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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The EconomistAlastair Humphreys|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015Local|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceTravel |summary=There are people who don't understand Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the joy of raw data: no accompanying analysis (or spin) - just a collection of figures relevant to a particular circumstanceworld. If you're one of those people And then written about it. For this book will mean little he walked and cycled very close to youhome and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, but if you want the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a pocket (wellsmall map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, certainly handbag or briefcase) work rewilding…'' One of the joys of reference then this the book will be 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 treasuredownside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. I once gave The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a copy Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a diplomat and he kept level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his wife awake until time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the early hours country demanded (especially as he came across another gem which she had would probably be shipped off to know without delaysome 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 2015 edition is mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the twenty fourth heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for kind of heat forcing you out of the onslaught.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=Stand This One Wild and DeliverPrecious Life: A Design for Successful Government|author=Ed Strawthe path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Confidence My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in politicians which she asks ''What is at an all-time lowit 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 way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In fact, an alarming number of Britons express outright contempt, not just for their leaders, but for her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the entire political class - for source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the politicans themselves, for life we want – the civil servants standing behind thembest life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, even for the Westminster bubble of commentators and policy wonks. We vote for them in ever-decreasing numbers and even those who continue to vote often do we are not feel represented''. Worse still Don't care what you're doing, the younger she thinks you are(we, the more likely you are to I) could be politically disengaged. Wedoing more…And she're in danger of losing an entire generation from s effing furious about the political processfact that we are not. How can this be good for a democracy?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099294760X</amazonuk>1785633848

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Harry's Last StandCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Harry Leslie SmithClive Wilkinson

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith rose to prominence last year Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a famous Guardian article 'This year, I will wear a poppy preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the last time' about the way in which idea of exploring the remembrance edges of those who died England in the great wars has been co-opted to justify today’s military conflictsan electric car was not totally outrageous. HereIn fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, he tackles themes of povertyJoan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153050|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political corruptionturmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, unemployment, and a lack I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of hope felt by so many people today2022''. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848317263</amazonuk> Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B7289HKQ|title=Angela MerkelConversations Across America: The Chancellor A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and Her World300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Stefan KorneliusKari Loya

|genre=BiographyTravel|summary=You have Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to admire spend some time with his father and the lady, this rather awkward and shy daughter of period between two jobs seemed like a staunch Lutheran pastor who himself had been born as a Polish Catholicgood time to do it. His daughter studied with such intelligence and application that soon brought her academic success particularly in Russian and finally in Quantum Chemistry. At The decision was made to ride the age of 26Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, she obtained her doctorate and Oregon - in passing, all 4250 miles of it rather seems - her first husband, the physicist Ulrike Merkelin 2015. Her rise They had 73 days to power was rapid and took place through do it - slightly less than the period in recommended time - but there were factors which the DDR collapsed pointed this up as Russian policy under Gorbachev changedmore of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Along with a wry Merv Loya was 75 years old and dry sense of humour Angela Merkel’s personality is the embodiment of the characteristic known in German as ''fleissighe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer'' - hardworking, sedulous, diligent and assiduouss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883180</amazonuk>

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|titleauthor=An Atheist's History of BeliefJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |authortitle=Matthew KnealeThe Book of Hope |rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=I’ve been an atheist since I was old enough The done thing is to take read a view on book all the subjectway through before you sit down to review it. (Many atheists would argue that we’re all atheists at birthI’m making an exception here, but that’s not a subject for a because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book review). , I did have want to take Religious Studies at school but have entirely forgotten almost everything I learned!capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584425</amazonuk>024147857X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788360737|title=Notebooks, 1922-86Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Michael OakeshottAlexander Adams|rating=3.52|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Michael Oakeshott Can art ever be apolitical? All art is usually described as political because art is not made in a conservative thinkervacuum. It is made by people. According Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to Perry Andersonmodifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his work influenced John Major's style of politics; he named him new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the London Review Era of Books in 1992 as one of four ‘outstanding European theorists of the intransigent Right’Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. Luke O’Sullivan, who edited this collection The recent trend of notebooks, so-called artivism has often said that he considers such descriptions limitingcaused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). O’Sullivan is clearly enthusiastic about Oakeshott’s work Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and strove media elites hoping to enable these notebooks, spanning create a period of over sixty years, to be publishedmore globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845400542</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday LifeWilderness Cure|author=Uri Gneezy and John ListMo Wilde

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Wow! This is It had been on the cards for a most surprising economics book.  Behavioral economists (if you’ll excuse while but it was the American spelling) investigate people’s buying behaviour and consuming patternsweek-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. I guess we know about that already because supermarkets here lull us into buying three for the price The end of twoNovember, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to come back next week for £10 off start, in a £100world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, or to garner extra points on Brexit and a loyalty card (Oh why can’t they just go for pandemic. Wilde had a cheaper price at few advantages: the point area around her was a known habitat with a variety of sale? Why do profits have terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to be in double percentage point increases year on year?)run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. A fair bit of manipulation to ensure that She had a company survives is already part car - and parcel of our livesfuel. If you’d asked me before I read this book Most importantly, I would have lined up that sort of consumer marketing psychology alongside banking as profiteering. However … these guys are differentshe had shelter: they really do seem this was not a plan to care about the plight of the underprivileged, and they come from an academic setting, rather than a commercial one''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946747</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alain de Botton1529149800|title=The NewsThings You Can Do: A User's ManualHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Alain de Botton maintains that 'We begin with a telling story. All the news' has assumed birds and animals fled when the position in our lives which was once occupied by religionforest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, with some consumers viewing it as often as every fifteen minutes (slight blush there - let's say about every hourunable to think of anything they could do...) The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. Furthermore, we do it completely unprotected against every political scandal or celebrity storyThe animals laughed: what good was that doing. The sub-title 'A User's ManualI'm doing the best I can'' sets out to remedy this, said the hummingbird. And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HYGYIGA</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert A Caro1638485216|title=The Years of Lyndon JohnsonBlack, White, and Gray All Over: Means of AscentA Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds

|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. Ithas everything to do with character. Period.'' ''s only a One more body just wouldn't matter of days since I finished listening to [[''. The Years murder of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Robert A Caro|The Years Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power]], Minneapolis sent shock waves around the first part world. We rarely see pictures of Robert A Caroa murder taking place but Floyd's definitive work death was an exception. The image of Chauvin kneeling on the President George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and despite having just spent over forty hours on the book I wanted to learn moreprotests which followed cannot have been unexpected. I There was torn though - the second book in a series is not often as good as backlash against the first police - and it struck me that these might not be the most exciting years just in JohnsonMinneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all''s life. Was this book going to be the link which took us on to tarred by the more exciting times? Not a bit of itChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GSHD0U6</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Good African Story: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee BrandMatthieu Aikins|authortitle=Andrew RugasiraThe Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=34.5

|summary=There are few billionaire black African entrepreneurs. As Andrew Rugasira points out in It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don'A Good African Story't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, the people but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who make money decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from African exports Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are virtually always white Westernerstense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. Even Fair Trade participants remain skewed by But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the status quo of trade barriers which discriminate against Third World countriesenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099571927</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Play It Again: An Amateur Against The ImpossibleStaggering Hubris|author=Alan RusbridgerJosh Berry

|summary=It was ever thus… cyclists go too fastMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, without using a hooter or lights; there are hoodlums everywhere one looks, and no public conveniences; people pretend to have qualifications and degrees they havenheaded by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares''t rightfully earned; buses are too busy with shopping women who should be indoors already, cooking for their working menfolk… It(that's a very clever idea to show exactly what is behind the 'disgusted for those of Tunbridge Wells' tag, you who are Eton and as a book to be shelved alongside those with Oxbridge educated) but the wackier letters sent to reality is that the ''Daily Telegraphprime'', these selections from movers are the special advisers - the Royal town's press itself make a great eyeSPADS -opener who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the complaints and complainants memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of Kent2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096918</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?: A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050We Change Our Minds|author=Bjorn Lomborg (Editor)Jessica Nordell

|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's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The authors are leading researchers in their fields, and their papers have been critiqued by peer-reviewersable will come before the disabled. Each Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the chapters reports white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the results of medical become a modelling exercise, examining progress or decline in one part of ten key areasan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, including armed conflict, trade barriers, malnutrition, air pollution, ecosystem and biodiversity, health, water and sanitationthat their concerns are acknowledged. Key economic, growth It's personally appalling and other variables from credible sources provided a common set degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of data and assumptions, used in each studythe bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1107679338</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Benn1529148251|title=The Last DiariesMisfits: A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Throughout my life I've found that whilst I might not always agree with Tony Benn's politics, whatever he had to say would give me food for thought - and frequently changed the way that I viewed a situation. He's a wonderful mixture of supreme intelligence and humanity which is so rarely found - particularly in modern-day politics and it was with some misgivings that I opened this volume of his diaries, given that the slipcover speaks of the ''compensations and challenges of old age'' and ''the disadvantages of growing older, the loneliness of widowhood, the upheaval of moving from the family home of sixty years and the problems of failing health.'' I've always been relieved that Benn has never ''quite'' achieved the status of national treasure, but surely he couldn't be in decline?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091943876</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=What Should We Tell Our Daughters?: The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up FemalePersonal Manifesto|author=Melissa BennMichaela Coel|rating=35

|summary='I 'How am shocked when I read young feminists today blithely admitting that they donable to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It't know what second-wave feminists wrotes as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''

As Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a twentycertain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-something year old feminist, it pains me to admit how much this quote applied help book. You're going to me. Having grown up knowing that college and university were paths I could definitely take, never being told that settling down and finding a husband read writing which was an important goal inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to have, and always getting professionals within the same opportunities as my male peers in television industry at the workplace, IEdinburgh TV Festival. You might be 'd never seen – or, at least, 'reading'thought'the book but you need to ' I'd seen – listen'' to the inequalities, misogyny and chauvinism that were still apparently abundant words as though you're in today's societythe lecture theatre. The feminist movement had always seemed like an amazing wave of new ideas that had happened forty or fifty years ago. It was the reason my mother disjointedness will fade away and I were now able to work and find you'll be carried on a role outside cloud of the homeexquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546270</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=Peas and Queues: The Minefield of Modern MannersWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Sandi ToksvigOtegha Uwagba

|summary=Dear Sandi ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba

You are my all time favourite celebrity lesbadyke, and one ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of the reasons I’m so very excited to be heading to Denmark this coming weekend (are all people there like you? Please say yes). For this alone, I had to get my mitts on your latest offering. I wasn’t that fussed about obtaining colour while only 7% study a book on manners previously, having always thought mine were quite ok, but I knew your take on the matter would be suitably hilarious and well worth by a read. I was not wrongwoman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250324</amazonuk>}}'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

{{newreview|title=Global Modernity Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and Other Essays|author=Tom Rubens|rating=4|genre=Politics nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and Society|summary=It’s been difficult to write determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this reviewdid not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. The book’s eclectic nature, with subject matter ranging from Nietzsche to When Otegha was ten the English Police Forcefamily acquired a car. For Otegha, makes it difficult education meant a scholarship to summarise a private school in London and secondlythen a place at New College, I’m no academic and philosophy is just HARD|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845405633</amazonuk>Oxford.

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Education Under Siege: Why There is a Better AlternativeRichard Brook|authortitle=Peter MortimoreUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Peter Mortimore's thoroughgoing analysis of the absurdities of current educational practice and prescriptions for finding I am a far better alternative deserves a wide readership. It is not just an organisation which is under siege but as his personal anecdotes indicatefirm believer that sometimes we choose books, more vigorously than his rigorously argued statistics, people are sufferingand sometimes books choose us. Parents are anxious In my case, teachers badly led and burdened with confused policies and worst this is one of all pupils are pressurised from early infancythe latter. Reading his Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book you might be forgiven for wondering a) why so many young students are being abused by such distress and b) as Cicero might I'd have askedskimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home'Cui bono'', to whose benefit? Professor Mortimore outlines in the positive alternatives suggested by international comparisons especially with Scandinavian methods. He argues that their procedures are more effective, way that support students and produce a fairer, harmonious societyit does now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447311310</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Inventing the Enemy: Essays on Everything|author=Umberto Eco|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Imagine I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a sumptuous Italian feast in the sunlit-bathed ancient countryside near Milanfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u. Next to you a gentleman talks and eats with furious energys. He tells of Dante, Cicero, and St Augustine and quotes a multitude of obscure troubadours from the Middle Agesp. He repeats himselfis that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, gestures flamboyantly, nudges you sharply in the ribs, belches and even breaks wind. His conversation contains nuggets of information but in the flow of his discourse so there is a fondness for iteration and reiteration. He throws bones over his shoulder and when he reaches predisposition towards expecting to like the cheese course - definitely too much information on the mouldy bacteria! When you finally get up things the elderly gentleman has said prompt your imagination. You are better informed, intrigued and prodded to examine his discourse again and againbook, even if only to challenge what you have heard. Such are the effects of reading Eco’s essays in it doesn''Inventing the Enemy''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553945</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Brock|title=Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=At about the t always turn of the century most people on the street where I live had a morning paper delivered and a good number also got an evening paper. The queue at the newsagent in the village would be out of the door each morning as people picked up a paper on their that way to work. I can't remember when I last saw a newspaper boy (or girl) on their rounds and we only buy the weekend papers as an indulgence with a more leisurely breakfast. Times have changed - and there's no sign that the situation ] – but also because it is likely a book I needed to settle in the near futureread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749466510</amazonuk>1800461682

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children How to Love Animals in Cold War Americaa Human-Shaped World|author=Allen M Hornblum, Judith L Newman and Gregory J DoberHenry Mance

|summary=If I told you that doctors had been using human beings in the most horrible of medical experiments''When we do think about animals, that they had done things like tie toddlers to beds to insert live pathogens we break them down into their eyesspecies and groups: cows, injected children with radiationdogs, sterilised those thought to be subhuman and even castrated a child just to get a supply of tissue for a lab experimentfoxes, you might very reasonably assume I am talking abut Nazi Germany. I am not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230341713</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Across the Pond|author=Terry Eagleton|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Terry Eagleton is a Brit (Manchester born, no less) who now lives in Dublin with his American wife elephants and children, so he seems well placed to write a book about the difference between us and on. And we assign themplaces in society: cows go on plates, there Yanks. Mid way through the pagesdogs on sofas, he even stops to tell us that foxes in a way he had to write thisrubbish bins, because when he wishes to read a bookelephants in zoos, he writes it. To read someone else’sand millions of wild animals stay out there, he suggests''somewhere, is ‘an unwarranted invasion of their personal space’. That’s how so very British he is'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393347648</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Jill Stark|title=High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze|rating=4I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=On ) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the first sake of January 2011 Jill Stark woke it. Essentially that quote sums up with the hangover from Hellmy attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. She was no stranger If I had to them: at thirty five she'd been binge drinking for more than twenty years choose between the company of humans and was in the dubious position company of being animals, I would probably choose the health reporter who wrote herself off at weekendsanimals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. And by 'wrote herself off' I mean being seriously drunk on a very regular basiseat cheese, eggs, having consumed vast quantities of alcohol chicken and having regularly put herself in danger of serious illness, unwanted pregnancy fish and assaultI needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. But on I suspected that first day in January Stark decided that she was going to do something about it and making the initial decision was that she would spend three months on the wagonnot be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922247030</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha MousaWomen's Guide to Claiming Space|author=A T WilliamsEliza Van Cort

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=Almost ten years ago on a Sunday morning back in September 2003, British Troops raided a hotel in Basra. It was a difficult period in the occupation, six months on from the U.S. led invasion. Temperatures were more than 50 degrees centigrade. Members of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) took ten suspects in for questioning from 'She brings a hotel hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in the vicinity of insurgent weaponryher life. The Iraqis were hooded, plasticuffed, forced into stress positions Again and subjected to karate chops again and kidney punches by the Britishagain. Other men and officers watched, walked by or wondered at the stench that resulted from vicious punishment. After 36 hours of torture, a 26 year-old hotel receptionist lay dead by asphyxiation. His grossly disfigured body bore 93 individual injuries. There are now in the region of another 250 individuals, men and women'' (Alma Derricks, whose families are making legal claims to have been killed in further encounters with British patrols or prison guards.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575116</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ryu Murakami|title=From The Fatherlandformer CMO, With Love|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=From The Fatherland, With Love is a 2005 Japanese novel set in the then-near future of 2011. Fatherland (as I will abbreviate itCirque du Soleil RSD) explores the social and political ramifications of one speculative scenario: what if North Korea invaded Japan?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968451</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Polly Morland|title=The Society ''To claim space is to live the life of Timid Souls: Or, How choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to be Brave|rating=3live the life you've always wanted.5|genre=Reference|summary='I see no reason why the shy and timid in any community couldn’t get together and help each other.'

The above words were uttered Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in 1943 the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by a gentleman called Bernard GabrielEliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Mr Gabriel was Now - to be clear - this book is not a piano player who founded a unique club'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected'The Society of Timid Souls'. I' ve always thought that encouraged timid performers and fear-wracked musicians women need to come in out of the cold 'to playrise above this, to criticise and be criticised in order people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to conquer women would realise that old bogey of stage fright.' The method evidently worked, as many a timid soul claimed we are not just an easy target to be cured by these unorthodox methods and club membership grew considerably in the years used to prove that followedthey are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251908</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rithy PanhPolly Barton|title=The EliminationFifty Sounds

|summary=Three years ago Where do I went to Cambodia. start? I went to S21could start with where Barton herself starts, because you cannot go to Phnom Penh and not go to with the former high school Tuol Sleng (Tuol Slav Prey as it had question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been) on my radar for a while and see what it becameif the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I went don't know the answer to Choeung Ekthe question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, because you cannot NOT know about which is on the killing fieldssound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, and you cannot really know about them until the sound of ''every party where you have stood thereto introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689295</amazonuk>1913097501

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivo MosleyStephen Fabes|title=In the Name of the People: Pseudo-Democracy and the Spoiling Signs of Our WorldLife|rating=45|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=On I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the spectrum ranging between democracy guts to simply go out and totalitarianism, Ivo Mosley upholds that do it. I also didn't inherit the system kind of elective oligarchy lies closer steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the latter. And yet, he essentially says, Western democracy as we know it today is requisite 'bottle'nothing. In order words I'' but this form m not the sort of representative government, excluding person who will get on a bike outside a large proportion of the people whose freedoms it claims to protectLondon hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845402626</amazonuk>1788161211

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul McMahon1504321383|title=Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of Food|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It's predicted that the world's population will reach nine billion by 2050 Single, Again, and given that there are regular appeals for money to relieve a famine in some part of the world it's not unreasonable to wonder whether or not we will be able to feed nine billion people. Recent turmoil in food markets adds to the worryAgain, but the truth is that we could feed that number people ''now'' if different approaches were taken and there was cooperation rather than an unseemly scramble to secure access to food even if this results in starvation for the neighbour. Paul McMahon looks at how in this very readable book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250340</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAgain|author=Mac Carty|title=The Vagaries Of Swing (Footprints on the Margate Sands of Time)Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5

|summary=Mac Carty tells us that the catalyst for 'The Vagaries of Swing' was the BBC television series You can'True Love' which portrayed a series of romantic encounters all set by the sea in his home town of Margate. But Carty has taken the original idea - about relationships between people - t be happy and run with it, extending ''love'' into ''passion'', say for cricket, or (at the other end of the scale) as a human encounter which ends in violence. Whilst the television series might have been the catalyst for the book there was another and probably more compelling reasonfulfilled on your own. When his friend Mike died he realised that he had no one with whom to share his fund of stories about growing up in Margate, all of which had been revisited on You are not complete until you find a regular basis and usually over a pint. Iman''ve just read the result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1291336761</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Emily Cockayne|title=Cheek by JowlThis was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: A History of Neighbours|rating=4it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her.5|genre=History|summary=As Emily Cockayne emphasises at It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the beginning of girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the first chapter, almost everyone has a neighbour; if you have a neighbour, you handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are one yourself; lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and neighbours can enrich or ruin our liveshave children. In this engaging book, she takes various case studies It was a belief and anecdotes of living side by side in Britain from around 1200 to the present dayit would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546949</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Jonathan M Katz|title=The Big Truck That Went By|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It was January 12, 2010 and AP correspondent Jonathan M. Katz was preparing Move to ship out of Haiti after spending the last two and a half years reporting about political instability, riots and disasters. He was preparing for a change of scene, a stint in Afghanistan, concluding that ''It sounded like a good place for a break''. Nature had other plans. When the earthquake struck, Katz was unexpectedly thrown into the thick of the action. As the only American reporter on the ground at the time of the quake, he felt duty-bound to break news of unfolding events to an oblivious world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023034187X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Popular Science Reviews]]