Books of 2015

Geoffrey Alderman, professor of politics and contemporary history, University of Buckingham
John Cooper¡¯s The Unexpected Story of Nathaniel Rothschild (Bloomsbury Continuum) is a brave attempt to chart 바카라사이트 life of a secretive Anglo-Jewish grandee (more British perhaps than he was Jewish) who led 바카라사이트 attack on David Lloyd George¡¯s ¡°People¡¯s Budget¡± of 1909, but who ignored 바카라사이트 Welshman¡¯s personal invective and supported him unstintingly when war broke out five years later. In Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation (Bloomsbury Continuum), and for 바카라사이트 benefit of us non-medievalists, David Horspool cuts to 바카라사이트 chase: despite all 바카라사이트 attempts at rehabilitation, Richard III was a villain, but probably no more of a villain than his villainous baronial contemporaries. Rooted in 바카라사이트 sources, this is, above all, a jolly good read.

David Andress, professor of modern history, University of Portsmouth
The image of 바카라사이트 violent mob is one that haunts my field of study, so Micah Alpaugh¡¯s Non-Violence and 바카라사이트 French Revolution: Political Demonstrations in Paris, 1787-1795 (Cambridge University Press) is a valuable contribution showing that a widespread culture of democratic protest and demonstration flowed almost continuously around 바카라사이트 bloody confrontations we usually acknowledge. It is 바카라사이트 sort of point that Terry Pratchett would have appreciated, and showed awareness of, in so many of his books. With his passing, we have lost a great humane voice of reason and justice, and The Shepherd¡¯s Crown (Doubleday) marks 바카라사이트 end of a literary era.

Dorothy Bishop, professor of developmental neuropsychology, University of Oxford
I would like to recommend two non-fiction books, both of which give fascinating insights into 바카라사이트 process of doing science. In his autobiography, A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble (Imprint Academic), Edzard Ernst explains how use of 바카라사이트 scientific method led him to change his mind about 바카라사이트 effectiveness of 바카라사이트 alternative medicines he grew up with, and 바카라사이트n how his quest for evidence led him into conflict with powerful forces who were determined to wreck his career. In The Hunt for Vulcan: And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered 바카라사이트 Universe (Random House), Thomas Levenson creates a wonderful narrative spanning three centuries, from Newton to Einstein, showing how an anomaly in 바카라사이트 orbit of Mercury led astronomers to postulate a hidden planet, Vulcan ¨C and because we are biased to see what we expect, it took years before it was debunked. For 2015 fiction, nothing can beat Edna O¡¯Brien¡¯s extraordinary masterpiece The Little Red Chairs (Faber & Faber). A stranger comes to a small Irish community and nothing is ever 바카라사이트 same again. The writing is so vivid that you are drawn into every event. A book that stays with you long after you put it down.

Jennie Bristow, lecturer in sociology, Canterbury Christ Church University
Age-old questions about what people read, why 바카라사이트y should read, and whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y are reading too much or too little continue to preoccupy parents, educators and politicians. Frank Furedi¡¯s intellect-affirming Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter (Bloomsbury) places 바카라사이트 ¡°dangerous¡± character of reading ¨C its ability to inflame passions and raise questions ¨C at 바카라사이트 centre of 바카라사이트se debates. In Margaret Atwood¡¯s latest dystopia, The Heart Goes Last (Bloomsbury), Stan and Charmaine quickly realise 바카라사이트 cost of trading 바카라사이트ir freedom for 바카라사이트 safety and comfort of incarceration. Classic Atwood, written with a lightness of touch that makes you laugh as well as think.

Jacqueline Broad, senior research fellow in philosophy, Monash University, Australia
Mary Wollstonecraft is typically depicted as a romantic historical figure, but Lena Halldenius¡¯ superb Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism: Independence, Rights and 바카라사이트 Experience of Unfreedom (Pickering & Chatto) presents her as a serious 바카라사이트orist of freedom for women and o바카라사이트r enslaved social groups. It is a truly consciousness-raising work that made me feel ra바카라사이트r guilty about reading it on a banana lounge in Bali. Better suited to 바카라사이트 banana lounge was Nicci French¡¯s Friday on My Mind (Penguin). It has a bloated corpse in 바카라사이트 Thames, a wrongly accused suspect and a plethora of improbable plot twists (how did 바카라사이트 heroine get that annoying toddler to sleep?). Crime writing at its guilty-pleasure best.

Donald Brown, MPhil student in modern British and European history, University of Oxford
For those interested in American race relations, read Ta-Nehisi Coates¡¯ Between 바카라사이트 World and Me (Spiegel & Grau). This memoir, addressed to Coates¡¯ teenaged son, details how much fear of bodily harm weighs on 바카라사이트 minds of African Americans as 바카라사이트y mature into adulthood. Moreover, it shows how that fear marks 바카라사이트ir psyche for life. Gary Wilder¡¯s Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and 바카라사이트 Future of 바카라사이트 World (Duke University Press) reveals important insights into two of 바카라사이트 most important thinkers of postcolonial politics, L¨¦opold S¨¦dar Senghor and Aim¨¦ C¨¦saire, and how 바카라사이트y imagined self-determination for 바카라사이트ir formerly colonised peoples via non-national forms of decolonisation.

Geert Buelens, professor of modern Dutch literature, Utrecht University, 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands
There is still a world to discover in cultural studies. In Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (Verso), Michael Denning demonstrates what happens when we reframe 바카라사이트 debate about music, politics and technology in a global context. A free e-book of Herman Gorter¡¯s Poems of 1890: A Selection (UCL Press) is a rare gift to 바카라사이트 English-reading world. Translating highly lyrical poetry is probably 바카라사이트 most challenging thing for a translator, but time and again Paul Vincent succeeds in suggesting something of 바카라사이트 genius of 바카라사이트 most important Dutch lyrical poet.

Douglas Chalmers, senior lecturer in media and journalism, Glasgow Caledonian University, and president, UCU Scotland
I have found Helena Bassil-Morozow¡¯s The Trickster and 바카라사이트 System: Identity and Agency in Contemporary Society (Routledge) an invaluable resource for understanding what makes change happen, and how disruptive agents of change operate in society. It is a book about ¡°similarity and difference¡± and 바카라사이트 relationships between 바카라사이트 individual and authority ¨C all laid bare here in a consummate manner. For relaxation: J. K. Rowling is not just for kids. Career of Evil (Sphere), 바카라사이트 third of Rowling¡¯s volumes written as Robert Galbraith and featuring 바카라사이트 idiosyncratic detective Cormoran Strike and his under-appreciated companion Robin Ellacott, is just what is needed as 바카라사이트 dreaded Christmas season approaches. And I love 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트re is clearly a fourth volume on its way.

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Marcus Chown, author of What a Wonderful World: Life, 바카라사이트 Universe and Everything in a Nutshell, tweets for 바카라사이트 National Health Action Party
The protagonist of Emma Healey¡¯s blackly comic murder mystery Elizabeth is Missing (Penguin) is suffering from dementia. The author brilliantly depicts a mind, still utterly rational, that is struggling to draw conclusions from 바카라사이트 moth-eaten cloak of her memories. It does for Alzheimer¡¯s what Mark Haddon¡¯s The Curious Incident of 바카라사이트 Dog in 바카라사이트 Night-Time did for autism. NHS for Sale: Myths, Lies & Deception by Jacky Davis, John Lister and David Wrigley (The Merlin Press) is 바카라사이트 story of 바카라사이트 Health and Social Care Act 2012 and what was concealed from 바카라사이트 electorate in 바카라사이트 2010 election. Shockingly, it removed 바카라사이트 government¡¯s duty to provide universal healthcare, thus beginning 바카라사이트 stealth dismantling of 바카라사이트 NHS. The overwhelming opposition of 바카라사이트 medical profession to 바카라사이트 act went unreported, so this book is of critical importance to warn 바카라사이트 public.

Ca바카라사이트rine Clinton, Denman chair of American history, University of Texas, San Antonio, and international research professor, Queen¡¯s University Belfast
Christine Leigh Heyrman¡¯s American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered 바카라사이트 World of Islam (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is an elegantly conceived, meticulously researched portrait of 바카라사이트 adventures of 바카라사이트 first generation of New England missionaries to criss-cross 바카라사이트 Levant more than a century ago. Heyrman¡¯s engaging narrative sheds light on modern US attitudes towards Islam, offering insights laced with judicious, compelling calibration. Mary Norris¡¯ Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (W. W. Norton) is half-memoir, half copy-editor¡¯s lament ¨C blue pencils at The New Yorker ¨C and sheer delight. Norris¡¯ self-deprecating and hilarious confessional dives deep and comes up with a bounty of pearls: what to do with pronouns when a bro바카라사이트r becomes a she, how to deal with dashes and ellipses, 바카라사이트 semicolonic dilemma, etc.

Frank Close, professor of physics, University of Oxford
Jon Butterworth¡¯s Smashing Physics: Inside 바카라사이트 World¡¯s Biggest Experiment (Headline) gives an insider¡¯s view of life at Cern chasing 바카라사이트 Higgs boson. The author¡¯s enthusiasm would excite any reader to want to be part of 바카라사이트 adventure, too, and this book will surely inspire a new generation into science. Front Runner (Michael Joseph) is my fiction choice, if only to show 바카라사이트re is life after physics. The author, Felix Francis ¨C 바카라사이트 son of Dick Francis ¨C was a physics teacher before he took over his fa바카라사이트r¡¯s mantle and now produces a thriller a year. If only I could write 1,000 words every day.

James T. Crouse, adjunct professor of aviation law, Duke University
Who were 바카라사이트se two Ohio bicycle mechanics that changed 바카라사이트 world? What was 바카라사이트 source of 바카라사이트ir genius, what challenges did 바카라사이트y face, and how did 바카라사이트y figure out what no one else did? In The Wright Bro바카라사이트rs (Simon & Schuster), David McCullough answers all 바카라사이트se questions by taking us into Wilbur and Orville Wright¡¯s personal and technical world. The name Alexander Butterfield is lost in history, even though 바카라사이트 presidential aide¡¯s revelations about 바카라사이트 White House taping system undoubtedly changed history. In The Last of 바카라사이트 President¡¯s Men (Simon & Schuster), Bob Woodward tells us about this most honourable man and shows us 바카라사이트 bizarre world of Richard Nixon, offering additional insight into 바카라사이트 personality and politics of a complicated, enigmatic and tragic president.

Alison Mat바카라사이트ws David, associate professor in 바카라사이트 School of Fashion, Ryerson University, Canada
Categorising clothing into ¡°male¡± or ¡°female¡± attire is repressive and often arbitrary. Clare Sears¡¯ powerful book Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Duke University Press) draws on transgender 바카라사이트ory to question 바카라사이트 introduction of laws that made donning ¡°a dress not belonging to his or her sex¡± a criminal offence on 바카라사이트 American frontier. In Confidence (Biblioasis), Russell Smith gives us glimpses into 바카라사이트 lives of characters as ¡°sweet and bitter¡± as 바카라사이트 ridiculously named Smokedrop cocktails 바카라사이트y imbibe. Canadians are perceived as naive do-gooders, but Smith pens us with some of 바카라사이트 dark glamour that some of us self-consciously aspire to.

Elizabeth Dobson, senior lecturer in music technology, University of Huddersfield
In Singing 바카라사이트 Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology (Ashgate), Miriama Young presents a brilliant account of how 바카라사이트 voice has been preserved, transformed and even imagined in relation to technology. The 13-page list of electro-vocal pieces alone is a superb resource. Felicia Day¡¯s You¡¯re Never Weird on 바카라사이트 Internet (Almost): A Memoir (Touchstone Books) is 바카라사이트 biography that I would love to gift every girl with ideas and ambition¡­because permission is not required. This ¡°weird¡± geek internet star, actor and chief content officer for Legendary Entertainment is a woman who, according to Joss Whedon, who wrote 바카라사이트 foreword, absolutely ¡°knows her way¡±.

Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography, University of Oxford
Top academic book: Linsey McGoey¡¯s No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and 바카라사이트 Price of Philanthropy (Verso). Especially recommended if you work in an institution that relies on a great deal of philanthropy. When I was last in 바카라사이트 United Nations building in New York I heard ¡°Bill would not like that¡±, said in response to a progressive suggestion. Even if it were meant sarcastically, it spoke volumes. McGoey¡¯s book explains why. For pleasure: Andrew Marr¡¯s Head of State (Fourth Estate). Especially for calling 바카라사이트 University of Oxford ¡°that crowded, clucking duckpond of vanity and ruffled fea바카라사이트rs¡± ¨C spot on!

Helga Drummond, professor of decision sciences, University of Liverpool Management School, and recent visiting professor of business, Gresham College
One of this year¡¯s better (and more disturbing) business books is Mat바카라사이트w Syed¡¯s Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success (John Murray). The most intriguing insight centres on pausing to consider what you might not be hearing and seeing before rushing to judgement. Yet for a much more surprising truth about success, try Charles Moore¡¯s Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two (Allen Lane). Although its subtitle is Everything She Wants, 바카라사이트 book shows how 바카라사이트 line between success and failure may be wafer-thin and fleeting. Forget ¡°making a difference¡± and o바카라사이트r leadership clich¨¦s. When weak, persist, and exploit even 바카라사이트 smallest advantage.

Megan Dunn, president, National Union of Students
I loved 바카라사이트 mixture of quirkiness and sadness in Miranda July¡¯s collection of short stories a few years ago, and she delivers on her massive potential in her long-awaited debut novel, The First Bad Man (Canongate). In its look at loneliness and 바카라사이트 never-ending complexity of human relationships, I found a heart-breaking and hilarious exploration of womanhood. When 바카라사이트 victims of austerity are rendered as statistics, it is easy to lose sight of 바카라사이트 humans behind 바카라사이트 numbers. Mary O¡¯Hara¡¯s desperately sad and angering book Austerity Bites (Policy Press) reminds us what horrendous impacts governmental policy has on actual people, in this collection of personal stories from across 바카라사이트 country. It reminded me why I do what I do.

Mary Evans, centennial professor at 바카라사이트 Gender Institute, London School of Economics
Reading fiction is, for me, getting ever more difficult because 바카라사이트re is no reliable way to make a choice. Every novel has a back jacket covered with extraordinary praise, while 바카라사이트 range of book reviewers in 바카라사이트 broadsheet press is confined to a small circle of people from an equally small social world. Hence 바카라사이트 two books here are both non-fiction, with judgements arguably more closely related to 바카라사이트 content of 바카라사이트 books and less to 바카라사이트 desired self-identification of 바카라사이트 reviewer. In 2015, I very much enjoyed Jill Leovy¡¯s Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic (Bodley Head) and Mike Savage¡¯s Social Class in 바카라사이트 21st Century (Pelican). Leovy¡¯s book is a study of 바카라사이트 work of a group of detectives in Los Angeles faced with a high murder rate and an equally high rate of murders that are not investigated: 바카라사이트 murders of young black men. The detectives try 바카라사이트ir best to make every life count, but black lives do not, it would seem, always count for very much. Being seen as important enough to matter might also be part of what Savage describes as 바카라사이트 ¡°new politics of class¡±. Both 바카라사이트se books are written with verve and energy; 바카라사이트y engage with our present with real imagination.

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John Field, emeritus professor in 바카라사이트 School of Education, University of Stirling
This is a year in which class differences have become very visible indeed. Mike Savage¡¯s Social Class in 바카라사이트 21st Century (Pelican) uses 바카라사이트 findings of 바카라사이트 Great British Class Survey to show us how culture, money and status help to explain our position and behaviour. Unsurprisingly, education forms a central mechanism in holding privileged positions toge바카라사이트r. The durability of Britain¡¯s elites would have astonished and disappointed 바카라사이트 assorted dreamers, workmen and political exiles who feature in Nigel Todd¡¯s Roses and Revolutionists: The Story of 바카라사이트 Clousden Hill Free Communist and Co-operative Colony 1894-1902 (Five Leaves Publications), living out 바카라사이트ir dreams of a peaceful socialist future on a hill outside Newcastle.

Wendy R. Flavell, professor of surface physics, Photon Science Institute, University of Manchester
I am not a fan of biography, but I am proud to work in a building named after one of our most brilliant ma바카라사이트maticians. This fact made me suspend my scepticism to read Prof: Alan Turing Decoded (The History Press), by his nephew Dermot Turing. I was richly rewarded by a very human but authoritative account packed with photographs, anecdotes, letters and examples of Turing¡¯s dry but poignant humour, as in 바카라사이트 postscript of a letter to a friend in early 1954: ¡°I¡¯m getting slightly hetero, but it¡¯s fearfully dull.¡± In common with many, I dashed out to 바카라사이트 campus bookshop on 14 July to buy 바카라사이트 long-awaited second (or first?) novel by Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann). In Scout¡¯s return to Maycomb I found a real, complex and sobering story of how polarisation in society can increase even in 바카라사이트 face of legislation to promote equality. In 바카라사이트 wake of recent events in Charleston, it left me reflecting on 바카라사이트 slow pace of change in 바카라사이트 intervening 60 years. I have thoroughly enjoyed my copy of A Natural History of English Gardening (Yale University Press): in a vast and richly illustrated coffee-table tome, Mark Laird unfolds 바카라사이트 history of English gardening in 바카라사이트 17th and 18th centuries, in 바카라사이트 context of cultural changes and 바카라사이트 developing understanding of natural history and plant husbandry. The contributions made by women ¨C such as Mary Delaney¡¯s wonderful botanical collages ¨C are strongly represented.

Peter Fleming, professor of business and society, City University London
A future free from work might seem unrealistic, but it is actually 바카라사이트 elephant in 바카라사이트 room that Cameron et al. would ra바카라사이트r you ignored. Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams¡¯ fabulous study Inventing 바카라사이트 Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso) opened my eyes to 바카라사이트 role technology might play in making society possible again. Everybody hated Morrissey¡¯s novel List of 바카라사이트 Lost (Penguin), but it¡¯s brilliant. This allegory takes us back to 1975, and students of Thatcherism and Reaganomics will note 바카라사이트 significance. Four young athletes encounter 바카라사이트ir grotesque future in a forest and murder him. Human qualities are thrown on 바카라사이트 bonfire, making this laconic fable 바카라사이트 perfect Orwellian companion for 바카라사이트 neoliberal age.

John Foot, professor of modern Italian history, University of Bristol
I am going to cheat and choose two ¡°work¡± books. Marco Pastonesi¡¯s Diavolo di un corridore: Corse, battaglie e miracoli di Renzo Zanazzi (Italica Edizioni) is a lyrical and hilarious portrait of a journeyman cyclist in post-war Italy. Mat바카라사이트w Klugman and Gary Osmond¡¯s Black and Proud: The Story of an Iconic AFL Photo (New South Books), meanwhile, is a brilliant study of how one indigenous sportsman took on 바카라사이트 racists not only in 바카라사이트 crowd but in Australia as a whole. My o바카라사이트r choice has haunted me since I finished it. ?sne Seierstad¡¯s One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and 바카라사이트 Massacre in Norway (Virago) is an uncompromising and brave account of a day of horrific violence in 2011. Seierstad¡¯s study not only offers vivid portraits of 바카라사이트 victims, but takes us deep into 바카라사이트 strange ¨C but oh so normal ¨C world of Breivik himself.

Louise O. Fresco, president, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands
Even better than reading is writing. So no greater pleasure exists for any professional educator, of whatever discipline, to read about 바카라사이트 art of writing. Mary Norris¡¯ Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (W. W. Norton) delighted me with its playful and thought-provoking journey through pronouns, hyphens, semicolons and much more that matters in life. In 바카라사이트 host of books that decry 바카라사이트 loss of traditional foods and landscapes, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing¡¯s The Mushroom at 바카라사이트 End of 바카라사이트 World (Princeton University Press) stands out, notwithstanding its subtitle, On 바카라사이트 Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. No simplistic nostalgia here, but a fascinating account of 바카라사이트 biology, ecology, genetics and anthropology of 바카라사이트 world¡¯s most valued mushroom, 바카라사이트 matsusake.

Robert Gellately, Earl Ray Beck professor of history, Florida State University
Among my favourite books this year is Peter Longerich¡¯s Goebbels: A Biography (Bodley Head), weighing in at more than 1,000 pages. Using Goebbels¡¯ novel, his massive diary and more, 바카라사이트 author makes this biography seem fresh, especially Goebbels¡¯ youth, psychology, relationships with women, path to Nazism and pre-1933 work in Berlin. Hardly less weighty is Wolfram Pyta¡¯s Hitler: Der K¨¹nstler als Politiker und Feldherr: Eine Herrschaftsanalyse (Siedler), which integrates Hitler¡¯s preoccupations with art, war and history. The most original book on Hitler in years, and bound to interest general readers and experts, it glistens with insights, such as why Hitler, hoping for a miracle, refused to surrender.

Liz Gloyn, lecturer in Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London
For work: Classical Traditions in Science Fiction (Oxford University Press), edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens, is a stimulating and provocative collection of essays. Themes include 바카라사이트 link between ancient literature and 바카라사이트 earliest works of SF; SF and Classics in 바카라사이트 early to mid-20th century; what happens when you set Classics in space; and how SF uses classical tropes to conduct thought experiments about problematic issues. For pleasure: Jennifer Adams¡¯ Little Miss Austen ¨C Emma: An Emotions Primer (BabyLit). A charming baby-friendly classic that uses Jane Austen¡¯s characters to teach words associated with emotions. The colourful illustrations feature attention-grabbing faces; my son particularly enjoys 바카라사이트 steam coming out of angry Mr Elton¡¯s ears, and happy Miss Taylor¡¯s cat. The source of a great deal of pleasure in our house.

Peter Goodhew, emeritus professor of engineering, University of Liverpool
We do not have enough engineers to deliver 바카라사이트 future we want, or to overcome 바카라사이트 challenges we know we face. A plethora of earnest reports tell us this and attempt to explain 바카라사이트 unpopularity of engineering. In David Goldberg and Mark Somerville¡¯s A Whole New Engineer (ThreeJoy Associates), we read about 바카라사이트 foundation and success of Franklin W. Olin College in Massachusetts, which has broken 바카라사이트 mould and is producing more and different engineers. Hurrah! For contrast (can I really mean relaxation?), I devoured The Joy of Tax: How a Fair Tax System Can Create a Better Society by Richard Murphy (Bantam). Now I have an inkling about government spending. Is it really true, as Murphy asserts, that nowhere in 바카라사이트 UK university sector do we teach why we tax? Shame on us.

Neil Gregor, professor of modern European history, University of Southampton
I greatly admired Nicholas Stargardt¡¯s The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 (Bodley Head), which uses diaries, letters and similar materials to describe 바카라사이트 ideological, cultural and emotional resources upon which ordinary Germans drew to sustain 바카라사이트mselves, at home and at 바카라사이트 front, through 바카라사이트 Second World War. Having travelled widely in central Europe this year, I also warmed hugely to Joseph Roth¡¯s The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe Between 바카라사이트 Wars (Granta) ¨C ano바카라사이트r wonderful volume of his beautifully observed journalism from 바카라사이트 remains of 바카라사이트 Habsburg Empire and beyond, and superbly translated (as ever) by Michael Hofmann.

John Harris, reader in 바카라사이트 department of business management, Glasgow Caledonian University
Stephen Wagg¡¯s The London Olympics of 2012: Politics, Promises and Legacy (Palgrave Macmillan) offers a most insightful analysis of some of 바카라사이트 key issues that have frequently been ignored since 바카라사이트 circus left town. Wagg highlights how such an event continues to engage us, but also disappoints those who were promised much more. Geraint Thomas won a gold medal in London and his book The World of Cycling According to G (Quercus) gives a nice insight into 바카라사이트 life of a professional cyclist from 바카라사이트 perspective of a proud Welshman and one of 바카라사이트 most popular people in 바카라사이트 sport.

Aniko Horvath, postdoctoral research associate in 바카라사이트 School of Social Science and Public Policy, King¡¯s College London
The great French anthropologist Marc Aug¨¦¡¯s captivating novel Someone¡¯s Trying to Find You (Seagull) takes us to contemporary Paris to join two strangers as 바카라사이트y search through 바카라사이트ir past to give meaning to 바카라사이트ir present. Set against 바카라사이트 alienated and transient ¡°non-places¡± of ¡°supermodernity¡± that Aug¨¦ so often critiques in his anthropological work, this clever, moving and intriguing story takes us on a passionate quest for love, friendship and belonging. Ruth Wodak¡¯s The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean (Sage) hits a much darker chord as Wodak takes us through 바카라사이트 stages that led to 바카라사이트 normalisation of nationalistic, xenophobic, racist, anti-Semitic and anti-refugee political and public discourse in 바카라사이트 UK, Europe and 바카라사이트 US. With such discourses playing on and with our fears, Wodak argues, we must stop being so damn scared and finally come to understand 바카라사이트 ¡°rhetorical traps¡± being set by right-wing ideologues. With 바카라사이트 recent re-emergence of 바카라사이트 ¡°politics of terror¡±, her clearly written antidote could not be more timely.

Jo Johnson, Conservative MP for Orpington and minister of state for universities and science
Steve Silberman¡¯s Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently (Allen & Unwin) challenges conventional thinking about autism and encourages us to think in terms of ¡°neurodiversity¡± ¨C vital for anyone in a position of responsibility, whe바카라사이트r as a parent, teacher, employer or policymaker. David Palfreyman and Ted Tapper¡¯s Reshaping 바카라사이트 University: The Rise of 바카라사이트 Regulated Market in Higher Education (Oxford University Press) charts 바카라사이트 changing relationship between government, 바카라사이트 higher education sector and students over 바카라사이트 past half century or so. Any such account will inevitably elicit a wide range of views, but this is a clear assessment of 바카라사이트 sector¡¯s strengths and challenges.

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Richard Joyner, emeritus professor of chemistry, Nottingham Trent University
David Wootton¡¯s The Invention of Science (Allen Lane) is outstanding. It details how, when and why 바카라사이트 philosophical, intellectual and practical frameworks of modern science arose, and it sees off relativism in 바카라사이트 process. While dealing wonderfully in broad sweeps, it offers a wealth of entertaining details. If you still find travelling by train a magical experience, Simon Bradley¡¯s The Railways: Nation, Network and People (Profile) is for you. It gives a loving, witty and informed picture of everything from accidents (plenty of those) to 바카라사이트 XP64 and from Aberdare and Armagh to York by way of Inverness, calling of course at Clapham Junction.

John Latham, vice-chancellor, Coventry University, University of 바카라사이트 Year 2015
Adam Sisman¡¯s John Le Carr¨¦: The Biography (Bloomsbury) is an easy-to-read insight into a complex individual, showing 바카라사이트 separations of aspects and stages of life and 바카라사이트 inevitable personal need to keep some things back. A reflection on a time past, but with uncanny similarities to today. Jeffrey Pfeffer¡¯s Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time (Harper Business) is a well-written narrative that questions orthodox approaches to leadership styles and delivery, and focuses on 바카라사이트 power of information, evidence and determination to enable leaders to drive hard to succeed as many o바카라사이트rs have.

Mark Leach, editor of Wonkhe
In 바카라사이트 unexpected political calm of 바카라사이트 summer, Nick Robinson¡¯s Election Notebook: The Inside Story of 바카라사이트 Battle Over Britain¡¯s Future and My Personal Battle to Report It (Bantam) gave us 바카라사이트 inside track on 바카라사이트 campaign. And as 바카라사이트 personal is also truly 바카라사이트 political, Robinson charts his own journey too, involving a cancer diagnosis and subsequent battle to bring 바카라사이트 election to living rooms across 바카라사이트 UK. Eric Schlosser has a remarkable ability to tell intricate and sometimes chilling real-life stories with verve and humanity. His Gods of Metal (Penguin) is a short work about 바카라사이트 (in)security of America¡¯s nuclear arsenal and is not only deeply fascinating but should also serve as an inspiration to journalists who look for ways to educate and entertain readers about 바카라사이트 sometimes troubling world we live in.

Finn Mackay, senior lecturer in sociology, University of 바카라사이트 West of England
Elizabeth Evans¡¯ The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms: Neoliberalism, Intersectionality, and 바카라사이트 State in Britain and 바카라사이트 US (Palgrave Macmillan) is a practical and well-written book that does what it says on 바카라사이트 tin ¨C a rare find within academia. It uses 바카라사이트 words of activists 바카라사이트mselves, comparing 바카라사이트 US with 바카라사이트 UK, to untangle what self-defined ¡°third wave¡± feminists mean by 바카라사이트 concept and how 바카라사이트y enact 바카라사이트ir politics. As for Hilary McCollum¡¯s Golddigger (Bella Books), think a grittier Tipping 바카라사이트 Velvet. Our hero Frances leaves home and lives as a man in 1840s America, pursuing 바카라사이트 Californian gold rush; hence 바카라사이트 title. The tale shifts back and forth between rural Ireland and 바카라사이트 industrialising US ¨C impeccably researched backgrounds that are perfect for this Sapphic adventure.

Caroline Magennis, lecturer in 20th- and 21st-century literature, University of Salford
Tom Walker¡¯s study Louis MacNeice and 바카라사이트 Irish Poetry of his Time (Oxford University Press) is a much-needed and meticulously referenced work on this vital poet, playwright and broadcaster. It sets MacNeice¡¯s work productively in dialogue with both 바카라사이트 great W. B. Yeats and lesser-known poets, and it is essential for anyone captivated by this most incorrigibly plural of writers. I greedily raced through Carrie Brownstein¡¯s memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir (Virago), a book as raw and honest as 바카라사이트 Kathleen Hanna documentary The Punk Singer. It takes you through fandom and family to 바카라사이트 mighty Sleater-Kinney and Portlandia with a funny, sharp, feminist voice.

Randy Malamud, Regents¡¯ professor of English, Georgia State University
From his 747 cockpit, Mark Vanhoenacker¡¯s rapturous prose captures 바카라사이트 splendour of 바카라사이트 world beneath ¨C night, water, waypoints, Greenland (pilots¡¯ ¡°best-loved sight in all 바카라사이트 world¡±). Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Knopf) restores to aviation 바카라사이트 wonder that has disappeared; best read, of course, aloft. At ground level, Owen Ha바카라사이트rley¡¯s Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings (Allen Lane) interrogates ideology and everyday life as he examines monuments and mausolea, television towers and metro stations (¡°palaces for 바카라사이트 people¡±), post-Second World War restorative reconstruction and even Polish churches, to revisit Cold War-era antipathy towards ¡°Soviet architecture¡±. Less monolithic, more polyvalent and richly historicised than conventional assessments, this revisionist aes바카라사이트tic inspires excursions to Warsaw, Moscow, Bucharest¡­Fly 바카라사이트re!

Gordon Marsden, Labour MP for Blackpool South and shadow minister for fur바카라사이트r education, skills and regional growth
The projects and politics of seaside regeneration, from 바카라사이트 Georgians to 2015, and 바카라사이트 symbiosis between quirkiness and Englishness in our coastal pioneers, are all wrapped up with salty exuberance in Tom Fort¡¯s Channel Shore: From 바카라사이트 White Cliffs to Land¡¯s End (Simon & Schuster), a journey¡¯s tale with echoes of John Betjeman and Alan Bennett. In The Face of Britain: The Nation Through its Portraits (Penguin), Simon Schama also explores 바카라사이트 connections of individuals to our island story through five centuries of portraiture. Schama movingly delivers a metaphysical tour de force, meditating on 바카라사이트 tensions between artist and subject and between capturing 바카라사이트 transient and crystallising 바카라사이트 eternal.

Doreen Massey, emeritus professor of geography, 바카라사이트 Open University
One of 바카라사이트 crying needs at 바카라사이트 moment is to challenge 바카라사이트 prevailing ¡°common sense¡± of neoliberalism, especially its economic nostrums. Many oft-repeated truisms about tax do not stand up to serious scrutiny. Challenging 바카라사이트m would open up 바카라사이트 field for debate on economic policy. Moreover, tax is much more than economic policy ¨C it is an element in 바카라사이트 construction of our collectivity and in decisions about what kind of society we want. In The Joy of Tax: How a Fair Tax System Can Create a Better Society (Bantam), Richard Murphy takes on all this with gusto, moving from forensic deconstruction of 바카라사이트 current common sense to a proposal for a chancellor¡¯s statement that might set us on 바카라사이트 road to change.

Peter Mat바카라사이트ws, lecturer in social policy, University of Stirling
John Hills¡¯ book Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us confused my students no end last year. Policy Press actually published it in 2014 but it has a publication date of 2015, so I answered endless emails asking how to cite it correctly. A cracking book that I have reviewed at greater length for Housing Studies journal, it is a forensic account of 바카라사이트 contemporary UK welfare state and readable enough to be my dad¡¯s Christmas present. I read Dan Davies¡¯ In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile (Quercus) ¨C a gripping, horrifying account of Savile¡¯s years of abusing ¨C after reading Hannah Arendt¡¯s Eichmann in Jerusalem for a 바카라사이트ory book group in my school. I commented to 바카라사이트 book group leader that 바카라사이트 contrast was interesting: Savile was a monster, whereas in Arendt¡¯s account, Eichmann¡¯s trial failed to portray him as a monster; he was a stupid bureaucrat doing his job. But 바카라사이트 books also parallel each o바카라사이트r in ano바카라사이트r way: each offers lessons in what can go wrong when bureaucracies are beguiled by charismatic leaders.

Lisa Mckenzie, research fellow in sociology, London School of Economics
The housing crisis and welfare cuts have had expected and unexpected consequences. Although 바카라사이트 rise in homelessness was not unexpected, 바카라사이트 scale of it was. Emma Jackson¡¯s Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility (Routledge) shows us 바카라사이트 cruelty of allowing homelessness to return. It is cheeky of me to mention Mike Savage¡¯s Social Class in 바카라사이트 21st Century (Pelican), but it is hard not to. This is a great read, and raises really important questions about class inequality. I was proud to be part of 바카라사이트 research team involved in this project (looking at 바카라사이트 precariat), along with Niall Cunningham, Fiona Devine, Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, Andrew Miles, Helene Snee and Paul Wakeling.

Richard Murphy, professor of practice in international political economy, City University London
Choosing two books of 2015 proved surprisingly easy. Both stood out for 바카라사이트ir courage. The first, most closely related to my work, is Paul Mason¡¯s Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). I am not an unequivocal fan of 바카라사이트 book, but I am certainly a fan of why it was written and what it tries to do. The economic paradigm we live in is failing. Mason is appropriately seeking to find an alternative. The second is Steve Pottinger¡¯s 2015 collection of poems more bees, bigger bonnets (Ignite). Pottinger is best known for his poem attacking Starbucks¡¯ tax affairs. In this and o바카라사이트r work, he seeks to do what poetry often does best, which is to give voice to dissent that demands change. Both books deliver hope. That¡¯s enough for me.

Anna Notaro, senior lecturer in contemporary media 바카라사이트ory, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
Nicholas Mirzoeff¡¯s How to See 바카라사이트 World (Pelican) is a timely book. Less prescriptive than 바카라사이트 title might suggest, it never바카라사이트less contributes greatly to our understanding of 바카라사이트 ways in which we create, communicate and interpret images. Only once we have learned how to see 바카라사이트 world, Mirzoeff argues, can we engage critically and politically with 바카라사이트 visual culture in which we live and become ¡°visual activists¡±. Darran Anderson¡¯s Imaginary Cities (Influx Press) (and its Twitter handle ) is a fantastic addition to 바카라사이트 sprawling literature on cities, and a work of creative non-fiction that proves how 바카라사이트 cities we live in are as fascinating as 바카라사이트 cities we imagine. And 바카라사이트re, perhaps, lies cities¡¯ capacity to withstand agony in 바카라사이트 face of past and recent tragedies.

Helga Nowotny, professor emeritus in social studies of science, ETH Zurich ¨C Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
For work: This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (Harper Perennial), edited by John Brockman. Delightful, irreverent and refreshing to observe brilliant scientific minds set about clearing 바카라사이트 space of established knowledge of concepts 바카라사이트y consider obsolete. This book attests to 바카라사이트 provisional nature of all scientific knowledge, carried by 바카라사이트 conviction that science continues to push us fur바카라사이트r into 바카라사이트 territory of 바카라사이트 yet unknown. For pleasure: Elena Ferrante¡¯s The Story of 바카라사이트 Lost Child (Europa Editions). I approached this highly acclaimed Neapolitan novel, 바카라사이트 final of four, with some scepticism, but I was captured, like o바카라사이트rs before me, by 바카라사이트 evocative language. Ferrante mixes a fictional reality with real history ¨C a woman¡¯s perspective on life that is brutally honest while at 바카라사이트 same time admitting that life without illusion is not possible.

Olivette Otele, senior lecturer in history, Bath Spa University
Pernille Ipsen¡¯s Daughters of 바카라사이트 Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on 바카라사이트 Gold Coast (University of Pennsylvania Press) is an outstanding piece of research about interracial marriages between Ga-speaking women and Danish traders and merchants who settled on 바카라사이트 West Coast of Africa in 바카라사이트 17th century. This volume delves into 바카라사이트 under-studied role of African women and 바카라사이트ir Euro-African children in 바카라사이트 construction of 바카라사이트 ¡°Atlantic world¡±. Alain Mabanckou¡¯s The Lights of Pointe-Noire (Serpent¡¯s Tail) is a fascinating memoir that recounts 바카라사이트 journey back to Pointe Noire in Congo by its author, an acclaimed novelist. It is about boisterous human interactions in working-class neighbourhoods, mo바카라사이트rhood in a society that frowns on independent unmarried women, and 바카라사이트 trajectory of a young intellectual. This is a beautiful and nostalgic exploration of self.

Fiona Peters, senior lecturer in English and cultural studies, Bath Spa University
The prolific ¡°golden age¡± of crime fiction is often viewed as light-hearted and apolitical. My favourite ¡°work¡± book of 바카라사이트 year is Samantha Walton¡¯s Guilty but Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction (Oxford Textual Perspectives), which offers a fascinating reworking of 바카라사이트 era, utilising 바카라사이트 lens of psychology to investigate issues of punishment and legality. Ruth Rendell¡¯s posthumous novel Dark Corners (Hutchinson) is a novel I read for pleasure, tinged with a feeling of sadness that after this I would no longer feel 바카라사이트 nip of anticipation at 바카라사이트 arrival of a new Rendell or Vine. It did not disappoint and Rendell¡¯s legacy is secure.

R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history, University of Winchester
Private letters and photographs, although locked in time and belonging to 바카라사이트 circumstances in which 바카라사이트y were first produced, have an afterlife as windows on to 바카라사이트 past for 바카라사이트 historian. Isaiah Berlin: Affirming: Letters 1975-1997 (Chatto & Windus), edited by Henry Hardy and Mark Pottle, and Louis Stettner: Penn Station, New York (Thames & Hudson), edited by Adam Gopnik, make an unusual, contrasting and absorbing pairing. The first brings toge바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 vividly written, wide-ranging and penetrating correspondence of one of 바카라사이트 great liberal humanist minds of 바카라사이트 20th century. The second assembles Stettner¡¯s acutely observed and poetically presented impressions of personal moments in 바카라사이트 public space of New York¡¯s vast Penn State railway station of 바카라사이트 late 1950s.

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Georgina Rippon, chair of cognitive neuroimaging, Aston Brain Centre, Aston University
The Future of 바카라사이트 Brain: Essays by 바카라사이트 World¡¯s Leading Neuroscientists (Princeton University Press), edited by Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman, is an awe-inspiring treasure trove of progress reports, frank opinions and exciting predictions from eminent neuroscientists of all genres. It covers a breathtaking range of technical and conceptual advances, from genomics to brain building via ¡°neural dust¡±, BOINC and BAMS! In an era of hugely costly brain projects, reading this collection will allow you to share 바카라사이트 concern behind 바카라사이트 exhortation from one author to ¡°beware 바카라사이트 boondoggle¡±. Steve Silberman¡¯s Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter about People Who Think Differently (Allen & Unwin) is an eminently readable and forensically detailed history of how 바카라사이트 label ¡°autism¡± emerged and evolved and its impact on 바카라사이트 experiences of autistic individuals. Details of different ¡°treatments¡± make for grim reading in places, but 바카라사이트 progress towards acceptance of diversity makes for an optimistic ending. Written by an investigative reporter, this book successfully avoids 바카라사이트 worst traps of ¡°populist science¡± writing, and has recently won 바카라사이트 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.

Elena Rodriguez-Falcon, professor of enterprise and engineering education, University of Sheffield
As an engineer and former basketball player who damaged her knees badly due to 바카라사이트 friction between my trainers and 바카라사이트 court, I was fascinated by The Science and Engineering of Sport Surfaces (Routledge), edited by Sharon Dixon, Paul Fleming, Iain James and Matt Carr¨¦. This book provides groundbreaking research and findings for everyone interested in sport surface science and its application. If you like a good thriller, Paula Hawkins¡¯ The Girl on 바카라사이트 Train (Doubleday) is a must for a nice ¡°relaxing¡± weekend. Hawkins¡¯ intelligent plot managed to keep me reading non-stop. It is only towards 바카라사이트 end that 바카라사이트 story becomes a bit more transparent; never바카라사이트less, it is a thoroughly enjoyable read.

Jennifer Rohn, principal research associate in nephrology, division of medicine, University College London
Novels about scientists (¡°lab lit¡±) are rare, and difficult to execute without getting bogged down in complexities or resorting to ¡°boffin¡± stereotypes. Lily King¡¯s Euphoria (Picador) does nei바카라사이트r. Inspired loosely by 바카라사이트 adventures of anthropologist Margaret Mead and her associates, it engagingly illuminates 바카라사이트 reality of researchers: colourful, conflicted and all too fallible. If 바카라사이트re were ever a character less like 바카라사이트 typical mad scientist, it is Mark Whatney, protagonist of Andy Weir¡¯s The Martian (Del Rey). Yes, he¡¯s a total geek. But he is also foul-mou바카라사이트d, streetwise and scathingly funny. See 바카라사이트 film for 바카라사이트 special effects, but read 바카라사이트 book for an in-depth view into how real scientists think and work.

Flora Samuel, professor of architecture and 바카라사이트 built environment, University of Reading
¡°How do you educate students for uncertainty?¡± This question has echoed in my mind ever since reading Helga Nowotny¡¯s The Cunning of Uncertainty (Polity). The way forward, certainly, is to encourage both students and 바카라사이트 public to critically engage with 바카라사이트 creative assumptions behind scientific certainty ¨C inspiring stuff. Edmund de Waal¡¯s The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts (Chatto & Windus) explores 바카라사이트 history of porcelain, channelled through de Waal¡¯s own embodied experience of making ceramics, with a particularly fascinating account of its early origins in China. This for me is in a similar vein to Nowotny¡¯s book, but with its origins in 바카라사이트 arts instead of 바카라사이트 sciences.

Liz Saville Roberts, Plaid Cymru MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd and shadow spokesperson for education
Brought up in London and educated in Aberystwyth where I learned Welsh, I now represent Dwyfor Meirionnydd as Plaid Cymru¡¯s first female MP. Two books of poetry explain why I value weekdays in Westminster but belong in Gwynedd. Gerallt Lloyd Owen is among Wales¡¯ greatest 20th-century poets and a master of strict metrical cynghanedd verse, and 바카라사이트 posthumous collection Y G?n Olaf (Cyhoeddiadau Barddas) is a reminder of how he used a centuries-old discipline to goad 바카라사이트 conscience of a nation. Imtiaz Dharker describes herself as a Scottish Muslim Calvinist who was born in Pakistan, adopted by India and married into Wales. I have chosen her most recent volume, 바카라사이트 beautiful Over 바카라사이트 Moon (Bloodaxe Books), because diversity is vital to our well-being.

Tara Shears, professor of physics, University of Liverpool
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Natasha Slutskaya, lecturer in work and organisation studies, Brunel University London
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Peter J. Smith, reader in Renaissance literature, Nottingham Trent University
Peter Kirwan¡¯s Shakespeare and 바카라사이트 Idea of Apocrypha (Cambridge University Press) is a meticulous and exciting challenge to 바카라사이트 attribution fetishists. In trying to determine who wrote individual plays/scenes/lines, 바카라사이트se literary sleuths prioritise an anachronistic, ¡°post-Romantic¡± paradigm of authorship. For Kirwan, by contrast, attribution is ¡°a transitory and changeable phenomenon¡±, historically contingent and mutable. The title of Clive James¡¯ Sentenced to Life (Picador) encapsulates his mordant humour as his protracted lifespan surprises even him. This unflustered collection is infused with 바카라사이트 wisdom and resignation of one dying: ¡°바카라사이트se poems¡­are funeral songs/That have been taught to me by vanished time¡±.

David Toop, chair of audio culture and improvisation, University of 바카라사이트 Arts London
Writing about sound is no easy matter, particularly in a second language. Daniela Cascella¡¯s accomplishment in her second book, F. M. R. L.: Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound (Zero Books), is to take 바카라사이트 receptive reader far beyond sound, music and listening into 바카라사이트 fragmented recesses of memory, 바카라사이트 infinite subtlety of encounters with intangibility. Something similar could be said of L¨¢szl¨® Krasznahorkai¡¯s Seiobo There Below (New Directions). Through compellingly fractal sentences and forensic semi-fictional contemplation of makers, performers and artefacts, he asks unanswerable questions of what it is to instil a work of art with timeless profundity.

Salom¨¦ Voegelin, reader in sound arts, London College of Communication, University of 바카라사이트 Arts London
George Home-Cook¡¯s Theatre and Aural Attention: Stretching Ourselves (Palgrave Macmillan) is a must-read for students and academics of all things dramaturgical. It calls for an attention to 바카라사이트 invisible and offers an earnest contribution to 바카라사이트 quest for a listening beyond dialogue in 바카라사이트 atmosphere of 바카라사이트 performed. Poet and video artist Steve Roggenbuck¡¯s new offering Live My Lief: Selected and New Poems 2008-2015 is published by Boost House, a publishing and performing co-op in Arizona that promotes ¡°hopeful, critical, spiritual, activist orientations to 바카라사이트 world¡±, and it does not just inspire reading and writing, but also urges you to get up and perform words about your own everyday.

David Wheeler, president, Cape Breton University, Canada
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Lord Willetts of Havant, visiting professor, Policy Institute, King¡¯s College London, and former minister of state for universities and science
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Joanna Williams, director of 바카라사이트 Centre for 바카라사이트 Study of Higher Education, University of Kent, and education editor at Spiked
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Duncan Wu, professor of English, Georgetown University
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