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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Stone (editor)Alastair Humphreys|title=Lotteries in Public LifeLocal
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=Peter Stone's reader is an examination not so much of examples of lotteries 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 public lifehis introduction, but of the theoretical and conceptual issues which the use of book is an attempt 'sortation' in decision taking raisesto share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. There are essays here about the Nature loss, pollution, land use of and access, agriculture, the lottery in politicsfood system, in allocating scarce resources (such as school places or human organs) and even on rewilding…'' One of the problems joys of defining the lottery and the methods book for assuring fairness. Because lotteries are used in many societies to resolve issues and perhaps because of recent discussion of me was that the use biggest thing he learned about all of the lottery to allocate school placesthese things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', this that every upside is likely to have a hot issue which raises fundamental questions about democracy downside for somebody and choicethat there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845402081</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donovan HohnEdel Rodriguez|title=Moby-DuckWorm: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at SeaA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=In January 1992 a container ship was on its way from China to the USA when it was caught We're in a storm childhood, and two containers broke loose from the deckwe're in Cuba. They held nearly thirty thousand bath toys - yellow ducksThe revolution has happened, green frogsand Castro, red beavers and blue turtles - which were freed when first thought of as a saviour of the containers broke up country, has proven himself a Communist, and have circumnavigated the globe not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for almost twenty yearsall. Donovan Hohn was a teacher and when one Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his students wrote time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an essay describing what had happened uncle refusing to be the toys it caught Hohn's imagination. The rest is good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro- Communism skirmish, such as they say - history Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and a very good booknot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908526009</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and othersSarah Wilson|title=The Library BookThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I had better begin by saying get to love that I had a vested interest in liking line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this book since .'' I am a chartered librarian myself 'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and so am wholeheartedly in support of saving our nationprecious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's public libraries. But you donwords as her title (though I can't need see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be a librarian to enjoy this bookliving. It Her answer is rich with anecdotes from some wonderful writers and makes a pleasant read whether an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're keen to save libraries or doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Oakwater1785633457|title=Bubble Wrapped Children|rating=3|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''Bubble Wrapped Children'' takes a look at Charging Around: Exploring the state Edges of adoption in the UK, and how aspects of it are being threatened England by the use of social networks. The author, with over 20 years' experience in the adoption world, paints a broad picture of the issues facing adopters and adoptees. Peppering the text are some examples of unwanted Facebook contact from birth parents, which have had massive knock-on effects for the adopted children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920970</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewElectric Car|author=Francesca Beauman|title=Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts AdvertisementClive Wilkinson
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|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=You might think the Lonely Hearts ad Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a trivial matterpreference for slow travel. You might think it should appear As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in lower case and an electric car was not be capitalisedtotally outrageous. In fact, but you'd it should be in disagreement with Ms Beauman, who gives a big L pleasant holiday for Clive and a big H to it every time she writes of his wife, Joan, shouldn't it in her survey of its history. What's more, she gets to write about a lot more than just the contents of the adverts in this brilliant book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009951334X</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Yifu Lin1529153050|title=Demystifying the Chinese EconomyBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson
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|genre=Business and FinanceHumour|summary=The success of Seeking some light relief from the Chinese economy, current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and as Lin makes us awaremore like an adrenaline sport, a success which contrasts strongly with what appeared major failure in the recent historical past, is something which needs explanationI was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. No one can ignore it, and Sharp eyes will have noted that we are confronted with 're not yet through the effects of it year: the cartoons run from the ownership of Thames water 4 September 2021 to the faces of tourists in London and Stratford on a daily basis31 August 2022. And Who can imagine what there will be to come in the roots of its success are the potential seeds of future change, a change that now more than ever is crucial to the way the world economy works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521181747</amazonuk>2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James PalmerB0B7289HKQ|title=The Death of MaoConversations Across America: The Tangshan Earthquake A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Birth Soul of the New ChinaAmerica|author=Kari Loya|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=Welcome to ChinaKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, where by the populous are busy leaving a rural country full of prosperous mineral resources way) wanted to spend some time with his father and coal mines, and shoddily-built hydro-electric dams in environmentally dubious locations, for the burgeoning, mechanised citiesperiod between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. But this isn't The decision was made to ride the birth of 2012Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, it's the dawn of 1976. Chairman Mao is dyingVirginia to Astoria, Premier Zhou Enlai has just died, and the cauldron Oregon - all 4250 miles of power is being stirred as never beforeit - in 2015. Among They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the momentous events of the year however will be a huge earthquake directly centred on the city of Tangshan, recommended time - but there were factors which will kill something like two thirds pointed this up as more of a million challenge that it would be for most peoplewho considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571243991</amazonuk>
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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=Nicholas ShaxsonJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the WorldThe Book of Hope |rating=45|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Most people think about The done thing is to read a book all the subject of tax havens - if they need way through before you sit down to think about them at all - as something which is unlikely ever review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to concern them and that they're for lose any of the super-rich and celebrities. What might surprise them is that more than half experience of world trade reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as well as most international lending is routed through them and that many common items in your everyday shopping will come to you via a tax havenit hits me. And we really should be thinking about them because tax havens are ensuring that wealth in unprecedented amounts it is being transferred from the poor to the rich - greatly exceeding the aid which flows hitting me. This beautiful book has me in the opposite directiontears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099541726</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Foxcroft1788360737|title=Calories and CorsetsArtivism: A history The Battle for Museums in the Era of dieting over two thousand yearsPostmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=4.52|genre=Politics and Society|summary=We’re 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 post-Christmas period when all ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the socialising and indulging is over and social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all you’re left with is a pastyart must be political, bloated, over-fed but under-nourished complexion, a wardrobe full of clothes just a little too tight and a new year’s resolution to Get Healthyeven implicitly. So it’s the perfect time for a Alexander Adams in his new diet book to hit ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the shelvesEra of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The title recent trend of this one might make you think it’s going so-called artivism has caused artists to be full of useful tips, become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and the cover does little media elites hoping to dispel this idea, groaning as it is with the weight of plump jellies, lavish cupcakes create a more globalist and even a decadent lobster or two, but take a moment to note the subtitle, if you will: '''a history of dieting over 2000 years'''progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684250</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dennis O'Donnell1398508632|title=The Locked WardWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Dennis O’Donnell spent 7 years working in It had been on the cards for a Scottish hospital and this is while but it was the account week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of his time thereeating only wild food. It takes a special type The end of person November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to work start, in Mental Health servicesa world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and though O'Donnell ultimately leaves a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the Locked Wardarea around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, he clearly is one of those peoplefreezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, made all the more remarkable by the fact that she had shelter: this wasn’t his life long vocation, having previously worked as was not a school teacher (some might say an equally challenging role)plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093606</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denise Kiernan1529149800|title=Signing Their Rights AwayThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=HistoryHome and Family|summary=Many Americans believe that We begin with a telling story. All the Declaration of Independence is birds and animals fled when the cornerstone forest fire took hold and most of the American democracythem stood and watched, the fountain-head unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the American Way of Life river and the American Dream. The 4th began taking tiny amounts of July is the national holiday water and often thought flying back to be drop them into the single most important date in American historyfire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474520X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Heinberg|title= The End of Growth|rating=3animals laughed: what good was that doing.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=With ''I'm doing the newspapers full of economic doom and gloom best I can'', said the last thing you might want is to pick up a book hummingbird. And that reiterates it and then some. But while this book may seem at first glance to be a bit of a downer, it also provides an insight into how things might just work out ok in the end. Yesreally, they’ll be some big changes – there have to be because is the direction we’ve been heading in is just not sustainable – but if we’re willing to adapt, only way that we will survive was solve the main message I picked up as I flicked through the pagesproblem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570333</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Lammy1638485216|title=Out of the Ashes: Britain After the Riots|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Just about everyone in the country was shocked as pictures of the 2011 riots (which began in Tottenham and spread to other major cities in the UK) unfolded on our television screens. EveryoneBlack, that isWhite, except David Lammy, MP for the area. He might not have known when it would happen or what would trigger the riot, but a year before, he said that it would happen. This wasnand Gray All Over: A Black Man't a lucky guess: Lammy was born s Odyssey in Tottenham and brought up on the Broadwater Farm Estate as one of five children raised by his single-parent mother Life and he knows what's happening on the ground.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652674</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLaw Enforcement|author=Luke Harding|title=Mafia StateFrederick Reynolds
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|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=Luke Harding set himself a difficult task when he took up his post as the Guardian’s main man in Moscow''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. He had already put his name It has everything to a front page story which appeared in the Guardian in April 2007. This was an account of an interview do with the arch-oligarch and Kremlin critic, Boris Berezovskycharacter. Harding was not at the interview but added background to the article from MoscowPeriod. However, to be in any way associated with Berezovsky was sufficient to incur the wrath of the Russian Federal Security Service, the FSB – the successor to the KGB. The offending account was entitled, 'I am plotting a new Russian revolution - London exile Berezovsky says force necessary to bring down President Putin'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265247X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen H SegalMatthieu Aikins|title=Geek WisdomThe Naked Don't Fear the Water
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|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The history of London 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 criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a long Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and storied one, at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's unsurprising written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that so many people have written about allows the capital. I've always loved reader to perfectly envisage the city, its history environments and novels and plays set within London, so was really keen to get my hands on this new volume in the Cambridge Companion seriespeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0521722314</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby1785633074|title=It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable thingsStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=TriviaHumour|summary=In a world Members of diamond-encrusted skullsParliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, goldheaded by the Prime minister -leafed iPhones and luxury yachts ten a penny, of blingy shit the ''primus inter pares'' (or should that be shitty bling?) it's a relief to know people for those of you who are still spending money on unique one-offs that are more worthwhile. The records for costliest photo, artwork, musical instrument Eton and manuscript have all been broken in Oxbridge educated) but the twenty four months leading up to this book's release. Our collators have scoured reality is that the press for those and other, similarly noteworthy auctions, and found what other people paid for what you didn't know you would have wanted given the money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John L Locke|title=Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Locke's subtitle prime''Why Men and Women Talk So Differently'' might lead you to think that this is just another selfmovers are the special advisers - the SPADS -help ''Men who are from Mars, Women are from Venus'' tomethe driving force behind the government. It's not. Rather than focussing upon what we all know from experience – that men and women do not communicate very well because of some fundamental difference We are in their respective approach to verbal expression – the New York City University Professor privileged position of Linguistics sets out having access to explain WHY that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521887135</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frank Furedi|title=On Tolerance: The Life Style Wars: A Defence the memoirs of Moral Independence|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Furedi is a Professor Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of Sociology at a UK university so he'll know his subject matter inside out. The short preface tells us that 'tolerance has been emptied the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of its moral and intellectual meaning2020.' This publication's aim is to argue You might not know the case for tolerance in society. How its meaning has changed over name now but he will certainly be the centuries until today's rather fuzzy and watered-down meaning. Professor Furedi was spurred on man to writing this book because he firmly believes that tolerance has been lost somehow, to be almost invisible in some areas of public and private lifewatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441120106</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mullin1846276772|title=A Walk-on PartThe End of Bias: Diaries 1994 - 1999How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
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|summary=We tend to remember where we were and how we heard about Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the deaths of people like John F Kennedy, Elvis Presley and Princess Diana, but I'd add another person extent to the listwhich they suffer from it: John Smith. I remember sitting in my office and it's simply a colleague coming in to tell mepart of everyday life. She added 'I suppose we'll have that dreary Gordon Brown as leader now'White men will always come first. We'd many angst-ridden miles to go The able will come before that came about but Smith's death is the opening entry in thisdisabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the third volume (but first chronologically) preserve of Chris Mullin's Diariesthe white man. This book covers Even when those who wouldn't pass the first period medical become a part of an organisation it'New Labour's rare that their views are heard, from Smiththat their concerns are acknowledged. It's death until Mullinpersonally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's assumption into government in July 1999not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685230</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tina Rosenberg1529148251|title=Join the ClubMisfits: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the WorldA Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel
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|summary=Teenagers in South Carolina have become involved in the anti-smoking movement, passing out information encouraging their peers ''How am I able to educate themselves be so transparent on paper about the ways big tobacco companies try to get them hooked. There are youngsters in South Africa who’ve refused to have sex without a condom because of the danger of HIV rape, malpractice and AIDS. Minority students in Texas have challenged data going back years by succeeding at calculus where traditionally students of their race have struggled. Whypoverty, yet still compartmentalise? Because other people have done It's as though I were telling the same thing, and they want to fit intruth whilst simultaneously running away from it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313004</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Pemberton0008350388|title=The Doctor Will See You NowWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=3.5
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|summary=The NHS ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is one of those things that everyone seems to have an opinion aboutbe seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and this of course includes those of us who work for said organisation (the worldultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' 's 3rd largest employer, don'tcha know). Max Pemberton is one of those people: a doctor, though despite what you might assume from the title, not a GP but a hospital medic. This is his third book on the subject of life (and death) within the walls of a hospital, plus the odd excursion We Need to rather misnamed Care Homes, and itTalk About Money''s not a bad read. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340919949</amazonuk>}}by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bob Marshall-AndrewsRichard Brook|title=Off MessageUnderstanding Human Nature: The Complete Antidote A User's Guide to Political HumbugLife|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Bob Marshall-Andrews entered Parliament in 1997I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, rather too late to be a career politician (he was already an established QC) and with a profound distrust sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of authoritythe latter. He Not so very long ago, if I had no aspirations towards officecome across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, which was perhaps as well for all concerned as he but it would become best known for being a dissidentnot have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I occasionally enquired as was likely to which party held his allegiance and eventually concluded give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that he went with his conscience. The last three Labour administrations have spawned more political memoirs people chose their own books rather than any other getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – and but also because it is a book I did wonder if this would be just one more needed to add to the pileread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846684412</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Blixen1787332098|title=Out Of AfricaHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance
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|summary=Some books are hard to read''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and even harder to reviewgroups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. This is particularly true of what are essentially academic or "professional" books and you come to And we assign them as a lay reader. This then is my starting position places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on Ashes sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and Sparksmillions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521170907</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Hewlett1523092734|title=The Sarkozy PhenomenonA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=45
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|summary=The old saying is that 'cometh the hour, cometh the man' and whether or not it's the electorate's ability to pick the man or whether he was only seen as the right man She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in retrospect is a moot pointher life. There are, though, some surprising people at the head of European countries at the moment – with Silvio Berlusconi Again and again and Nicholas Sarkozy at the head of my personal listagain. My [[Nicolas Sarkozy 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 for my tastes'' (Alma Derricks, but this time I've gone to the opposite end of the scale with a book from Nick Hewlettformer CMO, 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: it's scholarly from beginning to end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402391</amazonuk>}}Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dambisa MoyoPolly Barton|title=How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly And the Stark Choices AheadSounds|rating=4.5
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|summary=Moyo's first bookWhere do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Dead AidWhy Japan?'' was Japan has been on my radar for a well regarded while and oft discussed title when if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I worked in Developmentwould have visited by now. In a country where it was hard to find any book at all, somehow every ex-pat household seemed to have at least one copy of I may get there later thisyear, and but I followed the sheep and had a readam not hopeful. It was a greatAnd like Barton, insightful book that we could all identify with, and I was eager don't know the answer 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 of other people worldwide suffered greatly. Strip away all the intentionally confusing terminology and it all amounts to bets with unbelievable amounts of money. How did it all come about and how did it play outquestion ''why Japan? Michael Lewis '' She explains her feelings in respect of the mess as only he can. Just as his earlier excellent work {{amazonurl|title=Liar's Poker|isbn=0340839961}} encapsulated the excesses of Wall Street question in the 1980sfirst essay, so does which is on the sound ''giro'The Big Short'' perfectly tell the tale of Wall Street in the 2000s. In fact– which she describes as being, among other things, given the extent sound of the current global clusterfuck, it makes the shocking ''Liar's Pokerevery party where you have to introduce yourself'' look positively mild by comparison.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141043539</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=XinranStephen Fabes|title=Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories Signs of Loss and Love Life
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Xinran I was brought up on maps and first came to my notice with her 2002 book "The Good Women -person narratives of China" which retold tales of the women she had come across through her work in Chinese radiofar away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, where for many years she I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had hosted which was the local equivalent of a cross between Woman's Hour guts to simply go out and a late night phone-in talk showdo it. She has been busy bringing us other stories in I also didn't inherit the meantimekind of steady nerve, but in this latest work she returns ability to talk to those early days in radio strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the stories she learnedrequisite 'bottle'. Many In order words I'm not the sort of these stories she decided were too painful to tellperson who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. They speak of children, specifically daughters, abandoned by their Chinese mothers one way or anotherFabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535750</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Politkovskaya1504321383|title=Nothing but the Truth: Selected Dispatches Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman
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|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=Anna Politkovskaya worked for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, becoming particularly famous for her critical reports on the wars in Chechnya, on Putin, on state corruption ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on life in Russia under his regimeyour own. She never avoided controversy and received You are not complete until you find a number of death threats before she was murdered in October 2006. She had reason to know these were no idle threats – one of her articles here entitled man'Is Journalism Worth the Loss of a Life?' reports the attempted murder of one of her colleagues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526689</amazonuk>}}
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