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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke GittosAlastair Humphreys|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched EvansLocal|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=It is said that we live in a rape cultureAlastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. Tabloid headlines scream that the number of rapes is on the increase For this book he walked and that the police cycled very close to home and the courts are failing to deal with the problemthen wrote about it. There's a belief that As he says in his introduction, the rate of conviction book is consistently low. Itan attempt ''s also said that sexism and misogyny to share what I have created learnt about some big issues from a society in which rape is year exploring a regular occurrence, frequently not reported to the police and that society at large doesn't really caresmall map. Luke GittosNature loss, a solicitor practicing criminal lawpollution, argues that these claims are based on myths land use and misunderstandings access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the statistics and joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that far from there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong'improving'' the way , that rape every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and sexual assaults that there are dealt with it's actually working against the interests of victimssome hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KrienEdel Rodriguez|title=Night GamesWorm: A Journey to the Dark Side of SportCuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5|genre=SportGraphic Novels|summary=Mere mortals relax by having a game We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of footy of a weekend and as a couple saviour of drinksthe country, but what does has proven himself a professional sportsman do Communist, and not done nearly enough to cut loose? create a level playing field for all. What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial Well, those hours-long speeches of an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to court, interviewing some were kind of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areastaking his time away. In deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity sheOur narrator's chosen family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to give be the man who was charged good soldier the name of 'Justin' in an attempt country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to level some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the playing fieldfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, so to speaksuccess being frowned upon. You could Google The mother gets the facts and come up couple jobs with the correct nameparty to ease some of the heat, but in this isn't a book sultry island country, it remains the kind of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation heat forcing you out of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McMillanSarah Wilson|title=Neither Nowt Nor SummatThis One Wild and Precious Life: In search of the meaning of Yorkshirepath back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Ian McMillan, poet, radio presenter, poet My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in residence at Barnsley Football Club and professional Yorkshireman, is worried. It has crossed his mind that he might not be which she asks ''Yorkshire enoughWhat is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'', given I get to love that his father was not from Godline so much because my answer is ''s Own County, but was a Scot by birthThis! Precisely this. '' In a series of discursions on the subject of Yorkshire he attempts I'm lucky enough to distil be living my one wild and precious life the essence of the county and way I want to understand what being a Yorkshireman means. To this end Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we accompany him through towns and cities, really ''are'' living the Cudworth Probus Club, Ilkley Moor and elicit contributions from Mad Geoff life we want – the barber, a kazoo-playing train guard and four Saddleworth council workers in search of a mattressbest life that we could be living. Amongst others. All of Yorkshire life Her answer is herean unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Including Yorkshire puddingsDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Xinran1785633457|title= Buy Me The SkyCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 5|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel|summary= I started reading Xinran thirteen years agoClive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and whilst I havenhis wife, Joan, shouldn't read all of her books, every one that I have read has at some point had me in tears. This one was no different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ray Barron Woolford1529153050|title=Food Bank Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson
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|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as a smartly-dressed young man foraged in waste bins for food, less than a mile Seeking some light relief from the riches of the City of London. Intrigued as current political turmoil which is coming to what seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was going on he went to ask. The man explained to him that henudged towards ''Britain'd just got a job after two years s Best Political Cartoons of being unemployed, but it would be five weeks before he was paid2022''. He couldnSharp eyes will have noted that we't claim benefits as he was in work and had no savings, so re not yet through the bins had to be his source of food and by year: the following week he would have to walk cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to work as he couldn't afford the fares31 August 2022. That was Who can imagine what there will be to come in the inspiration for the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe CombiB0B7289HKQ|title=Generation ZConversations Across America: Their VoicesA Father and Son, Their Lives Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Generation ZKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, for anyone by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like me who didn’t know, is a good time to do it. The decision was made up of those young people born between 1995 and 2001. It is one of to ride the central contentions Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of Chloe Combi’s book 'Generation Z: Their voices, Their Lives' that these young people’s lives are unlike anyone else’s it - in British history2015. From They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the radical technological innovation recommended time - but there were factors which produced the internet and smart phones to multiculturalism, life pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for these children most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and teenagers is characterised by so much that he was not experienced by their parents and grandparents. In 'Generation Z', then, Combi offers some glimpses into the worlds of young people today, in what she wishes to be 'a conversation starter between teenagers and adultssuffering from early-stage Alzheimer's. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland1739593901|title=Azzi in Between22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=''Our story begins in a country at warfuture will be more complex than we expected. Unfortunately you could probably put a name Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to it (although it isn't named) as it happens all too regularlytrack grandma. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not ''too' I' affected by the war, but every day it came ve got a little closercouple of confessions to make. Her father still worked I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a doctor few stories and her mother made beautiful clothesthen forget to return to the book. Her grandmother wove warm blanketsThere's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the day came when they had to run, for their lives, and escape was by boat and they became refugeestechnology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. The three of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted on a temporary basis into another country (again itIt's not named) human beings who fascinate me: the technology and they had the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a homebook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, although I loved it was just one room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=BarrouxJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Where's the Elephant?The Book of Hope
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|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society |summary=We've The done thing is to read a book all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally''the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, haven't we? They appeal because I don’t want to children and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's lose any of the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasmexperience of reading this amazing book, keen I want to show just how observant they arecapture it as it hits me. We start off with a forest - actually And it's the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours and our three friends, who are hiding in thereis hitting me. Elephant is probably the easiest to spot, but Snake and Parrot are This beautiful book has me in there too and with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn the page you'll scan the trees again and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like thistears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Treglown1788360737|title=Franco's CryptArtivism: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=3.52|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=With ''Franco’s Crypt'' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in Spain under Franco – and placed it under what to some might appear a somewhat revisionist microscopevacuum. His aim appears It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be twofoldpolitical, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: to consider the nature of collective memory, particularly The Battle for Museum in the light Era of the exhumations Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of mass graves that commenced earlier this century, 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, secondly, media elites hoping to examine – create a more globalist and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatorprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Greene1398508632|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of RussiaThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=It's no mistake that had been on the cover of my edition of this book is cards for a photo where while but it was the Transweek-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the framelong consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. It's well known for going east-westThe end of November, left to right across the map of the largest country by far particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow best time to the eastern stretches of Russiastart, it could only be in a long, thin line across world where the covernormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, as it is in our imagination of it as a form of transport Brexit and a travel destination in its own rightpandemic. So when this book mentions it as Wilde had a few advantages: the spine or backbone of Russia area around her was a known habitat with a couple variety of times, that's got terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to be of run a prone Russia – one lying downfridge, not upright or activefreezer and dehydrator. David Greene, She had a stalwart of northern American radio journalismcar - and fuel. Most importantly, uses she had shelter: this book was not a plan to see ''live'' wild just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictment. It's no mistake either for this cover to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the piecelive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes1529149800|title=HRCThings You Can Do: State Secrets How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and the Rebirth of Hillary ClintonSara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=BiographyHome and Family|summary=Hillary Clinton initially came to our attention as First Lady and even then she might have faded into international obscurity had it not been for the way in which she managed to hold her head high during those unfortunate incidents We begin with Bill - well, HRC wasn't ''involved'' but I'm sure you know what I'm talking abouta telling story. Then she re-emerged through All the fog of birds and animals fled when the George W Bush presidency with her bid to gain the Democratic nomination, losing in a hotly contested series forest fire took hold and most of primaries to Barack Obama - them stood and went on watched, unable to become his Secretary think of Stateanything they could do. Now The tiny hummingbird flew to the question is whether or not she will make another run for President in 2016.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mike McIntyre river and Chris Brinkley (narrator)|title=The Kindness began taking tiny amounts of Strangers: Penniless Across America|rating=4water and flying back to drop them into the fire.5|genre=Travel|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre was a thirty-seven-year-old journalist with a secretThe animals laughed: he was frightened. There were specific fears, but what it boiled down to good was that he was frightened of life - and then there was a memorydoing. He remembered - with some shame - not stopping for a hitchhiker with a gas ''I'm doing the best I can in '', said the deserthummingbird. It was almost on a whim And that he decided to cross America, from San Francisco in California to Cape Fear in North Carolinareally, which might sound like a great adventure, but McIntyre decides to do it without money - to be completely reliant on is the kindness of strangers. He was confronting his own fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)|title=Massacre in Norway: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and only way that we will solve the Utoya Youth Camp|rating=2.5|genre=History|summary=Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted a van bomb in Oslo's central government district to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island in a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itself. He gunned down 69 people – more than one in ten problem of those at the camp climate change and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another by each of his projects, a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and us doing what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his country. His case was one of the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as was the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 years. This iswe can, as you'd expect, one of the many books to result from the casehowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Campbell1638485216|title=Roy JenkinsBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Well-Rounded Black Man's Odyssey in Lifeand Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds
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|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=It must be rare indeed that a British political figure who never became Prime Minister ''Corruption is the subject of not department, gender or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of textrace specific. However, as John Campbell demonstrates in this volume, it is difficult It has everything to do justice to the life, times and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than thatwith character. Period.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Dan Jones|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter|rating=5|genre=History|summary=For what do we – and by courtesy of a lengthy timeline in history, would the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks to a spigurnel? What is the most revered legal document in history, which sets out the rights of man – but also has time to talk about widows' rights, fish traps, and to be both sexist and to discuss the importance to people's estates to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? What will probably be the only notable historical experience of Britain in 1215, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI and discuss the 800 years of something else, even though the authority of no less than the Pope declared it null and void within ten weeks of its being finished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>}}One more body just wouldn't matter''.
{{newreview|author=Krishna Bhatt|title=The Royal Enigma|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=There is absolutely nothing wrong with books that cross genresmurder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. The best historical novels are as much history as fictionWe rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. However, it The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is a golden rule that a book must know who not one which I'll ever forget and what it isthe protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. One of There was a backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the problems with The Royal Enigma is that it suffers from a serious identity crisisChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian HartMatthieu Aikins|title=ThatThe Naked Don's Racist: How t Fear the regulation of speech and thought divides us allWater
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|summary=Adrian Hart has a long history of campaigning against racismIt's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, not least because he was subjected to racial abuse when he was it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at schooltimes. With jet-black hair and This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a complexion that was just ''slightly'' darker than was normal he was the closest that his school had testament to someone how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who might be of Pakistani origin. It was only name calling decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a group of boys but the experience stuck vast and he's put much of his working life where his mouth isat times painful journey. So, you might expect that he would be a devotee There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the zero tolerance approach to racist speech, but hewhole way through. But it's far from certain written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that this is allows the right way reader to go perfectly envisage the environments and believes that this might be causing more divisions in society than racism itselfpeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaStaggering Hubris|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfJosh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHumour|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think Members of doingParliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, there is a reason why we shouldnheaded by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares''t be doing it, and people to back (that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect 's for those of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that could provoke a serious illness or worsethe ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. And outside that daily sphere there We are economic disastersin the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of an eye2020. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>watch.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How To Be A ConservativeWe Change Our Minds|author=Roger ScrutonJessica Nordell|rating=34.5
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|summary=Roger Scruton has been described by Jesse Norman as Anyone 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'one s simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the few intellectually authoritative voices in British conservatism'disabled. His central theme in this book is to defend and champion Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the value preserve of the homewhite man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, a society based that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on free association and the nation state. The simplest receiving end of biographical sections demonstrates that the author was brought up not from ‘privileged’ stock bias but within a Labour-voting, lower middle class family, to demonstrate that his conservatism was it's not inherited but a product of his own intellectual journeyjust the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472903765</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529148251
|title=Misfits: 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 as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''
Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in 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 television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=The Wall Between UsWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Matthew SmallOtegha Uwagba|rating=45
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|summary=In this personal account ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of his visit colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to Israel the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and the West Banknine. It was her mother who came first, Small journals his time spent with people he meets along her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the way and attempts to make sense best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of the conflict that has dominated money although this area for many yearsdid not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. Small openly admits When Otegha was ten the issue there is not family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a simple one private school in London and his visit reinforces the fact that there are many complexities preventing peace from happeningthen a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910266302</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan ShawRichard Brook|title=Britain in a Perilous WorldUnderstanding Human Nature: The Strategic Defence and Security Review we need A User's Guide to Life
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|genre=Lifestyle
|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1787332098
|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
|author=Henry Mance
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=The 2010 Strategic Defence ''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and Security Review has stayed I much prefer my elephants in the mind wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the wrong reasons: rather than looking sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to develop a strategy, animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to examine choose between the short company of humans and long term threats which the country facedcompany of animals, I would probably choose the emphasis was on cutting costs, with some cuts appearing ludicrous at first glanceanimals. In the intervening years there have been occasions when it I insisted that I read this book: no one was difficult not trying to wonder if the United Kingdom stop me but I was poorly equipped - initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without clear-cut aims - as a result of the 2010 reviewguilt or change my choices. The opportunity to put this right comes in 2015 and Major General Jonathan Shaw looks I suspected that making the decision would not at what the Review should say, but at how it should be tackledcomfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908323817</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1523092734
|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space
|author=Eliza Van Cort
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)
 
''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.''
{{newreview|author=The Economist|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=There Sometimes the reviewing gods are people who don't understand the joy of raw datagenerous: no accompanying analysis (or spin) - just at a collection of figures relevant time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to a particular circumstanceClaiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. If you're one of those people then Now - to be clear - this book will mean little is not a 'how to youdisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but if you want a pocket (well, certainly handbag or briefcase) work of reference then this book will discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be a treasure''protected''. I once gave a copy 've always thought that women need to a diplomat and he kept his wife awake until the early hours as he came across another gem which she had rise above this, to know without delaybe people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. The 2015 edition is the twenty fourth in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaughtIf all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stand and Deliver: A Design for Successful GovernmentPolly Barton|authortitle=Ed StrawFifty Sounds
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Confidence in politicians is at an allWhere do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-time lowdown I would have visited by now. In fact, an alarming number of Britons express outright contemptI may get there later this year, but I am not just for their leadershopeful. And like Barton, but for I don't know the answer to the entire political class - for question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the politicans themselves, for question in the civil servants standing behind themfirst essay, even for which is on the Westminster bubble of commentators and policy wonks. We vote for them in ever-decreasing numbers and even those who continue to vote often do not feel represented. Worse stillsound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, the younger you areamong other things, the more likely sound of ''every party where you are have to be politically disengaged. Weintroduce yourself''re in danger of losing an entire generation from the political process. How can this be good for a democracy?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099294760X</amazonuk>1913097501
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Harry's Last StandStephen Fabes|authortitle=Harry Leslie SmithSigns of Life
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith rose to prominence last year with a famous Guardian article 'This yearI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I will wear a poppy for the last timedidn' about the way in t inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the remembrance of those who died in the great wars has been co-opted guts to justify today’s military conflictssimply go out and do it. Here, he tackles themes I also didn't inherit the kind of poverty, political corruption, unemploymentsteady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on a lack of hope felt by so many people todaybike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848317263</amazonuk>1788161211
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|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
{{newreview|title=Angela MerkelThis was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: The Chancellor and Her World|author=Stefan Kornelius|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=You have to admire it was simply the lady, this rather awkward and shy daughter of a staunch Lutheran pastor who himself had been born adults in her life advising her as a Polish Catholic. His daughter studied with such intelligence and application that soon brought to what they thought would be best for her academic success particularly in Russian and finally in Quantum Chemistry. At It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the age of 26, girl (she obtained 's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her doctorate and - in passing, it rather seems - her first husband, the physicist Ulrike Merkelso that they can live happily ever after. Her rise Few girls are lucky enough to power was rapid be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and took place through the period in which the DDR collapsed as Russian policy under Gorbachev changedhave children. Along with It was a wry belief and dry sense of humour Angela Merkel’s personality is the embodiment of the characteristic known in German as it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''fleissiga belief is a choice'' - hardworking, sedulous, diligent and assiduous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883180</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=An Atheist's History of Belief|author=Matthew Kneale|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=I’ve been an atheist since I was old enough Move to take a view on the subject. (Many atheists would argue that we’re all atheists at birth, but that’s not a subject for a book review). I did have to take Religious Studies at school but have entirely forgotten almost everything I learned!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584425</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Notebooks, 1922-86|author=Michael Oakeshott|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Michael Oakeshott is usually described as a conservative thinker. According to Perry Anderson, his work influenced John Major's style of politics; he named him in the London Review of Books in 1992 as one of four ‘outstanding European theorists of the intransigent Right’. Luke O’Sullivan, who edited this collection of notebooks, has often said that he considers such descriptions limiting. O’Sullivan is clearly enthusiastic about Oakeshott’s work and strove to enable these notebooks, spanning a period of over sixty years, to be published.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845400542</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Popular Science Reviews]]