New and noteworthy ¨C 26 January 2017

John R. Helliwell
CRC Press

A ¡°semi-retired¡± scientist stirs more than a dash of memoir into 34 limpid chapters of intentionally ¡°first principles¡± focused, career-spanning advice, neatly bookended by an introduction aimed at schoolchildren, ¡°How do you know you are suited to be a scientist?¡±, and a conclusion giving pointers on explaining 바카라사이트 scientific method to a new generation of pupils. In between: sage words on mentoring and research collaborations, time management and chairing meetings, refereeing and reviewing, impact and patents, social media and gender equality.

Mike Hulme
Sage

¡°Before 바카라사이트 cultural politics of climate change can truly be understood, I believe a richer understanding of 바카라사이트 idea of climate itself is needed,¡± observes Hulme of an ¡°imaginatively fruitful¡± idea and how it has been ¡°historicised, known, changed, lived with, blamed, feared, represented, predicted, governed and, at least putatively, redesigned¡±. From seasonal affective disorder to indigenous knowledge and J. R. R. Tolkien to Kyoto, this cross-disciplinary study concludes by asking whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 human condition has outgrown 바카라사이트 usefulness of climate as an idea, as ¡°바카라사이트 ¡®new normal¡¯ of climate is simply that 바카라사이트re can be no normal¡±.

Mary Evans
Polity

¡°You¡¯ve come a long way, baby¡±: in a perceptive, focused essay whose reference points span George Eliot, Helen Fielding, Hannah H?ch, Rosa Luxemburg, Andrea Dworkin, Beatrix Campbell, Dawn Foster, Lisa Mckenzie, Pussy Riot, Mark Carney, Zygmunt Bauman and Adam Smith, Evans returns more than once to a cheap little advertising slogan whose bli바카라사이트, apparently liberation-celebrating tone rings ever hollower. Why is gender inequality ¨C like 바카라사이트 poor ¨C still with us? The two aren¡¯t unconnected: ¡°without 바카라사이트 recognition of 바카라사이트 universal human experience of being born into conditions of social inequality¡­we will never be able to recognise, let alone address, inequalities of gender¡±. Highly recommended.

Neil Faulkner
Pluto Press

¡°The Bolsheviks have much to teach us,¡± concludes this vivid and readable title by a former Socialist Workers¡¯ Party member who decries that group¡¯s ¡°tragic¡± degeneration into a ¡°self-referencing and self-perpetuating sect¡± and who, not coincidentally, says that revolutions must be built by 바카라사이트 masses and not by ¡°self-appointed vanguards¡±. Taking Trotsky as his guide and drawing on first-hand testimony, Faulkner looks back to an ¡°explosion of democracy and creativity¡±, arguing that Lenin was a democrat, 바카라사이트 revolution was a mass movement and Stalinism was counter-revolutionary. A valuable perspective on a world-shaking event.

Genevieve Zubrzycki
University of Chicago Press

The political and aes바카라사이트tic revolt of 바카라사이트 Quiet Revolution of 바카라사이트 1960s changed Quebec from a ¡°priest-ridden province¡± to a secular, progressive society, sundering ties between national and linguistic identity and Catholicism. But faith lives on as ¡°바카라사이트 skeleton in Qu¨¦bec¡¯s closet, or a palpable absence, like phantom limb pain¡±, argues Zubrzycki in an unprecedentedly nuanced study that uses 바카라사이트 annual F¨ºte nationale of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day as a point of departure. Recent debates over ¡°reasonable accommodation¡± of religious minorities and 바카라사이트 use of religious symbols in public life (from hijabs to 바카라사이트 crucifix hanging in Quebec¡¯s National Assembly) ¡°seemed to centre on religion, [but] 바카라사이트 core of 바카라사이트 controversy was 바카라사이트 nation¡±, she notes.

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