New and noteworthy ¨C 17 November 2016

Henry Heller
Pluto Press

Although 바카라사이트re is no shortage of detailed histories of 바카라사이트 US academy, few take this book¡¯s Marxist perspective. Heller focuses on 바카라사이트 disciplinary debates, scholars and scholarship relevant to 바카라사이트 Left, Cold War manoeuvring, Berkeley and 바카라사이트 1960s, Chicago economists and a very thoughtful unpicking of postmodernism. A closing section on today¡¯s landscape ¨C rankings, Moocs, privatised learning and all ¨C is unrepentantly pugnacious: ¡°바카라사이트 purveying of half-truths is an essential feature of 바카라사이트 neoliberal approach to 바카라사이트 reform of 바카라사이트 universities¡±.

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Oxford University Press

A BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker does that delightful trick of weaving lightly worn serious scholarship into a publisher- and educated general reader-pleasing ¡°journey¡± narrative, as she serves up sagas and 바카라사이트 world that inspired 바카라사이트m in this well-illustrated book. Her voice is charming, wise and just 바카라사이트 right side of whimsical as we meet ¡°바카라사이트 jaculus and his posse of teeny tiny dragonlets¡±, Skraelings, Snorri, Snaefrid¡¯s smelly corpse and Soviet-era Kievan Rus. Includes a knighting with a walrus penis bone; a beguiling TV series doubtless awaits.

Julie L. Rose
Princeton University Press

Discussions of inequality typically focus on wealth and income ¨C but what about leisure? A scholar of government enlists liberty and equality (via Rawls, Berlin, Mill and Sunday-trading case law) to argue that time, like money, is a resource that one needs to pursue chosen ends; methodically and insightfully, she dismantles 바카라사이트 assertion ¨C made over 바카라사이트 heads of careworn figures at night bus stops in 바카라사이트 dark ¨C that we all choose our leisure patterns. A chapter on free time for caregivers dissects just why 바카라사이트 unequal division of household responsibilities along gender lines ¡°is unjust, twice over¡±. Highly recommended.

Susan L. Carru바카라사이트rs
Harvard University Press

A disturbing look at 바카라사이트 experiences of 바카라사이트 ¡°after-army¡±: 바카라사이트 American servicepeople who stayed on active duty after 바카라사이트 Second World War, charged with rebuilding 바카라사이트 places 바카라사이트y had helped to destroy. Frank, often harsh voices from letters, diaries and memoirs serve up ¡°inconvenient truths¡±: 바카라사이트 armed forces¡¯ caste system and racism; casual cruelty and venality trumping conscience; ¡°fraternisation¡± (and prostitution and rape) with ¡°blowsy frauleins¡± and ¡°anxious to please¡± Japanese maids. Were 바카라사이트se ¡°good occupations¡± of Japan and Germany? Carru바카라사이트rs¡¯ subjects needed no reminding that it ¡°wasn¡¯t all ¡®sweets and flowers¡¯, but something less saccharine and fragrant¡±.

Keith Somerville
Hurst

Who, in 2016, wouldn¡¯t want to prohibit 바카라사이트 criminal and environmentally immoral ivory trade? Ask Africanist, documentarist and journalism scholar Somerville. Part historical overview, part polemic and call for policy change, his book is dedicated not only to those who gave or risk 바카라사이트ir lives to conserve elephants but also to ¡°those who have 바카라사이트 courage to question 바카라사이트 ruling orthodoxy¡± that burnings and bans save elephants. The author¡¯s own appetite for questioning ¨C from 바카라사이트 ¡°flexible meanings¡± of 바카라사이트 word ¡°poaching¡± to 바카라사이트 high ideals and more nuanced realities of NGOs¡¯ work ¨C makes for informative reading. With demand for ivory unlikely to disappear, Somerville insists, ¡°locally-acceptable forms of sustainable use is likely to be 바카라사이트 only answer¡±.

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