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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Stafford-SmithAlastair Humphreys|title=Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of AmericaLocal
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=On 16 October 1986, Derrick Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and Duane Moo Young were shot cycled very close to home and killedthen wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, in Miamithe book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. British businessman Kris Maharaj was arrested Nature loss, pollution, land use and in 1987 he was convicted of their murders and sentenced to death. His defence lawyeraccess, Eric Hendonagriculture, took the unusual line food system, rewilding…'' One of offering the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no defence at all - when it came time to present his caseeasy answers, he simply rested. Kris protested his innocence throughoutno single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and continues to do so to this day. Despite weighty evidence in support of this, he still languishes in prison 26 years laterthat there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846556252</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gordon WeissEdel Rodriguez|title=The CageWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey
|rating=4
|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=The history of CeylonWe're in childhood, and latterly Sri Lanka we're in Cuba. The revolution has at its centre an undeniable contradiction. A nation which espoused happened, and proclaimed peaceful Buddhism was caught in one Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the bloodiest conflicts in the recent pastcountry, has proven himself a conflict peppered with suicide bombings, mass killings, rapesCommunist, torture and imprisonmentnot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, and more than a hint those hours-long speeches of his were kind of genocidetaking his time away. Gordon Weiss was intimately involved 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 a journalist Angola) and as the United Nations Spokesman in Sri Lanka father being watched and watched, and not liked for two years his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the almost 40 years conflictheat, and has produced a detailed account but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the background and eventual denouement of this conflict.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009954847X</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Siri HustvedtSarah Wilson|title=Living, Thinking, LookingThis 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 'Living, Thinking, Looking' What is a collection of essays by Siri Hustvedt which, she claims, are linked by an abiding curiosity about what it means you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be humanliving my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In these essays her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she examines who acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are and how '' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we got , I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that waywe are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444732633</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Brummer1785633457|title=Britain for SaleCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceTravel|summary=Buy British, we're constantly told, and many people do - Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the French, idea of exploring the Germansedges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, Qataris, Chinese... If you want to buy British you'd it should be hard pressed to use a British electricity company, the people shifting North Sea oil to you might be foreignpleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, the trains near you may be foreign-operatedJoan, and so much of whatshouldn's in the shops you buy from would of coursed be sourced from abroad, and shipped through foreign-owned ports. Whether or not the country is going to hell in a handcart, t it's moving in piecemeal stages to exterior business interests, and the British citizen gets the worst of the deal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940757</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere1529153050|title=This is Not the End of the Book;Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4.5|genre=EntertainmentHumour|summary=In many waysSeeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, the cover I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of my edition of this book is perfectly appropriate2022''. Huge, bold serif script, with nothing but the typeface; a declamatory instance of the art in the most common of fonts, and Sharp eyes will have noted that perfect semi-colon at the end of the bookwe's name - proving that that itself is re not yet through the year: the be-all and end-allcartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Buy this book, as you Who can, imagine what there will be to come in electronic form, and you might see this cover for ten seconds at most, but it is so much part and parcel of what's within.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552450</amazonuk>the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian BremmerB0B7289HKQ|title=Every Nation for ItselfConversations Across America: Winners A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and Losers in a G-Zero World300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya
|rating=4
|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=We're all used Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to terms spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like 'G7' which then became a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the 'G8' Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - the group all 4250 miles of countries which met periodically to thrash out global problems it - frequently with America being expected to take the lead where military muscle or finance was concernedin 2015. We even nod knowingly at They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the mention recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of the G20 - formed with the good intention a challenge that a larger group it would be able to tackle such issues as climate changefor most people who considered taking it on. We know where good intentions generally lead but there wasnMerv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer't even sufficient agreement amongst the nations to all head off in the same directions. So when a point was reached where America was no longer financially able or politically willing to play global policeman what was left?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921041</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1739593901
|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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.''
I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. 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 takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard ParryJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's ShadowsThe Book of Hope
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Just over a decade ago, 21-year-old Lucie Blackman went The done thing is to Japan in search of adventure, excitement, and read a book all the way to pay off her debts. A couple of months later, her disappearance set in motion a high profile investigation which would see her face plastered over the news for some time in this country. As so often happens with the media, though, there was a huge amount of interest in her plight, and her family's desperate search for her, and then, with the mystery looking less and less likely to be solved, the papers found something else to report on. Just over half a year later, there was a tragic end to the tale as her dismembered body was discovered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099502550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stieg Larsson|title=The Expo Files: Articles by the Crusading Journalist|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=[[:Category:Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|Stieg Larsson]] would not have known Anders Breivik, but if they'd coincided through before you can be damned sure he knew all there was sit down to know about himreview it. Larsson and his journalist colleagues were working to condemn the far-right activities throughout Europe, and open the truth about the right-wing Swedish parties to his audience, and here is constant proof he knew I’m making an awful lot about his awful subject. In just the first two, powerful, short essays exception here he brings terrorism in the UK, Italy and Oklahoma because I don’t want to his home audiencelose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, and discusses Swedish extremism in its light; showing the liberal laws in Sweden that allowed the extremists I want to be seen capture it as too much on the straight and narrow, too mainstream, and even able to enter parliamentit hits me. The idea of 'And it couldn't happen here' gets blown out the water, and as we've seen that is relevant to us everywherehitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051342</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Manhire (editor)1788360737|title=Artivism: The Arab Spring: Rebellion, revolution, and a new world orderBattle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=3.52|genre=Politics and Society|summary=A Tunisian man, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on 17th December 2010, Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in what appeared at the time to be a desperate gesture showing a complete lack of hope after his humiliation vacuum. It is made by a municipal officialpeople. What followed was one of Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the most remarkable events of recent years, as a wave of revolutions occured social environment in what became known as the Arab Springwhich he develops’’. As you'd expect from a top nwespaperTherefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Guardian had reporters, bloggers and columnists covering Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it all, is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and Toby Manhire provides media elites hoping to create a compilation of the paper's output heremore globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652542</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Everett1398508632|title=Language: The Cultural ToolWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Daniel Everett previously worked as a missionary in far flung corners of It had been on the world– cards for a fact that isn’t surprising given while but it was the number week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of references to faith that crop up over the pageseating only wild food. This new book The end of November, howeverparticularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, is about two much more appealing (to me) subjects: language and travel. If [[:Category:Bill Bryson|Bill Bryson]] is a travel writer with an interest in linguistics, then Daniel Everett is a linguist with an interest in travel. It’s not quite world where the ‘read it normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pool’ sort of book that Bryson might release but is somewhere between pandemic. Wilde had a formalised every day read and few advantages: the area around her was a text book known habitat with a big dollop variety of informality stirred interrains. The travel stories – jaunts She had electricity which allowed her to Brazilrun a fridge, Mexico freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and beyond – are greatfuel. Most importantly, and while you might think they’re taking things she had shelter: this was not a bit plan to ''live'' wild just to live off track (albeit in a rather pleasant way) sooner or later the linguistic point will become clearits produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682673</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kira Cochrane (editor)1529149800|title=Women of the RevolutionThings You Can Do: Forty Years of FeminismHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
|rating=4
|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Some revolutions happen faster than othersWe begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and the revolution in society's thinking about women is certainly one began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the more gradual onesfire. Kira Cochrane, Women The animals laughed: what good was that doing. 's Editor at the 'I'Guardianm doing the best I can'' from 2006 – 2010, has collected together said the best articles and essays from hummingbird. And that paper's women's section since 1971. The result, ''Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism''really, is a lively account of the more recent women's liberation movement in only way that we will solve the UK and problem of climate change – by each of the issues facing women in a modernus doing what we can, late twentieth/early twenty-first century societyhowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652275</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1638485216
|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
|author=Frederick Reynolds
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donovan HohnMatthieu Aikins|title=Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at SeaNaked Don't Fear the Water
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=In January 1992 a container ship was on its way from China It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the USA when Water isn't actually fiction, because it was caught in reads very much like a storm and two containers broke loose from the deckwell-paced thriller at times. They held nearly thirty thousand bath toys - yellow ducksThis is not by any means a criticism, green frogs, red beavers but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and blue turtles - which were freed when the containers broke up and have circumnavigated the globe for almost twenty yearsat times painful journey. Donovan Hohn was a teacher There are tense moments and when one gripping accounts of his students wrote an essay describing what border crossings which had happened to me on edge the toys whole way through. But it caught Hohn's imagination. The rest is - as they say - history written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and a very good bookpeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908526009</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others1785633074|title=The Library BookStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestyleHumour|summary=I had better begin Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by saying politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that I had a vested interest in liking this book since I am a chartered librarian myself 's for those of you who are Eton and so am wholeheartedly in support of saving our nationOxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime''s public librariesmovers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. But you don't need We are in the privileged position of having access to be a librarian to enjoy this bookthe memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. It is rich with anecdotes from some wonderful writers and makes a pleasant read whether you're keen You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to save libraries or notwatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Oakwater1846276772|title=Bubble Wrapped ChildrenThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=34.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it''Bubble Wrapped Children'' takes s simply a look at the state part of adoption in everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the UKdisabled. Jobs, and how aspects of it promotions, higher salaries are being threatened by the use preserve of social networksthe white man. The author, with over 20 years Even when those who wouldn' experience in t pass the adoption world, paints medical become a broad picture part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the issues facing adopters and adoptees. Peppering individuals on the text are some examples receiving end of unwanted Facebook contact from birth parents, which have had massive knock-on effects for the adopted childrenbias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920970</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Beauman1529148251|title=Shapely Ankle Preferr'dMisfits: A History of the Lonely Hearts AdvertisementPersonal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Gene Sharp is an American politologist and a veritable (and venerable) guru of non-violent struggle. The story behind the ''From Dictatorship How am I able to Democracy'' is a fascinating one. The bookbe so transparent on paper about rape, or a booklet really as it consists of 160 small pagesmalpractice and poverty, was apparently created in response to a request from Burmese dissenters in the early 1990yet still compartmentalise? It's. Sharp responded to this request by producing a generic text, a manual for as though I were telling the subversive that lies out the theory and practical advice for those engaged in a struggle to bring down a dictatorshiptruth whilst simultaneously running away from it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688396</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Foxcroft0008350388|title=Calories and Corsets: A history of dieting over two thousand yearsWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=We’re in that post''To be a dark-Christmas period when all the socialising and indulging skinned Black woman is over and all you’re left with is a pastyto be seen as less desirable, bloatedless hireable, overless intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-fed but under-nourished complexion, a wardrobe full of clothes just a little too tight and a new year’s resolution to Get Healthyskinned counterparts.. So it’s the perfect time for a new diet book to hit the shelves. The title of this one might make you think it’s going to be full of useful tips, and the cover does little to dispel this idea, groaning as it is with 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'We Need to Talk About Money''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684250</amazonuk>}}by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard HeinbergBrook|title=The End of Growth|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=With the newspapers full of economic doom and gloom the last thing you might want is Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide 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 the end. Yes, they’ll be some big changes – there have to be because the direction we’ve been heading in is just not sustainable – but if we’re willing to adapt, we will survive was the main message I picked up as I flicked through the pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570333</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Lammy|title=Out of the Ashes: Britain After the RiotsLife
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Just about everyone in the country was shocked as pictures of the 2011 riots (which began in Tottenham I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and spread to other major cities in the UK) unfolded on our television screenssometimes books choose us. EveryoneIn my case, that this is, except David Lammy, MP for one of the arealatter. He might not Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have known when skimmed it, found some of it would happen or what would trigger the riotinteresting, but a year before, he said that it would happen. This wasnnot have 'hit home't a lucky guess: Lammy was born in Tottenham and brought up on the Broadwater Farm Estate as one of five children raised by his single-parent mother and he knows whatway that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's happening on u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the groundbook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0852652674</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Harding1787332098|title=Mafia StateHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Luke Harding set himself a difficult task when he took up his post as the Guardian’s main man ''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in Moscow. He had already put his name to a front page story which appeared rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the Guardian in April 2007next David Attenborough series. This '' I was an account of an interview with the arch-oligarch and Kremlin criticgoing to argue. I mean, Boris Berezovskycows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat.. Harding was not at .) and I much prefer my elephants in the interview wild but added background to then I realised that I was quibbling for the article from Moscowsake of it. However, Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to be in any way associated with Berezovsky was sufficient animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to incur choose between the wrath company of humans and the Russian Federal Security Servicecompany of animals, I would probably choose the FSB – the successor animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to the KGBstop me but I was initially reluctant. The offending account was entitled I eat cheese, eggs, 'chicken and fish and I am plotting a new Russian revolution - London exile Berezovsky says force necessary needed to bring down President Putin'either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265247X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed Vulliamy1523092734|title=Amexica: War Along the BorderlineA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=More than 38,000 people have been killed ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in the last 3 years in what Ed Vulliamy argues is an unacknowledged warher life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, on the long border (2former CMO,100 milesCirque du Soleil RSD) between Mexico ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and the United Statesbravely. The war It is between drug trafficking gangs over control of the lucrative drugs trade from Mexico to live the US. In this compelling and disturbing work of reportage Vulliamy travels through the borderlands meeting some of the people affectedlife you've always wanted. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546566</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen H SegalPolly Barton|title=Geek WisdomFifty Sounds
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Where do I am by no means a fully fledged geekstart? I could start with where Barton herself starts, but on with the Big Bang scale Iquestion 'm probably more of a Leonard than a Penny. I was weaned on 'Why Japan?'Star Trek '', chose ''Hitchhiker’s Guide... '' as Japan has been on my reading aloud piece radar for a Year 7 exam, while and think it if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would be more than a little fun to take a trip to Comic Conhave visited by now. At the same timeI may get there later this year, there are gaping holes in my knowledgebut I am not hopeful. My first celeb crush might have been ''Blake’s 7’s'' Villa but And like Barton, Idon've never seen a t know the answer to the question ''Batmanwhy Japan?'' filmShe explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, never read a comic book, never quite understood what all which is on the sound ''giro'Star Wars'' fuss was about. If Sci Fi is a religion, then this is the book that can fill me in one the stories– which she describes as being, the parablesamong other things, the rules, as it were, sound of geekdom. I had ''every party where you have to have itintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594745277</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laurence Manley (editor)Stephen Fabes|title=The Cambridge Companion to the Literature Signs of LondonLife|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=The history I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of London is a long far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and storied onecuriosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn's unsurprising t inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that so many people would have written about meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the capitalrequisite 'bottle'. In order words I've always loved m not the city, its history and novels and plays set within London, so was really keen to sort of person who will get my hands on this new volume in the Cambridge Companion seriesa bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0521722314</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1504321383
|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
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