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|author=Luke Gittos

|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched Evans

|rating=3.5

|genre=Politics and Society

|summary=It is said that we live in a rape culture. Tabloid headlines scream that the number of rapes is on the increase and that the police and the courts are failing to deal with the problem. There's a belief that the rate of conviction is consistently low. It's also said that sexism and misogyny have created a society in which rape is a regular occurrence, frequently not reported to the police and that society at large doesn't really care. Luke Gittos, a solicitor practicing criminal law, argues that these claims are based on myths and misunderstandings of the statistics and that far from ''improving'' the way that rape and sexual assaults are dealt with it's actually working against the interests of victims.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>

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|author=Anna Krien

|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>

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~~|title=The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life~~

~~|author=Uri Gneezy and John List~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Politics and Society~~

~~|summary=Wow! This is a most surprising economics book.~~

Behavioral economists (if you’ll excuse the American spelling) investigate people’s buying behaviour and consuming patterns. I guess we know about that already because supermarkets here lull us into buying three for the price of two, to come back next week for £10 off a £100, or to garner extra points on a loyalty card (Oh why can’t they just go for a cheaper price at the point of sale? Why do profits have to be in double percentage point increases year on year?). A fair bit of manipulation to ensure that a company survives is already part and parcel of our lives. If you’d asked me before I read this book, I would have lined up that sort of consumer marketing psychology alongside banking as profiteering. However … these guys are different: they really do seem to care about the plight of the underprivileged, and they come from an academic setting, rather than a commercial one.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946747</amazonuk>~~

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