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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Travel |summary=Politics 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 society=that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dominique LapierreEdel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Rainbow in the Night Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=A book integrating otherwise piecemeal news stories picked up over We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the past forty years into country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a coherent explanation is always welcomelevel playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. This book explores South AfricaOur narrator's history family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and developmentnot liked for his successful photography business, from success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the earliest Dutch arrivals in 1652 party to ease some of the first racially integrated elections heat, but in 1994.this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0306818477</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marina HydeSarah Wilson|title=CelebrityThis One Wild and Precious Life: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategythe path back to connection in a fractured world
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|genre=EntertainmentLifestyle|summary=I have what My favourite Mary Oliver line is perhaps a regular-sized interest the one in A and B-list celebrities. I can name the off-spring of many an actress, tell which she asks ''What is it you who the spokespeople for certain brands are, write a list of celebs plan to do with publicly declared devotions to certain religions, even win the odd pub quiz thanks to knowing the birth names of various performers. I know all sorts of things about this rather small subset of society, but I know the your one wild and precious life?''what I get to love that line so much because my answer is '' more than the This! Precisely this.''why I'', m lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book thattakes Oliver's exactly words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the problem, according to this book. After all, if more of source) she pushes us sat down to wonder think about what it actually whether we really ''isare'' that living the likes of Geri Halliwell and Nicole Kidman bring to life we want – the UNbest life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we might seriously question how and why they ever got involved in , I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the first placefact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=<amazonuk>0099532050</amazonuk>Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Salman Rushdie1529153050|title=Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticisms 1981 - 1991Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=3.54|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=We read Seeking some authors because we know we're going light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to enjoy them. Othersseem more and more like an adrenaline sport, we feel somehow obliged to read. If we consider ourselves I was nudged towards ''Britain'readerss Best Political Cartoons of 2022'', and certainly if . Sharp eyes will have noted that we have any pretensions (I use 're not yet through the year: the word advisedly) cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to being ''well-read'', then 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there are some books and more particularly some authors with whom we are required will be to become familiar.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542250</amazonuk>come in the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B7289HKQ|authortitle=Carole White Conversations Across America: A Father and Sian WilliamsSon, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|titleauthor=Struggle or StarveKari Loya|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyTravel|summary=Struggle or Starve is a collection of autobiographical writings about girls' Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and women's lives in South Wales the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the wars. This is a new edition Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of a book first published it - in 1998 by Honno, an independent publisher set up 2015. They had 73 days to encourage Welsh women writers. Most of do it - slightly less than the contributors in recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this book came up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from minersearly-stage Alzheimer' families and grew up in real poverty and economic insecuritys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784094</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ShieldsJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Reality Hunger: A ManifestoThe Book of Hope
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|genre=Politics and Society|summary='The Novel done thing is Dead' is not really what a novelist wants to read first on picking up a new book – but all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I persevered with Shields' manifesto and don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I'm glad I didwant to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This is a thought-provoking wake-up call that any artist, writer or beautiful book-lover will enjoyhas me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114499X</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chinua Achebe1788360737|title=Artivism: The Education Battle for Museums in the Era of a British-Protected ChildPostmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=4.52|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=This book Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a collection of autobiographical essays vacuum. It is made by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, whose best known work is people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the novel Things Fall Apart, published social environment in 1958which he develops’’. Topics covered include NigerianTherefore, Biafran and Igbo history and cultureall art must be political, African literature and the legacy of colonialism even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his country and the rest of Africa. Some of the essays are taken from guest lectures at universities around the world and conference papers, and others are written for this new book, particularly many of the more personal pieces about Achebe's family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846142598</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Norah Vincent|title=Voluntary Madness‘Artivism: My Year Lost and Found The Battle for Museum in the Loony Bin|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Voluntary Madness'' is journalist Norah Vincent's account Era of her visits to three mental health facilities in America. The first Postmodernism’ is an urban, public hospital adamant that houses mainly homeless, psychotic patients, many of whom are addicted to drugs. In this hospital, the doctors are overworked and jaded and medication art is always the answer. Soon, the author finds that her latent depression (which led her to do the book in the first place) freer when it is returningart for art’s sake. The process recent trend of being institutionalised breaks her sense of selfso-worth down astonishingly fastcalled artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Indeed, she suggests that it is the lack of autonomy in institutional life, even for those patients who voluntarily commit themselves, that makes it so hard for them Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to rebuild independent lives when they finally leave the institutioncreate a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513439</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gabriel Weston1398508632|title=Direct RedThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
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|summary=Men aren't Martian It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and women don't hail from Venusa pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. We're all Earthlings apparently; She had electricity which seems like progress of allowed her to run a sortfridge, freezer and dehydrator. Even so we still have trouble understanding each other because we speak different languages – Himglish She had a car - and Femalesefuel. Luckily Jean Hannah Edelstein is fluent in both and has written Most importantly, she had shelter: this light hearted volume was not a plan to define the problem and translate''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848091729</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Hooper1529149800|title=The Tall ManThings You Can Do: Life How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Death on Palm IslandSara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Cameron Doomadgee – Mulrunji – was just thirty six years old We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when he was arrested on Palm Islandthe forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. Quite why he The animals laughed: what good was arrested was never clearthat doing. He wasn't drunk, although he had been drinking beer – and was walking along the road singing 'I'Who Let m doing the Dogs Out?best I can'' , said the hummingbird. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley felt And that there was reason to arrest Mulrunji for creating as public nuisance and he was taken to , really, is the police station. What happened next was to be only way that we will solve the subject problem of intense media speculation and legal proceedings over the coming yearsclimate change – by each of us doing what we can, but within forty five minutes Mulrunji was deadhowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520761</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dana Fowley1638485216|title=How Could She?Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=45
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|summary=From the age of five Dana Fowley was subjected to unimaginable sexual abuse and before long her sister would be subjected to more of the same. She was raped by her mother's partner and taken to the homes of her grandparents where she was abused by them and others'Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. At other times she was forced to go to the homes of other men where she was raped and abused. Did her mother not know what was going on? Did she turn a blind eye? It was neither of those. Her mother was a willing participant in the abuse and organised much of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952225X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amy V Fetzer and Shari Aaron|title=Climb the Green Ladder: Make Your Company and Career More Sustainable|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=With the abject failure of the Denmark Climate Change Conference fresh in our minds, it is perhaps time has everything to turn away from the politicians and look back toward what we can dowith character. Period.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholas SternMatthieu Aikins|title=A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save The Naked Don't Fear the World and Create ProsperityWater
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|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The hardback edition of Naked Don't Fear the Water isn'A Blueprint for t actually fiction, because it reads very much like a Safer Planet' was published early in 2009 well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as an update to the 2006 Stern Review a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the economics of climate changewhole way through. Now here is But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the paperback edition, published too early reader to critique Copenhagen, but nonetheless an interesting read. Stern is an expert witness who presents his evidence understandably for perfectly envisage the layman; he is unemotional environments and very convincingpeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099524058</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou 1785633074|title=Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on the Green BandwagonStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry
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|summary=''The banks fell over Members of Parliament like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely us to believe that the country is the wackiestrun by politicians, most inappropriate simile for headed by the credit crunch and all it has done for Prime minister - the world. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern world, the entire banking system, all 'primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who failed to see it coming, are Eton and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on Oxbridge educated) but the expenses train, and back up reality is that the rich lists.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Winnett and Gordon Rayner|title=No Expenses Spared|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It's always struck me as strange that in a period of twelve months which saw Banks collapse, stock markets tumble and house prices slide 'prime'' movers are the public have reserved most of their ire for a relatively small group of people who were not exceptionally wellspecial advisers -paid in the first place, but many of whom took SPADS - who are the opportunity to make the most of driving force behind the generous expenses which they could claimgovernment. There We are only six hundred and forty six Members in the privileged position of Parliament – twelve months ago they were generally respected but many are now pariahs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593065778</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alain de Botton |title=A Week at having access to the Airport: A Heathrow Diary|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=A writer-in-residence at an airport is not as daft an idea as it might first seem. After all, TV programmes, and whole series, have entertained millions with what goes on in front memoirs ofRafe Hubris, and the man who was behind the scenes at such places. So this book, skilful control of the Covid crisis which is was completely contained by the fruit end of such a residency, could be expected to produce few surprises2020.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683599</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anita Thompson (Editor)|title=Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S Thompson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It is almost 40 years since Dr Hunter S Thompson's seminal work ''Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'' first graced You might not know the shelves. His gonzo style, putting himself at the centre of the story, should tell readers as much about the person doing the writing as the event name now but he is describing. If that's the case then what is to will certainly be learned from a selection of interviews with the main man himself then? The answer is plentyto watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330510711</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Jack1846276772|title=The Country Formerly Known As Great BritainEnd of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
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|summary=I think IAnyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it've now managed to master the maxim about not judging books by their coverss simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. I still struggle with The able will come before the one about not judging them by their titles and I very nearly cam unstuck and missed 'The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain'disabled. Being just about Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of an age with the author I worried that it might be a treatise about the fact that 'things werenwhite man. Even when those who wouldn't like this when I was pass the medical become a ladpart of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. I was even more worried that I might agree with himIt's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087355</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist1529148251|title=Pocket World in Figures 2010Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel
|rating=5
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|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's just about a year since as though I reviewed [[Pocket World In Figures 2009 by The Economist|Pocket World in Figures 2009]] and at the time – September 2008 – we were watching in horror as telling the world financial crisis unfolded before our eyestruth whilst simultaneously running away from it. Looking back now the surprise is that for most people what happened came out of the blue. The clues were plain to see and all here in this handy little book. There was the worrying state of the Iceland economy and different levels of mortgage lending in various parts of the world. Best of all it was presented as verified figures, without any accompanying narrative and it's consequently free of political spin. Bliss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681367</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arundhati Roy 0008350388|title=Listening We Need to GrasshoppersTalk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|summary=Stories can provoke many different reactions in the reader: pleasure''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, painless hireable, delight, horrorless intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts.. The whole range of emotion is available to the fiction writer to ply and probe. '' Reactions ''We Need to non-fiction works can be equally wide-ranging and can sometimes take the reader Talk About Money'' by surprise.Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Tatar Richard Brook|title=Enchanted HuntersUnderstanding Human Nature: The Power of Stories in ChildhoodA User's Guide to Life|rating=34.5|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=Like most avid readers, I don't remember the time before there were am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books. We were brought up with , and sometimes bookschoose us. There are family tales of In my father as a child eating his breakfast with case, this is one hand, while trying to tie his shoelaces with of the other and still contriving to read at the same timelatter. They were a poor familyNot so very long ago, and books werenif I had come across this book I't just expensived have skimmed it, they were valuable. They were dearfound some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in every sense of the wordway that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. Likewise my mother remembers her early school-years when every day ended with is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a chapter from one of predisposition towards expecting to like the classicsbook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393066010</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Wadham 1787332098|title=The Secret Life of France|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=I'm rather at How to Love Animals in a loss to describe this book for you, and I'm still uncertain how to categorise it. It's part personal memoir and part analytical. Whether you regard this particular mix as brilliant or irritating is down, I suppose, to personal taste and intellectual curiosity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571236111</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHuman-Shaped World|author=Peter Hitchens |title=The Broken Compass: How British Politics lost its wayHenry Mance|rating=3.5
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|summary=I've long held that there is no difference between the major political parties such that could command you to vote for one or the other. The new Labour party now seems to stand somewhere to the right of what I though of as the old Conservative party and the Lib Dems appear to be a coalition of those who don't fit comfortably When we do think about animals, we break them down into either of the other main partiesspecies and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. My voting patterns have changed radically from supporting a party because And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of its views to voting against another because of its actions. I was hoping that wild animals stay out there, ''The Broken Compasssomewhere,'' might clarify my thoughtshopefully on the next David Attenborough series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847064051</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Davies1523092734|title=Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global MediaA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=45
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|summary=Do you remember a Y2K bug? When the world's computer systems were to melt down in an Armageddon of vital services failure and possible nuclear accidents? The Y2K panic is 'She brings a great example of flathug-Earth news: something kick-thunderclap that gets passed on every woman needs in the media chain from those unsure to those who might have a vested interest in maintaining it as fact to those who are completely ignorant, and in the process gets bigger and bigger her life. Again and – almost accidentally – assumes a status of orthodox, accepted truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512688</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer Worth|title=Farewell To The East End|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=I am interested in social history again and, as a mother, the job of midwives fascinates meagain. Combining these two subjects, ''Farewell to the East End'' is a riveting read. The author Jennifer Worth was a midwife and nurse(Alma Derricks, former CMO, working with the nuns at Nonnatus House in the East End of London and this volume (her third book on this topicCirque du Soleil RSD) covers the 1950s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297844652</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan GardnerPolly Barton|title=Risk: The Science and Politics of FearFifty Sounds
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|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Picture Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the world terrorised hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by just two wordsnow. A civilisedI may get there later this year, healthy, wealthy world no lessbut I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in thrall to and under threat from two words. Not what those two words represent eventhe first essay, just which is on the actual small phrase. It sounds ridiculous, but when I say those two words – sound ''giro'bird flu'' – and you've stopped laughingwhich she describes as being, you may well remember how the panic startedamong other things, the non-existent worry was the biggest concern sound of the western media for some time, and then it went away again''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753515539</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine AshenburgStephen Fabes|title=Clean: An Unsanitised History Signs of WashingLife
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|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=Although maybe not the I was brought up on maps and first book you'd be drawn to – a history -person narratives of tales of personal hygiene perhaps doesnfar away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't seem that appealing – but if you inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had overlooked this excellent book, you would have missed which was the guts to simply go out on an enjoyable and informative book, full of fascinating facts and a jolly good readdo it. Attitudes towards and rituals of cleanliness have certainly changed over I also didn't inherit the last two thousand years and this book chronicles many kind of themsteady nerve, largely in Europe ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the USrequisite 'bottle'. Cultural differences with regard to cleanliness and body odour (and yes, Napoleon and Josephine do In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a mention here, although it transpires London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that they both took daily baths) are discussed at length, from the Greeks and Romans to the present day.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846681014</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Hatzfeld1504321383|title=The Strategy Of Antelopes: Rwanda After the Genocide|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''Life offers me smilesSingle, and I owe it my gratitude for not having abandoned me in the marshes.'' ''I've known the defilement of a bestial existence.'' ''Who's going to say that wordAgain, forgiveness? It's outside of human nature.'' So say some of the survivors of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when 800,000 Tutsis were murdered by their fellow Hutu citizens. Jean Hatzfeld talked to both Tutsis and Hutus then, publishing two award-winning books. In The Strategy of AntelopesAgain, he returns to Rwanda to talk to the same people and explore life after genocide. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686865</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAgain|author=Emmanuel Jal|title=War Child: A Boy Soldier's StoryLouisa Pateman
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|summary=Emmanuel Jal, internationally successful rap artist, spent his childhood as ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a solider in his native Sudanman''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. He has written his story It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in order her life advising her as to help those children who are still fighting, and those who have managed to get awaywhat they thought would be best for her. There are a number of books about It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the Sudan girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by western aid workers and journalists, the handsome prince who do, I am sure, write fluently and passionately about the horror of Darfurthen marries her so that they can live happily ever after. This is Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the first book expectation that I they will marry and have read which tells the story of war from the point of view of children. It was a small boy carrying an AK-47, belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a gun taller than he belief is himselfa choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700050</amazonuk>
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