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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Politics 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 society=that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian JohnsEdel Rodriguez|title=Death of a PirateWorm: British Radio and the Making of the Information AgeA Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=If you are inclined to take your cues from the weekly reviewsWe're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, as the witty poet Gavin Ewart once expressed the matterand Castro, you will doubtless find currently articles first thought of as varied as; Russell Brand predicting the imminent decline a saviour of the BBCcountry, has proven himself a Communist, various interpretations of liberalism and how these struggle not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for expression all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in Coalition Government policy. There are concerns too about the legislation governing the internet and references back happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the Sixties battles between, on good soldier the one handcountry demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the unbridled self-expression of the free market father being watched andwatched, on the otherand not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the virtues of self-restraint in such matters as couple jobs with the re-examination party to ease some of the Lady Chatterley trialheat, now fifty years ago. An unusual and quite intriguing bookbut in this sultry island country, Death it remains the kind of a Pirate, about the development heat forcing you out of intellectual property and piracy in radio touches on all these contemporary concerns in a dramatic way. It combines the history of modern broadcasting with a crime story and consequent trial.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393068609</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie Benaim and Yves AzeroualSarah Wilson|title=Nicolas Sarkozy This One Wild and Carla BruniPrecious Life: The True Storythe path back to connection in a fractured world
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|genre=BiographyLifestyle|summary=In November 2007 My favourite Mary Oliver line is the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy was newly divorced from his second wife one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and, despite his position and busy precious life, feeling rather lonely?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. '' He accepted an invitation I'm lucky enough to a dinner party from a friend be living my one wild and met supermodel and recording artist, Carla Bruniprecious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. The attraction between them was instant – In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she had already said that acknowledges the source) she wanted a man with nuclear power and he was smitten by pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the attentions of a beautifulbest life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, famous and intelligent womanwe are not''. Within months they were marriedDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0907633145</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beate Teresa Hanika1785633457|title=Learning to ScreamCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson
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|genre=TeensTravel|summary=Malvina is thirteen years old, the youngest Clive Wilkinson has a history of three children in travelling by unconventional means with a dysfunctional familypreference for slow travel. Her father is a very grumpy teacher, with little understanding As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of children, whilst her mother seems to suffer permanently from migraine. She has a good friend, Lizzy, and they play together as much as they can, united England in their dislike of the 'boys from the estate'an electric car was not totally outrageous. Her grandmother died last yearIn fact, leaving her granddad on his own and it's Malvina's job to go and visit him should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and take him his meals. The family think this is a great arrangement because they know how much Granddad loves Malvina and looks forward to her visits. There's a problem though. Malvina doesnwife, Joan, shouldn't like going, particularly on her own. Granddad kisses her on the mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390606</amazonuk>it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kwame Anthony Appiah1529153050|title=The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions HappenBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=3.54|genre=HistoryHumour|summary=In Seeking some light relief from the Preface, Appiah believes that morality current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an extremely important area of our lives as we live them today. He goes on by saying that it's all very well thinking about morality - our morals - our own code of living - but it's the ultimate action which truly matters. Welladrenaline sport, I would certainly agree with that. And as Appiah digs deeper into his subject, he tells his readers that he was struck by similarities between, for example, nudged towards ''Britain'the collapse s Best Political Cartoons of the duel, the abandonment of footbinding, the end of Atlantic slavery.2022'' . In Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the following chapters he debates year: the issues of those three major areas of moralitycartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. They were, Who can imagine what there will be to come in short, moral issues on a very large scale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393071626</amazonuk>the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel JohnsonB0B7289HKQ|title=Conversations Across America: A Diary Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of The Lady: My First Year as EditorAmerica|author=Kari Loya|rating=3.54|genre=AutobiographyTravel|summary=Along Kari (that rhymes with most of my contemporaries I've never read 'The Lady' except once when looking for an au pair job in my student days‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and that, the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it turns out, is the problem. Before Rachel Johnson The decision was appointed in June 2009 the average age of made to ride the readership was 75Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, the circulation was dropping and the magazine was haemorrhaging money. The Budworth familyVirginia to Astoria, proprietors Oregon - all 4250 miles of 'The it - in 2015. Lady' since They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was founded 125 75 years ago, chose son old and heir Ben Budworth to turn the magazinehe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's fortunes around before it folded. He asked Rachel Johnson to be editor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490674</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|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=Andrew PenmanJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=School Daze: Searching for a Decent State EducationThe Book of Hope |rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=As The done thing is to read a teacher myself, I'm naturally well aware of most of book all the aspects of education that Andrew Penman discusses here and some of the stories he repeats are well-known way through before you sit down to me but may be of news to some readersreview it. YesI’m making an exception here, people will really do just about anything because I don’t want to try and get their children into lose any of the school experience of their choice – even commit fraud! But how well does reading this amazing book work , I want to capture it as an insight into the type of measures some people will go to for those readers unaware of the desperation thatcan set it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in at this time in a child’s life? It’s a good question…tears. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906132976</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geert Mak1788360737|title=An Island in TimeArtivism: The Biography Battle for Museums in the Era of a VillagePostmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=42|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=In the mid 1990s journalist and author Geert Mak returned to his native Friesland and took up residence Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in the village of Jorwerta vacuum. It is made by people. His aim was Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to investigate modifying the quiet revolution going on social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the agrarian communities not just Era of Holland but of the whole Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of Europe. This wasn't going so-called artivism has caused artists to be an outsider's viewbecome more overtly political (read: left wing). Mak grew up in the northern Dutch province; he spoke the language; he knew the games Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and understood the people. In media elites hoping to create a very real sense Mak was going home… more globalist and finding that it scarcely existed any moreprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546868</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Oaten1398508632|title=Screwing UpThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Like John Profumo and others, Mark Oaten will probably be remembered for the wrong reasons. It was had been on the episode which made him cards for a while but it was the country's Noweek-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. 1 paparazzi target The end of November, and which as he recounts particularly in his PrologueCentral Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, when his 'in a world was crashing down' where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and it hardly needs recounting in detaila pandemic. Yet when all is said and done, this is Wilde had a very lively, readable, sometimes quite poignant memoir from one of few advantages: the men whose career at Westminster began and ended area around her was a known habitat with the Blair a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and Brown yearsdehydrator. Throughout there is an admirable absence of selfShe had a car -pityand fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849540071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Pennac1529149800|title=School Blues|rating=4.5|genre=Politics Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and SocietyReduce Waste|summaryauthor=Daniel Pennac's book discusses the issue of children who struggle at school, and offers some ideas on how teachers can Eduardo Garcia and should help them. It is not a dry textbook on educational theory. He writes from personal experience, as a teacher and novelist who was once 'un cancre', translated here as a dunce or a bad student.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694648</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin Lewis|title=The Kid: A True StorySara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=Kevin Lewis grew up on We begin with a poverty-stricken London council estate in telling story. All the sort of home that birds and animals fled when the neighbours complain about. His mother – inadequate by any measure – hated him more than forest fire took hold and most of her six children them stood and he was beaten and starved by both watched, unable to think of his parentsanything they could do. You might think that Social Services would have stepped in The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and removed him, but any relief was flying back to be short-liveddrop them into the fire. Eventually he The animals laughed: what good was put into care but even then that doing. ''I'm doing the support was inadequate and Kevin found himself caught up in a criminal underworld where he was known simply as best I can'The Kid', said the hummingbird. And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014104859X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mullin1638485216|title=Decline Black, White, and FallGray All Over: Diaries 2005 to 2010A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds
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|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=At the end of [[A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin|A View from the Foothills]] we left Chris Mullin wondering why he was no longer Tony Blair's Africa minister at the Foreign Office'Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. He was never to get a definitive answer It has everything to this, but was later told that Blair handed out the junior ministerial appointments rather like sweets, do with few worries about how people would feel if they were missed out or sackedcharacter. In Decline and Fall we see Chris come down from the foothills of politics and return to the backbenchesPeriod. He might no longer be in a position of power, but he's still in the thick of it. Perhaps though, some of the enjoyment is draining away from the job as he sees himself with years more of doing nothing very important.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683998</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam PhillipsMatthieu Aikins|title=On BalanceThe Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5
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|summary=Essential for It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a tightrope walkercriticism, prized as an intellectual objective, balance is generally considered something but rather a testament to which we can aspire. We praise someone how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who makes decided to accompany his friend as a balanced decision, we envy people who have refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a 'good work/life balance' we offer an opinion 'on balance' to demonstrate that we have considered various arguments vast and options.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241143888</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Robertson|title=And The Land Lay Still|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The novel starts ... at the endtimes painful journey. We see the fictional character, photographer Mike Pendreich collating many, many photographs There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which his late father took with his trusty camera. His father is generally acknowledged as the better of the two at the craft; he simply had me on edge the knackwhole way through. And what his son is now in charge of are black But it's written with a haunting and white photographs charting a social history at almost lyrical quality that time. And we all know that a picture is worth a thousand wordsallows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114356X</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Green1785633074|title=Murder in the High HimalayaStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry
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|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=The Himalayan mountains mean many things Members of Parliament like us to different people. To believe that the people of Tibetcountry is run by politicians, trapped under headed by the Prime minister - the atheist occupiers from China, ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who ran are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the Dalai Lama out in reality is that the 1950s in their consuming urge for lebensraum and mineral mining, they ''prime'' movers are a nearthe special advisers - the SPADS -impenetrable barrier, protecting their country from history's prior ravages, but keeping people who want out, very much in. To rich Westerners, they are a sparkling challenge - a task of the highest order, a box to tick on driving force behind the way to self-fulfilment - something to be climbed, because they're there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1586487140</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frances Woodsford|title=Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Meet Mister Bigelowgovernment. He's elderly, living alone on Long Island, New York, with some health problems but more than enough family and friends to get him by, and still a very active interest in yachting, regattas and more. Meet, too, Frances Woodsford. She's reaching middle-age, living with her brother and mum We are in Bournemouth, and working for the local baths as organiser privileged position of events, office lackey and more. I suggest you do meet them, although neither ever met having access to the other. Despite this they kept up a brisk and lively conversation about all aspects memoirs of lifeRafe Hubris, from the late 1940s until his death at man who was behind the beginning skilful control of the 60s. And as a result comes this book, of heavily edited highlights, Covid crisis which opens up a world of social history and entertaining diary-style comment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542293</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rebecca Skloot|title=The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in October 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a mother of five children, died of cervical cancer at was completely contained by the age end of 312020. However, a sample of her cancer cells taken You might not know the same year lived on, grew and reproduced. Often referred to as HeLa cells, cells with their origins in the original sample are still being used in medical and scientific research today, nearly sixty years on. Many of name now but he will certainly be the scientific breakthroughs that have been made using HeLa cells are hugely profitable. But her children have spent their lives in low waged jobs and on welfare, unable man to afford basic health insurance. Understandably they feel a lot of anger at this injusticewatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230748694</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Garrett Keizer1846276772|title=The Unwanted Sound End of Everything Bias: How We WantChange Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
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|summary=What Anyone who is noise? Do we count birdsong at sunrise as noise? And if sonot an able, what different term would we use white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to describe which they suffer from it: it's simply a jet aircraft taking off? part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Why do we respond so differently to Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the two? white man. Even more intriguinglywhen those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, would our response change if that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the birdsong woke us from an exhausted sleep receiving end of the bias but it's not just the aircraft was taking off to jet us on a long awaited holiday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1586485520</amazonuk>individuals who are negatively impacted.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Douglas Rushkoff1529148251|title=Life IncMisfits: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it BackA Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=3.5
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|summary=The author of this book was mugged outside his apartment one Christmas Eve. He posted a note online to warn his neighbours ''How am I able to be extra careful, and was promptly berated for doing something so public that could potentially damage property values in his local area. This is a thought-provoking snippettransparent on paper about rape, malpractice and if the whole book was like thispoverty, Iyet still compartmentalise? It'm sure s as though I would have been grippedwere telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516691</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Younge0008350388|title=Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|summary=Consider, if you will, guilt. You might have it tainting you, as 'beyond the perpetrators, every person who stands in solidarity with them and maintains solidarity after the fact becomes entangled'. The link might not strictly To be a legal onedark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, but concern 'norms of religion and moralsless hireable, etiquette less intelligent and custom as well as dayultimately less valuable than my light-to-day communications and interactions'skinned counterparts.. Hence a collective guilt like no other - that witnessed in Germany. 'The assumption that membership to a people engenders solidarity is something Germans of my generation do not easily like to accept', we read. However difficult it might have been back then in its day, Germany had to physically renounce anything to do with Nazism, to actively 'opt-out' of connections We Need to avoid the solidarity seen connecting the whole nation like a toxic spider web. And since then itTalk About Money's linked in all the children, in a ''bequeathal'' of guilt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905636776</amazonuk>}}by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David AaronovitchRichard Brook|title=Voodoo HistoriesUnderstanding Human Nature: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped The WorldA User's Guide to Life
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=What shape is I am a conspiracy theory? firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. Unusual questionIn my case, I knowthis is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, but if I think on had come across this evidence book I'd have skimmed it is round. A conspiracy theory is lumpen, ragged, full found some of holesit interesting, and has a huge circular gap where but it would not have 'hit home' in the obvious and sensible has dropped through, leaving the believer or theorist with the implausible skeleton of what they choose way that it does now. I believe it came to think instead. They certainly have a habit of coming round in circles - if me not just because I mentioned was likely to give it a heinous crime caused by a western leader favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that killed hundreds or more peoplechose their own books rather than getting them randomly, purely so there is a predisposition towards expecting to get their like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way and get '' ] – but also because it is a war started, book I could be referring needed to Roosevelt and Pearl Harborread, Maggie Thatcher and the General Belgrano, or Bush etc and 9/11right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009947896X</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Douglas Rogers1787332098|title=The Last ResortHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance
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|summary=Flicking through the channels ''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 the TV the other night I stumbled across an interview with George Bush's former Deputy Chief sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of Staffwild animals stay out there, Karl Rove. After witnessing an especially cringe making hip hop turn at the Washington Correspondents' Dinner (if you haven't seen it take a look at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo here]. It really is jaw droppingly awful) attention turned to weightier matterssomewhere, most notably Guantanamo Bay and the war '' hopefully on terror and the Bush administrations response to Hurricane Katrinanext David Attenborough series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144841</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dominique Lapierre1523092734|title=A Rainbow in the Night Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=4.5
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|summary=A book integrating otherwise piecemeal news stories picked up over the past forty years into ''She brings a coherent explanation is always welcomehug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again. This book explores South Africa's history and development' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, from the earliest Dutch arrivals in 1652 to the first racially integrated elections in 1994.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818477</amazonuk>}}Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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|summary=If you asked people why it is (or might be) 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 good idea to reduce inequality in a society, many people while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would assume that reducing inequality works have visited by making now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the life question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the poorest better: that question in the poor are first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the ones who benefit from reduction sound of inequality''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141032367</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ShieldsStephen Fabes|title=Reality Hunger: A ManifestoSigns of Life
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn'The Novel is Deadt inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn' is not really what a novelist wants t inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to read first on picking up a new book – but strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I persevered had been gifted with Shieldsthe requisite 'bottle' manifesto and . In order words I'm glad I didnot the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. This is a thought-provoking wake-up call Fabes did precisely that any artist, writer or book-lover will enjoy.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114499X</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chinua Achebe1504321383|title=The Education of a British-Protected ChildSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman
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|summary=This book is a collection of autobiographical essays by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, whose best known work is the novel Things Fall Apart, published in 1958. Topics covered include Nigerian, Biafran ''You can't be happy and Igbo history and culture, African literature and the legacy of colonialism in his country and the rest of Africafulfilled on your own. Some of the essays You are taken from guest lectures at universities around the world and conference papers, and others are written for this book, particularly many of the more personal pieces about Achebenot complete until you find a man''s family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846142598</amazonuk>}}
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