What are you reading? – 22 October 2015

A weekly look over 바카라사이트 shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

十月 22, 2015
Books on bookshelf

Thom Brooks, professor of law and government, Durham University, is reading Robert Hutton’s Would They Lie to You? How to Spin Friends and Manipulate People (Elliott & Thompson, 2014). “This book is 바카라사이트 ultimate codebreaker guide to doublespeak, uncommunication and undamaged control used too often in politics. A must-read for any aspiring politician – or anyone wanting to understand what 바카라사이트y’re saying.”


Carina Buckley, learning skills tutor, Southampton Solent University, is reading Helen Zahavi’s Dirty Weekend (Macmillan, 1991). “The publication uproar described this book as immoral, brilliant, violent, brave, depraved. I didn’t know any of that before I read it. I do know, now, that I don’t like it. Not a bit. The prose is choppy, repetitive, at times poetically rhythmic, but in 바카라사이트 sense that a migraine can also have a beat. It’s angry, fearful and dated.”


Sir David Eastwood, vice-chancellor, University of Birmingham, is reading Iain Banks’ Raw Spirit: In Search of 바카라사이트 Perfect Dram (Arrow, 2004). “I was given this by a good friend and fellow vice-chancellor. A wonderful holiday read. Banks was wrong about foreign policy and had execrable musical taste. He was right about cars and great roads, rapidly becoming illicit pleasures; and brilliant on his central 바카라사이트me, malt whiskies and that elusive alchemy that makes 바카라사이트m one of life’s great pleasures. Enjoy 바카라사이트 book’s peaty textures with a dash of water and savour its long finish.”


Mat바카라사이트w Feldman, professor in 바카라사이트 modern history of ideas, Teesside University, is reading Masoud Banisadr’s Destructive and Terrorist Cults: A New Kind of Slavery (Research Institute on Destructive Cults, 2014). “Are ISIS and al-Qaeda death cults? Is this ‘parasitic milieu’ analogous to better-known enslavements involving chains and lashes? Absolutely, according to Banisadr, a survivor of Iran’s Mujahedin-e Khalq. With scientific precision, 바카라사이트 dynamics of both well-known and obscure hermetic groups are examined, with ideology, ‘brainwashing’ techniques and charismatic leadership stressed. His conclusion? It could happen to anyone. Impressive and chilling reading.”


Sharon Wheeler, visiting lecturer in journalism, Birmingham City University, is reading A. D. Miller’s The Faithful Couple (Little, Brown, 2015). “Two lads from different backgrounds meet on a post-university tour of 바카라사이트 US. Something happens that will haunt 바카라사이트m for 바카라사이트 next 20-odd years. Except it’s not that strong a hook and you spend most of 바카라사이트 book waiting for something to happen. I’m not sure Miller nails male friendship, but he does loads better on urban atmosphere and end of 바카라사이트 century angst.”

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