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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Gabriel Weston|title=Direct Red|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Few people have the ability to convey the minutiae of their profession in ways which engage the reader, answer your unspoken questions and talk in such a way that you're neither patronised nor overburdened with jargon. Gabriel Weston is one such – and ''Direct Red'' held me as though I was hypnotised for several hours. <!-- Remove She's a surgeon and we're pulled into the intricacies of her world without the need to don mask and gown.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520699</amazonuk-->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean Hannah Edelstein Ariel Saramandi|title=Himglish and Femalese: Why Women Don't Get Why Men Don't Get Them|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Men aren't Martian and women don't hail from Venus. We're all Earthlings apparently; which seems like progress Portrait of a sort. Even so we still have trouble understanding each other because we speak different languages – Himglish and Femalese. Luckily Jean Hannah Edelstein is fluent in both and has written this light hearted volume to define the problem and translate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848091729</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chloe Hooper|title=The Tall Man: Life and Death an Island on Palm IslandFire|rating=4.5

|summary=Cameron Doomadgee – Mulrunji – was just thirty six years old when he was arrested on Palm Island. Quite why he was arrested was never clear. He wasn't drunkIn this powerful collection of essays, although he had been drinking beer – and was walking along the road singing ''Who Let the Dogs Out?'' Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley felt that there was reason to arrest Mulrunji for creating as public nuisance and he was taken Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the police station. What happened next was to be the subject sociopolitical fabric of intense media speculation and legal proceedings over the coming yearsMauritius, but within forty five minutes Mulrunji was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520761</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dana Fowley|title=How Could She?|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=From tunneling deep into the age of five Dana Fowley was subjected to unimaginable sexual abuse wounds left by colonialism and before long her sister would be subjected slavery to more of expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the same. She was raped by her mothercountry at one stage as ''rotting''s partner and taken to , a blunt yet apt metaphor for the homes of her grandparents where she was abused systemic decay brought about by them and others. At other times she was forced to go to the homes malignant forces of other men where she was raped racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and abusedgovernmental dysfunction. Did her mother not know what was going on? Did she turn Each essay in this collection serves as a blind eye? It was neither kind of those. Her mother was a willing participant in diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the abuse and organised much of itisland state.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009952225X</amazonuk>1804271616

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy V Fetzer Gregor Hens and Shari AaronJen Calleja (translator)|title=Climb The City and the Green Ladder: Make Your Company and Career More SustainableWorld

|summary=In ''The hardback edition of City and the World'A Blueprint for a Safer Planet' was published early in 2009 , Gregor Hens reveals how cities are as much imagined spaces as an update to they are physical ones. With a deep affection for the 2006 Stern Review urban landscapes that have shaped his life, Hens reflects on places like Cologne, Berlin, and Goch on the economics Lower Rhine with a blend of climate changepersonal memory and thoughtful observation. Now here is His writing, at times abstract, captures not just architectural features but the paperback editionemotional and mental geographies tied to each location, for example, published too early his perspectives as a child as opposed to critique Copenhagen, but nonetheless as an interesting readadult. Stern is an expert witness who presents his evidence understandably for the layman; he is unemotional From Belgium and Germany to Berkeley and Columbus, Hens traces a map of experiences, turning cities into reflections of identity and very convincingbelonging.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099524058</amazonuk>1804271691

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou Paul B Preciado|title=Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on the Green BandwagonDysphoria Mundi

|summary=Did you know that Horlicks, that great sleep aid, ''It is sold in India as a start-never too late to embrace the-day energy boost? Not another concoction under the same brand, but the Exact Same Product.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047074622X</amazonuk>}}revolutionary optimism of childhood''

{{newreview|author=Frank Furedi|title=Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating|rating=3.5|genre=Politics Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and Society|summary=It seems the more problems brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the school-aged new generation pose to society, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the more responsibility schools have proportional, valid response to take, teaching not simply English ''the epistemological and Mathspolitical crack we are living through, but Personal Thinking and Learning Skills, Happiness Classes, the tension between emancipatory forces and Emotional Educationconservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The duty to raise a child well whole text is taken out framed against the backdrop of the apparently Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as 'incompetent' hands pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of parentsweakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, and given over Preciado urges his readers to the education system, where values can be regulated and controlled''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847064167</amazonuk>1804271454

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bill ButterworthJacqueline Feldman|title=Reversing Global Warming For Profit Precarious Lease

|genre=Politics and SocietyBiography|summary=There arenThe title of this novel refers to a French legal term (''t many climate change deniers left, are there? We all know itbail précaire's there. We all know, too, that the world's population growth is on a collision course ) associated with the dwindling of its resources. The world's going to get hottersquatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from eviction charges and processes, its weather more extremebut few scant property rights. Fossil fuels are going to run out. More Among mentions of other squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and more people will compete La Miroiterie, Feldman takes particular interest in one squat of massive proportions which adopted an almost mythical status for fewer its inhabitants, admirers and fewer of civilisation's luxuries. We're all worried. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312810</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Baker|title=They've Got Your Number|rating=4detractors alike: Le Bloc.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=If you are in the slightest bit paranoid, worry that ''Big Brother'' is always watching or Something like to believe that you are not a number, but a free man haven for artists and marginal members of society (or woman)as one character, then this may not be the book for youLe Général, as it will do nothing to dispel any of those worries. Ifrepeats throughout, ''I live on the other hand, you think 'margins of the mathematical modelling margins of humanitythe margins'' sounds like one ), Le Bloc was subject to the continual threat of the sexiest things ever, eviction and are chomping at the bit to learn more about itpressures from above which oppressed its inhabitants' lives. We follow Le Bloc from its opening in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, then you might well be interested framed as a tragedy in what Business Week journalist Baker has to saythis book.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099507021</amazonuk>1804271403

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur Claire Dederer|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the FanMonsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery

|summary=ItDederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the audience''s always struck me as strange that in a period deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the old aphorism of twelve months which saw Banks collapseseparating the art from the artist in the context of contemporary ''cancel culture''. Dederer's work is original and expressive. The reader gets the impression that the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the page. In particular, stock markets tumble the prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and house prices slide exalts the public have reserved most director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his actions. This model of their ire ''monstrous men'' as she calls them, is consistent for a relatively small group of people who were not exceptionally well-paid in the first placefew chapters, but many of whom took the opportunity to make interrogating the most likes of the generous expenses which they could claimWoody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. There are only six hundred Her critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, and forty six Members of Parliament – twelve months ago they were generally respected but many are now pariahsa personal, rather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593065778</amazonuk>1399715070

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alain de Botton Virginie Despentes|title=A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow DiaryKing Kong Theory

|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography |summary=A writer''King Kong Theory'' is a hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which can be seen as a call to arms for women in-residence a phallocentric society broken at an airport is not as daft an idea as it might first seemits core. After allOriginally written in French, TV programmes, and whole series, have entertained millions with what goes on the book is a collection of essays in front which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the complex prism ofher varied life: from rape to sex work and pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, and behind their placement within the scenes at such places. So this bookcan feel somewhat disjointed, which is the fruit a reflection of such a residency, could be expected to produce few surprisestheir original form as independent essays.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846683599</amazonuk>191309734X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Thompson (Editor)1009473085|title=Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S Thompson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It is almost 40 years since Dr Hunter S Thompson's seminal work ''Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'' first graced the shelves. His gonzo style, putting himself at the centre of the story, should tell readers as much about the person doing the writing as the event he is describing. If that's the case then what is to be learned from a selection of interviews with the main man himself then? The answer is plenty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330510711</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Ian Jack|title=The Country Formerly Known As Great BritainAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5

|summary=I think ISometimes it've now managed s simpler to master the maxim about not judging books explain a book by their covers. I still struggle with the one about not judging them by their titles describing what it ''isn't'' and I very nearly cam unstuck and missed that applies to ''The Country Formerly Known as Great BritainConservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. Being just about of If you're looking for an age with easy read which will deliver the author I worried that it might be a treatise inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the fact book for you. If that 'things werens what you're looking for, I don't like this when I was think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a ladcompelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect''is an entirely different beast. I was even more worried It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that I might agree with himoccurred and the situation in 2024.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087355</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=The EconomistAlastair Humphreys|title=Pocket World in Figures 2010Local

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=ItAlastair 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 ''s just to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year since I reviewed [[Pocket World In Figures 2009 by The Economistexploring 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 that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|Pocket World summary=We're in Figures 2009]] childhood, and at the time – September 2008 – we were watching 're in horror as the world financial crisis unfolded before our eyesCuba. Looking back now the surprise is that for most people what The revolution has happened came out , and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the bluecountry, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. The clues Well, those hours-long speeches of his were plain to see and all here in this handy little bookkind of taking his time away. There was Our narrator's family weren't in the worrying state happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the Iceland economy good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and different levels of mortgage lending in various parts of the worldfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. Best The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of all it was presented as verified figuresthe heat, but in this sultry island country, without any accompanying narrative and it's consequently free remains the kind of heat forcing you out of political spin. Bliss.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846681367</amazonuk>1474616720

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott Kilman and Roger ThurowSarah Wilson|title=EnoughThis One Wild and Precious Life: Why the World's Poorest Starve path back to connection in an Age of Plentya fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=If My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you have ever wondered why famine plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is still widespread, so many years after Oxfam started nudging middle-class Britain into consciousness, then read ''EnoughThis! 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. As a young woman, In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I donated can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to Oxfam at think about whether we really ''are'' living the end of life we want – the 1960s in the belief best life that concerted international action through governments plus charities would eliminate hunger within a decade or sowe could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Four decades laterDon't care what you're doing, itshe thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's impossible to comprehend why children effing furious about the fact that we are still dying at much the same rate: one every five secondsnot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1586485113</amazonuk>1785633848

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arundhati Roy 1785633457|title=Listening to GrasshoppersCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Stories can provoke many different reactions in Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the reader: pleasure, pain, delight, horror. The whole range idea of emotion is available to exploring the fiction writer to ply and probeedges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. Reactions to non-fiction works can In fact, it should be equally wide-ranging a pleasant holiday for Clive and can sometimes take the reader by surprise. Like most people I came to Roy via the Booker-prize-winning novelhis wife, Joan, shouldn''The God of Small Things'', which t it transpires, is her only novel to date. In the intervening twelve years Roy has concentrated her undoubted literary abilities in the political arena, engaging with the less attractive side of her native India.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144620</amazonuk>?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rupert Wright 1529153050|title=Take Me to the Source: In Search of WaterBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=3.54|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Whatever you expect Seeking some light relief from a book about waterthe current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Take Me to the SourceBritain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022' probably won't provide it. Neither a whimsical aquatic travelogue, nor a polemic about Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the economics of water, it still manages to produce unexpected insights into the element which is so vital, yet so often taken for granted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512289</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maria Tatar |title=Enchanted Huntersyear: The Power of Stories in Childhood|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Like most avid readers, I don't remember the time before there were books. We were brought up with bookscartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. There are family tales of my father as a child eating his breakfast with one hand, while trying to tie his shoelaces with the other and still contriving Who can imagine what there will be to read at the same time. They were a poor family, and books weren't just expensive, they were valuable. They were dear, come in every sense of the word. Likewise my mother remembers her early school-years when every day ended with a chapter from one of the classics. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066010</amazonuk>2023 edition?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Wadham B0B7289HKQ|title=The Secret Life Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of FranceAmerica|author=Kari Loya

|summary=I'm rather at a loss Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to describe this book for you, spend some time with his father and I'm still uncertain how the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to categorise do it. It's part personal memoir and part analyticalThe decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. Whether you regard They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this particular mix up as brilliant or irritating is down, I suppose, to personal taste more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and intellectual curiosityhe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571236111</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|author=Peter Hitchens Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=The Broken Compass: How British Politics lost its wayBook of Hope |rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The done thing is to read a book all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I've long held that there want to capture it as it hits me. And it is no difference between hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the major Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political parties such because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that could command you ‘’Every man… contributes to vote 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 one or Museum in the otherEra of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The new Labour party now seems recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to stand somewhere 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 more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on the right cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of what I though eating only wild food. The end of as the old Conservative party and November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the Lib Dems appear best time to be start, in a coalition of those who don't fit comfortably into either of world where the other main partiesnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. My voting patterns have changed radically from supporting Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a party because variety of its views terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to voting against another because of its actionsrun a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. I Most importantly, she had shelter: this was hoping that not a plan to ''The Broken Compasslive'' might clarify my thoughtswild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847064051</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein 1529149800|title=NudgeThings You Can Do: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and HappinessSara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Choices are inevitable: from We begin with a telling story. All the lunch sandwich to birds and animals fled when the credit card forest fire took hold and most of them stood and internet providerwatched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the house river and car began taking tiny amounts of water and pension planflying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. And that, modern humansreally, particularly those living in technologically developed democracies are blessed (or cursed) with is the freedom (and necessity) to choose all only way that we will solve the timeproblem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141040017</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Nick Davies|title=Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Do you remember a Y2K bug? When the world's computer systems were to melt down in an Armageddon of vital services failure and possible nuclear accidents?'One more body just wouldn't matter''.

The Y2K panic is murder of George Floyd, a great example of flatforty-six-year-Earth news: something that gets passed old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the media chain from those unsure to those who might US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. 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 vested interest in maintaining it as fact to those who are completely ignorant, backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the process gets bigger and bigger and – almost accidentally – assumes a status of orthodox, accepted truthChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512688</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer WorthMatthieu Aikins|title=Farewell To The East EndNaked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=I am interested in social history andIt's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don'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, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a mother, the job refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of midwives fascinates border crossings which had meon edge the whole way through. Combining these two subjects, But it''Farewell to the East End'' is a riveting read. The author Jennifer Worth was s written with a midwife haunting and nurse, working with almost lyrical quality that allows the nuns at Nonnatus House in reader to perfectly envisage the East End of London environments and this volume (her third book on this topic) covers the 1950speople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297844652</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rania Al-Baz1785633074|title=Disfigured: A Saudi Woman's Story of Triumph over ViolenceStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyHumour|summary=Throughout her life Rania Al-Baz has been an unusual woman. She was married off by her father when she was still at school Members of Parliament like us to a man she hardly knew and was believe that the only married pupilcountry is run by politicians, forced to conform to headed by the Prime minister - the Saudi Arabian traditions ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of putting her husband first in all things but still expected to keep up with her school work. Pregnancy forced her to give up on her schooling you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the marriage failed and Rania returned to her father. It might have been expected reality is that she would fade quietly into the home, but in a most unusual step she became ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the smiling face on a Saudi television programmegovernment. No woman had ever been a news anchor before and it was only to be expected that there would be plenty We are in the privileged position of men wanting having access to marry her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844370755</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brian Dunning|title=Skeptoid 2: More Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena |rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Brian Dunning is the author responsible for a series memoirs of weekly podcasts debunking and analysing a variety of dubiousRafe Hubris, pseudo-scientific, un-scientific and downright loony ideas, claims and myths common or persistent in the pop (and not so pop) culture. ''Skeptoid 2'' is essentially a written version man who was behind the skilful control of those podcasts, a collection the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of fifty pieces of which many can 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be also read or listened the man to at his [http://skeptoidwatch.com/ website].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1440422850</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Gardner1846276772|title=Risk: The Science and Politics End of FearBias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell

|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Picture a world terrorised by just two words. A civilisedAnyone who is not an able, healthy, wealthy world white man understands bias in that they may no less, in thrall longer even recognise the extent to and under threat which they suffer from two wordsit: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Not what those two words represent evenJobs, promotions, just higher salaries are the preserve of the actual small phrasewhite man. It sounds ridiculous, but Even when I say those two words – who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it'bird flus rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It'' – s personally appalling and you've stopped laughing, you may well remember how the panic started, degrading for the non-existent worry was individuals on the biggest concern receiving end of the western media for some time, and then bias but it went away again's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753515539</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katherine Ashenburg1529148251|title=CleanMisfits: An Unsanitised History of WashingA Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=Although maybe not the first book you'd 'How am I able to be drawn to – a history of personal hygiene perhaps doesn't seem that appealing – but if you had overlooked this excellent bookso transparent on paper about rape, you would have missed out on an enjoyable malpractice and informative bookpoverty, full of fascinating facts and a jolly good readyet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''

Attitudes towards and rituals Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of cleanliness have certainly changed over the last two thousand years and this mind. You're not going to read a book chronicles many of them, largely in Europe and the USessays or a self-help book. Cultural differences with regard You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to cleanliness and body odour (and yes, Napoleon and Josephine do get a mention here, although it transpires that they both took daily baths) are discussed professionals within the television industry at length, from the Greeks and Romans Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the present daywords as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Hatzfeld0008350388|title=The Strategy Of Antelopes: Rwanda After the GenocideWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba

|summary=''Life offers me smilesTo be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and I owe it ultimately less valuable than my gratitude for not having abandoned me in the marsheslight-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba

''I've known the defilement 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a bestial existencewoman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

''Who's going Otegha Uwagba came to say that word, forgiveness? It's outside of human nature.'' So say some of the survivors of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, UK from Kenya when 800,000 Tutsis she was five years old. Her sisters were murdered by their fellow Hutu citizensseven and nine. Jean Hatzfeld talked to both Tutsis and Hutus then It was her mother who came first, publishing two awardwith her father joining them later. The family was hard-winning booksworking, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. In The Strategy There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of Antelopesanything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, he returns to Rwanda to talk education meant a scholarship to the same people a private school in London and explore life after genocidethen a place at New College, Oxford. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686865</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emmanuel JalRichard Brook|title=War ChildUnderstanding Human Nature: A Boy SoldierUser's StoryGuide to Life

|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Emmanuel Jal, internationally successful rap artist, spent his childhood as I am a solider in his native Sudan. He has written his story in order to help those children who are still fightingfirm believer that sometimes we choose books, and those who have managed to get awaysometimes books choose us. There are a number In my case, this is one of books about the Sudan by western aid workers and journalists, who dolatter. Not so very long ago, if I am sure, write fluently and passionately about the horror of Darfur. This is the first had come across this book that I 'd have read which tells the story of war from the point of view skimmed it, found some of a small boy carrying an AK-47it interesting, a gun taller than he is himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700050</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ash Amin and Michael Obut it would not have 'hit home'Neill|title=Thinking About Almost Everything|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=A wonderful digest of ideas spawned by ongoing work at Durham University. The cross discplinary broad brush strokes give insight into in the past, the present, and the future, and inspire personal and critical thinkingway that it does now. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668188X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Mullin|title=A View from the Foothills|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Chris Mullin's diaries cover the period from July 1999 I believe it came to May 2005 during which time he me not just because I was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, for the Department for International Development and after likely to give it a period on the back benches also at the Foreign Officefavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. As he saysis that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there will be no shortage of memoirs from those who have occupied is a predisposition towards expecting to like the Olympian Heights. In A View from the Foothills he offers a refreshingly different perspective book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – that of but also because it is a man at the lowest levels of government who's party book I needed to what's happening further up the hillside and down on the plainsread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846682231</amazonuk>1800461682

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain Sinclair1787332098|title=Hackney, That RoseHow to Love Animals in a Human-Red Empire: A Confidential Report Shaped World|author=Henry Mance

|summary=''Documentary fiction'' is what Iain Sinclair oxymoronically calls this book. It's a lot of other things tooWhen we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: autobiographycows, historydogs, psychogeography to name but threefoxes, elephants and so on. His ''Hackney book'' as he self-referentially calls it throughoutAnd we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, is a dense collage of reportage and ''inaccurate and inventive'' transcriptions of interviewsdogs on sofas, peopled by film-makersfoxes in rubbish bins, novelistselephants in zoos, politicians and paintersmillions of wild animals stay out there, not to mention booksellers''somewhere, barbers and bus drivers'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142164</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=John Kay|title=The Long and the Short of it: A Guide I was going to Finance and Investment argue. I mean, cows are for Normally Intelligent People Who Arencheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the Industry|rating=4wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it.5|genre=Politics Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and Society|summary=Sometimes I wonder if authors set out to stop people reading their books, strange as this might seem. John Kay is consider myself an excellent exampleanimal lover. He tells us that he expects his readers If I had to be erudite choose between the company of humans and to be readers the company of popular scienceanimals, I would probably choose the animals. They'll never knowingly have dealt with Goldman Sachs and will pay tax at the 40% rateI insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. At the other end of the scale they'll not be bad credit risks I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and just I needed to cut out anyone hoping for a quick buck, they'll not be tempted to make a living from Stock Market speculationeither do so without guilt or change my choices. If you don't qualify on all points there's I suspected that making the decision would not even a hint of a pass mark which might allow you to sneak into the checkout queuebe comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954809327</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sudhir Venkatesh1523092734|title=Gang Leader For A DayWomen's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort

|summary=If you've ever wondered why young people join gangs, and what it's like to bring up She brings a family surrounded by armed drug dealers, you'll find ''Gang Leader For The Day'' fascinating. Sociology student Sudhir Venkatesh wanted to learn by observing the poor, baulking at the abstract, mathematical research methods used by his professors hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in the University of Chicagoher life. In 1989, armed with a clipboard Again and again and a questionnaire, he visited the Robert Taylor Homes, a notorious housing projectagain. Instead of neatly answering his carefully-prepared questions - ''How does it feel to be black and poor?'' by selecting from ''very bad(Alma Derricks, somewhat badformer CMO, neither bad nor good, somewhat good, very good'', he finds himself held hostage overnight by members of the Black Kings, a crack-dealing gang, at the behest of its charismatic local leader, J.T.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141030917</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alex Perry|title=Falling Off The Edge: Globalization, World Peace and Other Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=From Russia to a devastated sub-Saharan Africa, economic collapse and consequent protest in reaction threaten the established order. Globalisation, is putting the survival of populations in the world's poorest countries at risk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706886</amazonuk>}}Cirque du Soleil RSD)

{{newreview|author=Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor|title=On Kindness |rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=As a title, ''On Kindness'' doesn't pack quite To claim space is to live the same punch as Adam Phillip's earlier: 'On Kissing, Tickling life of choosing unapologetically and Being Bored'bravely. It put me in mind of an eighteenth century treatise, and, give or take a couple of centuries, that is exactly what to live the book provides: a thought-provoking exposition on a currently unfashionable virtuelife you've always wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144337</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Quentin Letts |title=50 People Who Buggered Up Britain|rating=3Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk.5|genre=History|summary=In Now - to be clear - this book is not a rather less permissive age'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, 20 or 30 years ago, I suspect that the author might have been but discussion at the top of some peoplemoment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''s list of culprits for using that naughty b-word. Good griefI've always thought that women need to rise above this, man, you canto be people who don't possibly have need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that in a book title, what!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845298551</amazonuk>they are big men.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola Sly Polly Barton|title=Dorset Murders (True Crime History)Fifty Sounds

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=Having examined Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a number while and if 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 don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of true crime cases from Bristol the question in her [[Bristol Murders by Nicola Sly|last book]]the first essay, which is on the author now does the same for largely rural yet not always idyllic Dorset. Twenty two murderssound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, committed between 1818 and 1946among other things, come under the microscope in these pagessound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0750951079</amazonuk>1913097501

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam RobertsStephen Fabes|title=The Wonga CoupSigns of Life|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=The chances are that you've never heard I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of Macias Nguemafar away places. You probably donI was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't know his nephew, Obiang Nguema eitherinherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. They I also didn're certainly up there in t inherit the Premier League kind of killing steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and disappearance, alongside 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 likes sort of Pol Pot person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and modern day tyrants like Robert Mugabenot come home for six years. The fact Fabes did precisely that the Nguemas are dictators from the tiny west African state of Equatorial Guinea meant they largely slipped off the radar of western consciousness.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846682347</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreview|author=Simon Schama|title=The American Future: A History|rating=4|genre=History|summary=After 9/11 America had the sympathy of most people. Whether or not you agreed with what the country stood for was immaterial – the horror of what happened left few unmoved. How then has the country descended into being vilified around much of the world and suspected even where it is not guilty? Simon Sharma has lived half his life in the States and he looks at four areas – War, Religion, the American identity and Economics in an attempt Move to understand how the country has reached this point when it seemed, at least until the 2008 election, that many Americans did not even like themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847920004</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Popular Science Reviews]]