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• Pocket World in Figures 2015 by The Economist
  ...ay. The 2015 edition is the twenty fourth in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaught. ...west growing. This is then extended by the highest and lowest birth rates and teenage births. Shockingly, in Niger more than 20% of women aged 15 to 19
  3 KB (571 words) - 10:47, 10 April 2018
• Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly
  |genre=Politics and Society ...Happily destroying the tabloid conception of working class as male, white and racist.
  4 KB (639 words) - 14:19, 17 February 2018
• Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
  |title=Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left |genre=Politics and Society
  4 KB (629 words) - 11:47, 14 April 2018
• You Will Not have My Hate by Antoine Leiris
  |genre=Politics and Society ...ningly conveyed by journalist Antoine Leiris. A story of death, love, hope and defiance that will stay with the reader long after they've finished.
  5 KB (918 words) - 11:44, 20 September 2020
• Of the People, By the People: A New History of Democracy by Roger Osborne
  |genre=Politics and Society ...the world which did not first operate through complex relations of kinship and deference, as had others up to then. Parallels would be seen in Rome a few
  6 KB (1,042 words) - 08:28, 13 April 2018
• Betrayal by Adriaan van Dis
  ...more chance to struggle for someone's freedom against all odds and violent society. ...ot as condensed as a short story, each sentence must still serve a purpose and here Adriaan shows he's more than a match for the art.
  3 KB (568 words) - 15:53, 29 August 2020
• Heart of Darfur by Lisa French Blaker
  ...s Sans Frontieres nurse. Simply and honestly written, it tells a difficult and uncomfortable story that absolutely demands to be read. It is a Radio 4 boo ...r have blue eyes, or are tall, or are short - it's that arbitrary. So you, and all the other people like you, have to get out with just what you can carry
  6 KB (976 words) - 11:33, 3 March 2018
• If it is Your Life by James Kelman
  ...edge of society. He addresses issues such as class, politics, gender, age and ill health. ...types of oppression, with a calculating subversion of the English language and a disregard for convention. I tend to veer more towards the latter view, bu
  6 KB (996 words) - 13:43, 24 March 2018
• No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain by Paul Addison
  |summary=A comprehensive history of the changes in the character of British society since 1945, against the political events which brought them about (or somet ...at deal, but he did so because of, or perhaps despite, being all substance and no show.
  6 KB (982 words) - 08:24, 13 April 2018
• Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes by Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)
  |author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator) ...er for the political unrest in Beijing in 1989, with all the hows and whos and whys the average reader could need.
  4 KB (606 words) - 12:32, 9 August 2020
• The Locked Ward by Dennis O'Donnell
  |genre=Politics and Society ...s on a psyc ward - albeit as a member of staff, not a patient. Interesting and easy to read.
  3 KB (625 words) - 12:16, 14 April 2018
• This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History by Esther Rutter
  |summary=Erudite, interesting and absolutely magical. Highly recommended. ...child on the farm'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.
  4 KB (620 words) - 10:09, 22 February 2022
• Sylvia Pankhurst: The Rebellious Suffragette by Shirley Harrison
  |summary=A biography of the noted suffragette campaigner and pacifist, and her often divided family who had similar aims but often disagreed on how to ...etached from each other. His widow became heavily involved in public work and political agitation, an increasingly remote mother from the young children
  6 KB (910 words) - 14:49, 9 April 2018
• Signs of Life by Stephen Fabes
  ...'m not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that. ...out how hard and long it takes, how much intelligence and emotional energy and sheer bloody effort it takes to get to that point. To then say, you know
  7 KB (1,316 words) - 10:14, 29 March 2024
• Disfigured: A Saudi Woman's Story of Triumph over Violence by Rania Al-Baz
  ...of the attack on a news presenter by her husband. It made world headlines and left her in a coma, but highlighted the plight of many Saudi women. Defini ...a Saudi television programme. No woman had ever been a news anchor before and it was only to be expected that there would be plenty of men wanting to mar
  4 KB (643 words) - 10:04, 20 March 2021
• The Nolympics: One Man's Struggle Against Sporting Hysteria by Nicholas Lezard
  |genre=Politics and Society ...complete myth. So after losing money on a holiday that I planned for years and didn’t need to be on anyway, I thought reading this would be a form of th
  3 KB (597 words) - 12:38, 14 April 2018
• Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea by Donovan Hohn
  |genre=Politics and Society ...at happened to nearly 30,000 of the toys and the result is a very readable and compelling book with a wake-up call over what we are all doing to the plane
  4 KB (610 words) - 12:32, 14 April 2018
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
  |genre=Politics and Society |summary=The graphic novel is dominated by fantasy and science fiction. The Holocaust is a risky subject for the format, as it ris
  6 KB (958 words) - 11:41, 4 March 2018
• Struggle or Starve by Carole White and Sian Williams
  |author=Carole White and Sian Williams ...1920s and 1930s, about childhood, growing up, life, death, education, work and more.
  4 KB (697 words) - 08:35, 8 April 2018
• The Progressive Patriot by Billy Bragg
  ...riotism, ends as a plea for freedom to choose our own identity. Thoughtful and thought-provoking, it will probably appeal more to fans of Bragg's songs th ...y Bragg's way with a lyric, effortlessly and movingly weaving the personal and political - to the point where the two are indistinguishable.
  7 KB (1,094 words) - 16:28, 7 April 2018

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