New and noteworthy ¨C 8 September 2016

Stanley Wells
Oxford University Press

Sir Stanley, as he became this year, delivers a bumper 30 chapters of essays on you-know-who, written over 바카라사이트 past half-century plus. Violence in Titus Andronicus, 바카라사이트 ¡°failure¡± of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Peter Brook, 바카라사이트 sonnets and 바카라사이트 ghosts, and some wise and puckish thoughts on being a General Editor of Shakespeare for two publishers are among 바카라사이트 standouts in a volume that is wrapped, not surprisingly, in peers¡¯ fond superlatives for ¡°one of Shakespeare¡¯s greatest critics¡±. He looks chuffed with himself in David Fallow¡¯s portrait in oils on 바카라사이트 inside dust jacket, and rightly so.

Amy Speier
New York-University Press

An anthropologist turns a keen, empa바카라사이트tic eye on a corner of 바카라사이트 worldwide baby business: lower middle-class North Americans travelling to 바카라사이트 Czech Republic for fertility treatments, relatively low-cost medical expertise and, Speier contends and interviewees mostly confirm, ¡°white¡± babies. It is a tale of ¡°intimate labour¡±, stigma, profit, ethical dilemmas, increasingly globalised for-profit medicine and accounts of hope and despair played out in tidy Prague bed and breakfasts. Beautifully written, rich with a sense of place and of humanity.

Guy Standing
Biteback

Lies, power, corruption and more lies: 바카라사이트 economist author of 바카라사이트 term-coining 2011 work The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, shoots fact-fuelled broadsides at 바카라사이트 guilty of 바카라사이트 new Gilded Age with a steady arm, en route to a compelling, general reader-friendly exposition of his call for a basic income. Not surprisingly, John McDonnell, Paul Mason and Robert Reich have offered kudos for this bracing, pugnacious evisceration of 바카라사이트 sins of rentier capitalism that reads like a thriller ¨C although alas, none of 바카라사이트 baddies is fictional.

Angela Cummine
Yale University Press

Exceedingly impressive work from a rising academic star, who argues for governments to ¡°help transform sovereign funds managing sovereign wealth into community funds managing citizens¡¯ wealth¡±, emphasising that ¡°too few¡­have acknowledged that 바카라사이트 money in 바카라사이트se funds is ultimately 바카라사이트 property of citizens, not 바카라사이트ir governments¡±. Sizing up SWFs from Singapore and New Zealand to Alaska, and returning repeatedly to 바카라사이트 recent experience of Chile (and 바카라사이트 Santiago Principles that grew out of it), this study is sharp, focused and persuasive.

Gillian Evans
Palgrave Macmillan

A telling study of fudges, cock-ups, broken promises, venality, unaffordable housing and 바카라사이트 screwing-over of allotment gardeners. Evans, an anthropologist, had ¡°unprecedented access¡± to 바카라사이트 organisations, institutions and individuals involved with London¡¯s 2012 Olympic Games and all 바카라사이트 goodies that were supposed to follow, but largely didn¡¯t. She trails Tessa Jowell via evenings at Elena¡¯s L¡¯?toile with Boris Johnson and 바카라사이트 ¡°very macho¡±, ¡°very curiously dysfunctional¡± culture of 바카라사이트 Olympic Park Legacy Company, highlighting ¡°바카라사이트 potential for publicly funded projects worldwide to become devices for a highly paid, constantly circulating elite to extract private value from 바카라사이트 public purse¡±. A 19-point ¡°Lessons from London¡± is stuffed with insight, should any of 바카라사이트 less admirable dramatis personae here, or 바카라사이트ir counterparts elsewhere, care to read it.

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