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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 society=cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel EverettEdel Rodriguez|title=LanguageWorm: The Cultural ToolA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceGraphic Novels|summary=Daniel Everett previously worked We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a missionary in far flung corners saviour of the world– country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a fact that isn’t surprising given 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 number happiest of references places here, an uncle refusing to faith that crop up over be the good soldier the pages. This new book, however, is about two much more appealing country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to mesome minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) subjects: language and travelthe father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. If [[:Category:Bill Bryson|Bill Bryson]] is a travel writer The mother gets the couple jobs with an interest the party to ease some of the heat, but in linguisticsthis sultry island country, then Daniel Everett is 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 linguist with an interest in travelfractured world|rating=3. It’s not quite 5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the ‘read one in which she asks ''What is it by a pool’ sort of book you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that Bryson might release but line so much because my answer is somewhere between a formalised every day read ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and a text precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book with a big dollop of informality stirred inthat takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't 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 living. The travel stories – jaunts to Brazil Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, Mexico and beyond – we are greatnot''. Don't care what you're doing, and while she thinks you might think they’re taking things a bit off track (albeit in a rather pleasant waywe, I) sooner or later could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the linguistic point will become clearfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=<amazonuk>1846682673</amazonuk>5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kira Cochrane (editor)1529153050|title=Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of FeminismBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson

|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Some revolutions happen faster than others, and Seeking some light relief from the revolution in society's thinking about women current political turmoil which is certainly one of the coming to seem more and more gradual ones. Kira Cochranelike an adrenaline sport, WomenI was nudged towards 's Editor at the 'Britain'Guardians Best Political Cartoons of 2022'' from 2006 – 2010, has collected together the best articles and essays from . Sharp eyes will have noted that paper's women's section since 1971. The result, we''Women of re not yet through the Revolutionyear: Forty Years of Feminism'', is a lively account of the more recent women's liberation movement cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to come in the UK and of the issues facing women in a modern, late twentieth/early twenty-first century society.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652275</amazonuk>2023 edition?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frankie OwensB0B7289HKQ|title=The Little Book Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of PrisonAmerica|author=Kari Loya

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=It’s probably pretty safe to assume Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the sort of prisons shown on TV, way) wanted to spend some time with his father and their portrayals of life insidethe period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, bear as much resemblance Virginia to real jails as the doctors Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in Grey’s Anatomy or House 2015. They had 73 days to do to their NHS counterparts. That’s why Frankie has written it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this book: to provide up as more of a guide to what life inside is really like and how best to survive challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it with your sanity, on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and body, intacthe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904380832</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Stone (editor)1739593901|title=Lotteries in Public Life22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=Peter Stone's reader is an examination not so much of examples of lotteries in public life, but of the theoretical and conceptual issues which the use of 'sortation' in decision taking raisesOur future will be more complex than we expected. There are essays here about the use Instead of the lottery in politicsflying cars, in allocating scarce resources (such as school places or human organs) and even on the problems of defining the lottery and the methods for assuring fairness. Because lotteries are used in many societies to resolve issues we got night-vision killer drones and perhaps because of recent discussion of the use of the lottery automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to allocate school places, this is a hot issue which raises fundamental questions about democracy and choicetrack grandma.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402081</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Donovan Hohn|title=Moby-Duck: The True Story I've got a couple of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea|rating=4confessions to make.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In January 1992 a container ship was I'm not keen on its way from China short stories as I find it easy to the USA when it was caught in read a storm few stories and two containers broke loose from then forget to return to the deckbook. They held nearly thirty thousand bath toys - yellow ducks, green frogs, red beavers and blue turtles - There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which were freed when takes centre stage along with the containers broke up and have circumnavigated the globe for almost twenty yearsworld-building. Donovan Hohn was a teacher It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and when one of his students wrote an essay describing what had happened to the toys it caught Hohn's imaginationworld scape are purely incidental. The rest is - as they say - history and So, what did I think of a very good bookof twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908526009</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett Jane Goodall and othersDouglas Abrams |title=The Library Bookof Hope |rating=4.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society |summary=I had better begin by saying that I had The done thing is to read a vested interest in liking this book since I am a chartered librarian myself and so am wholeheartedly in support of saving our nation's public libraries. But all the way through before you don't need sit down to be a librarian review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to enjoy lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. It And it is rich with anecdotes from some wonderful writers and makes a pleasant read whether you're keen to save libraries or nothitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>024147857X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Oakwater1788360737|title=Bubble Wrapped ChildrenArtivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=32|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''Bubble Wrapped Children'' takes Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a look at vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the state of adoption social environment in the UKwhich he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, and how aspects of it are being threatened by the use of social networkseven implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The author, with over 20 years' experience Battle for Museum in the adoption world, paints a broad picture Era of the issues facing adopters and adopteesPostmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. Peppering the text are some examples The recent trend of unwanted Facebook contact from birth parents, which so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have had massive knockbeen astroturfed by large “left-on effects for the adopted childrenwing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920970</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Beauman1398508632|title=Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts AdvertisementThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=You might think It had been on the Lonely Hearts ad cards for a trivial matterwhile but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. You might think it should appear The end of November, particularly in lower case and Central Scotland was perhaps not be capitalisedthe best time to start, but you'd be in disagreement with Ms Beaumana world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, who gives Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a big L and known habitat with a big H to it every time she writes variety of it in terrains. She had electricity which allowed her survey of its historyto run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. What's moreMost importantly, she gets had shelter: this was not a plan to write about a lot more than ''live'' wild just the contents of the adverts in this brilliant bookto live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009951334X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Yifu Lin1529149800|title=Demystifying the Chinese EconomyThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=Business Home and FinanceFamily|summary=The success of We begin with a telling story. All the Chinese economy, birds and as Lin makes us aware, a success which contrasts strongly with what appeared major failure in animals fled when the recent historical pastforest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, is something which needs explanationunable to think of anything they could do. No one can ignore it, The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and we are confronted with the effects of it from the ownership began taking tiny amounts of Thames water and flying back to drop them into the faces of tourists in London and Stratford on a daily basisfire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. And in that, really, is the roots of its success are only way that we will solve the potential seeds problem of future climate change– by each of us doing what we can, a change however small that now more than ever is crucial to the way the world economy worksmight be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521181747</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=James Palmer|title=The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Welcome to China, where the populous are busy leaving a rural country full of prosperous mineral resources and coal mines, and shoddily-built hydro-electric dams in environmentally dubious locations, for the burgeoning, mechanised cities. But this isn''One more body just wouldn't the birth of 2012, itmatter''s the dawn of 1976. Chairman Mao is dying, Premier Zhou Enlai has just died, and the cauldron of power is being stirred as never before. Among the momentous events of the year however will be a huge earthquake directly centred on the city of Tangshan, which will kill something like two thirds of a million people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571243991</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Gene Sharp|title=From Dictatorship to Democracy|rating=3|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Gene Sharp is an American politologist and The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a veritable (and venerable) guru forty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of non-violent strugglea murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The story behind the ''From Dictatorship to Democracy'image of Chauvin kneeling on George' s neck is a fascinating not onewhich I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. The book, or a booklet really as it consists of 160 small pages, There was apparently created in response to a request from Burmese dissenters backlash against the police - and not just in the early 1990Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all''s. Sharp responded to this request tarred by producing a generic text, a manual for the subversive that lies out the theory and practical advice for those engaged in a struggle to bring down a dictatorshipChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688396</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholas ShaxsonMatthieu Aikins|title=Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole The Naked Don't Fear the WorldWater|rating=4.5

|summary=Most people think about the subject of tax havens - if they need It's easy to think about them forget at all - as something which is unlikely ever to concern them and times that theyThe Naked Don're for t Fear the superWater isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-rich and celebritiespaced thriller at times. What might surprise them This is that more than half of world trade as not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as most international lending is routed a refugee from Afghanistan through them Europe – recounts a vast and that many common items in your everyday shopping will come to you via a tax havenat times painful journey. And we really should be thinking about them because tax havens There are ensuring tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that wealth in unprecedented amounts is being transferred from allows the poor reader to perfectly envisage the rich - greatly exceeding the aid which flows in the opposite directionenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099541726</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Foxcroft1785633074|title=Calories and Corsets: A history of dieting over two thousand yearsStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry

|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=We’re in Members of Parliament like us to believe that post-Christmas period when all the socialising and indulging country is over and all you’re left with is a pastyrun by politicians, bloated, overheaded by the Prime minister -fed but under-nourished complexion, a wardrobe full of clothes just a little too tight and a new year’s resolution to Get Healthy. So it’s the perfect time ''primus inter pares'' (that's for a new diet book to hit the shelves. The title those of this one might make you think it’s going to be full of useful tips, who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the cover does little to dispel this idea, groaning as it reality is with that the weight of plump jellies, lavish cupcakes 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''prime'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684250</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dennis O'Donnell|title=The Locked Ward|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Dennis O’Donnell spent 7 years working in a Scottish hospital and this is movers are the account of his time there. It takes a special type of person to work in Mental Health services, and though O'Donnell ultimately leaves advisers - the Locked Ward, he clearly is one of those people, made all SPADS - who are the more remarkable by driving force behind the fact that this wasn’t his life long vocation, having previously worked as a school teacher (some might say an equally challenging role)government. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Denise Kiernan|title=Signing Their Rights Away|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Many Americans believe that We are in the Declaration privileged position of Independence is having access to the cornerstone memoirs of the American democracyRafe Hubris, the fountain-head of man who was behind the American Way skilful control of Life and the American Dream. The 4th of July is Covid crisis which was completely contained by the national holiday and often thought to be the single most important date in American history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474520X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Heinberg|title=The End end of Growth|rating=32020.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=With the newspapers full of economic doom and gloom the last thing you You might want is to pick up a book 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 not know the end. Yes, they’ll be some big changes – there have to name now but he will certainly be because the direction we’ve been heading in is just not sustainable – but if we’re willing man to adapt, we will survive was the main message I picked up as I flicked through the pageswatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570333</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Lammy1846276772|title=Out The End of the AshesBias: Britain After the RiotsHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell

|summary=Just about everyone Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the country was shocked as pictures 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 2011 riots (which began in Tottenham and spread to other major cities in the UK) unfolded on our television screensdisabled. EveryoneJobs, that ispromotions, except David Lammy, MP for higher salaries are the preserve of the areawhite man. He might not have known Even when it would happen or what would trigger those who wouldn't pass the riot, but medical become a year beforepart of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, he said that it would happentheir concerns are acknowledged. This wasnIt't a lucky guess: Lammy was born in Tottenham s personally appalling and brought up degrading for the individuals on the Broadwater Farm Estate as one receiving end of five children raised by his single-parent mother and he knows whatthe bias but it's happening on not just the groundindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652674</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Harding1529148251|title=Mafia StateMisfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel

|summary=Luke Harding set himself a difficult task when he took up his post ''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the Guardian’s main man in Moscowtruth whilst simultaneously running away from it. He had already put his name '' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a front page story which appeared in the Guardian in April 2007. This was an account certain frame of an interview with the arch-oligarch and Kremlin critic, Boris Berezovskymind. Harding was You're not at the interview but added background going to the article from Moscowread a book of essays or a self-help book. However, You're going to be in any way associated with Berezovsky read writing which was sufficient inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to incur professionals within the wrath of television industry at the Russian Federal Security Service, Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the FSB – book but you need to ''listen'' to the successor to words as though you're in the KGBlecture theatre. The offending account was entitled, disjointedness will fade away and you'I am plotting ll be carried on a new Russian revolution - London exile Berezovsky says force necessary to bring down President Putin'cloud of exquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265247X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed Vulliamy0008350388|title=Amexica: War Along the BorderlineWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba

|summary=More than 38,000 people have been killed in the last 3 years in what Ed Vulliamy argues ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is an unacknowledged warto be seen as less desirable, on the long border (2less hireable,100 miles) between Mexico less intelligent and the United Statesultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... The war is between drug trafficking gangs over control of the lucrative drugs trade from Mexico '' ''We Need to the USTalk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0. In this compelling and disturbing work 7% of reportage Vulliamy travels through the borderlands meeting some English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of the people affectedcolour while only 7% study a book by a woman. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546566</amazonuk>}}'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

{{newreview|author=Jennifer Hayashi Danns and Leveque Sandrine|title=Stripped: The Bare Reality of Lap Dancing|rating=3|genre=Politics Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and Society|summary=Before I can start, I should qualify that I have never been, nor tried to be, a lapdancernine. Nor have I ever gone to a lapdancing clubIt was her mother who came first, nor ever tried towith her father joining them later. I have no opinion on the matterThe family was hard-working, save principled and determined that I can't imagine, in their children would have the world best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of free internet porn, paying some averagely attractive woman to wiggle her semi-nudity in the general direction money although this did not translate into a shortage of my face, and thinking anything: it erotically arousingwas simply carefully harvested. So I come to this academically-designed volume on When Otegha was ten the matter with no prejudicefamily acquired a car. If only that were the case with the creatorsFor Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen H SegalRichard Brook|title=Geek WisdomUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=I am by no means a fully fledged geekfirm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, but on this is one of the Big Bang scale latter. Not so very long ago, if I'm probably more of a Leonard than a Penny. had come across this book I was weaned on ''Star Trek ''d have skimmed it, chose ''Hitchhiker’s Guide... '' as my reading aloud piece for a Year 7 examfound some of it interesting, and think but it would be more than a little fun to take a trip to Comic Con. At the same time, there are gaping holes in my knowledge. My first celeb crush might not have been 'hit home'Blake’s 7’s'' Villa but in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I've never seen was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''Batmanfull disclosure The Bookbag'' films u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, never read so there is a comic predisposition towards expecting to like the book, never quite understood what all the even if it doesn't always turn out that way'Star Wars'' fuss was about. If Sci Fi ] – but also because it is a religion, then this is the book that can fill me in one the stories, the parables, the rules, as it were, of geekdom. I had needed to have itread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594745277</amazonuk>1800461682

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laurence Manley (editor)1787332098|title=The Cambridge Companion How to the Literature of LondonLove Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=3.5

|summary=The history of London is a long and storied one, and it's unsurprising that so many people have written 'When we do think about the capital. I've always loved the cityanimals, its history we break them down into species and novels groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and plays set within London, so was really keen to get my hands on this new volume . And we assign them places in the Cambridge Companion series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521722314</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby|title=It Could Have Been Yourssociety: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable things|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=In a world of diamond-encrusted skulls, gold-leafed iPhones and luxury yachts ten a pennycows go on plates, of blingy shit (or should that be shitty bling?) it's a relief to know people are still spending money dogs on unique one-offs that are more worthwhile. The records for costliest photosofas, artworkfoxes in rubbish bins, musical instrument and manuscript have all been broken elephants in the twenty four months leading up to this book's release. Our collators have scoured the press for those zoos, and othermillions of wild animals stay out there, similarly noteworthy auctions''somewhere, and found what other people paid for what you didn't know you would have wanted given ' hopefully on the moneynext David Attenborough series.|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 ''Why Men and Women Talk So Differently'' might lead you I was going to think that this is just another self-help ''Men are from Marsargue. I mean, Women cows are from Venusfor cheese (I couldn'' tomet consider eating red meat... It's not) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Rather than focussing upon what we all know from experience – Essentially that men quote sums up my attitude to animals - and women do not communicate very well because I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of some fundamental difference in their respective approach to verbal expression – humans and the New York City University Professor company of Linguistics sets out animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to explain WHY either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that might making the decision would not becomfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521887135</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Furedi1523092734|title=On Tolerance: The Life Style Wars: A Defence of Moral Independence|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Furedi is a Professor 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 of its moral and intellectual meaning.' This publicationWomen's aim is Guide to argue the case for tolerance in society. How its meaning has changed over the centuries until today's rather fuzzy and watered-down meaning. Professor Furedi was spurred on 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 life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441120106</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewClaiming Space|author=Chris Mullin|title=A Walk-on Part: Diaries 1994 - 1999|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=We tend 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 to the list: John Smith. I remember sitting in my office and a colleague coming in to tell me. She added 'I suppose we'll have that dreary Gordon Brown as leader now'. We'd many angst-ridden miles to go before that came about but Smith's death is the opening entry in this, the third volume (but first chronologically) of Chris Mullin's Diaries. This book covers the first period of 'New Labour', from Smith's death until Mullin's assumption into government in July 1999.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685230</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tina Rosenberg|title=Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the WorldEliza Van Cort

|summary=Teenagers in South Carolina have become involved ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in the anti-smoking movement, passing out information encouraging their peers to educate themselves about the ways big tobacco companies try to get them hookedher life. There are youngsters in South Africa who’ve refused to have sex without a condom because of the danger of HIV Again and again and AIDSagain. Minority students in Texas have challenged data going back years by succeeding at calculus where traditionally students of their race have struggled. Why? Because other people have done the same thing'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, and they want to fit in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313004</amazonuk>}}Cirque du Soleil RSD)

{{newreview|author=Lydia Ola Taiwo|title=A Broken Childhood: A True Story of Abuse|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Mojisola – known ''To claim space is to everyone as Ola – was born to a Nigerian couple in London in 1964 and spent live the first five years life of her life in a foster home in Brightonchoosing unapologetically and bravely. Here she was loved, looked after and lived her It is to live the life in a genuinely good family. This wasnyou't an unusual arrangement as it allowed the biological parents to earn money without worrying about childcare – and Ola was happyve always wanted. It was all the more cruel when her biological father arrived to take her 'home' for the weekend – a weekend which would stretch into seven years of abuse and neglect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846245907</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Max Pemberton|title=The Doctor Will See You Now|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The NHS Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is one of those things that everyone seems to have an opinion aboutmuch in the news, and this of course includes those of us who work for said organisation (the world''A Women's 3rd largest employer, donGuide to Claiming Space''tcha know)by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Max Pemberton Now - to be clear - this book is one of those peoplenot a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: a doctorit's something far more effective, though despite what you might assume from but discussion at the titlemoment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, not a GP but a hospital medicpeople who claim their own space. This is his third book on the subject of life (and death) within the walls of a hospital If all women did this, plus the odd excursion those few men who are violent to rather misnamed Care Homes, and it's women would realise that we are not a bad readjust an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340919949</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirin EbadiPolly Barton|title=The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One DestinyFifty Sounds|rating=4.5

|summary=Dr Ebadi is currently living in exileWhere do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, fearing with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for her safetya while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, should she return I don't know the answer to Iran the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the foreseeable future. Her Prologue question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes a violent and bloody reaction to what was a peaceful situation involving wivesas being, mothers and sisters. Boulders and large stones were thrown at elderlyamong other things, defenseless women without a momentthe sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''s hesitation. A taste of things to come?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0979845645</amazonuk>1913097501

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel HamiltonStephen Fabes|title=American Caesars: Lives Signs of the US Presidents, from Franklin D Roosevelt to George W BushLife

|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=The Premise is simple: take twelve men (I was brought up on maps and unfortunately they are all men, but that's not the author's fault) who have achieved high office first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and look at each of themcuriosity. FirstlyUnfortunately, take a look at I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the road guts to the high office, then how they performed once they reached their goal simply go out and finally a look at their private lifedo it. Suetonius did it first when he wrote ''The Twelve Caesars'I also didn' t inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and now Nigel Hamilton has taken basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the same journey with requisite 'bottle'American Caesars. In order words I'', m not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a remarkably in-depth look at twelve consecutive American presidents from the twentieth London hospital and early twenty-first centuries, starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and finishing with George W Bushnot come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099520419</amazonuk>1788161211

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bob Marshall-Andrews1504321383|title=Off Message: The Complete Antidote to Political HumbugSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5

|summary=Bob Marshall-Andrews entered Parliament in 1997, rather too late to ''You can't be a career politician (he was already an established QC) happy and with a profound distrust of authorityfulfilled on your own. He had no aspirations towards office, which was perhaps as well for all concerned as he would become best known for being You are not complete until you find 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 more political memoirs than any other – and I did wonder if this would be just one more to add to the pileman''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684412</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Karen Blixen|title=Out Of Africa|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=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 best for her. Itwas reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's more than a quarter of a century since I first saw usually fairly young) is rescued by the film 'handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up 'Out of Africa'without' and it's one of the few expectation that they will marry and have stayed with me over the intervening yearschildren. It wasnwas a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice't just the story, but the personality of Karen Blixen and the wonderful landscape of the Ngong Hills, south of Nairobi, in Kenya's Rift Valley. I remember looking for this book at the time, but being unable to find it, so the opportunity to read it now was too good to miss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951437</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Stephen Sedley|title=Ashes and Sparks: Essays On Law and Justice|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Some books are hard Move to read, and even harder to review. This is particularly true of what are essentially academic or "professional" books and you come to them as a lay reader. This then is my starting position on Ashes and Sparks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521170907</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Popular Science Reviews]]