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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary YoungeAriel Saramandi|title=Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?Portrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Journalist Gary Younge’s book draws heavily on his articles for In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the Guardian newspapersociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as he mentions in his acknowledgements''rotting'', but it isn’t just a collection blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of his journalismracism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Who Are We? is partly Each essay in this collection serves as a memoir and partly a thoughtful and incisive exploration kind of diagnostic, charting the politics and political impact of identity, including race, gender, language groups, religion, sexuality in various countries around diseases afflicting the worldisland state. He sets out to explore 'To what extent can our various identities be mobilized to accentuate our universal humanity as opposed to separating us off into various, antagonistic camps?'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670917036</amazonuk>1804271616
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernhard SchlinkGregor Hens and Jen Calleja (translator)|title=Guilt About The City and the PastWorld
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|summary=Consider, if you will, guilt. You might have it tainting you, as In ''beyond the perpetrators, every person who stands in solidarity with them The City and maintains solidarity after the fact becomes entangledWorld'. The link might not strictly be a legal one, but concern 'norms of religion and morals, etiquette and custom Gregor Hens reveals how cities are as well much imagined spaces as day-to-day communications and interactions'they are physical ones. Hence With a collective guilt deep affection for the urban landscapes that have shaped his life, Hens reflects on places like no other - that witnessed in Germany. 'The assumption that membership to Cologne, Berlin, and Goch on the Lower Rhine with a people engenders solidarity is something Germans blend of my generation do personal memory and thoughtful observation. His writing, at times abstract, captures not easily like just architectural features but the emotional and mental geographies tied to accept'each location, for example, we readhis perspectives as a child as opposed to as an adult. However difficult it might have been back then in its day, From Belgium and Germany had to physically renounce anything to do with NazismBerkeley and Columbus, to actively 'opt-out' Hens traces a map of connections to avoid the solidarity seen connecting the whole nation like a toxic spider web. And since then it's linked in all the childrenexperiences, in a ''bequeathal'' turning cities into reflections of guiltidentity and belonging.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905636776</amazonuk>1804271691
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|summary=''What are It is never too late to embrace the chances revolutionary optimism of change in the Middle East?childhood'' is the question central to this book. Since Neil MacFarquhar spent thirteen years wandering the length and breadth of the Islamic stronghold of the Middle East, I feel inclined to believe his in-depth assessment. In descriptive and reasoned terms, he identifies conservative forces which predominate in the region, primarily the religious and political machinery which condemns liberalization and modernization. This discussion of attempts to promote change, for example by individual dissidents or the media, is strengthened in the second half of the book by detailed case studies of six nations with particular reference to their readiness and motivation for change. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1586488112</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Douglas RogersJacqueline Feldman|title=The Last ResortPrecarious Lease|rating=3.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Author Douglas Rogers is The title of this novel refers to a Zimbabwean who moved awayFrench legal term (''bail précaire'') associated with squatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from the country many years agoeviction charges and processes, but has never been able to persuadehis parents – two white farmersfew 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, Lyn admirers and detractors alike: Le Bloc. Something like a haven for artists and Roz – to follow him out marginal members oftheir homelandsociety (as one character, Le Général, repeats throughout, despite ''I live on the margins of the resettlement policies margins of Robert Mugabethe margins''),Le Bloc was subject to the hyper-inflation, continual threat of eviction and the corruption pressures from above which oppressed its inhabitants' lives. We follow Le Bloc from its opening in the country. Instead2012 until its eventual dissolution, thepair just wanted to stay on the farm welcoming people to Drifters,their backpackers' lodgeframed as a tragedy in this book.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906021910</amazonuk>1804271403
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Archie BrownClaire Dederer|title=The Rise and Fall of CommunismMonsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=4.53|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''A source biography of hope for the audience'' in a radiant future or…the greatest threat on deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the face old aphorism of separating the art from the artist in the earthcontext of contemporary ''cancel culture''. Whichever of these descriptions you would apply to Communism you will find Archie BrownDederer's detailed work is original and largely objective study enlightening expressive. The reader gets the impression that the thoughts simply sprang and engrossingleapt from her brilliant mind and onto the page. On one levelIn particular, this is the prologue packs a chronological description punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his actions. This model of how a political force grew to dominate a third ''monstrous men'' as she calls them, is consistent for the first few chapters, interrogating the likes of the world's population then virtually disappeared within 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 period of less personal, rather than a centurycollective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845950674</amazonuk>1399715070
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave EggersVirginie Despentes|title=ZeitounKing Kong Theory
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|summary=''King Kong Theory'' is a hard-hitting memoir and feminist 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 book is a collection of essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the complex prism of her varied life: from rape to sex work and pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the book can feel somewhat disjointed, a reflection of their original form as independent essays.
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{{Frontpage
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|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024
|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Flicking through Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the channels inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the TV the other night book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I stumbled across an interview with George Bushdon't think Anthony Seldon's former Deputy Chief of Staffbook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, Karl Rovecan be bettered for those tumultuous years. After witnessing It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an especially cringe making hip hop turn entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the Washington Correspondents' Dinner (if you haven't seen it take impact a look at [httpgovernment has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format://wwwa series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.youtube}}{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Travel |summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo here] For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. It really As he says in his introduction, the book is jaw droppingly awful) attention turned an attempt ''to weightier mattersshare what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, most notably Guantanamo Bay land use and access, agriculture, the war on terror and food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the Bush administrations response 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 Hurricane Katrinahave a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241144841</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin BellEdel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our DemocracyCuban American Odyssey
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|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=IWe've long re in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought it strange that of all the ills that have befallen as a saviour of the country over the last few years it was , has proven himself a Communist, and not really the bankersdone nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren' follies or t in the swine flu that never really got off happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the ground but good soldier the venality of our MPs which caught country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the public's attentionfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. Compared to The mother gets the couple jobs with the amounts required party to bail out a bank ease some of the sums involved were minuteheat, but moatsin this sultry island country, floating duck houses and flipping houses caught it remains the imagination and our elected representatives became just a little wary kind of heat forcing you out of admitting what they did for a living.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848311281</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dominique LapierreSarah Wilson|title=A Rainbow This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in the Night a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=A book integrating otherwise piecemeal news stories picked up over My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the past forty years into a coherent explanation way I want to. Sarah Wilson is always welcomeequally lucky. This In her book explores South Africathat takes Oliver's history and development, from words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the earliest Dutch arrivals in 1652 source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the first racially integrated elections in 1994fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0306818477</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marina Hyde1785633457|title=CelebrityCharging Around: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit StrategyExploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=3.5|genre=EntertainmentTravel|summary=I have what is perhaps Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a regular-sized interest in A and B-list celebritiespreference for slow travel. I can name As he neared his eightieth birthday the off-spring idea of many an actress, tell you who exploring the spokespeople for certain brands are, write a list edges of celebs with publicly declared devotions to certain religions, even win the odd pub quiz thanks to knowing the birth names of various performersEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. I know all sorts of things about this rather small subset of society, but I know the ''what'' more than the ''why''In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and that's exactly the problemhis wife, according to this book. After allJoan, if more of us sat down to wonder about what shouldn't it actually ''is'' that the likes of Geri Halliwell and Nicole Kidman bring to the UN, we might seriously question how and why they ever got involved in the first place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532050</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Salman Rushdie1529153050|title=Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticisms 1981 - 1991Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=3.54|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=We read Seeking some authors because we know we're going light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to enjoy them. Othersseem more and more like an adrenaline sport, we feel somehow obliged to read. If we consider ourselves I was nudged towards ''Britain'readerss Best Political Cartoons of 2022'', and certainly if . Sharp eyes will have noted that we have any pretensions (I use 're not yet through the year: the word advisedly) cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to being ''well-read'', then 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there are some books and more particularly some authors with whom we are required will be to become familiar.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542250</amazonuk>come in the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0B7289HKQ|authortitle=Carole White Conversations Across America: A Father and Sian WilliamsSon, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|titleauthor=Struggle or StarveKari Loya|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyTravel|summary=Struggle or Starve is a collection of autobiographical writings about girls' Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and women's lives in South Wales the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the wars. This is a new edition Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of a book first published it - in 1998 by Honno, an independent publisher set up 2015. They had 73 days to encourage Welsh women writers. Most of do it - slightly less than the contributors in recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this book came 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 he was suffering from minersearly-stage Alzheimer' families and grew up in real poverty and economic insecuritys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784094</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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=David ShieldsJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Reality Hunger: A ManifestoThe Book of Hope
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|genre=Politics and Society|summary='The Novel done thing is Dead' is not really what a novelist wants to read first on picking up a new book – but I persevered with Shields' manifesto and I'm glad I did. This is a thought-provoking wake-up call that any artist, writer or book-lover will enjoy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024114499X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chinua Achebe|title=The Education of a British-Protected Child|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=This book is a collection of autobiographical essays by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, whose best known work is all the novel Things Fall Apart, published in 1958way through before you sit down to review it. Topics covered include NigerianI’m making an exception here, Biafran and Igbo history and culture, African literature and the legacy because I don’t want to lose any of colonialism in his country and the rest experience of Africa. Some of the essays are taken from guest lectures at universities around the world and conference papers, and others are written for reading this amazing book, particularly many of the more personal pieces about Achebe's familyI want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846142598</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Norah Vincent1788360737|title=Voluntary MadnessArtivism: My Year Lost and Found The Battle for Museums in the Loony BinEra of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=3.52|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=''Voluntary Madness'' Can art ever be apolitical? All art is journalist Norah Vincent's account of her visits to three mental health facilities political because art is not made in Americaa vacuum. The first It is an urban, public hospital made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that houses mainly homeless, psychotic patients, many of whom are addicted ‘’Every man… contributes to drugsmodifying the social environment in which he develops’’. In this hospitalTherefore, the doctors are overworked and jaded and medication is always the answerall art must be political, even implicitly. Soon, the author finds that her latent depression (which led her to do the Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the first place) Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is returningart for art’s sake. The process recent trend of being institutionalised breaks her sense of selfso-worth down astonishingly fastcalled artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Indeed, she suggests that it is the lack of autonomy in institutional life, even for those patients who voluntarily commit themselves, that makes it so hard for them Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to rebuild independent lives when they finally leave the institutioncreate a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513439</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gabriel Weston1398508632|title=Direct RedThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Men aren't Martian It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and women don't hail from Venusa pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. We're all Earthlings apparently; She had electricity which seems like progress of allowed her to run a sortfridge, freezer and dehydrator. Even so we still have trouble understanding each other because we speak different languages – Himglish She had a car - and Femalesefuel. Luckily Jean Hannah Edelstein is fluent in both and has written Most importantly, she had shelter: this light hearted volume was not a plan to define the problem and translate''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848091729</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Hooper1529149800|title=The Tall ManThings You Can Do: Life How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Death on Palm IslandSara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Cameron Doomadgee – Mulrunji – was just thirty six years old We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when he was arrested on Palm Islandthe forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. Quite why he The animals laughed: what good was arrested was never clearthat doing. He wasn't drunk, although he had been drinking beer – and was walking along the road singing 'I'Who Let m doing the Dogs Out?best I can'' , said the hummingbird. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley felt And that there was reason to arrest Mulrunji for creating as public nuisance and he was taken to , really, is the police station. What happened next was to be only way that we will solve the subject problem of intense media speculation and legal proceedings over the coming yearsclimate change – by each of us doing what we can, but within forty five minutes Mulrunji was deadhowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520761</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dana Fowley1638485216|title=How Could She?Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=45
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=From the age of five Dana Fowley was subjected to unimaginable sexual abuse and before long her sister would be subjected to more of the same. She was raped by her mother's partner and taken to the homes of her grandparents where she was abused by them and others'Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. At other times she was forced to go It has everything to the homes of other men where she was raped and abuseddo with character. Did her mother not know what was going on? Did she turn a blind eye? It was neither of thosePeriod.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholas SternMatthieu Aikins|title=A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save The Naked Don't Fear the World and Create ProsperityWater
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The hardback edition of Naked Don't Fear the Water isn'A Blueprint for t actually fiction, because it reads very much like a Safer Planet' was published early in 2009 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 an update to the 2006 Stern Review 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 economics of climate changewhole way through. Now here is But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the paperback edition, published too early reader to critique Copenhagen, but nonetheless an interesting read. Stern is an expert witness who presents his evidence understandably for perfectly envisage the layman; he is unemotional environments and very convincingpeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099524058</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou 1785633074|title=Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on the Green BandwagonStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry
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|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Did you know Members of Parliament like us to believe that Horlicksthe country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that great sleep aid, 's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is sold in India as a startthat the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers -theSPADS -day energy boost? Not another concoction under who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the same brandmemoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the Exact Same Productman to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047074622X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Furedi1846276772|title=WastedThe End of Bias: Why Education Isn't EducatingHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=34.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=It seems the more problems the school-aged generation pose to societyAnyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the more responsibility schools have extent to take, teaching not which they suffer from it: it's simply English and Mathsa part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, but Personal Thinking and Learning Skillspromotions, Happiness Classes, and Emotional Educationhigher salaries are the preserve of the white man. The duty to raise Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a child well is taken out part of the apparently an organisation it'incompetents rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It' hands s personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of parents, and given over to the education system, where values can be regulated and controlledbias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847064167</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bill Butterworth1529148251|title=Reversing Global Warming For Profit Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=3.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=There aren't many climate change deniers left, are there? We all know it's there. We all knowHow am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, toomalpractice and poverty, that the worldyet still compartmentalise? It's population growth is on a collision course with as though I were telling the dwindling of its resources. The world's going to get hotter, its weather more extreme. Fossil fuels are going to run outtruth whilst simultaneously running away from it. More and more people will compete for fewer and fewer of civilisation's luxuries. We're all worried. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312810</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur 0008350388|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide We Need to Unremitting Global Misery|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern world, the entire banking system, all those who failed to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on the expenses train, and back up the rich lists.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTalk About Money|author=Robert Winnett and Gordon Rayner|title=No Expenses SparedOtegha Uwagba|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's always struck me 'To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as strange that in a period of twelve months which saw Banks collapseless desirable, less hireable, stock markets tumble less intelligent and house prices slide the public have reserved most of their ire for a relatively small group of people who were not exceptionally wellultimately less valuable than my light-paid in the first place, but many of whom took the opportunity to make the most of the generous expenses which they could claimskinned counterparts... '' There are only six hundred and forty six Members of Parliament – twelve months ago they were generally respected but many are now pariahs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593065778</amazonuk>}}''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian JackRichard Brook|title=The Country Formerly Known As Great BritainUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=I think am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I've d have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now managed to master the maxim about not judging books by their covers. I still struggle with the one about believe it came to me not judging them by their titles and just because I very nearly cam unstuck and missed was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Country Formerly Known as Great BritainBookbag's u. Being just about of an age with the author I worried s.p. is that it might be people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a treatise about predisposition towards expecting to like the fact book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'things weren't like this when I was ] – but also because it is a lad'. book I was even more worried that I might agree with himneeded to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224087355</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist1787332098|title=Pocket How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World in Figures 2010|author=Henry Mance
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=It's just 'When we do think about a year since I reviewed [[Pocket World In Figures 2009 by The Economist|Pocket World in Figures 2009]] animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and at the time – September 2008 – so on. And we were watching assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in horror as the world financial crisis unfolded before our eyes. Looking back now the surprise is that for most people what happened came out of the blue. The clues were plain to see and all here rubbish bins, elephants in this handy little book. There was the worrying state of the Iceland economy zoos, and different levels of mortgage lending in various parts millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the worldnext David Attenborough series. Best of all it was presented as verified figures, without any accompanying narrative and it's consequently free of political spin. Bliss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681367</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arundhati Roy 1523092734|title=Listening A Women's Guide to GrasshoppersClaiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Stories can provoke many different reactions ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in the reader: pleasure, painher life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, delightformer CMO, horror. The whole range of emotion Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is available to live the fiction writer to ply life of choosing unapologetically and probebravely. Reactions It is to non-fiction works can be equally wide-ranging and can sometimes take live the reader by surpriselife you've always wanted.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rupert Wright Polly Barton|title=Take Me to the Source: In Search of WaterFifty Sounds|rating=34.5
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|summary=Whatever you expect from a book about waterWhere do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Take Me to the SourceWhy Japan?'' probably wonJapan has been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn't provide itgone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. Neither a whimsical aquatic travelogueAnd like Barton, nor a polemic about I don't know the answer to the economics question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of waterthe question in the first essay, it still manages to produce unexpected insights into which is on the element sound ''giro' '' – which is so vitalshe describes as being, among other things, yet so often taken for grantedthe sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099512289</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Tatar Stephen Fabes|title=Enchanted Hunters: The Power Signs of Stories in ChildhoodLife|rating=35|genre=Home and FamilyTravel|summary=Like most avid readersI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I dondidn't remember inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the time before there were books. We were brought up with booksguts to simply go out and do it. There are family tales I also didn't inherit the kind of my father as a child eating his breakfast with one handsteady nerve, while trying ability to talk to tie his shoelaces strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the other and still contriving to read at the same timerequisite 'bottle'. They were In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on a poor family, bike outside a London hospital and books weren't just expensive, they were valuablenot come home for six years. They were dear, 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 classicsFabes did precisely that. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393066010</amazonuk>1788161211
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