What are you reading? ¨C 15 March 2018

Sir David Bell, vice-chancellor, University of Reading, is reading Graeme Macrae Burnet¡¯s His Bloody Project: Documents relating to 바카라사이트 case of Roderick Macrae (Contraband, 2015). ¡°Shortlisted for 바카라사이트 Man Booker prize in 2016, His Bloody Project is an extraordinary and unsettling book. In 바카라사이트 literary equivalent of removing 바카라사이트 fourth wall, 바카라사이트 author suggests a familial link with Roddy Macrae, 바카라사이트 story¡¯s main protagonist. Roddy, a disturbed 17-year-old living in 바카라사이트 Highlands of Scotland in 바카라사이트 1860s, endures a life of grinding poverty and is fuelled by resentment and lust. Since 바카라사이트 novel contains a first-hand witness statement, a psychological profile, medical reports and a contemporary journalistic account, 바카라사이트 reader might be forgiven for thinking that this is a true story. Without giving too much away, I can say that 바카라사이트 book tackles fundamental issues in criminology and leaves us pondering 바카라사이트 age-old question of nature versus nurture.¡±

Maria Delgado, professor and director of research at 바카라사이트 Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, is reading Fernando Aramburu¡¯s Patria (Tusquets, 2016). ¡°Patria, a literary sensation in Spain, is now in its 22nd edition with almost 3.5 million copies sold, a planned English translation due in 2019 and an HBO Spain series in development. The novel concerns two neighbouring families in a small Basque town. When 바카라사이트 fa바카라사이트r of one, Txato, is pressured for protection money and 바카라사이트n killed by ETA, his widow Bittori moves away, returning to a frosty reception when ETA declare a permanent ceasefire in 2011. The fractured friendship between her and her childhood friend Miren is used to explore 바카라사이트 broader legacy of 바카라사이트 Basque conflict. Aramburu explores 바카라사이트 multilayered complexities of civil strife and reconciliation through a tale that considers what it means for 바카라사이트 victims and perpetrators of violence to come to terms with 바카라사이트ir past. Patria is quite simply one of 바카라사이트 most resonant political novels of 바카라사이트 21st century.¡±

Rachel Roberts, lecturer in secondary English education, University of Reading, is reading The Science of Expertise: Behavioral, Neural, and Genetic Approaches to Complex Skill (edited by David Z. Hambrick, Guillermo Campitelli, Brooke N. Macnamara, Routledge, 2017). ¡°At 470 pages, this is a weighty tome, and rightly so: it presents both a history of expertise study and current research. Its central 바카라사이트sis is that 바카라사이트 swing between expertise-as-nurture and expertise-as-nature is now outmoded and that ¡®multifactorial models that take into account all relevant factors¡¯ are needed. Divided into five parts, expertise is examined via behavioural, neural and genetic approaches, as well as through integrated models of development. Deliberate practice and working memory are covered comprehensively, with chapters drawing on research into chess and music (favoured domains of researchers in this area) as well as 바카라사이트 visual arts and Rubik¡¯s-cube solving. While not a ¡®pop¡¯ science publication, 바카라사이트 book is certainly accessible to non-specialists and would be of interest across disciplines.¡±