insurance. Understandably they feel a lot of anger at this injusticenext David Attenborough series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230748694</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Douglas Rushkoff1523092734|title=Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The author of this book was mugged outside his apartment one Christmas Eve. He posted a note online to warn his neighbours A Women's Guide to be extra careful, and was promptly berated for doing something so public that could potentially damage property values in his local area. This is a thought-provoking snippet, and if the whole book was like this, I'm sure I would have been gripped.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516691</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewClaiming Space|author=Peter Beaumont|title=The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict Eliza Van Cort
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|summary=Peter Beaumont is the Foreign Affairs editor at The Observer. He joined the paper in 1989 and has spent much of the intervening time dealing with the kind of 'foreign affairs' She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that is better described as 'war reporting'every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again. 'The Secret Life of War' is a distillation of his years in the field. It is a book ill-served by both its title and its cover(Alma Derricks, except maybe insofar as both might serve to sneak it onto the bookshelves of those who really need to read itformer CMO, but probably wouldn't choose to do so were it more accurately wrapped.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520982</amazonuk>}}Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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|summary=What shape is a conspiracy theoryWhere do I start? Unusual question, I knowcould start with where Barton herself starts, but I think with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on this evidence it is round. A conspiracy theory is lumpen, ragged, full of holes, and has my radar for a huge circular gap where the obvious while and sensible has dropped through, leaving if the believer or theorist with the implausible skeleton of what they choose to think instead. They certainly have a habit of coming round in circles world hadn't gone into melt- if down I mentioned a heinous crime caused would have visited by a western leader that killed hundreds or more peoplenow. I may get there later this year, purely to get their way and get a war startedbut I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I could be referring don't know the answer to Roosevelt and Pearl Harborthe question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, Maggie Thatcher and which is on the General Belgranosound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, or Bush etc and 9/11among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009947896X</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Douglas RogersStephen Fabes|title=The Last ResortSigns of Life
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|genre=BiographyTravel|summary=Author Douglas Rogers is a Zimbabwean who moved I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far awayfrom places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the country many years ago, but has never been able guts to persuadehis parents – two white farmers, Lyn simply go out and Roz – to follow him out oftheir homeland, despite do it. I also didn't inherit the resettlement policies kind of Robert Mugabe,the hyper-inflationsteady 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 corruption in the countryrequisite 'bottle'. Instead, In order words I'm not thepair just wanted to stay sort of person who will get on the farm welcoming people to Drifters,their backpackers' lodgea bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906021910</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Archie Brown1504321383|title=The Rise Single, Again, and Again, and Fall of CommunismAgain|author=Louisa Pateman
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|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary='A source of hope for 'You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a radiant future or…the greatest threat on the face of the earthman''.
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