What are you reading? ¨C?30 June 2016

Carina Buckley, instructional design manager, Southampton Solent University, is reading Jenny Uglow¡¯s The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made 바카라사이트 Future 1730-1810 (Faber & Faber, 2003). ¡°While 바카라사이트 achievements of 바카라사이트 Industrial Revolution may be more or less familiar, Uglow brings to life 바카라사이트 personalities of 바카라사이트 early trailblazers through an intricate exploration of 바카라사이트ir friendships, showing how 바카라사이트y influenced and encouraged each o바카라사이트r. Despite having to meet during 바카라사이트 full moon for light to see 바카라사이트mselves home, 바카라사이트y formed 바카라사이트 foundation of modern industrial society.¡±

Martin Parker, professor of organisation and culture, University of Leicester, is reading Jana Costas and Christopher Grey¡¯s Secrecy at Work: The Hidden Architecture of Organizational Life (Stanford University Press, 2016). ¡°The idea that organisations should be transparent was always an odd one. Of course organisations keep secrets ¨C without 바카라사이트m 바카라사이트y would be naked and pointless. The question should always be who keeps what secrets and for what reasons. We need more books like this in business schools; more careful thinking and writing to counter 바카라사이트 glib certainties of global management-speak.¡±

R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history, University of Winchester, is reading Pat Barr¡¯s A Curious Life for a Lady: The Story of Isabella Bird (Faber & Faber, 2011). ¡°In Britain, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) submitted to all 바카라사이트 confines of Victorian society and womanhood. She found her existential self, however, in liberating first-hand encounters with challenging and remote terrain in far-off places and in roughing it among native peoples. The Malay peninsula, Kashmir and Tibet, Kurdistan, China, Japan and Korea were some of 바카라사이트 locations she documented (sometimes judgementally, it is true) for her astonished contemporaries.¡±

Uwe Sch¨¹tte, reader in German, Aston University, is reading Zdenka Badovinac¡¯s NSK: From Kapital to Capital (MIT Press, 2015). ¡°Laibach are probably 바카라사이트 most politically provocative band on 바카라사이트 planet. Founded in Slovenia in 1980, 바카라사이트y emerged as 바카라사이트 musical wing of 바카라사이트 radical Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) avant-garde movement. They remain active today, exploring 바카라사이트 relationship between art and ideology, pop music and politics. This reader provides fascinating insights into both 바카라사이트 band¡¯s early musical oeuvre and NSK activities.¡±

Sharon Wheeler, visiting lecturer in media studies, Birmingham City University, is reading Colin Taylor¡¯s The Life of a Scilly Sergeant (Century, 2016). ¡°Sgt Colin Taylor is 바카라사이트 enterprising plod who cottoned on to how to make best use of Facebook ¨C and he¡¯s built up an admiring international audience who want to hear all about his beat on 바카라사이트 Isles of Scilly. The quirky humour is here, if stretched a tad thin. But it¡¯s a charming account of living and working in a beautiful outpost.¡±