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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Travel |summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|author=Donald NaismithEdel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Bradford ApprenticeshipCuban American Odyssey

|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=with all schools removed from their control We're in childhood, and established as freestanding and self-governing academieswe're in Cuba. In effect this would (The revolution has happened, and possibly will) mean that what was once Castro, first thought of as a national servicesaviour of the country, locally administered will become has proven himself a local serviceCommunist, nationally administeredand not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Donald Naismith is perhaps best known as the former Chief Education Officer Well, those hours-long speeches of Richmond-upon-Thames, Croydon and then Wandsworth but his education and formative working years took place in were kind of taking his adopted home city of Bradfordtime away. In Our narrator's family weren'A Bradford Apprenticeship'' he gives us t in the happiest of places here, an affectionate tribute uncle refusing to be the city which made him what good soldier the country demanded (especially as he is would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his thoughts on the education systemsuccessful photography business, success being frowned upon. Bradford was once one The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country's leading education authorities and he values , it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the opportunities it gave him to fine tune his thinking.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524636118</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Siri HustvedtSarah Wilson|title= A Woman Looking at Men Looking at WomenThis One Wild and Precious Life: Essays on Art, Sex and the Mind|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society |summary= I must confess that ''A Woman Looking'' spoke path back to me on a profound, intimate level. This is in part due to the apparent similarities between me and Siri Hustvedt - we are both feminists who love art and also love science connection in a fractured world which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusive. What Hustvedt suggests in ''A Woman Looking'' is that it is the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise and that a cohesive, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill the gaps in both disciplines. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=T J Coles|title=The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union

|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''Have What is it you been mis-sold Brexit by posh men in sharp suits promising you free healthcareplan to do with your one wild and precious life? '' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! If so, you might be entitled to compensation..Precisely this.'' There wasn I't much could make me laugh on m lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the morning after the EU referendum but this spoof advert on Twitter managed itway I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. Only, it seems In her book that it wasntakes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't completely a joke - well apart from see that she acknowledges the bit source) she pushes us to think about compensation. In whether we really ''The Great Brexit Scandalare'' T J Coles looks at living the substantial core of free marketeers in life we want – the Conservative party who were determined to rid the UK of the Brussels red tape which was putting a brake on their activitiesbest life that we could be living. You might also know these views as Her answer is an unequivocal ''neoliberalismno, we are not'', an ideology which looks to deregulate markets and maximise profits. On the surface that doesnDon't sound badcare what you're doing, until she thinks you realise (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that the benefit will go to the people who we are already in the group which Coles refers to as the ''mega-rich'' and the losers will be working peoplenot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905570813</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erin Moore1785633457|title= That's Not EnglishCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=It's not clear who first coined the expression ''divided Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a common language'' about Brits and Americans, but as this highly entertaining book demonstrates, it isn't our language that divides uspreference for slow travel. On As he neared his eightieth birthday the contrary the language simply reflects the divisions that exist. We tend to watch a lot of TV at home, but rarely find anything that totally engrosses us. As a result we tend to talk over a lot of TV. We play games with some of what we watch. One idea of those games is spotting anachronisms. Another is "would she ever have got exploring the job" – particularly fun with crime programmes that think it's ok for lab techs to have long free-flowing locks when doing evidence analysis or have Detective Sergeants who frankly wouldn't have passed their CV submission. A long-running one involves spotting the spread edges of British English England in American TV showsan electric car was not totally outrageous. Erin Moore explains why. Not directlyIn fact, indeed I'm not sure she even makes the connection – but the fact that there are it should be a lot more Brits in the higher echelons of US TV-making might just explain why CSI, NCIS, Law pleasant holiday for Clive and Order and a whole host of other shows will slip in words like wallethis wife, handbagJoan, boot (of a car), pavement…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701912</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris McIvor1529153050|title=The World is ElsewhereBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyHumour|summary=As a Country Director, Chris McIvor has worked for a number of years at Save Seeking some light relief from the Children. 'The World current political turmoil which is Elsewhere' covers his time there coming to seem more andmore like an adrenaline sport, his journeys across a number I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of countries2022''. It is a beautiful mix of autobiography and travel. It also captures his philosophical thoughts on international aid. He reflects on both Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the good and year: the bad with a very easy, conversational writing style that makes the book truly captivatingcartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. I read from cover Who can imagine what there will be to cover come in a single sitting, unusual for a reviewer. Such was the draw as he laid himself bare. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124346</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna BikontB0B7289HKQ|title= The Crime Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the SilenceTransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating= 4|genre= HistoryTravel|summary= Where was your father? Where was your brotherKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, your mother, your uncle? These are by the questions Anna Bikont struggles way) wanted to ask during her investigation into spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a shocking act of violence committed against the Jewish community in Jedwabne during the summer of 1941good time to do it. The Crime and decision was made to ride the Silence weaves together journalsTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, interviews and pictures Virginia to share the story Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of a community torn apart by hatred and intoleranceit - in 2015. It is also a moving testament They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the dedication recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of Bikont, a challenge that it would be for most people who documents her struggle to find the truth with grace considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and dignity in the face of silence, rationalisation, and even anger, he was suffering from members of the Polish community who would rather not stir up the crimes of the pastearly-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592525</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Harrad1739593901|title=Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=Before reading Kate Harrad's thought provoking insight into bisexuality in Britain I have to confess to being as guilty of the misconceptions surrounding the subject as everyone else'Our future will be more complex than we expected. It is only when you read this collection Instead of essays flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and anecdotes, you realise the prejudice they face on automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a daily basis. The very nature couple of bisexuality is widely misunderstood by the heterosexual and gay communities alikeconfessions to make. As I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a result bisexuals find themselves marginalised, or, in few stories and then forget to return to the worst-case scenario, completely ostracisedbook. Far from having, There''the best of both worlds'', they are considered s got to be sitting on the fence, unable a very compelling hook to come to terms with their true sexualitykeep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it'Purple Prose'' tackles these myths and ill-informed ideas head on, and in s the process shows a community that does have many issues, just not technology which takes centre stage along with the ones that are being laid at their doorworld-building. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0996460160</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Wade Graham|title=Dream Cities It's human beings who fascinate me: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World|rating=4.5|genre= History|summary=Between 1950 technology and 2014 the world's urban population increased from 746 million to 3scape are purely incidental.9 billion. The urbanising trend is set to continue with the United Nations predicting that by the middle So, what did I think of the century 66% a book of us will be city dwellers, a massive six billion people. How have city planners and architects tried to cope with the recent surgetwenty-two science fiction short stories? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from the past? Both of those questions are considered in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The World Well, Wade Graham's excellent field guide to the modern worldI loved it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=T J ColesJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Britain's Secret WarsThe Book of Hope

|genre=Politics and Society|summary= Britain's Secret Wars The done thing is to read a chilling and disturbing book to read. With all four corners of the globe hell-bent on conflict, oppression and injustice, our sanitised media portrays Britain, as a nation, responding way through before you sit down to harrowing global eventsreview it. What is chillingI’m making an exception here, in T J Coles because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, is that the political establishment, through the military and intelligence community appear I want to be complicit in instigating many of themcapture it as it hits me. What And it is disturbing is that the majority of information he hitting me. This beautiful book has used to form his analysis and conclusion is freely available and me in the public domaintears. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905570783</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Lightburn1788360737|title=An Annoyance of NeighboursArtivism: Life is Never Dull When You Have Neighbours!|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=You can choose your friends. You can't choose your relatives, but you can - usually - put some physical distance between you and them, but you can't choose your neighbours and once you're ''there'' it can be very expensive or even impossible to break the link. Now, I can't give you any advice on this thorny subject as it's more than thirty years since I've been The Battle for Museums in a position to have anything to complain about, but Angela Lightburn knows all there is to know. She's spent years collating all the different problems which people have with their neighbours and ways Era of improving the situation which don't involve a lengthy prison sentence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785892029</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPostmodernism|author= Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna|title= Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance Alexander Adams|rating= 3.52

|summary=Here we are, world, Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the midst of a new Renaissancesocial environment in which he develops’’. What will it Therefore, all art must bepolitical, to flounder or to flourish? even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The central aim Battle for Museum in the Era of this discourse Postmodernism’ is to highlight our current position, and the fact adamant that there art is freer when it is a choice to be madeart for art’s sake. The authors date 1990 as the dawn recent trend of 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 media elites hoping to create a new, more globalist and our present, Renaissanceprogressive regime. As with the last, this time warrants in a whole host of risks, but it also offers the opportunity to reap the benefits of the changes occurring across the globeOr at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147293637X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Xinran, Esther Tyldesley and David Dobson1398508632|title= Buy Me The SkyWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 3.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=''These single-sprout children are more precious than gold'', says It had been on the cards for a Chinese woman to the author. Buy Me The Sky asks what while but it's like to grow up as ''gold'' through Xinran's conversations with ten adults from was the first generation week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of China's eating only childrenwild food. In the highly informative introduction The end of November, she tells particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the story of a 22 year old male student whobest time to start, in 2010, ran over a female migrant worker in his carworld where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and then a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was so fearful a known habitat with a variety of the consequences that he brutally murdered terrains. She had electricity which allowed herto run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. He was tried and executed in She had a hugely divisive case with some seeing him as an evil perpetrator car - and othersfuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a victimplan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044731</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Bower1529149800|title=Broken VowsThings You Can Do: Tony Blair The Tragedy of PowerHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=BiographyHome and Family|summary=In May 1997 we went to vote gleefully, sure that there was going to be We begin with a change from telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the tiredforest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, sleaze-ridden Conservative government we'd been sufferingunable to think of anything they could do. The Blairs' entry tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into Downing Street the following day - through crowds of well-wishers - fire. The animals laughed: what good was like a breath of fresh air and (perhaps fortunately) it would be years before that doing. ''I discovered that 'm doing the best I can'well wishers' had been bussed in for , said the eventhummingbird. Looking back now it seems And that, really, is the only way that our hopes for we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what the we can, however small that might be.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1638485216|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn'New Labourt matter' government could achieve were unreasonably high and there's . The murder 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. We rarely see pictures of a special murder taking place in hell reserved for those who disappoint us in this waybut Floyd's death was an exception. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I've often wondered quite how history will see Blair: Afghanistan ll ever forget and Iraq as well as his failure to deal with Gordon Brown would always sour his premiership for me, but to what extent could his achievements such as the Good Friday Agreement, protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the minimum wage police - and higher welfare payments be balanced against his failures?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314201</amazonuk>not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Popham Matthieu Aikins|title=The Lady and Naked Don't Fear the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for FreedomWater

|summary=Barely a day passes without Islamic militancy making headlines somewhere in It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the worldWater isn't actually fiction, and yet because it can be reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a hard subject Canadian citizen who decided to graspaccompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. The sudden rise of Islamic State There are tense moments and their campaign gripping accounts of shocking violence both in border crossings which had me on edge the Middle East and further afield has left many confused and fearful, and has provoked a sometimes extreme political responsewhole way through. In "The New Threat From Islamic Militancy", Jason Burke, But it's written with a journalist with two decades of experience reporting on haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the Islamic world, attempts reader to correct perfectly envisage the many misconceptions about Islamic extremism to give a true understanding of the threat we now faceenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701475</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benedict Rogers1785633074|title= Burma: A Nation at the CrossroadsStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating= 34.5|genre= HistoryHumour|summary= Benedict Rogers Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is a human rights activist run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and journalist with an expert insight into Burma, gathered firstOxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS -hand on journeys to regions off who are the driving force behind the beaten trackgovernment. Burma is a country under We are in the iron rule privileged position of a succession having access to the memoirs of military regimesRafe Hubris, struggling with over half a century the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of suffering, much unknown 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to the wider international audiencewatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044464</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roger Scruton1846276772|title= Fools, Frauds and FirebrandsThe End of Bias: Thinkers of the New LeftHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating= 34.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=''Thinkers of Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the New Left'' first came out in 1985, under Thatcherextent to which they suffer from it: it's governmentsimply a part of everyday life. British left-wing intellectuals gave it savage reviews White men will always come first. The publisher was threatened with a boycott and able will come before the book was withdrawn from bookshopsdisabled. Roger Scruton feels this caused his university career to decline. In the introduction Jobs, promotions, he says he is ''reluctant to return to higher salaries are the scene preserve of such a disasterthe white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it' Howevers rare that their views are heard, this is a subject he is clearly passionate about, having worked with underground networks in communist Europe that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and seen degrading for the destructive reality behind individuals on the fashionable receiving end of the bias but it''leftist ways of thinkings not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408187337</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malala Yousafzai1529148251|title= I Am MalalaMisfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating= 5|genre= AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary= ''SheHow am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's a phenomenonas though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits' is my OH's response you need to any mention be in a certain frame of Malalamind. I canYou't disagree on some level, but what this re not going to read a book proves is that on another she is just of essays or a girlself-help book. One voice among many. ItYou're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's just that she decided 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to speak louder than mostprofessionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by You might be ''reading'' the Taliban there were people nearby, doctors who got her book but you need to a hospital, and then luckier still because when her condition worsened, nearby there were western doctors with access ''listen'' to western facilities the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and she was flown to the UK for treatmentyou'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Metcalf0008350388|title=From Skedaddle We Need to Selfie: Words of the GenerationTalk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=3.5|genre=TriviaPolitics and Society|summary=I have to go ''To be a roundabout way dark-skinned Black woman is to introducing this book, so bear with me. It stems partly from dictionaries and the etymology of the language we usebe seen as less desirable, but more so if anything from a different couple of booksless hireable, less intelligent and their ideas of generationsultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... '' The authors ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of those posited the idea that all those archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, the Millennials, and those before, English Literature GCSE students in between and since – have their own cyclical pattern, and the history of humanity has been and will be formed England study a book by the interplay a writer of just four different kinds, running (with colour while only one exception) in regular order7% study a book by a woman. '' I don't really hold much store by that, and I certainly didn't know weThe Bookseller''d started one since 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the Millennials – UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who the heck decides such thingscame first, for one? with her father joining them later. ''Somebody must The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have put out an order'', as someone here says the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of something elseanything: it was simply carefully harvested. But in When Otegha was ten the same way as generations get defined by collective persons unknownfamily acquired a car. For Otegha, so do words – education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and those words are certainly then a clue to what was importantplace at New College, predominant and of course spoken in each decadeOxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019992712X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Danny RogersRichard Brook|title=Campaigns that Shook the WorldUnderstanding Human Nature: The Evolution of Public RelationsA User's Guide to Life|rating= 4.5|genre= Business and Finance Lifestyle|summary= I dithered about how to begin am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this reviewis one of the latter. On one hand Not so very long ago, if I thought had come across this book I should probably start by saying 'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I have believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a work related interest in marketing and communicationsfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. On the other handis that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, Danny Rogers has written so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book which appealed to me on several levels. Campaigns are about psychology and storytelling , even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – which of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept delivery. In short, because it is a book I was looking forward needed to reading this for many reasons – and it didn’t disappointread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Leovy1787332098|title=GhettosideHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=3.5

|summary=There are enough LA rappers around to attest that living as a black man ''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 South Central is no easy task. Dismiss these urban lyricists at your perilzoos, as crude they may beand millions of wild animals stay out there, but ''Ghettosidesomewhere,'' will soon inform hopefully on the disbeliever next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that life on I was quibbling for the streets sake of LA is hardit. With a 40 times higher chance Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of being murdered than a white person in America, what made humans and the LA company of animals, I would probably choose the 80s through animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the late 2000s such a dangerous place to live for young black men?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700762</amazonuk>decision would not be comfortable.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Coates1523092734|title= Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating= 45|genre= TravelPolitics and Society|summary= I know Holland ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in the way everyone doesher life. Pancakes Again and windmills again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and Potbravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, oh ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto mydesk. But Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's one of something far more effective, but discussion at the few European countries moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've never lived in for any period of timealways thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, and so I was intrigued those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to know moreprove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma MarriottPolly Barton|title= I Used to Know That: History|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I've picked up a few things over the years, most notably from English language text books while TEFLing abroad (there's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes to have a classroom of Mexicans wondering why we so love to celebrate a terrorist attack that didn't happen). But I have gaps, of this I am sure, and I thought to get a basic understanding of, well, the basics that we all should know, a quick read of this book wouldn't hurt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emma Marriott|title= I Should Know That - Great BritainFifty Sounds|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I am a dreadful Brit. I'm better at the geography of Colombia than the UK (true story, I had to google where Essex was the other day). Despite 17 years of full time education in the UK, I probably wouldn't pass a simple citizenship test. Which is a little embarrassing, really. So when this book came up for review I thought I'd have it, both for interest and as a subtle way to brush up on my Britain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434313</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Wilkinson|title=Capitalism and Human Values|rating=4

|summary=Tony Wilkinson Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has a first class honours degree in philosophy and has worked in government service and investment management - the ideal background been on my radar for a consideration of capitalism while and if the human values which propel it. Itworld hadn's not too long ago t gone into melt- certainly within my lifetime - that religion largely dictated the values held down I would have visited by individualsnow. I may get there later this year, but true religious belief now seems I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to be the exception rather than question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the rule. In its place we have a society for whom consumerism first essay, which is on the driving force - and a widening gap between those who can afford to consume and those who cannot. As Wilkinson says sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''Getting and spending every party where you have come to define who we are.introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407881</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke GittosStephen Fabes|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched EvansSigns of Life|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=It is said that we live in a rape culture. Tabloid headlines scream that the number of rapes is I was brought up on the increase maps and that the police first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the courts are failing guts to deal with the problemsimply go out and do it. ThereI also didn's a belief that t inherit the rate kind of conviction is consistently low. It's also said that sexism and misogyny have created a society in which rape is a regular occurrencesteady nerve, frequently not reported ability to talk to the police strangers and basic practicality that society at large doesn't really care. Luke Gittos, a solicitor practicing criminal law, argues would have meant that these claims are based on myths and misunderstandings of I would have survived if I had been gifted with the statistics and that far from requisite 'bottle'improving'. In order words I' m not the way sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that rape and sexual assaults are dealt with it's actually working against the interests of victims.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Krien1504321383|title=Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of SportSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman

|genre=SportAutobiography|summary=Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend ''You can't be happy and a couple of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? fulfilled on your own. What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at You are not complete until you find a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to court, interviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity she's chosen to give the man who was charged the name of 'Justin' in an attempt to level the playing field, so to speak. You could Google the facts and come  This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up with the correct name, but this isn't a book of gossip about particular peopleto believe. Itwasn's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian McMillan|title=Neither Nowt Nor Summatt unkind: In search of it was simply the meaning of Yorkshire|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Ian McMillan, poet, radio presenter, poet adults in residence at Barnsley Football Club and professional Yorkshireman, is worriedher life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It has crossed his mind that he might not be ''Yorkshire enough'', given that his father was not from Godreinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's Own County, but was a Scot usually fairly young) is rescued by birththe handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. In a series of discursions on the subject of Yorkshire he attempts Few girls are lucky enough to distil be brought up ''without'' the essence of the county expectation that they will marry and to understand what being a Yorkshireman meanshave children. To this end we accompany him through towns and cities, the Cudworth Probus Club, Ilkley Moor and elicit contributions from Mad Geoff the barber, It was a kazoo-playing train guard belief and four Saddleworth council workers in search of it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a mattress. Amongst others. All of Yorkshire life belief is herea choice''. Including Yorkshire puddings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>