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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor=Stephen Fabes|title=Signs of Life|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary="15" <!I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady 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 bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|isbn=1788161211}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
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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= Raymond WilliamsFrederic Gros|title= Culture and Society 1780-1950A Philosophy of Walking|rating= 45
|genre= Politics and Society
|summary= From I confess I picked this one up from the last decades library in my pre-lockdown forage of the eighteenth century random stuff. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the final words of modernism, this book tracks societal changes through exploring five key words: industry, democracy, class, art pages I have marked and culturereturn to its varying wisdom when I need to. The meanings of such things Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the first two pages, their essence, changes as per their use and the era in which their implications were consideredwherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a sport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870811</amazonuk>1781688370
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Patrick WestLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= Get Over YourselfTiananmen 1989: Nietzsche for our timesOur Shattered Hopes|rating= 14.5|genre= Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary= Get Over Yourself considers NietzscheI never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn's imagined perceptions t know of the weeks of modern society protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and uses our society to explain his philosophy. the birth of the Tank Man image, Ididn'm sorry if that sounds vague but it's t know how the best area had long been a venue for political protest, and I can do from didn't know more than a spit about the blurb people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests backin 1989.|isbn=1684056993}}{{Frontpage|author=Sharon Blackie|title=If Women Rose Rooted|rating=5|genre= Biography|summary= I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. After Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading Get Over Yourself from cover the one I've borrowed. 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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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cathy Linda Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy|title= The ExileDouble X Economy|rating= 45
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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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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Asher0241446732|title= Man UpOur House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= When a couple The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years ago my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along old, struggled with an option of what was happening. In such circumstances, it'good lad' sessions for boyss natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, all debate broke loose. Shouldn't consent be self-evident for everyone? Would the workshops reinforce it became clear to the stereotype of family that they were 'laddish' boys? Would it all be about pointing fingers at boys and victimizing girls? What about nonburned-binary out people? In short, how could these workshops be anything else than on a burned-out planet''. If they were to find a mission doomed way to live happily again their solution would need to failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>be radical.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Carolina de Robertis0648684806|title= Radical HopeClara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4|genre= Politics and SocietyBiography|summary= On 8th November 2016, Donald Trump The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was elected as probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the 46th President time she was just three-years-old but because of the United Statessome childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Since then many Americans have been overcome Instead, she remained with fearher grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, worrying about what will become both in and out of American society during Trump's administrationschool. Carolina de Robertis She was no exception to this fear and the only child in response to the newly elected President household and his policies she put out a call for actionher childhood was glorious. Radical Hope is By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the outcome mid-west of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to this call. De Robertis reached find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to fellow writers and activists asking join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for lettersfifteen years, predominantly letters of lovehad ten pregnancies, addressed to seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the citizens of today eldest girl, 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, and why that matters. Of course, he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but itmostly 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 become difficult 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. January was going to ignore be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the change in political attitudes since Brexit British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the election story of Donald Trumpwool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. With regard She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the farm'' - and learned to the latterspin, when Trump knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was challenged on in her blood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=A little while ago a statement hefriend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''d made Discuss the factors which was subsequently found led to be incorrect, his response was ...''Who cares if I got agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it wrong?was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' He was able leading to tap to the fading concept . I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the American Dream' - benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786893452|title=The Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|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 Americans who were used stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to waiting patiently in line the world and who had found the situations that refugees find themselves overtaken by in. It''womens rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to do that, in this intelligent, immigrants powerful and public sector workers''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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Moss1846045576|title= Walks In The Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary= Wildlife has been declining in Britain over ''An instruction manual for the last few decades; it forest'' is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth, which in how Wohlleben's publisher described the modern world has increased significantly. Through idea for this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start to bring back some of Britain, and that's wildlife without compromising basically what it is – although right at the human way of life: we can co-exist with natureend the author says that it is not intended to be a reference book, but an appetiser. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story
|author=Leah Hazard
|rating=4
|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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1785903357
|title=Confessions of a Recovering MP
|author=Nick de Bois
|rating=4
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a 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 everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless.
Sigh.
Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that.
At least Nick de Bois made me laugh!
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