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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=Politics 5|genre=Travel |summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and society=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=David KaiserEdel Rodriguez|title=How Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the Hippies Saved Physics: Scienceheat, Counterculturebut in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the Quantum Revivalpath back to connection in a fractured world
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|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=In his introduction Professor Kaiser states that there are three ways 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 get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the west coast hippies have benefited the development of Physics; they opened up deeper speculation into way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the fundamental philosophy behind quantum theory, they latched on source) she pushes us to a crucial theorem of Bell, think about what Einstein termed whether we really ''spookyare'' interactions between particles at a distanceliving the life we want – the best life that we could be living. This might otherwise have been totally neglected. Thirdly they propounded a key idea which has become known as the Her answer is an unequivocal ''no-cloning theorem, we are not''. Kaiser tells a lucid account as might Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be expected from the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and department chief in the Massachusetts Institute of Technologydoing more…And she's program. Incidentally he also provides an engaging insight into effing furious about the American industrial-military complex and associated institutions like the Californian University at Berkleyfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>039334231X</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clive Stafford-Smith1785633457|title=InjusticeCharging Around: Life and Death in Exploring the Courtrooms Edges of AmericaEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=On 16 October 1986, Derrick and Duane Moo Young were shot and killed, in MiamiClive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. British businessman Kris Maharaj was arrested, and As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in 1987 he an electric car was convicted of their murders and sentenced to deathnot totally outrageous. His defence lawyer, Eric HendonIn fact, took the unusual line of offering no defence at all - when it came time to present should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his casewife, he simply rested. Kris protested his innocence throughoutJoan, and continues to do so to this day. Despite weighty evidence in support of this, he still languishes in prison 26 years later.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556252</amazonuk>shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Weiss1529153050|title=The CageBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson
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|genre=HistoryHumour|summary=The history of Ceylon, Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and latterly Sri Lanka has at its centre more like an undeniable contradiction. A nation which espoused and proclaimed peaceful Buddhism adrenaline sport, I was caught in one nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the bloodiest conflicts in year: the recent past, a conflict peppered with suicide bombings, mass killings, rapes, torture and imprisonment, and more than a hint of genocidecartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Gordon Weiss was intimately involved as a journalist and as the United Nations Spokesman Who can imagine what there will be to come in Sri Lanka for two years of the almost 40 years conflict, and has produced a detailed account of the background and eventual denouement of this conflict.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954847X</amazonuk>2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siri HustvedtB0B7289HKQ|title=LivingConversations Across America: A Father and Son, ThinkingAlzheimer's, Lookingand 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=LifestyleTravel|summary='LivingKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, Thinking, Looking' is by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a collection of essays by Siri Hustvedt whichgood time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, she claimsVirginia to Astoria, are linked by an abiding curiosity about what Oregon - all 4250 miles of it means - in 2015. They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be humanfor most people who considered taking it on. In these essays she examines who we are Merv Loya was 75 years old and how we got that wayhe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Umberto Eco Jane Goodall and Jean-Claude CarriereDouglas Abrams |title=This is Not the End The Book of the Book;Hope |rating=4.5|genre=EntertainmentPolitics and Society |summary=In many ways, The done thing is to read a book all the cover of my edition of this book is perfectly appropriateway through before you sit down to review it. Huge, bold serif scriptI’m making an exception here, with nothing but the typeface; a declamatory instance of the art in the most common because I don’t want to lose any of fonts, and that perfect semi-colon at the end experience of the book's name - proving that that itself is not the be-all and end-all. Buy reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as you can, in electronic form, and you might see this cover for ten seconds at most, but it hits me. And it is so much part and parcel of what's withinhitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099552450</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Bremmer1788360737|title=Every Nation Artivism: The Battle for Itself: Winners and Losers Museums in a G-Zero Worldthe Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=42|genre=Politics and Society|summary=We're all used Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to terms like 'G7' which then became modifying the 'G8' - the group of countries social environment in which met periodically to thrash out global problems - frequently with America being expected to take the lead where military muscle or finance was concernedhe develops’’. We Therefore, all art must be political, even nod knowingly at implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the mention Era of the G20 Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so- formed with the good intention that a larger group would be able called artivism has caused artists to tackle such issues as climate changebecome more overtly political (read: left wing). We know where good intentions generally lead but there wasn't even sufficient agreement amongst the nations Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to all head off in the same directioncreate a more globalist and progressive regime. So when a point was reached where America was no longer financially able or politically willing to play global policeman Or at least that’s what was left?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921041</amazonuk>Alexander Adams believes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Parry1398508632|title=People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's ShadowsThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Just over It had been on the cards for a decade ago, 21while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year-old Lucie Blackman went to Japan in search of adventure, excitement, and a way to pay off her debtseating only wild food. A couple The end of months laterNovember, her disappearance set particularly in motion a high profile investigation which would see her face plastered over Central Scotland was perhaps not the news for some best time to start, in this countrya world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. As so often happens with Wilde had a few advantages: the media, though, there area around her was a huge amount known habitat with a variety of interest in terrains. She had electricity which allowed her plightto run a fridge, freezer and her family's desperate search for her, and then, with the mystery looking less dehydrator. She had a car - and less likely to be solved, the papers found something else to report onfuel. Just over half a year later Most importantly, there she had shelter: this was not a tragic end plan to ''live'' wild just to the tale as her dismembered body was discoveredlive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099502550</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stieg Larsson1529149800|title=The Expo Files: Articles by the Crusading Journalist|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=[[:CategoryThings You Can Do:Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|Stieg Larsson]] would not have known Anders Breivik, but if they'd coincided you can be damned sure he knew all there was to know about him. 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 an awful lot about his awful subject. In just the first two, powerful, short essays here he brings terrorism in the UK, Italy and Oklahoma to his home audience, and discusses Swedish extremism in its light; showing the liberal laws in Sweden that allowed the extremists How to be seen as too much on the straight Fight Climate Change and narrow, too mainstream, and even able to enter parliament. The idea of 'it couldn't happen here' gets blown out the water, and as we've seen that is relevant to us everywhere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051342</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewReduce Waste|author=Toby Manhire (editor)|title=The Arab Spring: Rebellion, revolution, Eduardo Garcia and a new world order|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=A Tunisian man, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on 17th December 2010, in what appeared at the time to be a desperate gesture showing a complete lack of hope after his humiliation by a municipal official. What followed was one of the most remarkable events of recent years, as a wave of revolutions occured in what became known as the Arab Spring. As you'd expect from a top nwespaper, the Guardian had reporters, bloggers and columnists covering it all, and Toby Manhire provides a compilation of the paper's output here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652542</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel Everett|title=Language: The Cultural Tool|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Daniel Everett previously worked as a missionary in far flung corners of the world– a fact that isn’t surprising given the number of references to faith that crop up over the pages. This new book, however, 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 the ‘read it by a pool’ sort of book that Bryson might release but is somewhere between a formalised every day read and a text book with a big dollop of informality stirred in. The travel stories – jaunts to Brazil, Mexico and beyond – are great, and while you might think they’re taking things a bit off track (albeit in a rather pleasant way) sooner or later the linguistic point will become clear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682673</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kira Cochrane (editor)|title=Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of FeminismSara Boccaccini Meadows
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|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>}} {{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 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 the Locked Ward, he clearly is one of those people, made all the more remarkable by the fact that this wasn’t his life long vocation, having previously worked as a school teacher (some might say an equally challenging role). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093606</amazonuk>}}Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David LammyRichard Brook|title=Out of the AshesUnderstanding Human Nature: Britain After the RiotsA User's Guide to Life
|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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