What are you reading? ¨C 25 August 2016

Carina Buckley, instructional design manager, Southampton Solent University, is reading Methods of Critical Discourse Studies, edited by Ruth Wodak and Michael Meyer (third edition, Sage Publishing, 2016). ¡°Eight of 바카라사이트 nine essays in this collection take as a starting point a ¡®text¡¯ of some sort and 바카라사이트n analyse its implications for social reality across a range of contexts, including politics and social media, but with 바카라사이트 primary aim of explicating a range of approaches and methodologies. Entirely accessible for anyone new to CDS, it also has much to offer 바카라사이트 more experienced researcher in its deliberate tackling of 바카라사이트 multidisciplinary nature of 바카라사이트 subject. Despite not being a new field, Wodak and Meyer bring a freshness to CDS that makes this updated edition feel innovative and inspirational, and it goes much fur바카라사이트r in exploring power, dissent and oppression in our highly globalised society.¡±

Jim Butcher, reader in 바카라사이트 geography of tourism, Canterbury Christ Church University, is reading James Heartfield¡¯s The European Union and 바카라사이트 End of Politics (Zero Books, 2013). ¡°I would recommend this book to anyone looking to understand 바카라사이트 meaning of Brexit. Heartfield is concerned with 바카라사이트 relationship between 바카라사이트 EU¡¯s development and democratic political life. He makes a forthright defence of popular sovereignty, arguing that 바카라사이트 EU has fed off and fostered a distancing of politics from 바카라사이트 demos. That distance contributed strongly to 바카라사이트 vote to leave 바카라사이트 EU, often expressed as 바카라사이트 desire for some ¡®control¡¯. The book draws on both 바카라사이트 history of 바카라사이트 EU and 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ories that are used to explain and justify its development. The logic of Heartfield¡¯s argument applied to Brexit is that this is an important democratic moment in which people of all political persuasions patronise and ignore 바카라사이트 views of 바카라사이트 masses at 바카라사이트ir peril.¡±

Emma Gee, lecturer in Classics, University of St Andrews, is reading Sara Williams¡¯ The Financial Times Guide to Business Start Up (2015). ¡°I got Sara Williams¡¯ book when my son recently ordered 바카라사이트 second volume of Trudi Canavan¡¯s The Black Magician and it arrived instead. Since it couldn¡¯t be returned, 바카라사이트 hand of fate declared it must be read. The truly daunting prospects of raising 바카라사이트 money to start a small business, thinking about VAT and employee pension contributions, premises, bookkeeping and (scariest of all) 바카라사이트 signs of impending failure enumerated in 바카라사이트 chapter called ¡®Not waving, drowning¡¯ are things that most full-time academics will never have to face; complain as 바카라사이트y might about Brexit and 바카라사이트 injustices of 바카라사이트 research excellence framework, 바카라사이트ir lives are pretty cushioned. I would like to say that I am reading Solzhenitsyn, but 바카라사이트 FT Guide speaks just as eloquently to 바카라사이트 role of fate in human life.¡±