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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=Laurence Manley (editor)Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The Cambridge Companion revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's 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 not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the Literature couple jobs with the party to ease some of Londonthe heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=The history of London My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is a long it you plan to do with your one wild and storied precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one, wild and itprecious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's unsurprising words as her title (though I can't see that so many people have written she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the capitallife we want – the best life that we could be living. I Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you've always loved the cityre doing, its history and novels and plays set within Londonshe thinks you (we, so was really keen to get my hands on this new volume in I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the Cambridge Companion seriesfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0521722314</amazonuk>1785633848

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby1785633457|title=It Could Have Been YoursCharging Around: The enlightened person's guide to Exploring the year's most desirable thingsEdges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=45|genre=TriviaTravel|summary=In Clive Wilkinson has a world history of diamond-encrusted skulls, gold-leafed iPhones and luxury yachts ten travelling by unconventional means with a pennypreference 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, of blingy shit (or it should that be shitty bling?) it's a relief to know people are still spending money on unique one-offs that are more worthwhile. The records pleasant holiday for costliest photo, artwork, musical instrument Clive and manuscript have all been broken in the twenty four months leading up to this book's release. Our collators have scoured the press for those and otherhis wife, similarly noteworthy auctionsJoan, and found what other people paid for what you didnshouldn't know you would have wanted given the money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John L Locke1529153050|title=Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So DifferentlyBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson

|genre=Popular ScienceHumour|summary=Locke's subtitle ''Why Men Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and Women Talk So Differently'more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ' might lead you to think that this is just another self-help 'Britain'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venuss Best Political Cartoons of 2022'' tome. ItSharp eyes will have noted that we's re notyet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Rather than focussing upon Who can imagine what we all know from experience – that men and women do not communicate very well because of some fundamental difference there will be to come in their respective approach to verbal expression – the New York City University Professor of Linguistics sets out to explain WHY that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521887135</amazonuk>2023 edition?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank FurediB0B7289HKQ|title=On Tolerance: The Life Style WarsConversations Across America: A Defence Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of Moral IndependenceAmerica|author=Kari Loya

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Furedi is Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a Professor of Sociology at a UK university so he'll know his subject matter inside outgood time to do it. The short preface tells us that 'tolerance has been emptied of its moral and intellectual meaning.' This publication's aim is decision was made to argue ride the case for tolerance Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in society2015. How its meaning has changed over They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the centuries until today's rather fuzzy and wateredrecommended time -down meaningbut there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Professor Furedi Merv Loya was spurred on to writing this book because 75 years old and he firmly believes that tolerance has been lost somehow, to be almost invisible in some areas of public and private lifewas suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441120106</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Chris Mullin|title=A Walk-I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on Part: Diaries 1994 - 1999|rating=4.5|genre=Politics short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and Society|summary=We tend then forget to remember where we were and how we heard about the deaths of people like John F Kennedy, Elvis Presley and Princess Diana, but I'd add another person return to the list: John Smithbook. I remember sitting in my office and There's got to be a colleague coming in very compelling hook to tell keep meengaged. She added Then there'I suppose we'll have that dreary Gordon Brown as leader nows science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. We'd many angst-ridden miles to go before that came about but SmithIt's death is human beings who fascinate me: the opening entry in this, technology and the third volume (but first chronologically) of Chris Mullin's Diariesworld scape are purely incidental. This So, what did I think of a book covers the first period of 'New Labour'twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, from Smith's death until Mullin's assumption into government in July 1999I loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685230</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tina RosenbergJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the WorldThe Book of Hope

|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Teenagers in South Carolina have become involved in the anti-smoking movement, passing out information encouraging their peers The done thing is to educate themselves about read a book all the ways big tobacco companies try way through before you sit down to get them hookedreview it. There are youngsters in South Africa who’ve refused I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to have sex without a condom because lose any of the danger of HIV and AIDS. Minority students in Texas have challenged data going back years by succeeding at calculus where traditionally students experience of their race have struggled. Why? Because other people have done the same thingreading this amazing book, and they I want to fit capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me intears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848313004</amazonuk>024147857X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Ola Taiwo1788360737|title=A Broken ChildhoodArtivism: A True Story The Battle for Museums in the Era of AbusePostmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=3.52|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Mojisola – known to everyone as Ola – was born 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 a Nigerian couple in London in 1964 and spent modifying the first five years of her life social environment in a foster home in Brightonwhich he develops’’. Here she was lovedTherefore, all art must be political, looked after and lived her life even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in a genuinely good familythe Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. This wasn't an unusual arrangement as it allowed the biological parents The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to earn money without worrying about childcare – become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and Ola was happy. It was all the more cruel when her biological father arrived media elites hoping to take her 'home' for the weekend – create a weekend which would stretch into seven years of abuse more globalist and neglectprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846245907</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Pemberton1398508632|title=The Doctor Will See You NowWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=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 NHS is one end of those things that everyone seems November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to have an opinion aboutstart, and this of course includes those of us who work for said organisation (in a world where the world's 3rd largest employernormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, don'tcha know)Brexit and a pandemic. Max Pemberton is one of those people Wilde had a few advantages: a doctor, though despite what you might assume from the title, not area around her was a GP but known habitat with a hospital medicvariety of terrains. This is his third book on the subject of life ( She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and death) within the walls of dehydrator. She had a hospitalcar - and fuel. Most importantly, plus the odd excursion she had shelter: this was not a plan to rather misnamed Care Homes, and it's not a bad read'live'' wild just to live off its produce. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340919949</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirin Ebadi1529149800|title=The Golden CageThings You Can Do: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One DestinyHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Dr Ebadi is currently living in exileWe begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, fearing for her safety, should she return unable to Iran in the foreseeable futurethink of anything they could do. Her Prologue describes a violent The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and bloody reaction flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was a peaceful situation involving wives, mothers and sistersthat doing. Boulders and large stones were thrown at elderly''I'm doing the best I can'', defenseless women without a moment's hesitationsaid the hummingbird. A taste And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of things to come?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0979845645</amazonuk>us doing what we can, however small that might be.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel Hamilton1638485216|title=American CaesarsBlack, White, and Gray All Over: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D Roosevelt to George W BushA Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds

|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=The Premise ''Corruption is simple: take twelve men (and unfortunately they are all men, but that's not the author's fault) who have achieved high office and look at each of them. Firstly, take a look at the road to the high officedepartment, then how they performed once they reached their goal and finally a look at their private lifegender or race specific. Suetonius did it first when he wrote ''The Twelve Caesars'' and now Nigel Hamilton It has taken the same journey everything to do with character. Period.''American Caesars'', a remarkably in-depth look at twelve consecutive American presidents from the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and finishing with George W Bush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520419</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Bob Marshall-Andrews|title=Off Message: The Complete Antidote to Political Humbug|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Bob Marshall-Andrews entered Parliament in 1997, rather too late to be a career politician (he was already an established QC) and with a profound distrust of authority. He had no aspirations towards office, which was perhaps as well for all concerned as he would become best known for being a dissident. I occasionally enquired as to which party held his allegiance and eventually concluded that he went with his conscience. The last three Labour administrations have spawned ''One more political memoirs than any other – and I did wonder if this would be body just one more to add to the pilewouldn't matter''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684412</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Karen Blixen|title=Out Of Africa|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's more than The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a quarter forty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a century since I first saw the film murder taking place but Floyd''Out s death was an exception. The image of AfricaChauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I' ll ever forget and it's one of the few that protests which followed cannot have stayed with me over the intervening yearsbeen unexpected. It wasn't just the story, but There was a backlash against the personality of Karen Blixen police - and the wonderful landscape of the Ngong Hills, south of Nairobi, not just in KenyaMinneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''s Rift Valley. I remember looking for this book at all'' tarred by the time, but being unable to find it, so the opportunity to read it now was too good to missChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951437</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen SedleyMatthieu Aikins|title=Ashes and Sparks: Essays On Law and JusticeThe Naked Don't Fear the Water

|summary=Some books are hard It's easy to readforget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, and even harder to reviewbecause it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is particularly true of what are essentially academic or "professional" books and you come not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to them accompany his friend as a lay readerrefugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. This then is my starting position There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on Ashes edge the whole way through. But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and Sparkspeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0521170907</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Armstrong and Tim Gray1785633074|title=The Authentic Tawney: A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of R. H. Tawney Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=The Authentic Tawney takes a fresh look at Members of Parliament like us to believe that the political writing of R H Tawneycountry is run by politicians, a left wing academic whose works were a big influence on the huge program of postwar reform engineered headed by the Labour Party, particularly Prime minister - the provision of universal secondary education. The authors assert ''primus inter pares'' (that Tawney's ideas changed markedly through the course for those of his life you who are Eton and that they lack Oxbridge educated) but the consistency reality is that other interpreters have erroneously attributed to them. They reject the notion that his writings have an essential unity, which is philosophically interesting - don't we tend to assume that an intellectual's lifeprime's work will contain a central 'core' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of ideas? Discussion Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of an important pioneer in democratic socialism also seems relevant at a time when Labour has 'lost its way' and evolved into a watered down version the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the Conservativesname now but he will certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402243</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Hewlett1846276772|title=The Sarkozy PhenomenonEnd of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5

|summary=The old saying Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that 'cometh they may no longer even recognise the hour, cometh the man' and whether or not extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the electorate's ability to pick the man or whether he was only seen as the right man in retrospect is a moot pointdisabled. There areJobs, thoughpromotions, some surprising people at higher salaries are the head preserve of European countries at the moment – with Silvio Berlusconi and Nicholas Sarkozy at white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the head medical become a part of my personal listan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. My [[Nicolas Sarkozy It's personally appalling and Carla Bruni: The True Story by Valerie Benaim and Yves Azeroual|last attempt]] to find out more about Sarkozy proved to be too light-weight degrading for my tastes, but this time I've gone to the opposite individuals on the receiving end of the scale with a book from Nick Hewlett, Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick and published by Imprint Academic. I mention those points because there is no attempt to present this as populist writing: bias but it's scholarly from beginning to endnot just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402391</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Emmerson1529148251|title=The Future History of the ArcticMisfits: How climate, resources and geopolitics are reshaping the north, and why it matters to the world|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Charles Emmerson examines the past history of Arctic exploration, economic exploitation and development and the policies of governments of countries which include Arctic territory (and others), with the aim of understanding the present and predicting the future better. He explains the apparently contradictory title in some detail in the Introduction. While history is about the past, 'ideas about the future have changed over time'. Also, the future of the Arctic will be shaped by its history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523531</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewA Personal Manifesto|author=Yangzom Brauen and Katy Darbyshire|title=Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of Tibet|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Fleeing your home can never be easy but when you are six, your only shoes are roughly hand-sewn and stuffed with hay, and your route is over the world's highest mountain range then it must be particularly challenging. This was the journey that Yangzom Brauen's mother took with her parents when they fled Tibet after the Chinese invasion of 1959. They were leaving behind all that they knew and travelling to India in the hope that they could find sanctuary in the country where the Dalai Lama was in exile. 'Across Many Mountains' is their story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655344X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dambisa Moyo|title=How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly And the Stark Choices AheadMichaela Coel|rating=45

|summary=Moyo's first book, ''Dead Aid'' was a well regarded and oft discussed title when How am I worked in Development. In a country where it was hard able to find any book at allbe so transparent on paper about rape, somehow every ex-pat household seemed to have at least one copy of thismalpractice and poverty, and yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I followed were telling the sheep and had a readtruth whilst simultaneously running away from it. It was a great, insightful book that we could all identify with, and I was eager to read her second, if somewhat unrelated work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846142350</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Michael Lewis|title=The Big Short|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=So. The subprime mortgage crisis, the worldwide financial crisis, people losing their jobs, their money, their houses, their security. Unregulated greed, that went on and on and on. And the people who caused it all got rich during and after, very few felt any sort of consequences, and millions Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of other people worldwide suffered greatlymind. Strip away all the intentionally confusing terminology and it all amounts You're not going to bets with unbelievable amounts read a book of moneyessays or a self-help book. How did it all come about and how did it play out? Michael Lewis explains the mess as only he can. Just as his earlier excellent work {{amazonurl|title=Liar You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's Poker|isbn=0340839961}} encapsulated 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the excesses of Wall Street in television industry at the 1980s, so does Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''The Big Shortreading'' perfectly tell the tale of Wall Street in the 2000s. In fact, given the extent of the current global clusterfuck, it makes the shocking book but you need to ''listen'Liar's Pokerto the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you' look positively mild by comparisonll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043539</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Xinran0008350388|title=Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba

|summary=Xinran first came ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to my notice with her 2002 book "The Good Women of China" which retold tales of the women she had come across through her work in Chinese radiobe seen as less desirable, less hireable, where for many years she had hosted the local equivalent of a cross between Woman's Hour less intelligent and a late night phoneultimately less valuable than my light-in talk showskinned counterparts.. She has been busy bringing us other stories in the meantime, but in this latest work she returns to those early days in radio and the stories she learned. '' Many of these stories she decided were too painful ''We Need to tell. They speak of children, specifically daughters, abandoned Talk About Money'' by their Chinese mothers one way or another.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535750</amazonuk>}}Otegha Uwagba

{{newreview|author=Anna Politkovskaya|title=Nothing but the Truth: Selected Dispatches |rating=4''0.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Anna Politkovskaya worked for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, becoming particularly famous for her critical reports on the wars 7% of English Literature GCSE students in Chechnya, on Putin, on state corruption and on life in Russia under his regime. She never avoided controversy and received England study a book by a number writer of death threats before she was murdered in October 2006colour while only 7% study a book by a woman. She had reason to know these were no idle threats – one of her articles here entitled 'Is Journalism Worth the Loss of a Life?' reports the attempted murder of one of her colleagues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526689</amazonuk>}} ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

{{newreview|author=Jonny Steinberg|title=Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=South African Steinberg has won awards with previous non-fiction books and after reading the praise from various sources (New York Times, J M Coetzee) I Otegha Uwagba came to the conclusion that I UK from Kenya when she was in for a serious five years old. Her sisters were seven and thought-provoking readnine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The preface tells us that the two Liberian men family was hard- Rufus working, principled and determined that their children would have the younger Jacob left Liberian soil in vastly different circumstances and for different reasonsbest education possible. But as they meet up years later and thousands There was always a painful awareness of miles away from their homeland, their ''Little Liberia'' in New York City has money although this did not translate into a tall ordershortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to contain and accommodate their big personalities a private school in London and to then a certain extentplace at New College, their big egosOxford. Can it cope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085662</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracy KidderRichard Brook|title=Mountains Beyond MountainsUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life

|genre=BiographyLifestyle|summary=Dr Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to helping the poorest I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and neediest in societysometimes books choose us. He works tirelessly to help people less fortunate than him In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I''Dedicated his life'' and ''works tirelessly'' - phrases we've heard many times about many wonderful peopled have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but when reading it would not have 'hit home'Mountains Beyond Mountainsin the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ '', you'll realise therefull disclosure The Bookbag's not a shred of hyperbole about these claimsu.s.p. Farmer began working with tuberculosis and AIDS patients in Haiti, and then worked with is that people chose their own books rather than getting themrandomly, and worked for them, and worked with them, and worked for them, and worked with them. In an area where treating the disease so there is just one part of a predisposition towards expecting to like the problembook, where poverty even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is rife, he has transformed an area, saved countless lives, and made an incredible difference a book I needed to many people. [http://www.pih.org/ Partners In Health], the healthcare organisation he set up with his colleaguesread, takes this work worldwideright now. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846684315</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreview|author=Adrian Johns|title=Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age|rating=4|genre=History|summary=If you are inclined I was going to take your cues from the weekly reviewsargue. I mean, as the witty poet Gavin Ewart once expressed the matter, you will doubtless find currently articles as varied as; Russell Brand predicting the imminent decline of the BBC, various interpretations of liberalism and how these struggle cows are for expression in Coalition Government policycheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat... There are concerns too about the legislation governing the internet ) and references back to I much prefer my elephants in the Sixties battles between, on wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the one hand, sake of it. the unbridled selfEssentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals -expression of the free market and, on the other, I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the virtues company of self-restraint in such matters as humans and the re-examination company of animals, I would probably choose the Lady Chatterley trial, now animals. fifty years ago. An unusual and quite intriguing I insisted that I read this book, Death of a Pirate, about the development 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393068609</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Valerie Benaim and Yves Azeroual|title=Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story|rating=3no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant.5|genre=Biography|summary=In November 2007 the French President I eat cheese, eggs, Nicolas Sarkozy was newly divorced from his second wife chicken and, despite his position fish and busy life, feeling rather lonely. He accepted an invitation I needed to a dinner party from a friend and met supermodel and recording artist, Carla Brunieither do so without guilt or change my choices. The attraction between them was instant – she had already said I suspected that she wanted a man with nuclear power and he was smitten by making the attentions of a beautiful, famous and intelligent woman. Within months they were marrieddecision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0907633145</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beate Teresa Hanika1523092734|title=Learning A Women's Guide to ScreamClaiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort

|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=Malvina is thirteen years old, the youngest of three children in a dysfunctional family. Her father is a very grumpy teacher, with little understanding of children, whilst her mother seems to suffer permanently from migraine. ''She has brings a good friend, Lizzy, and they play together as much as they can, united hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in their dislike of the 'boys from the estate'her life. Her grandmother died last year, leaving her granddad on his own and it's Malvina's job to go and visit him Again and take him his meals. The family think this is a great arrangement because they know how much Granddad loves Malvina again and looks forward to her visitsagain. There's a problem though. Malvina doesn't like going(Alma Derricks, particularly on her own. Granddad kisses her on the mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390606</amazonuk>}}former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

{{newreview|author=Kwame Anthony Appiah|title=The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=In ''To claim space is to live the Preface, Appiah believes that morality is an extremely important area life of our lives as we live them todaychoosing unapologetically and bravely. He goes on by saying that it's all very well thinking about morality - our morals - our own code of living - but it's It is to live the ultimate action which truly matters. Well, 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, 'life you'the collapse of the duel, the abandonment of footbinding, the end of Atlantic slaveryve always wanted.'' In the following chapters he debates the issues of those three major areas of morality. They were, in short, moral issues on a very large scale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393071626</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Rachel Johnson|title=Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Diary of The Lady: My First Year as Editor|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Along with most of my contemporaries IWomen've never read s Guide to Claiming Space'The Lady' except once when looking for an au pair job in by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my student days, and that, it turns out, is the problemdesk. Before Rachel Johnson was appointed in June 2009 the average age of the readership was 75Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the circulation was dropping and the magazine was haemorrhaging moneymoment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. The Budworth family, proprietors of 'The LadyI' since it was founded 125 years agove always thought that women need to rise above this, chose son and heir Ben Budworth to turn the magazinebe people who don's fortunes around before it foldedt need protection, people who claim their own space. He asked Rachel Johnson If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be editorused to prove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490674</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew RawnsleyPolly Barton|title=The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New LabourFifty Sounds

|summary=After decades of watching politics more or less assiduously Where do I start? I was surprised by could start with where Barton herself starts, with the New Labour administration. Never before had so much question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been put – or so it seemed – in on my radar for a while and if the public domainworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but never before had I had quite such a feeling of really am not understanding what was going onhopeful. And like Barton, of being party I don't know the answer to only half a story. The age of spin told us little that we really wanted to know, but left unsaid all the important things. Early in 2010 I was disappointed that Iquestion ''d missed Andrew Rawnsleywhy Japan?'s 'The End She explains her feelings in respect of the Partyquestion in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' but now I'm rather glad that I did as it's been republished in paperback with two additional chapters – which include she describes as being, among other things, the extraordinary events surrounding the 2010 General Electionsound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141046147</amazonuk>1913097501

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew PenmanStephen Fabes|title=School Daze: Searching for a Decent State EducationSigns of Life|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=As a teacher myself, I'm naturally well aware was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of most tales of the aspects of education that Andrew Penman discusses here far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and some of the stories he repeats are well-known to me but may be of news to some readerscuriosity. Yes Unfortunately, people will really do just about anything I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to try simply go out and get their children into do it. I also didn't inherit the school kind of their choice – even commit fraud! But how well does this book work as an insight into the type of measures some people will go steady nerve, ability to for those readers unaware of the desperation thatcan set in at this time in a child’s life? It’s a good question…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906132976</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geert Mak|title=An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village|rating=4|genre=History|summary=In the mid 1990s journalist and author Geert Mak returned talk to his native Friesland strangers and took up residence in basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the village of Jorwertrequisite 'bottle'. His aim was to investigate the quiet revolution going on in the agrarian communities In order words I'm not just of Holland but of the whole sort of Europe.  This wasn't going to be an outsider's view. Mak grew up in the northern Dutch province; he spoke the language; he knew the games person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and understood the peoplenot come home for six years. In a very real sense Mak was going home… and finding Fabes did precisely that it scarcely existed any more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099546868</amazonuk>1788161211

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Oaten1504321383|title=Screwing UpSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman

|summary=Like John Profumo ''You can't be happy and others, Mark Oaten will probably fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be remembered best for the wrong reasonsher. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the episode which made him for a while the countrygirl (she's Nousually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. 1 paparazzi target, and which as he recounts in his Prologue, when his Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'world was crashing down' the expectation that they will marry and it hardly needs recounting in detailhave children. Yet when all is said and done, this is It was a very lively, readable, sometimes quite poignant memoir from one of the men whose career at Westminster began belief and ended with the Blair and Brown it would be many years. Throughout there before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is an admirable absence of self-pitya choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849540071</amazonuk>