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|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=After The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is a glut work of books about mindfulness fiction. That's possibly misleading. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it all up, or whether it came is as something of a relief the blurb goes on to encounter ''Forgetfulnesssay ''recollections, Francis Ofolklore and autobiographical stories'Gorman's thinking on why . It feels like the twenty-first century is losing touch with latter. It feels like the paststories he tells about his experiences as a child, on why what is likely - or could be made - to happen is so much more important than what has gone beforeas an adolescent, as an adult are real and true. The book But memory is supremely intelligenta fickle thing, but with the knowledge worn lightly and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there, and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it's eminently readable, regardless of how you feel about the conclusions he draws. More people should. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1501324691</amazonuk>1999791282
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stuart MaconieFrederic Gros|title= Long Road From JarrowA Philosophy of Walking|rating= 5|genre= Travel Politics and Society|summary= I cancelled confess I picked this one up from the library in my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's columnpre-lockdown forage of random stuff. His down-Now I have to-earth approach and sharp wit belie go out an equally sharp intellect buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing return to its varying wisdom when I need to admit. Let's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, Some books draw you in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffeslowly. Places I grew up This one had me in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreavesport'' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at least.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>1781688370
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Raymond WilliamsLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= Culture and Society 1780-1950Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary= From I never really followed the last decades events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the eighteenth century to second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the final words weeks of modernism, this book tracks societal changes through exploring five key words: industry, democracy, class, art protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and culture. The meanings the birth of such thingsthe Tank Man image, their essenceI didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, changes as per their use and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the era whole season of protests back in which their implications were considered1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870811</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Patrick WestSharon Blackie|title= Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for our timesIf Women Rose Rooted|rating= 15|genre= Politics and SocietyBiography|summary= Get Over Yourself considers Nietzsche's imagined perceptions I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of modern society and uses our society impact is setting out to explain his philosophy. buy my own copy before I'm sorry if that sounds vague but it's ve finished reading the best one I can do from the blurb on the back've borrowed. After reading Get Over Yourself from cover I want to cover, I am still none avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the wiser first two and only time will tell about the purpose of this book. It appears to be third – but clichés exist for a series of personal opinions held together with quotes, which donreason and I't always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba and newspaper articlesm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>1912836017
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|summary= An account of ''Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the fate of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the events of 9/11, world''The Exile. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but it' plunges into s far from hyperbole as the murky waters of international terrorismfollowing pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, espionage and politicsthe impact on the local and world economy. Detailed and meticulous, What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the book tackles west? What can be done about the subject from all anglesselling of young women into marriage, providing a panoramic view of the subject and acting to enlighten what can chimpanzees and inform the reader.bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>0571353606
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily ClarksonDanny Dorling|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?Slowdown|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=''Can I Speak to Someone We are living in Charge?''a time of rapid change, blogger Emily Clarksonand we's debut book, re worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is a fiercenormal, witty natural and laughprobably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we're doing in the world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-outand-loud funny ode to feminism. In a series of open letterssome pages, she addresses if you can follow the issues faced by every modern womanarguments, discussing everything from dealing with body hair to being made to feel uncomfortable it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we're worrying about the gymwrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as well rapidly as more personal issueswe think they are. In fact, like her experiences the rate of being 'catfished' change in many things is slowing down and sent abuse online. This is a vital read for any girl born the direction of change will in the 1990s, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorcases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>0300243405
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{{Frontpage<!-- Grindrod -->|isbn=0648684806[[image:Grindrod Outskirts.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsClara Colby://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473625025?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473625025]]The International Suffragist|author===[[Outskirts by John Grindrod]]=Holliday|rating=4|genre=Biography [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick''Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of s life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estatesUSA. John Grindrod grew up on At the edge time she was just three-years-old but because of one such estate in the 1960some childhood ailment, she wasn's t allowed to sail with her parents and '70'sthree brothers. Instead, as he puts itshe remained with her grandparents, ''I grew up who doted on the last road her and saw that she received a good education, both in Londonand out of school.'' Grindrod explores She was the introduction of only child in the green belt, household and the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisionsher childhood was glorious. Within this topicBy contrast, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart. [[Outskirts by John Grindrod|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Carolina de Robertis|title= Radical Hope|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society|summary= On 8th November 2016, Donald Trump was elected as her family had become pioneer farmers in the 46th President mid-west of the United States. Since then many Americans have been overcome with fearand life was hard, worrying about what will become of American society during Trump's administration. Carolina de Robertis as Clara was no exception to this fear find out when she and in response her grandparents eventually went to join the newly elected President and his policies family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she put out a call was married for actionfifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. Radical Hope is As the outcome to this call. De Robertis reached out to fellow writers and activists asking for letterseldest girl, predominantly letters of love, addressed to the citizens of today a heavy burden would fall on Clara and those of past and future generations in order to help spread hope during times of uncertaintyWisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew d'Ancona183895015X|title=Post-TruthA Bit of a Stretch: The New War on Truth and How to Fight BackDiaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris Atkins|rating=3.5
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|summary=Documentary filmmakers don''Our own postt usually get the run of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-truth era year stay. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is what happens when society relaxes its defence of values that underpin cohesionprobably the oldest, namely veracity, honesty largest and accountabilitymost dysfunctional prison in Europe.'' }}{{Frontpage|author=Michael Harris|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= This is not the book I'm old enough or perhaps naive enough was expecting it to believe that when making a decision about political voting, you should be able . For some reason I expected it to rely absolutely be another self-help manual on what how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. Instead of telling us how it is more about the candidate tells you''why''. IHarries examines how we've been suspicious for re eroding solitude, which used to be a decade or morenatural part of our human life, but it's become difficult to ignore the change in political attitudes since Brexit and the election of Donald Trumpwhy that matters. With regard to the latter Of course, when Trump was challenged on a statement he'd made which was subsequently talks about how some people have found to be incorrectsolitude and what has come of that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his response was ''Who cares if I got own experience of having deliberately sought it wrong?out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|isbn=1847947662}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1783784350|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=5|genre=History|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she' d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. He January was able to tap going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the fading concept story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the American Dreamlandscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free- those Americans who were used to waiting patiently in line and who had found themselves overtaken by range child on the farm''women- and learned to spin, immigrants knit and public sector workers'weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Moss0008294011|title= Wild KingdomHow to Lose a Country: Bringing Back Britain's WildlifeThe 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and WildlifeAutobiography|summary= Wildlife has been declining A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in Britain over years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the last few decades; it is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth, question ''Discuss the factors which in the modern world has increased significantlyled to... Through this book Moss suggests '' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a few ways in which good or bad thing that we can start didn't know what all 'this' was leading to bring back some . I think now that I do know. We are in danger of Britainlosing democracy and whilst it's wildlife without compromising a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the human way of life: we can co-exist with nature'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Clegg1786893452|title=Politics: Between the ExtremesThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri
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|summary=Here in the West, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the world and the situations that refugees find themselves in. It's rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to do that, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the middle of a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-old.
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|title=Walks In The Wild
|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)
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|genre=Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife
|summary=''An instruction manual for the forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, and that's basically what it is – although right at the end the author says that it is not intended to be a reference book, but an appetiser.
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|title=Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story
|author=Leah Hazard
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|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Over the past few years, we've had a rash (sorry - no pun intended) of books by medical practitioners. Doctors have been at the forefront, but ''Hard Pushed'' is the first book I've seen by a midwife. It's an unusual profession in that it's one of the few callings within the medical system where most of the patients are healthy and the only one where one person comes into the system and (for the most part) more than one goes out. It's an amazing thing to be able to do - to escort new life into the world - and an enormous responsibility. Leah Hazard came to it after a career in television and ''Hard Pushed'' is the story of her career as a midwife - and the title tells more than one story.
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|title=Confessions of a Recovering MP
|author=Nick de Bois
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=The political landscape is changing rapidly at I should warn you in advance: this may not be the moment. A little more than two years ago we were facing best time for me to review the end memoir of the UK's first coalition government since World War II and fully expecting that we would see anothera Tory MP. Instead we saw Not only am I a Conservative government elected left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with a workable majority. Brexit saw everyone else, am currently subject to the end debacle of one Prime Minister parliament, government and another elected by Brexit, a few members dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of parliamentcompetent leadership among our political classes. As And yes, opposition parties: I write we'm looking at you as well. You're facing another general election, with a Conservative landslide predictedjust as useless. Sigh. In two years we've seen Desperate cry into the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part of the ruling coalition to a party whose MPs could hold a meeting in a decent-sized carvoid over. Sorry about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704164</amazonuk>At least Nick de Bois made me laugh!
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