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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= XinranAlastair Humphreys|title= Buy Me The SkyLocal|rating= 5|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel |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 started reading Xinran thirteen years agohave learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and whilst I havenaccess, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…''t read One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of her booksthese things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every one upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that I have read has at there are some point had me in tears. This one was no differenthard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ray Barron WoolfordEdel Rodriguez|title=Food Bank BritainWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as a smartly-dressed young man foraged We're in childhood, and we're in waste bins for foodCuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, less than first thought of as a mile from the riches saviour of the City of London. Intrigued as country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to what was going on he went to askcreate a level playing field for all. The man explained to him that he'd just got a job after two years Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of being unemployed, but it would be five weeks before he was paidtaking his time away. He couldnOur narrator's family weren't claim benefits as he was in work and had no savingsthe happiest of places here, so the bins had an uncle refusing to be his source of food and by the following week good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would have probably be shipped off to walk to work some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as he couldn't afford Angola) and the faresfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. That was The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the inspiration for kind of heat forcing you out of the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank].kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe CombiSarah Wilson|title=Generation ZThis One Wild and Precious Life: Their Voices, Their Lives the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Generation Z, for anyone like me who didn’t know, My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is made up of those young people born between 1995 it you plan to do with your one wild and 2001precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. It is '' I'm lucky enough to be living my one of wild and precious life the central contentions of Chloe Combi’s way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver'Generation Z: Their voices, Their Livess words as her title (though I can' t see that these young people’s lives she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are unlike anyone else’s in British history. From '' living the radical technological innovation which produced life we want – the internet and smart phones to multiculturalism, best life for these children and teenagers that we could be living. Her answer is characterised by so much that was an unequivocal ''no, we are not experienced by their parents and grandparents''. In Don'Generation Zt care what you're doing, thenshe thinks you (we, Combi offers some glimpses into the worlds of young people today, in what I) could be doing more…And she wishes to be 'a conversation starter between teenagers and adults's effing furious about the fact that we are not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland1785633457|title=Azzi in BetweenCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|genre=For SharingTravel|summary=Our story begins in Clive Wilkinson has a country at war. Unfortunately you could probably put history of travelling by unconventional means with a name to it (although it isn't named) as it happens all too regularlypreference for slow travel. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not ''too'' affected by the wartotally outrageous. In fact, but every day it came should be a little closer. Her father still worked as a doctor pleasant holiday for Clive and her mother made beautiful clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then the day came when they had to runhis wife, for their livesJoan, and escape was by boat and they became refugees. The three of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted on a temporary basis into another country (again itshouldn's not named) and they had a home, although t it was just one room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barroux1529153050|title=Where's the Elephant?|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We've all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally'', haven't we? They appeal to children and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, keen to show just how observant they are. We start off with a forest - actually itBritain's the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours and our three friends, who are hiding in there. Elephant is probably the easiest to spot, but Snake and Parrot are in there too and with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn the page you'll scan the trees again and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBest Political Cartoons 2022|author=Jeremy Treglown|title=Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936Tim Benson|rating=3.54|genre=HistoryHumour|summary=With ''Franco’s Crypt'' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life in Spain under Franco – and placed it under what to Seeking some might appear a somewhat revisionist microscope. His aim appears to be twofold: to consider the nature of collective memory, particularly in the light of relief from the exhumations of mass graves that commenced earlier this century, current political turmoil which is coming to seem more andmore like an adrenaline sport, secondly, to examine – and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Greene|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=ItI was nudged towards ''Britain's no mistake that the cover Best Political Cartoons of my edition of this book is a photo where the Trans-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the frame2022''. ItSharp eyes will have noted that we's well known for going east-west, left to right across re not yet through the map of the largest country by far in year: the world. 9,288 kilometres cartoons run from Moscow 4 September 2021 to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it is in our imagination of it as a form of transport and a travel destination in its own right31 August 2022. So when this book mentions it as the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, that's got to Who can imagine what there will be of a prone Russia – one lying down, not upright or active. David Greene, a stalwart of northern American radio journalism, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictment. It's no mistake either for this cover to have people come in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the piece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Allen and Amie ParnesB0B7289HKQ|title=HRCConversations Across America: State Secrets A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Rebirth Soul of Hillary ClintonAmerica|author=Kari Loya

|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre was a thirty-seven-year-old journalist Kari (that rhymes with a secret: he was frightened. There were specific fears‘sorry’, but what it boiled down by the way) wanted to was that he was frightened of life - and then there was a memory. He remembered - with spend some shame - not stopping for a hitchhiker time with a gas can in his father and the desert. It was almost on a whim that he decided to cross America, from San Francisco in California to Cape Fear in North Carolina, which might sound period between two jobs seemed like a great adventure, but McIntyre decides good time to do it without money - to be completely reliant on the kindness of strangers. He was confronting his own fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)|title=Massacre in Norway: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp|rating=2.5|genre=History|summary=Anders Behring Breivik decision was 32 when he both planted a van bomb in Oslo's central government district made to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism'ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, which killed 8Virginia to Astoria, then left for an island Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itself2015. He gunned down 69 people – more They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than one in ten of those at the camp – and wounded many scores recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more. He also spammed countless people with another of his projects, a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his countrychallenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. His case Merv Loya was one of the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as 75 years old and he was the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 years. This is, as yousuffering from early-stage Alzheimer'd expect, one of the many books to result from the cases.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=John Campbell|title=Roy JenkinsI'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: A Wellfar too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-Rounded Life|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=building. It must be rare indeed that a British political figure 's human beings who never became Prime Minister is fascinate me: the technology and the subject world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages book of text. twenty-two science fiction short stories? However, as John Campbell demonstrates in this volumeWell, I loved it is difficult to do justice to the life, times and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan JonesJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy Book of the Great CharterHope

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society |summary=For what do we – and by courtesy of a lengthy timeline in history, would the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks The done thing is to read a spigurnel? What is the most revered legal document in history, which sets out book all the rights of man – but also has time way through before you sit down to talk about widows' rights, fish trapsreview it. I’m making an exception here, and because I don’t want to be both sexist and to discuss lose any of the importance to people's estates to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? What will probably be the only notable historical experience of Britain in 1215reading this amazing book, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI and discuss the 800 years of something else, even though the authority of no less than the Pope declared I want to capture it as it hits me. And it null and void within ten weeks of its being finished?is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>024147857X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krishna Bhatt1788360737|title=Artivism: The Royal EnigmaBattle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams

|genre=Historical FictionPolitics and Society|summary=There Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is absolutely nothing wrong with books made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that cross genres‘’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 best historical novels are as much history as fiction. However, it Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is a golden rule adamant that a book must know who and what art is freer when it isart for art’s sake. One The recent trend of the problems with The Royal Enigma is that it suffers from so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a serious identity crisismore globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Hart1398508632|title=That's Racist: How the regulation of speech and thought divides us allThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Adrian Hart has It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long history consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of campaigning against racismNovember, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not least because he was subjected the best time to racial abuse when he was at schoolstart, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. With jet-black hair and Wilde had a complexion that few advantages: the area around her was just ''slightly'' darker than was normal he was the closest that his school a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to someone who might be of Pakistani originrun a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. It was only name calling from She had a group of boys but the experience stuck car - and he's put much of his working life where his mouth isfuel. SoMost importantly, you might expect that he would be she had shelter: this was not a devotee of the zero tolerance approach plan to racist speech, but he's far from certain that this is the right way 'live'' wild just to go and believes that this might be causing more divisions in society than racism itselflive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529149800|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Henry Beard Eduardo Garcia and Christopher CerfSara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=We're screwedbegin with a telling story. Wherever we lookAll the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, whatever we unable to think of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and people flying back to back drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that reason up with scientific datadoing. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat''I'm doing the best I can'', how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worsesaid the hummingbird. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdownsreally, errant AI scientists and passing comets is the only way that could turn our world upside down at we will solve the blink problem of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first climate change – for it may well turn out to by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>.

{{newreview|title=How To Be A Conservative|author=Roger Scruton|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Roger Scruton has been described by Jesse Norman as 'one of the few intellectually authoritative voices in British conservatism'One more body just wouldn't matter''. His central theme in this book is to defend and champion the value of the home, a society based on free association and the nation state. The simplest of biographical sections demonstrates that the author was brought up not from ‘privileged’ stock but within a Labour-voting, lower middle class family, to demonstrate that his conservatism was not inherited but a product of his own intellectual journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472903765</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Wall Between Us|author=Matthew Small|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In this personal account murder of his visit to Israel and the West BankGeorge Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, Small journals his time spent with people he meets along in the way and attempts to make sense US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the conflict that has dominated this area for many yearsworld. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. Small openly admits the issue there The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a simple one backlash against the police - and his visit reinforces not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the fact that there are many complexities preventing peace from happeningChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910266302</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan ShawMatthieu Aikins|title=Britain in a Perilous World: The Strategic Defence and Security Review we need Naked Don't Fear the Water

|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review has stayed in Naked Don't Fear the mind for the wrong reasons: 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, but rather than looking a testament to develop how well Matthieu Aikins – a strategy, Canadian citizen who decided to examine the short accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and long term threats gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the country faced, the emphasis was on cutting costs, with some cuts appearing ludicrous at first glancewhole way through. In the intervening years there have been occasions when But it was difficult not to wonder if the United Kingdom was poorly equipped - 's written with a haunting and without clear-cut aims - as a result of almost lyrical quality that allows the 2010 review. The opportunity reader to put this right comes in 2015 perfectly envisage the environments and Major General Jonathan Shaw looks not at what the Review should say, but at how it should be tackledpeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908323817</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist1785633074|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry

|genre=ReferenceHumour|summary=There Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are people who donEton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime''t understand movers are the special advisers - the joy of raw data: no accompanying analysis (or spin) SPADS - just a collection of figures relevant to a particular circumstancewho are the driving force behind the government. If you're one We are in the privileged position of those people then this book will mean little having access to youthe memoirs of Rafe Hubris, but if you want a pocket (well, certainly handbag or briefcase) work the man who was behind the skilful control of reference then this book will be a treasure. I once gave a copy to a diplomat and he kept his wife awake until the early hours as he came across another gem Covid crisis which she had to know without delaywas completely contained by the end of 2020. The 2015 edition is You might not know the twenty fourth in name now but he will certainly be the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaughtman to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=Stand and DeliverThe End of Bias: A Design for Successful GovernmentHow We Change Our Minds|author=Ed StrawJessica Nordell

|summary=Confidence in politicians Anyone who is at not an all-time low. In factable, an alarming number 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 Britons express outright contempt, not just for their leaders, but for everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the entire political class - for the politicans themselvesdisabled. Jobs, for the civil servants standing behind thempromotions, even for higher salaries are the Westminster bubble preserve of commentators and policy wonksthe white man. We vote for them in ever-decreasing numbers and even Even when those who continue to vote often do not feel represented. Worse still, wouldn't pass the younger you medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views areheard, the more likely you that their concerns are to be politically disengagedacknowledged. We It're in danger s personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of losing an entire generation from the political processbias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted. How can this be good for a democracy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099294760X</amazonuk>

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|isbn=0008350388|title=Harry's Last StandWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Harry Leslie SmithOtegha Uwagba

|summary=RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith rose to prominence last year with a famous Guardian article 'This year, I will wear 'To be a poppy for the last time' about the way in which the remembrance of those who died in the great wars has been codark-opted skinned Black woman is to justify today’s military conflicts. Here, he tackles themes of poverty, political corruptionbe seen as less desirable, unemploymentless hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a lack book by a writer of hope felt colour while only 7% study a book by so many people todaya woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848317263</amazonuk>}}'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

{{newreview|title=Angela Merkel: The Chancellor and Her World|author=Stefan Kornelius|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=You have Otegha Uwagba came to admire the lady, this rather awkward and shy daughter of a staunch Lutheran pastor who himself had been born as a Polish CatholicUK from Kenya when she was five years old. His daughter studied with such intelligence Her sisters were seven and application that soon brought her academic success particularly in Russian and finally in Quantum Chemistrynine. At the age of 26, she obtained It was her doctorate and - in passingmother who came first, it rather seems - with her first husband, the physicist Ulrike Merkelfather joining them later. Her rise to power The family was rapid hard-working, principled and took place through determined that their children would have the period in which the DDR collapsed as Russian policy under Gorbachev changedbest education possible. Along with There was always a wry and dry sense painful awareness of humour Angela Merkel’s personality is the embodiment money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the characteristic known family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in German as ''fleissig'' - hardworking, sedulousLondon and then a place at New College, diligent and assiduousOxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883180</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=An AtheistUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's History of Belief|author=Matthew KnealeGuide to Life

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=I’ve been an atheist since I was old enough to take am a view on firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the subjectlatter. (Many atheists Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would argue not have 'hit home' in the way that we’re all atheists at birth, but that’s it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a subject for a book favourable review)[ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s. I did have p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to take Religious Studies at school like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but have entirely forgotten almost everything also because it is a book I learned!needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584425</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=Notebooks, 1922How to Love Animals in a Human-86Shaped World|author=Michael OakeshottHenry Mance|rating=3.5

|summary=Michael Oakeshott is usually described as a conservative thinker''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 rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series. According '' I was going to Perry Andersonargue. I mean, his work influenced John Majorcows are for cheese (I couldn's style of politics; he named him t consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the London Review wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of Books in 1992 as one it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of four ‘outstanding European theorists humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the intransigent Right’animals. Luke O’Sullivan, who edited I insisted that I read this collection of notebooks, has often said that he considers such descriptions limitingbook: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. O’Sullivan is clearly enthusiastic about Oakeshott’s work and strove to enable these notebooks I eat cheese, spanning a period of over sixty yearseggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be publishedcomfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845400542</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday LifeA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Uri Gneezy and John ListEliza Van Cort

|summary=Wow! This is ''She brings a most surprising economics bookhug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

Behavioral economists (if you’ll excuse ''To claim space is to live the American spelling) investigate people’s buying behaviour life of choosing unapologetically and consuming patternsbravely. I guess we know about that already because supermarkets here lull us into buying three for It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the price of twonews, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to come back next week for £10 off be clear - this book is not a £100'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, or to garner extra points on a loyalty card (Oh why can’t they just go for a cheaper price but discussion at the point of sale? Why do profits have moment seems to be in double percentage point increases year on year?)about how women can be ''protected''. A fair bit of manipulation I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to ensure that a company survives is already part and parcel of our livesbe people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If you’d asked me before I read all women did this book, I those few men who are violent to women would have lined up realise that sort of consumer marketing psychology alongside banking as profiteering. However … these guys we are different: they really do seem not just an easy target to be used to care about the plight of the underprivileged, and prove that they come from an academic setting, rather than a commercial oneare big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alain de BottonPolly Barton|title=The News: A User's ManualFifty Sounds|rating=4.5

|summary=Alain de Botton maintains that Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'the news' Japan has assumed been on my radar for a while and if the position in our lives which was once occupied world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by religionnow. I may get there later this year, with some consumers viewing it as often as every fifteen minutes (slight blush there - letbut I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?''s say about every hour...). FurthermoreShe explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, we do it completely unprotected against every political scandal or celebrity story. The sub-title which is on the sound ''giro' ''A User– which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of 's Manual' sets out every party where you have to remedy thisintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00HYGYIGA</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert A CaroStephen Fabes|title=The Years Signs of Lyndon Johnson: Means of AscentLife

|summary=It's only a matter of days since I finished listening to [[The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A Caro|The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power]], the first part of Robert A Caro's definitive work on the President You can't be happy and despite having just spent over forty hours fulfilled on the book I wanted your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to learn morebelieve. I It wasn't unkind: it was torn though - simply the second book adults in a series is not often her life advising her as good as the first and it struck me that these might not to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the most exciting years in Johnsongirl (she's lifeusually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Was this book going Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the link which took us on to the more exciting times? expectation that they will marry and have children. Not It was a bit of belief and itwould be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GSHD0U6</amazonuk>