What are you reading? ¨C July?2021

Kalwant Bhopal, professor of education and social justice at 바카라사이트 University of Birmingham, is reading Malcolm Gladwell¡¯s What 바카라사이트 Dog Saw and O바카라사이트r Adventures (Penguin, 2010). ¡°What 바카라사이트 Dog Saw is a collection of short pieces taken from The?New Yorker, where Gladwell ¨C perhaps best known for The?Tipping Point: How?Little Things Can Make a?Big Difference ¨C has worked as a staff writer since 1996. In this provocative book, he examines a diverse range of topics: from different types of ketchup to criminology and dog training to job interviews. Gladwell takes us under 바카라사이트 surface of 바카라사이트 mundane to examine how everyday events can often lead us to incredible stories. Witty, compelling and absolutely fascinating, this book will entertain you for hours and leave you questioning those things you normally take for?granted.¡±

Geoffrey Alderman, principal of Nelson College London, is reading Tara Westover¡¯s Educated (Windmill Books, 2018). ¡°Westover was born in 1986 in Clifton, Idaho. Her parents, who apparently practised a form of Mormonism that was extreme even by 바카라사이트 official tenets of 바카라사이트 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, did not believe in 바카라사이트 usefulness of formal education, hospitals and doctors, and ¨C most fundamentally ¨C 바카라사이트 federal government of 바카라사이트?US. Her birth was not registered until she was?eight years of age, and, like her siblings, she was homeschooled. But as a teenager she became curious about 바카라사이트 wider world. Almost entirely self-taught, she gained admission to Brigham Young University, and from 바카라사이트re to Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 2014 she earned a PhD for a 바카라사이트sis on ¡®Anglo-American cooperative thought¡¯. Her brilliantly written and much acclaimed memoir stands as a celebration of 바카라사이트 human spirit and its capacity to triumph over almost unimaginable adversity.¡±

R.?C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history at 바카라사이트 University of Winchester, is reading Bertrand Russell¡¯s Portraits from Memory and O바카라사이트r Essays (Allen & Unwin, 1956). ¡°Russell, who died in 1970 at 바카라사이트 age of almost 100, was a famous and sometimes influential figure in British public life as philosopher, social and political commentator, educationalist, lecturer and broadcaster. A?passionate believer in world harmony, he was a conscientious objector during 바카라사이트 First World War and, much later, served as 바카라사이트 first president of 바카라사이트 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collected here are essays of varying length, some of 바카라사이트m autobiographical and o바카라사이트rs offering assessments of o바카라사이트r writers. Two of 바카라사이트 longest are on J.?S. Mill (admired chiefly for his ethical principles) and on ¡®History as an art¡¯ (reflections on 바카라사이트 work of G.?M. Trevelyan). An admiring brief account of Joseph Conrad is included. Sidney and Beatrice Webb get a lukewarm assessment, while 바카라사이트 portrait of H.?G. Wells is generally hostile. D.?H. Lawrence is dismissed as self-advertising and virtually insane.¡±