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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Travel |summary=Politics Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and society=that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim MooreEdel Rodriguez|title=You Are Awful (But I Like You)Worm: Travels Through Unloved BritainA Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre=TravelGraphic Novels|summary=This is not the first book IWe've read about the scummy, unloved corners of our countryre in childhood, and I approached it we're in just the same way I did with the last - I looked to see if it might feature Leicester, where I liveCuba. The opinion seems to be that you can only like Leicester enough to be proud revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of it if you're not from there originally - and as I grew up on a saviour of the edge of country, has proven himself a village in the middle of nowhereCommunist, it suits me fineand not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. But no Well, those hours- despite its problems (thanks, Labour councils) it doesn't countlong speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. ItOur narrator's not grottyfamily weren't in the happiest of places here, ugly, runan uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-down and unappreciated enough. It still has some semblance of lifeCommunism skirmish, unlike too many towns such as Angola) and cities in Britain where the industryfather being watched and watched, the jobs, the life and the thought have been sucked outnot liked for his successful photography business, seemingly beyond repairsuccess being frowned upon. After stumbling upon The mother gets the nightmare that is couple jobs with the out-party to ease some of-seasonthe heat, redundant English coastal townbut in this sultry island country, our author has valiantly journeyed round many it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of these grot-spots, and found the story of decrepitude only exacerbating.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099546930</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy Birmingham and David McNeillSarah Wilson|title=Strong This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disastera fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=In 2011, Japan was hit by a 9My 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.0 magnitude earthquake, followed by a tsunami '' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and a nuclear meltdownprecious life the way I want to. The tale of this devastating trio of tragedies Sarah Wilson is told by two journalists whoequally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can've lived in Tokyo for years, and t see that she acknowledges the pairing of Birmingham and McNeil give source) she pushes us a real insight into just how this could have happened and to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the way best life that half a dozen peoplewe could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, from all walks of lifeshe thinks you (we, responded to itI) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230341861</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Selina Guinness1785633457|title=The Crocodile by Charging Around: Exploring the Door: The Story Edges of a House, a Farm and a FamilyEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson
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|genre=BiographyTravel|summary=Selina Guinness lived at Tibradden as Clive Wilkinson has a child and in 2002 she and her husband-to-be, Colin Graham, moved back to the house when her elderly uncle Charles became frailhistory of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. The surname might lead you to suspect that there were brewery millions in As he neared his eightieth birthday the background but this wasn't idea of exploring the case. The couple were young academics and doing what needed to be done at Tibradden would need to be done edges of England in addition to full-time jobs. The house an electric car was on the outskirts of Dublin - 'derelict fields' if you were a property developer or the last defence against the encroaching city if you were nottotally outrageous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844881571</amazonuk>In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick1529153050|title=The Untold History of the United StatesBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryHumour|summary=It's been said that history is written by Seeking some light relief from the victors. It would also be pertinent to add that the writing will always polish up the worthy parts whilst whilst finding a convenient carpet under which can be swept the events which are best forgotten. There's no country with a victory under its belt current political turmoil which is above this practice: coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, Iwas nudged towards 've just been brought up very sharply as I considered the Irish potato famine from the [[The Famine Plot: England'Britain's Role in IrelandBest Political Cartoons of 2022''s Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan|Irish perspective]]. ThatSharp eyes will have noted that we's a story you'll re not read in many British history booksyet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. The majority of British people would accept though that their country has had an imperialist past - and that Who can imagine what there will be to come in the natives have not always thrown themselves down in front of us in their joy at our arrival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091949297</amazonuk>2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe RhodesB0B7289HKQ|title=Black Cats and Evil EyesConversations Across America: A Book of Old-Fashioned Superstitions|rating=4.5|genre=Politics Father and Society|summary=If you had asked me I would have said that I was not in the least superstitious. I don't have a horseshoe hung outside the houseSon, don't have any concerns about the date 'Friday the 13th' and accept that a broken mirror is an unfortunate accident rather than a blight on my life for the next seven years. After all, itAlzheimer's simply a matter of applying logic to the situation. There are sensible reasons for not walking under ladders or opening an umbrella is the house. Not passing someone on the stairs is just being safety conscious, isn't it? Then my husband sneezed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178877</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roger Osborne|title=Of the People, By the People: A New History of Democracy|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Most authors writing on the subject of democracy tend to concentrate on political theory. Osborne approaches 300 Conversations Along the subject from the historical angle instead, looking at different democracies from TransAmerica Bike Trail that of Greece in Capture the sixth century BC, to the present day. 'Humanity's finest achievement', as Osborne calls it in the first sentence Soul of his prologue, comes from the Greek words ''demos'' (people) and ''kratos'' (rule). It had its origins in the system devised in ancient Athens, the earliest in the world which did not first operate through complex relations of kinship and deference, as had others up to then. Parallels would be seen in Rome a few centuries later.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845950623</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAmerica|author=Simon Hoggart|title=House of Fun: 20 glorious years in parliamentKari Loya
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary='House of Fun' is a selection of some of the best of the parliamentary sketches which Simon Hoggart has written for the Guardian. In time they range from the 1993 Liberal Conference Kari (as as you're probably thinking itthat rhymes with ‘sorry’, it's worth quoting by the 'Little changes... except, periodically, the name of the party'way) through wanted to spend some time with his father and the G4S (another case where there have been name changesperiod between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it...) debacle just prior The decision was made to ride the 2012 Olympics. So far as Prime Ministers are concernedTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, we start with John Major and wend our way through Virginia to CameronAstoria, with the Conservatives bookOregon - all 4250 miles of it -ending the Blair/Brown warin 2015. But They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the point about parliamentary sketches is recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that they are under no obligation to record the major events: they illuminate the unusual, the usually unrecorded it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and the thoughthe was suffering from early-provoking incidents of life in the political worldstage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852653816</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Hume1739593901|title=There Is No Such Thing As A Free Press22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=I'll confess that the phone-hacking scandal largely left me cold. It seemed to 'Our future will be about people who had courted the media interest complaining that they had caught the media's interest when they didn't intend to do somore complex than we expected. Then the hacking Instead of murdered teenager Milly Dowler's phone came to light flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and disinterest turned automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to disgust. The Leveson Enquiry became the best show in town if you really wanted to hear about what celebrities had been doing and I moved to wondering what the outcome would be and whether it would prove to be a talking shop and waste of moneytrack grandma. It might have remained that way if the Jimmy Savile scandal hadn't dominated the news for a couple of weeks and I really began to wonder if we here at Bookbag Towers were the ''only'' people hadn't known what was going on. Why hadn't this made headlines when other less important news had? I needed to know more about the press. I particularly needed to know if increased regulation - which seems almost inevitable - could produce more Jimmy Saviles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845403509</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley HarrisonJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Sylvia Pankhurst: The Rebellious SuffragetteBook of Hope |rating=4.5|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society |summary=To some extent, the history of the suffragettes was also the history of the Pankhurst family. Sylvia, born in 1882, was the second daughter of Dr Richard and Emmeline Pankhurst, and one of three sisters. The family had always been heavily politicised, Richard being done thing is to read a founder member of book all the Fabian Society alongside George Bernard Shaw and H.Gway through before you sit down to review it. Wells, and the children had quite I’m making an austere upbringing. When their father’s health took a sudden turn for the worse in 1898exception here, Emmeline and eldest daughter Christabel were abroad on business and Sylvia was left in charge because I don’t want to lose any of her younger siblings as well as having to nurse him, taking the full force experience of the shock when he died in her armsreading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. With his passing the family were left strangely detached from each otherAnd it is hitting me. His widow became heavily involved This beautiful book has me in public work and political agitation, an increasingly remote mother from the young children who needed hertears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780950187</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kaiser1788360737|title=How the Hippies Saved PhysicsArtivism: Science, Counterculture, and The Battle for Museums in the Quantum RevivalEra of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=3.52|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=In his introduction Professor Kaiser states 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 there are three ways ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the west coast hippies have benefited the development Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of Physics; they opened up deeper speculation into the fundamental philosophy behind quantum theory, they latched on so-called artivism has caused artists to a crucial theorem of Bell, about what Einstein termed ''spooky'' interactions between particles at a distancebecome more overtly political (read: left wing). This might otherwise Their seemingly grass roots movements have been totally neglected. Thirdly they propounded a key idea which has become known as the 'noastroturfed by large “left-cloning theorem'. Kaiser tells wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a lucid account as might be expected from the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science more globalist and department chief in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's programprogressive regime. Incidentally he also provides an engaging insight into the American industrial-military complex and associated institutions like the Californian University Or at Berkleyleast that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039334231X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clive Stafford-Smith1398508632|title=Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of AmericaThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=On 16 October 1986, Derrick and Duane Moo Young were shot and killedIt had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Miami. British businessman Kris Maharaj Central Scotland was arrestedperhaps not the best time to start, and in 1987 he was convicted of their murders a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and sentenced to deatha pandemic. His defence lawyer, Eric Hendon, took Wilde had a few advantages: the unusual line area around her was a known habitat with a variety of offering no defence at all - when it came time terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to present his caserun a fridge, he simply restedfreezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Kris protested his innocence throughout Most importantly, and continues she had shelter: this was not a plan to do so ''live'' wild just to this daylive off its produce. Despite weighty evidence in support of this, he still languishes in prison 26 years later.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556252</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Weiss1529149800|title=The CageThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=HistoryHome and Family|summary=The history We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of Ceylonthem stood and watched, and latterly Sri Lanka has at its centre an undeniable contradictionunable to think of anything they could do. A nation which espoused The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and proclaimed peaceful Buddhism was caught in one began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the bloodiest conflicts in fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the recent pastbest I can'', a conflict peppered with suicide bombings, mass killings, rapessaid the hummingbird. And that, torture and imprisonmentreally, and more than a hint of genocide. Gordon Weiss was intimately involved as a journalist and as is the United Nations Spokesman in Sri Lanka for two years of only way that we will solve the almost 40 years conflict, and has produced a detailed account problem of the background and eventual denouement climate change – by each of this conflictus doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954847X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
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|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''
''One more body just wouldn't matter''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex BrummerMatthieu Aikins|title=Britain for SaleThe Naked Don't Fear the Water
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|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=Buy British, weIt's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn're constantly toldt actually fiction, and many people do because it reads very much like a well- the Frenchpaced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, the Germans, Qataris, Chinese... If you want but rather a testament to buy British you'd be hard pressed how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to use accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a British electricity company, the people shifting North Sea oil to you might be foreign, the trains near you may be foreign-operated, vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and so much gripping accounts of what's in border crossings which had me on edge the shops you buy from would of coursed be sourced from abroad, and shipped whole way through foreign-owned ports. Whether or not the country is going to hell in a handcart, But it's moving in piecemeal stages to exterior business interests, written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the British citizen gets reader to perfectly envisage the worst of the dealenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847940757</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere1785633074|title=This is Not the End of the Book;Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry
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|genre=EntertainmentHumour|summary=In many waysMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the cover ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of my edition of this book you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is perfectly appropriatethat the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. Huge, bold serif script, with nothing but We are in the typeface; a declamatory instance privileged position of having access to the art in the most common memoirs of fontsRafe Hubris, and that perfect semi-colon at the end man who was behind the skilful control of the book's name - proving that that itself is not Covid crisis which was completely contained by the be-all and end-allof 2020. Buy this book, as you can, in electronic form, and you You might see this cover for ten seconds at most, not know the name now but it is so much part and parcel of what's withinhe will certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552450</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Bremmer1846276772|title=Every Nation for ItselfThe End of Bias: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero WorldHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5
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|summary=We're all used Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to terms like 'G7' which then became the they suffer from it: it'G8' - the group s simply a part of countries which met periodically to thrash out global problems - frequently with America being expected to take everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the lead where military muscle or finance was concerneddisabled. We even nod knowingly at Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the mention preserve of the G20 - formed with white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the good intention medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that a larger group would be able to tackle such issues as climate changetheir views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. We know where good intentions generally lead It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but there wasnit't even sufficient agreement amongst s not just the nations to all head off in the same directionindividuals who are negatively impacted. 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
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|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
|author=Michaela Coel
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|summary=''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 truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''
Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Parry0008350388|title=People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's ShadowsWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|summary=Just over ''To be a decade ago, 21dark-year-old Lucie Blackman went skinned Black woman is to Japan in search of adventurebe seen as less desirable, excitementless hireable, less intelligent and a way to pay off her debtsultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts.. 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 ' ''We Need 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>}}Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel EverettRichard Brook|title=LanguageUnderstanding Human Nature: The Cultural ToolA User's Guide to Life
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|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Daniel Everett previously worked as I am a missionary in far flung corners of the world– a fact firm believer that isn’t surprising given the number sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of references to faith that crop up over the pageslatter. This new Not so very long ago, if I had come across this bookI'd have skimmed it, howeverfound some of it interesting, is about two much more appealing (but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me) subjects: language and travelnot just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. If [[:Category:Bill Bryson|Bill Bryson]] is a travel writer with an interest in linguisticsthat people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, then Daniel Everett so there is a linguist with an interest in travel. It’s not quite predisposition towards expecting to like the ‘read book, even if it by a pool’ sort of book doesn't always turn out that Bryson might release way'' ] – but also because it is somewhere between a formalised every day read and a text book with a big dollop of informality stirred in. The travel stories – jaunts I needed to Brazilread, 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 clearright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846682673</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kira Cochrane (editor)1787332098|title=Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of FeminismHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=45
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|summary=Some revolutions happen faster than others''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and the revolution so on. And we assign them places in society's thinking about women is certainly one of the more gradual ones. Kira Cochrane: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, Women's Editor at the ''Guardian'' from 2006 – 2010elephants in zoos, has collected together the best articles and essays from that papermillions of wild animals stay out there, 's women's section since 1971. The resultsomewhere, ''Women of hopefully on the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminismnext David Attenborough series.'', is a lively account of the more recent women's liberation movement in the UK and of the issues facing women in a modern, late twentieth/early twenty-first century society.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652275</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Stone (editor)1523092734|title=Lotteries in Public LifeA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
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|summary=Peter Stone's reader is an examination not so much of examples of lotteries 'She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in public her life, but of the theoretical . Again and again and conceptual issues which the use of again.'sortation' in decision taking raises. There are essays here about the use of the lottery in politics(Alma Derricks, former CMO, in allocating scarce resources (such as school places or human organsCirque du Soleil RSD) and even on ''To claim space is to live the problems life of defining the lottery choosing unapologetically and the methods for assuring fairnessbravely. Because lotteries are used in many societies It is to resolve issues and perhaps because of recent discussion of live the use of the lottery to allocate school places, this is a hot issue which raises fundamental questions about democracy and choicelife you've always wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402081</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and othersPolly Barton|title=The Library BookFifty Sounds
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|summary=Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Bubble Wrapped ChildrenWhy Japan?'' takes Japan has been on my radar for a look at while and if the state of adoption in the UKworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, and how aspects of it are being threatened by the use of social networksbut I am not hopeful. The authorAnd like Barton, with over 20 yearsI don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' experience She explains her feelings in the adoption world, paints a broad picture respect of the issues facing adopters and adoptees. Peppering question in the text are some examples of unwanted Facebook contact from birth parentsfirst essay, which have had massive knock-is on effects for the adopted childrensound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780920970</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francesca BeaumanStephen Fabes|title=Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History Signs of the Lonely Hearts AdvertisementLife
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|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=You might think the Lonely Hearts ad a trivial matterI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. You might think it should appear in lower case and not be capitalisedUnfortunately, but youI didn'd be in disagreement with Ms Beauman, who gives a big L t inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and a big H to do it every time she writes of it in her survey of its history. WhatI also didn's moret inherit the kind of steady nerve, she gets ability to talk to write about a lot more than just strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. In order words I'm not the contents sort of the adverts in this brilliant bookperson who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009951334X</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Yifu Lin1504321383|title=Demystifying the Chinese Economy|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=The success of the Chinese economySingle, Again, and as Lin makes us aware, a success which contrasts strongly with what appeared major failure in the recent historical past, is something which needs explanation. No one can ignore itAgain, and we are confronted with the effects of it from the ownership of Thames water to the faces of tourists in London and Stratford on a daily basis. And in the roots of its success are the potential seeds of future change, a change that now more than ever is crucial to the way the world economy works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521181747</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAgain|author=James Palmer|title=The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New ChinaLouisa Pateman
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|genre=HistoryAutobiography|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''You can't the birth of 2012, it's the dawn of 1976. Chairman Mao is dying, Premier Zhou Enlai has just died, be happy and the cauldron of power is being stirred as never beforefulfilled on your own. 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 You are not complete until you find a veritable (and venerable) guru of non-violent struggle. The story behind the 'man'From Dictatorship to Democracy'' is a fascinating one. The book, or a booklet really as it consists of 160 small pages, was apparently created in response to a request from Burmese dissenters in the early 1990's. Sharp responded to this request 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 dictatorship.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688396</amazonuk>}}
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