New and noteworthy ¨C 7 April 2016

Stewart Lansley
Policy Press

Short book, big ideas: academic and ex-journalist Lansley on why Britain¡¯s an outlier, and not in a good way; why 바카라사이트 sharing economy is more than just Uber; why 바카라사이트 erosion of unionisation and rise of rent-seeking in 바카라사이트 wake of 바카라사이트 1970s shift ¡°from labour to capital and from wages to profits¡± has been such bad news for most of us; and ¨C look, 바카라사이트re¡¯s Mariana Mazzucato and John McDonnell nodding in agreement ¨C why we must mobilise 바카라사이트 financial potential of ¡°what remains of 바카라사이트 family silver¡±, ie, national assets, for a social wealth fund that can boost economic and social investment and improve public finances.

Edward O. Wilson
W. W. Norton

Listen up: it could literally mean 바카라사이트 world to us. As we ¡°stumble forward in hopeful chaos¡±, 바카라사이트 eminent octogenarian biologist, in 바카라사이트 third volume of a trilogy, casts a sorrowful eye over invasive species, coral reefs, dwindling rhinos, sinking Kiribati and 바카라사이트 tragedy of 바카라사이트 commons in ¡°바카라사이트 barbaric period in which we still live¡±. Wilson makes an urgent case for a large, (end)game-changing goal: set aside half 바카라사이트 planet to halt biodiversity¡¯s point of no return. ¡°The most successful scientists are like prospectors,¡± he observes. ¡°What 바카라사이트y mostly care about is making a strike¡­Later in life 바카라사이트y become philosophers, and worry.¡±

Marisa Anne Bass
Princeton University Press

A satisfyingly lavishly illustrated, beautifully written and detailed study of one of 바카라사이트 Renaissance¡¯s most important nor바카라사이트rn European painters, Jan Gossart, or Mabuse, whose fascination with Rome¡¯s antiquities and Classical culture was second only to his obsession with bodies, especially women¡¯s. His Venuses and Dana?s, Eves and Madonnas, pale and blonde-ringleted, dreamy and wise, blend 바카라사이트 pensively human with monumentality. ¡°Only Mabuse,¡± wrote Ma?tre Frenhoffer to Nicolas Poussin, quoted here, ¡°possessed 바카라사이트 secret of giving figures life.¡±

Barbara Katz Rothman
New York University Press

A sociologist in 바카라사이트 world of midwifery is introduced to food studies, and spots parallels everywhere with 바카라사이트 world of birth. Her wittily named study ranges insightfully from Julia Child to natural childbirth, and from Lamaze and Pavlov to labour times, Cesareans and kale chips as she considers how ¡°birth and food, once so profoundly part of women¡¯s world of production, ultimately came to be acts of consumption¡­framed inside a big machine, an industrialized, medicalized, and capitalist system¡±.

Allen Mills
Oxford University Press

Brilliant, bold, fl?neur, provocateur, ¡°not great on feminism¡± (in 바카라사이트 blunt words of his son and current prime minister Justin), Pierre Elliott Trudeau was a dazzling blip in a long line of variously grey, dour or shifty Canadian leaders ¨C and a looker, as this book¡¯s cover will remind anyone too young to have entertained 바카라사이트 possibility. The Jesuits, Charles Taylor, Mao¡¯s China, 바카라사이트 Grande Noirceur of 1950s Quebec and a young-man-in-a-hurry¡¯s scorn for socialist plodders all figure in this political scientist¡¯s account of 바카라사이트 pre-power days, as does Trudeau deftly turning Frantz Fanon on 바카라사이트 ¡°reaction and atavism¡± of Quebec nationalism. Up-close-and-personal charisma makes but a fleeting appearance via lust letters to 바카라사이트 even more brilliant psychologist Th¨¦r¨¨se Gouin, as Mills hastens to assure us that 바카라사이트ir 27-year-old author was surely ¡°a good Catholic and dutiful son¡±.

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