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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou Edward W Said|title=Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on Representations of the Green BandwagonIntellectual
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|summary=Did you know that Horlicks, that great sleep aid, Edward Said's ''Representations of the Intellectual'' is sold in India as less a strict theory of what intellectuals are and more a start-passionate argument for what they should be. Said clearly rejects the-day energy boost? Not another concoction under comfortable image of the same brandintellectual as a detached expert speaking only to other specialists. Instead, but he insists on the Exact Same Productintellectual as a public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and unpopular, who speaks truth to power even when it is inconvenient or risky.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>047074622X</amazonuk>1804272248
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|summary=It's always struck me as strange that in a period In this powerful collection of twelve months which saw Banks collapseessays, stock markets tumble and house prices slide Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the public have reserved most sociopolitical fabric of their ire for a relatively small group of people who were not exceptionally well-paid in Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the first placecountry at one stage as ''rotting'', but many of whom took a blunt yet apt metaphor for the opportunity to make systemic decay brought about by the most malignant forces of the generous expenses which they could claimracism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. There are only six hundred and forty six Members Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of Parliament – twelve months ago they were generally respected but many are now pariahsdiagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593065778</amazonuk>1804271616
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alain de Botton Gregor Hens and Jen Calleja (translator)|title=A Week at The City and the Airport: A Heathrow DiaryWorld
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|summary=A writer-in-residence at an airport is not In ''The City and the World'', Gregor Hens reveals how cities are as daft an idea much imagined spaces as it might first seemthey are physical ones. After allWith a deep affection for the urban landscapes that have shaped his life, TV programmesHens reflects on places like Cologne, Berlin, and whole series, have entertained millions Goch on the Lower Rhine with what goes on in front a blend ofpersonal memory and thoughtful observation. His writing, at times abstract, captures not just architectural features but the emotional and behind the scenes at such placesmental geographies tied to each location, for example, his perspectives as a child as opposed to as an adult. So this bookFrom Belgium and Germany to Berkeley and Columbus, which is the fruit Hens traces a map of such a residencyexperiences, could be expected to produce few surprisesturning cities into reflections of identity and belonging.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846683599</amazonuk>1804271691
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|summary=I think I've now managed 'It is never too late to master the maxim about not judging books by their covers. I still struggle with embrace the one about not judging them by their titles and I very nearly cam unstuck and missed 'The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain'. Being just about revolutionary optimism of an age with the author I worried that it might be a treatise about the fact that 'things werenchildhood't like this when I was a lad'. I was even more worried that I might agree with him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087355</amazonuk>}}
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|genre=Politics and SocietyBiography|summary=Whatever you expect from The title of this novel refers to a book about water, French legal term (''Take Me to the Sourcebail précaire'' probably won't provide it) associated with squatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from eviction charges and processes, but few scant property rights. Among mentions of other squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterie, Feldman takes particular interest in one squat of massive proportions which adopted an almost mythical status for its inhabitants, admirers and detractors alike: Le Bloc. Neither Something like a whimsical aquatic traveloguehaven for artists and marginal members of society (as one character, Le Général, repeats throughout, nor a polemic about ''I live on the margins of the economics margins of waterthe margins''), it still manages Le Bloc was subject to produce unexpected insights into the element continual threat of eviction and the pressures from above which is so vitaloppressed its inhabitants' lives. We follow Le Bloc from its opening in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, yet so often taken for grantedframed as a tragedy in this book.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099512289</amazonuk>1804271403
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Tatar Claire Dederer|title=Enchanted HuntersMonsters: The Power of Stories in ChildhoodWhat Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
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|summary=IDederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the audience've long held that there is no difference between ' in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the old aphorism of separating the art from the major political parties such that could command you to vote for one or artist in the othercontext of contemporary ''cancel culture''. Dederer's work is original and expressive. The new Labour party now seems to stand somewhere to reader gets the right of what I though of as impression that the old Conservative party thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the Lib Dems appear to be page. In particular, the prologue packs a coalition of those who don't fit comfortably into either of punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the other main partiesdirector Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his actions. My voting patterns have changed radically from supporting a party because of its views to voting against another because This model of its actions. I was hoping that ''The Broken Compassmonstrous men'' might clarify my thoughtsas she calls them, is consistent for the first few chapters, interrogating the likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. Her critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, and a personal, rather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847064051</amazonuk>1399715070
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein Virginie Despentes|title=Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and HappinessKing Kong Theory
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|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography |summary=Choices are inevitable: from the lunch sandwich to the credit card ''King Kong Theory'' is a hard-hitting memoir and internet providerfeminist manifesto, which can be seen as a call to arms for women in a phallocentric society broken at its core. Originally written in French, the house and car and pension plan, modern humans, particularly those living book is a collection of essays in technologically developed democracies are blessed (or cursed) with which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the freedom (complex prism of her varied life: from rape to sex work and necessity) to choose all pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the timebook can feel somewhat disjointed, a reflection of their original form as independent essays.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141040017</amazonuk>191309734X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Davies1009473085|title=Flat Earth News: An AwardThe Conservative Effect 2010 -winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Propaganda in the Global MediaTom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45
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|summary=Do you remember a Y2K bug? When the worldSometimes it's computer systems were simpler to melt down in an Armageddon of vital services failure explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and possible nuclear accidents? that applies to ''The Y2K panic is a great example of flatConservative Effect: 2010-2024 -Earth news: something that gets passed 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on in certain occasions, then this isn't the media chain from those unsure to book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who might have a vested interest in maintaining it as fact thinks Johnson should return to those who are completely ignorant, and politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the process gets bigger impact a government has made and bigger and – almost accidentally – assumes co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a status series of orthodoxexperts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, accepted truththe changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512688</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer WorthAlastair Humphreys|title=Farewell To The East EndLocal|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyTravel |summary=I am interested in social history Alastair Humphreys has walked and, as a mother, cycled all over the job of midwives fascinates meworld. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. Combining these two subjects As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''Farewell to the East End'' is share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a riveting readsmall map. The author Jennifer Worth was a midwife Nature loss, pollution, land use and nurseaccess, agriculture, working with the nuns at Nonnatus House in food system, rewilding…'' One of the East End joys of London and this volume (her third the book on this topic) covers for me was that the 1950sbiggest 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297844652</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rania Al-BazEdel Rodriguez|title=DisfiguredWorm: A Saudi Woman's Story of Triumph over ViolenceCuban American Odyssey
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|genre=AutobiographyGraphic Novels|summary=Throughout her life Rania Al-Baz has been an unusual womanWe're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. She was married off by her father when she was still at school to The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a man she hardly knew and was saviour of the only married pupilcountry, has proven himself a Communist, forced and not done nearly enough to conform to the Saudi Arabian traditions create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of putting her husband first in all things but still expected to keep up with her school worktaking his time away. Pregnancy forced her Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to give up on her schooling but be the good soldier the marriage failed country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and Rania returned to her the fatherbeing watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. It might have been expected that she would fade quietly into The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the homeheat, but in a most unusual step she became this sultry island country, it remains the smiling face on a Saudi television programme. No woman had ever been a news anchor before and it was only to be expected that there would be plenty kind of heat forcing you out of men wanting to marry her.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844370755</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian DunningSarah Wilson|title=Skeptoid 2This One Wild and Precious Life: More Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena the path back to connection in a fractured world
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|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Brian Dunning My favourite Mary Oliver line is the author responsible for a series of weekly podcasts debunking and analysing a variety of dubious, pseudo-scientific, un-scientific and downright loony ideas, claims and myths common or persistent one in the pop (which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and not precious life?'' I get to love that line so pop) culturemuch because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. ''Skeptoid 2 I'' is essentially a written version of those podcasts, a collection of fifty pieces of which many can m lucky enough to be also read or listened living my one wild and precious life the way I want to at his [http://skeptoid.com/ website].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1440422850</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Gardner|title=Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Picture a world terrorised by just two words. A civilised, healthy, wealthy world no less, in thrall to and under threat from two wordsSarah Wilson is equally lucky. Not what those two In her book that takes Oliver's words represent even, just as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the actual small phrasebest life that we could be living. It sounds ridiculousHer answer is an unequivocal ''no, but when I say those two words – we are not''bird flu. Don'' – and t care what you've stopped laughingre doing, she thinks you may well remember how the panic started(we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the non-existent worry was the biggest concern of the western media for some time, and then it went away againfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753515539</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katherine Ashenburg1785633457|title=CleanCharging Around: An Unsanitised History Exploring the Edges of WashingEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson
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|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=Although maybe not the first book you'd be drawn to – Clive Wilkinson has a history of personal hygiene perhaps doesn't seem that appealing – but if you had overlooked this excellent book, you would have missed out on an enjoyable and informative book, full of fascinating facts and travelling by unconventional means with a jolly good readpreference for slow travel. Attitudes towards and rituals As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of cleanliness have certainly changed over exploring the last two thousand years and this book chronicles many edges of them, largely England in Europe and the USan electric car was not totally outrageous. Cultural differences with regard to cleanliness In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and body odour (and yeshis wife, Napoleon and Josephine do get a mention hereJoan, although shouldn't it transpires that they both took daily baths) are discussed at length, from the Greeks and Romans to the present day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681014</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Hatzfeld1529153050|title=The Strategy Of Antelopes: Rwanda After the GenocideBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=''Life offers me smilesSeeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, and I owe it my gratitude for not having abandoned me in the marshes.was nudged towards '' Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022'I've known the defilement of a bestial existence.'' ''Who's going to say Sharp eyes will have noted that word, forgiveness? Itwe's outside of human nature.'' So say some of re not yet through the survivors of year: the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when 800,000 Tutsis were murdered by their fellow Hutu citizens. Jean Hatzfeld talked cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to both Tutsis and Hutus then, publishing two award-winning books31 August 2022. In The Strategy of Antelopes, he returns to Rwanda to talk Who can imagine what there will be to come in the same people and explore life after genocide. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686865</amazonuk>2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emmanuel JalB0B7289HKQ|title=War ChildConversations Across America: A Boy SoldierFather and Son, Alzheimer's Story|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Emmanuel Jal, internationally successful rap artist, spent his childhood as a solider in his native Sudan. He has written his story in order to help those children who are still fighting, and those who have managed to get away. There are a number of books about the Sudan by western aid workers and journalists, who do, I am sure, write fluently and passionately about the horror of Darfur. This is 300 Conversations Along the first book TransAmerica Bike Trail that I have read which tells the story of war from Capture the point Soul of view of a small boy carrying an AK-47, a gun taller than he is himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700050</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAmerica|author=Ash Amin and Michael O'Neill|title=Thinking About Almost EverythingKari Loya
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|genre=Literary FictionTravel|summary=A wonderful digest of ideas spawned Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by ongoing work at Durham Universitythe way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The cross discplinary broad brush strokes give insight into decision was made to ride the pastTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, the presentVirginia to Astoria, and Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the future, and inspire personal recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and critical thinkinghe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668188X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Iain SinclairJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report The Book of Hope
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|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''Documentary fiction'' The done thing is what Iain Sinclair oxymoronically calls this to read a bookall the way through before you sit down to review it. It's a lot I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of other things too: autobiographyreading this amazing book, history, psychogeography I want to name but threecapture it as it hits me. His ''Hackney book'' as he self-referentially calls And it throughout, is a dense collage of reportage and ''inaccurate and inventive'' transcriptions of interviews, peopled by film-makers, novelists, politicians and painters, not to mention booksellers, barbers and bus drivershitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241142164</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kay1788360737|title=Artivism: The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment Battle for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't Museums in the IndustryEra of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=4.52|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes I wonder if authors set out to stop people reading their books, strange as this might seemCan art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. John Kay It is an excellent examplemade by people. He tells us Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he expects his readers to develops’’. Therefore, all art must be erudite and to be readers of popular sciencepolitical, even implicitly. They'll never knowingly have dealt with Goldman Sachs and will pay tax at Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the 40% rateEra of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. At the other end The recent trend of the scale they'll not be bad credit risks 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 just to cut out anyone media elites hoping for a quick buck, they'll not be tempted to make create a living from Stock Market speculationmore globalist and progressive regime. If you don't qualify on all points there's not even a hint of a pass mark which might allow you to sneak into the checkout queueOr at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954809327</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sudhir Venkatesh1398508632|title=Gang Leader For A DayThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=If you've ever wondered why young people join gangsIt had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, and what it's like particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to bring up start, in a family surrounded world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by armed drug dealersclimate change, you'll find ''Gang Leader For The Day'' fascinatingBrexit and a pandemic. Sociology student Sudhir Venkatesh wanted to learn by observing Wilde had a few advantages: the poor, baulking at the abstract, mathematical research methods used by his professors in the University area around her was a known habitat with a variety of Chicagoterrains. In 1989 She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, armed with freezer and dehydrator. She had a clipboard car - and a questionnaire, he visited the Robert Taylor Homesfuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a notorious housing project. Instead of neatly answering his carefully-prepared questions - ''How does it feel plan to be black and poor?'' by selecting from live''very bad, somewhat bad, 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 wild just to live off its charismatic local leader, Jproduce.T.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141030917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Perry1529149800|title=Falling Off The EdgeThings You Can Do: Globalization, World Peace How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Other LiesSara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=3.54|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=From We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. Russia The tiny hummingbird flew to a devastated sub-Saharan Africathe river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', economic collapse and consequent protest in reaction threaten said the established orderhummingbird. Globalisation And that, really, is putting the survival only way that we will solve the problem of populations in the world's poorest countries at riskclimate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706886</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola Sly Matthieu Aikins|title=Dorset Murders (True Crime History)The Naked Don't Fear the Water
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|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=Having examined It'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 number of true crime cases from Bristol in her [[Bristol Murders well-paced thriller at times. This is not by Nicola Sly|last book]]any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the author now does the same for largely rural yet not always idyllic Dorsetwhole way through. Twenty two murders, committed between 1818 But it's written with a haunting and 1946, come under almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the microscope in these pagesenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0750951079</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Roberts1785633074|title=The Wonga CoupStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry
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|genre=HistoryHumour|summary=The chances 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 Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that youthe ''prime've never heard of Macias Nguema. You probably don't know his nephew, Obiang Nguema eithermovers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. They're certainly up there We are in the Premier League privileged position of having access to the memoirs of killing and disappearanceRafe Hubris, alongside the likes man who was behind the skilful control of Pol Pot and modern day tyrants like Robert Mugabe. The fact that the Nguemas are dictators from Covid crisis which was completely contained by the tiny west African state end of Equatorial Guinea meant they largely slipped off 2020. You might not know the radar of western consciousnessname now but he will certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682347</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Schama1846276772|title=The American FutureEnd of Bias: A HistoryHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=After 9/11 America had Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the sympathy extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of most peopleeveryday life. White men will always come first. Whether or not you agreed with what The able will come before the country stood for was immaterial – disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the horror preserve of what happened left few unmovedthe white man. How then has Even when those who wouldn't pass the country descended into being vilified around much medical become a part of the world and suspected even where an organisation it is not guilty? 's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. Simon Sharma has lived half his life in It's personally appalling and degrading for the States and he looks at four areas – War, Religion, individuals on the American identity and Economics in an attempt to understand how receiving end of the country has reached this point when bias but it seemed, at least until 's not just the 2008 election, that many Americans did not even like themselvesindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847920004</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio Negri and Raf Scelsi0008350388|title=Goodbye Mr Socialism We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=35
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|summary=''Goodbye, Mr Socialism'' To be a dark-skinned Black woman is a collection of conversations in which Antonio Negri and Raf Scelsi explore what it means to be 'left wing' today seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and whether ''the word "socialism" still has a political space''ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... Starting with an analysis of possible reasons for both the monstrosities of Stalinism and the actual collapse of the 'real socialism' in general and the Soviet Union in particular, Negri defines the challenge of the left as finding the answer to the question ''how development can occur in the future for people who have been liberated from capitalism '' We Need to then move to discuss the newly re-emerging sense of Talk About Money''the bio-political common'' as distinctly different from both the public (state) and the private.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1852429526</amazonuk>}}by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark ThomasRichard Brook|title=Belching Out the DevilUnderstanding Human Nature: Global Adventures with Coca-ColaA User's Guide to Life
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=I don't drink fizzy drinksam a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, aside from this is one of the odd mixer in a rare visit to the publatter. ThereNot so very long ago, if I said had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it. Iwould not have 'hit home've consigned myself to in the dinosaur generationway that it does now. I drink tea, and - gasp - water. From the tap. So believe it came to me not just because I get was likely to read Mark Thomasgive it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's coruscating indictment of u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the Coca Cola Company with book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a rather smug smirk on my blameless lipsbook I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091922933</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Scroggie1787332098|title=Tic-tac Teddy Bears and Teardrop Tattoos|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=Signs are everywhere. I wasn't really one of those who thought our roads were littered with too many traffic signs until the day I was driven past a pair of speed regulation signs, positioned at the exit end of How to Love Animals in a oneHuman-way street but facing the illegal way up it. Not all signs, of course, are quite as unnecessary, or indeed as blatantly visible, which is where this pictorial guide to countless coded messages, signifiers and other similar factoids comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340976489</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewShaped World|author=Sarah Lyall|title=A Field Guide To The BritishHenry Mance|rating=45
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|summary=I have a fascination - one that borders on an unhealthy obsession - with books written ''When we do think about the Britishanimals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and that fascination is clearlyso on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, not just a personal foible of mine as such books are uncannily common: from travelogues to memoirsdogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, hefty historical analyses to short satirical sketcheselephants in zoos, the subject of Britishness (and Englishness) carries a seemingly endless fascination for natives and foreigners alike. Many millions of those bookswild animals stay out there, somehow expectedly, are written by Americans as so is ''The Field Guidesomewhere,'' by Sarah Lyall, an American journalist who married a Brit and came here for love in hopefully on the mid/late 90next David Attenborough series.''s, exactly like I did, though I am sure that I move in slightly less elevated circles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184724582X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Cowell1523092734|title=The Terminal SpyA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
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|summary=Find Bond bordering on the trivial these days? Think ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that perhaps Le Carré is a little passé? 'every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'Spooks' too silly for words? (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christina ThompsonPolly Barton|title=Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You AllFifty Sounds
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|genre=TravelPolitics and Society|summary=Subtitled Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''an unlikely love storyWhy Japan?'', this was an interesting and inspiring memoir written by an American academic, who met and fell in love with Japan has been on my radar for a Maori - while and what a beautiful tale it tells! Referred to as a if the world hadn'contact' encounter (it gone into melt-down I would have visited by now.eI may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful., chance meeting) it sounds almost And like a fairy taleBarton, and I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in part it the first essay, which is - but a fairy tale on the sound ''giro' '' – which includes huge amount she describes as being, among other things, the sound of hard work too''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747582521</amazonuk>1913097501
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